Per Bak

37.9k citations
165 papers · 26.2k · 12 hit papers · h-index 59

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Per Bak

164 papers receiving 24.6k citations

Per Bak's Hit Papers

Unified Scaling Law for Earthquakes 2002 · 517 citations
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Per Bak
Comparison fields: 5 of 213
  • Condensed Matter Physics 9.4k
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 5.5k
  • Mathematical Physics 2.3k
  • Geophysics 2.8k
  • Economics and Econometrics 4.7k
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Per Bak, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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Self-organized criticality: An explanation of the 1/fnoise
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19875262
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Self-organized criticality
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19883292
3
How Nature Works
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19961730
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Commensurate phases, incommensurate phases and the devil's staircase
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19821207
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Punctuated equilibrium and criticality in a simple model of evolution
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1993991
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Earthquakes as a self‐organized critical phenomenon
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1989895
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Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos
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1993670
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Theory of helical magnetic structures and phase transitions in MnSi and FeGe
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1980537
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Unified Scaling Law for Earthquakes
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2002517
10
Ising model with solitons, phasons, and "the devil's staircase"
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1980500
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Self-Organized Criticality
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1991482
12 2000410
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Phenomenological Theory of Icosahedral Incommensurate ("Quasiperiodic") Order in Mn-Al Alloys
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1985401
14 1996401
15 1984345
16 1982337
17 1990325
18 1988305
19 1985301
20 1976285

About Per Bak

Per Bak is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Economics and Econometrics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry, having authored 165 papers that have together received 26.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Theoretical and Computational Physics (69 papers), Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (37 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (18 papers), Quantum chaos and dynamical systems (17 papers), Rare-earth and actinide compounds (15 papers), Material Dynamics and Properties (14 papers), Organic and Molecular Conductors Research (14 papers) and Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Condensed Matter Physics (9.4k citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (5.5k citations), Mathematical Physics (2.3k citations), Geophysics (2.8k citations) and Economics and Econometrics (4.7k citations). Per Bak has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Denmark and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Chao Tang, Kurt Wiesenfeld, Mogens H. Jensen, Kim Sneppen, Kan Chen, Maya Paczuski, J. von Boehm, Roger Lewin, Tomas Bohr and Robijn Bruinsma. Their work appears in journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical review. B, Condensed matter, Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Physics Today and Physics Letters A.

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