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William G. Hoover

William G. Hoover publishes mostly in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics of Materials, on topics such as Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Theoretical and Computational Physics and Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics.

World rank
#5,304
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,535
of 358,040
Works
57
Citations
4.2k
Citations per work
73.6

What does William G. Hoover research?

Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 25.0%Biomedical Engineering: 10.9%Mechanics of Materials: 9.4%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 7.8%other fields: 46.9%25%top field
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics25.0%Biomedical Engineering10.9%Mechanics of Materials9.4%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics7.8%other fields46.9%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Statistical and Nonlinear Physics25% of their works
  2. 2Biomedical Engineering11% of their works
  3. 3Mechanics of Materials9% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics8% of their works
  5. 5Geophysics8% of their works
  6. 6Condensed Matter Physics8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William G. Hoover's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Fluctuation Theorems, Monte Carlo Simulation, Stochastic Thermodynamics, Phase Transitions, Critical Phenomena, Random Walk Algorithm, Extraction and Supercritical Fluids.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Fluctuation Theorems91 topic
  2. Monte Carlo Simulation92 topics
  3. Stochastic Thermodynamics91 topic
  4. Phase Transitions82 topics
  5. Critical Phenomena51 topic
  6. Random Walk Algorithm51 topic
  7. Extraction41 topic
  8. Supercritical Fluids41 topic
  9. Crystal Structure Prediction31 topic
  10. Glass Transition31 topic
  11. Lagrangian Coherent Structures31 topic
  12. Long-Range Interactions31 topic
  13. Mantle Dynamics31 topic
  14. Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics31 topic
  15. Quantum Chaos31 topic
  16. Supercooled Liquids31 topic
  17. Protein21 topic
  18. Structure21 topic

Where does William G. Hoover work?

William G. Hoover's main affiliation in the publication record is Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States.

How many publications and citations does William G. Hoover have?

Science Explorer counts 57 works and 4,198 citations for William G. Hoover, ranking #5,304 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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