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Researcher · Optica · United States

Richard F. Leftwich

Richard F. Leftwich publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Infrared Target Detection Methodologies, Calibration and Measurement Techniques and Advanced Measurement and Detection Methods.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,405,747
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,177,702
of 1,627,098
Works
17
Citations
26
Citations per work
1.5
h-index
2
i10-index 1Top 99.1% in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Richard F. Leftwich

What does Richard F. Leftwich research?

Richard F. Leftwich's work is mostly in Engineering (78%), Chemistry (2%), Physics and Astronomy (2%).

Physical Sciences: 14 works · 83.0% of their workEngineering: 13 works · 78.2% of their workAerospace Engineering: 5 works · 29.3% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 5 works · 29.3% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 2 works · 9.8% of their workMechanics of Materials: 2 works · 9.8% of their workChemistry: 0 works · 2.4% of their workAnalytical Chemistry: 0 works · 2.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 works · 2.4% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 works · 2.4% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 17.0% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard F.Leftwich17works
Physical Sciences83%

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. Engineering1378.2%
    2. Chemistry02.4%
    3. Physics and Astronomy02.4%
  2. Everything else317.0%
  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering29% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering29% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering10% of their works
  4. 4Mechanics of Materials10% of their works
  5. 5Analytical Chemistry2% of their works
  6. 6Astronomy and Astrophysics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard F. Leftwich's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Detection, Infrared, Small Target, Infrared Thermography, Measurement, Non-Destructive Testing, On-Orbit Performance and Optoelectronic.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Detection112 topics
  2. Infrared71 topic
  3. Small Target71 topic
  4. Infrared Thermography41 topic
  5. Measurement41 topic
  6. Non-Destructive Testing41 topic
  7. On-Orbit Performance41 topic
  8. Optoelectronic41 topic
  9. Radiometric Calibration41 topic
  10. High Temperature Sensors31 topic
  11. Infrared Detectors31 topic
  12. Semiconductor Materials31 topic
  13. Thin Film Thermocouples31 topic
  14. Nanowire Transistors21 topic
  15. Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors21 topic
  16. Multivariate Calibration11 topic
  17. Near-Infrared Spectroscopy11 topic

Where does Richard F. Leftwich work?

Richard F. Leftwich's main affiliation in the publication record is Optica, United States.

How many publications and citations does Richard F. Leftwich have?

OpenAlex counts 17 works and 26 citations for Richard F. Leftwich, an h-index of 2, ranking #4,405,747 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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