Opher Ganel

10.6k citations

239 papers · 7.8k · 1 hit paper · h-index 48

Impact in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 2%
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
- High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
- Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
- Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
- Particle Detector Development and Performance
- Neutrino Physics Research
Astronomy and Astrophysics top 5%
- Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

Papers in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics 226
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies 153
- High-Energy Particle Collisions Research 121
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions 111
- Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena 90
- Particle Detector Development and Performance 56
- Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena 40
- Neutrino Physics Research 25
Radiation 17
- Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies 13

Co-authors: E. S. Seo (17 shared papers)Viktor I. Zatsepin (3 shared papers)T Gregory Guzik (4 shared papers)Alexander D Panov (2 shared papers)J. W. Watts (2 shared papers)N. V. Sokolskaya (2 shared papers)M. J. Christl (5 shared papers)Wolfram Schmidt (4 shared papers)
Journals: Physics Letters B (54 papers)Physical Review Letters (40 papers)The European Physical Journal C (20 papers)Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment (20 papers)Advances in Space Research (13 papers)
Partner nations: United States Italy Germany

In The Last Decade

Opher Ganel

232 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Opher Ganel's Hit Papers

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An excess of cosmic ray electrons at energies of 300–800 GeV 2008 · 701 citations

What are hit papers?

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.

2008 Nature

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1	An excess of cosmic ray electrons at energies of 300–800 GeV Nature ·Jin Chang, J. H. Adams, H. S. Ahn, G. L. Bashindzhagyan, M. J. Christl, Opher Ganel, T Gregory Guzik, J. Isbert Hit paper breakdown →	2008	701
2	J/ψ and ψ(2S) Production in pp¯ Collisions at √s=1.8TeV Physical Review Letters ·Fumio Abe, H. Akimoto, A. Akopian, Michael G. Albrow, Salvator Roberto Amendolia, Dante Amidei, J. Antoš, S. Aota	1997	237
3	Observation of the B c Meson in p p ¯ Collisions at √ s = 1.8 TeV Physical Review Letters ·Fumio Abe, H. Akimoto, A. Akopian, M. G. Albrow, Alexis Amadon, Salvator Roberto Amendolia, Dante Amidei, J. Antoš	1998	233
4	Double parton scattering in p¯p collisions at s=1.8TeV Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·Fumio Abe, H. Akimoto, A. Akopian, Michael G. Albrow, Salvator Roberto Amendolia, Dante Amidei, J. Antoš, S. Aota	1997	207
5	Production of J/ψ Mesons from χc Meson Decays in pp¯ Collisions at √s=1.8TeV Physical Review Letters ·Fumio Abe, H. Akimoto, A. Akopian, Michael G. Albrow, Salvator Roberto Amendolia, D. Amidei, J. Antoš, S. Aota	1997	199
6	Measurement of the Z0 mass and width with the opal detector at LEP Physics Letters B ·M.Z. Akrawy, G. Alexander, John E. Allison, Philip Allport, Kathy Anderson, J.C. Armitage, G.T.J. Arnison, Peter Shaw ASHTON	1989	186
7	Observation of B c mesons in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.8 TeV Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·Fumio Abe, H. Akimoto, A. Akopian, Michael G. Albrow, Alexis Amadon, Salvator Roberto Amendolia, D. Amidei, J. Antoš	1998	186
8	Energy spectra of abundant nuclei of primary cosmic rays from the data of ATIC-2 experiment: Final results Civil War Book Review ·Alexander D Panov, H. S. Ahn, G. L. Bashinzhagyan, J. W. Watts, John P. Wefel, Jeong Weon Wu, Opher Ganel, T Gregory Guzik	2009	156
9	A measurement of global event shape distributions in the hadronic decays of theZ 0 The European Physical Journal C ·M.Z. Akrawy, G. Alexander, John E. Allison, Philip Allport, Kathy Anderson, J.C. Armitage, G.T.J. Arnison, Peter Shaw ASHTON	1990	142
10	J/ψ and ψ(2s) Production pp collisions at √ s = 1.8TeV Physical Review Letters ·Fumio Abe, H. Akimoto, A. Akopian, Michael G. Albrow, Salvator Roberto Amendolia, D. Amidei, J. Antoš, Shoma Aota	1997	135
11	Measurements of cosmic-ray secondary nuclei at high energies with the first flight of the CREAM balloon-borne experiment Astroparticle Physics ·H. S. Ahn, P. Allison, Maria Grazia Bagliesi, James Beatty, Gabriele Bigongiari, P. J. Boyle, T. J. Brandt, J. T. Childers	2008	123
12	Search for New Gauge Bosons Decaying into Dileptons in p¯p Collisions at s}=1.8TeV Physical Review Letters ·F. Abe, H. Akimoto, A. Akopian, Michael G. Albrow, Salvator Roberto Amendolia, Dante Amidei, J. Antoš, S. Aota	1997	122
13	Search for new particles decaying to dijets at CDF Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·F. Abe, H. Akimoto, A. Akopian, Michael G. Albrow, Salvator Roberto Amendolia, Dante Amidei, J. Antoš, S. Aota	1997	100
14	Measurement of Double Parton Scattering in p¯p Collisions at s}=1.8TeV Physical Review Letters ·Fumio Abe, H. Akimoto, A. Akopian, Michael G. Albrow, Salvator Roberto Amendolia, Dante Amidei, J. Antoš, S. Aota	1997	95
15	Elemental energy spectra of cosmic rays from the data of the ATIC-2 experiment Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences Physics ·Alexander D Panov, Jenni Adams, H. S. Ahn, K. E. Batkov, G. L. Bashindzhagyan, John W. Watts, J. P. Wefel, Jianhao Wu	2007	93
16	Search for Flavor-Changing Neutral Current Decays of the Top Quark in pp¯ Collisions at s=1.8TeV Physical Review Letters ·F. Abe, H. Akimoto, A. Akopian, Michael G. Albrow, Salvator Roberto Amendolia, Dante Amidei, J. Antoš, S. Aota	1998	92
17	A study of coherence of soft gluons in hadron jets Physics Letters B ·M.Z. Akrawy, G. Alexander, John E. Allison, Philip Allport, Kathy Anderson, J.C. Armitage, G.T.J. Arnison, Peter Shaw ASHTON	1990	86
18	The CDF plug upgrade electromagnetic calorimeter: test beam results Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment ·Michael G. Albrow, S. Aota, Giorgio Apollinari, T. Asakawa, Mark W. Bailey, P. de Barbaro, Virgil Everett Barnes, K. Biery	2002	86
19	Search for the minimal standard model Higgs boson in e+e− collisions at LEP Physics Letters B ·M.Z. Akrawy, G. Alexander, John E. Allison, Philip Allport, Kathy Anderson, J.C. Armitage, G.T.J. Arnison, Peter Shaw ASHTON	1991	83
20	A study of jet production rates and a test of QCD on the Z0 resonance Physics Letters B ·M.Z. Akrawy, G. Alexander, John E. Allison, Philip Allport, Kathy Anderson, J.C. Armitage, G.T.J. Arnison, Peter Shaw ASHTON	1990	77

About Opher Ganel

Opher Ganel is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Radiation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Aerospace Engineering, having authored 239 papers that have together received 7.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (153 papers), High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (121 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (111 papers), Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (90 papers), Particle Detector Development and Performance (56 papers), Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (40 papers), Neutrino Physics Research (25 papers) and Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (7.6k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (1.1k citations), Radiation (154 citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (183 citations) and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (73 citations). Opher Ganel has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Italy and Germany. Frequent co-authors include E. S. Seo, Viktor I. Zatsepin, T Gregory Guzik, Alexander D Panov, J. W. Watts, N. V. Sokolskaya, M. J. Christl, Wolfram Schmidt, Jin Chang and H. S. Ahn. Their work appears in journals such as Physics Letters B, Physical Review Letters, The European Physical Journal C, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment and Advances in Space Research.

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