K. Walton

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

K. Walton is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Numerical Analysis. According to data from OpenAlex, K. Walton has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 7 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 6 papers in Numerical Analysis. Recurrent topics in K. Walton's work include Numerical methods for differential equations (6 papers), Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (5 papers) and Elasticity and Material Modeling (4 papers). K. Walton is often cited by papers focused on Numerical methods for differential equations (6 papers), Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (5 papers) and Elasticity and Material Modeling (4 papers). K. Walton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and Poland. K. Walton's co-authors include John Marshall, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, P. J. Digby, B. Ireland and N. MacDonald and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Applied Mechanics, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids and Geophysical Journal International.

In The Last Decade

K. Walton

24 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

The effective elastic moduli of a random packing of spheres 1987 2026 2000 2013 1987 100 200 300 400
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. The effective elastic moduli of a random packing of spheres
    1987 498 citations K. Walton Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
K. Walton United Kingdom 10 377 316 235 206 202 27 1.1k
Julius Miklowitz United States 14 133 0.4× 781 2.5× 98 0.4× 158 0.8× 438 2.2× 37 1.2k
Zhong Wan‐xie China 14 153 0.4× 373 1.2× 101 0.4× 29 0.1× 252 1.2× 43 718
H. Antes Germany 21 221 0.6× 853 2.7× 184 0.8× 38 0.2× 638 3.2× 81 1.3k
V. D. Kubenko Ukraine 15 214 0.6× 628 2.0× 131 0.6× 37 0.2× 120 0.6× 124 863
F. Perotti Italy 19 302 0.8× 82 0.3× 321 1.4× 68 0.3× 592 2.9× 59 1.0k
Frederick Bloom United States 17 327 0.9× 267 0.8× 176 0.7× 13 0.1× 158 0.8× 74 1.1k
M. L. Baron United States 10 127 0.3× 280 0.9× 127 0.5× 30 0.1× 225 1.1× 24 635
N. Maw United Kingdom 9 144 0.4× 330 1.0× 373 1.6× 15 0.1× 114 0.6× 14 1.0k
C.R.I. Emson United Kingdom 11 84 0.2× 287 0.9× 180 0.8× 64 0.3× 167 0.8× 32 814
С. В. Кузнецов Russia 23 69 0.2× 874 2.8× 118 0.5× 230 1.1× 243 1.2× 213 1.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by K. Walton

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of K. Walton

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Walton, K.. (2007). Effect of vibration magnitude on the transmission of vertical vibration through car seating. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 1 indexed citations
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Walton, K.. (1988). Wave propagation within random packings of spheres. Geophysical Journal International. 92(1). 89–97. 9 indexed citations
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MacDonald, N., John Marshall, & K. Walton. (1988). Direct stability boundary method for distributed systems with discrete delay. International Journal of Control. 47(3). 711–716. 4 indexed citations
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Walton, K. & John Marshall. (1987). Direct method for TDS stability analysis. 134(2). 101–107. 154 indexed citations
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Walton, K.. (1987). The effective elastic moduli of a random packing of spheres. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 35(2). 213–226. 498 indexed citations breakdown →
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Walton, K. & John Marshall. (1987). Evaluation of cost functionals for systems with commensurate delays by a finite polynomial method. 134(2). 108–114. 5 indexed citations
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Marshall, John & K. Walton. (1987). A Review of Analytical Methods for Control of Time-Delay Systems. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 20(1). 485–490. 1 indexed citations
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Walton, K. & John Marshall. (1987). Direct method for TDS stability analysis. IEE Proceedings D Control Theory and Applications. 134(2). 101–101. 225 indexed citations
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Walton, K. & P. J. Digby. (1987). Wave Propagation Through Fluid Saturated Porous Rocks. Journal of Applied Mechanics. 54(4). 788–793. 4 indexed citations
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Walton, K., B. Ireland, & John Marshall. (1986). Evaluation of weighted quadratic functional for time-delay systems. International Journal of Control. 44(6). 1491–1498. 4 indexed citations
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Marshall, John, et al.. (1986). Comments on “Design of delayed control systems using Zakian's framework”. IEE Proceedings D Control Theory and Applications. 133(6). 313–313. 1 indexed citations
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Walton, K. & Henryk Mikołaj Górecki. (1984). On the Evaluation of Cost Functionals, with Particular Emphasis on Time-delay Systems. IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information. 1(3). 283–306. 10 indexed citations
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Walton, K. & John Marshall. (1984). Mismatch in a predictor control scheme : some closed-form solutions. International Journal of Control. 40(2). 403–419. 5 indexed citations
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Walton, K.. (1978). The oblique compression of two elastic spheres. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 26(3). 139–150. 50 indexed citations
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Walton, K.. (1977). Elastic wave propagation in model sediments - II. Geophysical Journal International. 50(2). 473–486. 3 indexed citations
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Walton, K.. (1977). 2 Global Compendium of Energy Statistics. Natural Resources Forum. 2(1). 78–81.
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Walton, K.. (1975). The Effective Elastic Moduli of Model Sediments. Geophysical Journal International. 43(2). 293–306. 13 indexed citations
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Walton, K.. (1974). The Seismological Effects of Elastic Pre-Straining within the Earth. Geophysical Journal International. 36(3). 651–671. 11 indexed citations
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Walton, K.. (1973). Seismic Waves in Pre-strained Media. Geophysical Journal International. 31(4). 373–394. 9 indexed citations
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Walton, K., et al.. (1968). Constant-beamwidth antenna development. IRE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 16(5). 510–513. 1 indexed citations

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