Hanno Essén

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Hanno Essén is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Hanno Essén has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 20 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 13 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Hanno Essén's work include Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies (7 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (6 papers) and Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (6 papers). Hanno Essén is often cited by papers focused on Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies (7 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (6 papers) and Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (6 papers). Hanno Essén collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Portugal and Canada. Hanno Essén's co-authors include R. F. W. Bader, M. C. N. Fiolhais, Arne Nordmark, M. S. Child, Robert J. Le Roy, Michael Baer, T. T. Nguyen‐Dang, G.D. Billing, Dieter Cremer and N. Apazidis and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Computational Chemistry and Physics Letters A.

In The Last Decade

Hanno Essén

48 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

The characterization of atomic interactions 1984 2026 1998 2012 1984 400 800 1.2k
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 characterization of atomic interactions
    1984 1.3k citations R. F. W. Bader, Hanno Essén 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
Hanno Essén Sweden 14 731 615 613 410 284 57 1.8k
José M. Garcı́a de la Vega Spain 24 721 1.0× 469 0.8× 389 0.6× 628 1.5× 204 0.7× 154 1.9k
P. Otto Germany 25 1.0k 1.4× 581 0.9× 329 0.5× 399 1.0× 220 0.8× 126 2.2k
Jorge Garza Mexico 29 1.3k 1.7× 705 1.1× 717 1.2× 664 1.6× 321 1.1× 127 2.9k
Benedito J. Costa Cabral Portugal 28 1.1k 1.5× 875 1.4× 705 1.2× 551 1.3× 184 0.6× 135 2.5k
Wai‐Kee Li Hong Kong 29 1.2k 1.7× 914 1.5× 446 0.7× 625 1.5× 324 1.1× 155 2.6k
Eugene S. Kryachko Ukraine 27 1.7k 2.3× 567 0.9× 796 1.3× 591 1.4× 294 1.0× 115 2.7k
Manuel Sparta Norway 19 774 1.1× 532 0.9× 308 0.5× 523 1.3× 362 1.3× 35 1.8k
Subhas J. Chakravorty United States 18 1.7k 2.3× 377 0.6× 406 0.7× 469 1.1× 268 0.9× 35 2.2k
Chunying Rong China 31 680 0.9× 970 1.6× 475 0.8× 969 2.4× 341 1.2× 93 2.5k
Hartmut Schmider Canada 20 880 1.2× 1.1k 1.7× 482 0.8× 900 2.2× 479 1.7× 50 2.5k

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All Works

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Nordmark, Arne & Hanno Essén. (2017). An impacting linear three body system. European Journal of Physics. 39(1). 15001–15001. 1 indexed citations
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Essén, Hanno. (2017). An exact formula for electromagnetic momentum in terms of the charge density and the Coulomb gauge vector potential. European Journal of Physics. 39(2). 25202–25202. 2 indexed citations
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Fiolhais, M. C. N., et al.. (2016). A variational proof of Thomson's theorem. Physics Letters A. 380(35). 2703–2705.
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Fiolhais, M. C. N. & Hanno Essén. (2012). Electromagnetic wave scattering by a superconductor. Europhysics Letters (EPL). 97(4). 44006–44006. 1 indexed citations
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Essén, Hanno. (2012). Mechanics, cosmology and Mach's principle. European Journal of Physics. 34(1). 139–145. 4 indexed citations
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Nordmark, Arne & Hanno Essén. (2007). The skipping rope curve. European Journal of Physics. 28(2). 241–247. 5 indexed citations
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Essén, Hanno. (2005). Magnetic dynamics of simple collective modes in a two-sphere plasma model. Physics of Plasmas. 12(12). 5 indexed citations
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Essén, Hanno & Arne Nordmark. (2004). Hamiltonian of a homogeneous two-component plasma. Physical Review E. 69(3). 36404–36404. 7 indexed citations
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Essén, Hanno, et al.. (2003). Force on a spinning sphere moving in a rarefied gas. Physics of Fluids. 15(3). 736–741. 31 indexed citations
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Essén, Hanno. (1996). A simple mechanical model for the shape of the Earth. European Journal of Physics. 17(3). 131–135. 2 indexed citations
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Essén, Hanno & Mats Svensson. (1996). Calculation of coordinates from molecular geometric parameters and the concept of a geometric calculator. Computers & Chemistry. 20(4). 389–395. 8 indexed citations
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Essén, Hanno. (1995). A study of lattice and magnetic interactions of conduction electrons. Physica Scripta. 52(4). 388–394. 9 indexed citations
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Essén, Hanno. (1992). Empirical and theoretical evidence for gravitational polarization of matter. Physica Scripta. 45(1). 22–25.
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Bader, R. F. W. & Hanno Essén. (1984). The characterization of atomic interactions. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 80(5). 1943–1960. 1343 indexed citations breakdown →
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Child, M. S., Hanno Essén, & Robert J. Le Roy. (1983). An RKR-like inversion procedure for bound–continuum transition intensities. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 78(11). 6732–6740. 33 indexed citations
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Nguyen‐Dang, T. T., R. F. W. Bader, & Hanno Essén. (1982). Some properties of the Lagrange multiplier μ in density functional theory. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. 22(5). 1049–1058. 29 indexed citations
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Essén, Hanno. (1981). The cat landing on its feet revisited or angular momentum conservation and torque-free rotations of nonrigid mechanical systems. American Journal of Physics. 49(8). 756–758. 3 indexed citations
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Essén, Hanno. (1979). Topics in molecular mechanics. 1 indexed citations
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Essén, Hanno. (1979). Vibration—rotation coupling in polyatomic molecules; additions to the eckart conditions. Chemical Physics. 44(3). 373–388. 2 indexed citations

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