2026 James P. Sethna: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	72	3563	3388	1671	1556	409	27568

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D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Physics

3563

3388

1671

1556

409

27568

James P. Sethna 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 James P. Sethna sits on this spectrum.

103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 409 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

James P. Sethna 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 James P. Sethna sits on this spectrum.

70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 3rd percentile

3% 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

2019 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal and wideranging contributions to information geometry, sloppy models, crackling noise, fracture, and emergent selfsimilarity
1985 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

James P. Sethna is a researcher affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their work spans multiple areas within physics and materials science, focusing on theoretical and computational methods.

The primary fields of study for Sethna include:

Physics and Astronomy
Materials Science

Within these fields, their research engages several subfields such as:

Condensed Matter Physics
Materials Chemistry
Artificial Intelligence
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Computational Mechanics

Sethna's main research topics include:

Theoretical and Computational Physics
Material Dynamics and Properties
Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
Granular flow and fluidized beds
Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
Complex Network Analysis Techniques
Particle accelerators and beam dynamics

Frequent publication venues for Sethna's research are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Physical Review B
Physical Review Research
Physical Review E
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Several co-authors have collaborated regularly with Sethna, including:

Itai Cohen
Danilo B. Liarte
Itay Griniasty
Bulbul Chakraborty
Mark K. Transtrum

Recent publications by Sethna include:

"Information geometry for multiparameter models: new perspectives on the origin of simplicity," 2022, Reports on Progress in Physics
"Power laws in physics," 2022, Nature Reviews Physics
"Analysis of magnetic vortex dissipation in Sn-segregated boundaries in Nb3Sn superconducting RF cavities," 2021, Physical Review B
"The OpenKIM processing pipeline: A cloud-based automatic material property computation engine," 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics
"Reaction rates and the noisy saddle-node bifurcation: Renormalization group for barrier crossing," 2021, Physical Review Research

The researcher has been recognized with awards such as:

Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 2019, for contributions to information geometry, sloppy models, crackling noise, fracture, and emergent self-similarity
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1985

Best Publications

Coulomb blockade and the Kondo effect in single-atom transistors

Jiwoong Park;Jiwoong Park;Abhay N. Pasupathy;Jonas I. Goldsmith;Connie Chang

2678
Citations
Universally sloppy parameter sensitivities in systems biology models.

Ryan Nicholas Gutenkunst;Joshua Waterfall;Fergal Casey;Kevin Brown

1390
Citations
Crackling Noise

James P. Sethna;Karin A. Dahmen;Christopher R. Myers

1377
Citations
Theory of the blue phase of cholesteric liquid crystals.

S. Meiboom;James P. Sethna;P. W. Anderson;W. F. Brinkman

1272
Citations
Topology of the resonating valence-bond state: Solitons and high-T c superconductivity

Steven A. Kivelson;Daniel S. Rokhsar;James P. Sethna

1143
Citations
Hysteresis and hierarchies: Dynamics of disorder-driven first-order phase transformations.

James P. Sethna;Karin Dahmen;Sivan Kartha;James A. Krumhansl

869
Citations
Intra-unit-cell electronic nematicity of the high- T c copper-oxide pseudogap states

M. J. Lawler;K. Fujita;K. Fujita;K. Fujita;Jhinhwan Lee;Jhinhwan Lee;Jhinhwan Lee;A. R. Schmidt;A. R. Schmidt

712
Citations
Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters and Complexity

James P. Sethna

690
Citations
Universal properties of the transition from quasi periodicity to chaos in dissipative systems

Stellan Ostlund;David Rand;James Sethna;Eric Siggia

566
Citations
Statistical mechanical approaches to models with many poorly known parameters.

Kevin S. Brown;James P. Sethna

499
Citations
Crackling noise : Complex systems

James P. Sethna;Karin A. Dahment;Christopher R. Myerst

477
Citations
Avalanches, Barkhausen noise, and plain old criticality.

Olga Perković;Karin Dahmen;James P. Sethna

368
Citations
Perspective: Sloppiness and emergent theories in physics, biology, and beyond

Mark K. Transtrum;Benjamin B. Machta;Kevin S. Brown;Bryan C. Daniels

350
Citations
Hysteresis, avalanches, and disorder-induced critical scaling: A renormalization-group approach

Karin Dahmen;James P. Sethna

339
Citations
The statistical mechanics of complex signaling networks: nerve growth factor signaling.

K S Brown;K S Brown;C C Hill;C C Hill;G A Calero;G A Calero;C R Myers

332
Citations
Universal Transition from Quasiperiodicity to Chaos in Dissipative Systems

David Rand;Stellan Ostlund;James Sethna;Eric D. Siggia

331
Citations
Disorder-driven pretransitional tweed pattern in martensitic transformations.

Sivan Kartha;James A. Krumhansl;James P. Sethna;L. K. Wickham

330
Citations
Parameter space compression underlies emergent theories and predictive models.

Benjamin B. Machta;Benjamin B. Machta;Ricky Chachra;Mark K. Transtrum;Mark K. Transtrum;James P. Sethna

320
Citations
Imaging Atomic Rearrangements in Two-Dimensional Silica Glass: Watching Silica’s Dance

Pinshane Y. Huang;Simon Kurasch;Jonathan S. Alden;Ashivni Shekhawat

272
Citations
Sloppiness and Emergent Theories in Physics, Biology, and Beyond

Mark K. Transtrum;Benjamin Machta;Kevin Brown;Bryan C. Daniels

10
Citations