Stephen Wolfram

23.2k total citations · 8 hit papers
81 papers, 13.4k citations indexed

About

Stephen Wolfram is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Wolfram has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 13.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 22 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 10 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Stephen Wolfram's work include Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (26 papers), Cellular Automata and Applications (21 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (16 papers). Stephen Wolfram is often cited by papers focused on Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (26 papers), Cellular Automata and Applications (21 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (16 papers). Stephen Wolfram collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. Stephen Wolfram's co-authors include A. John Mallinckrodt, Edward W. Kolb, Richard J. Fateman, J. Ambjørn, Geoffrey Fox, Norman H. Packard, Andrew Odlyzko, Olivier Martin, H. David Politzer and Mohamed Gad‐el‐Hak and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Reviews of Modern Physics.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Wolfram

75 papers receiving 12.1k citations

Hit Papers

Mathematica. A system for doing mathematics by computer 1983 2026 1997 2011 1988 1983 1984 1986 1984 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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. Mathematica. A system for doing mathematics by computer
    1988 2.2k citations Stephen Wolfram profile →
  2. Statistical mechanics of cellular automata
    1983 1.9k citations Stephen Wolfram profile →
  3. Universality and complexity in cellular automata
    1984 1.1k citations Stephen Wolfram profile →
  4. Theory and Applications of Cellular Automata
    1986 1.1k citations Stephen Wolfram profile →
  5. Cellular automata as models of complexity
    1984 931 citations Stephen Wolfram Nature profile →
  6. Cellular Automata and Complexity
    1995 542 citations Stephen Wolfram et al. profile →
  7. Cellular automaton fluids 1: Basic theory
    1986 498 citations Stephen Wolfram profile →
  8. Mathematica: a system for doing mathematics by computer (2nd ed.)
    1991 494 citations Stephen Wolfram 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 Wolfram United States 39 5.2k 1.9k 1.5k 1.4k 1.4k 81 13.4k
N. Metropolis United States 19 1.6k 0.3× 3.3k 1.7× 3.4k 2.3× 1.7k 1.2× 2.2k 1.6× 71 28.3k
Edward Teller United States 24 1.3k 0.3× 3.4k 1.8× 3.3k 2.2× 1.5k 1.1× 1.9k 1.4× 122 28.3k
Gian‐Carlo Rota United States 70 5.5k 1.1× 826 0.4× 4.3k 2.8× 440 0.3× 2.7k 2.0× 393 25.1k
Donald A. McQuarrie United States 32 1.3k 0.3× 1.9k 1.0× 1.6k 1.1× 3.1k 2.2× 4.8k 3.6× 109 35.2k
Irene A. Stegun United States 12 1.9k 0.4× 1.1k 0.6× 2.4k 1.6× 2.1k 1.5× 3.7k 2.8× 19 38.0k
D. B. Owen United States 29 1.0k 0.2× 551 0.3× 1.4k 0.9× 685 0.5× 1.6k 1.1× 112 18.6k
Jorge Nocedal United States 44 6.4k 1.2× 1.9k 1.0× 6.1k 4.0× 288 0.2× 1.8k 1.4× 105 37.3k
Philip Μ. Morse United States 32 950 0.2× 627 0.3× 834 0.6× 1.5k 1.1× 2.2k 1.6× 90 21.1k
Chao Tang China 47 1.2k 0.2× 5.7k 3.0× 994 0.7× 371 0.3× 3.0k 2.2× 233 20.3k
Milton Abramowitz United States 21 2.4k 0.5× 1.6k 0.8× 3.0k 2.0× 3.3k 2.4× 5.4k 4.0× 30 51.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Wolfram

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wolfram, Stephen. (2024). Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Complex Systems. 33(2). 133–252.
2.
Wolfram, Stephen. (2020). A Class of Models with the Potential to Represent Fundamental Physics. Complex Systems. 29(2). 107–536. 14 indexed citations
3.
Wolfram, Stephen. (2018). Are All Fish the Same Shape If You Stretch Them? The Victorian Tale of On Growth and Form. The Mathematical Intelligencer. 40(4). 39–61. 1 indexed citations
4.
Wolfram, Stephen. (2017). A New Kind of Science: A 15-Year View. Complex Systems. 26(3). 197–224. 3 indexed citations
5.
Wolfram, Stephen. (2016). Black Hole Tech?. Complex Systems. 25(4). 257–284. 1 indexed citations
6.
Wolfram, Stephen. (2015). An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language. 60 indexed citations
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Wolfram, Stephen. (1999). The Mathematica book (4th edition). Cambridge University Press eBooks. 1470–1470. 158 indexed citations
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Wolfram, Stephen. (1996). The Mathematica Book. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 52 indexed citations
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Wolfram, Stephen. (1992). Mathematica reference guide. Addison-Wesley eBooks. 16 indexed citations
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Wolfram, Stephen. (1988). Cellular automation supercomputing. University of Illinois Press eBooks. 40–48.
11.
Wolfram, Stephen. (1986). Theory and applications of cellular automata: including selected papers 1983-1986. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 50 indexed citations
12.
Wolfram, Stephen. (1986). Random sequence generation by cellular automata. Advances in Applied Mathematics. 7(2). 123–169. 293 indexed citations
13.
Wolfram, Stephen. (1984). Cellular automata as models of complexity. Nature. 311(5985). 419–424. 931 indexed citations breakdown →
14.
Ambjørn, J. & Stephen Wolfram. (1983). Properties of the vacuum. I. Mechanical and thermodynamic. Annals of Physics. 147(1). 1–32. 284 indexed citations
15.
Field, Richard & Stephen Wolfram. (1983). A QCD model for e+e− annihilation. Nuclear Physics B. 213(1). 65–84. 77 indexed citations
16.
Harvey, Jeffrey A., Edward W. Kolb, David B. Reiss, & Stephen Wolfram. (1981). Cosmological constraints on heavy weakly interacting fermions. Nuclear Physics B. 177(3). 456–460. 9 indexed citations
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Kolb, Edward W. & Stephen Wolfram. (1980). Baryon number generation in the early universe. Nuclear Physics B. 172. 224–284. 244 indexed citations
18.
Fox, Geoffrey, et al.. (1980). Event shapes in deep inelastic lepton-hadron scattering. Nuclear Physics B. 165(1). 80–92. 2 indexed citations
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Wolfram, Stephen. (1979). Abundances of new stable particles produced in the early universe. Physics Letters B. 82(1). 65–68. 133 indexed citations
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Wolfram, Stephen. (1977). The decoupling of axial mesons from currents. Lettere al nuovo cimento della societa italiana di fisica/Lettere al nuovo cimento. 20(1). 10–12. 1 indexed citations

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