Carson Flammer

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 977 citations indexed

About

Carson Flammer is a scholar working on Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Biomedical Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Carson Flammer has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 977 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Surfaces, Coatings and Films, 2 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 1 paper in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Carson Flammer's work include Optical Coatings and Gratings (2 papers), Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry (1 paper) and Electromagnetic Compatibility and Measurements (1 paper). Carson Flammer is often cited by papers focused on Optical Coatings and Gratings (2 papers), Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry (1 paper) and Electromagnetic Compatibility and Measurements (1 paper). Carson Flammer collaborates with scholars based in United States and Egypt. Carson Flammer's co-authors include Philip Μ. Morse and Milton Abramowitz and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Applied Physics, Physics Today and Physical Review.

In The Last Decade

Carson Flammer

7 papers receiving 872 citations

Hit Papers

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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. Spheroidal wave functions
    1957 563 citations Carson Flammer CERN Bulletin profile →

Peers

Carson Flammer
Bernard Friedman United States
H. C. Corben United States
Egon Marx United States
P. Stehle United States
Tai L. Chow United States
Hidetosi Takahasi Japan
Josef Meixner Germany
Ray A. Kunze United States
Richard L. Liboff United States
A. M. Arthurs United Kingdom
Bernard Friedman United States
Carson Flammer
Citations per year, relative to Carson Flammer Carson Flammer (= 1×) peers Bernard Friedman

Countries citing papers authored by Carson Flammer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Carson Flammer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carson Flammer

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

All Works

7 of 7 papers shown
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Flammer, Carson, et al.. (1963). Group Theory and Its Application to Physical Problems. Physics Today. 16(2). 62–64. 203 indexed citations
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Morse, Philip Μ. & Carson Flammer. (1959). Spheroidal Wave Functions.. Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation. 13(66). 129–129. 120 indexed citations
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Flammer, Carson & Milton Abramowitz. (1958). Spheroidal Wave Functions. Physics Today. 11(3). 30–30. 40 indexed citations
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Flammer, Carson. (1957). Spheroidal wave functions. CERN Bulletin. 563 indexed citations breakdown →
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Flammer, Carson. (1953). The Vector Wave Function Solution of the Diffraction of Electromagnetic Waves by Circular Disks and Apertures. II. The Diffraction Problems. Journal of Applied Physics. 24(9). 1224–1231. 29 indexed citations
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Flammer, Carson. (1953). Variational Methods for Periodic Lattices and Artificial Dielectrics. Physical Review. 89(6). 1298–1298. 2 indexed citations

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