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Researcher · Oberlin College · United States

W. D. Cairns

W. D. Cairns publishes mostly in Theoretical Computer Science, Neurology and Information Systems and Management, on topics such as History and Theory of Mathematics, History of Medical Practice and Academic Publishing and Open Access.

OpenAlex
World rank
#516,329
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#170,217
of 358,040
Works
28
Citations
3
Citations per work
0.1

What does W. D. Cairns research?

Theoretical Computer Science: 29.2%Neurology: 16.7%Information Systems and Management: 12.5%Education: 8.3%other fields: 33.3%29%top field
Theoretical Computer Science29.2%Neurology16.7%Information Systems and Management12.5%Education8.3%other fields33.3%

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

  1. 1Theoretical Computer Science29% of their works
  2. 2Neurology17% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems and Management12% of their works
  4. 4Education8% of their works
  5. 5Transportation8% of their works
  6. 6Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. D. Cairns's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Historical Sources, Mathematics Education, Medical Education, Medical History, Neurosurgery, COVID-19, Preprints and Disaster Recovery.

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. Historical Sources71 topic
  2. Mathematics Education71 topic
  3. Medical Education62 topics
  4. Medical History41 topic
  5. Neurosurgery41 topic
  6. COVID-1931 topic
  7. Preprints31 topic
  8. Disaster Recovery21 topic
  9. Global Access21 topic
  10. Radiotherapy21 topic
  11. Urban Reconstruction21 topic
  12. Blood Transfusion11 topic
  13. Geometry11 topic
  14. Heat Transfer11 topic
  15. Hyperbolic11 topic
  16. Numerical Methods11 topic
  17. Obstetrics11 topic

Where does W. D. Cairns work?

W. D. Cairns's main affiliation in the publication record is Oberlin College, United States.

How many publications and citations does W. D. Cairns have?

Science Explorer counts 28 works and 3 citations for W. D. Cairns, ranking #516,329 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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