Eric Smith

3.9k total citations
68 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Eric Smith is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric Smith has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 18 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Eric Smith's work include Origins and Evolution of Life (17 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (16 papers) and Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (11 papers). Eric Smith is often cited by papers focused on Origins and Evolution of Life (17 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (16 papers) and Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (11 papers). Eric Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Sweden. Eric Smith's co-authors include Harold J. Morowitz, Ricard V. Solé, Romualdo Pastor‐Satorras, Rogier Braakman, László Gillemot, J. Doyne Farmer, Supriya Krishnamurthy, Shelley D. Copley, Thomas B. Kepler and Duncan K. Foley and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Physical review. B, Condensed matter.

In The Last Decade

Eric Smith

67 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Eric Smith United States 21 998 709 450 352 216 68 2.3k
Maya Paczuski United States 30 377 0.4× 168 0.2× 1.2k 2.7× 1.1k 3.1× 152 0.7× 86 3.9k
E. C. Zeeman United Kingdom 21 535 0.5× 228 0.3× 323 0.7× 291 0.8× 110 0.5× 57 2.8k
Lloyd Demetrius United States 35 916 0.9× 125 0.2× 325 0.7× 136 0.4× 17 0.1× 90 2.8k
R. Leféver Belgium 32 850 0.9× 95 0.1× 1.9k 4.3× 82 0.2× 45 0.2× 64 5.2k
Miguel Fuentes United States 20 281 0.3× 36 0.1× 861 1.9× 380 1.1× 114 0.5× 86 2.1k
C. Nicolis Belgium 34 607 0.6× 62 0.1× 2.6k 5.8× 700 2.0× 58 0.3× 144 4.3k
Michael Conrad United States 31 1.2k 1.2× 527 0.7× 220 0.5× 49 0.1× 5 0.0× 192 3.7k
Annick Lesne France 27 1.5k 1.5× 49 0.1× 372 0.8× 89 0.3× 14 0.1× 102 2.6k
Andrei Khrennikov Sweden 34 331 0.3× 262 0.4× 1.7k 3.7× 370 1.1× 89 0.4× 396 5.5k
Veit Schwämmle Denmark 32 1.3k 1.3× 43 0.1× 359 0.8× 153 0.4× 13 0.1× 99 2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Eric Smith

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Fields of papers citing papers by Eric Smith

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eric Smith

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Smith, Eric, Harrison B. Smith, & Jakob L. Andersen. (2024). Rules, hypergraphs, and probabilities: The three-level analysis of chemical reaction systems and other stochastic stoichiometric population processes. University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark). 1(4). e0000022–e0000022. 1 indexed citations
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Solé, Ricard V., Christopher P. Kempes, Bernat Corominas‐Murtra, et al.. (2024). Fundamental constraints to the logic of living systems. Interface Focus. 14(5). 20240010–20240010. 8 indexed citations
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Smith, Eric. (2024). Beyond fitness: The information imparted in population states by selection throughout lifecycles. Theoretical Population Biology. 157. 86–117. 3 indexed citations
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Blanco, V. M., et al.. (2024). Polyhedral geometry and combinatorics of an autocatalytic ecosystem. Journal of Mathematical Chemistry. 62(5). 1012–1078. 10 indexed citations
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Smith, Eric, et al.. (2023). Action functional gradient descent algorithm for estimating escape paths in stochastic chemical reaction networks. Physical review. E. 107(3). 34305–34305. 3 indexed citations
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Baum, David, et al.. (2023). The ecology–evolution continuum and the origin of life. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 20(208). 9 indexed citations
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Kaçar, Betül, Lionel Guy, Eric Smith, & John A. Baross. (2017). Resurrecting ancestral genes in bacteria to interpret ancient biosignatures. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 375(2109). 20160352–20160352. 21 indexed citations
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Smith, Eric & Supriya Krishnamurthy. (2017). Flows, scaling, and the control of moment hierarchies for stochastic chemical reaction networks. Physical review. E. 96(6). 10 indexed citations
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Youn, Hyejin, Eric Smith, Cristopher Moore, et al.. (2016). On the universal structure of human lexical semantics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(7). 1766–1771. 78 indexed citations
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Morowitz, Harold J., et al.. (2010). Ligand Field Theory and the Origin of Life as an Emergent Feature of the Periodic Table of Elements. Biological Bulletin. 219(1). 1–6. 32 indexed citations
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Smith, Eric. (2008). Thermodynamics of natural selection I: Energy flow and the limits on organization. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 252(2). 185–197. 37 indexed citations
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Smith, Eric. (2008). Thermodynamics of natural selection III: Landauer's principle in computation and chemistry. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 252(2). 213–220. 19 indexed citations
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Smith, Eric. (2008). Thermodynamics of natural selection II: Chemical Carnot cycles. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 252(2). 198–212. 20 indexed citations
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Iori, Giulia, J. Doyne Farmer, Eric Smith, & László Gillemot. (2005). Quantitative Model of Price Diffusion and Market Friction Based on Trading as a Mechanistic Random Process. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Shubik, Martín & Eric Smith. (2005). Fiat Money and the Natural Scale of Government. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Smith, Eric. (2005). Thermodynamic dual structure of linear-dissipative driven systems. Physical Review E. 72(3). 36130–36130. 7 indexed citations
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Shubik, Martín & Eric Smith. (2003). Strategic Freedom, Constraint, and Symmetry in One-period Markets with Cash and Credit Payment. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Daniels, Marcus, J. Doyne Farmer, László Gillemot, Giulia Iori, & Eric Smith. (2003). Quantitative Model of Price Diffusion and Market Friction Based on Trading as a Mechanistic Random Process. Physical Review Letters. 90(10). 108102–108102. 104 indexed citations
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Smith, Eric. (2003). Self-organization from structural refrigeration. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 68(4). 46114–46114. 7 indexed citations
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Smith, Eric. (1999). Statistical mechanics of self-driven Carnot cycles. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 60(4). 3633–3645. 5 indexed citations

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