Steven A. Balbus

14.6k citations
109 papers · 9.0k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 35
Topics
Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (62 papers)Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (41 papers)Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (33 papers)

In The Last Decade

Steven A. Balbus

106 papers receiving 8.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers

Steven A. Balbus
Comparison fields: 5 of 71
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 8.7k
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics 1.4k
  • Geophysics 619
  • Computational Mechanics 563
  • Spectroscopy 481
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Fields of papers citing papers by Steven A. Balbus

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steven A. Balbus

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

All Works

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1 41
2 10
3 2
4 20
5 11
6 25
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8 0
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11 172
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14 17
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Transport Processes in Protostellar Disks
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16 10
17 118
18 26
19 6
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A Powerful Local Shear Instability in Weakly Magnetized Disks: I. Linear Analysis
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About Steven A. Balbus

Steven A. Balbus is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics and Oceanography, having authored 109 papers that have together received 9.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (62 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (41 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (33 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (8.7k citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (1.4k citations) and Geophysics (619 citations). Steven A. Balbus has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Frequent co-authors include John F. Hawley, Charles F. Gammie, James M. Stone, Andrew Mummery, Omer Blaes, J. C. B. Papaloizou, S. Fromang, Caroline Terquem, Noam Soker and Henrik N. Latter. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

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