Thomas C. Day

920 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 681 citations indexed

About

Thomas C. Day is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas C. Day has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 681 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Thomas C. Day's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (3 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (3 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (2 papers). Thomas C. Day is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (3 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (3 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (2 papers). Thomas C. Day collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Canada. Thomas C. Day's co-authors include Will J. Backe, Jennifer A. Field, Mauricio Cattaneo, Adam L. Tenderholt, Joel N. Schrauben, James M. Mayer, William C. Ratcliff, Peter J. Yunker, Anthony Burnetti and G. Ozan Bozdag and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Thomas C. Day

11 papers receiving 669 citations

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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.

Zwitterionic, Cationic, and Anionic Fluorinated Chemicals in Aqueous Film Forming Foam Formulations and Groundwater from U.S. Military Bases by Nonaqueous Large-Volume Injection HPLC-MS/MS

2013 506 citations Will J. Backe, Thomas C. Day et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas C. Day United States	8	470	413	278	60	48	11	681
Jia Bao China	19	940 2.0×	833 2.0×	460 1.7×	33 0.6×	100 2.1×	68	1.4k
Mindong Bai China	16	194 0.4×	188 0.5×	39 0.1×	50 0.8×	171 3.6×	32	751
Cheng Luo China	8	149 0.3×	81 0.2×	108 0.4×	29 0.5×	45 0.9×	19	403
Vasile I. Furdui Canada	17	1.2k 2.4×	1.3k 3.1×	833 3.0×	37 0.6×	28 0.6×	23	1.6k
Günter Oehme Germany	6	338 0.7×	342 0.8×	167 0.6×	9 0.1×	18 0.4×	9	453
Baagi T. Mmereki Canada	11	67 0.1×	257 0.6×	455 1.6×	11 0.2×	47 1.0×	13	754
Meng Chen China	24	670 1.4×	800 1.9×	372 1.3×	29 0.5×	84 1.8×	34	1.3k
Yuko Soma Japan	13	91 0.2×	73 0.2×	180 0.6×	23 0.4×	46 1.0×	31	453
J. B. Armitage United States	9	323 0.7×	282 0.7×	84 0.3×	74 1.2×	44 0.9×	10	601
Zlatica Kozarac Croatia	18	55 0.1×	123 0.3×	123 0.4×	105 1.8×	19 0.4×	41	619

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Tong, Kai, Thomas C. Day, Ahmad S. Khalil, et al.. (2025). Genome duplication in a long-term multicellularity evolution experiment. Nature. 639(8055). 691–699. 2 indexed citations

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Libby, Eric, David Demory, Thomas C. Day, et al.. (2024). Emergence and maintenance of stable coexistence during a long-term multicellular evolution experiment. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(5). 1010–1020. 4 indexed citations

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Day, Thomas C., G. Ozan Bozdag, Anthony Burnetti, et al.. (2024). Morphological Entanglement in Living Systems. Physical Review X. 14(1). 8 indexed citations

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Day, Thomas C., et al.. (2024). The biophysical basis of bacterial colony growth. Nature Physics. 20(9). 1509–1517. 8 indexed citations

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Bozdag, G. Ozan, Thomas C. Day, Anthony Burnetti, et al.. (2023). De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity. Nature. 617(7962). 747–754. 43 indexed citations

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Burnetti, Anthony, et al.. (2023). Spontaneous Emergence of Multicellular Heritability. Genes. 14(8). 1635–1635. 8 indexed citations

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Day, Thomas C., et al.. (2022). Varied solutions to multicellularity: The biophysical and evolutionary consequences of diverse intercellular bonds. PubMed. 3(2). 21305–21305. 12 indexed citations

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Day, Thomas C., et al.. (2022). Phase transitions detected in complex time series by multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis. International Journal of Modern Physics B. 36(07n08). 1 indexed citations

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Day, Thomas C., et al.. (2018). Geometry, packing, and evolutionary paths to increased multicellular size. Physical review. E. 97(5). 50401–50401. 9 indexed citations

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Backe, Will J., Thomas C. Day, & Jennifer A. Field. (2013). Zwitterionic, Cationic, and Anionic Fluorinated Chemicals in Aqueous Film Forming Foam Formulations and Groundwater from U.S. Military Bases by Nonaqueous Large-Volume Injection HPLC-MS/MS. Environmental Science & Technology. 47(10). 5226–5234. 506 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schrauben, Joel N., Mauricio Cattaneo, Thomas C. Day, Adam L. Tenderholt, & James M. Mayer. (2012). Multiple-Site Concerted Proton–Electron Transfer Reactions of Hydrogen-Bonded Phenols Are Nonadiabatic and Well Described by Semiclassical Marcus Theory. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134(40). 16635–16645. 80 indexed citations

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