A. Gilbert Smith

12.8k citations

390 papers · 9.9k · 3 hit papers · h-index 46

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 5%
- Nuclear physics research studies
- Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
- Astronomical and nuclear sciences
- Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
- Neutrino Physics Research
Radiation top 0.2%
- Nuclear Physics and Applications

Papers in

Radiation 190
- Nuclear Physics and Applications 175
- Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies 49
Nuclear and High Energy Physics 227
- Nuclear physics research studies 192
- Astronomical and nuclear sciences 62

Co-authors: Waldemar Urban (85 shared papers)Irshad Ahmad (78 shared papers)J. C. Briden (3 shared papers)T. Rząca-Urban (60 shared papers)B. J. Varley (48 shared papers)W. R. Phillips (39 shared papers)N. Schulz (39 shared papers)SHARAT D. GANGOLLI (1 shared paper)
Journals: Physical Review C (78 papers)The European Physical Journal A (34 papers)Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment (20 papers)Physical Review Letters (14 papers)Nuclear Physics A (13 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom France United States

In The Last Decade

A. Gilbert Smith

377 papers receiving 9.5k citations

A. Gilbert Smith's Hit Papers

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The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory 2015 · 561 citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2015 Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment
2008 Physical Review Letters
2007 Science

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1	The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment ·Aab, A.; Abreu, P.; Aglietta, M. Ahn, E. J.; Al Samarai, I.; Albert, I. F. M. Albuquerque, I. F. M.; Allekotte Hit paper breakdown →	2015	561
2	Correlation of the Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays with Nearby Extragalactic Objects Science ·J. Abraham, Pedro T. Abreu, M. Aglietta, Carlos Aguirre, D. Allard, I. Allekotte, J. Allen, P. Allison Hit paper breakdown →	2007	452
3	Observation of the Suppression of the Flux of Cosmic Rays above 4 × 10 19 eV Physical Review Letters ·J. Abraham, Pedro T. Abreu, M. Aglietta, Carlos Aguirre, D. Allard, I. Allekotte, J. Allen, P. Allison Hit paper breakdown →	2008	420
4	Phanerozoic Paleocontinental World Maps Medical Entomology and Zoology ·A. Gilbert Smith, A. M. Hurley, J. C. Briden	1981	383
5	Cancer-related fatigue: Inevitable, unimportant and untreatable? Results of a multi-centre patient survey Annals of Oncology ·Patrick Charles Stone, Alison M. Richardson, Emma Ream, A. Gilbert Smith, D J Kerr, Nora Kearney	2000	377
6	The significance of HLA-DRB1 matching on clinical outcome after HLA-A, B, DR identical unrelated donor marrow transplantation Blood ·EW Petersdorf, GM Longton, Claudio Anasetti, PJ Martin, EM Mickelson, A. Gilbert Smith, JA Hansen	1995	244
7	Correlation of the highest-energy cosmic rays with the positions of nearby active galactic nuclei Astroparticle Physics ·J. Abraham, Pedro T. Abreu, M. Aglietta, Carlos Aguirre, D. Allard, I. Allekotte, Jeff Allen, P. Allison	2008	224
8	The fluorescence detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment ·J. Abraham, Pedro T. Abreu, M. Aglietta, Carlos Aguirre, E. J. Ahn, D. Allard, I. Allekotte, Jeff Allen	2010	219
9	Organochlorine chemicals in seafood: occurrence and health concerns Food and Chemical Toxicology ·A. Gilbert Smith, SHARAT D. GANGOLLI	2002	214
10	Quantitative determination of bone marrow transplant engraftment using fluorescent polymerase chain reaction primers for human identity markers Blood ·SJ Scharf, A. Gilbert Smith, JA Hansen, Chris McFarland, H.A. Erlich	1995	162
11	Leukemia inhibitory factor differentiation-inhibiting activity/human interleukin for DA cells augments proliferation of human hematopoietic stem cells Blood ·AG Leary, GG Wong, SC Clark, A. Gilbert Smith, Makio Ogawa	1990	128
12	Upper limit on the cosmic-ray photon flux above 1019eV using the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory Astroparticle Physics ·J. Abraham, Pedro T. Abreu, M. Aglietta, Carlos Aguirre, D. Allard, I. Allekotte, J. Allen, P. Allison	2008	126
13	Force on a static charge outside a Schwarzschild black hole Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·A. Gilbert Smith, Clifford M. Will	1980	110
14	The role of HLA-DPB1 disparity in the development of acute graft-versus- host disease following unrelated donor marrow transplantation Blood ·EW Petersdorf, A. Gilbert Smith, EM Mickelson, GM Longton, Claudio Anasetti, SY Choo, PJ Martin, JA Hansen	1993	110
15	Medium-spin structure of 96,97Sr and 98,99Zr nuclei and the onset of deformation in the region Nuclear Physics A ·Waldemar Urban, J. L. Durell, A. Gilbert Smith, W. R. Phillips, M.A. Jones, B. J. Varley, T. Rząca-Urban, Irshad Ahmad	2001	106
16	Upper Limit on the Diffuse Flux of Ultrahigh Energy Tau Neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory Physical Review Letters ·J. Abraham, Pedro T. Abreu, M. Aglietta, Carlos Aguirre, D. Allard, I. Allekotte, Jeff Allen, P. Allison	2008	99
17	Coupling a CLOVER detector array with the PRISMA magnetic spectrometer The European Physical Journal A ·Andrés Gadea, Daniel Ricardo Napoli, Giacomo de Angelis, Roberto Menegazzo, Alberto M. Stefanini, Lorenzo Corradi, Michael Axiotis, Lisa Berti	2003	97
18	Octupole correlations in neutron-rich, even-even barium isotopes Nuclear Physics A ·Waldemar Urban, M.A. Jones, John Durell, M. J. Leddy, W. R. Phillips, A. Gilbert Smith, B. J. Varley, Irshad Ahmad	1997	91
19	Be7(n,α)He4 Reaction and the Cosmological Lithium Problem: Measurement of the Cross Section in a Wide Energy Range at n_TOF at CERN Physical Review Letters ·M. Barbagallo, A. Musumarra, Luigi Cosentino, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, S. Heinitz, A. Mengoni, R. Dressler, Dorothea Schumann	2016	90
20	Temporal Lobe (TL) Damage Following Surgery and High-Dose Photon and Proton Irradiation in 96 Patients Affected by Chordomas and Chondrosarcomas of the Base of the Skull International Journal of Radiation OncologyBiologyPhysics ·Riccardo Santoni, Norbert J. Liebsch, Dianne M. Finkelstein, E.B. Hug, Patrick E. J. Hanssens, Michael Goitein, A. Gilbert Smith, Desmond O’Farrell	1998	89

About A. Gilbert Smith

A. Gilbert Smith is a scholar working on Radiation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Aerospace Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Geophysics, having authored 390 papers that have together received 9.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Nuclear physics research studies (192 papers), Nuclear Physics and Applications (175 papers), Nuclear reactor physics and engineering (81 papers), Astronomical and nuclear sciences (62 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (52 papers), Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies (49 papers), Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry (24 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (24 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (5.7k citations), Radiation (2.1k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (1.3k citations), Geophysics (864 citations) and Hematology (581 citations). A. Gilbert Smith has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and United States. Frequent co-authors include Waldemar Urban, Irshad Ahmad, J. C. Briden, T. Rząca-Urban, B. J. Varley, W. R. Phillips, N. Schulz, SHARAT D. GANGOLLI, J. L. Durell and JA Hansen. Their work appears in journals such as Physical Review C, The European Physical Journal A, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, Physical Review Letters and Nuclear Physics A.

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