Scott Parker

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
137 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Scott Parker is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott Parker has authored 137 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 70 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 31 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Scott Parker's work include Magnetic confinement fusion research (92 papers), Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (69 papers) and Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (31 papers). Scott Parker is often cited by papers focused on Magnetic confinement fusion research (92 papers), Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (69 papers) and Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (31 papers). Scott Parker collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Scott Parker's co-authors include Yang Chen, Yang Chen, Martin B. Plenio, W. M. Nevins, B. I. Cohen, A. M. Dimits, W. Dorland, R. A. Santoro, D.E. Shumaker and G. W. Hammett and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Psychological Bulletin and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Scott Parker

130 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

Comparisons and physics basis of tokamak transport models... 2000 2026 2008 2017 2000 250 500 750
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. Comparisons and physics basis of tokamak transport models and turbulence simulations
    2000 804 citations W. M. Nevins, Scott Parker et al. Physics of Plasmas profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Scott Parker United States 33 3.1k 2.5k 656 500 414 137 4.0k
Zhihong Lin United States 41 5.5k 1.8× 4.7k 1.9× 753 1.1× 884 1.8× 364 0.9× 214 6.3k
R. Granetz United States 35 3.4k 1.1× 1.6k 0.6× 666 1.0× 1.3k 2.5× 298 0.7× 161 3.8k
B. A. Carreras United States 39 3.4k 1.1× 2.6k 1.0× 304 0.5× 578 1.2× 255 0.6× 124 4.2k
Viktor K. Decyk United States 29 1.4k 0.5× 1.0k 0.4× 495 0.8× 93 0.2× 675 1.6× 136 2.5k
S. R. Kulkarni United States 67 3.8k 1.2× 15.2k 6.1× 211 0.3× 261 0.5× 936 2.3× 449 16.4k
Paulett C. Liewer United States 26 1.4k 0.5× 2.3k 0.9× 251 0.4× 168 0.3× 331 0.8× 105 3.0k
Cris W. Barnes United States 24 1.6k 0.5× 595 0.2× 361 0.6× 437 0.9× 321 0.8× 108 2.1k
S.‐I. Itoh Japan 38 5.2k 1.7× 3.9k 1.5× 494 0.8× 974 1.9× 379 0.9× 358 5.7k
Paolo Ricci Switzerland 33 2.9k 0.9× 2.6k 1.0× 291 0.4× 704 1.4× 270 0.7× 146 3.5k
H. Nakanishi Japan 19 988 0.3× 1.2k 0.5× 186 0.3× 100 0.2× 462 1.1× 141 2.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Scott Parker

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Scott Parker

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

All Works

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Bollinger, J. J., et al.. (2024). Rapid cooling of the in-plane motion of two-dimensional ion crystals in a Penning trap to millikelvin temperatures. Physical review. A. 109(2). 3 indexed citations
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Parker, Scott, et al.. (2023). Targeted inhibition of protein synthesis renders cancer cells vulnerable to apoptosis by unfolded protein response. Cell Death and Disease. 14(8). 561–561. 5 indexed citations
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Chen, Haotian, et al.. (2022). Zonal flow excitation in electron-scale tokamak turbulence. Nuclear Fusion. 63(2). 26015–26015. 5 indexed citations
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Ku, S., Luis Chacòn, Y. Chen, et al.. (2021). Verification of a fully implicit particle-in-cell method for the v∥-formalism of electromagnetic gyrokinetics in the XGC code. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 11 indexed citations
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Hatch, D. R., et al.. (2021). Gyrokinetic benchmark of the electron temperature-gradient instability in the pedestal region. Physics of Plasmas. 28(6). 10 indexed citations
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Meiser, Dominic, et al.. (2021). Equilibration of the planar modes of ultracold two-dimensional ion crystals in a Penning trap. Physical review. A. 104(2). 4 indexed citations
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Myra, J. R., S. Ku, D. A. Russell, et al.. (2020). Reduction of blob-filament radial propagation by parallel variation of flows: Analysis of a gyrokinetic simulation. Physics of Plasmas. 27(8). 4 indexed citations
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Parker, Scott, et al.. (2018). Characterization of MPI usage on a production supercomputer. IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. 30. 14 indexed citations
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Parker, Scott. (2018). Which Is To Say. Philosophy now. 127. 27–27.
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Hines-Beard, Jessica, et al.. (2013). Identification of a Therapeutic Dose of Continuously Delivered Erythropoietin in the Eye Using An Inducible Promoter System. Current Gene Therapy. 13(4). 275–281. 12 indexed citations
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Parker, Scott, et al.. (2012). Global Gyrokinetic Simulation of Tokamak Edge Pedestal Instabilities. Physical Review Letters. 109(18). 185004–185004. 45 indexed citations
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Nevins, W. M., Eric Wang, I. Joseph, et al.. (2009). Turbulence-Driven Magnetic Reconnection. APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts. 51. 3 indexed citations
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Parker, Scott, et al.. (2006). Fine-Scale Zonal Flow Suppression of Electron Temperature Gradient Turbulence. AIP conference proceedings. 871. 193–203. 9 indexed citations
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Chang, Ching S., et al.. (2006). Simulating Coulomb Collisions in Particle Codes. APS. 48. 1 indexed citations
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Parker, Scott, Yang Chen, & Charlson C. Kim. (2002). Kinetic MHD Simulation. APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts. 44. 1 indexed citations
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Parker, Scott & Martin B. Plenio. (2000). Efficient factorization with a single pure qubit. arXiv (Cornell University).
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Parker, Scott & Ravi Samtaney. (1994). Case study: tokamak plasma turbulence visualization. IEEE Visualization. 337–340. 4 indexed citations

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