Catherine Westfall

734 total citations
32 papers, 379 citations indexed

About

Catherine Westfall is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Political Science and International Relations and Information Systems and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Catherine Westfall has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 379 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 11 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 6 papers in Information Systems and Management. Recurrent topics in Catherine Westfall's work include Twentieth Century Scientific Developments (13 papers), International Science and Diplomacy (11 papers) and Research, Science, and Academia (6 papers). Catherine Westfall is often cited by papers focused on Twentieth Century Scientific Developments (13 papers), International Science and Diplomacy (11 papers) and Research, Science, and Academia (6 papers). Catherine Westfall collaborates with scholars based in United States, Chile and Argentina. Catherine Westfall's co-authors include Peter Galison, Bruce Hevly, Lillian Hoddeson, Robert P Crease, Robert W. Seidel, R. A. Penneman, Gordon Baym, Gerd Kortemeyer, Barton C. Hacker and Luis A. Rojas and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Physics Today and The American Historical Review.

In The Last Decade

Catherine Westfall

23 papers receiving 331 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Catherine Westfall United States 10 127 122 79 56 27 32 379
Bruce Hevly United States 9 112 0.9× 64 0.5× 42 0.5× 88 1.6× 18 0.7× 13 458
W. Patrick McCray United States 13 65 0.5× 43 0.4× 46 0.6× 79 1.4× 9 0.3× 38 449
Nathan Reingold United States 13 192 1.5× 54 0.4× 43 0.5× 66 1.2× 11 0.4× 56 468
Wolfgang van den Daele Germany 11 59 0.5× 38 0.3× 54 0.7× 105 1.9× 17 0.6× 31 346
Tim Flink Germany 7 48 0.4× 182 1.5× 19 0.2× 63 1.1× 9 0.3× 15 287
Daniel S. Greenberg United States 10 71 0.6× 59 0.5× 68 0.9× 79 1.4× 6 0.2× 121 556
J. Britt Holbrook United States 13 45 0.4× 38 0.3× 160 2.0× 154 2.8× 42 1.6× 46 596
Andy Pickering United States 7 111 0.9× 17 0.1× 21 0.3× 67 1.2× 6 0.2× 19 261
Joseph C. Pitt United States 11 165 1.3× 13 0.1× 34 0.4× 78 1.4× 22 0.8× 47 464
Ken Alder United States 12 105 0.8× 54 0.4× 21 0.3× 106 1.9× 11 0.4× 19 438

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Fields of papers citing papers by Catherine Westfall

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Catherine Westfall

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

All Works

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Rojas, Luis A., et al.. (2025). First archaeometric distinction between turquoise sources in pre-hispanic contexts of the South-Central Andes: Mina Las Turquesas (Chile) and Cueva Inca Viejo (Argentina). Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 62. 105013–105013. 1 indexed citations
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Westfall, Catherine. (2016). From Desire to Data: How JLab’s Experimental Program Evolved. Physics in Perspective. 18(3). 301–350. 1 indexed citations
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Westfall, Catherine. (2014). Engineering the Big Chill: The Story of JLab’s Central Helium Liquefier. Physics in Perspective. 16(1). 37–68.
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Westfall, Catherine. (2012). Institutional persistence and the material transformation of the US national labs: The curious story of the advent of the Advanced Photon Source. Science and Public Policy. 39(4). 439–449. 17 indexed citations
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Westfall, Catherine, et al.. (2008). Atacameños en El Salvador: Nuevas apreciaciones sobre un fardo funerario del Cementerio Las Turquesas. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9 indexed citations
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Westfall, Catherine. (2008). Retooling for the Future: Launching the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence's Laboratory, 1980–1986. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences. 38(4). 569–609. 9 indexed citations
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Hoddeson, Lillian, et al.. (2008). Fermilab. 23 indexed citations
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Westfall, Catherine. (2006). A Different Laboratory Tale: Fifty Years of Mössbauer Spectroscopy. Physics in Perspective. 8(2). 189–213. 1 indexed citations
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Westfall, Catherine. (2004). Vision and reality: The EBR-II story. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 47(2). 25–32. 9 indexed citations
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Westfall, Catherine. (2003). Rethinking Big Science. Isis. 94(1). 30–56. 13 indexed citations
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Westfall, Catherine. (2002). A tale of two more laboratories: Readying for research at Fermilab and Jefferson Laboratory. Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences. 32(2). 369–407. 9 indexed citations
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Westfall, Catherine. (2001). Collaborating together: The stories of TPC, UA1, CDF, and CLAS. Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences. 32(1). 163–178. 1 indexed citations
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Westfall, Catherine, et al.. (1997). DOE's Jefferson Lab: What's in a Name?. Physics Today. 50(6). 11–13. 3 indexed citations
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Westfall, Catherine & Lillian Hoddeson. (1996). Thinking Small in Big Science: The Founding of Fermilab, 1960–1972. Technology and Culture. 37(3). 457–492.
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Hacker, Barton C., et al.. (1995). Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945.. The American Historical Review. 100(1). 256–256. 5 indexed citations
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Seely, Bruce E., et al.. (1995). Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945. Technology and Culture. 36(4). 1053–1053.
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Hoddeson, Lillian, et al.. (1993). Critical Assembly. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 39 indexed citations
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