Per Bak

37.0k total citations · 12 hit papers
165 papers, 26.1k citations indexed

About

Per Bak is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Per Bak has authored 165 papers receiving a total of 26.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 38 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 37 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Per Bak's work include Theoretical and Computational Physics (69 papers), Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (37 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (18 papers). Per Bak is often cited by papers focused on Theoretical and Computational Physics (69 papers), Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (37 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (18 papers). Per Bak collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and United Kingdom. Per Bak's co-authors include Chao Tang, Kurt Wiesenfeld, Mogens H. Jensen, Kim Sneppen, Kan Chen, Maya Paczuski, J. von Boehm, Roger Lewin, Tomas Bohr and Robijn Bruinsma and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Per Bak

164 papers receiving 24.4k 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.

Self-organized criticality: An explanation of the 1/fnoise

1987 5.2k citations Per Bak et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Self-organized criticality

1988 3.3k citations Per Bak et al. profile →
How Nature Works

1996 1.7k citations Per Bak profile →
Commensurate phases, incommensurate phases and the devil's staircase

1982 1.2k citations Per Bak profile →
Punctuated equilibrium and criticality in a simple model of evolution

1993 987 citations Per Bak, Kim Sneppen Physical Review Letters profile →
Earthquakes as a self‐organized critical phenomenon

1989 891 citations Per Bak et al. profile →
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos

1993 669 citations Per Bak et al. profile →
Theory of helical magnetic structures and phase transitions in MnSi and FeGe

1980 532 citations Per Bak et al. Journal of Physics C Solid State Physics profile →
Unified Scaling Law for Earthquakes

2002 509 citations Per Bak, Kim Christensen et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Ising model with solitons, phasons, and "the devil's staircase"

1980 498 citations Per Bak et al. Physical review. B, Condensed matter profile →
Self-Organized Criticality

1991 477 citations Per Bak, Kan Chen profile →
Phenomenological Theory of Icosahedral Incommensurate ("Quasiperiodic") Order in Mn-Al Alloys

1985 400 citations Per Bak Physical Review Letters profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Per Bak	9.4k	5.5k	4.7k	4.0k	3.8k	165	26.1k
Scott Kirkpatrick	9.7k 1.0×	4.0k 0.7×	2.1k 0.5×	7.0k 1.8×	6.9k 1.8×	117	50.9k
Benoît B. Mandelbrot	7.2k 0.8×	7.9k 1.4×	15.5k 3.3×	2.7k 0.7×	2.2k 0.6×	165	50.8k
Itamar Procaccia	4.1k 0.4×	8.8k 1.6×	5.1k 1.1×	2.9k 0.7×	2.1k 0.6×	399	22.9k
Chao Tang	5.7k 0.6×	3.0k 0.5×	2.5k 0.5×	3.2k 0.8×	1.7k 0.5×	233	20.3k
Giorgio Parisi	20.9k 2.2×	10.8k 2.0×	5.6k 1.2×	10.2k 2.6×	6.3k 1.7×	574	39.9k
William H. Press	2.1k 0.2×	6.5k 1.2×	1.3k 0.3×	5.2k 1.3×	9.1k 2.4×	183	74.4k
John Wheeler	3.0k 0.3×	4.8k 0.9×	2.4k 0.5×	2.2k 0.6×	5.4k 1.4×	286	34.1k
Armin Bunde	3.7k 0.4×	4.8k 0.9×	7.8k 1.7×	3.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.3×	308	18.6k
Leo P. Kadanoff	11.1k 1.2×	5.3k 1.0×	1.1k 0.2×	3.9k 1.0×	10.7k 2.8×	187	24.2k
Sergey V. Buldyrev	3.9k 0.4×	9.6k 1.8×	6.7k 1.4×	5.7k 1.4×	2.2k 0.6×	330	30.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Per Bak

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nørrelykke, Simon F. & Per Bak. (2002). Self-organized critical system with no stationary attractor state. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 65(3). 36147–36147. 7 indexed citations

Bak, Per, Kim Christensen, León Danon, & Tim Scanlon. (2002). Unified Scaling Law for Earthquakes. Physical Review Letters. 88(17). 178501–178501. 509 indexed citations breakdown →

Gómez, Basil, Mike Page, Per Bak, & Noel A. Trustrum. (2002). Self-organized criticality in layered, lacustrine sediments formed by landsliding. Geology. 30(6). 519–519. 26 indexed citations

Bak, Per & Kan Chen. (2001). Scale Dependent Dimension of Luminous Matter in the Universe. Physical Review Letters. 86(19). 4215–4218. 13 indexed citations

Bak, Per, Kan Chen, & Maya Paczuski. (2001). Solitons in the One-Dimensional Forest Fire Model. Physical Review Letters. 86(11). 2475–2477. 7 indexed citations

Wakeling, Joseph & Per Bak. (2001). Intelligent systems in the context of surrounding environment. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 64(5). 51920–51920. 12 indexed citations

Bak, Per & Dante R. Chialvo. (2001). Adaptive learning by extremal dynamics and negative feedback. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 63(3). 31912–31912. 60 indexed citations

Bak, Per. (1999). Self-organized criticality: a holistic view of nature. Complexity. 477–496. 19 indexed citations

Chialvo, Dante R. & Per Bak. (1999). Learning from mistakes. Neuroscience. 90(4). 1137–1148. 103 indexed citations

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Bak, Per, Simon F. Nørrelykke, & Martín Shubik. (1999). Dynamics of money. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 60(3). 2528–2532. 32 indexed citations

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Bak, Per. (1998). Life laws. Nature. 391(6668). 652–653. 3 indexed citations

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Bak, Per, Maya Paczuski, & Martín Shubik. (1997). Price variations in a stock market with many agents. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 246(3-4). 430–453. 227 indexed citations

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Bak, Per, Sergei Maslov, & Maya Paczuski. (1994). Complexity and extremal dynamics. Brazilian Journal of Physics. 24(4). 915–921. 1 indexed citations

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Flyvbjerg, Henrik, Kim Sneppen, & Per Bak. (1993). Mean field theory for a simple model of evolution. Physical Review Letters. 71(24). 4087–4090. 166 indexed citations

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Bak, Per & Kan Chen. (1991). Criticalidad auto-organizada. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 52(174). 18–25. 2 indexed citations

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Selke, W. & Per Bak. (1987). ANNNI and the Devil. Physics Today. 40(9). 116–118. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Wentian & Per Bak. (1986). Fractal Dimension of Cantori. Physical Review Letters. 57(6). 655–658. 24 indexed citations

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Bruinsma, Robijn & Per Bak. (1983). Self-similarity and fractal dimension of the devil's staircase in the one-dimensional Ising model. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 27(9). 5824–5825. 48 indexed citations

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Bak, Per & David Mukamel. (1976). Physical realizations ofn≥4-component vector models. III. Phase transitions in Cr, Eu, MnS2, Ho, Dy, and Tb. Physical review. B, Solid state. 13(11). 5086–5094. 162 indexed citations

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Purwins, H.‐G., E. Wałker, B. Barbara, M.F. Rossignol, & Per Bak. (1974). Magnetization, magnetocrystalline anisotropy and the crystalline electric field in (rare earth) Al₂compounds. Journal of Physics C Solid State Physics. 7(19). 3573–3582. 60 indexed citations

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