J. A. Yorke’s most frequently cited papers,

as indicated by ISI Web of SCIENCE, through Feb 2002 & through July 2006

Cumulative number 

of Citations                                            Cited paper

as of 2007

 

2091   E. Ott, C. Grebogi and J. A. Yorke, Controlling chaos, Phys. Rev. Lett. 64 (1990), 1196-1199.

 

904      T. Y. Li and J. A. Yorke, Period three implies chaos, Amer. Math. Monthly 82 (1975), 985-992.

 

774      C. Grebogi, E. Ott and J. A. Yorke, Crises, sudden changes in chaotic attractors, and transient chaos, Physica 7D (1983), 181-200.

 

716      J. D. Farmer, E. Ott, and J. A. Yorke, The dimension of chaotic attractors, Physica 7D (1983), 153-180.

 

673      T. Sauer, J. A. Yorke and M. Casdagli, Embedology, J. Stat. Phys., 65 (1991), 579-616.

 

452      C. Grebogi, E. Ott and J. A. Yorke, Chaotic attractors in crisis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 48 (1982), 1507-1510.

 

443      T. Shinbrot, C. Grebogi, E. Ott and J. A. Yorke, Using small perturbations to control chaos, Nature, 363 (1993), pp. 411-417.

 

333      C. Grebogi, E. Ott, F. Romeiras and J. A. Yorke, Critical exponents for crisis induced intermittency, Phys. Rev. A 36 (1987), 5365-5380.

 

326      A. Lasota and J. A. Yorke, On the existence of invariant measures for piecewise monotonic transformations, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 186 (1973), 481-488.

 

322      S. W. McDonald, C. Grebogi, E. Ott and J. A. Yorke, Fractal basin boundaries, in Physica 17D (1985), 125-153.

 

249      C. Grebogi, E. Ott, S. Pelikan and J. A. Yorke, Strange attractors that are not chaotic, Physica 13D (1984), 261-268.

  

217      T. Shinbrot, E. Ott, C. Grebogi and J. A. Yorke, Using chaos to direct trajectories to targets, Phys. Rev. Lett. 65 (1990), 3215-3218.

 

198      J. A. Yorke, H. W. Hethcote and A. Nold, Dynamics and control of the transmission of gonorrhea, Sexually Transmitted Diseases 5 (1978), 51-56.

 

196      C. Grebogi, E. Ott and J. A. Yorke, Unstable periodic orbits and the dimensions of multifractal chaotic attractors, Phys. Rev. A 37 (1988), 1711-1724.

 

184      C. Grebogi, E. Ott and J. A. Yorke, Fractal basin boundaries, long-lived chaotic transients, and unstable-unstable pair bifurcation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 50 (1983), 935-938.

 

180      C. Grebogi, S. W. McDonald, E. Ott and J. A. Yorke, Final state sensitivity: An obstruction to predictability, Phys. Letters 99A (1983), 415-418.

 

170      C. Grebogi, E. Ott and J. A. Yorke, Critical exponent of chaotic transients in nonlinear dynamical systems, Phys. Rev. Lett. 57 (1986), 1284-1287.

 

153      P. Frederickson, J. L. Kaplan, E. D. Yorke and J. A. Yorke, The Lyapunov dimension of strange attractors, J. Differential Equations 49 (1983), 185-207.

 

150      J. A. Yorke and E. D. Yorke Metastable chaos: The transition to sustained chaotic oscillations in a model of Lorenz, J. Stat. Phys. 21 (1979), 263-277.

 

143      Grebogi, E. Ott and J. A. Yorke, Basin boundary metamorphoses: Changes in accessible boundary orbits, Physica 24D (1987), 243-262, and Nucl. Phys. B. (Suppl.) 2 (1987), 281-300.

 

135      C. Grebogi, E. Ott and J. A. Yorke, Chaos, strange attractors, and fractal basin boundaries in nonlinear dynamics, Science 238 (1987), 632-638.

 

133      Y. Lai, C. Grebogi, J. A. Yorke and S. Venkataramani, Riddling bifurcations in chaotic dynamical systems, Phys. Rev. Lett., 77 (1996), pp. 55-58.

 

131      C. Grebogi, S. M. Hammel, J. A. Yorke and T. Sauer, Shadowing of physical trajectories in chaotic dynamics: Containment and refinement, Phys. Rev. Lett. 65 (1990), 1527-1530.

 

128      J. A. Yorke, N. Nathanson, G. Pianigiani and J. Martin, Seasonality and the requirements for perpetuation and eradication of viruses in populations, Amer. J. Epidemiology 109 (1979), 103-123.

 

126      E. Ott, J. Alexander, I. Kan, J. Sommerer and J. A. Yorke, Transition to chaotic attractors with riddled basins, Physica D., Vol. 76 (1994), pp. 384-410.

 

         The primary reference to “riddled basins” in not listed by ISI perhaps due to the journal but it seems to be referenced much more than the above paper.

  ???    J. A. Alexander, J. A. Yorke, Z-P. You and I. Kan, Riddled Basins, Int. J. Bifurcation & Chaos 2 (1992), 795-813.

 

125      S. N. Chow, J. Mallet-Paret and J. A. Yorke, Finding zeroes of maps: Homotopy methods that are constructive with probability one, Math. of Comp. 32 (1978), 887-899.

 

122      D. Auerbach, C. Grebogi, E. Ott and J. A. Yorke, Controlling chaos in high dimensional systems, Phys. Rev. Lett. 69 (1992), 3479-3482.

 

122      W. London, M.D. and J. A. Yorke, Recurrent outbreaks of measles, chicken pox, and mumps, I. Seasonal variation in contact rates, Amer. J. Epidemiology 98 (1973), 453-468

 

109      T. Y. Li and J. A. Yorke, Ergodic transformations from an interval into itself, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 235 (1978), 183-192.

 

107      J. L. Kaplan and J. A. Yorke, Preturbulence: A regime observed in a fluid flow model of Lorenz, Comm. Math.

            Phys. 67 (1979), 93-108.  This paper is reprinted in Russian in a book edited by Sinai and Kolmogorov on strange attractors.

 

105      E. Kostelich and J. A. Yorke, Noise reduction in Dynamical Systems, Phys. Rev. A. 38 (1988), 1649-1652.

 

104      H. E. Nusse and J. A. Yorke, Border collision bifurcations including period two to period three bifurcation

            for piecewise smooth systems, Physica D. 57 (1992), 39-57.

 

103      H. E. Nusse and J. A. Yorke, A procedure for finding numerical trajectories on chaotic saddles, Physica D 36 (1989), 137-156.

 

101     H. E. Nusse, E. Ott and J. A. Yorke, Border-Collision Bifurcations: an explanation for observed bifurcation phenomena,

            Phys. Rev. E, 49 (1994), 1073-1076.

 

100      E. Kostelich and J. A. Yorke, Noise reduction: Finding the simplest dynamical system consistent with the data, Physica D 41 (1990), 183-196.

 

ALMOST 100

 

98        E. Ott, J. C. Sommerer, J. Alexander, I. Kan and J. A. Yorke, Scaling behavior of chaotic systems with riddled basins, Phys. Rev. Lett., 71 (1993), 4134-4137.

 

97        T. Shinbrot, W. Ditto, C. Grebogi, E. Ott, M. Spano and J. A. Yorke, Using the sensitive dependence of chaos (the Butterfly Effect) to direct orbits to targets in an experimental chaotic system, Phys. Rev. Lett. 68 (1992), 2863-2866.

 

96        M-Z Ding, C. Grebogi, E. Ott, T. Sauer and J. A. Yorke, Plateau onset for correlation dimension: When does it occur?, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70 (1993), pp. 3872-3873.

 

95        S. P. Dawson, C. Grebogi, T. Sauer and J. A. Yorke, Obstructions to shadowing when a Lyapunov exponent fluctuates about zero, Phys. Rev. Lett., 73, (1994), pp. 1927-1930.

 

90        C. Grebogi, E. Ott and J. A. Yorke, Metamorphoses of basin boundaries in nonlinear dynamical systems, Phys. Rev. Lett. 56 (1986), 1011-1014.

 

90        S. M. Hammel, J. A. Yorke and C. Grebogi, Numerical orbits of chaotic processes represent true orbits, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 19 (1988), 465-469.

 

 

Book Citations according to Scholar.Google.com

(generally S.G.com lists fewer citations than Citations Index, but in some cases S.G.com is all that is available)

 

            250                  E. Ott, T. Sauer and J. A. Yorke,

                        Coping with Chaos, 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1994

 

            551                  K. Alligood, T. Sauer and J. A. Yorke,

                        Chaos: An Introduction to Dynamical Systems, Springer-Verlag, New York (1997).

 

            171                  H. E. Nusse and J. A. Yorke,           

                        Dynamics: Numerical Explorations, Applied Mathematical Sciences 101, Springer-Verlag, New York,

                                    Second Edition 1997 (First Edition 1994). Book includes a computer disk with the program "Dynamics".

 

 

            Papers that should be higher up

 

            74        B.R Hunt, T. Sauer and J. A. Yorke,

                        Prevalence: a translation-invariant "almost every" on infinite dimensional spaces,

                                    Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 217-238.

 

            45        J. A. Yorke and K. T. Alligood Cascades of period doubling bifurcations: A prerequisite for horseshoes,

                                    Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 9 (1983), 319-322.