R. D. Driver

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

R. D. Driver is a scholar working on Numerical Analysis, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Applied Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, R. D. Driver has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Numerical Analysis, 8 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 7 papers in Applied Mathematics. Recurrent topics in R. D. Driver's work include Numerical methods for differential equations (6 papers), Nonlinear Differential Equations Analysis (5 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (5 papers). R. D. Driver is often cited by papers focused on Numerical methods for differential equations (6 papers), Nonlinear Differential Equations Analysis (5 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (5 papers). R. D. Driver collaborates with scholars based in United States. R. D. Driver's co-authors include W. R. Utz, W. D. Ray, Michael Norris, M Slater, G. Ladas, V. Lakshmikantham, Stephen R. Bernfeld and Bruce K. Driver and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Annals of Physics and Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications.

In The Last Decade

R. D. Driver

24 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Ordinary and Delay Differential Equations 1977 2026 1993 2009 1977 200 400 600
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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. Ordinary and Delay Differential Equations
    1977 637 citations R. D. Driver Applied mathematical sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
R. D. Driver United States 17 770 708 491 295 271 26 1.8k
F. S. Van Vleck United States 15 454 0.6× 575 0.8× 430 0.9× 219 0.7× 248 0.9× 33 1.9k
C. Corduneanu United States 16 625 0.8× 1.3k 1.8× 707 1.4× 158 0.5× 167 0.6× 43 2.2k
W. A. Coppel Australia 19 519 0.7× 571 0.8× 645 1.3× 634 2.1× 176 0.6× 42 2.1k
Wolfgang Walter Germany 27 799 1.0× 1.6k 2.2× 816 1.7× 259 0.9× 248 0.9× 118 3.4k
John S. Maybee United States 17 552 0.7× 1.4k 1.9× 601 1.2× 189 0.6× 239 0.9× 67 3.3k
H. A. Antosiewicz United States 15 357 0.5× 325 0.5× 692 1.4× 293 1.0× 80 0.3× 30 1.7k
N. N. Krasovskiĭ Russia 17 396 0.5× 329 0.5× 992 2.0× 347 1.2× 147 0.5× 84 2.4k
C. E. Langenhop United States 10 254 0.3× 382 0.5× 261 0.5× 216 0.7× 177 0.7× 27 1.3k
Andrzej Lasota Poland 24 312 0.4× 675 1.0× 368 0.7× 1.2k 4.2× 132 0.5× 97 3.3k
Solomon Lefschetz United States 12 252 0.3× 246 0.3× 504 1.0× 469 1.6× 151 0.6× 39 1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of R. D. Driver

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Driver, R. D.. (1998). Torricelli's Law—an Ideal Example of an Elementary ODE. American Mathematical Monthly. 105(5). 453–455. 8 indexed citations
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Driver, R. D., et al.. (1992). Asymptotic behavior of a linear delay difference equation. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 115(1). 105–112. 36 indexed citations
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Driver, R. D., et al.. (1990). A delayed-advanced model for the electrodynamics two-body problem. Nonlinear Analysis. 15(2). 165–184. 16 indexed citations
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Driver, R. D.. (1984). A neutral system with state-dependent delay. Journal of Differential Equations. 54(1). 73–86. 68 indexed citations
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Driver, R. D.. (1984). A mixed neutral system. Nonlinear Analysis. 8(2). 155–158. 67 indexed citations
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Driver, R. D.. (1979). Can the future influence the present?. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 19(4). 1098–1107. 42 indexed citations
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Driver, R. D.. (1978). Exponential Decay in Some Linear Delay Differential Equations. American Mathematical Monthly. 85(9). 757–760. 5 indexed citations
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Driver, R. D.. (1978). Introduction to ordinary differential equations. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 11 indexed citations
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Driver, R. D.. (1977). Ordinary and Delay Differential Equations. Applied mathematical sciences. 637 indexed citations breakdown →
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Driver, R. D.. (1976). Linear differential systems with small delays. Journal of Differential Equations. 21(1). 148–166. 53 indexed citations
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Driver, R. D., et al.. (1973). The Equation x � (t) = ax (t) + bx (t - τ) with "Small" Delay. American Mathematical Monthly. 80(9). 990–990. 26 indexed citations
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Ray, W. D. & R. D. Driver. (1970). Further decomposition of the Karhunen-Loève series representation of a stationary random process. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 16(6). 663–668. 44 indexed citations
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Driver, R. D.. (1969). A "Backwards" Two-Body Problem of Classical Relativistic Electrodynamics. Physical Review. 178(5). 2051–2057. 40 indexed citations
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Driver, R. D.. (1968). On Ryabov’s Asymptotic Characteization of the Solutions of Quasi-Linear Differential Equations with Small Delays. SIAM Review. 10(3). 329–341. 14 indexed citations
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Driver, R. D. & Michael Norris. (1967). Note on uniqueness for a one-dimensional two-body problem of classical electrodynamics. Annals of Physics. 42(2). 347–351. 35 indexed citations
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Driver, R. D.. (1965). Note on a paper of Halanay on stability for finite difference equations. Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. 18(3). 241–243. 3 indexed citations
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Driver, R. D.. (1965). Methods of A. M. Lyapunov and Their Application (V. I. Zubov). SIAM Review. 7(4). 570–571. 5 indexed citations
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Driver, R. D.. (1965). Existence and continuous dependence of solutions of a neutral functional-differential equation. Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. 19(2). 149–166. 104 indexed citations
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Driver, R. D.. (1963). A two-body problem of classical electrodynamics: the one-dimensional case. Annals of Physics. 21(1). 122–142. 92 indexed citations
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Driver, R. D.. (1962). Existence and stability of solutions of a delay-differential system. Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. 10(1). 401–426. 233 indexed citations

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