| A renormalisation-group treatment of two-body scattering MC Birse, JA McGovern, KG Richardson Physics Letters B 464 (3-4), 169-176, 1999 | 288 | 1999 |
| Using effective field theory to analyse low-energy Compton scattering data from protons and light nuclei HW Grießhammer, JA McGovern, DR Phillips, G Feldman Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics 67 (4), 841-897, 2012 | 195 | 2012 |
| Proton polarisability contribution to the Lamb shift in muonic hydrogen at fourth order in chiral perturbation theory MC Birse, JA McGovern The European Physical Journal A 48 (9), 120, 2012 | 162 | 2012 |
| Compton scattering from the proton in an effective field theory with explicit Delta degrees of freedom JA McGovern, DR Phillips, HW Grießhammer The European Physical Journal A 49, 1-20, 2013 | 121 | 2013 |
| Spin polarisabilities of the nucleon at NLO in the chiral expansion KBV Kumar, JA McGovern, MC Birse Physics Letters B 479 (1-3), 167-172, 2000 | 94 | 2000 |
| Pairing in many-fermion systems: an exact renormalisation group treatment MC Birse, B Krippa, JA McGovern, NR Walet Physics Letters B 605 (3-4), 287-294, 2005 | 87 | 2005 |
| Compton scattering on the proton, neutron, and deuteron in chiral perturbation theory to O (Q4) SR Beane, M Malheiro, JA McGovern, DR Phillips, U Van Kolck Nuclear Physics A 747 (2-4), 311-361, 2005 | 86 | 2005 |
| Color superconductivity in finite systems P Amore, MC Birse, JA McGovern, NR Walet Physical Review D 65 (7), 074005, 2002 | 83 | 2002 |
| Nucleon polarizabilities from low-energy Compton scattering SR Beane, M Malheiro, JA McGovern, DR Phillips, U Van Kolck Physics Letters B 567 (3-4), 200-206, 2003 | 80 | 2003 |
| Ultrafast-timing lifetime measurements in and : Breakdown of the seniority scheme in isotones H Mach, A Korgul, M Górska, H Grawe, I Matea, M Stănoiu, LM Fraile, ... Physical Review C 95 (1), 014313, 2017 | 74* | 2017 |
| Absence of fifth-order contributions to the nucleon mass in heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory JA McGovern, MC Birse Physics Letters B 446 (3-4), 300-305, 1999 | 66 | 1999 |
| Predictions of covariant chiral perturbation theory for nucleon polarisabilities and polarised Compton scattering V Lensky, JA McGovern, V Pascalutsa The European Physical Journal C 75, 1-28, 2015 | 57 | 2015 |
| Measurement of Compton scattering from the deuteron and an improved extraction of the neutron electromagnetic polarizabilities LS Myers, JRM Annand, J Brudvik, G Feldman, KG Fissum, ... Physical Review Letters 113 (26), 262506, 2014 | 56 | 2014 |
| The pion-nucleon sigma commutator in chiral models of the nucleon MC Birse, JA McGovern Physics Letters B 292 (3-4), 242-245, 1992 | 50 | 1992 |
| Symmetry and correlation functions in the high temperature phase of QCD MC Birse, TD Cohen, JA McGovern Physics Letters B 388 (1), 137-140, 1996 | 48 | 1996 |
| Compton scattering from the proton at fourth order in the chiral expansion JA McGovern Physical Review C 63 (6), 064608, 2001 | 47 | 2001 |
| Nucleons or diquarks: Competition between clustering and color superconductivity in quark matter S Pepin, MC Birse, JA McGovern, NR Walet Physical Review C 61 (5), 055209, 2000 | 45 | 2000 |
| Nucleon polarisabilities at and beyond physical pion masses HW Grießhammer, JA McGovern, DR Phillips The European Physical Journal A 52 (5), 139, 2016 | 44 | 2016 |
| The D coefficient in neutron beta decay in effective field theory S Ando, JA McGovern, T Sato Physics Letters B 677 (1-2), 109-115, 2009 | 43 | 2009 |
| Proton polarizabilities from Compton data using covariant chiral effective field theory V Lensky, J McGovern Physical Review C 89 (3), 032202, 2014 | 41 | 2014 |