Stephen Childress

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
83 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Stephen Childress is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Molecular Biology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Childress has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Computational Mechanics, 19 papers in Molecular Biology and 18 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Stephen Childress's work include Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (25 papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (17 papers) and Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (17 papers). Stephen Childress is often cited by papers focused on Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (25 papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (17 papers) and Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (17 papers). Stephen Childress collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Stephen Childress's co-authors include Albert Libchaber, Andrew D. Gilbert, Michael Shelley, A. D. D. Craik, Michael Ghil, Jun Zhang, J. K. Percus, A. M. Soward, E. A. Spiegel and Jean‐Luc Thiffeault and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Childress

81 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Flexible filaments in a flowing soap film as a model for one-dimensional flags in a two-dimensional wind
    2000 554 citations Jun Zhang, Stephen Childress 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
Stephen Childress United States 31 1.4k 1.0k 972 938 693 83 4.2k
Antonio Celani Italy 36 2.0k 1.4× 606 0.6× 491 0.5× 484 0.5× 266 0.4× 118 4.1k
Eberhard Bodenschatz Germany 52 4.5k 3.2× 1.1k 1.0× 1.6k 1.7× 1.3k 1.3× 541 0.8× 245 10.0k
E. A. Spiegel United States 42 1.9k 1.3× 400 0.4× 735 0.8× 715 0.8× 124 0.2× 151 5.9k
David H. Sharp United States 49 2.4k 1.7× 347 0.3× 364 0.4× 1.8k 1.9× 247 0.4× 178 9.5k
Hassan Aref United States 37 2.8k 2.0× 958 0.9× 1.9k 1.9× 219 0.2× 387 0.6× 111 7.2k
H. K. Moffatt United Kingdom 30 2.6k 1.9× 333 0.3× 602 0.6× 2.2k 2.3× 341 0.5× 97 7.1k
S. Ciliberto France 46 2.4k 1.7× 998 1.0× 776 0.8× 666 0.7× 144 0.2× 169 8.6k
G. Boffetta Italy 41 3.2k 2.3× 752 0.7× 405 0.4× 362 0.4× 186 0.3× 147 6.1k
S. Fauve France 40 2.3k 1.6× 469 0.4× 732 0.8× 1.3k 1.4× 118 0.2× 139 6.4k
Wim van Saarloos Netherlands 45 1.6k 1.1× 1.6k 1.5× 766 0.8× 246 0.3× 95 0.1× 151 6.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen Childress

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Childress

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Childress, Stephen & Andrew D. Gilbert. (2021). Area waves on a slender vortex revisited. Fluid Dynamics Research. 53(3). 35508–35508.
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Percus, J. K. & Stephen Childress. (2015). Mathematical Models in Developmental Biology. 2 indexed citations
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Ristroph, Leif & Stephen Childress. (2014). Stable hovering of a jellyfish-like flying machine. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 11(92). 20130992–20130992. 56 indexed citations
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Childress, Stephen. (2012). Natural locomotion in fluids and on surfaces : swimming, flying, and sliding. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 19 indexed citations
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Childress, Stephen. (2009). An Introduction to Theoretical Fluid Mechanics. 37 indexed citations
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Vandenberghe, Nicolas, Stephen Childress, & Jun Zhang. (2006). On unidirectional flight of a free flapping wing. Physics of Fluids. 18(1). 60 indexed citations
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Thiffeault, Jean‐Luc & Stephen Childress. (2003). Chaotic mixing in a torus map. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 13(2). 502–507. 24 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jun, Stephen Childress, Albert Libchaber, & Michael Shelley. (2000). Flexible filaments in a flowing soap film as a model for one-dimensional flags in a two-dimensional wind. Nature. 408(6814). 835–839. 554 indexed citations breakdown →
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Childress, Stephen, Andrew D. Gilbert, & Edward Ott. (1996). Stretch, Twist, Fold: The Fast Dynamo. Physics Today. 49(7). 61–62. 188 indexed citations
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Soward, A. M. & Stephen Childress. (1990). Large magnetic Reynolds number dynamo action in a spatially periodic flow with mean motion. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 331(1621). 649–733. 22 indexed citations
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Childress, Stephen, Glenn Ierley, E. A. Spiegel, & W. R. Young. (1989). Blow-up of unsteady two-dimensional Euler and Navier-Stokes solutions having stagnation-point form. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 203. 1–22. 53 indexed citations
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Childress, Stephen & A. M. Soward. (1989). Scalar transport and alpha-effect for a family of cat's-eye flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 205. 99–133. 60 indexed citations
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Bayly, B. J. & Stephen Childress. (1989). Unsteady dynamo effects at large magnetic reynolds number. Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics. 49(1-4). 23–43. 27 indexed citations
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Childress, Stephen. (1986). Biophysical aerodynamics and the natural environment. Mathematical Biosciences. 80(1). 137–138.
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Sulsky, Deborah, Stephen Childress, & J. K. Percus. (1984). A model of cell sorting. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 106(3). 275–301. 36 indexed citations
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Childress, Stephen. (1981). Some mathematical questions in biology. American Mathematical Society eBooks. 11 indexed citations
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Childress, Stephen & J. K. Percus. (1981). Nonlinear aspects of chemotaxis. Mathematical Biosciences. 56(3-4). 217–237. 261 indexed citations
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Childress, Stephen. (1981). Mechanics of Swimming and Flying. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 301 indexed citations
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Childress, Stephen & E. A. Spiegel. (1981). A prospectus for a theory of variable variability. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 2191. 273. 3 indexed citations
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Chapman, C. J., Stephen Childress, & M. R. E. Proctor. (1980). Long wavelength thermal convection between non-conducting boundaries. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 51(2). 362–369. 33 indexed citations

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