Charles A. Wight

6.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
128 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

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Charles A. Wight is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles A. Wight has authored 128 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 45 papers in Materials Chemistry and 34 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Charles A. Wight's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (37 papers), Energetic Materials and Combustion (34 papers) and Thermal and Kinetic Analysis (28 papers). Charles A. Wight is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (37 papers), Energetic Materials and Combustion (34 papers) and Thermal and Kinetic Analysis (28 papers). Charles A. Wight collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and India. Charles A. Wight's co-authors include Sergey Vyazovkin, Jeffery D. Peterson, Stephen R. Leone, Alexander V. Benderskii, Bruce S. Ault, Lester Andrews, Eugenii Ya. Misochko, J. L. Beauchamp, Alexander V. Akimov and Alexander I. Boldyrev and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Charles A. Wight

125 papers receiving 5.7k citations

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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.

Model-free and model-fitting approaches to kinetic analysis of isothermal and nonisothermal data

1999 1.2k citations Sergey Vyazovkin, Charles A. Wight profile →
Kinetics of the Thermal and Thermo-Oxidative Degradation of Polystyrene, Polyethylene and Poly(propylene)

2001 635 citations Jeffery D. Peterson, Sergey Vyazovkin et al. profile →
Isothermal and non-isothermal kinetics of thermally stimulated reactions of solids

1998 484 citations Sergey Vyazovkin, Charles A. Wight International Reviews in Physical Chemistry profile →
KINETICS IN SOLIDS

1997 474 citations Sergey Vyazovkin, Charles A. Wight profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Charles A. Wight United States	33	3.6k	1.7k	1.3k	1.1k	1.0k	128	5.9k
Edward M. Kober United States	34	3.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	397 0.4×	341 0.3×	80	5.8k
Jaroslav Šesták Czechia	36	4.7k 1.3×	1.5k 0.9×	2.2k 1.7×	758 0.7×	872 0.8×	235	6.5k
В. В. Болдырев Russia	43	4.3k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	719 0.6×	184 0.2×	816 0.8×	262	7.3k
Hideaki Takahashi Japan	37	1.6k 0.4×	880 0.5×	1.3k 1.0×	299 0.3×	586 0.6×	230	4.9k
Hongyan Wang China	38	2.7k 0.8×	643 0.4×	434 0.3×	507 0.5×	741 0.7×	452	6.8k
Shiang‐Tai Lin Taiwan	39	1.5k 0.4×	371 0.2×	1.3k 1.0×	746 0.7×	2.1k 2.1×	159	6.5k
Konstantin N. Kudin United States	33	5.9k 1.6×	292 0.2×	901 0.7×	777 0.7×	2.1k 2.0×	58	9.1k
Hiroshi Yoshida Japan	36	3.5k 1.0×	362 0.2×	1.1k 0.9×	258 0.2×	668 0.6×	525	6.6k
Jiřı́ Málek Czechia	45	7.6k 2.1×	1.6k 0.9×	2.3k 1.8×	1.7k 1.6×	1.3k 1.3×	288	9.5k
Hua Hou China	52	4.3k 1.2×	1.0k 0.6×	445 0.3×	767 0.7×	945 0.9×	397	10.2k

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Harman, Todd, et al.. (2016). Packing Configurations of PBX‐9501 Cylinders to Reduce the Probability of a Deflagration to Detonation Transition (DDT). Propellants Explosives Pyrotechnics. 41(6). 1070–1078. 1 indexed citations

Peterson, J.R. & Charles A. Wight. (2012). An Eulerian–Lagrangian computational model for deflagration and detonation of high explosives. Combustion and Flame. 159(7). 2491–2499. 16 indexed citations

Livne, Oren E., et al.. (2006). Automated Error Analysis through Parsing Mathematical Expressions in Adaptive Online Learning. E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education. 2006(1). 1321–1325. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Deliang, Eric A. Schmitt, Geoff G. Z. Zhang, et al.. (2003). Model-free treatment of the dehydration kinetics of nedocromil sodium trihydrate. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 92(7). 1367–1376. 44 indexed citations

Zhou, Deliang, Eric A. Schmitt, Devalina Law, et al.. (2003). Crystallization Kinetics of Amorphous Nifedipine Studied by Model-Fitting and Model-Free Approaches. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 92(9). 1779–1792. 82 indexed citations

Vyazovkin, Sergey, et al.. (2002). Hard to swallow dry: Kinetics and mechanism of the anhydrous thermal decomposition of acetylsalicylic acid. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 91(3). 800–809. 30 indexed citations

Dong, Zedong, Deliang Zhou, Eric J. Munson, et al.. (2002). Dehydration kinetics of neotame monohydrate. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 91(6). 1423–1431. 31 indexed citations

Wight, Charles A., et al.. (2002). Thermal Activation of the High Explosive NTO: Sublimation, Decomposition, and Autocatalysis. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 106(15). 4022–4026. 26 indexed citations

Misochko, Eugenii Ya., et al.. (2002). HFCN open-shell isomers in solid argon. I. Spectroscopy of the ground and excited states of HFC=N radical. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 116(23). 10307–10317. 4 indexed citations

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Peterson, Jeffery D. & Charles A. Wight. (2001). Thermal decomposition kinetics of composite polymer bonded explosives(PBX).. Polymer preprints. 42(1). 697–698. 3 indexed citations

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Akimov, Alexander V., et al.. (2001). Infrared and EPR Spectroscopic Studies of 2-C2H2F and 1-C2H2F Radicals Isolated in Solid Argon. Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy. 205(2). 269–279. 16 indexed citations

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Vyazovkin, Sergey & Charles A. Wight. (1998). Isothermal and non-isothermal kinetics of thermally stimulated reactions of solids. International Reviews in Physical Chemistry. 17(3). 407–433. 484 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wight, Charles A., Eugenii Ya. Misochko, E.V. Vetoshkin, & V.I. Gol’danskii. (1993). Tunneling dynamics and spatial correlations of long chain growth in solid-state photochlorination of ethylene at low temperatures. Chemical Physics. 170(3). 393–410. 7 indexed citations

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Wight, Charles A., et al.. (1992). Photopolymerization of disordered solid acetaldehyde at cryogenic temperatures. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 96(3). 1502–1504. 4 indexed citations

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Wight, Charles A.. (1992). A statistical model of solid state chain reactions. Chemical Physics. 162(2-3). 393–400. 1 indexed citations

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Georgiou, Savas & Charles A. Wight. (1990). Photodissociation of cobalt tricarbonylnitrosyl and its trialkylphosphine derivatives in the visible region: evidence for impulsive fragmentation of the nitrosyl ligand. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 94(12). 4935–4940. 10 indexed citations

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Sedlacek, Arthur J. & Charles A. Wight. (1988). Photochemical Chain Reactionsin Amorphous Solids. Laser Chemistry. 9(1-3). 155–170. 3 indexed citations

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Wight, Charles A., D. J. Donaldson, & Stephen R. Leone. (1985). A two-laser pulse-and-probe study of T-R, V energy transfer collisions of H+NO at 0.95 and 2.2 eV. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 83(2). 660–667. 43 indexed citations

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Wight, Charles A. & Stephen R. Leone. (1983). Excimer laser photolysis studies of translational-to-vibrational energy transfer in collisions of H and D atoms with CO. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 78(8). 4875–4886. 53 indexed citations

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Wight, Charles A. & J. L. Beauchamp. (1981). Infrared spectra of gas-phase ions and their use in elucidating reaction mechanisms. Identification of C7H7- structural isomers by multiphoton electron detachment using a low-power infrared laser. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 103(21). 6499–6501. 28 indexed citations

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