D.R. Billson

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

D.R. Billson is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, D.R. Billson has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 24 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in D.R. Billson's work include Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation (35 papers), Flow Measurement and Analysis (13 papers) and Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies (10 papers). D.R. Billson is often cited by papers focused on Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation (35 papers), Flow Measurement and Analysis (13 papers) and Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies (10 papers). D.R. Billson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and Italy. D.R. Billson's co-authors include D.A. Hutchins, Simon J. Leigh, Christopher P. Purssell, Robert Bradley, TH Gan, D.W. Schindel, Tat‐Hean Gan, James Bowen, Adrian Neild and James A. Covington and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of The Electrochemical Society and The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

In The Last Decade

D.R. Billson

52 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

A Simple, Low-Cost Conductive Composite Material for 3D Printing of Electronic Sensors

2012 640 citations Simon J. Leigh, Robert Bradley et al. PLoS ONE profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
D.R. Billson United Kingdom	17	850	602	551	369	342	57	1.6k
J. M. Nóbrega Portugal	26	611 0.7×	129 0.2×	242 0.4×	555 1.5×	119 0.3×	124	1.9k
Jungmin Kim South Korea	25	648 0.8×	313 0.5×	210 0.4×	548 1.5×	1.5k 4.4×	156	2.4k
Mingyang Lu United Kingdom	25	419 0.5×	62 0.1×	679 1.2×	1.1k 3.1×	419 1.2×	82	1.8k
Xianping Liu United Kingdom	25	472 0.6×	55 0.1×	624 1.1×	605 1.6×	357 1.0×	88	2.0k
Heng Yang China	27	890 1.0×	99 0.2×	620 1.1×	564 1.5×	269 0.8×	68	1.9k
Shifeng Guo China	21	450 0.5×	67 0.1×	418 0.8×	550 1.5×	223 0.7×	63	1.4k
Xun Liu United States	17	539 0.6×	434 0.7×	192 0.3×	1.4k 3.9×	95 0.3×	54	2.0k
D.T. Gethin United Kingdom	27	637 0.7×	246 0.4×	390 0.7×	1.0k 2.7×	581 1.7×	156	2.7k
Jun Takahashi Japan	24	158 0.2×	275 0.5×	982 1.8×	1.1k 2.9×	167 0.5×	167	2.2k

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Watson, Richard L., D.R. Billson, D.A. Hutchins, & Francesco Ciampa. (2022). Thermosonic inspection of carbon fibre reinforced polymer composites using an airborne haptic ultrasonic phased array. NDT & E International. 132. 102731–102731. 4 indexed citations

Hutchins, D.A., Richard L. Watson, L.A.J. Davis, et al.. (2020). Ultrasonic Propagation in Highly Attenuating Insulation Materials. Sensors. 20(8). 2285–2285. 14 indexed citations

Hutchins, D.A., Peter Huthwaite, L.A.J. Davis, et al.. (2020). Mid Infrared Tomography of Polymer Pipes. Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation. 39(3).

Leigh, Simon J., Robert Bradley, Christopher P. Purssell, D.R. Billson, & D.A. Hutchins. (2012). A Simple, Low-Cost Conductive Composite Material for 3D Printing of Electronic Sensors. PLoS ONE. 7(11). e49365–e49365. 640 indexed citations breakdown →

Leigh, Simon J., James Bowen, Christopher P. Purssell, et al.. (2012). Rapid manufacture of monolithic micro-actuated forceps inspired by echinoderm pedicellariae. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 7(4). 44001–44001. 5 indexed citations

Cheneler, David, James Bowen, Simon J. Leigh, et al.. (2011). Fabrication and analysis of cylindrical resin AFM microcantilevers. Ultramicroscopy. 111(8). 1214–1223. 2 indexed citations

Billson, D.R., Christopher P. Purssell, Simon J. Leigh, & D.A. Hutchins. (2011). Rapid prototyping technologies for ultrasonic beam focussing in NDE. 2472–2474. 1 indexed citations

Hutchins, D.A., et al.. (2011). Structural health monitoring using polymer-based capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs). Ultrasonics. 51(8). 870–877. 20 indexed citations

Bradley, Robert, et al.. (2007). Micro-stereolithography as a transducer design method. Ultrasonics. 48(1). 1–5. 6 indexed citations

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Billson, D.R., et al.. (2006). Properties of an electrostatic transducer. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 120(5). 2658–2667. 6 indexed citations

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Billson, D.R., et al.. (2006). Inspection of drinks cans using non-contact electromagnetic acoustic transducers. Journal of Food Engineering. 80(2). 431–444. 14 indexed citations

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Neild, Adrian, et al.. (2004). The radiated fields of focussing air-coupled ultrasonic phased arrays. Ultrasonics. 43(3). 183–195. 26 indexed citations

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Neild, Adrian, D.A. Hutchins, & D.R. Billson. (2004). Imaging using air-coupled polymer-membrane capacitive ultrasonic arrays. Ultrasonics. 42(1-9). 859–864. 12 indexed citations

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Gan, TH, D.A. Hutchins, D.R. Billson, & D.W. Schindel. (2003). High-resolution, air-coupled ultrasonic imaging of thin materials. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control. 50(11). 1516–1524. 38 indexed citations

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McIntosh, J.S., et al.. (2002). The characterization of capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers in air. Ultrasonics. 40(1-8). 477–483. 16 indexed citations

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Neild, Adrian, et al.. (2002). Radiated fields of rectangular air-coupled micromachined transducers. 2. 891–894. 2 indexed citations

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Gan, TH, D.A. Hutchins, P.W. Carpenter, & D.R. Billson. (2002). Simultaneous reconstruction of flow and temperature cross-sections in gas jets using air-coupled tomography. 1. 623–626.

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Gan, TH, D.A. Hutchins, D.R. Billson, & Franklin C. Wong. (2001). Ultrasonic Tomographic Imaging of an Encased, Highly Attenuating Solid Medium. Research in Nondestructive Evaluation. 13(3). 131–152. 1 indexed citations

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Hutchins, D.A., et al.. (2001). Novel, wide bandwidth, micromachined ultrasonic transducers. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control. 48(6). 1495–1507. 43 indexed citations

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Hutchins, D.A., et al.. (2001). The use of air-coupled ultrasound to test paper. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control. 48(3). 717–727. 27 indexed citations

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