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Anthony W. Thomas

Anthony W. Thomas

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Physics

D-Index
98
Citations
36808
World Ranking
1752
National Ranking
43

Anthony W. Thomas publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anthony W. Thomas sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 984 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

Anthony W. Thomas D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anthony W. Thomas sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 98 D-Index — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

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

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

    Anthony William Thomas

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

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

  • Cloudy bag model of the nucleon

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

  • The Nuclear EMC Effect

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

  • The Structure of the Nucleon

    Anthony William Thomas;Wolfram Weise

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

    Anthony William Thomas

  • Pionic corrections and the EMC enhancement of the sea in iron

    Magda Ericson;Anthony William Thomas

  • The role of nucleon structure in finite nuclei

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

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

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

  • Neutron/proton structure function ratio at large x

    W. Melnitchouk;Anthony William Thomas

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

    K. Saito;Kazuo Tsushima;Anthony William Thomas

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

    Ross Young;Anthony Thomas;Anthony Thomas;Anthony Thomas

  • The spin and flavor dependence of parton distribution functions

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

  • Virtual compton scattering and generalized polarizabilities of the proton

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

  • The 1.5 GeV harmonic double-sided microtron at Mainz University

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

  • A Quark - meson coupling model for nuclear and neutron matter

    K. Saito;Anthony William Thomas

  • Possible strength of the non-perturbative strange sea of the nucleon

    A.I. Signal;Anthony William Thomas

  • Low-energy Compton scattering and the polarizabilities of the proton

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

  • Variation of hadron masses in finite nuclei

    K. Saito;Kazuo Tsushima;Anthony William Thomas

Frequent Co-Authors

K. Livingston
K. Livingston University of Glasgow
G. Rosner
G. Rosner University of Glasgow
Ulf-G. Meißner
Ulf-G. Meißner University of Bonn
Wolfram Weise
Wolfram Weise Technical University of Munich

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