Jan Palečka

843 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 659 citations indexed

About

Jan Palečka is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Palečka has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 659 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 7 papers in Computational Mechanics and 3 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Jan Palečka's work include Combustion and Detonation Processes (8 papers), Combustion and flame dynamics (7 papers) and Rocket and propulsion systems research (5 papers). Jan Palečka is often cited by papers focused on Combustion and Detonation Processes (8 papers), Combustion and flame dynamics (7 papers) and Rocket and propulsion systems research (5 papers). Jan Palečka collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Netherlands and Germany. Jan Palečka's co-authors include Samuel Goroshin, Jeffrey M. Bergthorson, David L. Frost, Michael Soo, D.J. Jarvis, Julien Perret, Andrew Higgins, James Vickery, Yinon Yavor and Philippe Julien and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Energy, Progress in Energy and Combustion Science and Combustion and Flame.

In The Last Decade

Jan Palečka

10 papers receiving 629 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Direct combustion of recyclable metal fuels for zero-carbon heat and power

2015 317 citations Jeffrey M. Bergthorson, Samuel Goroshin et al. Applied Energy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jan Palečka Canada	8	359	232	220	193	123	10	659
Michael L. Hobbs United States	15	282 0.8×	356 1.5×	425 1.9×	145 0.8×	308 2.5×	66	899
Yanan Gan United States	6	307 0.9×	202 0.9×	325 1.5×	316 1.6×	398 3.2×	12	836
Khalid Waheed Pakistan	12	287 0.8×	150 0.6×	210 1.0×	323 1.7×	223 1.8×	35	705
Shiquan Shan China	18	114 0.3×	125 0.5×	72 0.3×	227 1.2×	146 1.2×	83	837
James Vickery Canada	6	246 0.7×	111 0.5×	200 0.9×	82 0.4×	31 0.3×	9	380
Yingzu Liu China	16	100 0.3×	136 0.6×	113 0.5×	334 1.7×	399 3.2×	24	790
C. Allouis Italy	17	119 0.3×	180 0.8×	44 0.2×	402 2.1×	211 1.7×	50	846
Bradley R. Adams United States	12	112 0.3×	153 0.7×	53 0.2×	241 1.2×	207 1.7×	38	527

Countries citing papers authored by Jan Palečka

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jan Palečka

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jan Palečka

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

All Works

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10 of 10 papers shown

1.

Ende, Marie‐Aline Van, et al.. (2024). Conceptual design of rocket engines using regolith-derived propellants. Acta Astronautica. 223. 594–605. 6 indexed citations

2.

Goroshin, Samuel, Jan Palečka, & Jeffrey M. Bergthorson. (2022). Some fundamental aspects of laminar flames in nonvolatile solid fuel suspensions. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science. 91. 100994–100994. 54 indexed citations

3.

Palečka, Jan, Samuel Goroshin, Andrew Higgins, et al.. (2020). Percolating Reaction–Diffusion Waves (PERWAVES)—Sounding rocket combustion experiments. Acta Astronautica. 177. 639–651. 19 indexed citations

4.

Julien, Philippe, et al.. (2020). Effect of Initial Reactant Temperature on Flame Speeds in Aluminum Dust Suspensions. Combustion Science and Technology. 194(8). 1513–1526. 7 indexed citations

5.

Palečka, Jan, et al.. (2020). Aluminum-propane-air hybrid flames in a Hele-Shaw cell. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 38(3). 4461–4468. 9 indexed citations

6.

Palečka, Jan, et al.. (2019). A new kind of flame: Observation of the discrete flame propagation regime in iron particle suspensions in microgravity. Combustion and Flame. 209. 180–186. 58 indexed citations

7.

Palečka, Jan, Samuel Goroshin, & Jeffrey M. Bergthorson. (2018). Propagation and quenching of dual-front flames in binary-fuel mixtures. Combustion Science and Technology. 190(9). 1557–1579. 12 indexed citations

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Bergthorson, Jeffrey M., Yinon Yavor, Jan Palečka, et al.. (2016). Metal-water combustion for clean propulsion and power generation. Applied Energy. 186. 13–27. 146 indexed citations

9.

Bergthorson, Jeffrey M., Samuel Goroshin, Michael Soo, et al.. (2015). Direct combustion of recyclable metal fuels for zero-carbon heat and power. Applied Energy. 160. 368–382. 317 indexed citations breakdown →

10.

Palečka, Jan, Philippe Julien, Samuel Goroshin, et al.. (2014). Quenching distance of flames in hybrid methane–aluminum mixtures. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 35(2). 2463–2470. 31 indexed citations

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