Keith D. Ward

780 total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 594 citations indexed

About

Keith D. Ward is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Oceanography and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Keith D. Ward has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 594 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 3 papers in Oceanography and 2 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Keith D. Ward's work include Radar Systems and Signal Processing (5 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (3 papers) and Coastal and Marine Dynamics (2 papers). Keith D. Ward is often cited by papers focused on Radar Systems and Signal Processing (5 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (3 papers) and Coastal and Marine Dynamics (2 papers). Keith D. Ward collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and Italy. Keith D. Ward's co-authors include R.J.A. Tough, Simon Watts and Robert D. Hill and has published in prestigious journals such as IET Radar Sonar & Navigation and Institution of Engineering and Technology eBooks.

In The Last Decade

Keith D. Ward

6 papers receiving 577 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.

Sea Clutter: Scattering, the K Distribution and Radar Performance

2013 296 citations Keith D. Ward, R.J.A. Tough et al. Institution of Engineering and Technology eBooks profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Keith D. Ward United Kingdom	4	482	314	104	35	32	6	594
H.C. Chan Canada	7	307 0.6×	177 0.6×	65 0.6×	16 0.5×	47 1.5×	15	397
Antonio Natale Italy	11	224 0.5×	118 0.4×	139 1.3×	25 0.7×	12 0.4×	44	392
Yonggang Ji China	14	395 0.8×	244 0.8×	108 1.0×	22 0.6×	32 1.0×	76	539
W.W. Irving United States	10	330 0.7×	58 0.2×	93 0.9×	32 0.9×	29 0.9×	20	539
F. Posner United States	6	198 0.4×	184 0.6×	43 0.4×	15 0.4×	19 0.6×	9	324
A.M. Ponsford United States	10	326 0.7×	227 0.7×	49 0.5×	17 0.5×	32 1.0×	25	396
Luke Rosenberg Australia	21	1.2k 2.4×	683 2.2×	183 1.8×	107 3.1×	91 2.8×	133	1.4k
A. Öztürk Türkiye	8	283 0.6×	80 0.3×	118 1.1×	27 0.8×	111 3.5×	14	512
Shaofeng Bian China	11	253 0.5×	160 0.5×	62 0.6×	6 0.2×	16 0.5×	102	461
François Le Chevalier Netherlands	16	500 1.0×	154 0.5×	55 0.5×	145 4.1×	105 3.3×	70	714

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Keith D. Ward

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Hill, Robert D., et al.. (2019). Composite model for the microwave Doppler spectrum of the sea surface. IET Radar Sonar & Navigation. 13(11). 1981–1989. 1 indexed citations

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Ward, Keith D., R.J.A. Tough, & Simon Watts. (2013). Sea Clutter: Scattering, the K Distribution and Radar Performance. Institution of Engineering and Technology eBooks. 296 indexed citations breakdown →

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Watts, Simon, Keith D. Ward, & R.J.A. Tough. (2009). Modelling the shape parameter of sea clutter. 1–6. 4 indexed citations

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Ward, Keith D. & R.J.A. Tough. (2008). Modelling radar sea clutter in littoral environments. 82–87. 7 indexed citations

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Ward, Keith D., R.J.A. Tough, & Simon Watts. (2006). Sea Clutter: Scattering, the K Distribution and Radar Performance. Institution of Engineering and Technology eBooks. 284 indexed citations

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Ward, Keith D.. (1990). Application of the K distribution to radar clutter - A review. 15–20. 2 indexed citations

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