Gerald Paul

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Gerald Paul is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Mathematical Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerald Paul has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 15 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 11 papers in Mathematical Physics. Recurrent topics in Gerald Paul's work include Theoretical and Computational Physics (16 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (14 papers) and Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (11 papers). Gerald Paul is often cited by papers focused on Theoretical and Computational Physics (16 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (14 papers) and Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (11 papers). Gerald Paul collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Brazil. Gerald Paul's co-authors include H. Eugene Stanley, Shlomo Havlin, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Roni Parshani, Sameet Sreenivasan, Fredrik Liljeros, Yiping Chen, Don R. Baker, Nikolay V. Dokholyan and Peter R. King and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Journal of Computational Physics.

In The Last Decade

Gerald Paul

29 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Catastrophic cascade of failures in interdependent networks

2010 3.0k citations Sergey V. Buldyrev, Roni Parshani et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gerald Paul United States	17	2.3k	944	716	487	376	30	4.0k
Roni Parshani Israel	7	2.8k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	818 1.1×	530 1.1×	451 1.2×	9	4.1k
Jianxi Gao United States	39	3.2k 1.4×	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.6×	379 0.8×	721 1.9×	182	6.8k
Raissa M. D’Souza United States	28	1.7k 0.7×	826 0.9×	208 0.3×	197 0.4×	267 0.7×	86	3.3k
Wen-Xu Wang China	45	3.6k 1.6×	1.7k 1.8×	175 0.2×	268 0.6×	1.7k 4.4×	147	6.6k
Mao-Bin Hu China	34	1.3k 0.6×	616 0.7×	86 0.1×	1.2k 2.4×	531 1.4×	168	4.1k
Keren Erez Israel	5	2.1k 0.9×	676 0.7×	193 0.3×	58 0.1×	198 0.5×	8	2.7k
André A. Moreira Brazil	25	1.8k 0.8×	468 0.5×	129 0.2×	58 0.1×	186 0.5×	68	2.8k
Bing-Hong Wang China	51	5.4k 2.4×	2.1k 2.2×	123 0.2×	1.5k 3.1×	1.9k 5.1×	419	10.5k
Andrea Rapisarda Italy	28	2.1k 0.9×	463 0.5×	137 0.2×	84 0.2×	268 0.7×	148	3.5k
Lidia A. Braunstein Argentina	27	1.6k 0.7×	338 0.4×	157 0.2×	64 0.1×	269 0.7×	90	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Gerald Paul

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gerald Paul

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerald Paul

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gerald Paul. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gerald Paul 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 Gerald Paul. Gerald Paul 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

Buldyrev, Sergey V., Roni Parshani, Gerald Paul, H. Eugene Stanley, & Shlomo Havlin. (2010). Catastrophic cascade of failures in interdependent networks. Nature. 464(7291). 1025–1028. 3032 indexed citations breakdown →

Chen, Yiping, Gerald Paul, Shlomo Havlin, Fredrik Liljeros, & H. Eugene Stanley. (2008). Finding a Better Immunization Strategy. Physical Review Letters. 101(5). 58701–58701. 217 indexed citations

Kitsak, Maksim, Shlomo Havlin, Gerald Paul, et al.. (2007). Betweenness centrality of fractal and nonfractal scale-free model networks and tests on real networks. Physical Review E. 75(5). 56115–56115. 49 indexed citations

Paul, Gerald, Reuven Cohen, Sameet Sreenivasan, Shlomo Havlin, & H. Eugene Stanley. (2007). Graph Partitioning Induced Phase Transitions. Physical Review Letters. 99(11). 115701–115701. 5 indexed citations

Chen, Yi‐Ping Phoebe, Gerald Paul, Reuven Cohen, et al.. (2007). Percolation theory applied to measures of fragmentation in social networks. Physical Review E. 75(4). 46107–46107. 27 indexed citations

Tanizawa, Toshihiro, Gerald Paul, Shlomo Havlin, & H. Eugene Stanley. (2006). Optimization of the robustness of multimodal networks. Physical Review E. 74(1). 16125–16125. 16 indexed citations

Paul, Gerald. (2006). A Complexity O(1) priority queue for event driven molecular dynamics simulations. Journal of Computational Physics. 221(2). 615–625. 36 indexed citations

Paul, Gerald, Sameet Sreenivasan, & H. Eugene Stanley. (2005). Resilience of complex networks to random breakdown. Physical Review E. 72(5). 56130–56130. 54 indexed citations

Paul, Gerald & H. Eugene Stanley. (2003). Fractal dimension of 3-blocks in four-, five-, and six-dimensional percolation systems. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 67(2). 26103–26103. 4 indexed citations

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Paul, Gerald, Shlomo Havlin, & H. Eugene Stanley. (2002). Fractal behavior of the shortest path between two lines in percolation systems. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 65(6). 66105–66105. 6 indexed citations

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Baker, Don R., Gerald Paul, Sameet Sreenivasan, & H. Eugene Stanley. (2002). Continuum percolation threshold for interpenetrating squares and cubes. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 66(4). 46136–46136. 110 indexed citations

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Paul, Gerald & H. Eugene Stanley. (2002). Beyond blobs in percolation cluster structure: The distribution of 3-blocks at the percolation threshold. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 65(5). 56126–56126. 7 indexed citations

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Paul, Gerald, et al.. (2001). Percolation threshold, Fisher exponent, and shortest path exponent for four and five dimensions. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 64(2). 26115–26115. 41 indexed citations

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Andrade, José S., Sergey V. Buldyrev, Nikolay V. Dokholyan, et al.. (2000). Flow between two sites on a percolation cluster. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 62(6). 8270–8281. 57 indexed citations

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Paul, Gerald, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Nikolay V. Dokholyan, et al.. (2000). Dependence of conductance on percolation backbone mass. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 61(4). 3435–3440. 12 indexed citations

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Lee, Youngki, José S. Andrade, Sergey V. Buldyrev, et al.. (1999). Traveling time and traveling length in critical percolation clusters. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 60(3). 3425–3428. 78 indexed citations

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Paul, Gerald. (1999). Coefficient scaling. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 59(5). 4847–4856. 1 indexed citations

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Paul, Gerald & H. Eugene Stanley. (1972). Partial Test of the Universality Hypothesis: The Case of Different Coupling Strengths in Different Lattice Directions. Physical review. B, Solid state. 5(7). 2578–2599. 50 indexed citations

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Bedeaux, Dick, S. Milošević, & Gerald Paul. (1971). Linear response theory for systems obeying the master equation. Journal of Statistical Physics. 3(1). 39–46. 7 indexed citations

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Mandel, Ernest & Gerald Paul. (1968). Fifty years of world revolution, 1917-1967 : an international symposium. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1 indexed citations

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