Nicholas E. Hamilton

729 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 487 citations indexed

About

Nicholas E. Hamilton is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas E. Hamilton has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 487 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 5 papers in Materials Chemistry and 3 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nicholas E. Hamilton's work include Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys (3 papers), Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties (2 papers) and Microstructure and mechanical properties (2 papers). Nicholas E. Hamilton is often cited by papers focused on Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys (3 papers), Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties (2 papers) and Microstructure and mechanical properties (2 papers). Nicholas E. Hamilton collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Nicholas E. Hamilton's co-authors include Michael Ferry, F.J. Humphreys, Mark Diesendorf, Thomas Wiedmann, Reza Mahjoub and Kevin J. Laws and has published in prestigious journals such as Acta Materialia, Energy and Renewable Energy.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas E. Hamilton

9 papers receiving 481 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.

  1. ggtern: Ternary Diagrams Using ggplot2
    2018 315 citations Nicholas E. Hamilton, Michael Ferry Journal of Statistical Software profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicholas E. Hamilton Australia 8 116 111 87 84 82 9 487
Zhenrong Huang China 19 59 0.5× 87 0.8× 70 0.8× 38 0.5× 103 1.3× 43 943
Keli Liu China 14 155 1.3× 108 1.0× 95 1.1× 30 0.4× 74 0.9× 41 644
Hiroshi Seino Japan 16 141 1.2× 214 1.9× 71 0.8× 136 1.6× 114 1.4× 70 986
Faxing Zhang China 13 53 0.5× 81 0.7× 55 0.6× 47 0.6× 218 2.7× 54 619
Xiaolong Bai China 14 197 1.7× 81 0.7× 19 0.2× 55 0.7× 73 0.9× 53 529
Li Shu China 15 49 0.4× 183 1.6× 45 0.5× 40 0.5× 79 1.0× 92 699
Sergio A. Páez Argentina 9 33 0.3× 57 0.5× 54 0.6× 98 1.2× 116 1.4× 10 650
M. Engels Germany 9 36 0.3× 135 1.2× 53 0.6× 22 0.3× 188 2.3× 21 751
Hajime Sato Japan 12 77 0.7× 47 0.4× 22 0.3× 77 0.9× 90 1.1× 68 543

Countries citing papers authored by Nicholas E. Hamilton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nicholas E. Hamilton

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicholas E. Hamilton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nicholas E. Hamilton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nicholas E. Hamilton based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Nicholas E. Hamilton. Nicholas E. Hamilton is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

9 of 9 papers shown
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Hamilton, Nicholas E.. (2020). An Extension to 'ggplot2', for the Creation of Ternary Diagrams [R package ggtern version 3.3.0]. 5 indexed citations
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Hamilton, Nicholas E., et al.. (2018). Modeling the carbon budget of the Australian electricity sector's transition to renewable energy. Renewable Energy. 125. 712–728. 22 indexed citations
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Hamilton, Nicholas E. & Michael Ferry. (2018). ggtern: Ternary Diagrams Using ggplot2. Journal of Statistical Software. 87(Code Snippet 3). 315 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hamilton, Nicholas E., et al.. (2017). Computing life-cycle emissions from transitioning the electricity sector using a discrete numerical approach. Energy. 137. 314–324. 9 indexed citations
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Hamilton, Nicholas E., Reza Mahjoub, Kevin J. Laws, & Michael Ferry. (2017). A blended NPT/NVT scheme for simulating metallic glasses. Computational Materials Science. 130. 130–137. 9 indexed citations
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Mahjoub, Reza, et al.. (2016). An atomic-scale insight into the effects of hydrogen microalloying on the glass-forming ability and ductility of Zr-based bulk metallic glasses. Computational Materials Science. 125. 197–205. 12 indexed citations
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Mahjoub, Reza, Nicholas E. Hamilton, Kevin J. Laws, & Michael Ferry. (2016). Softening of phonon spectra in metallic glasses. npj Computational Materials. 2(1). 9 indexed citations
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Hamilton, Nicholas E. & Michael Ferry. (2004). Grain Growth in a Nanocrystalline Al-Sc Alloy. MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS. 45(7). 2264–2271. 13 indexed citations
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Ferry, Michael, Nicholas E. Hamilton, & F.J. Humphreys. (2004). Continuous and discontinuous grain coarsening in a fine-grained particle-containing Al–Sc alloy. Acta Materialia. 53(4). 1097–1109. 93 indexed citations

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