Bill Williams

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
160 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Bill Williams is a scholar working on Media Technology, Education and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Bill Williams has authored 160 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Media Technology, 27 papers in Education and 25 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Bill Williams's work include Engineering Education and Curriculum Development (29 papers), Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis (20 papers) and Biomedical and Engineering Education (13 papers). Bill Williams is often cited by papers focused on Engineering Education and Curriculum Development (29 papers), Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis (20 papers) and Biomedical and Engineering Education (13 papers). Bill Williams collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Portugal and United States. Bill Williams's co-authors include Samia Chreim, C. R. Hinings, Ali Dastmalchian, Kenneth L. Bernhardt, Peter S. Ross, Shreyas Patankar, Jane Eert, Sarah Zimmermann, Anna Posacka and Stephen Chastain and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature Communications and Academy of Management Journal.

In The Last Decade

Bill Williams

145 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Pervasive distribution of polyester fibres in the Arctic ... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150 200
What are hit papers?

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. Pervasive distribution of polyester fibres in the Arctic Ocean is driven by Atlantic inputs
    2021 212 citations Bill Williams et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bill Williams United Kingdom 24 293 241 239 198 188 160 2.2k
Clive Fletcher Australia 33 772 2.6× 449 1.9× 128 0.5× 11 0.1× 113 0.6× 138 5.5k
David Moore United Kingdom 30 219 0.7× 419 1.7× 67 0.3× 13 0.1× 67 0.4× 136 3.6k
В. В. Соколов Russia 21 85 0.3× 80 0.3× 151 0.6× 69 0.3× 17 0.1× 146 5.5k
Alvin M. Weinberg United States 24 42 0.1× 202 0.8× 283 1.2× 36 0.2× 30 0.2× 179 4.8k
John Evans United States 31 40 0.1× 238 1.0× 224 0.9× 11 0.1× 123 0.7× 197 4.2k
Andrew E. Smith Australia 23 123 0.4× 57 0.2× 122 0.5× 30 0.2× 21 0.1× 81 2.7k
Ole Ellegaard Denmark 15 81 0.3× 86 0.4× 146 0.6× 54 0.3× 7 0.0× 42 2.7k
David Byrne United Kingdom 32 163 0.6× 327 1.4× 330 1.4× 18 0.1× 16 0.1× 110 3.7k
Richard Barrett United States 22 56 0.2× 82 0.3× 109 0.5× 27 0.1× 29 0.2× 59 2.0k
David Taylor United Kingdom 30 339 1.2× 228 0.9× 751 3.1× 11 0.1× 15 0.1× 162 3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Bill Williams

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bill Williams

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Bill Williams. 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 Bill Williams. The network helps show where Bill Williams may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bill Williams

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bill Williams. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bill Williams 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 Bill Williams. Bill Williams 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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Halliday, William D., Jackie Dawson, Humfrey Melling, et al.. (2024). Opportunistic ship source level measurements in the Western Canadian Arctic. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 155(6). 3807–3821. 1 indexed citations
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Williams, Bill, et al.. (2023). JEE in the 21st century: A brief history of the journal and retrospective of three past editors. Journal of Engineering Education. 112(4). 848–851. 1 indexed citations
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Williams, Bill, et al.. (2021). Evolution of Engineering Education Research in Portugal and Spain: a scientometric study. 1–8. 3 indexed citations
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Chance, Shannon, Bill Williams, & Inês Direito. (2021). Studying Engineering Abroad: Intersectionality and Student Support. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1–6.
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DeGrandpre, Michael D., Wiley Evans, Mary‐Louise Timmermans, et al.. (2020). Changes in the Arctic Ocean Carbon Cycle With Diminishing Ice Cover. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(12). e2020GL088051–e2020GL088051. 30 indexed citations
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Sorby, Sheryl, et al.. (2020). A History of Engineering Education Research in Portugal and Ireland. 24.55.1–24.55.7. 2 indexed citations
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Williams, Bill, et al.. (2020). Is Engineering Education Research Global? The Answer May Surprise You. 24.828.1–24.828.8. 2 indexed citations
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Williams, Bill & Luísa Cagica Carvalho. (2020). Trajectory of a fourth-generation female entrepreneur as seen through a monomyth lens – Casa Ermelinda Freitas. Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship. 34(1). 53–73. 3 indexed citations
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Chance, Shannon & Bill Williams. (2020). Preliminary Findings of a Phenomenological Study of Middle Eastern Women’s Experiences Studying Engineering in Ireland. Papers on Engineering Education Repository (American Society for Engineering Education). 1 indexed citations
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Trevelyan, James & Bill Williams. (2018). Value creation in the engineering enterprise: an educational perspective. European Journal of Engineering Education. 44(4). 461–483. 22 indexed citations
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Williams, Bill, et al.. (2017). Evolution of Engineering Education Research as a Field of Inquiry in the UK. UCL Discovery (University College London). 7 indexed citations
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Williams, Bill, et al.. (2016). Engineering Practice as an Emerging Field of Inquiry: a Historical Overview. 6 indexed citations
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Malmi, Lauri, Tom Adawi, Erik de Graaff, et al.. (2016). How authors did it – a methodological analysis of recent engineering education research papers in the European Journal of Engineering Education. European Journal of Engineering Education. 43(2). 171–189. 25 indexed citations
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Williams, Bill, et al.. (2011). Keeping them involved: encouraging and monitoring student activity. Journal of Technical Education and Training. 3(2). 33–43. 2 indexed citations
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Fernández, José Muñiz, et al.. (2009). Caracterización de detalle de las margas azules del Guadalquivir mediante ensayos in situ y de laboratorio. 16–22. 3 indexed citations
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Williams, Bill. (1997). Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 31(6). 700–701. 1 indexed citations
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Williams, Bill, C. G. Toner, & F. Hill. (1995). Implementation of an Mtf-Based Merging Algorithm for GONG Image Data. ESASP. 376. 185.
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Williams, Bill, et al.. (1985). Applied mathematics for advanced level. 1 indexed citations
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Williams, Bill. (1962). Diffraction by a disk. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 267(1328). 77–87. 18 indexed citations
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Williams, Bill. (1959). Diffraction of an E -polarized plane wave by an imperfectly conducting wedge. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 252(1270). 376–393. 51 indexed citations

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