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Researcher · RTX (United States) · United States

W. A. Radford

W. A. Radford publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials, Infrared Target Detection Methodologies and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films.

OpenAlex
World rank
#954,573
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#313,149
of 1,627,098
Works
59
Citations
1k
Citations per work
17.4
h-index
20
i10-index 36Top 18% in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
W. A. Radford

What does W. A. Radford research?

W. A. Radford's work is mostly in Engineering (62%), Physics and Astronomy (9%), Materials Science (7%).

Physical Sciences: 46 works · 77.3% of their workEngineering: 36 works · 61.6% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 25 works · 41.8% of their workAerospace Engineering: 10 works · 17.1% of their workMechanics of Materials: 2 works · 2.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 5 works · 8.9% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 5 works · 8.9% of their workMaterials Science: 4 works · 6.8% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 2 works · 3.4% of their workPolymers and Plastics: 2 works · 3.4% of their workEverything else: 13 works · 22.7% of their workTHEIR WORKW. A. Radford59works
Physical Sciences77%

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. Engineering3661.6%
    2. Physics and Astronomy58.9%
    3. Materials Science46.8%
  2. Everything else1322.7%
  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering42% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering17% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics9% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry3% of their works
  5. 5Polymers and Plastics3% of their works
  6. 6Mechanics of Materials3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. A. Radford's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Infrared Detectors, Semiconductor Materials, Photovoltaics, Semiconductor, Nanocrystals, Infrared, Small Target and Efficiency.

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. Infrared Detectors351 topic
  2. Semiconductor Materials351 topic
  3. Photovoltaics272 topics
  4. Semiconductor272 topics
  5. Nanocrystals222 topics
  6. Infrared191 topic
  7. Small Target191 topic
  8. Efficiency171 topic
  9. Thin-Film Solar Cells171 topic
  10. Quantum Dots101 topic
  11. Single-Photon Source101 topic
  12. Electrochromic51 topic
  13. Gas Sensors51 topic
  14. Metal Oxide51 topic
  15. Tungsten Oxide51 topic
  16. On-Orbit Performance41 topic
  17. Radiometric Calibration41 topic
  18. Infrared Thermography31 topic
  19. Non-Destructive Testing31 topic

Where does W. A. Radford work?

W. A. Radford's main affiliation in the publication record is RTX (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does W. A. Radford have?

OpenAlex counts 59 works and 1,024 citations for W. A. Radford, an h-index of 20, ranking #954,573 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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