James Nulton

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

James Nulton is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, James Nulton has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 12 papers in Ecology and 8 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in James Nulton's work include Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (16 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (10 papers) and Statistical Mechanics and Entropy (5 papers). James Nulton is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (16 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (10 papers) and Statistical Mechanics and Entropy (5 papers). James Nulton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Germany. James Nulton's co-authors include Peter Salamon, Forest Rohwer, Ben Felts, Mya Breitbart, Joseph M. Mahaffy, Ian Hewson, Robert A. Edwards, Scott T. Kelley, J. Christian Schön and Ryszard Mrugała and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Chemical Physics, PLoS ONE and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

James Nulton

42 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Metagenomic Analyses of an Uncultured Viral Community fro... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Metagenomic Analyses of an Uncultured Viral Community from Human Feces
    2003 549 citations Mya Breitbart, Ben Felts 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
James Nulton United States 23 1.4k 997 693 478 453 43 3.0k
Hal L. Smith United States 47 511 0.4× 1.2k 1.2× 996 1.4× 183 0.4× 352 0.8× 155 11.0k
Knut Drescher Germany 40 1.3k 0.9× 3.4k 3.4× 573 0.8× 270 0.6× 213 0.5× 81 7.7k
Joel Stavans Israel 36 673 0.5× 1.6k 1.6× 474 0.7× 118 0.2× 62 0.1× 80 4.2k
Andrew M. Edwards United Kingdom 39 636 0.5× 1.9k 1.9× 116 0.2× 77 0.2× 1.0k 2.2× 89 5.0k
Michael Lässig Germany 33 198 0.1× 1.6k 1.6× 328 0.5× 183 0.4× 237 0.5× 83 3.4k
John L. Spouge United States 29 226 0.2× 3.0k 3.0× 172 0.2× 326 0.7× 462 1.0× 119 5.1k
Jürgen Knobloch Germany 35 291 0.2× 542 0.5× 249 0.4× 116 0.2× 815 1.8× 155 3.5k
Joseph M. Mahaffy United States 22 2.1k 1.5× 1.7k 1.7× 106 0.2× 727 1.5× 596 1.3× 40 3.7k
Shigui Ruan United States 65 453 0.3× 619 0.6× 1.3k 1.9× 184 0.4× 1.3k 2.8× 271 15.1k
Bjarne Andresen Denmark 33 628 0.5× 362 0.4× 3.1k 4.5× 231 0.5× 117 0.3× 114 4.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Nulton

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Salamon, Peter, Bjarne Andresen, James Nulton, Ty N. F. Roach, & Forest Rohwer. (2023). More Stages Decrease Dissipation in Irreversible Step Processes. Entropy. 25(3). 539–539. 1 indexed citations
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Roach, Ty N. F., James Nulton, Paolo Sibani, Forest Rohwer, & Peter Salamon. (2019). Emergent structure in a stochastic model of ecological evolution. Ecological Modelling. 401. 129–133. 8 indexed citations
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Roach, Ty N. F., James Nulton, Paolo Sibani, Forest Rohwer, & Peter Salamon. (2017). Entropy in the Tangled Nature Model of Evolution. Entropy. 19(5). 192–192. 15 indexed citations
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Somera, Tracey, Barbara Bailey, Katie L. Barott, et al.. (2016). Energetic differences between bacterioplankton trophic groups and coral reef resistance. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1829). 20160467–20160467. 11 indexed citations
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Salamon, Peter, Mariam Ghochani, James Nulton, et al.. (2012). Shape Entropy and the Time Scales for Thermodynamics in Biological Systems. Biophysical Journal. 102(3). 505a–505a. 1 indexed citations
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Somera, Tracey, James Nulton, Katie L. Barott, et al.. (2012). Assessing Coral Reefs on a Pacific-Wide Scale Using the Microbialization Score. PLoS ONE. 7(9). e43233–e43233. 64 indexed citations
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Yue, Min, et al.. (2012). Diversification of the Salmonella Fimbriae: A Model of Macro- and Microevolution. PLoS ONE. 7(6). e38596–e38596. 87 indexed citations
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Andresen, Bjarne, K. H. Hoffmann, James Nulton, А. М. Цирлин, & Peter Salamon. (2011). Optimal control of the parametric oscillator. European Journal of Physics. 32(3). 827–843. 23 indexed citations
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Ghochani, Mariam, James Nulton, Peter Salamon, et al.. (2010). Tensile Forces and Shape Entropy Explain Observed Crista Structure in Mitochondria. Biophysical Journal. 99(10). 3244–3254. 30 indexed citations
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Breitbart, Mya, Matthew Haynes, Scott T. Kelley, et al.. (2008). Viral diversity and dynamics in an infant gut. Research in Microbiology. 159(5). 367–373. 259 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Karl Heinz, Beltrán Rodriguez-Brito, Mya Breitbart, et al.. (2007). Power law rankâabundance models for marine phage communities. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 273(2). 224–228. 42 indexed citations
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Salamon, Peter, et al.. (2006). Membrane Remodeling and Diffusion of Cytochrome C from a Geometrically Idealized Mitochondrial Crista.. 310–314. 4 indexed citations
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Salamon, Peter, Karl Heinz Hoffmann, Beltrán Rodriguez-Brito, et al.. (2005). Power law rank-abundance relationships in marine phage populations. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2 indexed citations
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Nulton, James, et al.. (2005). Modeling tubular shapes in the inner mitochondrial membrane. Physical Biology. 2(1). 73–79. 21 indexed citations
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Angly, Florent, Beltrán Rodriguez-Brito, Mya Breitbart, et al.. (2005). PHACCS, an online tool for estimating the structure and diversity of uncultured viral communities using metagenomic information. BMC Bioinformatics. 6(1). 41–41. 128 indexed citations
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Breitbart, Mya, Ben Felts, Scott T. Kelley, et al.. (2004). Diversity and population structure of a near–shore marine–sediment viral community. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 271(1539). 565–574. 217 indexed citations
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Salamon, Peter & James Nulton. (1998). The Geometry of Separation Processes: The Horse-Carrot Theorem for Steady Flow Systems. APS March Meeting Abstracts. 2 indexed citations
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Dilcher, Karl, James Nulton, & Kenneth B. Stolarsky. (1992). The zeros of a certain family of trinomials. Glasgow Mathematical Journal. 34(1). 55–74. 14 indexed citations
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Salamon, Peter, et al.. (1988). Simulated annealing with constant thermodynamic speed. Computer Physics Communications. 49(3). 423–428. 52 indexed citations
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Salamon, Peter, et al.. (1984). On the relation between entropy and energy versions of thermodynamic length. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 80(1). 436–437. 122 indexed citations

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