Alan Purvis

974 total citations
80 papers, 697 citations indexed

About

Alan Purvis is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Media Technology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Purvis has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 697 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 16 papers in Media Technology and 16 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alan Purvis's work include Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies (14 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (8 papers) and Advanced optical system design (6 papers). Alan Purvis is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies (14 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (8 papers) and Advanced optical system design (6 papers). Alan Purvis collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Hong Kong and United States. Alan Purvis's co-authors include Richard McWilliam, Gordon D. Love, Peter Duffett-Smith, A. Hewish, J.V. Major, Philip Birch, J. Gourlay, Ashutosh Tiwari, Norman Powell and Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Optics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Alan Purvis

76 papers receiving 657 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alan Purvis United Kingdom 13 203 176 148 143 93 80 697
Xiao Yu China 11 262 1.3× 145 0.8× 142 1.0× 40 0.3× 76 0.8× 46 726
Kenichi Yamazaki Japan 17 413 2.0× 221 1.3× 60 0.4× 96 0.7× 30 0.3× 111 919
Nicholas Bowring United Kingdom 16 326 1.6× 147 0.8× 193 1.3× 34 0.2× 47 0.5× 82 734
Jan Westerholm Finland 16 341 1.7× 145 0.8× 277 1.9× 13 0.1× 47 0.5× 63 902
Lixia Yang China 20 854 4.2× 188 1.1× 206 1.4× 87 0.6× 48 0.5× 243 1.5k
P. Hirsch United States 15 572 2.8× 174 1.0× 349 2.4× 27 0.2× 71 0.8× 41 1.1k
S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole United States 15 665 3.3× 112 0.6× 225 1.5× 105 0.7× 146 1.6× 125 1.2k
P. Polakos United States 16 630 3.1× 188 1.1× 188 1.3× 26 0.2× 109 1.2× 40 1.3k
Yasuhiro Takahashi Japan 18 582 2.9× 225 1.3× 104 0.7× 72 0.5× 27 0.3× 174 1.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Purvis

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Purvis

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alan Purvis. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alan Purvis 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 Alan Purvis. Alan Purvis is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Vasile, Massimiliano, et al.. (2020). Engineering Resilient Complex Systems: The Necessary Shift Toward Complexity Science. IEEE Systems Journal. 14(3). 3865–3874. 20 indexed citations
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Bai, Qiang, et al.. (2013). Fabrication of a 3D electrically small antenna using holographic photolithography. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. 23(5). 55010–55010. 25 indexed citations
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McWilliam, Richard, et al.. (2012). Self-repairing electronic logic units based on convergent cellular automata. University of the Arts London Research Online (University of the Arts London). 353–360. 3 indexed citations
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Jones, David H., Richard McWilliam, & Alan Purvis. (2011). Convergence and Feedback: A Framework for Bounded Cellular Automata Design.. 6. 399–416. 1 indexed citations
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Purvis, Alan, et al.. (2011). Three-dimensional holographic lithography by an iterative algorithm. Optics Letters. 36(13). 2495–2495. 6 indexed citations
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Purvis, Alan. (2007). Photolithographic patterning of bihelical tracks onto conical substrates. Journal of Micro/Nanolithography MEMS and MOEMS. 6(4). 43015–43015. 16 indexed citations
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Maiden, Andrew, et al.. (2005). Nonplanar photolithography with computer-generated holograms. Optics Letters. 30(11). 1300–1300. 22 indexed citations
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Lo, Kwok-Tung, Wan-Chi Siu, Daniel Pak-Kong Lun, & Alan Purvis. (2002). Address generation of prime factor algorithm in a multiprocessor system. 38. 133–136.
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Birch, Philip, J. Gourlay, Gordon D. Love, & Alan Purvis. (1998). Real-time optical aberration correction with a ferroelectric liquid-crystal spatial light modulator. Applied Optics. 37(11). 2164–2164. 21 indexed citations
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Purvis, Alan, et al.. (1996). Multirate additive synthesis. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 1996. 496–499. 4 indexed citations
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Manning, Peter, et al.. (1996). Real-Time Granular Synthesis on a Distributed Multi-processor Platform.. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 1996. 287–288. 1 indexed citations
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Johnson, Simon, et al.. (1996). Optimisations of the FOF Algorithm for VLSI Implementation. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 1996. 493–495.
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Powell, Norman, R. W. Kelsall, Gordon D. Love, & Alan Purvis. (1991). <title>Investigation of fringing fields in liquid-crystal devices</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1545. 19–30. 1 indexed citations
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Purvis, Alan, et al.. (1990). New Techniques for a Real-time Phase Vocoder. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 1 indexed citations
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Bailey, Nicholas J., et al.. (1990). An Highly Parallel Architecture for Real-time Music Synthesis and Digital Signal Processing Application. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 1990. 2 indexed citations
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Manning, Peter, et al.. (1990). Studio Report, University of Durham, England. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 1990. 1 indexed citations
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Bailey, Nicholas J., et al.. (1990). Concurrent CSound: Parallel Execution fro High Speed Direct Synthesis. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 1990. 1 indexed citations
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Purvis, Alan, et al.. (1990). On Mapping N Articulation Onto M Synthesiser-control Parameters. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 1990. 12 indexed citations
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Manning, Peter, et al.. (1989). A Transputer-based Additive Synthesis Implementation.. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 1989. 1 indexed citations
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Manning, Peter, et al.. (1988). VOCEL: New implementations fo the FOF synthesis method. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 1988. 3 indexed citations

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