James Vickers

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

James Vickers is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mathematical Physics and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, James Vickers has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 23 papers in Mathematical Physics and 23 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in James Vickers's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (22 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (20 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (12 papers). James Vickers is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (22 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (20 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (12 papers). James Vickers collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Austria and New Zealand. James Vickers's co-authors include Roland Steinbauer, M. M. Dodson, Malcolm Ludvigsen, Ray d’Inverno, Gwenaëlle Douaud, Susan James, Mark Jenkinson, Timothy E.J. Behrens, Anthony James and Natalie Voets and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Brain and Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.

In The Last Decade

James Vickers

59 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Anatomically related grey and white matter abnormalities ... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 200 400 600
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. Anatomically related grey and white matter abnormalities in adolescent-onset schizophrenia
    2007 636 citations Gwenaëlle Douaud, Stephen M. Smith et al. Brain profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James Vickers United Kingdom 19 453 381 338 315 310 61 1.5k
Stiliyan Kalitzin Netherlands 29 337 0.7× 844 2.2× 2.1k 6.3× 62 0.2× 109 0.4× 87 3.5k
Arthur S. Schwartz United States 14 419 0.9× 1.6k 4.1× 359 1.1× 100 0.3× 18 0.1× 31 2.5k
A. S. Sorin Russia 23 425 0.9× 1.3k 3.3× 131 0.4× 47 0.1× 21 0.1× 183 2.3k
Gordon Chalmers United States 22 188 0.4× 540 1.4× 130 0.4× 28 0.1× 22 0.1× 70 1.5k
C. Cattaneo Italy 17 130 0.3× 46 0.1× 66 0.2× 148 0.5× 75 0.2× 53 1.6k
August Romeo Spain 20 973 2.1× 540 1.4× 132 0.4× 99 0.3× 13 0.0× 70 1.8k
J.G. Taylor United Kingdom 20 388 0.9× 807 2.1× 211 0.6× 17 0.1× 23 0.1× 125 1.3k
Dennis W. Duke United States 22 148 0.3× 1.9k 4.9× 717 2.1× 77 0.2× 24 0.1× 79 3.1k
Jukka Sarvas Finland 23 19 0.0× 51 0.1× 2.2k 6.6× 151 0.5× 733 2.4× 56 3.9k
Roderick Edwards Canada 28 1.3k 2.9× 696 1.8× 161 0.5× 13 0.0× 21 0.1× 106 3.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by James Vickers

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kunzinger, Michael, Michael Oberguggenberger, & James Vickers. (2023). Synthetic versus distributional lower Ricci curvature bounds. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A Mathematics. 154(5). 1406–1430. 4 indexed citations
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d’Inverno, Ray & James Vickers. (2022). Introducing Einstein's Relativity. 21 indexed citations
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Kunzinger, Michael, et al.. (2015). Hawking’s singularity theorem for C 1,1 -metrics. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 32(7). 75012–75012. 23 indexed citations
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Kunzinger, Michael, et al.. (2013). Causality theory for $C^{1,1}$-Lorentzian metrics. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Vickers, James. (2011). Distributional geometry in general relativity. Journal of Geometry and Physics. 62(3). 692–705. 11 indexed citations
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Douaud, Gwenaëlle, Stephen M. Smith, Mark Jenkinson, et al.. (2007). Anatomically related grey and white matter abnormalities in adolescent-onset schizophrenia. Brain. 130(9). 2375–2386. 636 indexed citations breakdown →
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d’Inverno, Ray, Philippe Lambert, & James Vickers. (2006). Hamiltonian analysis of the double null 2 + 2 decomposition of general relativity expressed in terms of self-dual bivectors. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 23(13). 4511–4522. 9 indexed citations
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Kunzinger, Michael, Roland Steinbauer, & James Vickers. (2003). Intrinsic Characterization of Manifold-Valued Generalized Functions. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. 87(2). 451–470. 14 indexed citations
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Grosser, Michael, Michael Kunzinger, Roland Steinbauer, & James Vickers. (2002). A Global Theory of Algebras of Generalized Functions. Advances in Mathematics. 166(1). 50–72. 36 indexed citations
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Grosser, Michael, Michael Kunzinger, Roland Steinbauer, Helmuth K. Urbantke, & James Vickers. (2000). Diffeomorphism invariant construction of nonlinear generalised functions. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 1 indexed citations
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Sperhake, Ulrich, et al.. (2000). Dynamic cosmic strings. II. Numerical evolution of excited cosmic strings. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 63(2). 8 indexed citations
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Vickers, James. (1999). POINCARÉ AND THE THREE BODY PROBLEM (History of Mathematics 11). Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 31(1). 121–123. 4 indexed citations
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Dodson, M. M., Bryan P. Rynne, & James Vickers. (1996). Simultaneous Diophantine Approximation and Asymptotic Formulae on Manifolds. Journal of Number Theory. 58(2). 298–316. 7 indexed citations
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d’Inverno, Ray & James Vickers. (1996). Combining Cauchy and characteristic codes. III. The interface problem in axial symmetry. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 54(8). 4919–4928. 13 indexed citations
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Vickers, James, et al.. (1995). A spacetime calculus invariant under null rotations. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 450(1940). 693–709. 6 indexed citations
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Dodson, M. M., Jürgen Pöschel, Bryan P. Rynne, & James Vickers. (1992). The Hausdorff dimension of small divisors for lower-dimensional KAM-tori. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 439(1906). 359–371. 7 indexed citations
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d’Inverno, Ray, et al.. (1991). Upper bounds for the Karlhede classification of type D vacuum spacetimes. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 8(11). L215–L217. 11 indexed citations
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Dodson, M. M., Bryan P. Rynne, & James Vickers. (1990). Dirichlet's theorem and diophantine approximation on manifolds. Journal of Number Theory. 36(1). 85–88. 10 indexed citations
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Dodson, M. M. & James Vickers. (1989). Number Theory and Dynamical Systems. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 46 indexed citations
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Ludvigsen, Malcolm & James Vickers. (1983). . Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General. 16(6). 1169–1174. 6 indexed citations

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