Leon Glass

36.8k total citations · 7 hit papers
232 papers, 26.6k citations indexed

About

Leon Glass is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Leon Glass has authored 232 papers receiving a total of 26.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 79 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 71 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Leon Glass's work include Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (88 papers), Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (60 papers) and stochastic dynamics and bifurcation (57 papers). Leon Glass is often cited by papers focused on Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (88 papers), Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (60 papers) and stochastic dynamics and bifurcation (57 papers). Leon Glass collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Mexico. Leon Glass's co-authors include Michael C. Mackey, Ary L. Goldberger, Plamen Ch. Ivanov, H. Eugene Stanley, Luı́s A. Nunes Amaral, Joseph E. Mietus, Jeffrey M. Hausdorff, Roger G. Mark, Chung‐Kang Peng and G.B. Moody and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Leon Glass

228 papers receiving 25.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

PhysioBank, PhysioToolkit, and PhysioNet

2000 10.3k citations Ary L. Goldberger, Luı́s A. Nunes Amaral et al. Circulation profile →
Oscillation and Chaos in Physiological Control Systems

1977 3.0k citations Michael C. Mackey, Leon Glass profile →
Synchronization and rhythmic processes in physiology

2001 964 citations Leon Glass Nature profile →
From Clocks to Chaos: The Rhythms of Life

1989 868 citations Leon Glass, Michael C. Mackey et al. profile →
From Clocks to Chaos

1988 793 citations Leon Glass, Michael C. Mackey Princeton University Press eBooks profile →
The logical analysis of continuous, non-linear biochemical control networks

1973 635 citations Leon Glass et al. Journal of Theoretical Biology profile →
Understanding Nonlinear Dynamics

1996 505 citations Leon Glass et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Leon Glass	8.8k	7.9k	5.5k	5.2k	4.1k	232	26.6k
Plamen Ch. Ivanov	9.1k 1.0×	7.5k 0.9×	3.5k 0.6×	1.2k 0.2×	2.1k 0.5×	137	23.1k
Chung‐Kang Peng	15.5k 1.8×	11.5k 1.5×	6.0k 1.1×	1.8k 0.4×	5.8k 1.4×	288	45.0k
Ary L. Goldberger	19.8k 2.3×	12.4k 1.6×	6.5k 1.2×	2.0k 0.4×	6.1k 1.5×	272	49.4k
Michael G. Rosenblum	1.2k 0.1×	5.6k 0.7×	7.6k 1.4×	9.3k 1.8×	3.6k 0.9×	279	21.6k
Peter Grassberger	1.0k 0.1×	3.5k 0.4×	10.8k 2.0×	3.9k 0.8×	2.9k 0.7×	269	27.4k
Jürgen Kurths	3.2k 0.4×	16.2k 2.1×	32.3k 5.9×	35.6k 6.9×	6.3k 1.5×	1.4k	72.8k
Joseph E. Mietus	8.7k 1.0×	5.6k 0.7×	902 0.2×	427 0.1×	825 0.2×	46	15.9k
Derek Abbott	1.6k 0.2×	2.2k 0.3×	3.8k 0.7×	1.6k 0.3×	1.2k 0.3×	756	23.3k
Stéphane Mallat	1.8k 0.2×	2.9k 0.4×	906 0.2×	954 0.2×	1.1k 0.3×	124	51.4k
Henry D. I. Abarbanel	557 0.1×	4.7k 0.6×	7.8k 1.4×	4.6k 0.9×	988 0.2×	224	18.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leon Glass

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Deyell, Marc W., Zachary Laksman, Alvin Shrier, et al.. (2025). Dependence of premature ventricular complexes on heart rate—it’s not that simple. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 33(1). 90–97.

Kuzmin, Elena, Toby M. Baker, Peter Van Loo, & Leon Glass. (2024). Dynamics of karyotype evolution. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 34(5).

Letellier, Christophe, Ralph Abraham, Dima L. Shepelyansky, et al.. (2021). Some elements for a history of the dynamical systems theory. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 31(5). 53110–53110. 13 indexed citations

Glass, Leon & Michael C. Mackey. (2020). From Clocks to Chaos. Princeton University Press eBooks. 8 indexed citations

Glass, Leon & Roderick Edwards. (2018). Hybrid models of genetic networks: Mathematical challenges and biological relevance. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 458. 111–118. 10 indexed citations

Glass, Leon, Frank Krüeger, Jeffrey Solomon, Vanessa Raymont, & Jordan Grafman. (2012). Mental Paper Folding Performance Following Penetrating Traumatic Brain Injury in Combat Veterans: A Lesion Mapping Study. Cerebral Cortex. 23(7). 1663–1672. 20 indexed citations

Perkins, Theodore J., Johannes Jaeger, John Reinitz, & Leon Glass. (2006). Reverse Engineering the Gap Gene Network of Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Computational Biology. 2(5). e51–e51. 141 indexed citations

Glass, Leon. (2001). Oscillation and chaos in physiological control systems. Nature. 410. 54 indexed citations

Glass, Leon. (2001). Synchronization and rhythmic processes in physiology. Nature. 410(6825). 277–284. 964 indexed citations breakdown →

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Goldberger, Ary L., Luı́s A. Nunes Amaral, Leon Glass, et al.. (2000). PhysioBank, PhysioToolkit, and PhysioNet. Circulation. 101(23). E215–20. 10287 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vasilakos, Konstantinon, et al.. (1998). Interaction of Tremor and Magnification in a Motor Performance Task With Visual Feedback. Journal of Motor Behavior. 30(2). 158–168. 18 indexed citations

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Bub, Gil, Leon Glass, Nelson G. Publicover, & Alvin Shrier. (1998). Bursting calcium rotors in cultured cardiac myocyte monolayers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 95(17). 10283–10287. 72 indexed citations

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Clay, John R., et al.. (1994). Ionic mechanisms and nonlinear dynamics of embryonic chick heart cell aggregates. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 61(3). 255–281. 19 indexed citations

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Talajic, Mario, et al.. (1990). Mechanish of dynamic changes in Wenckebach-type AV block. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 15(2). A201–A201. 1 indexed citations

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Courtemanche, Marc, Leon Glass, & M Rosengarten. (1990). Modeling Ventricular Parasystole^a. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 591(1). 178–189. 3 indexed citations

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Brochu, Richard M., et al.. (1990). Complex Rhythms Resulting From Overdrive Suppression in Electrically Stimulated Heart Cell Aggregates. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology. 13(12). 1678–1685. 5 indexed citations

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Glass, Leon & C. P. Malta. (1990). Chaos in multi-looped negative feedback systems. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 145(2). 217–223. 68 indexed citations

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Glass, Leon, Ary L. Goldberger, Marc Courtemanche, & Alvin Shrier. (1987). Nonlinear dynamics, chaos and complex cardiac arrhythmias. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 413(1844). 9–26. 63 indexed citations

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Glass, Leon, et al.. (1975). Development of Specificity in the Cat Visual Cortex. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 1(3). 275–288. 46 indexed citations

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Glass, Leon & Waldo Tobler. (1971). General: Uniform Distribution of Objects in a Homogeneous Field: Cities on a Plain. Nature. 233(5314). 67–68. 61 indexed citations

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