2026 Scott Burles: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	93	1997	1895	1028	959	177	74270

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Physics

1997

1895

1028

959

177

74270

Overview

Scott Burles is affiliated with MIT in the United States and focuses their research primarily on materials science and physics and astronomy. Their work intersects several subfields, including materials chemistry, nuclear and high energy physics, biomedical engineering, and radiation.

The main topics of Burles's research include:

Fusion materials and technologies
Magnetic confinement fusion research
Nuclear materials and properties
Superconducting materials and applications
Nuclear physics and applications

Burles has published papers in notable scientific venues, with frequent contributions appearing in:

Nuclear Fusion
Fusion Engineering and Design

Among the recent papers co-authored or associated with Scott Burles are:

Operating a full tungsten actively cooled tokamak: overview of WEST first phase of operation, 2021, Nuclear Fusion
Design and preliminary analyses of the new Water Cooled Lithium Lead TBM for ITER, 2020, Fusion Engineering and Design
WEST full tungsten operation with an ITER grade divertor, 2024, Nuclear Fusion

Burles frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

T. Batal
B. Cantone
J. Bucalossi
J. Achard
O. Agullo

Best Publications

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

D. G. York

15186
Citations
Cosmological parameters from SDSS and WMAP

Max Tegmark;Max Tegmark;Michael Abram Strauss;Michael R. Blanton;Kevork Abazajian

5345
Citations
Detection of the baryon acoustic peak in the large-scale correlation function of SDSS luminous red galaxies

Daniel J. Eisenstein;Daniel J. Eisenstein;Idit Zehavi;David W. Hogg;Roman Scoccimarro

5180
Citations
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release

C. Stoughton;R. H. Lupton;M. Bernardi;M. R. Blanton

3515
Citations
Composite Quasar Spectra From the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Daniel E. Vanden Berk

2679
Citations
THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL POWER SPECTRUM OF GALAXIES FROM THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY

Max Tegmark;Michael R. Blanton;Michael A. Strauss;Fiona Hoyle

2387
Citations
The 3D power spectrum of galaxies from the SDSS

M Tegmark;M Blanton;M Strauss;F Hoyle

2350
Citations
Composite Quasar Spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Daniel E. Vanden Berk;Gordon T. Richards;Amanda Bauer;Michael A. Strauss

2317
Citations
Spectroscopic Target Selection for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Luminous Red Galaxy Sample

D. J. Eisenstein;J. Annis;J. E. Gunn;A. S. Szalay

1486
Citations
Cosmological parameter analysis including SDSS Lyα forest and galaxy bias: Constraints on the primordial spectrum of fluctuations, neutrino mass, and dark energy

Uroš Seljak;Alexey Makarov;Patrick McDonald;Scott F. Anderson

1360
Citations
Spectroscopic Target Selection for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Luminous Red Galaxy Sample

Daniel J. Eisenstein;Daniel J. Eisenstein;James Annis;James E. Gunn;Alexander S. Szalay

1293
Citations
Spectroscopic Target Selection in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Quasar Sample

Gordon T. Richards;Xiaohui Fan;Heidi Jo Newberg;Michael A. Strauss

1271
Citations
The Multi-object, Fiber-fed Spectrographs for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Stephen A. Smee;James E. Gunn;Alan Uomoto;Natalie Roe

943
Citations
The Luminosity Function of Galaxies in SDSS Commissioning Data

M. R. Blanton

943
Citations
The Luminosity Function of Galaxies in SDSS Commissioning Data

Michael R. Blanton;Julianne Dalcanton;Daniel Eisenstein;Jon Loveday

901
Citations
Galaxy clustering in early sloan digital sky survey redshift data

Idit Zehavi;Idit Zehavi;Michael R. Blanton;Michael R. Blanton;Joshua A. Frieman;Joshua A. Frieman;David H. Weinberg

817
Citations
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Predictions for Precision Cosmology

Scott Burles;Scott Burles;Kenneth M. Nollett;Kenneth M. Nollett;Michael S. Turner;Michael S. Turner

786
Citations
Spectral classification and redshift measurement for the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Adam S. Bolton;David J. Schlegel;Éric Aubourg;Stephen Bailey

727
Citations
The Extremely Metal-poor, Neutron Capture-rich Star CS 22892-052: A Comprehensive Abundance Analysis

Christopher Sneden;John J. Cowan;John J. Cowan;James E. Lawler;Inese I. Ivans;Inese I. Ivans

621
Citations
The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. III. The Structure and Formation of Early-Type Galaxies and Their Evolution since z ≈ 1

Leon V. E. Koopmans;Tommaso Treu;Adam S. Bolton;Adam S. Bolton;Scott Burles

615
Citations