William G. Hoover

39.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
183 papers, 31.2k citations indexed

About

William G. Hoover is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, William G. Hoover has authored 183 papers receiving a total of 31.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 56 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 53 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in William G. Hoover's work include Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (63 papers), Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics (50 papers) and Material Dynamics and Properties (37 papers). William G. Hoover is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (63 papers), Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics (50 papers) and Material Dynamics and Properties (37 papers). William G. Hoover collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and Japan. William G. Hoover's co-authors include Francis H. Ree, Bill Moran, Harald A. Posch, Anthony J. C. Ladd, W. T. Ashurst, Brad Lee Holian, David A. Young, B. J. Alder, Keith Johnson and Denis J. Evans and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

William G. Hoover

180 papers receiving 30.3k 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.

Canonical dynamics: Equilibrium phase-space distributions

1985 18.9k citations William G. Hoover Physical review. A, General physics profile →
Melting Transition and Communal Entropy for Hard Spheres

1968 1.2k citations William G. Hoover et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
Constant-pressure equations of motion

1986 810 citations William G. Hoover Physical review. A, General physics profile →
High-Strain-Rate Plastic Flow Studied via Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics

1982 511 citations William G. Hoover et al. profile →
Studies in Molecular Dynamics. V. High-Density Equation of State and Entropy for Hard Disks and Spheres

1968 424 citations William G. Hoover et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William G. Hoover United States	53	14.4k	7.3k	7.0k	5.3k	4.1k	183	31.2k
Hans Christian Andersen United States	56	16.3k 1.1×	8.2k 1.1×	8.2k 1.2×	4.5k 0.9×	2.7k 0.7×	213	30.6k
Frank H. Stillinger United States	90	22.7k 1.6×	8.4k 1.2×	12.6k 1.8×	2.8k 0.5×	3.3k 0.8×	400	40.3k
Shūichi Nosé Japan	19	12.9k 0.9×	4.2k 0.6×	6.8k 1.0×	5.8k 1.1×	1.2k 0.3×	42	28.7k
Daan Frenkel Netherlands	101	27.3k 1.9×	13.7k 1.9×	9.0k 1.3×	7.2k 1.4×	4.3k 1.0×	505	48.9k
Pablo G. Debenedetti United States	83	15.7k 1.1×	10.2k 1.4×	6.1k 0.9×	2.4k 0.5×	1.8k 0.4×	314	27.0k
Thomas A. Witten United States	49	11.5k 0.8×	7.7k 1.1×	4.1k 0.6×	2.5k 0.5×	1.6k 0.4×	157	32.5k
P. M. Chaikin United States	77	13.6k 0.9×	5.1k 0.7×	5.9k 0.8×	1.9k 0.4×	1.6k 0.4×	310	26.7k
Douglas Henderson United States	65	12.3k 0.9×	14.3k 2.0×	6.8k 1.0×	1.6k 0.3×	3.9k 1.0×	473	27.4k
David Chandler United States	100	14.4k 1.0×	12.5k 1.7×	19.8k 2.8×	8.8k 1.7×	5.5k 1.3×	268	44.9k
Stuart A. Rice United States	69	8.1k 0.6×	3.4k 0.5×	11.6k 1.7×	1.5k 0.3×	3.2k 0.8×	462	26.4k

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Hoover, William G., et al.. (2025). Chaos in nonequilibrium two-temperature ( T x , T y ) Nosé–Hoover cell models. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 163(23).

Hoover, William G.. (2022). Nonequilibrium Time Reversibility with Maps and Walks. MDPI (MDPI AG). 2 indexed citations

Hoover, William G. & Carol G. Hoover. (2020). From hard spheres and cubes to nonequilibrium maps with thirty-some years of thermostatted molecular dynamics. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 153(7). 70901–70901. 6 indexed citations

Hoover, William G. & Carol G. Hoover. (2015). Simulation and Control of Chaotic Nonequilibrium Systems: With a Foreword by Julien Clinton Sprott. 1 indexed citations

Waldner, F., William G. Hoover, & Carol G. Hoover. (2014). The brief time-reversibility of the local Lyapunov exponents for a small chaotic Hamiltonian system. Chaos Solitons & Fractals. 60. 68–76. 1 indexed citations

Sprott, J. C., William G. Hoover, & Carol G. Hoover. (2014). Heat conduction, and the lack thereof, in time-reversible dynamical systems: Generalized Nosé-Hoover oscillators with a temperature gradient. Physical Review E. 89(4). 42914–42914. 47 indexed citations

Hoover, William G. & Carol G. Hoover. (2012). Time Reversibility, Computer Simulation, Algorithms, Chaos. 34 indexed citations

Hoover, William G.. (1999). Time Reversibility, Computer Simulation, and Chaos. 75 indexed citations

Posch, Harald A. & William G. Hoover. (1997). Simulation of two-dimensional Kolmogorov flow with smooth particle applied mechanics. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 240(1-2). 286–296. 12 indexed citations

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Hoover, William G. & Oyeon Kum. (1995). Non-equilibrium simulations. Molecular Physics. 86(4). 685–695. 9 indexed citations

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Hoover, William G. & Christian G. Hoover. (1993). Smoothed-particle hydrodynamics and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 1 indexed citations

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Hoover, William G., Brad Lee Holian, & Harald A. Posch. (1993). Comment I on ‘‘Possible experiment to check the reality of a nonequilibrium temperature’’. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 48(4). 3196–3198. 27 indexed citations

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Hoover, William G.. (1991). Computational Statistical Mechanics. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 444 indexed citations

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Hoover, William G., Christian G. Hoover, I. F. Stowers, & W. J. Siekhaus. (1988). Interface Tribology Via Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics. MRS Proceedings. 140. 26 indexed citations

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Ciccotti, Giovanni, William G. Hoover, & Società italiana di fisica. (1986). Molecular-dynamics simulation of statistical-mechanical systems : Varenna on Lake Como, Villa Monastero, 23 July-2 August 1985. North-Holland eBooks. 16 indexed citations

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Evans, D.J. & William G. Hoover. (1986). Flows Far From Equilibrium Via Molecular Dynamics. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 18(1). 243–264. 108 indexed citations

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Blink, James A. & William G. Hoover. (1985). Fragmentation of suddenly heated liquids. Physical review. A, General physics. 32(2). 1027–1035. 43 indexed citations

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Hoover, William G., et al.. (1979). Exact hard-disk free volumes. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 70(4). 1837–1844. 69 indexed citations

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Moss, William C. & William G. Hoover. (1978). Edge-dislocation displacements in an elastic strip. Journal of Applied Physics. 49(11). 5449–5451. 27 indexed citations

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Hoover, William G., Marvin Ross, Keith Johnson, et al.. (1970). Soft-Sphere Equation of State. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 52(10). 4931–4941. 302 indexed citations

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