Michael S. Morris

5.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
11 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Michael S. Morris is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael S. Morris has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 9 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 2 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Michael S. Morris's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (11 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (9 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (3 papers). Michael S. Morris is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (11 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (9 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (3 papers). Michael S. Morris collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. Michael S. Morris's co-authors include Kip S. Thorne, Ulvi Yurtsever, Milan Mijić, Wai-Mo Suen, Robert L. Forward, Gregory Benford, Matt Visser, John G. Cramer, Geoffrey A. Landis and John L. Friedman and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences and Physics Letters A.

In The Last Decade

Michael S. Morris

10 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Wormholes in spacetime and their use for interstellar travel: A tool for teaching general relativity

1988 1.9k citations Michael S. Morris, Kip S. Thorne American Journal of Physics profile →
Wormholes, Time Machines, and the Weak Energy Condition

1988 1.2k citations Michael S. Morris, Kip S. Thorne et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael S. Morris United States	7	3.2k	2.7k	903	687	234	11	3.7k
Mordehai Milgrom Israel	28	4.8k 1.5×	2.4k 0.9×	588 0.7×	305 0.4×	217 0.9×	120	5.3k
I. D. Novikov Russia	21	2.2k 0.7×	1.5k 0.6×	518 0.6×	421 0.6×	100 0.4×	105	2.4k
N. Sánchez France	34	2.9k 0.9×	2.6k 1.0×	789 0.9×	532 0.8×	95 0.4×	164	3.4k
David Garfinkle United States	30	3.1k 1.0×	2.9k 1.1×	768 0.9×	445 0.6×	92 0.4×	103	3.4k
Esteban Calzetta Argentina	26	1.8k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	1.0k 1.1×	1.3k 1.9×	94 0.4×	100	2.9k
Ulvi Yurtsever United States	17	1.5k 0.5×	1.3k 0.5×	576 0.6×	572 0.8×	72 0.3×	32	1.9k
Gaetano Lambiase Italy	34	3.2k 1.0×	3.0k 1.1×	1.5k 1.7×	936 1.4×	183 0.8×	220	4.1k
W. B. Bonnor United Kingdom	33	3.1k 1.0×	2.1k 0.8×	625 0.7×	430 0.6×	299 1.3×	151	3.4k
Richard A. Matzner United States	35	2.7k 0.8×	1.9k 0.7×	456 0.5×	338 0.5×	434 1.9×	141	3.1k
Paul S. Wesson Canada	31	2.8k 0.9×	2.3k 0.8×	564 0.6×	186 0.3×	196 0.8×	186	3.0k

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Friedman, John L. & Michael S. Morris. (2000). Schwarzschild perturbations die in time. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 41(11). 7529–7534. 6 indexed citations

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Cramer, John G., Robert L. Forward, Michael S. Morris, et al.. (1995). Natural wormholes as gravitational lenses. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 51(6). 3117–3120. 178 indexed citations

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Mann, Robert B., Michael S. Morris, & Simon F. Ross. (1993). Properties of asymptotically flat two-dimensional black holes. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 10(8). 1477–1493. 8 indexed citations

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Mann, Robert B. & Michael S. Morris. (1993). Classical models of subatomic particles. Physics Letters A. 181(6). 443–445. 6 indexed citations

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Friedman, John L. & Michael S. Morris. (1991). The Cauchy Problem on Spacetimes with Closed Timelike Curvesa. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 631(1). 173–181. 1 indexed citations

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Friedman, John L., et al.. (1990). Cauchy problem in spacetimes with closed timelike curves. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 42(6). 1915–1930. 152 indexed citations

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Morris, Michael S.. (1989). Initial conditions for perturbations in R+εR2cosmology. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 39(6). 1511–1516. 6 indexed citations

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Mijić, Milan, et al.. (1989). Initial conditions for R+εR2cosmology. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 39(6). 1496–1510. 26 indexed citations

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Morris, Michael S. & Kip S. Thorne. (1988). Wormholes in spacetime and their use for interstellar travel: A tool for teaching general relativity. American Journal of Physics. 56(5). 395–412. 1922 indexed citations breakdown →

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Morris, Michael S., Kip S. Thorne, & Ulvi Yurtsever. (1988). Wormholes, Time Machines, and the Weak Energy Condition. Physical Review Letters. 61(13). 1446–1449. 1169 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mijić, Milan, Michael S. Morris, & Wai-Mo Suen. (1986). TheR2cosmology: Inflation without a phase transition. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 34(10). 2934–2946. 196 indexed citations

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