George Shortley

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

George Shortley is a scholar working on Mathematical Physics, Genetics and Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics. According to data from OpenAlex, George Shortley has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Mathematical Physics, 3 papers in Genetics and 1 paper in Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics. Recurrent topics in George Shortley's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (3 papers), Crystallography and Radiation Phenomena (1 paper) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (1 paper). George Shortley is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (3 papers), Crystallography and Radiation Phenomena (1 paper) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (1 paper). George Shortley collaborates with scholars based in United States. George Shortley's co-authors include E. U. Condon, Mark A. Heald, Irving E. Dayton, Robert L. Bivins, N. Metropolis, John E. Kilpatrick, Yuji Inoue and Shigetoshi Katsura and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Applied Physics, Biometrics and Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

In The Last Decade

George Shortley

13 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

The Theory of Atomic Spectra 1952 2026 1976 2001 1952 500 1000 1.5k
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. The Theory of Atomic Spectra
    1952 1.9k citations E. U. Condon, George Shortley et al. American Journal of Physics profile →

Peers

George Shortley
Taro Kihara Japan
Harris J. Silverstone United States
L. Pincherle United Kingdom
Saul T. Epstein United States
James D. Talman Canada
Morton Hamermesh United States
Léon Van Hove Netherlands
Jacob Katriel Israel
Jacek Karwowski Poland
Felix T. Smith United States
Taro Kihara Japan
George Shortley
Citations per year, relative to George Shortley George Shortley (= 1×) peers Taro Kihara

Countries citing papers authored by George Shortley

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Fields of papers citing papers by George Shortley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by George Shortley. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by George Shortley. The network helps show where George Shortley may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of George Shortley

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

All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
1.
Shortley, George. (1967). Operations Research in Wartime Naval Mining. Operations Research. 15(1). 1–10. 4 indexed citations
2.
Shortley, George, et al.. (1966). Tables of Integrals of Threefold and Fourfold Products of Associated Legendre Functions. Mathematics of Computation. 20(96). 625–625. 2 indexed citations
3.
Shortley, George. (1965). A Stochastic Model for Distributions of Biological Response Times. Biometrics. 21(3). 562–562. 13 indexed citations
4.
Shortley, George. (1965). A stochastic model for distributions of biological response times.. PubMed. 21(3). 562–82. 15 indexed citations
5.
Shortley, George, et al.. (1965). Independent-Action and Birth-Death Models in Experimental Microbiology. Bacteriological Reviews. 29(1). 102–141. 12 indexed citations
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Shortley, George, et al.. (1965). Independent-Action and Birth-Death Models in Experimental Microbiology. Bacteriological Reviews. 29(1). 102–141. 44 indexed citations
7.
Shortley, George, et al.. (1964). A Table of Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients. Mathematics of Computation. 18(86). 329–329. 1 indexed citations
8.
Shortley, George, et al.. (1963). Tables of Radial Integrals of Atomic Spectra Theory. Mathematics of Computation. 17(82). 208–208. 1 indexed citations
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Shortley, George, et al.. (1962). QUASI-STATIONARY WAVES OBSERVED IN AEROSOL DIFFUSION TRIALS CONDUCTED IN A COASTAL AREA. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 19(1). 99–106. 4 indexed citations
10.
Shortley, George, et al.. (1961). Elements of Physics. American Journal of Physics. 29(10). 719–720. 29 indexed citations
11.
Shortley, George, et al.. (1960). The 3-j and 6-j Symbols. Mathematics of Computation. 14(72). 382–382. 5 indexed citations
12.
Shortley, George, et al.. (1959). Algebraic Tables of Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients.. Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation. 13(68). 318–318.
13.
Shortley, George, et al.. (1953). Elements of physics for students of science and engineering. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2 indexed citations
14.
Shortley, George. (1953). Use of Tschebyscheff-Polynomial Operators in the Numerical Solution of Boundary-Value Problems. Journal of Applied Physics. 24(4). 392–396. 14 indexed citations
15.
Condon, E. U., et al.. (1952). The Theory of Atomic Spectra. American Journal of Physics. 20(6). 383–383. 1871 indexed citations breakdown →

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