Yair Zarmi

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Yair Zarmi is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yair Zarmi has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 26 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 20 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Yair Zarmi's work include Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (19 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (16 papers) and Nonlinear Photonic Systems (16 papers). Yair Zarmi is often cited by papers focused on Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (19 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (16 papers) and Nonlinear Photonic Systems (16 papers). Yair Zarmi collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Germany. Yair Zarmi's co-authors include Moshe Shachak, E. Meroni, Jost von Hardenberg, Amos Richmond, Haim Harari, Jeffrey M. Gordon, Peter B. Kahn, J. M. Gordon, Hu Qiang and Chengwu Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Yair Zarmi

91 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Diversity of Vegetation Patterns and Desertification

2001 513 citations Jost von Hardenberg, E. Meroni et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yair Zarmi Israel	19	646	529	408	317	271	98	2.1k
B.P. Sommeijer Netherlands	26	216 0.3×	67 0.1×	241 0.6×	158 0.5×	35 0.1×	118	4.1k
Nathan Myhrvold United States	19	351 0.5×	120 0.2×	414 1.0×	19 0.1×	55 0.2×	54	1.6k
Xinhua Peng China	48	168 0.3×	67 0.1×	107 0.3×	342 1.1×	141 0.5×	216	7.7k
Richard McGehee United States	16	203 0.3×	23 0.0×	292 0.7×	597 1.9×	57 0.2×	26	2.1k
Douglas C. Speirs United Kingdom	24	936 1.4×	24 0.0×	480 1.2×	53 0.2×	33 0.1×	63	2.3k
Roderick C. Dewar Australia	36	2.7k 4.2×	44 0.1×	1.2k 3.0×	519 1.6×	11 0.0×	73	4.3k
V. Pérez‐Muñuzuri Spain	30	450 0.7×	91 0.2×	37 0.1×	1.2k 3.8×	10 0.0×	149	3.0k
Zhenzhu Xu China	42	1.6k 2.5×	37 0.1×	521 1.3×	12 0.0×	874 3.2×	234	7.4k
Gregg A. Johnson United States	36	194 0.3×	10 0.0×	208 0.5×	1.1k 3.4×	36 0.1×	121	3.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yair Zarmi

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zarmi, Yair. (2025). Photon statistics and unicellular algae cultivation characteristics under continuous illumination. Biointerphases. 20(1).

Zarmi, Yair. (2024). High-intensity pulsed-light cultivation of unicellular algae: Photosynthesis continues in the dark. Heliyon. 10(5). e27224–e27224. 1 indexed citations

Zarmi, Yair. (2023). On the Relativistic Harmonic Oscillator. Applied Mathematics. 14(1). 1–20.

Zarmi, Yair. (2022). Photon statistics and pulsed-light regime in experiments on unicellular algae. Heliyon. 8(12). e12474–e12474. 1 indexed citations

Zarmi, Yair, Jeffrey M. Gordon, Avinash Khopkar, et al.. (2020). Enhanced Algal Photosynthetic Photon Efficiency by Pulsed Light. iScience. 23(5). 101115–101115. 21 indexed citations

Zarmi, Yair. (2017). Zooming in: From spatially extended traveling waves to localized structures: The case of the Sine-Gordon equation in (1+3) dimensions. PLoS ONE. 12(4). e0175783–e0175783.

Zarmi, Yair. (2016). Spatially Extended Relativistic Particles Out of Traveling Front Solutions of Sine-Gordon Equation in (1+2) Dimensions. PLoS ONE. 11(3). e0148993–e0148993. 1 indexed citations

Zarmi, Yair, et al.. (2012). Synchronization of fluid-dynamics related and physiological time scales and algal biomass production in thin flat-plate bioreactors. Journal of Applied Physics. 111(3). 12 indexed citations

Ashkenazy, Yosef, Nathan Paldor, & Yair Zarmi. (2012). A new approximation for the dynamics of topographic Rossby waves. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 64(1). 18160–18160. 2 indexed citations

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Zarmi, Yair. (2011). Quantized representation of some nonlinear integrable evolution equations on the soliton sector. Physical Review E. 83(5). 56606–56606. 4 indexed citations

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Richmond, Amos, Chengwu Zhang, & Yair Zarmi. (2003). Efficient use of strong light for high photosynthetic productivity: interrelationships between the optical path, the optimal population density and cell-growth inhibition. Biomolecular Engineering. 20(4-6). 229–236. 128 indexed citations

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Hardenberg, Jost von, E. Meroni, Moshe Shachak, & Yair Zarmi. (2001). Diversity of Vegetation Patterns and Desertification. Physical Review Letters. 87(19). 198101–198101. 513 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kahn, Peter B. & Yair Zarmi. (2000). Nonlinear dynamics: A tutorial on the method of normal forms. American Journal of Physics. 68(10). 907–919. 8 indexed citations

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Kahn, Peter B., et al.. (1993). Freedom in small parameter expansion for nonlinear perturbations. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 443(1917). 83–94. 5 indexed citations

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Kahn, Peter B. & Yair Zarmi. (1993). Radius renormalization in limit cycles. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 440(1908). 189–199. 4 indexed citations

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Gordon, J. M. & Yair Zarmi. (1986). Comments on “Variable volume storage and stratified storage for improved water heater performance”. Solar Energy. 37(3). 249–249. 1 indexed citations

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Kudish, A.I., Joseph Gale, & Yair Zarmi. (1982). A low cost design solar desalination unit. Energy Conversion and Management. 22(3). 269–274. 20 indexed citations

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Hazak, G., Yair Zarmi, & Z. Zinamon. (1981). Electron momentum distribution, velocity space instability, and angular momentum in relativistic large aspect ratio diodes. Journal of Applied Physics. 52(6). 3753–3760. 1 indexed citations

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Eilam, G. & Yair Zarmi. (1977). Parton tubes and large-p T production off nuclei. Lettere al nuovo cimento della societa italiana di fisica/Lettere al nuovo cimento. 20(13). 479–484. 3 indexed citations

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Чайчиан, Масуд, et al.. (1974). Regge-muellervs. parton model analysis of deep inelastic reactions. Nuovo cimento della Società italiana di fisica. A, Nuclei, particles and fields. 20(2). 233–259. 1 indexed citations

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