J. Peter Watt

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

J. Peter Watt is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Geophysics and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, J. Peter Watt has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 9 papers in Geophysics and 3 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in J. Peter Watt's work include Rock Mechanics and Modeling (9 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (9 papers) and Composite Material Mechanics (8 papers). J. Peter Watt is often cited by papers focused on Rock Mechanics and Modeling (9 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (9 papers) and Composite Material Mechanics (8 papers). J. Peter Watt collaborates with scholars based in United States. J. Peter Watt's co-authors include Richard J. O’Connell, Geoffrey F. Davies, Louis Peselnick, Thomas J. Ahrens, T. J. Shankland, J. M. Ade‐Hall, Edward M. Stolper, Sally M. Rigden, M. B. Boslough and Ken‐ichi Kondo and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Applied Physics and Geology.

In The Last Decade

J. Peter Watt

18 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

The elastic properties of composite materials 1976 2026 1992 2009 1976 200 400 600
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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. The elastic properties of composite materials
    1976 624 citations J. Peter Watt, Geoffrey F. Davies et al. Reviews of Geophysics 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. Peter Watt United States 13 699 596 591 242 150 18 1.6k
Michael T. Vaughan United States 25 1.4k 2.1× 246 0.4× 654 1.1× 182 0.8× 243 1.6× 32 1.8k
Minoru Akaishi Japan 29 968 1.4× 679 1.1× 1.8k 3.1× 558 2.3× 81 0.5× 81 2.3k
Zizheng Gong China 21 313 0.4× 484 0.8× 665 1.1× 257 1.1× 131 0.9× 81 1.3k
Shinobu Yamaoka Japan 29 885 1.3× 746 1.3× 2.1k 3.6× 471 1.9× 154 1.0× 68 2.6k
Wayne E. Tefft United States 12 174 0.2× 293 0.5× 479 0.8× 247 1.0× 69 0.5× 17 1.1k
S. J. Burns United States 24 112 0.2× 731 1.2× 656 1.1× 491 2.0× 101 0.7× 102 1.8k
William D. Mattson United States 10 222 0.3× 338 0.6× 809 1.4× 239 1.0× 32 0.2× 22 1.3k
R. G. Munro United States 18 201 0.3× 532 0.9× 930 1.6× 1.3k 5.3× 97 0.6× 51 2.2k
Lowell Miyagi United States 23 1.1k 1.6× 141 0.2× 744 1.3× 284 1.2× 131 0.9× 54 1.7k
Alexander F. Khokhryakov Russia 26 1.6k 2.3× 464 0.8× 1.4k 2.4× 361 1.5× 35 0.2× 66 2.2k

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All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Watt, J. Peter. (1988). Elastic properties of polycrystalline minerals: Comparison of theory and experiment. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals. 15(6). 579–587. 23 indexed citations
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Watt, J. Peter. (1987). POLYXSTAL: a FORTRAN program to calculate average elastic properties of minerals from single-crystal elasticity data. Computers & Geosciences. 13(5). 441–462. 20 indexed citations
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Watt, J. Peter. (1986). Hashin–Shtrikman bounds on the effective elastic moduli of polycrystals with trigonal (3,3) and tetragonal (4,4,4m) symmetry. Journal of Applied Physics. 60(9). 3120–3124. 26 indexed citations
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Watt, J. Peter, et al.. (1986). Walpole bounds on the effective elastic moduli of isotropic multicomponent composites. Journal of Applied Physics. 60(5). 1618–1624. 16 indexed citations
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Watt, J. Peter & Thomas J. Ahrens. (1986). Shock wave equation of state of enstatite. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 91(B7). 7495–7503. 26 indexed citations
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Watt, J. Peter & Thomas J. Ahrens. (1984). Shock wave equations of state using mixed‐phase regime data. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 89(B9). 7836–7844. 11 indexed citations
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Watt, J. Peter & Thomas J. Ahrens. (1982). The role of iron partitioning in mantle composition, evolution, and scale of convection. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 87(B7). 5631–5644. 37 indexed citations
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Ahrens, Thomas J., M. B. Boslough, Manfred A. Lange, et al.. (1982). Shock wave apparatus for studying minerals at high pressure and impact phenomena on planetary surfaces. 631–633. 2 indexed citations
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Watt, J. Peter. (1981). Velocity-density systematics, mean atomic weight, and the interior of the moon. Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors. 25(1). 57–63. 9 indexed citations
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Ahrens, Thomas J. & J. Peter Watt. (1980). Dynamic properties of mare basalts - Relation of equation of state to petrology. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. 3. 2059–2074. 2 indexed citations
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Watt, J. Peter & Richard J. O’Connell. (1980). An experimental investigation of the Hashin-Shtrikman bounds on two-phase aggregate elastic properties. Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors. 21(4). 359–370. 28 indexed citations
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Watt, J. Peter & Louis Peselnick. (1980). Clarification of the Hashin-Shtrikman bounds on the effective elastic moduli of polycrystals with hexagonal, trigonal, and tetragonal symmetries. Journal of Applied Physics. 51(3). 1525–1531. 369 indexed citations
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Watt, J. Peter. (1980). Hashin-Shtrikman bounds on the effective elastic moduli of polycrystals with monoclinic symmetry. Journal of Applied Physics. 51(3). 1520–1524. 113 indexed citations
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Watt, J. Peter. (1979). Hashin-Shtrikman bounds on the effective elastic moduli of polycrystals with orthorhombic symmetry. Journal of Applied Physics. 50(10). 6290–6295. 226 indexed citations
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Watt, J. Peter & Richard J. O’Connell. (1978). Mixed-oxide and perovskite-structure model mantles from 700?1200 km. Geophysical Journal International. 54(3). 601–630. 32 indexed citations
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Watt, J. Peter, Geoffrey F. Davies, & Richard J. O’Connell. (1976). The elastic properties of composite materials. Reviews of Geophysics. 14(4). 541–563. 624 indexed citations breakdown →
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Watt, J. Peter, et al.. (1975). Uniformity of Mantle Composition. Geology. 3(2). 91–91. 41 indexed citations
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Watt, J. Peter, et al.. (1973). Measurement of Fe3+/Fe2+ratios in basaltic class I titanomagnetites using the Mössbauer Effect. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 78(17). 3301–3309. 4 indexed citations

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