John Dirk Walecka

18.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
102 papers, 12.9k citations indexed

About

John Dirk Walecka is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, John Dirk Walecka has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 12.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 41 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 10 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in John Dirk Walecka's work include Nuclear physics research studies (33 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (23 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (21 papers). John Dirk Walecka is often cited by papers focused on Nuclear physics research studies (33 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (23 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (21 papers). John Dirk Walecka collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Denmark. John Dirk Walecka's co-authors include Alexander L. Fetter, Leo P. Kadanoff, T. de Forest, Brian D. Serot, T. W. Donnelly, L. L. Foldy, Sidney D. Drell, Steven C. Frautschi, Siu A. Chin and Gerald A. Miller and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physics Today and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

John Dirk Walecka

94 papers receiving 12.4k citations

Hit Papers

Quantum theory of many-particle systems 1966 2026 1986 2006 1971 1972 1974 1966 1997 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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. Quantum theory of many-particle systems
    1971 3.9k citations Alexander L. Fetter, John Dirk Walecka CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →
  2. Quantum Theory of Many Particle Systems
    1972 1.7k citations Alexander L. Fetter, John Dirk Walecka et al. Physics Today profile →
  3. A theory of highly condensed matter
    1974 1.6k citations John Dirk Walecka Annals of Physics profile →
  4. Electron scattering and nuclear structure
    1966 839 citations John Dirk Walecka et al. profile →
  5. Recent Progress in Quantum Hadrodynamics
    1997 591 citations Brian D. Serot, John Dirk Walecka profile →

Peers

John Dirk Walecka
Hans A. Bethe United States
F. E. Low United States
G. F. Bertsch United States
Julian Schwinger United States
K. A. Brueckner United States
G. Röpke Germany
P.‐G. Reinhard Germany
Y. Nambu United States
M. L. Goldberger United States
Tai Tsun Wu United States
Hans A. Bethe United States
John Dirk Walecka
Citations per year, relative to John Dirk Walecka John Dirk Walecka (= 1×) peers Hans A. Bethe

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Walecka, John Dirk. (2010). Advanced Modern Physics. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks.
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Serot, Brian D., et al.. (2002). The Axial-Vector Current in Nuclear Many-Body Physics.. 1 indexed citations
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Serot, Brian D., et al.. (2002). Axial-vector current in nuclear many-body physics. Physical Review C. 66(5). 6 indexed citations
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Walecka, John Dirk, et al.. (1992). Dirkfest '92 : a symposium in honor of J. Dirk Walecka's sixtieth birthday : CEBAF, Newport News, Virginia, 24-25 April 1992. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Serot, Brian D. & John Dirk Walecka. (1992). Chiral QHD with Vector Mesons. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 7 indexed citations
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Walecka, John Dirk. (1984). Electron Scattering : Lectures Given at Argonne National Laboratory. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 23(10). 1653.e15–1653.e18.
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Walecka, John Dirk. (1984). Electroweak interactions with nuclei. AIP conference proceedings. 123. 1–20.
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Fetter, Alexander L. & John Dirk Walecka. (1980). Theoretical mechanics of particles and continua. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 270 indexed citations
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Viollier, Raoul D. & John Dirk Walecka. (1976). Two-Particle Correlations in Nuclei. 25. 1 indexed citations
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Walecka, John Dirk. (1975). Equation of state for neutron matter at finite T in a relativistic mean-field theory. Physics Letters B. 59(2). 109–112. 106 indexed citations
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Fetter, Alexander L., John Dirk Walecka, & Leo P. Kadanoff. (1972). Quantum Theory of Many Particle Systems. Physics Today. 25(11). 54–55. 1714 indexed citations breakdown →
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O'Connell, J.S., T. W. Donnelly, & John Dirk Walecka. (1972). Semileptonic Weak Interactions withC12. Physical Review C. 6(3). 719–733. 121 indexed citations
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Pritchett, P. L., et al.. (1968). The model dependence of the N(ee′)N∗ form factors. Physics Letters B. 27(3). 168–171. 8 indexed citations
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Walecka, John Dirk & Paul A. Zucker. (1968). Relativistic Model for Electroproduction of Nucleon Resonances. Physical Review. 167(5). 1479–1498. 34 indexed citations
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Barrett, B. R., John Dirk Walecka, & W. E. Meyerhof. (1966). Some observations concerning the supermultiplet of negative-parity excited states in the α particle. Physics Letters. 22(4). 450–454. 27 indexed citations
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Foldy, L. L. & John Dirk Walecka. (1965). Nuclear correlation functions and muon capture. Il Nuovo Cimento. 36(4). 1257–1266. 19 indexed citations
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Czyż, W., et al.. (1964). Neutrino production of lepton pairs through the point four-fermion interaction. Il Nuovo Cimento. 34(2). 404–435. 49 indexed citations
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Dawson, John F., Igal Talmi, & John Dirk Walecka. (1962). A calculation of the level spectrum of O18 from the free two-nucleon potential. Annals of Physics. 18(2). 339–366. 121 indexed citations
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Frautschi, Steven C. & John Dirk Walecka. (1960). Pion-Nucleon Scattering in the Mandelstam Representation. Physical Review. 120(4). 1486–1505. 168 indexed citations
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Gomes, L. C., John Dirk Walecka, & V. F. Weisskopf. (1958). Properties of nuclear matter. Annals of Physics. 3(3). 241–274. 212 indexed citations

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