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F. Douglas Witherspoon

F. Douglas Witherspoon publishes mostly in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Aerospace Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, on topics such as Magnetic confinement fusion research, Plasma Diagnostics and Applications and Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics.

World rank
#898,447
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#246,685
of 358,040
Works
37
Citations
61
Citations per work
1.6

What does F. Douglas Witherspoon research?

Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 27.8%Aerospace Engineering: 20.4%Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 14.8%Computational Mechanics: 5.6%other fields: 31.4%28%top field
Nuclear and High Energy Physics27.8%Aerospace Engineering20.4%Electrical and Electronic Engineering14.8%Computational Mechanics5.6%other fields31.4%

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

  1. 1Nuclear and High Energy Physics28% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering20% of their works
  3. 3Electrical and Electronic Engineering15% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics6% of their works
  5. 5Mechanics of Materials6% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe F. Douglas Witherspoon's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Tokamak, Turbulence, Plasma Etching, Semiconductor Industry, Electron Beams, Laser-Plasma Accelerators, Electromagnetic Launch and Railgun.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Tokamak81 topic
  2. Turbulence81 topic
  3. Plasma Etching71 topic
  4. Semiconductor Industry71 topic
  5. Electron Beams61 topic
  6. Laser-Plasma Accelerators61 topic
  7. Electromagnetic Launch51 topic
  8. Railgun51 topic
  9. Aerodynamic Flow Control21 topic
  10. Boltzmann Equation21 topic
  11. Ionosphere21 topic
  12. Kinetic Theory21 topic
  13. Magnetosphere21 topic
  14. Negative Ion Sources21 topic
  15. Plasma Actuators21 topic
  16. Superconducting Cavities21 topic

Where does F. Douglas Witherspoon work?

F. Douglas Witherspoon's main affiliation in the publication record is Hyperv Technologies (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does F. Douglas Witherspoon have?

Science Explorer counts 37 works and 61 citations for F. Douglas Witherspoon, ranking #898,447 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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