Steven J. Plimpton

71.1k total citations · 11 hit papers
150 papers, 56.0k citations indexed

About

Steven J. Plimpton is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Computational Mechanics and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven J. Plimpton has authored 150 papers receiving a total of 56.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Materials Chemistry, 30 papers in Computational Mechanics and 25 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Steven J. Plimpton's work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (22 papers), Material Dynamics and Properties (20 papers) and Advanced Data Storage Technologies (16 papers). Steven J. Plimpton is often cited by papers focused on Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (22 papers), Material Dynamics and Properties (20 papers) and Advanced Data Storage Technologies (16 papers). Steven J. Plimpton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Steven J. Plimpton's co-authors include Aidan P. Thompson, William M. Brown, Cynthia L. Kelchner, J. C. Hamilton, Mark J. Stevens, Axel Kohlmeyer, Dan Bolintineanu, Trung Dac Nguyen, Stan Moore and Pieter J. in ’t Veld and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Steven J. Plimpton

146 papers receiving 54.9k citations

Hit Papers

Fast Parallel Algorithms ... 1995 2026 2005 2015 1995 2021 1998 1997 1998 10.0k 20.0k 30.0k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Steven J. Plimpton United States 48 33.0k 11.7k 9.9k 7.9k 7.5k 150 56.0k
Long‐Qing Chen United States 126 52.8k 1.6× 12.3k 1.1× 22.9k 2.3× 4.5k 0.6× 16.0k 2.1× 1.1k 73.1k
Ju Li United States 127 33.2k 1.0× 14.6k 1.3× 7.1k 0.7× 5.8k 0.7× 27.8k 3.7× 827 65.5k
David J. Srolovitz United States 94 21.0k 0.6× 10.7k 0.9× 3.0k 0.3× 6.7k 0.9× 4.0k 0.5× 514 30.5k
Arun Majumdar United States 102 29.6k 0.9× 6.3k 0.5× 12.3k 1.2× 5.6k 0.7× 17.5k 2.3× 337 54.0k
Gang Chen United States 141 59.0k 1.8× 8.5k 0.7× 9.7k 1.0× 4.0k 0.5× 23.2k 3.1× 1.1k 83.1k
William A. Goddard United States 166 59.3k 1.8× 9.9k 0.8× 14.2k 1.4× 9.0k 1.1× 29.4k 3.9× 1.7k 140.4k
Jacob N. Israelachvili United States 128 11.3k 0.3× 6.1k 0.5× 12.8k 1.3× 12.7k 1.6× 6.9k 0.9× 447 61.1k
Haiyan Wang United States 90 23.8k 0.7× 7.1k 0.6× 5.6k 0.6× 4.1k 0.5× 11.1k 1.5× 1.4k 39.2k
Adri C. T. van Duin United States 100 23.7k 0.7× 4.5k 0.4× 8.2k 0.8× 6.9k 0.9× 8.8k 1.2× 620 41.9k
Simon R. Phillpot United States 72 20.8k 0.6× 7.7k 0.7× 5.1k 0.5× 4.0k 0.5× 4.0k 0.5× 355 28.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Steven J. Plimpton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steven J. Plimpton

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Plimpton, Steven J., et al.. (2024). Load-Balancing and Performance of a Gridless Particle Simulation on MIMD, SIMD, and Vector Supercomputers. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information).
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Gallis, M. A., et al.. (2024). Toward physically realistic ablation modeling in direct simulation Monte Carlo. Physics of Fluids. 36(12). 1 indexed citations
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Mitchell, John, Fadi Abdeljawad, Corbett Chandler. Battaile, et al.. (2023). Parallel simulation via SPPARKS of on-lattice kinetic and Metropolis Monte Carlo models for materials processing. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 31(5). 55001–55001. 24 indexed citations
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Grest, Gary S., Ting Ge, Steven J. Plimpton, Michael Rubinstein, & Thomas C. O’Connor. (2022). Entropic Mixing of Ring/Linear Polymer Blends. ACS Polymers Au. 3(2). 209–216. 19 indexed citations
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Gallis, M. A., et al.. (2021). Turbulence at the edge of continuum. Physical Review Fluids. 6(1). 21 indexed citations
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Thompson, Aidan P., Hasan Metin Aktulga, Richard Berger, et al.. (2021). LAMMPS - a flexible simulation tool for particle-based materials modeling at the atomic, meso, and continuum scales. Computer Physics Communications. 271. 108171–108171. 6890 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bolintineanu, Dan, Gary S. Grest, Jeremy B. Lechman, et al.. (2020). Granular packings with sliding, rolling, and twisting friction. Physical review. E. 102(3). 32903–32903. 38 indexed citations
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Plimpton, Steven J., Stan Moore, Arnaud Borner, et al.. (2019). Direct simulation Monte Carlo on petaflop supercomputers and beyond. Physics of Fluids. 31(8). 222 indexed citations breakdown →
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Carrillo, Jan‐Michael Y., et al.. (2015). Optimizing legacy molecular dynamics software with directive-based offload. Computer Physics Communications. 195. 95–101. 20 indexed citations
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Gallis, M. A., Timothy Koehler, J. R. Torczynski, & Steven J. Plimpton. (2015). Direct simulation Monte Carlo investigation of the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability. Physics of Fluids. 27(8). 56 indexed citations
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Gallis, M. A., J. R. Torczynski, Steven J. Plimpton, Daniel J. Rader, & Timothy Koehler. (2014). Direct simulation Monte Carlo: The quest for speed. AIP conference proceedings. 1628. 27–36. 110 indexed citations
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Plimpton, Steven J., et al.. (2014). A method for modeling oxygen diffusion in an agent-based model with application to host-pathogen infection. PubMed. 36. 306–309. 3 indexed citations
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Plimpton, Steven J., et al.. (2013). Stochastic PArallel Rarefied-gas Time-accurate Analyzer. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations
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Brown, William M., Axel Kohlmeyer, Steven J. Plimpton, & Arnold Tharrington. (2011). Implementing molecular dynamics on hybrid high performance computers – Particle–particle particle-mesh. Computer Physics Communications. 183(3). 449–459. 377 indexed citations breakdown →
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Veld, Pieter J. in ’t, Steven J. Plimpton, & Gary S. Grest. (2008). Accurate and efficient methods for modeling colloidal mixtures in an explicit solvent using molecular dynamics. Computer Physics Communications. 179(5). 320–329. 73 indexed citations
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Landry, James W., Gary S. Grest, & Steven J. Plimpton. (2003). Forces in Granular Hopper Flow. APS. 2003. 2 indexed citations
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Plimpton, Steven J., et al.. (2002). Development and Performance of a PVM Based Parallel Geometric Modeler for MEMS. TechConnect Briefs. 1(2002). 218–221. 2 indexed citations
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Hendrickson, Bruce, et al.. (2001). Identifying Strongly Connected Components in Parallel.. PPSC. 2 indexed citations
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Plimpton, Steven J., et al.. (1997). Particle-Mesh Ewald and rRESPA for Parallel Molecular Dynamics Simulations.. PPSC. 181 indexed citations
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Plimpton, Steven J.. (1995). Fast Parallel Algorithms for Short-Range Molecular Dynamics. Journal of Computational Physics. 117(1). 1–19. 36280 indexed citations breakdown →

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