William Nelson

1.5k total citations
30 papers, 938 citations indexed

About

William Nelson is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, William Nelson has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 938 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 24 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 23 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in William Nelson's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (26 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (23 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (23 papers). William Nelson is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (26 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (23 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (23 papers). William Nelson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. William Nelson's co-authors include Iván Agulló, Abhay Ashtekar, Mairi Sakellariadou, Steven B. Giddings, Cristiano Germani, Adam Henderson, Miguel Campiglia, Anne-Christine Davis, Edward Wilson-Ewing and Martin Bojowald and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physics Letters B and American Journal of Physics.

In The Last Decade

William Nelson

29 papers receiving 906 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Nelson United Kingdom 16 875 805 690 142 20 30 938
Lorenzo Sindoni Germany 14 598 0.7× 642 0.8× 668 1.0× 170 1.2× 22 1.1× 26 816
Steffen Gielen United Kingdom 17 689 0.8× 597 0.7× 665 1.0× 118 0.8× 35 1.8× 49 786
Edward Wilson-Ewing Canada 18 1.2k 1.3× 1.0k 1.3× 1.0k 1.5× 128 0.9× 13 0.7× 38 1.2k
R. V. Maluf Brazil 19 789 0.9× 726 0.9× 660 1.0× 199 1.4× 12 0.6× 51 963
Cenalo Vaz United States 18 744 0.9× 740 0.9× 376 0.5× 240 1.7× 17 0.8× 69 847
O. Obregón Mexico 16 741 0.8× 671 0.8× 642 0.9× 116 0.8× 27 1.4× 50 822
Mercedes Martín-Benito Spain 15 804 0.9× 678 0.8× 785 1.1× 176 1.2× 12 0.6× 38 889
Daniele Pranzetti Canada 20 755 0.9× 622 0.8× 580 0.8× 122 0.9× 36 1.8× 33 826
Hugo A. Morales-Técotl Mexico 15 873 1.0× 732 0.9× 903 1.3× 295 2.1× 17 0.8× 51 1.1k
Madhavan Varadarajan India 15 514 0.6× 402 0.5× 483 0.7× 156 1.1× 18 0.9× 37 583

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Nelson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Nelson

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nelson, William. (2015). Special relativity from the dynamical viewpoint. American Journal of Physics. 83(7). 600–607. 3 indexed citations
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Agulló, Iván, William Nelson, & Abhay Ashtekar. (2015). Preferred instantaneous vacuum for linear scalar fields in cosmological space-times. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 91(6). 46 indexed citations
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Nelson, William, et al.. (2014). Cusps and pseudocusps in strings with Y-junctions. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 90(12). 3 indexed citations
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Agulló, Iván, Abhay Ashtekar, & William Nelson. (2013). The pre-inflationary dynamics of loop quantum cosmology: confronting quantum gravity with observations. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 30(8). 85014–85014. 160 indexed citations
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Agulló, Iván, Abhay Ashtekar, & William Nelson. (2012). Quantum Gravity Extension of the Inflationary Scenario. Physical Review Letters. 109(25). 251301–251301. 144 indexed citations
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Nelson, William & Edward Wilson-Ewing. (2011). Pre-big-bang cosmology and circles in the cosmic microwave background. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 84(4). 7 indexed citations
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Nelson, William, et al.. (2010). Constraining the Noncommutative Spectral Action via Astrophysical Observations. Physical Review Letters. 105(10). 101602–101602. 34 indexed citations
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Nelson, William, et al.. (2010). Gravitational waves in the spectral action of noncommutative geometry. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 82(8). 25 indexed citations
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Nelson, William. (2010). Restricting fourth-order gravity via cosmology. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 82(12). 7 indexed citations
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Nelson, William. (2010). Static solutions for fourth order gravity. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 82(10). 60 indexed citations
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Bojowald, Martin, William Nelson, David J. Mulryne, & Reza Tavakol. (2010). High-density regime of kinetic-dominated loop quantum cosmology. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 82(12). 7 indexed citations
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Nelson, William & Mairi Sakellariadou. (2009). Inflation mechanism in asymptotic noncommutative geometry. Physics Letters B. 680(3). 263–266. 24 indexed citations
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Nelson, William & Mairi Sakellariadou. (2009). Unstable anisotropic loop quantum cosmology. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 80(6). 6 indexed citations
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Nelson, William & Mairi Sakellariadou. (2008). Unique factor ordering in the continuum limit of loop quantum cosmology. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 78(2). 12 indexed citations
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Davis, Anne-Christine, et al.. (2008). Cusps on cosmic superstrings with junctions. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2008(11). 22–22. 16 indexed citations
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Nelson, William & Mairi Sakellariadou. (2008). Numerical techniques for solving the quantum constraint equation of generic lattice-refined models in loop quantum cosmology. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 78(2). 12 indexed citations
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Nelson, William & Mairi Sakellariadou. (2007). Lattice refining loop quantum cosmology and the matter Hamiltonian. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 76(10). 20 indexed citations
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Germani, Cristiano, William Nelson, & Mairi Sakellariadou. (2007). Onset of inflation in loop quantum cosmology. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 76(4). 22 indexed citations
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Nelson, William & Mairi Sakellariadou. (2007). Lattice-refining loop quantum cosmology and inflation. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 76(4). 25 indexed citations
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Giddings, Steven B. & William Nelson. (1992). Quantum emission from two-dimensional black holes. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 46(6). 2486–2496. 86 indexed citations

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