2026 Anthony W. Thomas: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	98	1752	1667	43	42	984	36808

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Research.com Recognitions

1997 - Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal, Australian Academy of Science
1987 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For elucidating fundamental aspects of pionnucleus interactions developing the Cloudy Bag Model, and discovering the importance of nuclear binding effects in understanding the EMC effect

Overview

Anthony W. Thomas is affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia and specializes in Physics and Astronomy, with a research focus on Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Their work spans numerous subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Statistics and Probability, and Geophysics.

The scope of their research covers various topics such as Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions, Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, High-Energy Particle Collisions Research, Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research, Nuclear physics research studies, and Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena.

Their scholarly contributions include several noteworthy papers, such as:

Nucleon Structure and Strong Interactions in Dark Matter Capture in Neutron Stars (2021) published in Physical Review Letters
Equation of state of hot dense hyperonic matter in the Quark-Meson-Coupling (QMC-A) model (2020) published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Partial-wave mixing in Hamiltonian effective field theory (2020) published in Physical review. D
Do Delta baryons play a role in neutron stars? (2020) published in Physics Letters B
Low-lying odd-parity nucleon resonances as quark-model-like states (2023) published in Physical review. D

Their frequent collaborators include Derek B. Leinweber, X. G. Wang, P.A.M. Guichon, Jia-Jun Wu, and Theo F. Motta.

Anthony W. Thomas's work has been published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Physical review. D
Physics Letters B
Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle Physics
Physical Review Letters

They have received honors such as the Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal from the Australian Academy of Science in 1997 and were named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1987. The APS fellowship citation notes their contributions to the understanding of pion-nucleus interactions, development of the Cloudy Bag Model, and insight into nuclear binding effects related to the EMC effect.

Best Publications

A Precise determination of electroweak parameters in neutrino nucleon scattering

G. P. Zeller;K. S. McFarland;T. Adams;A. Alton

1097
Citations
Chiral Symmetry and the Bag Model: A New Starting Point for Nuclear Physics

Anthony William Thomas

1036
Citations
Pionic corrections to the MIT bag model: The (3,3) resonance

S. Théberge;A. W. Thomas;Gerald A. Miller

1020
Citations
Cloudy bag model of the nucleon

Anthony William Thomas;S. Theberge;Gerald A. Miller

575
Citations
The Nuclear EMC Effect

Donald F. Geesaman;K. Saito;Anthony William Thomas

558
Citations
The Structure of the Nucleon

Anthony William Thomas;Wolfram Weise

518
Citations
A limit on the pionic component of the nucleon through SU(3) flavour breaking in the sea

Anthony William Thomas

469
Citations
Pionic corrections and the EMC enhancement of the sea in iron

Magda Ericson;Anthony William Thomas

459
Citations
The role of nucleon structure in finite nuclei

Pierre A.M. Guichon;Koichi Saito;Evgenii N. Rodionov;Anthony William Thomas

394
Citations
$ ho - \omega$ mixing, vector meson dominance and the pion form-factor

Heath Bland O'Connell;B.C. Pearce;Anthony William Thomas;Anthony Gordon Williams

369
Citations
Neutron/proton structure function ratio at large x

W. Melnitchouk;Anthony William Thomas

300
Citations
Nucleon and hadron structure changes in the nuclear medium and the impact on observables

K. Saito;Kazuo Tsushima;Anthony William Thomas

279
Citations
Octet baryon masses and sigma terms from an SU(3) chiral extrapolation

Ross Young;Anthony Thomas;Anthony Thomas;Anthony Thomas

276
Citations
The spin and flavor dependence of parton distribution functions

Frank E. Close;Frank E. Close;Anthony William Thomas

273
Citations
Virtual compton scattering and generalized polarizabilities of the proton

Pierre A.M. Guichon;G.Q. Liu;Anthony William Thomas

264
Citations
The 1.5 GeV harmonic double-sided microtron at Mainz University

K.-H. Kaiser;K. Aulenbacher;O. Chubarov;M. Dehn

263
Citations
A Quark - meson coupling model for nuclear and neutron matter

K. Saito;Anthony William Thomas

258
Citations
Possible strength of the non-perturbative strange sea of the nucleon

A.I. Signal;Anthony William Thomas

251
Citations
Low-energy Compton scattering and the polarizabilities of the proton

V. Olmos de León;F. Wissmann;P. Achenbach;J. Ahrens

242
Citations
Variation of hadron masses in finite nuclei

K. Saito;Kazuo Tsushima;Anthony William Thomas

241
Citations