Thomas Speck

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
96 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Thomas Speck is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Chemistry and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Speck has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 46 papers in Materials Chemistry and 42 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Thomas Speck's work include Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (42 papers), Micro and Nano Robotics (37 papers) and Material Dynamics and Properties (25 papers). Thomas Speck is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (42 papers), Micro and Nano Robotics (37 papers) and Material Dynamics and Properties (25 papers). Thomas Speck collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Thomas Speck's co-authors include Hartmut Löwen, Udo Seifert, Clemens Bechinger, Ivo Buttinoni, Felix Kümmel, Valentin Blickle, Andreas M. Menzel, C. Patrick Royall, J. Siebert and Andreas Fischer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Speck

93 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

Dynamical Clustering and Phase Separation in Suspensions ... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 250 500 750
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. Dynamical Clustering and Phase Separation in Suspensions of Self-Propelled Colloidal Particles
    2013 833 citations Ivo Buttinoni, Felix Kümmel et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Speck Germany 33 2.6k 2.4k 1.4k 1.1k 770 96 4.2k
Jean‐François Joanny France 16 2.9k 1.1× 1.2k 0.5× 834 0.6× 1.2k 1.1× 386 0.5× 30 4.1k
Luca Angelani Italy 30 2.1k 0.8× 1.0k 0.4× 1.0k 0.7× 1.1k 1.0× 515 0.7× 73 3.3k
Giorgio Volpe United Kingdom 25 2.5k 1.0× 1.1k 0.4× 944 0.7× 3.3k 3.0× 1.4k 1.8× 51 5.5k
Raphael Wittkowski Germany 24 2.1k 0.8× 1.0k 0.4× 1.2k 0.8× 992 0.9× 168 0.2× 65 2.8k
C. Reichhardt United States 44 5.8k 2.2× 2.0k 0.8× 1.8k 1.3× 1.9k 1.7× 2.9k 3.8× 187 7.8k
Yariv Kafri Israel 28 1.9k 0.7× 1.4k 0.6× 520 0.4× 603 0.5× 691 0.9× 73 3.0k
Aparna Baskaran United States 26 2.8k 1.1× 1.3k 0.5× 1.1k 0.8× 939 0.9× 163 0.2× 61 3.3k
C. J. Olson Reichhardt United States 33 2.2k 0.8× 765 0.3× 832 0.6× 620 0.6× 1.1k 1.5× 116 3.1k
Sabine H. L. Klapp Germany 31 1.2k 0.4× 593 0.2× 1.4k 1.0× 1.2k 1.1× 511 0.7× 161 3.0k
Ken Sekimoto Japan 29 917 0.4× 1.8k 0.7× 666 0.5× 638 0.6× 830 1.1× 97 4.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Speck

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Speck

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fan, Sisi, et al.. (2025). Morphology remodelling and membrane channel formation in synthetic cells via reconfigurable DNA nanorafts. Nature Materials. 24(2). 278–286. 10 indexed citations
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Mazzucchelli, Mattia L., Evangelos Moulas, Boris Kaus, & Thomas Speck. (2024). Fluid-mineral Equilibrium Under Nonhydrostatic Stress: Insight From Molecular Dynamics. American Journal of Science. 324. 4 indexed citations
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Speck, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Collective Hall current in chiral active fluids: Coupling of phase and mass transport through traveling bands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(27). e2320256121–e2320256121. 6 indexed citations
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Speck, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Motility-Induced Clustering of Active Particles under Soft Confinement. Physical Review Letters. 133(4). 48301–48301. 3 indexed citations
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Speck, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Effective dynamics and fluctuations of a trapped probe moving in a fluid of active hard discs (a). Europhysics Letters (EPL). 143(1). 17005–17005. 8 indexed citations
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Blümler, Peter, et al.. (2023). Exploiting compositional disorder in collectives of light-driven circle walkers. Science Advances. 9(15). eadf5443–eadf5443. 19 indexed citations
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Speck, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Toward a structural identification of metastable molecular conformations. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 159(11). 1 indexed citations
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Speck, Thomas, et al.. (2022). Employing Artificial Neural Networks to Identify Reaction Coordinates and Pathways for Self-Assembly. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 126(27). 5007–5016. 9 indexed citations
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Kummer, Florian, et al.. (2021). High-order simulation scheme for active particles driven by stress boundary conditions. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 33(24). 244004–244004. 2 indexed citations
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Speck, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Vorticity Determines the Force on Bodies Immersed in Active Fluids. Physical Review Letters. 126(13). 138002–138002. 12 indexed citations
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Fischer, Andreas, et al.. (2020). From scalar to polar active matter: Connecting simulations with mean-field theory. Physical review. E. 101(2). 22602–22602. 16 indexed citations
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Weber, Jürgen, et al.. (2020). Increase of energy efficiency in vacuum handling systems based on biomimetic principles. 17–26. 4 indexed citations
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Niu, Ran, Thomas Palberg, & Thomas Speck. (2017). Self-Assembly of Colloidal Molecules due to Self-Generated Flow. Physical Review Letters. 119(2). 28001–28001. 67 indexed citations
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Speck, Thomas & Robert L. Jack. (2016). Ideal bulk pressure of active Brownian particles. Physical review. E. 93(6). 62605–62605. 61 indexed citations
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Speck, Thomas, et al.. (2016). Applicability of effective pair potentials for active Brownian particles. The European Physical Journal E. 39(9). 84–84. 36 indexed citations
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Williams, Ian, Erdal C. Oğuz, Thomas Speck, et al.. (2015). Transmission of torque at the nanoscale. Nature Physics. 12(1). 98–103. 26 indexed citations
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Siebert, J., et al.. (2015). Negative Interfacial Tension in Phase-Separated Active Brownian Particles. Physical Review Letters. 115(9). 98301–98301. 139 indexed citations
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Buttinoni, Ivo, et al.. (2013). Dynamical Clustering and Phase Separation in Suspensions of Self-Propelled Colloidal Particles. Physical Review Letters. 110(23). 238301–238301. 833 indexed citations breakdown →
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Seifert, Udo & Thomas Speck. (2009). The Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem for Nonequilibrium Steady States: Role of Stochastic Entropy and a Classification of Variants. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Speck, Thomas, et al.. (2008). Large deviation function for entropy production in driven one-dimensional systems. Physical Review E. 78(1). 11123–11123. 44 indexed citations

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