Doug Webb

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Doug Webb is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ocean Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Doug Webb has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Oceanography, 13 papers in Ocean Engineering and 3 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Doug Webb's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (10 papers), Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (10 papers) and Underwater Acoustics Research (6 papers). Doug Webb is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (10 papers), Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (10 papers) and Underwater Acoustics Research (6 papers). Doug Webb collaborates with scholars based in United States and Spain. Doug Webb's co-authors include C. Jones, Philippe Simonetti, James G. Bellingham, Josko Catipovic, Thomas Curtin, Russ E. Davis, L. A. Regier, J. Dufour, Scott Glenn and Oscar Schofield and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Limnology and Oceanography and Journal of Physical Oceanography.

In The Last Decade

Doug Webb

17 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

SLOCUM: an underwater glider propelled by environmental energy

2001 654 citations Doug Webb, Philippe Simonetti et al. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Doug Webb United States	11	1.2k	878	298	273	216	18	1.8k
R. Stokey United States	20	968 0.8×	330 0.4×	149 0.5×	347 1.3×	97 0.4×	41	1.2k
A. M. Chiodi United States	15	661 0.6×	652 0.7×	221 0.7×	179 0.7×	80 0.4×	32	1.4k
Lee Freitag United States	34	3.6k 3.0×	1.7k 2.0×	346 1.2×	359 1.3×	807 3.7×	99	4.0k
Brett Hobson United States	17	590 0.5×	288 0.3×	104 0.3×	204 0.7×	53 0.2×	52	1.1k
Sandipa Singh United States	15	944 0.8×	513 0.6×	122 0.4×	99 0.4×	344 1.6×	27	1.1k
Thomas Curtin United States	14	388 0.3×	436 0.5×	59 0.2×	101 0.4×	147 0.7×	26	1.2k
Kirsty J. Morris United Kingdom	14	489 0.4×	348 0.4×	67 0.2×	111 0.4×	66 0.3×	17	1.1k
B. Allen United States	14	728 0.6×	218 0.2×	118 0.4×	282 1.0×	55 0.3×	21	916
Bartolomé Garau Spain	15	499 0.4×	539 0.6×	38 0.1×	105 0.4×	70 0.3×	27	979
Miles Pebody United Kingdom	18	628 0.5×	342 0.4×	61 0.2×	200 0.7×	22 0.1×	38	1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Doug Webb

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Fields of papers citing papers by Doug Webb

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Doug Webb

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

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18 of 18 papers shown

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Schofield, Oscar, Josh Kohut, Ulrich Kremer, et al.. (2015). Gliders as maturing technology: Using gliderpalooza as means to develop an integrated glider community. 1–5. 2 indexed citations

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Schofield, Oscar, Clayton Jones, Josh Kohut, et al.. (2015). Developing Coordinated Communities of Autonomous Gliders for Sampling Coastal Ecosystems. Marine Technology Society Journal. 49(3). 9–16. 10 indexed citations

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Kohut, Josh, Oscar Schofield, Scott Glenn, et al.. (2013). The Challenger Glider Mission: A global ocean predictive skill experiment. Acceda (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria). 1–8. 11 indexed citations

4.

Schofield, Oscar, Josh Kohut, Hugh Roarty, et al.. (2008). Enabling discovery based science with Webb Gliders. 49. 1–6. 1 indexed citations

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Glenn, Scott, Clayton Jones, Michael Twardowski, et al.. (2008). Glider observations of sediment resuspension in a Middle Atlantic Bight fall transition storm. Limnology and Oceanography. 53(5part2). 2180–2196. 60 indexed citations

6.

Schofield, Oscar, Josh Kohut, David Aragon, et al.. (2007). Slocum Gliders: Robust and ready. Journal of Field Robotics. 24(6). 473–485. 218 indexed citations

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Webb, Doug, et al.. (2006). Electric propulsion research at the University of Southampton. View. 8 indexed citations

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Sanford, Thomas B., et al.. (2005). Autonomous velocity and density profiler: EM-APEX. 152–156. 54 indexed citations

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Creed, Elizabeth, John Kerfoot, Scott Glenn, et al.. (2003). Automated control of a fleet of Slocum gliders within an operational coastal observatory. Oceans 2003. Celebrating the Past ... Teaming Toward the Future (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37492). 42. 726–730 Vol.2. 7 indexed citations

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Creed, Elizabeth, et al.. (2003). Using a fleet of slocum battery gliders in a regional scale coastal ocean observatory. 1. 320–324. 14 indexed citations

11.

Webb, Doug, Philippe Simonetti, & C. Jones. (2001). SLOCUM: an underwater glider propelled by environmental energy. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. 26(4). 447–452. 654 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rossby, T., et al.. (1993). An Efficient Sound Source for Wide-Area RAFOS Navigation. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 10(3). 397–403. 11 indexed citations

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Curtin, Thomas, James G. Bellingham, Josko Catipovic, & Doug Webb. (1993). Autonomous Oceanographic Sampling Networks. Oceanography. 6(3). 86–94. 365 indexed citations

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Davis, Russ E., L. A. Regier, J. Dufour, & Doug Webb. (1992). The Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation Explorer (ALACE). Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 9(3). 264–285. 178 indexed citations

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Cornuelle, Bruce D., Carl Wunsch, David Behringer, et al.. (1985). Tomographic Maps of the Ocean Mesoscale. Part 1: Pure Acoustics. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 15(2). 133–152. 62 indexed citations

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Spindel, Robert C., et al.. (1982). Instrumentation for ocean acoustic tomography. oe 2. 92–99. 7 indexed citations

17.

Behringer, Donald C., Theodore G. Birdsall, Michael G. Brown, et al.. (1982). A demonstration of ocean acoustic tomography. Nature. 299(5879). 121–125. 96 indexed citations

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Giacconi, R., H. Gursky, A. S. Krieger, et al.. (1970). Prime data reduction and analysis of the AS and E OSO-4 pointed and wheel experiments Final report. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 1 indexed citations

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