A. D. MacDonald

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 707 citations indexed

About

A. D. MacDonald is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, A. D. MacDonald has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 707 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 7 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 7 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in A. D. MacDonald's work include Plasma Diagnostics and Applications (10 papers), Plasma Applications and Diagnostics (7 papers) and Gyrotron and Vacuum Electronics Research (5 papers). A. D. MacDonald is often cited by papers focused on Plasma Diagnostics and Applications (10 papers), Plasma Applications and Diagnostics (7 papers) and Gyrotron and Vacuum Electronics Research (5 papers). A. D. MacDonald collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Poland. A. D. MacDonald's co-authors include H. W. Bandel, Usher Posluszny, W. A. Charlton, D. D. Betts, Jamie Matthews, Kentaro Nomura, S. M. Girvin and Stanislaw S. Stuchly and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Applied Physics, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.

In The Last Decade

A. D. MacDonald

22 papers receiving 630 citations

Hit Papers

Microwave breakdown in gases 1966 2026 1986 2006 1966 100 200 300 400
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Microwave breakdown in gases
    1966 408 citations A. D. MacDonald Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
A. D. MacDonald United States 9 472 345 182 167 93 22 707
Taijiro Uchida Japan 13 351 0.7× 109 0.3× 107 0.6× 42 0.3× 113 1.2× 34 434
P. Reynolds United Kingdom 8 335 0.7× 219 0.6× 77 0.4× 14 0.1× 120 1.3× 17 463
W. Neff Germany 16 496 1.1× 280 0.8× 39 0.2× 247 1.5× 122 1.3× 65 789
G. J. H. Brussaard Netherlands 13 324 0.7× 191 0.6× 35 0.2× 57 0.3× 112 1.2× 33 464
W. L. Harries United States 13 174 0.4× 103 0.3× 62 0.3× 38 0.2× 51 0.5× 38 447
I. Mastovsky United States 18 913 1.9× 1.1k 3.2× 495 2.7× 134 0.8× 32 0.3× 55 1.4k
Eric C. Benck United States 11 368 0.8× 162 0.5× 48 0.3× 83 0.5× 185 2.0× 39 504
George Raymond Brewer United States 11 255 0.5× 204 0.6× 144 0.8× 6 0.0× 38 0.4× 24 470
Mário J. Pinheiro Portugal 16 833 1.8× 226 0.7× 88 0.5× 500 3.0× 132 1.4× 44 1000
К. Ф. Сергейчев Russia 11 197 0.4× 95 0.3× 37 0.2× 100 0.6× 63 0.7× 38 354

Countries citing papers authored by A. D. MacDonald

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Fields of papers citing papers by A. D. MacDonald

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by A. D. MacDonald. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by A. D. MacDonald. The network helps show where A. D. MacDonald may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of A. D. MacDonald

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of A. D. MacDonald. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of A. D. MacDonald based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with A. D. MacDonald. A. D. MacDonald is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nomura, Kentaro & A. D. MacDonald. (2006). Quantum transport of massless Dirac fermions in graphene. arXiv (Cornell University). 7 indexed citations
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MacDonald, A. D. & S. M. Girvin. (1990). New evidence for the Wigner crystal. Physics World. 3(12). 17–18. 3 indexed citations
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MacDonald, A. D.. (1990). A modified Taguchi method for the design of broadband spiral cavity absorbers. 1180–1183 vol.3. 3 indexed citations
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Charlton, W. A., et al.. (1989). Additions to the technique of epi-illumination light microscopy for the study of floral and vegetative apices. Canadian Journal of Botany. 67(6). 1739–1743. 50 indexed citations
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MacDonald, A. D.. (1977). TheDynamic Response ofaResonant Frequency Tracking System. 1 indexed citations
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MacDonald, A. D., et al.. (1977). The Dynamic Response of a Resonant Frequency Tracking System. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 26(3). 231–237. 5 indexed citations
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MacDonald, A. D., et al.. (1973). Microwave Breakdown of SF6. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 1(1). 55–57. 11 indexed citations
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MacDonald, A. D., et al.. (1971). Pulsed Microwave Breakdown of Air from 1 to 1000 Torr. Journal of Applied Physics. 42(13). 5871–5872. 22 indexed citations
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MacDonald, A. D. & H. W. Bandel. (1969). Transition from free to ambipolar diffusion. 427. 64 indexed citations
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MacDonald, A. D., et al.. (1969). Electron Loss Processes in Air Afterglows. The Physics of Fluids. 12(8). 1618–1622. 3 indexed citations
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MacDonald, A. D.. (1966). Microwave breakdown in gases. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 408 indexed citations breakdown →
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MacDonald, A. D., et al.. (1963). Microwave Breakdown in Air, Oxygen, and Nitrogen. Physical Review. 130(5). 1841–1850. 63 indexed citations
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MacDonald, A. D., et al.. (1961). R.F. antenna breakdown conditions in the presence of the plasma sheath. Planetary and Space Science. 6. 149–154. 2 indexed citations
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MacDonald, A. D., et al.. (1959). ELECTRICAL BREAKDOWN IN XENON AND KRYPTON AT ULTRAHIGH FREQUENCIES. Canadian Journal of Physics. 37(10). 1166–1170. 2 indexed citations
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MacDonald, A. D. & Jamie Matthews. (1956). ELECTRICAL BREAKDOWN IN ARGON AT ULTRAHIGH FREQUENCIES. Canadian Journal of Physics. 34(4). 395–397. 3 indexed citations
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MacDonald, A. D. & Jamie Matthews. (1955). High-Frequency Ionization Coefficients in Neon-Argon Mixtures. Physical Review. 98(4). 1070–1073. 5 indexed citations
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MacDonald, A. D., et al.. (1954). Velocity of Sound in Glycerol. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 26(1). 67–69. 21 indexed citations
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MacDonald, A. D., et al.. (1952). THE ACOUSTICAL FIELD NEAR A CIRCULAR TRANSDUCER. Canadian Journal of Physics. 30(2). 119–122. 6 indexed citations
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MacDonald, A. D.. (1952). High Frequency Breakdown in Neon. Physical Review. 88(2). 420–420. 1 indexed citations
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MacDonald, A. D. & D. D. Betts. (1952). HIGH FREQUENCY GAS DISCHARGE BREAKDOWN IN NEON. Canadian Journal of Physics. 30(5). 565–576. 8 indexed citations

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