Marshall Fixman

12.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
120 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

Marshall Fixman is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Marshall Fixman has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 44 papers in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes and 39 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Marshall Fixman's work include Material Dynamics and Properties (35 papers), Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies (35 papers) and Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics (32 papers). Marshall Fixman is often cited by papers focused on Material Dynamics and Properties (35 papers), Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies (35 papers) and Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics (32 papers). Marshall Fixman collaborates with scholars based in United States. Marshall Fixman's co-authors include W. H. Stockmayer, Jeffrey Skolnick, Gerald Wilemski, Chong Wha Pyun, J. M. Kovac, Juan J. Freire, B Zimm, Louis D. Moore, S. Jagannathan and Glenn T. Evans and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Marshall Fixman

120 papers receiving 9.6k citations

Hit Papers

Physical chemistry of macromolecules 1962 2026 1983 2004 1962 1977 1963 500 1000 1.5k
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. Physical chemistry of macromolecules
    1962 1.7k citations Marshall Fixman profile →
  2. Electrostatic Persistence Length of a Wormlike Polyelectrolyte
    1977 696 citations Jeffrey Skolnick, Marshall Fixman Macromolecules profile →
  3. On the estimation of unperturbed dimensions from intrinsic viscositiesxcin
    1963 522 citations Marshall Fixman et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marshall Fixman United States 46 3.0k 2.5k 2.3k 2.3k 2.3k 120 10.1k
Hiromi Yamakawa Japan 40 3.3k 1.1× 1.9k 0.7× 1.6k 0.7× 1.5k 0.6× 2.5k 1.1× 188 9.2k
M. Gordon United Kingdom 30 4.5k 1.5× 1.6k 0.6× 2.4k 1.0× 1.5k 0.7× 1.8k 0.8× 125 13.6k
Bruno H. Zimm United States 43 1.9k 0.6× 1.5k 0.6× 2.1k 0.9× 3.2k 1.4× 2.2k 0.9× 102 8.3k
R. Pecora United States 46 2.6k 0.8× 1.7k 0.7× 1.9k 0.8× 2.0k 0.9× 1.1k 0.5× 121 9.0k
Henry Eyring United States 47 2.3k 0.7× 984 0.4× 1.6k 0.7× 1.8k 0.8× 902 0.4× 370 9.8k
John G. Kirkwood United States 35 2.1k 0.7× 1.1k 0.4× 2.0k 0.9× 1.6k 0.7× 1.7k 0.7× 84 7.2k
H. T. Davis United States 74 5.0k 1.6× 1.5k 0.6× 4.8k 2.1× 1.2k 0.5× 1.4k 0.6× 381 18.1k
Alexander Y. Grosberg United States 59 4.0k 1.3× 2.3k 0.9× 4.0k 1.7× 4.7k 2.0× 1.2k 0.5× 235 13.2k
Dominic J. Tildesley United Kingdom 44 5.3k 1.7× 968 0.4× 4.9k 2.1× 1.1k 0.5× 1.9k 0.8× 121 12.9k
Karl F. Freed United States 70 8.2k 2.7× 2.9k 1.2× 3.6k 1.6× 2.9k 1.2× 2.4k 1.1× 617 20.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marshall Fixman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marshall Fixman

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fixman, Marshall & Marc L. Mansfield. (1984). Non-Gaussian contribution to the hydrodynamic radius at the θ point. Macromolecules. 17(4). 522–527. 11 indexed citations
2.
Fixman, Marshall & S. Jagannathan. (1983). Spherical macroions in strong fields. Macromolecules. 16(4). 685–699. 26 indexed citations
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Fixman, Marshall. (1983). Variational bounds for polymer transport coefficients. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 78(3). 1588–1593. 52 indexed citations
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Fixman, Marshall. (1981). Symmetry criteria in the theory of chain polymer hydrodynamics. Macromolecules. 14(6). 1706–1709. 12 indexed citations
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Fixman, Marshall & S. Jagannathan. (1981). Electrical and convective polarization of the cylindrical macroions. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 75(8). 4048–4059. 48 indexed citations
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Fixman, Marshall. (1981). Variational method for classical polarizabilities. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 75(8). 4040–4047. 13 indexed citations
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Fixman, Marshall. (1980). Charged macromolecules in external fields. I. The sphere. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 72(9). 5177–5186. 198 indexed citations
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Skolnick, Jeffrey & Marshall Fixman. (1977). Electrostatic Persistence Length of a Wormlike Polyelectrolyte. Macromolecules. 10(5). 944–948. 696 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fixman, Marshall. (1974). Classical Statistical Mechanics of Constraints: A Theorem and Application to Polymers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 71(8). 3050–3053. 236 indexed citations
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Wilemski, Gerald & Marshall Fixman. (1974). Diffusion-controlled intrachain reactions of polymers. II Results for a pair of terminal reactive groups. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 60(3). 878–890. 172 indexed citations
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Wilemski, Gerald & Marshall Fixman. (1974). Diffusion-controlled intrachain reactions of polymers. I Theory. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 60(3). 866–877. 273 indexed citations
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Fixman, Marshall. (1969). Highly Anharmonic Crystal. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 51(8). 3270–3279. 38 indexed citations
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Fixman, Marshall, et al.. (1965). Sound Absorption in Gases in the Critical Region. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 42(1). 199–204. 36 indexed citations
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Fixman, Marshall & James M. Peterson. (1964). Dimensions of Polymer Molecules in Concentrated Solutions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 86(17). 3524–3529. 48 indexed citations
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Fixman, Marshall. (1962). Radius of Gyration of Polymer Chains. II. Segment Density and Excluded Volume Effects. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 36(12). 3123–3129. 135 indexed citations
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Fixman, Marshall. (1962). Radius of Gyration of Polymer Chains. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 36(2). 306–310. 191 indexed citations
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Fixman, Marshall. (1960). Ultrasonic Attenuation in the Critical Region. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 33(5). 1363–1370. 46 indexed citations
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Fixman, Marshall. (1960). Osmotic Pressure of Moderately Concentrated Polymer Solutions. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 33(2). 370–381. 25 indexed citations
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Fixman, Marshall. (1958). Distribution of Mass in Centrifugal Fields. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 62(3). 374–375. 3 indexed citations
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Fixman, Marshall. (1955). Excluded Volume in Polymer Chains. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 23(9). 1656–1659. 290 indexed citations

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