S. W. MacDowell

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

S. W. MacDowell is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, S. W. MacDowell has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 15 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 9 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in S. W. MacDowell's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (7 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (6 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (6 papers). S. W. MacDowell is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (7 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (6 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (6 papers). S. W. MacDowell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and United Kingdom. S. W. MacDowell's co-authors include F. Mansouri, M. L. Goldberger, David Y. Wong, M.T. Grisaru, R. H. A. Coutts, K. W. Buck, Yang Jin, Mark Rakowski, Itzhak Bars and Heather Macdonald and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nucleic Acids Research and The EMBO Journal.

In The Last Decade

S. W. MacDowell

38 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Unified Geometric Theory of Gravity and Supergravity 1977 2026 1993 2009 1977 100 200 300 400
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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. Unified Geometric Theory of Gravity and Supergravity
    1977 476 citations S. W. MacDowell, F. Mansouri Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
S. W. MacDowell United States 16 1.3k 567 557 327 121 39 1.7k
H. M. Fried United States 16 932 0.7× 303 0.5× 310 0.6× 547 1.7× 23 0.2× 110 1.6k
L. A. Radicati Italy 13 1.1k 0.9× 157 0.3× 114 0.2× 274 0.8× 54 0.4× 51 1.5k
G. Furlan Italy 25 2.0k 1.6× 448 0.8× 617 1.1× 670 2.0× 8 0.1× 89 2.6k
Barbara Abraham‐Shrauner United States 21 188 0.1× 604 1.1× 405 0.7× 251 0.8× 22 0.2× 86 1.3k
Riazuddin Pakistan 20 1.9k 1.4× 74 0.1× 69 0.1× 247 0.8× 92 0.8× 178 2.1k
A. Krzywicki France 25 1.1k 0.9× 195 0.3× 585 1.1× 207 0.6× 11 0.1× 88 1.9k
Richard Kerner France 22 684 0.5× 548 1.0× 530 1.0× 133 0.4× 13 0.1× 131 1.8k
Giancarlo Rossi Italy 39 4.4k 3.4× 354 0.6× 296 0.5× 380 1.2× 12 0.1× 177 5.2k
Ashok Das United States 26 2.1k 1.6× 939 1.7× 1.5k 2.6× 1.0k 3.1× 15 0.1× 248 3.2k
Tatsuma Nishioka Japan 22 1.6k 1.2× 1.1k 2.0× 721 1.3× 499 1.5× 202 1.7× 55 2.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of S. W. MacDowell

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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MacDowell, S. W., et al.. (1996). Analysis of completeness of angular equation solutions in the hyperspherical method. Brazilian Journal of Physics. 26(4). 725–730. 2 indexed citations
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MacDowell, S. W. & Ola Törnkvist. (1995). ELECTROWEAK VORTICES AND GAUGE EQUIVALENCE. Modern Physics Letters A. 10(13n14). 1065–1072. 4 indexed citations
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MacDowell, S. W. & Ola Törnkvist. (1992). Structure of the ground state of the electroweak gauge theory in a strong magnetic field. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 45(10). 3833–3844. 13 indexed citations
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MacDowell, S. W.. (1992). Realization of the discrete series of unitary representations of Sl(2,R) in terms of creation and annihilation operators. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 33(5). 1627–1630. 1 indexed citations
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MacDowell, S. W., H. M. Nussenzveig, & R. Salmeron. (1991). Frontier Physics. 1–350. 2 indexed citations
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MacDowell, S. W., R. H. A. Coutts, & K. W. Buck. (1986). Molecular characterisation of subgenomic single-stranded and double-stranded DNA forms isolated from plants infected with tomato golden mosaic virus. Nucleic Acids Research. 14(20). 7967–7984. 43 indexed citations
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MacDowell, S. W., Heather Macdonald, W D Hamilton, R. H. A. Coutts, & K. W. Buck. (1985). The nucleotide sequence of cloned wheat dwarf virus DNA. The EMBO Journal. 4(9). 2173–2180. 80 indexed citations
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Bars, Itzhak & S. W. MacDowell. (1983). Gravity with extra gauge symmetry. Physics Letters B. 129(3-4). 182–184. 20 indexed citations
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MacDowell, S. W. & F. Mansouri. (1977). Unified Geometric Theory of Gravity and Supergravity. Physical Review Letters. 38(14). 739–742. 476 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bars, Itzhak & S. W. MacDowell. (1977). Spinor theory of general relativity without elementary gravitons. Physics Letters B. 71(1). 111–114. 14 indexed citations
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MacDowell, S. W., et al.. (1973). Symmetry-Breaking Effects on Singularities of Multichannel Amplitudes near Thresholds. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 7(11). 3461–3471. 1 indexed citations
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MacDowell, S. W.. (1972). Analytic Continuation of Reduced Pion-Nucleon Partial-Wave Amplitudes. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 6(12). 3512–3515. 1 indexed citations
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MacDowell, S. W., Ralph Roskies, & Bert Schroer. (1968). Cluster Property and Bounds on the Scattering Amplitude. Physical Review. 166(5). 1691–1702. 4 indexed citations
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Jin, Yang & S. W. MacDowell. (1965). Phase Representation and High-Energy Behavior of the Forward Scattering Amplitude. Physical Review. 138(5B). B1279–B1285. 25 indexed citations
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Jin, Yang & S. W. MacDowell. (1965). Poles in the Vertex Function, Zeros of the Propagator, and Bounds on Coupling Constants. Physical Review. 137(3B). B688–B695. 32 indexed citations
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Byers, Nina, S. W. MacDowell, & Cheng-Feng Yang. (1965). CP-iolation in K-decay. 953. 1 indexed citations
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MacDowell, S. W., et al.. (1964). Unitarity Bounds of the Scattering Amplitude and the Diffraction Peak. Physical Review. 135(4B). B960–B962. 64 indexed citations
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MacDowell, S. W.. (1961). Coupled Integral Equations of the Omnés-Muskhelishvili Type. Physical Review Letters. 6(7). 385–387. 8 indexed citations
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MacDowell, S. W.. (1959). Form Factors inKμ3andKe3Decay. Physical Review. 116(4). 1047–1049. 36 indexed citations
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MacDowell, S. W.. (1959). Analytic Properties of Partial Amplitudes in Meson-Nucleon Scattering. Physical Review. 116(3). 774–778. 222 indexed citations

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