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Critical Mass

Critical Mass is the minimum amount of fissile material required to sustain a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction under specified conditions, serving as a fundamental threshold in the study of reactor criticality.

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Denny Vrandečić, Markus Krötzsch · Communications of the ACM · 2014 · 3.3K citations · Full text

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C. H. K. Williamson, Raghuraman N. Govardhan · Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics · 2003 · 2.4K citations

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Influentials, Networks, and Public Opinion Formation

Duncan J. Watts, Peter Sheridan Dodds · Journal of Consumer Research · 2007 · 1.9K citations

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Women Directors on Corporate Boards: From Tokenism to Critical Mass

Mariateresa Torchia, Andrea Calabrò, Morten Huse · Journal of Business Ethics · 2011 · 1.5K citations

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Toward a “Critical Mass” Theory of Interactive Media

M. Lynne Markus · Communication Research · 1987 · 1.1K citations

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  1. AB
    Adrien Blanchet

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    7 publications · 1.2K citations

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  2. DS
    David S. Evans

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

    7 publications · 651 citations

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    Pamela Oliver

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    7 publications · 3.3K citations

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  4. CH
    C. H. K. Williamson

    Cornell University, United States

    7 publications · 2.8K citations

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  5. RR
    R. Ruffini

    International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Italy

    7 publications · 372 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    23 h-index

    57 publications

    3.5K citations

  2. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    15 h-index

    24 publications

    881 citations

  3. Sapienza University of Rome

    Rome, Italy

    12 h-index

    35 publications

    1.8K citations

  4. Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Los Alamos, United States

    11 h-index

    24 publications

    790 citations

  5. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    11 h-index

    19 publications

    1.7K citations

  6. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    10 h-index

    21 publications

    734 citations

  7. Kyoto University

    Kyoto, Japan

    10 h-index

    16 publications

    659 citations

  8. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    10 h-index

    16 publications

    3.4K citations

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 53 publications · 4.4K citations

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  2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

    33 publications · 1.8K citations

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  3. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 25 publications · 1.3K citations

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  4. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 17 publications · 1.4K citations

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  5. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    16 publications · 984 citations

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