Suzanne Sears

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 809 citations indexed

About

Suzanne Sears is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Suzanne Sears has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 809 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 11 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 6 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Suzanne Sears's work include Nonlinear Photonic Systems (12 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (11 papers) and Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (7 papers). Suzanne Sears is often cited by papers focused on Nonlinear Photonic Systems (12 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (11 papers) and Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (7 papers). Suzanne Sears collaborates with scholars based in United States and Israel. Suzanne Sears's co-authors include Mordechai Segev, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Nikolaos K. Efremidis, Jason W. Fleischer, Marin Soljačić, Keren Bergman, K. Steiglitz, Richard K. Squier, Detlef Kip and Mariusz Jakubowski and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Journal of the Optical Society of America B.

In The Last Decade

Suzanne Sears

11 papers receiving 779 citations

Hit Papers

Discrete solitons in photorefractive optically induced ph... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 100 200 300 400
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. Discrete solitons in photorefractive optically induced photonic lattices
    2002 440 citations Nikolaos K. Efremidis, Suzanne Sears et al. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Suzanne Sears United States 9 720 715 148 88 27 14 809
Demetri N. Christodoulides United States 5 733 1.0× 803 1.1× 174 1.2× 171 1.9× 18 0.7× 8 910
A Boyd United Kingdom 7 846 1.2× 860 1.2× 248 1.7× 199 2.3× 31 1.1× 10 1.0k
Vladimir Tikhonenko Australia 10 552 0.8× 763 1.1× 67 0.5× 40 0.5× 13 0.5× 18 803
Jared Hudock United States 10 752 1.0× 736 1.0× 149 1.0× 87 1.0× 25 0.9× 20 803
E. N. Tsoy Uzbekistan 14 420 0.6× 616 0.9× 79 0.5× 188 2.1× 12 0.4× 42 682
Jason Christou Australia 7 445 0.6× 617 0.9× 54 0.4× 33 0.4× 10 0.4× 8 645
Hervé Leblond France 10 589 0.8× 604 0.8× 172 1.2× 182 2.1× 51 1.9× 18 821
Xing Zhu China 20 1.4k 2.0× 1.4k 2.0× 55 0.4× 44 0.5× 17 0.6× 91 1.5k
K. Kladko Germany 11 476 0.7× 377 0.5× 272 1.8× 15 0.2× 22 0.8× 18 595

Countries citing papers authored by Suzanne Sears

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Fields of papers citing papers by Suzanne Sears

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Suzanne Sears

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

All Works

14 of 14 papers shown
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Sears, Suzanne. (2004). Soliton interactions and the formation of solitonic patterns. 1 indexed citations
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Efremidis, Nikolaos K., D.N. Christodoulides, Suzanne Sears, & M. Segev. (2003). Discrete solitons in photorefractive optically-induced photonic crystals. 12. 137–138.
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Soljačić, Marin, K. Steiglitz, Suzanne Sears, et al.. (2003). Collisions of Two Solitons in an Arbitrary Number of Coupled Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations. Physical Review Letters. 90(25). 254102–254102. 48 indexed citations
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Soljačić, Marin, Suzanne Sears, & Mordechai Segev. (2003). Self-trapping of necklace beams in self focusing Kerr media. 144–145. 5 indexed citations
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Sears, Suzanne, Marin Soljačić, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, & Mordechai Segev. (2002). Pattern formation via symmetry breaking in nonlinear weakly correlated systems. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 65(3). 36620–36620. 19 indexed citations
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Efremidis, Nikolaos K., Suzanne Sears, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Jason W. Fleischer, & Mordechai Segev. (2002). Discrete solitons in photorefractive optically induced photonic lattices. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 66(4). 46602–46602. 440 indexed citations breakdown →
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Efremidis, Nikolaos K., Jared Hudock, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, et al.. (2002). Discrete Solitons in Photorefractive Optically-Induced Photonic Lattices. Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications. NLTuA4–NLTuA4. 28 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhigang, Suzanne Sears, Héctor Martín, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, & Mordechai Segev. (2002). Clustering of solitons in weakly correlated wavefronts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(8). 5223–5227. 30 indexed citations
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Kip, Detlef, Marin Soljačić, Mordechai Segev, Suzanne Sears, & Demetrios N. Christodoulides. (2002). (1+1)-Dimensional modulation instability of spatially incoherent light. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 19(3). 502–502. 38 indexed citations
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Sears, Suzanne, Zhigang Chen, Héctor Martín, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, & Mordechai Segev. (2001). Clustering in weakly correlated wavef ronts. Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications. PD3–PD3.
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Sears, Suzanne, et al.. (2000). Cantor Set Fractals from Solitons. Physical Review Letters. 84(9). 1902–1905. 44 indexed citations
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Soljačić, Marin, Suzanne Sears, & Mordechai Segev. (1999). Self-trapping of Necklace Beams in Self-Focusing Kerr Media. Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications. WD7–WD7. 8 indexed citations
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Soljačić, Marin, et al.. (1999). Cantor Set Fractals from Solitons. Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications. WE4–WE4. 1 indexed citations
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Soljačić, Marin, Suzanne Sears, & Mordechai Segev. (1998). Self-Trapping of “Necklace” Beams in Self-Focusing Kerr Media. Physical Review Letters. 81(22). 4851–4854. 147 indexed citations

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