H. Urkowitz

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

H. Urkowitz is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, H. Urkowitz has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 8 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 7 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in H. Urkowitz's work include Radar Systems and Signal Processing (18 papers), Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (13 papers) and Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (5 papers). H. Urkowitz is often cited by papers focused on Radar Systems and Signal Processing (18 papers), Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (13 papers) and Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (5 papers). H. Urkowitz collaborates with scholars based in United States. H. Urkowitz's co-authors include Christoph Hauer, Roger G. Pridham, Jeffrey Ashe, R.F. Hoskins, Sagie Katz and Doug Hunt and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Applied Physics, Proceedings of the IEEE and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

H. Urkowitz

42 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Energy detection of unknown deterministic signals 1967 2026 1986 2006 1967 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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. Energy detection of unknown deterministic signals
    1967 2.3k citations H. Urkowitz Proceedings of the IEEE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
H. Urkowitz United States 9 2.1k 1.3k 515 486 357 44 2.5k
R.E. Ziemer United States 14 691 0.3× 1.1k 0.8× 206 0.4× 141 0.3× 116 0.3× 72 1.6k
T. Lo Canada 16 895 0.4× 1.3k 1.0× 645 1.3× 424 0.9× 178 0.5× 64 2.2k
N. Benvenuto Italy 20 1.2k 0.6× 1.8k 1.4× 110 0.2× 475 1.0× 231 0.6× 133 2.4k
M.A. Lagunas Spain 18 1.4k 0.7× 1.9k 1.4× 391 0.8× 501 1.0× 250 0.7× 155 2.5k
Joohwan Chun South Korea 22 696 0.3× 1.0k 0.8× 402 0.8× 244 0.5× 89 0.2× 190 1.7k
R. Reggiannini Italy 20 842 0.4× 1.8k 1.4× 396 0.8× 442 0.9× 130 0.4× 61 2.1k
Mats Bengtsson Sweden 32 1.9k 0.9× 3.4k 2.6× 968 1.9× 424 0.9× 182 0.5× 185 3.9k
Paolo Banelli Italy 19 1.1k 0.6× 1.9k 1.5× 156 0.3× 155 0.3× 181 0.5× 94 2.3k
V. Koivunen Finland 17 361 0.2× 720 0.5× 150 0.3× 500 1.0× 175 0.5× 53 1.3k
Mahesh K. Varanasi United States 29 3.9k 1.9× 4.4k 3.3× 318 0.6× 297 0.6× 228 0.6× 219 4.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by H. Urkowitz

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of H. Urkowitz

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Urkowitz, H.. (2010). A Closed Form for the Noncoherent Gain Factor. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 46(2). 943–944. 2 indexed citations
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Urkowitz, H., et al.. (2002). Radar detection performance limitations in sea clutter for conventional noncoherent integration. it 6. 260–263. 1 indexed citations
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Ashe, Jeffrey, et al.. (2002). Range sidelobe suppression of expanded/compressed pulses with droop. 116–122. 15 indexed citations
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Urkowitz, H.. (1975). Directional velocity sorting MTI with staggered pulse spacing. 91–96. 1 indexed citations
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Urkowitz, H.. (1975). Noncoherent correction of radar range walk using digital processing. 470–474. 1 indexed citations
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Urkowitz, H.. (1969). Energy Detection of a Random Process in Colored Gaussian Noise. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. AES-5(2). 156–162. 13 indexed citations
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Pridham, Roger G. & H. Urkowitz. (1968). Comment on "Energy detection of unknown deterministic signals". Proceedings of the IEEE. 56(8). 1379–1380. 6 indexed citations
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Urkowitz, H.. (1968). Some Properties and Effects of Reverberation in Acoustic Surveillance. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. AES-4(1). 112–122. 3 indexed citations
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Urkowitz, H.. (1967). Energy detection of unknown deterministic signals. Proceedings of the IEEE. 55(4). 523–531. 2324 indexed citations breakdown →
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Urkowitz, H.. (1965). On Detection and Estimation of Wave Fields for Surveillance. 9(1). 44–56. 2 indexed citations
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Urkowitz, H.. (1964). Pre-envelopes of nonstationary bandpass processes. Journal of the Franklin Institute. 277(1). 31–36. 2 indexed citations
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Urkowitz, H.. (1963). The angular ambiguity function of a discrete-continuous array. Proceedings of the IEEE. 51(12). 1775–1775. 2 indexed citations
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Hoskins, R.F. & H. Urkowitz. (1963). On the sampling property of the delta function. Proceedings of the IEEE. 51(7). 1057–1058. 1 indexed citations
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Urkowitz, H.. (1960). Delay-line secondary responses in AM and FM sweep integrators. Journal of the Franklin Institute. 269(1). 1–23. 3 indexed citations
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Urkowitz, H.. (1952). A ferroelectric amplifier. Journal of the Franklin Institute. 254(6). 517–530. 2 indexed citations

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