OpenAlex (api.openalex.org): citations of Su's papers

Run: 2026-10-06. Priorities 2 and 3 (support by others; related work). Accessed by script because Google Scholar's "Cited by" page returned a CAPTCHA (see 2026-10-06-google-scholar.md).

Queries

• works?search=local-ether
• works?filter=author.id:<Su's OpenAlex id> (Su's bibliography)
• works?filter=cites:W2103434109 (cites EPJC 21, 701, 2001)
• works?filter=cites:W2121905501 (cites EPL 56, 170, 2001)
• works?filter=cites:W1995955844 (EPJB 2001) and cites:W2107612049 (JEWA 16, 403): only Su's own later paper cites these.
• abstracts of Field 2019, Kipreos 2024, Gift 2021; open-access locations.

Findings [web]

OpenAlex counts: EPJC 2001 cited 20 times; EPL 2001 (OpenAlex id W2121905501) about 10 non-self citations listed. Google Scholar shows 46 and 32 (see google-scholar note).

Works by others citing Su's EPJC 2001 local-ether paper (https://api.openalex.org/works?filter=cites:W2103434109): - 2010 D. L. Khokhlov, "Spatial and Temporal Wave Functions of Photon", Applied Physics Research, doi 10.5539/apr.v2n2p49 - 2012 S. J. G. Gift, "One-way Speed of Light Using Interplanetary Tracking Technology", viXra - 2015 D. Fiscaletti, A. Šorli, "Dynamic Quantum Vacuum and Relativity", viXra - 2019 J. H. Field, "The Sagnac and Hafele-Keating experiments: Two keys to the understanding of space-time physics in the vicinity of the Earth", Int. J. Mod. Phys. A, doi 10.1142/s0217751x1930014x. Abstract: discusses "the role of preferred frames for light propagation and time dilation" near a gravitating body, Sagnac effect and Hafele-Keating, and "critically review[s]" published Sagnac calculations. A mainstream-journal review that cites Su; how it treats Su not yet read (not open access). - 2019 J. R. Marsen, "A Michelson-Morley Type Experiment Should be Performed in Low Earth Orbit and Interplanetary Space", viXra (downloaded; see vixra note) - 2021 S. J. G. Gift, "Detection of the Ether Using the Global Positioning System", Applied Physics Research 13(1), 12, doi 10.5539/apr.v13n1p12 (downloaded) - 2021 J.-E. Persson, "The wave-particle dilemma in light" and "The misunderstood Sagnac effect", Physics Essays 34 - 2022 M. M. Tran, "The c-equivalence principle and its implications for physics", Universal J. Phys. Research - 2024 E. T. Kipreos, "Assessment of the experimental support for differential simultaneity", Int. J. Mod. Phys. A, doi 10.1142/s0217751x24501380. Abstract: an alternate transformation without differential simultaneity "is shown to be compatible with the broad array of current relativistic experiments", so "an essential aspect of Lorentz symmetry currently lacks definitive experimental support". Related principle (absolute simultaneity, preferred frame) in a mainstream journal. - 2024 B. Kovac (J. High Energy Phys. Grav. Cosmol.), 2024 G. Scalera (J. Electromagn. Anal. Appl.), 2025 B. Kovac (Open J. Philosophy).

Works citing Su's EPL 2001 Michelson-Morley/GPS-Sagnac paper (https://api.openalex.org/works?filter=cites:W2121905501): - 2015 Y. Jing, S. Dong, "Analysis of the Effect of GEO Satellite Motion on Signal Performance in TWSTFT" (two-way satellite time and frequency transfer), doi 10.2991/icmmita-15.2015.80 - 2016 Y. Jing, W. Guang, "The influence of antenna direction on TWSTFT", IEEE Int. Frequency Control Symp., doi 10.1109/fcs.2016.7546831 - 2017 A. Hauschild, "Basic Observation Equations", Springer (Springer Handbook of Global Navigation Satellite Systems, chapter 19), doi 10.1007/978-3-319-42928-1_19 - 2019 J. Wu, H.-W. Tsao, "Reviewing Michelson Interferometer Experiment and Measuring the Speed of Starlight", J. Mod. Phys. 10, doi 10.4236/jmp.2019.105037 (downloaded; cites Su as ref. [8]) - 2018/2021 Zihua Weng (arXiv; AIP Advances 2021 "Some coordinate transformations relevant to refractive indices") - 2024 L. Li, J. Yan (IEEE GRSL, multistatic UAV SAR synchronisation); 2025 W. Ma, Z. Xu (IEEE GRSL, distributed MIMO-SAR synchronisation)

How it bears on the claims

• Claim 1: Su's EPL formulation (Sagnac correction referred to the Earth-centred inertial frame) is cited in engineering work on satellite time transfer, a GNSS handbook chapter and SAR synchronisation (2015-2025). Whether these use it only as a reference for the ECI-frame Sagnac correction, or engage with the local-ether interpretation, is not yet known; the citing texts were not read.
• Claim 1 and 5: Gift (2012, 2021) independently argues that GPS data show an Earth-bound ether identified with the ECI frame, and a solar-bound ether, and cites Su's hierarchy of ethers as "a reasonable working hypothesis" (see others note).
• Su's bibliography in OpenAlex shows mainstream EM output before 2000 (IEEE MTT 1988, 1993; IEEE AP 1989) and the local-ether papers 2000-2005.