John Lekner

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
172 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

John Lekner is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, John Lekner has authored 172 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 55 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 31 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in John Lekner's work include Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (33 papers), Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry (25 papers) and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (22 papers). John Lekner is often cited by papers focused on Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (33 papers), Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry (25 papers) and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (22 papers). John Lekner collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States. John Lekner's co-authors include N. W. Ashcroft, Morrel H. Cohen, James R. Henderson, Michael C. Dorf, Stuart A. Rice, Brian D. Josephson, A. R. Bishop, R. Gomer, B.L. Halpern and Rufus Boyack and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Journal of Chemical Physics and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

John Lekner

163 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Structure and Resistivity of Liquid Metals

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Lekner New Zealand	29	2.4k	1.1k	1.0k	635	621	172	4.6k
Simon W. de Leeuw Netherlands	33	1.6k 0.7×	923 0.8×	1.7k 1.6×	224 0.4×	933 1.5×	114	4.5k
W. R. M. Graham United States	40	2.9k 1.2×	658 0.6×	1.2k 1.1×	297 0.5×	1.1k 1.8×	209	5.2k
Hideki Tanaka Japan	49	2.7k 1.1×	2.6k 2.3×	3.7k 3.5×	398 0.6×	392 0.6×	258	8.9k
M. Tosi Italy	45	3.5k 1.5×	628 0.6×	3.2k 3.1×	1.5k 2.4×	641 1.0×	389	11.0k
Martin Schoen Germany	37	1.8k 0.8×	1.9k 1.7×	2.2k 2.1×	310 0.5×	346 0.6×	159	4.5k
D. Stroud United States	50	3.8k 1.6×	2.0k 1.7×	2.2k 2.1×	543 0.9×	1.3k 2.1×	263	8.7k
G. Rickayzen United Kingdom	24	1.8k 0.8×	1.7k 1.5×	1.7k 1.7×	178 0.3×	300 0.5×	109	5.1k
Raymond D. Mountain United States	42	2.0k 0.8×	1.8k 1.6×	2.5k 2.4×	310 0.5×	174 0.3×	151	5.9k
H. Z. Cummins United States	45	2.3k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	4.4k 4.2×	267 0.4×	557 0.9×	151	7.4k
J. Bohr Denmark	38	2.0k 0.8×	559 0.5×	1.4k 1.4×	174 0.3×	406 0.7×	121	4.6k

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All Works

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Lekner, John. (2025). Interior and exterior surface charge densities and quadrupole moment of an open conducting cylinder. Journal of Electrostatics. 136. 104124–104124.

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Lekner, John. (2025). Interpolation formula for the capacitance of an open conducting cylinder. Journal of Electrostatics. 136. 104132–104132.

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Lekner, John. (2020). Laminar flow through corrugated pipes: comparison of exact and approximate solutions. European Journal of Physics. 41(6). 65003–65003. 2 indexed citations

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Lekner, John. (2020). Theory of Electromagnetic Beams. 2(3). 1–183. 1 indexed citations

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Lekner, John. (2019). The birth of radiation. European Journal of Physics. 40(2). 25201–25201. 1 indexed citations

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Lekner, John. (2019). Laminar viscous flow through pipes, related to cross-sectional area and perimeter length. American Journal of Physics. 87(10). 791–795. 7 indexed citations

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Lekner, John. (2018). Theory of Electromagnetic Pulses. Morgan & Claypool Publishers eBooks. 22 indexed citations

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Lekner, John. (2010). Capacitance coefficients of two spheres. Journal of Electrostatics. 69(1). 11–14. 52 indexed citations

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Lekner, John. (2006). Localized oscillatory acoustic pulses. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 18(11). 3031–3036. 3 indexed citations

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Lekner, John. (2005). Forces on scatterers in particle beams. Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics. 38(21). 3849–3856. 2 indexed citations

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Lekner, John. (2003). Energy and momentum of electromagnetic pulses. Journal of Optics A Pure and Applied Optics. 6(1). 146–147. 15 indexed citations

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Lekner, John. (1997). Electrostaticss of proton arrangements in ice Ic. Physica B Condensed Matter. 240(3). 263–272. 21 indexed citations

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Lekner, John. (1997). Inversion of the s and p reflectances of absorbing media. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 14(6). 1355–1355. 7 indexed citations

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Lekner, John. (1995). Isogyre formation by isotropic refracting bodies. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics. 15(1). 69–72. 5 indexed citations

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Lekner, John. (1993). Ellipsometry of anisotropic media. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 10(7). 1579–1579. 13 indexed citations

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Lekner, John. (1990). The phase relation between reflected and transmitted waves, and some consequences. American Journal of Physics. 58(4). 317–320. 2 indexed citations

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Lekner, John. (1988). Ellipsometry of surface films on a uniform layer. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 5(7). 1044–1044. 1 indexed citations

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Lekner, John. (1987). Theory of Reflection of Electromagnetic and Particle Waves. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 167 indexed citations

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Lekner, John & A. R. Bishop. (1973). Electron mobility in simple fluids near the critical point. Philosophical magazine. 27(2). 297–309. 62 indexed citations

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Lekner, John. (1968). Mobility maxima in the rare-gas liquids. Physics Letters A. 27(6). 341–342. 40 indexed citations

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