Michael Scott Smith

6.2k citations

165 papers · 2.5k · 2 hit papers · h-index 25

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 1%
- Nuclear physics research studies
- Astronomical and nuclear sciences
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
Radiation top 0.5%
- Nuclear Physics and Applications

Papers in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics 107
- Nuclear physics research studies 99
- Astronomical and nuclear sciences 23
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions 13
Radiation 81
- Nuclear Physics and Applications 75
- X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis 14

Co-authors: J. C. Blackmon (57 shared papers)D. W. Bardayan (58 shared papers)Raymond L. Kozub (56 shared papers)Peter D. Parker (21 shared papers)A. E. Champagne (21 shared papers)P.V. Magnus (12 shared papers)Shi-Sheng Zhang (6 shared papers)Steven D. Pain (35 shared papers)
Journals: Physical Review C (45 papers)Nuclear Physics A (21 papers)Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment (10 papers)The European Physical Journal A (8 papers)Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms (8 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom South Korea

In The Last Decade

Michael Scott Smith

158 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Michael Scott Smith's Hit Papers

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Colloquium : Machine learning in nuclear physics 2022 · 169 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.

2022 Reviews of Modern Physics
2017 Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics

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1	Thermal ion imagers and Langmuir probes in the Swarm electric field instruments Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics ·David J. Knudsen, J. K. Burchill, Stephan Christoph Buchert, A. I. Eriksson, Reine Gill, Jan‐Erik Wahlund, L. Åhlén, Michael Scott Smith, Brian Moffat Hit paper breakdown →	2017	226
2	Colloquium : Machine learning in nuclear physics Reviews of Modern Physics ·A. Boehnlein, M. Diefenthaler, Nobuo Sato, Malachi Schram, V. Ziegler, C. Fanelli, Morten Hjorth-Jensen, T. Horn, Michelle Kuchera, D. John Lee, Witold Nazarewicz, Peter N. Ostroumov, Kostas Orginos, Alan W. P. Poon, Xin-Nian Wang, Alexander Scheinker, Michael Scott Smith, Long-Gang Pang Hit paper breakdown →	2022	169
3	Observation of the Astrophysically Important 3+ State in N18e via Elastic Scattering of a Radioactive F17 Beam from H1 Physical Review Letters ·D. W. Bardayan, J. C. Blackmon, C. R. Brune, A. E. Champagne, A. A. Chen, J. M. Cox, Thomas Davinson, V.Y. Hansper, M.A. Hofstee, Bo A. Johnson, Raymond L. Kozub, Z. Ma, Peter D. Parker, David E. Pierce, M. T. Rabban, Alan C. Shotter, Michael Scott Smith, Kenneth B. Swartz, Dale W. Visser, P. J. Woods	1999	86
4	First Direct Measurement of the F17(p,γ)Ne18 Cross Section Physical Review Letters ·K.A. Chipps, D. W. Bardayan, J. C. Blackmon, Kyungyuk Y. Chae, U. Greife, R. Hatarik, Raymond L. Kozub, Catalin Matei, B. H. Moazen, Caroline D. Nesaraja, Steven D. Pain, William A. Peters, S. T. Pittman, J. F. Shriner, Michael Scott Smith	2009	82
5	Destruction of 18F via 18F(p,α)15O burning through the Ec.m.=665 keV resonance Physical Review C ·D. W. Bardayan, J. C. Blackmon, W. Bradfield-Smith, C. R. Brune, A. E. Champagne, Thomas Davinson, Bo A. Johnson, Raymond L. Kozub, C. S. Lee, Rachel Lewis, Peter D. Parker, Alan C. Shotter, Michael Scott Smith, Dale W. Visser, P. J. Woods	2001	70
6	N UCLEAR A STROPHYSICS M EASUREMENTS WITH R ADIOACTIVE B EAMS Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science ·Michael Scott Smith, K. E. Rehm	2001	50
7	Strength of the F18(p,α)O15 Resonance at Ec.m.=330 keV Physical Review Letters ·D. W. Bardayan, J. C. Batchelder, J. C. Blackmon, A. E. Champagne, Thomas Davinson, Ryan Fitzgerald, W. Raphael Hix, C. Iliadis, Raymond L. Kozub, Z. Ma, Suzanne T. Parete-Koon, Peter D. Parker, Nengchuan Shu, Michael Scott Smith, P. J. Woods	2002	49
8	The astrophysically important 3+ state in 18Ne and the 17F(p,γ)18Ne stellar rate Physical Review C ·D. W. Bardayan, J. C. Blackmon, C. R. Brune, A. E. Champagne, A. A. Chen, J. M. Cox, Thomas Davinson, V.Y. Hansper, M.A. Hofstee, Bo A. Johnson, Raymond L. Kozub, Z. Ma, Peter D. Parker, David E. Pierce, M. T. Rabban, Alan C. Shotter, Michael Scott Smith, Kenneth B. Swartz, Dale W. Visser, P. J. Woods	2000	43
9	Measurement of 15O(α,γ)19Ne resonance strengths Nuclear Physics A ·P.V. Magnus, Michael Scott Smith, Amanda A. Howard, Peter D. Parker, A. E. Champagne	1990	42
10	Breakout from the hot CNO cycle: The 18F(p,γ) vs 18F(p,α) branching ratio Physical Review C ·Senol Utku, J. G. Ross, Nick Bateman, D. W. Bardayan, A. A. Chen, J. Görres, Amanda A. Howard, C. Iliadis, Peter D. Parker, Michael Scott Smith, R. B. Vogelaar, M. Wiescher, Kemal Yıldız	1998	42
11	Measurement of the O 17 ( p , α ) N 14 Cross Section at Stellar Energies Physical Review Letters ·J. C. Blackmon, Arthur E. Champagne, M.A. Hofstee, Michael Scott Smith, Robert G. Downing, George P. Lamaze	1995	40
12	Study of the deformed halo nucleus 31Ne with Glauber model based on microscopic self-consistent structures Science China Physics Mechanics and Astronomy ·(unknown), Shi-Sheng Zhang, Xiang-Xiang Sun, Michael Scott Smith	2022	39
13	Development of a high solid-angle silicon detector array for measurement of transfer reactions in inverse kinematics Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms ·Steven D. Pain, Jolie A. Cizewski, R. Hatarik, K. Jones, J. S. Thomas, D. W. Bardayan, J. C. Blackmon, Caroline D. Nesaraja, Michael Scott Smith, Raymond L. Kozub, M. S. Johnson	2007	38
14	The Jet Experiments in Nuclear Structure and Astrophysics (JENSA) gas jet target Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment ·K.A. Chipps, U. Greife, D. W. Bardayan, J. C. Blackmon, Antonios Kontos, L. E. Linhardt, Milan Matos, Steven D. Pain, S. T. Pittman, A. Sachs, Hendrik Schatz, Kyle T. Schmitt, Michael Scott Smith, P. Thompson	2014	35
15	Resonance neutron capture and transmission measurements and the stellar neutron capture cross sections of Ba134 and Ba136 Physical Review C ·P. Koehler, Robert R. Spencer, Ronald R. Winters, Klaus H. Guber, J. A. Harvey, N.W. Hill, Michael Scott Smith	1996	33
16	Microscopic self-consistent study of neon halos with resonant contributions Physics Letters B ·Shi-Sheng Zhang, Michael Scott Smith, Zhong-Shu Kang, Jie Zhao	2014	33
17	First study of the level structure of ther-process nucleus Ge83 Physical Review C ·J. S. Thomas, D. W. Bardayan, J. C. Blackmon, Jolie A. Cizewski, U. Greife, C. J. Gross, M. S. Johnson, K. Jones, Raymond L. Kozub, J. F. Liang, R. J. Livesay, Z. Ma, B. H. Moazen, Caroline D. Nesaraja, Dan D. Y. Shapira, Michael Scott Smith	2005	32
18	A.I. for nuclear physics The European Physical Journal A ·Paulo F. Bedaque, A. Boehnlein, M. Cromaz, M. Diefenthaler, L. Elouadrhiri, T. Horn, Michelle Kuchera, David Lawrence, D. John Lee, Steven M. Lidia, Robert D. McKeown, W. Melnitchouk, Witold Nazarewicz, Kostas Orginos, Y. Roblin, Michael Scott Smith, Malachi Schram, Xin-Nian Wang	2021	32
19	Measurement of Li7 (n, γ0 )8 Li cross sections at En =1.5–1340 eV Physical Review C ·J. C. Blackmon, A. E. Champagne, J. Kirk Dickens, J. A. Harvey, M.A. Hofstee, S. Kopecky, D. C. Larson, D. C. Powell, Sanjay Raman, Michael Scott Smith	1996	32
20	Comparison of Five Numerical Codes for Automated Tracing of Coronal Loops Solar Physics ·M. J. Aschwanden, Jong Kwan Lee, G. Allen Gary, Michael Scott Smith, B. Inhester	2007	31

About Michael Scott Smith

Michael Scott Smith is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Radiation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Aerospace Engineering, having authored 165 papers that have together received 2.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Nuclear physics research studies (99 papers), Nuclear Physics and Applications (75 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (29 papers), Astronomical and nuclear sciences (23 papers), Nuclear reactor physics and engineering (21 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (14 papers), X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis (14 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (1.6k citations), Radiation (747 citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (652 citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (582 citations) and Aerospace Engineering (452 citations). Michael Scott Smith has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and South Korea. Frequent co-authors include J. C. Blackmon, D. W. Bardayan, Raymond L. Kozub, Peter D. Parker, A. E. Champagne, P.V. Magnus, Shi-Sheng Zhang, Steven D. Pain, Amanda A. Howard and Caroline D. Nesaraja. Their work appears in journals such as Physical Review C, Nuclear Physics A, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, The European Physical Journal A and Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms.

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