Gary Simons

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Gary Simons is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Gary Simons has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 22 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 16 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Gary Simons's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (23 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (19 papers) and Chemical Thermodynamics and Molecular Structure (9 papers). Gary Simons is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (23 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (19 papers) and Chemical Thermodynamics and Molecular Structure (9 papers). Gary Simons collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Saudi Arabia. Gary Simons's co-authors include Robert G. Parr, J. Michael Finlan, Steven Bird, M. Paul Lewis, Inmaculada Martín, Aaron N. Bloch, Erach R. Talaty, Raymond F. Borkman, Melvin E. Zandler and Marc Rettig and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Gary Simons

80 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

New alternative to the Dunham potential for diatomic molecules

1973 434 citations Gary Simons, Robert G. Parr et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gary Simons United States	23	1.2k	374	310	257	234	82	2.1k
Michel Caffarel France	29	2.2k 1.8×	288 0.8×	101 0.3×	353 1.4×	134 0.6×	69	2.9k
Thomas Herbst Germany	25	1.2k 1.0×	206 0.6×	1.1k 3.7×	34 0.1×	401 1.7×	144	2.9k
J.P. Heritage United States	41	2.7k 2.3×	285 0.8×	414 1.3×	89 0.3×	64 0.3×	132	4.9k
Robert B. Jones United Kingdom	27	187 0.2×	31 0.1×	132 0.4×	269 1.0×	87 0.4×	98	1.8k
Bernhard Nickel Germany	21	521 0.4×	168 0.4×	51 0.2×	850 3.3×	310 1.3×	93	1.6k
John Airey Sweden	25	257 0.2×	264 0.7×	44 0.1×	40 0.2×	16 0.1×	88	2.2k
Nora H. Sabelli United States	17	456 0.4×	124 0.3×	51 0.2×	66 0.3×	21 0.1×	44	1.5k
H. Dekker Netherlands	25	1.6k 1.3×	82 0.2×	560 1.8×	82 0.3×	152 0.6×	167	2.8k
Robert Georges France	23	851 0.7×	935 2.5×	40 0.1×	103 0.4×	68 0.3×	86	1.6k
Max Wagner Germany	18	679 0.6×	93 0.2×	76 0.2×	49 0.2×	14 0.1×	69	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Gary Simons

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gary Simons

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gary Simons

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gary Simons. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gary Simons based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Gary Simons. Gary Simons is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Lewis, Paul, et al.. (2015). Ethnologue : languages of the Americas and Pacific. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 5 indexed citations

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Whalen, D. H. & Gary Simons. (2012). Endangered language families. Language. 88(1). 155–173. 19 indexed citations

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Simons, Gary. (2011). On defining language development. ScholarSpace (University of Hawaii at Manoa). 1 indexed citations

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Simons, Gary & Steven Bird. (2008). Toward a Global Infrastructure for the Sustainability of Language Resources. Minerva Access (University of Melbourne). 87–100. 8 indexed citations

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Simons, Gary, et al.. (2007). Ngbugu digital wordlist: A test case for best practices in archiving and presenting language documentation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 2 indexed citations

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Simons, Gary, William D. Lewis, Scott Farrar, et al.. (2004). The semantics of markup. 25–32. 13 indexed citations

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Bird, Steven & Gary Simons. (2003). Seven dimensions of portability for language documentation and description. Language. 79(3). 557–582. 134 indexed citations

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Bird, Steven, Hans Uszkoreit, & Gary Simons. (2002). The open language archives community. Language Resources and Evaluation. 3 indexed citations

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Bird, Steven, Gary Simons, & Chu‐Ren Huang. (2001). The open language archives community and Asian language resources. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Simons, Gary, et al.. (2000). Language identification and IT: addressing problems of linguistic diversity on a global scale. The COCOON platform (University of Paris). 6 indexed citations

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Simons, Gary, et al.. (1998). Multilingual data processing in the CELLAR environment. The COCOON platform (University of Paris). 1 indexed citations

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Simons, Gary. (1996). Conceptual modeling versus visual modeling: a technological key to building consensus. Computers and the Humanities. 30(4). 303–319. 9 indexed citations

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Simons, Gary. (1979). Language variation and limits to communication. The COCOON platform (University of Paris). 15 indexed citations

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Simons, Gary, et al.. (1979). Theoretical Study of the H-+CH3Cl SN2 Reaction. Australian Journal of Chemistry. 32(10). 2289–2291. 3 indexed citations

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Simons, Gary & Erach R. Talaty. (1978). A local orbital description of the Cl− + CH3ClSN2 reaction. Chemical Physics Letters. 56(3). 554–556. 2 indexed citations

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Simons, Gary, et al.. (1977). Power series expansions of quantum-mechanical potential surfaces. Molecular Physics. 33(3). 843–847. 7 indexed citations

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Simons, Gary, Melvin E. Zandler, & Erach R. Talaty. (1976). Nonempirical electronegativity scale. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 98(24). 7869–7870. 57 indexed citations

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Simons, Gary. (1975). Integral Hellmann–Feynman analysis of nonisoelectronic processes and the determination of local ionization potentials. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 63(5). 2206–2210. 2 indexed citations

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Simons, Gary, Robert G. Parr, & J. Michael Finlan. (1973). New alternative to the Dunham potential for diatomic molecules. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 59(6). 3229–3234. 434 indexed citations breakdown →

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Simons, Gary, et al.. (1970). Atomic and Molecular Pseudopotential Studies Using Gaussian Orbitals. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 52(5). 2449–2455. 33 indexed citations

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