Donald E. Kerr

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Donald E. Kerr is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Donald E. Kerr has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 3 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 2 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Donald E. Kerr's work include Atomic and Molecular Physics (2 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (2 papers) and Nuclear Materials and Properties (2 papers). Donald E. Kerr is often cited by papers focused on Atomic and Molecular Physics (2 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (2 papers) and Nuclear Materials and Properties (2 papers). Donald E. Kerr collaborates with scholars based in United States and Germany. Donald E. Kerr's co-authors include Ernest P. Gray, W. G. Fastie, R. C. Isler, G. Siegert, E. Konecny, Helmut Günther, G. G. Sivjee, Peter Z. Takacs and Wayne R. McKinney and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Annals of Physics and Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A.

In The Last Decade

Donald E. Kerr

10 papers receiving 924 citations

Hit Papers

Physics of Fully Ionized Gases. 1956 2026 1979 2002 1956 250 500 750
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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. Physics of Fully Ionized Gases.
    1956 976 citations Donald E. Kerr Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Donald E. Kerr United States 4 451 380 292 275 196 10 1.1k
H. Dreicer United States 8 456 1.0× 357 0.9× 525 1.8× 305 1.1× 130 0.7× 19 1.1k
C. L. Longmire United States 13 564 1.3× 275 0.7× 529 1.8× 307 1.1× 90 0.5× 35 1.1k
M. P. Bachynski Canada 11 301 0.7× 552 1.5× 262 0.9× 650 2.4× 218 1.1× 46 1.3k
W. E. Drummond United States 16 655 1.5× 476 1.3× 637 2.2× 335 1.2× 92 0.5× 43 1.3k
Howard H. C. Chang United States 6 312 0.7× 486 1.3× 338 1.2× 259 0.9× 92 0.5× 9 1.0k
J. G. Laframboise Canada 18 642 1.4× 474 1.2× 188 0.6× 676 2.5× 242 1.2× 58 1.2k
Timothy Coffey United States 14 698 1.5× 309 0.8× 310 1.1× 142 0.5× 130 0.7× 36 1.0k
S. J. Buchsbaum United States 20 554 1.2× 999 2.6× 608 2.1× 802 2.9× 145 0.7× 48 1.8k
Евгений Павлович Велихов Russia 13 353 0.8× 226 0.6× 205 0.7× 194 0.7× 56 0.3× 34 758
R. A. Stern United States 19 423 0.9× 596 1.6× 536 1.8× 563 2.0× 272 1.4× 59 1.2k

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All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
1.
Kerr, Donald E.. (1987). Propagation of short radio waves (Revised edition). 24. 2 indexed citations
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Fastie, W. G. & Donald E. Kerr. (1975). Spectroradiometric calibration techniques in the far ultraviolet: a stable emission source for the Lyman bands of molecular hydrogen. Applied Optics. 14(9). 2133–2133. 32 indexed citations
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Kerr, Donald E., G. G. Sivjee, Wayne R. McKinney, Peter Z. Takacs, & W. G. Fastie. (1972). Brightness of forbidden OI lines and properties of shadow bands during the eclipse of 7 March 1970. Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics. 34(4). 585–592. 1 indexed citations
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Günther, Helmut, et al.. (1967). Notizen:Fission Fragment Charge Distributions in Mass Chains A = 132, 133 and 134 as a Function of Fragment Kinetic Energy. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A. 22(11). 1808–1809. 3 indexed citations
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Isler, R. C. & Donald E. Kerr. (1966). Reply to Comments by Griem, Kolb, and McLean. The Physics of Fluids. 9(9). 1879–1881. 2 indexed citations
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Isler, R. C. & Donald E. Kerr. (1965). Deviations from Ionization Equilibrium in Plasmas Generated by Electric Shock Tubes. The Physics of Fluids. 8(6). 1176–1185. 16 indexed citations
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Gray, Ernest P. & Donald E. Kerr. (1962). The diffusion equation with a quadratic loss term applied to electron-ion volume recombination in a plasma. Annals of Physics. 17(2). 276–300. 72 indexed citations
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Kerr, Donald E., et al.. (1957). COLLECTION AND MEASUREMENT OF STABLE FISSION XENON IN SHEATH PUNCTURE EXPERIMENTS-METHOD AND RESULTS TO DATE. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations
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Kerr, Donald E.. (1956). Physics of Fully Ionized Gases.. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 78(19). 5133–5134. 976 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kerr, Donald E., et al.. (1951). Propagation of short radio waves. Virtual Defense Library (Ministerio de Defensa). 1 indexed citations

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