Maria Pusa

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Maria Pusa is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Radiation. According to data from OpenAlex, Maria Pusa has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 9 papers in Materials Chemistry and 5 papers in Radiation. Recurrent topics in Maria Pusa's work include Nuclear reactor physics and engineering (12 papers), Nuclear Materials and Properties (9 papers) and Nuclear Physics and Applications (5 papers). Maria Pusa is often cited by papers focused on Nuclear reactor physics and engineering (12 papers), Nuclear Materials and Properties (9 papers) and Nuclear Physics and Applications (5 papers). Maria Pusa collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Germany and United States. Maria Pusa's co-authors include Jaakko Leppänen, Tuomas Viitanen, Ville Valtavirta, Toni Kaltiaisenaho, E. Fridman, Aarno Isotalo and Timo Ikonen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nuclear Science and Engineering, Annals of Nuclear Energy and Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations.

In The Last Decade

Maria Pusa

18 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Serpent Monte Carlo code: Status, development and applications in 2013

2014 1.0k citations Jaakko Leppänen, Maria Pusa et al. Annals of Nuclear Energy profile →

Peers

Maria Pusa

AE

MC

RADIA

SRRQ

NHEP

Jaakko Leppänen Finland

Paul Romano United States

Alain Hébert Canada

Forrest B. Brown United States

Tuomas Viitanen Finland

Nam Zin Cho South Korea

Piero Ravetto Italy

Toni Kaltiaisenaho Finland

Richard Sanchez France

Sandra Dulla Italy

Jaakko Leppänen Finland

Maria Pusa

2.9k ×1.8

AE

2.4k ×1.9

MC

1.6k ×2.0

RADIA

247 ×1.6

SRRQ

141 ×1.4

NHEP

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Countries citing papers authored by Maria Pusa

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Fields of papers citing papers by Maria Pusa

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Maria Pusa

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All Works

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18 of 18 papers shown

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Pusa, Maria & Aarno Isotalo. (2017). Uncertainty analysis of assembly and core-level calculations with application to CASMO-4E and SIMULATE-3. Annals of Nuclear Energy. 104. 124–131. 11 indexed citations

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Leppänen, Jaakko, Maria Pusa, & E. Fridman. (2016). Overview of methodology for spatial homogenization in the Serpent 2 Monte Carlo code. Annals of Nuclear Energy. 96. 126–136. 90 indexed citations

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Isotalo, Aarno & Maria Pusa. (2016). Improving the Accuracy of the Chebyshev Rational Approximation Method Using Substeps. Nuclear Science and Engineering. 183(1). 65–77. 17 indexed citations

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Pusa, Maria. (2015). Higher-order Chebyshev Rational Approximation Method (CRAM). 1119422. 4 indexed citations

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Pusa, Maria, et al.. (2015). Survey of prediction capabilities of three nuclear data libraries for a PWR application. Annals of Nuclear Energy. 83. 408–421. 2 indexed citations

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Pusa, Maria. (2015). Adjoint-based sensitivity and uncertainty analysis of lattice physics calculations with CASMO-4. 1106024. 1 indexed citations

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Leppänen, Jaakko, et al.. (2014). The Numerical Multi-Physics project (NUMPS) at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. Annals of Nuclear Energy. 84. 55–62. 24 indexed citations

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Leppänen, Jaakko, Maria Pusa, Tuomas Viitanen, Ville Valtavirta, & Toni Kaltiaisenaho. (2014). The Serpent Monte Carlo code: Status, development and applications in 2013. Annals of Nuclear Energy. 82. 142–150. 1024 indexed citations breakdown →

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Leppänen, Jaakko, et al.. (2014). Validation of the Serpent-ARES code sequence using the MIT BEAVRS benchmark – Initial core at HZP conditions. Annals of Nuclear Energy. 69. 212–225. 36 indexed citations

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Leppänen, Jaakko, Maria Pusa, Tuomas Viitanen, Ville Valtavirta, & Toni Kaltiaisenaho. (2014). The Serpent Monte Carlo Code: Status, Development and Applications in 2013. 6021–6021. 59 indexed citations

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Pusa, Maria. (2013). Numerical methods for nuclear fuel burnup calculations. Aaltodoc (Aalto University). 25 indexed citations

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Pusa, Maria & Jaakko Leppänen. (2013). Solving Linear Systems with Sparse Gaussian Elimination in the Chebyshev Rational Approximation Method. Nuclear Science and Engineering. 175(3). 250–258. 20 indexed citations

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Pusa, Maria, et al.. (2012). An efficient implementation of the Chebyshev Rational Approximation Method (CRAM) for solving the burnup equations. 952–963. 5 indexed citations

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Pusa, Maria. (2012). Perturbation-Theory-Based Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis with CASMO-4. Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations. 2012. 1–11. 20 indexed citations

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Pusa, Maria. (2011). Incorporating sensitivity and uncertainty analysis to a lattice physics code with application to CASMO-4. Annals of Nuclear Energy. 40(1). 153–162. 39 indexed citations

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Pusa, Maria. (2011). Rational Approximations to the Matrix Exponential in Burnup Calculations. Nuclear Science and Engineering. 169(2). 155–167. 103 indexed citations

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Pusa, Maria & Jaakko Leppänen. (2010). Computing the Matrix Exponential in Burnup Calculations. Nuclear Science and Engineering. 164(2). 140–150. 153 indexed citations

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Pusa, Maria, et al.. (2009). BURNUP CALCULATION CAPABILITY IN THE PSG2 / SERPENT MONTE CARLO REACTOR PHYSICS CODE. 30 indexed citations

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