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Researcher · Optica · United States

William R. Pfister

William R. Pfister publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies, Infrared Target Detection Methodologies and Combustion and flame dynamics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,988,456
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,295,411
of 1,627,098
Works
16
Citations
212
Citations per work
13.3
h-index
6
i10-index 6Top 82% in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
William R. Pfister

What does William R. Pfister research?

William R. Pfister's work is mostly in Engineering (62%), Physics and Astronomy (19%), Chemical Engineering (10%).

Physical Sciences: 15 works · 91.6% of their workEngineering: 10 works · 62.5% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 5 works · 33.3% of their workComputational Mechanics: 3 works · 16.7% of their workAerospace Engineering: 2 works · 12.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 works · 18.7% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 works · 10.4% of their workInstrumentation: 1 works · 8.3% of their workChemical Engineering: 2 works · 10.4% of their workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 2 works · 10.4% of their workEverything else: 1 works · 8.4% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam R.Pfister16works
Physical Sciences92%

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. Engineering1062.5%
    2. Physics and Astronomy318.7%
    3. Chemical Engineering210.4%
  2. Everything else18.4%
  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering33% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics17% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering12% of their works
  4. 4Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes10% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics10% of their works
  6. 6Instrumentation8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William R. Pfister's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Chemical Kinetics, Photon Counting, Combustion, Infrared, Large-Eddy Simulation, Small Target, Soot Formation and Turbulent Flames.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Chemical Kinetics102 topics
  2. Photon Counting82 topics
  3. Combustion51 topic
  4. Infrared51 topic
  5. Large-Eddy Simulation51 topic
  6. Small Target51 topic
  7. Soot Formation51 topic
  8. Turbulent Flames51 topic
  9. CMOS Image Sensors41 topic
  10. High-Speed Imaging41 topic
  11. Laser Ranging41 topic
  12. Optical Interconnects41 topic
  13. Optical Modulators41 topic
  14. Semiconductor Lasers41 topic
  15. Silicon Photonics41 topic
  16. Time-of-Flight41 topic
  17. Quantum Dots31 topic
  18. Semiconductor31 topic

Where does William R. Pfister work?

William R. Pfister's main affiliation in the publication record is Optica, United States.

How many publications and citations does William R. Pfister have?

OpenAlex counts 16 works and 212 citations for William R. Pfister, an h-index of 6, ranking #4,988,456 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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