Peter Foster

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Peter Foster is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Nutrition and Dietetics and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Foster has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 12 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 11 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Peter Foster's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (11 papers), Music and Audio Processing (11 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (10 papers). Peter Foster is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (11 papers), Music and Audio Processing (11 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (10 papers). Peter Foster collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Saudi Arabia. Peter Foster's co-authors include Daniel Needleman, M. C. Jones, Abdullah S. Al Herbish, Abdullah A. Al Salloum, Adrian Bowman, Mohammad El Mouzan, Tatjana Kecojevic, Mark D. Plumbley, Mansour M. Qurachi and Michael Shelley and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Peter Foster

75 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Odd dynamics of living chiral crystals 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 50 100 150
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. Odd dynamics of living chiral crystals
    2022 176 citations Tzer Han Tan, Alexander Mietke et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter Foster United Kingdom 23 299 293 280 267 213 77 2.0k
Stephan Mertens Germany 15 128 0.4× 70 0.2× 157 0.6× 207 0.8× 275 1.3× 38 2.1k
Jacques Demongeot France 35 1.8k 5.9× 92 0.3× 451 1.6× 35 0.1× 315 1.5× 324 5.0k
Robert K. Henderson United Kingdom 49 557 1.9× 33 0.1× 53 0.2× 576 2.2× 258 1.2× 344 8.7k
Guanhua Chen United States 31 1.1k 3.7× 13 0.0× 255 0.9× 61 0.2× 294 1.4× 147 3.5k
David C. Hamilton Canada 24 150 0.5× 20 0.1× 125 0.4× 180 0.7× 87 0.4× 77 1.8k
R. W. Moore United Kingdom 24 164 0.5× 30 0.1× 47 0.2× 49 0.2× 174 0.8× 121 2.8k
Osamu Watanabe Japan 39 2.2k 7.3× 67 0.2× 115 0.4× 60 0.2× 78 0.4× 338 6.9k
Gurinder S. Atwal United States 21 1.2k 4.1× 28 0.1× 113 0.4× 30 0.1× 182 0.9× 54 2.9k
Anil Jain India 39 348 1.2× 2.5k 8.5× 266 0.9× 24 0.1× 420 2.0× 154 8.7k
Richard R. Picard United States 10 148 0.5× 41 0.1× 36 0.1× 90 0.3× 174 0.8× 30 1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Foster

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Foster

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Peter Foster. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Peter Foster. The network helps show where Peter Foster may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Foster

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Peter Foster. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Peter Foster 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 Peter Foster. Peter Foster is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Foster, Peter, et al.. (2025). Arrested coalescence, aging, and stability of asters composed of microtubules and kinesin motors. Physical Review Research. 7(1).
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Baskaran, Aparna, et al.. (2024). Microscopic interactions control a structural transition in active mixtures of microtubules and molecular motors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(2). e2300174121–e2300174121. 8 indexed citations
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Foster, Peter, Jinhye Bae, Juanjuan Zheng, et al.. (2023). Dissipation and energy propagation across scales in an active cytoskeletal material. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(14). e2207662120–e2207662120. 14 indexed citations
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Tan, Tzer Han, Alexander Mietke, Yuchao Chen, et al.. (2022). Odd dynamics of living chiral crystals. Nature. 607(7918). 287–293. 176 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bae, Jinhye, Juanjuan Zheng, Haitao Zhang, et al.. (2021). A Micromachined Picocalorimeter Sensor for Liquid Samples with Application to Chemical Reactions and Biochemistry. Advanced Science. 8(5). 2003415–2003415. 17 indexed citations
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Yang, Xingbo, Matthias Heinemann, Jonathon Howard, et al.. (2021). Physical bioenergetics: Energy fluxes, budgets, and constraints in cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(26). 69 indexed citations
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Worth, Chris, Daphne Yau, Maria Salomon‐Estebanez, et al.. (2020). Longitudinal Auxological recovery in a cohort of children with Hyperinsulinaemic Hypoglycaemia. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases. 15(1). 162–162. 10 indexed citations
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Fürthauer, Sebastian, Peter Foster, Stephanie C. Ems-McClung, et al.. (2019). Self-straining of actively crosslinked microtubule networks. Nature Physics. 15(12). 1295–1300. 35 indexed citations
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Foster, Peter, Stephanie C. Ems-McClung, Claire Walczak, et al.. (2019). Actively crosslinked microtubule networks: mechanics, dynamics and filament sliding. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2019. 1 indexed citations
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Sherman, David J., Ran Xie, Rebecca J. Taylor, et al.. (2018). Lipopolysaccharide is transported to the cell surface by a membrane-to-membrane protein bridge. Science. 359(6377). 798–801. 119 indexed citations
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Tan, Ruensern, Peter Foster, Daniel Needleman, & Richard J. McKenney. (2018). Cooperative Accumulation of Dynein-Dynactin at Microtubule Minus-Ends Drives Microtubule Network Reorganization. Developmental Cell. 44(2). 233–247.e4. 46 indexed citations
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Foster, Peter, et al.. (2017). Developing and Testing a Bayesian Analysis of Fluorescence Lifetime Measurements. PLoS ONE. 12(1). e0169337–e0169337. 21 indexed citations
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Embrechts, Jean-Jacques, et al.. (2015). Combining Features for Cover Song Identification. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 462–468. 8 indexed citations
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Skae, Mars, Indraneel Banerjee, Lindsey Rigby, et al.. (2014). Reduced Glycemic Variability in Diazoxide-Responsive Children with Congenital Hyperinsulinism Using Supplemental Omega-3-Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids; A Pilot Trial with MaxEPAR. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 5. 31–31. 9 indexed citations
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Foster, Peter, et al.. (2009). Short-Term Growth in Children with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia. Hormone Research in Paediatrics. 71(3). 142–147. 3 indexed citations
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Clifton, Peter, M. Noakes, Jennifer Keogh, & Peter Foster. (2003). Effect of an energy reduced high protein red meat diet on weight loss and metabolic parameters in obese women.. Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 69 Suppl 1. S66–73. 10 indexed citations
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Foster, Peter, et al.. (2003). Image of the month. Gastroenterology. 124(2). 287–287. 2 indexed citations
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Tillmann, Vallo, Peter Foster, Leena Patel, et al.. (2002). Suppression of puberty with long‐acting goserelin (Zoladex‐LA): effect on gonadotrophin response to GnRH in the first treatment cycle. Clinical Endocrinology. 57(2). 223–230. 12 indexed citations
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Tillmann, Vallo, Nandu Thalange, Peter Foster, et al.. (1998). The Relationship Between Stature, Growth, and Short-term Changes in Height and Weight in Normal Prepubertal Children. Pediatric Research. 44(6). 882–886. 36 indexed citations
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Foster, Peter. (1995). A comparative study of some bias correction techniques for kernel- based density estimators. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 51(2-4). 137–152. 8 indexed citations

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