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David Colton

David Colton publishes mostly in Mathematical Physics, Biomedical Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Numerical methods in inverse problems, Microwave Imaging and Scattering Analysis and Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis.

World rank
#39,139
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#18,117
of 358,040
Works
97
Citations
703
Citations per work
7.2

What does David Colton research?

Mathematical Physics: 26.9%Biomedical Engineering: 17.2%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 9.7%Mechanics of Materials: 8.2%other fields: 38.0%27%top field
Mathematical Physics26.9%Biomedical Engineering17.2%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics9.7%Mechanics of Materials8.2%other fields38.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Mathematical Physics27% of their works
  2. 2Biomedical Engineering17% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics10% of their works
  4. 4Mechanics of Materials8% of their works
  5. 5Applied Mathematics8% of their works
  6. 6Computational Theory and Mathematics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Colton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Inverse Problems, Regularization Methods, Breast Cancer Detection, Microwave Imaging, Electromagnetic Scattering, Integral Equation Methods, Non-Destructive Testing and Guided Lamb Waves.

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.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Inverse Problems351 topic
  2. Regularization Methods351 topic
  3. Breast Cancer Detection231 topic
  4. Microwave Imaging231 topic
  5. Electromagnetic Scattering131 topic
  6. Integral Equation Methods131 topic
  7. Non-Destructive Testing102 topics
  8. Guided Lamb Waves71 topic
  9. Heterogeneous71 topic
  10. Multiscale Methods71 topic
  11. Piezoelectric Impedance-Based Health Monitoring71 topic
  12. Nonlocal61 topic
  13. Partial Differential Equations61 topic
  14. Fracture31 topic
  15. Ground-Penetrating Radar31 topic
  16. Meshless Methods31 topic
  17. Sedimentology31 topic

Where does David Colton work?

David Colton's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Delaware, United States.

How many publications and citations does David Colton have?

Science Explorer counts 97 works and 703 citations for David Colton, ranking #39,139 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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