Wayne Pfeiffer

15.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
38 papers, 12.2k citations indexed

About

Wayne Pfeiffer is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Molecular Biology and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Wayne Pfeiffer has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 12.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 10 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Wayne Pfeiffer's work include Magnetic confinement fusion research (11 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers) and Advanced Data Storage Technologies (8 papers). Wayne Pfeiffer is often cited by papers focused on Magnetic confinement fusion research (11 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers) and Advanced Data Storage Technologies (8 papers). Wayne Pfeiffer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Switzerland. Wayne Pfeiffer's co-authors include Mark A. Miller, Terri Schwartz, H. St. John, R.D. Stambaugh, L. L. Lao, A.G. Kellman, R. E. Waltz, R. R. Dominguez, Alexandros Stamatakis and R. E. Stockdale and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioinformatics, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Wayne Pfeiffer

36 papers receiving 11.9k citations

Hit Papers

Creating the CIPRES Science Gatew... 1985 2026 1998 2012 2010 1985 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k
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. Creating the CIPRES Science Gateway for inference of large phylogenetic trees
    2010 9.3k citations Mark A. Miller, Wayne Pfeiffer et al. profile →
  2. Reconstruction of current profile parameters and plasma shapes in tokamaks
    1985 1.4k citations L. L. Lao, H. St. John et al. Nuclear Fusion profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wayne Pfeiffer United States 17 4.0k 3.5k 3.0k 2.5k 2.0k 38 12.2k
Martin Heil Germany 62 6.1k 1.5× 1.9k 0.5× 8.7k 2.9× 929 0.4× 2.6k 1.3× 168 13.1k
Frank van den Bosch United Kingdom 46 1.5k 0.4× 579 0.2× 5.1k 1.7× 973 0.4× 1.2k 0.6× 228 8.5k
Rudolf Meier Singapore 52 5.7k 1.4× 3.8k 1.1× 1.8k 0.6× 4.7k 1.9× 4.0k 2.0× 221 14.2k
Daniel S. Rokhsar United States 64 1.1k 0.3× 10.6k 3.0× 6.6k 2.2× 2.4k 1.0× 2.3k 1.2× 160 22.3k
J. H. Degnan United States 23 1.2k 0.3× 2.8k 0.8× 848 0.3× 509 0.2× 2.9k 1.5× 130 5.3k
D. L. Crawford United States 48 669 0.2× 2.3k 0.7× 2.2k 0.7× 1.8k 0.7× 1.7k 0.9× 239 9.4k
Gareth Jones United Kingdom 79 14.2k 3.5× 1.6k 0.5× 672 0.2× 12.1k 4.8× 2.1k 1.1× 462 22.2k
John McKay United States 46 3.2k 0.8× 2.4k 0.7× 3.6k 1.2× 2.4k 0.9× 3.9k 2.0× 177 11.4k
Van M. Savage United States 45 4.2k 1.0× 1.1k 0.3× 876 0.3× 9.7k 3.8× 2.9k 1.5× 92 17.9k
Shane McCarthy United Kingdom 19 609 0.2× 4.5k 1.3× 1.9k 0.6× 1.0k 0.4× 2.9k 1.5× 52 9.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Wayne Pfeiffer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wayne Pfeiffer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wayne Pfeiffer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wayne Pfeiffer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wayne Pfeiffer 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 Wayne Pfeiffer. Wayne Pfeiffer 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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Pfeiffer, Wayne, et al.. (2021). RAxML Grove: an empirical phylogenetic tree database. Bioinformatics. 38(6). 1741–1742. 17 indexed citations
2.
Han, Zhen, Peter Thuy-Boun, Wayne Pfeiffer, et al.. (2021). Identification of an N-acetylneuraminic acid-presenting bacteria isolated from a human microbiome. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 4763–4763. 21 indexed citations
3.
Witte, Carmel, James H. Fowler, Wayne Pfeiffer, et al.. (2021). Social network analysis and whole-genome sequencing to evaluate disease transmission in a large, dynamic population: A study of avian mycobacteriosis in zoo birds. PLoS ONE. 16(6). e0252152–e0252152. 3 indexed citations
4.
Han, Zhen, Peter Thuy-Boun, Wayne Pfeiffer, et al.. (2020). Identification of an N-Acetylneuraminic Acid-Presenting Bacteria Isolated from a Healthy Human Microbiome. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
5.
Pfeiffer, Wayne, Joséphine Braun, Jennifer Burchell, Carmel Witte, & Bruce A. Rideout. (2017). Whole-genome analysis of mycobacteria from birds at the San Diego Zoo. PLoS ONE. 12(3). e0173464–e0173464. 14 indexed citations
6.
Lockwood, Glenn K., Wayne Pfeiffer, Mahidhar Tatineni, et al.. (2015). Group-based variant calling leveraging next-generation supercomputing for large-scale whole-genome sequencing studies. BMC Bioinformatics. 16(1). 304–304. 10 indexed citations
7.
Holstege, Henne, Wayne Pfeiffer, Daoud Sie, et al.. (2014). Somatic mutations found in the healthy blood compartment of a 115-yr-old woman demonstrate oligoclonal hematopoiesis. Genome Research. 24(5). 733–742. 97 indexed citations
8.
Miller, Mark A., Wayne Pfeiffer, & Terri Schwartz. (2012). The CIPRES science gateway. 1–8. 237 indexed citations
9.
Moore, Richard, David Hart, Wayne Pfeiffer, et al.. (2011). Trestles. 1–7. 11 indexed citations
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Miller, Mark A., Wayne Pfeiffer, & Terri Schwartz. (2011). The CIPRES science gateway. 1–8. 365 indexed citations
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Messina, Paul, et al.. (1998). Architecture. Communications of the ACM. 41(11). 36–44. 12 indexed citations
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Houlberg, W. A., D. W. Ross, G. Bateman, et al.. (1990). Modeling transport in toroidal plasmas: Status and issues. Physics of Fluids B Plasma Physics. 2(12). 2913–2925. 14 indexed citations
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Lao, L. L., H. St. John, R.D. Stambaugh, & Wayne Pfeiffer. (1985). Separation of βpand ℓiin tokamaks of non-circular cross-section. Nuclear Fusion. 25(10). 1421–1436. 186 indexed citations
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Lao, L. L., H. St. John, R.D. Stambaugh, A.G. Kellman, & Wayne Pfeiffer. (1985). Reconstruction of current profile parameters and plasma shapes in tokamaks. Nuclear Fusion. 25(11). 1611–1622. 1392 indexed citations breakdown →
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Waltz, R. E., Wayne Pfeiffer, & R. R. Dominguez. (1980). Electrostatic drift waves in tokamaks: a numerical study of instability and transport. Nuclear Fusion. 20(1). 43–57. 57 indexed citations
16.
Pfeiffer, Wayne. (1979). A graphical method for finding complex roots and its application to plasma physics problems. Journal of Computational Physics. 33(3). 397–404. 3 indexed citations
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Pfeiffer, Wayne & R. E. Waltz. (1979). Empirical scaling laws for energy confinement in Ohmically-heated tokamaks. Nuclear Fusion. 19(1). 51–67. 66 indexed citations
18.
Pfeiffer, Wayne. (1975). Computer simulation of pulsed-neutron experiments performed on the Fort St. Vrain high-temperature gas-cooled reactor. Nuclear Technology. 27(3). 337–351. 1 indexed citations
19.
Pfeiffer, Wayne, et al.. (1975). Analysis and results of pulsed-neutron experiments performed on the Fort St. Vrain high-temperature gas-cooled reactor. Nuclear Technology. 27(3). 352–375. 1 indexed citations
20.
Pfeiffer, Wayne. (1969). Reflection and Transmission Functions in Reactor Physics. Nuclear Science and Engineering. 38(3). 253–264. 2 indexed citations

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