Jacob Sherson

6.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
90 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Jacob Sherson is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jacob Sherson has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 37 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 14 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Jacob Sherson's work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (36 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (31 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (15 papers). Jacob Sherson is often cited by papers focused on Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (36 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (31 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (15 papers). Jacob Sherson collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Germany and United States. Jacob Sherson's co-authors include E. S. Polzik, Brian Julsgaard, Christof Weitenberg, Stefan Kuhr, J. I. Cirac, Immanuel Bloch, Marc Cheneau, Manuel Endres, Jaromı́r Fiurášek and Hanna Krauter and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Jacob Sherson

84 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

Single-atom-resolved fluorescence imaging of an atomic Mo... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2010 2006 2004 2011 250 500 750
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. Single-atom-resolved fluorescence imaging of an atomic Mott insulator
    2010 916 citations Jacob Sherson et al. profile →
  2. Quantum teleportation between light and matter
    2006 675 citations Jacob Sherson, E. S. Polzik et al. profile →
  3. Experimental demonstration of quantum memory for light
    2004 637 citations Jacob Sherson, Jaromı́r Fiurášek et al. profile →
  4. Single-spin addressing in an atomic Mott insulator
    2011 514 citations Jacob Sherson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jacob Sherson Denmark 22 3.3k 1.8k 319 307 246 90 4.1k
Yu-Ao Chen China 43 5.9k 1.8× 5.3k 3.0× 295 0.9× 204 0.7× 739 3.0× 107 6.9k
Markus Arndt Austria 41 5.1k 1.6× 2.0k 1.1× 414 1.3× 106 0.3× 532 2.2× 150 6.0k
Alex W. Chin United Kingdom 30 3.8k 1.2× 1.4k 0.8× 432 1.4× 91 0.3× 1.2k 5.1× 81 5.0k
Michael J. Hartmann Germany 34 3.5k 1.1× 2.2k 1.2× 588 1.8× 342 1.1× 836 3.4× 101 4.4k
Michael Thorwart Germany 37 3.7k 1.1× 945 0.5× 323 1.0× 502 1.6× 617 2.5× 124 4.1k
Stephen R. L. Clark United Kingdom 30 2.2k 0.7× 660 0.4× 292 0.9× 745 2.4× 202 0.8× 155 3.3k
Ivan Kassal Australia 25 1.7k 0.5× 1.5k 0.9× 237 0.7× 60 0.2× 703 2.9× 46 2.9k
Michael H. Anderson United States 17 5.6k 1.7× 696 0.4× 132 0.4× 511 1.7× 261 1.1× 57 6.3k
Klaus Hornberger Germany 31 3.5k 1.1× 1.6k 0.9× 124 0.4× 59 0.2× 352 1.4× 99 3.7k
R. McDermott United States 31 3.1k 1.0× 1.9k 1.1× 302 0.9× 741 2.4× 602 2.4× 71 4.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Jacob Sherson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jacob Sherson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jacob Sherson

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sherson, Jacob, et al.. (2025). Quantum technology master’s: a shortcut to the quantum industry?. EPJ Quantum Technology. 12(1). 2–2. 1 indexed citations
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Sherson, Jacob, et al.. (2025). The Co-Creative Design Framework for Hybrid Intelligence. 560–572.
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Sherson, Jacob, et al.. (2025). Building Europe’s quantum technology education community. EPJ Quantum Technology. 12(1). 61–61.
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Sherson, Jacob, et al.. (2024). The Quantum Technology Open Master: widening access to the quantum industry. EPJ Quantum Technology. 11(1). 9 indexed citations
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Díaz, Carlos Mauricio Castaño, Qian Janice Wang, Ali Amidi, et al.. (2023). Measuring Cognitive Abilities in the Wild: Validating a Population‐Scale Game‐Based Cognitive Assessment. Cognitive Science. 47(6). e13308–e13308. 7 indexed citations
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Kersting, Magdalena, D. G. Blair, S. Sandrelli, Jacob Sherson, & Julia Woithe. (2023). Making an IMPRESSion: mapping out future directions in modern physics education. Physics Education. 59(1). 15501–15501. 4 indexed citations
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Rafner, Janet, Roger E. Beaty, James C. Kaufman, Todd Lubart, & Jacob Sherson. (2023). Creativity in the age of generative AI. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(11). 1836–1838. 62 indexed citations
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Rafner, Janet, Qian Janice Wang, Carsten Bergenholtz, et al.. (2023). Towards Game-Based Assessment of Creative Thinking. Creativity Research Journal. 35(4). 763–782. 3 indexed citations
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Rafner, Janet, et al.. (2023). Picture This: AI-Assisted Image Generation as a Resource for Problem Construction in Creative Problem-Solving. Creativity and Cognition. 262–268. 7 indexed citations
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Sherson, Jacob, et al.. (2023). The open master: A new model of transnational higher education. Distance Education. 44(4). 765–776. 4 indexed citations
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Santi, L., et al.. (2022). Culturo-Scientific Storytelling. Education Sciences. 12(7). 474–474. 13 indexed citations
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Tsvetkova, Milena, et al.. (2022). Inequality and fairness with heterogeneous endowments. PLoS ONE. 17(10). e0276864–e0276864. 3 indexed citations
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Rafner, Janet, Michael Mose Biskjær, Carsten Bergenholtz, et al.. (2021). Digital Games for Creativity Assessment: Strengths, Weaknesses and Opportunities. Creativity Research Journal. 34(1). 28–54. 25 indexed citations
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Møller, Frederik, et al.. (2020). Exact Gradients and Hessians for Quantum Optimal Control and Applications in Many-Body Matrix Product States. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Motzoi, Felix, et al.. (2020). Hessian-based optimization of constrained quantum control. Physical review. A. 102(4). 18 indexed citations
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Bason, Mark G., Robert K. Heck, M. Napolitano, et al.. (2018). Measurement-enhanced determination of BEC phase transitions. Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics. 51(17). 175301–175301. 8 indexed citations
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Heck, Robert K., Jens Jakob Sørensen, Mark G. Bason, et al.. (2018). Remote optimization of an ultracold atoms experiment by experts and citizen scientists. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(48). E11231–E11237. 47 indexed citations
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Sherson, Jacob, et al.. (2017). Citizen Science, Gamification, and Virtual Reality for Cognitive Research.. Cognitive Science.
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Sherson, Jacob, et al.. (2017). Are strategies in physics discrete? A remote controlled investigation. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2017. 1 indexed citations
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Opatrný, Tomáš, Jaromı́r Fiurášek, E. S. Polzik, & Jacob Sherson. (2006). Single-passage readout of atomic quantum memory (8 pages). Physical Review A. 73(2). 22331. 1 indexed citations

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