Joseph Ford

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Joseph Ford is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Mathematical Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph Ford has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 16 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 8 papers in Mathematical Physics. Recurrent topics in Joseph Ford's work include Quantum chaos and dynamical systems (17 papers), Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (6 papers) and Chaos control and synchronization (6 papers). Joseph Ford is often cited by papers focused on Quantum chaos and dynamical systems (17 papers), Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (6 papers) and Chaos control and synchronization (6 papers). Joseph Ford collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Japan. Joseph Ford's co-authors include Giulio Casati, Spotswood D. Stoddard, Franco Vivaldi, Giorgio Mantica, M. A. Breazeale, E. W. Thomas, William M. Visscher, Gerald H. Ristow, Jack S. Turner and Bruno Eckhardt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Joseph Ford

47 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Stochastic Behavior in Classical and Quantum Hamiltonian ... 1979 2026 1994 2010 1979 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Stochastic Behavior in Classical and Quantum Hamiltonian Systems
    1979 536 citations Giulio Casati, Joseph Ford Lecture notes in physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Joseph Ford United States 23 1.9k 1.3k 481 297 239 48 2.8k
P. L. Christiansen Denmark 39 2.8k 1.5× 2.8k 2.2× 767 1.6× 144 0.5× 310 1.3× 229 4.7k
Morikazu Toda Japan 22 3.8k 1.9× 2.6k 2.0× 414 0.9× 667 2.2× 539 2.3× 47 6.0k
S. Großmann Germany 29 822 0.4× 776 0.6× 327 0.7× 479 1.6× 283 1.2× 109 3.0k
L. E. Reichl United States 25 2.0k 1.0× 1.9k 1.5× 421 0.9× 325 1.1× 345 1.4× 135 3.6k
H.‐J. Stöckmann Germany 27 2.2k 1.2× 2.2k 1.7× 414 0.9× 324 1.1× 333 1.4× 141 3.6k
M. Remoissenet France 25 2.1k 1.1× 1.6k 1.2× 681 1.4× 206 0.7× 94 0.4× 49 2.7k
Natsuki Hashitsume Japan 12 1.5k 0.8× 2.1k 1.6× 132 0.3× 619 2.1× 531 2.2× 26 3.8k
Stefan Machlup United States 10 1.2k 0.6× 684 0.5× 122 0.3× 264 0.9× 270 1.1× 20 2.1k
Harald A. Posch Austria 29 1.7k 0.9× 603 0.5× 454 0.9× 528 1.8× 606 2.5× 112 2.8k
E. W. Montroll United States 21 968 0.5× 1.1k 0.8× 94 0.2× 361 1.2× 393 1.6× 39 2.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joseph Ford

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joseph Ford

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vega, José Luis, T. Uzer, & Joseph Ford. (1995). Plane-wave quantization for polygonal billiards. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 52(2). 1490–1496. 5 indexed citations
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Ford, Joseph. (1992). The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem: Paradox turns discovery. Physics Reports. 213(5). 271–310. 273 indexed citations
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Ford, Joseph, Giorgio Mantica, & Gerald H. Ristow. (1991). The Arnol'd cat: Failure of the correspondence principle. Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena. 50(3). 493–520. 89 indexed citations
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Ford, Joseph. (1987). A beginning or an end?. Nature. 325(6099). 19–20. 13 indexed citations
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Casati, Giulio, Joseph Ford, Italo Guarneri, & Franco Vivaldi. (1986). Search for randomness in the kicked quantum rotator. Physical review. A, General physics. 34(2). 1413–1419. 53 indexed citations
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Casati, Giulio, Joseph Ford, Franco Vivaldi, & William M. Visscher. (1984). One-Dimensional Classical Many-Body System Having a Normal Thermal Conductivity. Physical Review Letters. 52(21). 1861–1864. 164 indexed citations
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Eckhardt, Bruno, Joseph Ford, & Franco Vivaldi. (1984). Analytically solvable dynamical systems which are not integrable. Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena. 13(3). 339–356. 50 indexed citations
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Casati, Giulio, B. V. Chirikov, & Joseph Ford. (1980). Marginal local instability of quasi-periodic motion. Physics Letters A. 77(2-3). 91–94. 21 indexed citations
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Casati, Giulio & Joseph Ford. (1979). Stochastic behavior in classical and quantum hamiltonian systems : Volta Memorial Conference, Como, 1977. Springer eBooks. 7 indexed citations
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Casati, Giulio & Joseph Ford. (1979). Stochastic Behavior in Classical and Quantum Hamiltonian Systems. Lecture notes in physics. 536 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ford, Joseph. (1978). A picture book of stochasticity. AIP conference proceedings. 46. 121–146. 4 indexed citations
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Casati, Giulio & Joseph Ford. (1976). Numerical experiments on the Calogero lattice. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 17(4). 494–497. 5 indexed citations
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Casati, Giulio & Joseph Ford. (1976). Computer study of ergodicity and mixing in a two-particle, hard point gas system. Journal of Computational Physics. 20(1). 97–109. 23 indexed citations
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Casati, Giulio & Joseph Ford. (1975). Stochastic transition in the unequal-mass Toda lattice. Physical review. A, General physics. 12(4). 1702–1709. 61 indexed citations
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Thomas, E. W., et al.. (1975). Dissociation of H+3 to form metastable hydrogen. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 63(9). 4092–4093. 3 indexed citations
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Ford, Joseph, et al.. (1973). Formation of Fast Excited H Atoms Induced by Impact ofH+,H2+, andH3+Atoms on Molecular and Noble-Gas Targets. Physical review. A, General physics. 7(6). 1928–1935. 23 indexed citations
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Ford, Joseph, et al.. (1972). Formation of Fast Excited H Atoms. III. Collisional Dissociation ofH2+andH3+on Helium. Physical review. A, General physics. 5(4). 1705–1707. 9 indexed citations
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Ford, Joseph, et al.. (1972). On the Stability of Periodic Orbits for Nonlinear Oscillator Systems in Regions Exhibiting Stochastic Behavior. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 13(5). 700–705. 44 indexed citations
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Ford, Joseph, et al.. (1969). Amplitude Instability and Ergodic Behavior for Conservative Nonlinear Oscillator Systems. Physical Review. 188(1). 416–432. 223 indexed citations
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Breazeale, M. A. & Joseph Ford. (1965). Ultrasonic Studies of the Nonlinear Behavior of Solids. Journal of Applied Physics. 36(11). 3486–3490. 102 indexed citations

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