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Researcher · BT Research · United Kingdom

C.W. Ford

C.W. Ford publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and History, on topics such as Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices, Optical Network Technologies and Photonic and Optical Devices.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,851,293
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#248,517
of 367,258
Works
49
Citations
796
Citations per work
16.2
h-index
13
i10-index 16Top 37% in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
C.W. Ford

What does C.W. Ford research?

C.W. Ford's work is mostly in Engineering (76%), Physics and Astronomy (6%), Arts and Humanities (5%).

Physical Sciences: 40 works · 82.6% of their workEngineering: 37 works · 76.5% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 37 works · 75.0% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 1 works · 1.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 works · 6.1% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 3 works · 6.1% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 10.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 5.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 3 works · 5.3% of their workHistory: 2 works · 3.8% of their workMuseology: 1 works · 1.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 1 works · 1.5% of their workMedicine: 1 works · 1.5% of their workInfectious Diseases: 1 works · 1.5% of their workTHEIR WORKC.W. Ford49works
Physical Sciences83%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences5%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering3776.5%
    2. Physics and Astronomy36.1%
  2. Everything else510.6%
    1. Arts and Humanities35.3%
    1. Medicine11.5%
  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering75% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics6% of their works
  3. 3History4% of their works
  4. 4Museology2% of their works
  5. 5Infectious Diseases2% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe C.W. Ford's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Optical Fiber, Optical Interconnects, Semiconductor Lasers, Coherent Detection, Digital Signal Processing, Integrated Circuits, Microwave Photonics and Optical Modulators.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Optical Fiber282 topics
  2. Optical Interconnects271 topic
  3. Semiconductor Lasers271 topic
  4. Coherent Detection261 topic
  5. Digital Signal Processing261 topic
  6. Integrated Circuits222 topics
  7. Microwave Photonics222 topics
  8. Optical Modulators201 topic
  9. Silicon Photonics201 topic
  10. Optical Access Networks171 topic
  11. Photonic Signal Processing171 topic
  12. Optical Frequency Combs51 topic
  13. Ultrafast Lasers51 topic
  14. CMOS21 topic
  15. Elastic Optical Networks21 topic
  16. Fiber Optic Sensors21 topic
  17. Optical Networks21 topic
  18. Oscillators21 topic
  19. Sensor Technology21 topic

Where does C.W. Ford work?

C.W. Ford's main affiliation in the publication record is BT Research, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does C.W. Ford have?

OpenAlex counts 49 works and 796 citations for C.W. Ford, an h-index of 13, ranking #3,851,293 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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