George N. Wong

26.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

George N. Wong is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, George N. Wong has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 14 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in George N. Wong's work include Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (17 papers), Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (14 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (12 papers). George N. Wong is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (17 papers), Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (14 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (12 papers). George N. Wong collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Netherlands. George N. Wong's co-authors include Theodore S. Rappaport, Félix Gutiérrez, Yaniv Azar, Kevin Wang, Mathew K. Samimi, Shu Sun, Hang Zhao, Kenneth G. Spears, Richard M. Roth and Duckdong Hwang and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

George N. Wong

28 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Hit Papers

Millimeter Wave Mobile Co... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k 5.0k
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.

  1. Millimeter Wave Mobile Communications for 5G Cellular: It Will Work!
    2013 5.3k citations Theodore S. Rappaport, Shu Sun et al. IEEE Access profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
George N. Wong United States 15 5.9k 2.2k 704 414 292 31 6.5k
Ernesto Limiti Italy 51 6.7k 1.1× 4.1k 1.9× 257 0.4× 163 0.4× 195 0.7× 517 8.3k
Ieee Microwave Theory Germany 10 1.8k 0.3× 329 0.2× 968 1.4× 44 0.1× 142 0.5× 21 2.3k
P. Russer Germany 32 4.0k 0.7× 991 0.5× 118 0.2× 45 0.1× 346 1.2× 469 4.8k
Kaushik Sengupta United States 31 2.6k 0.4× 842 0.4× 50 0.1× 29 0.1× 290 1.0× 184 3.5k
Kazunori Hayashi Japan 25 945 0.2× 182 0.1× 383 0.5× 42 0.1× 683 2.3× 222 2.5k
Ullrich R. Pfeiffer Germany 41 6.5k 1.1× 724 0.3× 72 0.1× 55 0.1× 1.8k 6.2× 230 6.7k
A. Tessmann Germany 30 4.9k 0.8× 1.0k 0.5× 115 0.2× 53 0.1× 732 2.5× 310 5.5k
Rushan Chen China 27 2.4k 0.4× 1.4k 0.6× 166 0.2× 27 0.1× 161 0.6× 398 3.7k
H. Jasik United States 3 2.2k 0.4× 2.2k 1.0× 88 0.1× 59 0.1× 186 0.6× 3 2.9k
Arthur D. Yaghjian United States 32 3.1k 0.5× 2.6k 1.2× 49 0.1× 60 0.1× 179 0.6× 125 4.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by George N. Wong

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George N. Wong

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of George N. Wong. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of George N. Wong 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 George N. Wong. George N. Wong is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dhruv, Vedant, Ben Prather, George N. Wong, & Charles F. Gammie. (2025). A Survey of General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Models for Black Hole Accretion Systems. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 277(1). 16–16. 5 indexed citations
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Medeiros, Lia, et al.. (2025). Mahakala: A Python-based Modular Ray-tracing and Radiative Transfer Algorithm for Curved Spacetimes. The Astrophysical Journal. 985(1). 40–40.
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Quataert, Eliot, et al.. (2024). Photon ring interferometric signatures beyond the universal regime. Physical review. D. 110(8). 4 indexed citations
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Wong, George N. & Lev Arzamasskiy. (2024). Balanced Turbulence and the Helicity Barrier in Black Hole Accretion. The Astrophysical Journal. 962(2). 163–163. 2 indexed citations
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Anantua, Richard, Angelo Ricarte, George N. Wong, et al.. (2023). On the comparison of AGN with GRMHD simulations – II. M87. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(1). 735–756. 1 indexed citations
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Chael, Andrew, Alexandru Lupsasca, George N. Wong, & Eliot Quataert. (2023). Black Hole Polarimetry I. A Signature of Electromagnetic Energy Extraction. The Astrophysical Journal. 958(1). 65–65. 23 indexed citations
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Davelaar, Jordy, Benjamin R. Ryan, George N. Wong, et al.. (2023). κmonty: a Monte Carlo Compton scattering code including non-thermal electrons. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 526(4). 5326–5336. 3 indexed citations
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Palumbo, Daniel C. M., George N. Wong, Andrew Chael, & Michael D. Johnson. (2023). Demonstrating Photon Ring Existence with Single-baseline Polarimetry. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 952(2). L31–L31. 15 indexed citations
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Emami, Razieh, Richard Anantua, Angelo Ricarte, et al.. (2023). Probing Plasma Composition with the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT). Galaxies. 11(1). 11–11. 2 indexed citations
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Anantua, Richard, Razieh Emami, Angelo Ricarte, et al.. (2022). Emission Modeling in the EHT–ngEHT Age. Galaxies. 11(1). 4–4. 6 indexed citations
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Wong, George N., Ben Prather, Vedant Dhruv, et al.. (2022). \nPATOKA: Simulating Electromagnetic Observables of Black Hole Accretion. Radboud Repository (Radboud University). 44 indexed citations
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Tkachenko, Alexei V., et al.. (2021). Stochastic social behavior coupled to COVID-19 dynamics leads to waves, plateaus, and an endemic state. eLife. 10. 27 indexed citations
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Wong, George N., et al.. (2021). The Jet–disk Boundary Layer in Black Hole Accretion. The Astrophysical Journal. 914(1). 55–55. 24 indexed citations
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Azar, Yaniv, George N. Wong, Kevin Wang, et al.. (2013). 28 GHz propagation measurements for outdoor cellular communications using steerable beam antennas in New York city. 5143–5147. 310 indexed citations
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Rappaport, Theodore S., Shu Sun, Hang Zhao, et al.. (2013). Millimeter Wave Mobile Communications for 5G Cellular: It Will Work!. IEEE Access. 1. 335–349. 5262 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brokx, S., Scott Napper, George N. Wong, et al.. (1999). Identification of the Escherichia coli enzyme I binding site in histidine-containing protein, HPr, by the effects of mutagenesis. Biochemistry and Cell Biology. 77(6). 507–513. 3 indexed citations
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Hanson, Eric G., George N. Wong, & Y. R. Shen. (1974). Third-order nonlinearity in liquid crystalline materials. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 10(9). 697–698.

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