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William A. Thornton

William A. Thornton publishes mostly in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Civil and Structural Engineering and Social Psychology, on topics such as Color Science and Applications, Color perception and design and Visual perception and processing mechanisms.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,214,398
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#297,963
of 358,040
Works
29
Citations
32
Citations per work
1.1

What does William A. Thornton research?

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 19.5%Civil and Structural Engineering: 17.1%Social Psychology: 14.6%Cognitive Neuroscience: 9.8%other fields: 39.0%20%top field
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics19.5%Civil and Structural Engineering17.1%Social Psychology14.6%Cognitive Neuroscience9.8%other fields39.0%

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

  1. 1Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics20% of their works
  2. 2Civil and Structural Engineering17% of their works
  3. 3Social Psychology15% of their works
  4. 4Cognitive Neuroscience10% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering7% of their works
  6. 6Physical and Theoretical Chemistry5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William A. Thornton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Color Constancy, Color Psychology, Colorimetry, Kansei Engineering, Neural Processing, Visual Perception, Level Set Method and Sensitivity Analysis.

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. Color Constancy61 topic
  2. Color Psychology61 topic
  3. Colorimetry61 topic
  4. Kansei Engineering61 topic
  5. Neural Processing41 topic
  6. Visual Perception41 topic
  7. Level Set Method31 topic
  8. Sensitivity Analysis31 topic
  9. Form-Finding21 topic
  10. Tensegrity21 topic
  11. Chemistry Education11 topic
  12. Ion-Selective Electrodes11 topic
  13. Laboratory Techniques11 topic
  14. Melanin11 topic
  15. Optical Sensors11 topic
  16. Pigmentation11 topic

Where does William A. Thornton work?

William A. Thornton's main affiliation in the publication record is Color (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does William A. Thornton have?

Science Explorer counts 29 works and 32 citations for William A. Thornton, ranking #1,214,398 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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