Peter Rastall

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 666 citations indexed

About

Peter Rastall is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Rastall has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 666 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 12 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 11 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Peter Rastall's work include Relativity and Gravitational Theory (16 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (11 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (10 papers). Peter Rastall is often cited by papers focused on Relativity and Gravitational Theory (16 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (11 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (10 papers). Peter Rastall collaborates with scholars based in Canada and United States. Peter Rastall's co-authors include J. O’Hanlon and has published in prestigious journals such as Reviews of Modern Physics, The Astrophysical Journal and Physics Letters A.

In The Last Decade

Peter Rastall

24 papers receiving 624 citations

Hit Papers

Generalization of the Einstein Theory 1972 2026 1990 2008 1972 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Generalization of the Einstein Theory
    1972 380 citations Peter Rastall Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →

Peers

Peter Rastall
Amalkumar Raychaudhuri India
P. C. Aichelburg Austria
Jaime A. Stein‐Schabes United States
Frederik J. Belinfante United States
L. C. Shepley United States
Jules Géhéniau Belgium
Roger Picken Portugal
R. J. Torrence Canada
Hubert Goenner Germany
Toshiei Kimura Japan
Amalkumar Raychaudhuri India
Peter Rastall
Citations per year, relative to Peter Rastall Peter Rastall (= 1×) peers Amalkumar Raychaudhuri

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Rastall

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Rastall

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Rastall

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Peter Rastall. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Peter Rastall 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 Rastall. Peter Rastall 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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Rastall, Peter. (1991). Postprincipia. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks.
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Rastall, Peter. (1988). New forms of the Dirac equation. ˜Il œNuovo cimento della Società italiana di fisica. B/˜Il œNuovo cimento B. 101(4). 479–494. 2 indexed citations
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Rastall, Peter. (1985). Locality, Bell's theorem, and quantum mechanics. Foundations of Physics. 15(9). 963–972. 34 indexed citations
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Rastall, Peter. (1982). The Bell inequalities and nonlocality. Physics Letters A. 87(6). 279–280. 2 indexed citations
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Rastall, Peter. (1981). Quantum mechanics, locality and completeness. ˜Il œNuovo cimento della Società italiana di fisica. B/˜Il œNuovo cimento B. 62(1). 175–189. 1 indexed citations
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Rastall, Peter. (1981). Cosmology with another theory of gravity. II. The Astrophysical Journal. 244. 1–1. 2 indexed citations
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Rastall, Peter. (1979). The Newtonian theory of gravitation and its generalization. Canadian Journal of Physics. 57(7). 944–973. 2 indexed citations
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Rastall, Peter. (1977). A note on a theory of gravity. Canadian Journal of Physics. 55(1). 38–42. 3 indexed citations
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Rastall, Peter. (1977). The maximum mass of a neutron star. The Astrophysical Journal. 213. 234–234. 3 indexed citations
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Rastall, Peter. (1977). Conservation laws and gravitational radiation. Canadian Journal of Physics. 55(15). 1342–1348. 2 indexed citations
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Rastall, Peter. (1976). A theory of gravity. Canadian Journal of Physics. 54(1). 66–75. 135 indexed citations
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Rastall, Peter. (1975). Gravity without geometry. American Journal of Physics. 43(7). 591–595. 6 indexed citations
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Rastall, Peter. (1972). A new spinor calculus. General Relativity and Gravitation. 3(3). 281–304.
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Rastall, Peter. (1972). Generalization of the Einstein Theory. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 6(12). 3357–3359. 380 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rastall, Peter. (1971). Gravitational Field Equations. Canadian Journal of Physics. 49(6). 678–684.
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Rastall, Peter. (1970). Classical Thermodynamics Simplified. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 11(10). 2955–2965. 7 indexed citations
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O’Hanlon, J., et al.. (1968). Internal energy and gravitation. Journal of physics. A, Proceedings of the Physical Society. General. 2(1). 141–142.
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Rastall, Peter. (1966). RELATIVISTIC PRECESSION OF A SPINNING SATELLITE. Canadian Journal of Physics. 44(12). 3109–3119. 3 indexed citations
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Rastall, Peter. (1964). Quaternions in Relativity. Reviews of Modern Physics. 36(3). 820–832. 35 indexed citations
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Rastall, Peter. (1962). A PERTURBATION CALCULATION FOR A "g−2" EXPERIMENT. Canadian Journal of Physics. 40(9). 1271–1274. 1 indexed citations

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