D. D. Crombie

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

D. D. Crombie is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, D. D. Crombie has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 10 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 10 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in D. D. Crombie's work include Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (9 papers), Earthquake Detection and Analysis (6 papers) and Radio Wave Propagation Studies (6 papers). D. D. Crombie is often cited by papers focused on Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (9 papers), Earthquake Detection and Analysis (6 papers) and Radio Wave Propagation Studies (6 papers). D. D. Crombie collaborates with scholars based in United States and Germany. D. D. Crombie's co-authors include J. M. Headrick, Donald E. Barrick, A. Allan, Michael Newman, Klaus Hasselmann, J. M. Watts, G. McK. Allcock, David Moore, C.C. Teague and Frank Wentz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Proceedings of the IEEE.

In The Last Decade

D. D. Crombie

35 papers receiving 821 citations

Hit Papers

Doppler Spectrum of Sea Echo at 13.56 Mc./s. 1955 2026 1978 2002 1955 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Doppler Spectrum of Sea Echo at 13.56 Mc./s.
    1955 524 citations D. D. Crombie Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
D. D. Crombie United States 13 660 426 257 171 151 37 1.1k
T. M. Georges United States 18 465 0.7× 376 0.9× 573 2.2× 549 3.2× 239 1.6× 73 1.3k
Clifford L. Rufenach United States 18 1.6k 2.4× 514 1.2× 372 1.4× 122 0.7× 585 3.9× 38 2.0k
Günter Seeber Germany 15 554 0.8× 671 1.6× 216 0.8× 256 1.5× 88 0.6× 40 1.0k
E. M. Gaposchkin United States 15 433 0.7× 432 1.0× 456 1.8× 152 0.9× 98 0.6× 65 977
Earl E. Gossard United States 23 319 0.5× 323 0.8× 516 2.0× 224 1.3× 1.3k 8.5× 78 1.8k
Glenn Sasagawa United States 18 595 0.9× 265 0.6× 89 0.3× 502 2.9× 82 0.5× 44 1.2k
F. J. Klopping United States 11 543 0.8× 261 0.6× 94 0.4× 260 1.5× 52 0.3× 24 777
C. G. Little United States 20 164 0.2× 348 0.8× 685 2.7× 276 1.6× 478 3.2× 50 1.3k
Hans van der Marel Netherlands 19 531 0.8× 825 1.9× 406 1.6× 33 0.2× 164 1.1× 79 1.1k
T. Hagfors United States 11 138 0.2× 175 0.4× 484 1.9× 26 0.2× 174 1.2× 21 702

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D. D. Crombie

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Stewart, Robert H., D. D. Crombie, Walter Düing, et al.. (1978). Contributions to large-scale oceanography by radio techniques. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 13(1-4). 417–426. 1 indexed citations
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Crombie, D. D., et al.. (1978). High-frequency radar observations of sea waves travelling in opposition to the wind. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 13(1-4). 45–54. 13 indexed citations
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Barrick, Donald E., et al.. (1974). Sea backscatter at HF: Interpretation and utilization of the echo. Proceedings of the IEEE. 62(6). 673–680. 146 indexed citations
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Headrick, J. M., et al.. (1974). Low-Angle Radar Tracking. 6 indexed citations
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Crombie, D. D. & J. M. Watts. (1968). Observations of coherent backscatter of 2–10 MHz radio surface waves from the sea. Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts. 15(1). 81–87. 6 indexed citations
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Crombie, D. D., et al.. (1967). Frequency Dependence of VLF Fading at Sunrise. Radio Science. 2(6). 547–549. 12 indexed citations
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Crombie, D. D.. (1967). The effect of waveguide dispersion on VLF timing systems. IRE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 15(2). 322–323. 2 indexed citations
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Crombie, D. D.. (1967). Observations of coherent backscattering of hectometric radiowaves from along the sea surface. 1 indexed citations
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Crombie, D. D.. (1966). Further Observations of Sunrise and Sunset Fading of Very‐Low‐Frequency Signals. Radio Science. 1(1). 47–51. 40 indexed citations
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Crombie, D. D.. (1964). The effects of a small local change in phase velocity on the propagation of a VLF radio signal. Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards Section D Radio Science. 68D(6). 709–709. 17 indexed citations
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Crombie, D. D.. (1964). Periodic fading of VLF signals received over long paths during sunrise and sunset. Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards Section D Radio Science. 68D(1). 27–27. 81 indexed citations
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Crombie, D. D.. (1964). Phase and time variations in VLF propagation over long distances. Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards Section D Radio Science. 68D(11). 1223–1223. 3 indexed citations
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Crombie, D. D., et al.. (1964). Reversal of the diurnal phase variations of GBR (16 kilocycles per second) observed over a path of 720 kilometers. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 69(23). 5023–5027. 4 indexed citations
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Crombie, D. D.. (1961). Reflection from a sharply bounded ionosphere for VLF propagation Perpendicular to the magnetic meridian. Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards Section D Radio Propagation. 65D(5). 455–455. 12 indexed citations
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Crombie, D. D.. (1960). On the mode theory of very-low-frequency propagation in the presence of a transverse magnetic field. Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards Section D Radio Propagation. 64D(3). 265–265. 5 indexed citations
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Crombie, D. D., et al.. (1959). V.L.F. reflections from the ionosphere in the presence of a transverse magnetic field. Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics. 16(1-2). 37–45. 26 indexed citations
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Crombie, D. D., A. Allan, & Michael Newman. (1958). Phase variations of 16 kc/s transmissions from Rugby as received in New Zealand. ˜The œproceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Part B, Radio and electronic engineering, including communication engineering. 105(21). 301–304. 18 indexed citations
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Allan, A., et al.. (1956). Frequency Variations in New Zealand of 16 kc./s. Transmissions from GBR Rugby. Nature. 177(4500). 178–179. 6 indexed citations
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Crombie, D. D.. (1955). Measurement of the arrival angle of “whistlers”. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 60(3). 364–365.
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Crombie, D. D.. (1955). Doppler Spectrum of Sea Echo at 13.56 Mc./s.. Nature. 175(4459). 681–682. 524 indexed citations breakdown →

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