J. E. Sinclair

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

J. E. Sinclair is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Materials Chemistry and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, J. E. Sinclair has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 8 papers in Materials Chemistry and 5 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in J. E. Sinclair's work include Microstructure and mechanical properties (5 papers), Composite Material Mechanics (3 papers) and Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation (3 papers). J. E. Sinclair is often cited by papers focused on Microstructure and mechanical properties (5 papers), Composite Material Mechanics (3 papers) and Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation (3 papers). J. E. Sinclair collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. J. E. Sinclair's co-authors include Michael W. Finnis, J. P. Hirth, Brian R. Lawn, C. B. Scruby, H. N. G. Wadley, R. Thomson, R. Fletcher, P. C. Gehlen, R.G. Hoagland and Hisashi Tanaka and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Applied Physics, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and Marine Ecology Progress Series.

In The Last Decade

J. E. Sinclair

17 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

A simple empirical N-body potential for transition metals 1984 2026 1998 2012 1984 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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.

  1. A simple empirical N-body potential for transition metals
    1984 2.6k citations Michael W. Finnis, J. E. Sinclair Philosophical magazine. A/Philosophical magazine. A. Physics of condensed matter. Structure, defects and mechanical properties profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
J. E. Sinclair United Kingdom 13 2.5k 1.0k 775 729 498 17 3.3k
J. C. Hamilton United States 23 2.8k 1.2× 1.2k 1.2× 1.1k 1.4× 1.3k 1.8× 559 1.1× 63 4.1k
Alfred Seeger Germany 33 2.6k 1.1× 1.9k 1.9× 1.1k 1.4× 1.3k 1.8× 185 0.4× 132 4.6k
R. LeSar United States 36 3.0k 1.2× 1.3k 1.3× 1.2k 1.5× 1.0k 1.4× 358 0.7× 113 4.5k
W. Bollmann Switzerland 29 2.9k 1.2× 1.6k 1.6× 1.0k 1.3× 712 1.0× 196 0.4× 86 4.2k
V. Pontikis France 23 1.6k 0.6× 806 0.8× 575 0.7× 404 0.6× 515 1.0× 84 2.3k
W. L. Johnson United States 31 2.4k 1.0× 2.5k 2.5× 692 0.9× 324 0.4× 521 1.0× 91 4.4k
H. Wiedersich United States 33 2.7k 1.1× 1.2k 1.2× 571 0.7× 450 0.6× 228 0.5× 102 3.9k
B. S. Berry United States 25 2.0k 0.8× 1.7k 1.7× 873 1.1× 936 1.3× 106 0.2× 59 4.2k
R. S. Averback United States 28 2.1k 0.8× 805 0.8× 479 0.6× 299 0.4× 440 0.9× 46 3.0k
O. Hunderi Norway 31 1.9k 0.8× 1.1k 1.1× 1.1k 1.4× 609 0.8× 421 0.8× 135 4.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of J. E. Sinclair

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All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Sinclair, J. E., et al.. (2013). Population expansion of a new invasive coral species, Tubastraea micranthus, in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 495. 161–173. 25 indexed citations
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Park, R., Jim Cousins, André Filiatrault, et al.. (1995). The Hyogo-Ken Nanbu earthquake (the Great Hanshin Earthquake) of 17 January 1995. Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering. 28(1). 1–98. 33 indexed citations
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Finnis, Michael W. & J. E. Sinclair. (1984). A simple empirical N-body potential for transition metals. Philosophical magazine. A/Philosophical magazine. A. Physics of condensed matter. Structure, defects and mechanical properties. 50(1). 45–55. 2585 indexed citations breakdown →
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Thomson, R. & J. E. Sinclair. (1982). Mechanics of cracks screened by dislocations. Acta Metallurgica. 30(7). 1325–1334. 61 indexed citations
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Sinclair, J. E.. (1981). REPLY TO M.H. SAFAR'S ‘DISCUSSION ON “INTERACTION EFFECTS IN MARINE SEISMIC SOURCE ARRAYS”‘*. Geophysical Prospecting. 29(3). 476–477. 1 indexed citations
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Scruby, C. B., H. N. G. Wadley, & J. E. Sinclair. (1981). The origin of acoustic emission during deformation of aluminium and an aluminium–magnesium alloy. Philosophical magazine. A/Philosophical magazine. A. Physics of condensed matter. Structure, defects and mechanical properties. 44(2). 249–274. 86 indexed citations
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Sinclair, J. E. & Gautam Bhattacharya. (1980). INTERACTION EFFECTS IN MARINE SEISMIC SOURCE ARRAYS*. Geophysical Prospecting. 28(3). 323–332. 6 indexed citations
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Wadley, H. N. G., C. B. Scruby, & J. E. Sinclair. (1980). Acoustic emission source characterization. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 68(S1). S103–S104. 9 indexed citations
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Sinclair, J. E.. (1979). Epicentre solutions for point multipole sources in an elastic half-space. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 12(8). 1309–1315. 26 indexed citations
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Sinclair, J. E., P. C. Gehlen, R.G. Hoagland, & J. P. Hirth. (1978). Flexible boundary conditions and nonlinear geometric effects in atomic dislocation modeling. Journal of Applied Physics. 49(7). 3890–3897. 116 indexed citations
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Sinclair, J. E.. (1975). The influence of the interatomic force law and of kinks on the propagation of brittle cracks. Philosophical magazine. 31(3). 647–671. 106 indexed citations
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Sinclair, J. E. & J. P. Hirth. (1975). Two dimensional elastic Green function for a cracked anisotropic body. Journal of Physics F Metal Physics. 5(2). 236–246. 23 indexed citations
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Sinclair, J. E. & R. Fletcher. (1974). A new method of saddle-point location for the calculation of defect migration energies. Journal of Physics C Solid State Physics. 7(5). 864–870. 62 indexed citations
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Sinclair, J. E. & Brian R. Lawn. (1972). An atomistic study of cracks in diamond-structure crystals. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 329(1576). 83–103. 70 indexed citations
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Sinclair, J. E.. (1972). Atomistic computer simulation of brittle-fracture extension and closure. Journal of Physics C Solid State Physics. 5(20). L271–L274. 20 indexed citations
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Sinclair, J. E.. (1971). Improved Atomistic Model of a bcc Dislocation Core. Journal of Applied Physics. 42(13). 5321–5329. 78 indexed citations
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Sinclair, J. E., et al.. (1970). Fast methods of finding equilibrium configurations of atomic arrays near crystal defects. Physics Letters A. 32(2). 93–94. 8 indexed citations

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