Jörn Dunkel

8.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
117 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Jörn Dunkel is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jörn Dunkel has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 36 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 29 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jörn Dunkel's work include Micro and Nano Robotics (40 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (31 papers) and Statistical Mechanics and Entropy (14 papers). Jörn Dunkel is often cited by papers focused on Micro and Nano Robotics (40 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (31 papers) and Statistical Mechanics and Entropy (14 papers). Jörn Dunkel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Jörn Dunkel's co-authors include Raymond E. Goldstein, Knut Drescher, Peter Hänggi, Sebastian Heidenreich, H. H. Wensink, Vasily Kantsler, Francis G. Woodhouse, Stefan Hilbert, Norbert Stoop and S. Ganguly and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jörn Dunkel

115 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

Meso-scale turbulence in living fluids 2011 2026 2016 2021 2012 2011 2013 2022 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. Meso-scale turbulence in living fluids
    2012 670 citations H. H. Wensink, Jörn Dunkel et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Fluid dynamics and noise in bacterial cell–cell and cell–surface scattering
    2011 537 citations Knut Drescher, Jörn Dunkel et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  3. Fluid Dynamics of Bacterial Turbulence
    2013 378 citations Jörn Dunkel, Sebastian Heidenreich et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  4. Odd dynamics of living chiral crystals
    2022 176 citations Tzer Han Tan, Alexander Mietke et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Jörn Dunkel
Tanniemola B. Liverpool United Kingdom
Jean‐François Joanny France
Thomas Powers United States
Holger Stark Germany
Francesc Sagués Spain
Julien Tailleur France
Zvonimir Dogic United States
Madan Rao India
Roberto Di Leonardo Italy
Davide Marenduzzo United Kingdom
Tanniemola B. Liverpool United Kingdom
Jörn Dunkel
Citations per year, relative to Jörn Dunkel Jörn Dunkel (= 1×) peers Tanniemola B. Liverpool

Countries citing papers authored by Jörn Dunkel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jörn Dunkel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jörn Dunkel

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All Works

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Dunkel, Jörn, et al.. (2024). Vortex line entanglement in active Beltrami flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 982.
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Salvalaglio, Marco, Dominic J. Skinner, Jörn Dunkel, & Axel Voigt. (2024). Persistent homology and topological statistics of hyperuniform point clouds. Physical Review Research. 6(2). 10 indexed citations
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Skinner, Dominic J., et al.. (2024). In Vivo Microrheology Reveals Local Elastic and Plastic Responses Inside 3D Bacterial Biofilms. Advanced Materials. 36(29). e2314059–e2314059. 7 indexed citations
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Skinner, Dominic J., et al.. (2024). Discovering dynamics and parameters of nonlinear oscillatory and chaotic systems from partial observations. Physical Review Research. 6(4). 2 indexed citations
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Skinner, Dominic J., Hannah Jeckel, Adam C. Martin, Knut Drescher, & Jörn Dunkel. (2023). Topological packing statistics of living and nonliving matter. Science Advances. 9(36). eadg1261–eadg1261. 11 indexed citations
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Jeckel, Hannah, Dominic J. Skinner, Niklas Netter, et al.. (2023). Simultaneous spatiotemporal transcriptomics and microscopy of Bacillus subtilis swarm development reveal cooperation across generations. Nature Microbiology. 8(12). 2378–2391. 11 indexed citations
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Flavell, Steven W., et al.. (2023). Schrödinger Dynamics and Berry Phase of Undulatory Locomotion. Physical Review Letters. 130(25). 258402–258402. 1 indexed citations
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Supekar, Rohit, et al.. (2023). Learning hydrodynamic equations for active matter from particle simulations and experiments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(7). e2206994120–e2206994120. 35 indexed citations
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Kos, Žiga & Jörn Dunkel. (2022). Nematic bits and universal logic gates. Science Advances. 8(33). eabp8371–eabp8371. 11 indexed citations
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Tan, Tzer Han, Alexander Mietke, Yuchao Chen, et al.. (2022). Odd dynamics of living chiral crystals. Nature. 607(7918). 287–293. 176 indexed citations breakdown →
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Skinner, Dominic J., et al.. (2022). 4-bit adhesion logic enables universal multicellular interface patterning. Nature. 608(7922). 324–329. 24 indexed citations
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Totz, Jan Frederik, et al.. (2021). Combinatorial patterns of graded RhoA activation and uniform F-actin depletion promote tissue curvature. Development. 148(11). 20 indexed citations
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Liu, Jinghui, Jan Frederik Totz, Pearson W. Miller, et al.. (2021). Topological braiding and virtual particles on the cell membrane. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(34). 16 indexed citations
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Tan, Tzer Han, et al.. (2020). Topological turbulence in the membrane of a living cell. Nature Physics. 16(6). 657–662. 63 indexed citations
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Sáenz, Pedro J., et al.. (2018). Spin lattices of walking droplets. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 13 indexed citations
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Miller, Pearson W., et al.. (2017). Actomyosin-based tissue folding requires a multicellular myosin gradient. Development. 144(10). 1876–1886. 70 indexed citations
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Wensink, H. H., Jörn Dunkel, Sebastian Heidenreich, et al.. (2012). Meso-scale turbulence in living fluids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(36). 14308–14313. 670 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dunkel, Jörn, Peter Talkner, & Peter Hänggi. (2006). Haar measures, relative entropy and the relativistic canonical velocity distribution. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Trigger, S. A. & Jörn Dunkel. (2005). Time-dependent entropy of simple quantum model systems (12 pages). Physical Review A. 71(5). 52102. 5 indexed citations

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