Colin Baker

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Colin Baker is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin Baker has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 38 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 30 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Colin Baker's work include Solid State Laser Technologies (27 papers), Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics (16 papers) and Spectroscopy and Laser Applications (14 papers). Colin Baker is often cited by papers focused on Solid State Laser Technologies (27 papers), Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics (16 papers) and Spectroscopy and Laser Applications (14 papers). Colin Baker collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Pakistan. Colin Baker's co-authors include S. İsmat Shah, A. K. Pradhan, Lisa Pakstis, Woohong Kim, Jasbinder S. Sanghera, W. R. Tribe, Guillermo Villalobos, I. S. Gregory, S. K. Hasanain and Ishwar D. Aggarwal and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, ACS Nano and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Colin Baker

86 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Synthesis and Antibacterial Properties of Silver Nanopart... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 250 500 750
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. Synthesis and Antibacterial Properties of Silver Nanoparticles
    2005 756 citations Colin Baker, A. K. Pradhan et al. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Colin Baker United States 28 1.5k 1.5k 714 581 358 92 3.2k
Andreas Kaiser Denmark 32 991 0.7× 2.2k 1.4× 341 0.5× 672 1.2× 317 0.9× 131 4.0k
S. Agnello Italy 34 1.5k 1.0× 2.7k 1.8× 525 0.7× 666 1.1× 1.2k 3.4× 230 4.2k
Demid A. Kirilenko Russia 29 990 0.7× 2.0k 1.3× 424 0.6× 960 1.7× 218 0.6× 257 3.1k
Anita Lloyd Spetz Sweden 38 3.7k 2.5× 2.1k 1.4× 502 0.7× 1.6k 2.7× 152 0.4× 230 5.0k
A. N. Medina Brazil 32 712 0.5× 1.5k 1.0× 302 0.4× 711 1.2× 833 2.3× 194 3.7k
Toshiyuki Suzuki Japan 29 596 0.4× 1.4k 0.9× 403 0.6× 354 0.6× 142 0.4× 289 3.3k
S.M. Lima Brazil 31 800 0.5× 1.6k 1.1× 439 0.6× 571 1.0× 1.0k 2.9× 164 3.1k
C.S. Ashley United States 20 715 0.5× 1.8k 1.2× 203 0.3× 392 0.7× 348 1.0× 54 3.3k
P. Bourson France 27 1.0k 0.7× 927 0.6× 1.2k 1.7× 438 0.8× 161 0.4× 141 2.4k
Wei Luo China 39 1.9k 1.2× 3.1k 2.0× 341 0.5× 284 0.5× 118 0.3× 227 5.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Colin Baker

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Fields of papers citing papers by Colin Baker

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colin Baker

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Colin Baker. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Colin Baker 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 Colin Baker. Colin Baker 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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Hou, Changshun, et al.. (2024). Amplification at 2.3-µm in 1.9-µm thulium-doped silica fiber laser. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 307. 2045–2045. 1 indexed citations
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Boyd, Darryl A., N. Q. Vinh, Collin McClain, et al.. (2019). Optical Properties of a Sulfur-Rich Organically Modified Chalcogenide Polymer Synthesized via Inverse Vulcanization and Containing an Organometallic Comonomer. ACS Macro Letters. 8(2). 113–116. 98 indexed citations
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Baker, Colin, E. J. Friebele, L. Brandon Shaw, et al.. (2018). Recent advances in holmium doped fibers for high-energy lasers (Conference Presentation). 3–3. 2 indexed citations
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Baker, Colin, E. J. Friebele, Jake Fontana, et al.. (2017). Nanoparticle doping for high power fiber lasers at eye-safer wavelengths. Optics Express. 25(12). 13903–13903. 59 indexed citations
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Boyd, Darryl A., Colin Baker, N. Q. Vinh, et al.. (2016). ORMOCHALCs: organically modified chalcogenide polymers for infrared optics. Chemical Communications. 53(1). 259–262. 52 indexed citations
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Baker, Colin, E. J. Friebele, Charles G. Askins, et al.. (2016). Nanoparticle doping for high power lasers at eye safer wavelengths. 7195. AM3A.1–AM3A.1. 2 indexed citations
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Goswami, R., C. S. Pände, Noam Bernstein, et al.. (2015). A high degree of enhancement of strength of sputter deposited Al/Al2O3 multilayers upon post annealing. Acta Materialia. 95. 378–385. 25 indexed citations
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Dressick, Walter J., Carissa M. Soto, Jake Fontana, et al.. (2014). Preparation and Layer-by-Layer Solution Deposition of Cu(In,Ga)O2 Nanoparticles with Conversion to Cu(In,Ga)S2 Films. PLoS ONE. 9(6). e100203–e100203. 8 indexed citations
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Wilson, Richard J., Martin J. Humphries, Robert A. Archer, et al.. (2012). P‐128: Solution Processable Polymer OLED Lighting Panels with 25 lm/W Efficiency. SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers. 43(1). 1535–1537. 3 indexed citations
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Baker, Colin, Guillermo Villalobos, L. Brandon Shaw, et al.. (2012). Ceramic materials for high power solid state lasers. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8235. 823508–823508. 5 indexed citations
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Sanghera, Jas, Jesse A. Frantz, Woohong Kim, et al.. (2011). 10% Yb^3+-Lu_2O_3 ceramic laser with 74% efficiency. Optics Letters. 36(4). 576–576. 56 indexed citations
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Sanghera, Jas, Shyam Bayya, Guillermo Villalobos, et al.. (2010). Transparent ceramics for high-energy laser systems. Optical Materials. 33(3). 511–518. 108 indexed citations
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Dawson, B., et al.. (2008). Nanoscale Design of Adaptive Tribological Coatings. 65–67. 1 indexed citations
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Pettigrew, Katherine A., Jeffrey W. Long, Everett E. Carpenter, et al.. (2008). Nickel Ferrite Aerogels with Monodisperse Nanoscale Building Blocks—The Importance of Processing Temperature and Atmosphere. ACS Nano. 2(4). 784–790. 32 indexed citations
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Kemp, Michael, et al.. (2006). Recent developments in people screening using terahertz technology: seeing the world through terahertz eyes. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6212. 62120T–62120T. 15 indexed citations
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Baker, Colin, Jianjun Hu, & Andrey A. Voevodin. (2006). Preparation of Al2O3/DLC/Au/MoS2 chameleon coatings for space and ambient environments. Surface and Coatings Technology. 201(7). 4224–4229. 63 indexed citations
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Baker, Colin, et al.. (2005). Synthesis and Antibacterial Properties of Silver Nanoparticles. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 5(2). 244–249. 756 indexed citations breakdown →
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Baker, Colin, W. R. Tribe, Thomas Lo, et al.. (2005). People screening using terahertz technology (Invited Paper). Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5790. 1–1. 25 indexed citations
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Baker, Colin, et al.. (2000). Conductive low impurity diamond for solar wind collection. Diamond and Related Materials. 9(12). 1951–1956.

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