Jos Uffink

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Jos Uffink is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Jos Uffink has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 19 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Jos Uffink's work include Quantum Mechanics and Applications (26 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (11 papers) and Quantum Information and Cryptography (11 papers). Jos Uffink is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Mechanics and Applications (26 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (11 papers) and Quantum Information and Cryptography (11 papers). Jos Uffink collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and United Kingdom. Jos Uffink's co-authors include Hans Maassen, Michael Seevinck, Jan Hilgevoord, Harvey R. Brown, Wayne C. Myrvold, Otfried Gühne, G. Tóth, Igor Douven, Richard Healey and Dennis Dieks and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A and Physics Letters A.

In The Last Decade

Jos Uffink

41 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Generalized entropic uncertainty relations 1988 2026 2000 2013 1988 250 500 750
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. Generalized entropic uncertainty relations
    1988 798 citations Jos Uffink et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jos Uffink Netherlands 19 1.5k 1.2k 733 156 71 43 1.9k
Michael J. W. Hall Australia 30 2.4k 1.6× 2.1k 1.8× 742 1.0× 71 0.5× 72 1.0× 89 2.7k
Elmer L. Offenbacher United States 8 1.5k 1.0× 905 0.8× 623 0.8× 172 1.1× 117 1.6× 13 1.9k
B. Misra Belgium 18 1.9k 1.3× 1.1k 1.0× 989 1.3× 56 0.4× 133 1.9× 31 2.5k
Pekka Lahti Finland 24 2.3k 1.6× 1.8k 1.6× 933 1.3× 238 1.5× 96 1.4× 139 2.9k
J. T. Lewis Ireland 21 1.4k 0.9× 808 0.7× 810 1.1× 31 0.2× 37 0.5× 62 2.1k
Detlef Dürr Germany 21 978 0.7× 381 0.3× 391 0.5× 361 2.3× 127 1.8× 48 1.2k
Rüdiger Schack United Kingdom 23 1.5k 1.0× 1.4k 1.2× 555 0.8× 148 0.9× 20 0.3× 54 2.0k
Masanao Ozawa Japan 24 2.2k 1.5× 1.9k 1.7× 680 0.9× 79 0.5× 66 0.9× 99 2.7k
Eric G. Cavalcanti Australia 24 2.8k 1.9× 2.4k 2.1× 329 0.4× 78 0.5× 53 0.7× 53 3.0k
Francesco Guerra Italy 20 634 0.4× 306 0.3× 743 1.0× 43 0.3× 146 2.1× 87 1.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jos Uffink

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Uffink, Jos, et al.. (2015). Lanford’s Theorem and the Emergence of Irreversibility. Foundations of Physics. 45(4). 404–438. 13 indexed citations
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Uffink, Jos. (2012). Reply to Gao’s ”Comment on ”How to protect the interpretation of the wave function against protective measurements”. PhilSci-Archive (University of Pittsburgh). 1 indexed citations
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Uffink, Jos, et al.. (2010). Time's Arrow and Lanford’s Theorem. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 141–173. 5 indexed citations
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Seevinck, Michael & Jos Uffink. (2008). Partial separability and entanglement criteria for multiqubit quantum states. Physical Review A. 78(3). 65 indexed citations
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Seevinck, Michael & Jos Uffink. (2007). Local commutativity versus Bell inequality violation for entangled states and versus non-violation for separable states. Physical Review A. 76(4). 27 indexed citations
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Uffink, Jos. (2006). Insuperable difficulties: Einstein's statistical road to molecular physics. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 37(1). 36–70. 11 indexed citations
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Uffink, Jos. (2002). Quadratic Bell Inequalities as Tests for Multipartite Entanglement. Physical Review Letters. 88(23). 86 indexed citations
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Uffink, Jos. (2002). Time and chance. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 33(3). 555–563. 3 indexed citations
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Brown, Harvey R. & Jos Uffink. (2001). The Origins of Time-Asymmetry in Thermodynamics: The Minus First Law. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 32(4). 525–538. 62 indexed citations
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Hilgevoord, Jan & Jos Uffink. (2001). The Uncertainty Principle. 19 indexed citations
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Uffink, Jos. (2000). Time and ageing: a physicist's look at gerontology. Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University). 11(1). 101–125. 3 indexed citations
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Uffink, Jos. (1999). How to protect the interpretation of the wave function against protective measurements. Physical Review A. 60(5). 3474–3481. 24 indexed citations
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Uffink, Jos. (1999). The Principle of the Common Cause Faces the Bernstein Paradox. Philosophy of Science. 66(S3). S512–S525. 24 indexed citations
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Uffink, Jos. (1996). Nought but molecules in motion. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 27(3). 373–387. 5 indexed citations
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Uffink, Jos. (1993). The rate of evolution of a quantum state. American Journal of Physics. 61(10). 935–936. 60 indexed citations
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Hilgevoord, Jan & Jos Uffink. (1991). Uncertainty in prediction and in inference. Foundations of Physics. 21(3). 323–341. 15 indexed citations
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Hilgevoord, Jan & Jos Uffink. (1989). Spacetime symmetries and the uncertainty principle. Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements. 6. 246–248. 3 indexed citations
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Uffink, Jos & Jan Hilgevoord. (1988). Interference and distinguishability in quantum mechanics. Physica B+C. 151(1-2). 309–313. 5 indexed citations
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Uffink, Jos & Jan Hilgevoord. (1985). Uncertainty principle and uncertainty relations. Foundations of Physics. 15(9). 925–944. 88 indexed citations
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Uffink, Jos & Jan Hilgevoord. (1984). New bounds for the uncertainly principle. Physics Letters A. 105(4-5). 176–178. 10 indexed citations

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