Kenneth A. Hoffman

8.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
77 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Kenneth A. Hoffman is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atmospheric Science and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kenneth A. Hoffman has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Molecular Biology, 35 papers in Atmospheric Science and 24 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Kenneth A. Hoffman's work include Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (48 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (35 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (14 papers). Kenneth A. Hoffman is often cited by papers focused on Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (48 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (35 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (14 papers). Kenneth A. Hoffman collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and China. Kenneth A. Hoffman's co-authors include Garrett Johnson, Brad S. Singer, M. Fuller, Rixiang Zhu, Richard Potts, Robert S. Coe, Annick Chauvin, Yongxin Pan, Ron Day and Ian S. Williams and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Kenneth A. Hoffman

71 papers receiving 5.0k citations

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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.

Linear Algebra

1961 2.0k citations Kenneth A. Hoffman profile →
Banach Spaces of Analytic Functions.

1964 1.6k citations Kenneth A. Hoffman et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kenneth A. Hoffman United States	32	1.6k	1.6k	1.5k	1.1k	1.0k	77	6.3k
T. Teichmann United States	25	2.9k 1.8×	433 0.3×	368 0.2×	390 0.4×	2.0k 2.0×	54	13.2k
David H. Sharp United States	49	426 0.3×	1.8k 1.1×	141 0.1×	610 0.6×	229 0.2×	178	9.5k
Claude Brezinski France	36	1.5k 0.9×	269 0.2×	357 0.2×	322 0.3×	584 0.6×	221	8.5k
John Cannon Australia	18	63 0.0×	194 0.1×	536 0.4×	1.9k 1.8×	918 0.9×	41	6.3k
Carl M. Bender United States	53	994 0.6×	304 0.2×	261 0.2×	291 0.3×	1.1k 1.1×	272	23.2k
Michael E. Taylor United States	38	3.3k 2.0×	63 0.0×	253 0.2×	180 0.2×	3.5k 3.4×	159	6.7k
Alan C. Newell United States	54	302 0.2×	636 0.4×	634 0.4×	151 0.1×	1.9k 1.8×	179	15.0k
L. J. Slater United Kingdom	12	1.2k 0.7×	45 0.0×	222 0.1×	469 0.4×	317 0.3×	34	3.5k
I.M. RYZHIK United States	4	1.4k 0.8×	373 0.2×	251 0.2×	474 0.4×	1.2k 1.1×	6	19.7k
Darryl D. Holm United States	45	1.9k 1.2×	288 0.2×	735 0.5×	89 0.1×	2.9k 2.8×	262	11.6k

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Hoffman, Kenneth A., Joshua R. Fletcher, Sarah K. Lucas, et al.. (2025). Dual oxic-anoxic co-culture enables direct study of anaerobe–host interactions at the airway epithelial interface. mBio. 16(5). e0133824–e0133824.

Hoffman, Kenneth A., Jeffrey M. Flynn, Sarah K. Lucas, et al.. (2025). Host- and microbial-mediated mucin degradation differentially shape Pseudomonas aeruginosa physiology and gene expression. PLoS Pathogens. 21(10). e1013568–e1013568.

Singer, Brad S., Brian R. Jicha, Daniel J. Condon, et al.. (2014). Precise ages of the Réunion event and Huckleberry Ridge excursion: Episodic clustering of geomagnetic instabilities and the dynamics of flow within the outer core. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 405. 25–38. 42 indexed citations

Hoffman, Kenneth A. & Nobutatsu Mochizuki. (2012). Evidence of a Partitioned Dynamo Reversal Process from Paleomagnetic Recordings in Tahitian Lavas. AGUFM. 2012. 1 indexed citations

Singer, Brad S. & Kenneth A. Hoffman. (2008). Geomagnetic Instability Time Scale 2008 (GITS-08) and dynamo processes. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 2 indexed citations

Hoffman, Kenneth A. & Brad S. Singer. (2008). Magnetic Source Separation in Earth's Outer Core. Science. 321(5897). 1800–1800. 27 indexed citations

Singer, Brad S., et al.. (2006). Multiple Brunhes Chron Excursions Recorded in the Eifel Volcanic Field. AGUFM. 2006. 1 indexed citations

Hoffman, Kenneth A., Pierre Camps, Lars N. Hansen, Kenneth Johnson, & Claire Carvallo. (2005). Early Miocene R-N Reversal Recorded in Lavas From Queensland, Australia: Evidence for Stationary Mantle-held Flux Over the Past 21 Ma. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 1 indexed citations

Singer, Brad S., Kenneth A. Hoffman, Robert S. Coe, et al.. (2005). Structural and temporal requirements for geomagnetic field reversal deduced from lava flows. Nature. 434(7033). 633–636. 100 indexed citations

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Zhu, Rixiang, Richard Potts, Fei Xie, et al.. (2004). New evidence on the earliest human presence at high northern latitudes in northeast Asia. Nature. 431(7008). 559–562. 239 indexed citations

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Baksi, Ajoy K. & Kenneth A. Hoffman. (2000). On the age and morphology of the reunion event. Geophysical Research Letters. 27(18). 2997–3000. 30 indexed citations

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Singer, Brad S., Kenneth A. Hoffman, Annick Chauvin, Robert S. Coe, & Malcolm S. Pringle. (1999). Dating transitionally magnetized lavas of the late Matuyama Chron: Toward a new ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar timescale of reversals and events. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 104(B1). 679–693. 142 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Kenneth A., et al.. (1986). Polarity transition records and the acquisition of remanence: A cautionary note. Geophysical Research Letters. 13(5). 483–486. 33 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Kenneth A.. (1982). The testing of geomagnetic reversal models: recent developments. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 306(1492). 147–159. 21 indexed citations

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Fuller, M., Ian S. Williams, & Kenneth A. Hoffman. (1979). Paleomagnetic records of geomagnetic field reversals and the morphology of the transitional fields. Reviews of Geophysics. 17(2). 179–203. 107 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Kenneth A., et al.. (1974). Remanent magnetization directions in a layered boulder from the South Massif.. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference Proceedings. 3. 2873–2881. 5 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Kenneth A. & Hugo Rossi. (1965). Function theory and multiplicative linear functionals. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 116(0). 536–543. 8 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Kenneth A. & Hugo Rossi. (1965). Function Theory and Multiplicative Linear Functionals. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 116. 536–536. 2 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Kenneth A. & Hugo Rossi. (1962). The minimum boundary for an analytic polyhedron. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 12(4). 1347–1353. 35 indexed citations

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Arens, Richard & Kenneth A. Hoffman. (1956). Algebraic Extension of Normed Algebras. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 7(2). 203–203. 10 indexed citations

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