Lord Rayleigh

28.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Lord Rayleigh is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Radiation. According to data from OpenAlex, Lord Rayleigh has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 1 paper in History and Philosophy of Science, 1 paper in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 1 paper in Radiation. Recurrent topics in Lord Rayleigh's work include History of Science and Natural History (1 paper), Music Technology and Sound Studies (1 paper) and Radioactive Decay and Measurement Techniques (1 paper). Lord Rayleigh is often cited by papers focused on History of Science and Natural History (1 paper), Music Technology and Sound Studies (1 paper) and Radioactive Decay and Measurement Techniques (1 paper). Lord Rayleigh collaborates with scholars based in . Lord Rayleigh's co-authors include Norman H. Nachtrieb, Albert A. Michelson, R. S. Shankland and John N. Howard and has published in prestigious journals such as Physics Today, Isis and Nuclear Physics.

In The Last Decade

Lord Rayleigh

4 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

The Theory of Sound

1957 2.6k citations Lord Rayleigh, Norman H. Nachtrieb Physics Today profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lord Rayleigh	3	794	607	456	424	348	7	2.6k
G. S. Bennett United States	5	450 0.6×	1.2k 2.0×	554 1.2×	456 1.1×	277 0.8×	8	2.7k
Austin R. Frey United States	5	535 0.7×	1.7k 2.8×	794 1.7×	643 1.5×	378 1.1×	5	3.9k
Carl E. Pearson United States	18	687 0.9×	236 0.4×	320 0.7×	388 0.9×	141 0.4×	44	1.9k
Lawrence E. Kinsler United States	6	545 0.7×	1.8k 2.9×	815 1.8×	661 1.6×	397 1.1×	6	4.0k
L. I. Sedov Russia	15	603 0.8×	312 0.5×	627 1.4×	295 0.7×	122 0.4×	68	2.1k
Uno Ingård United States	22	665 0.8×	1.5k 2.5×	304 0.7×	1.2k 2.8×	162 0.5×	74	2.6k
A. H. Nayfeh United States	17	996 1.3×	627 1.0×	625 1.4×	327 0.8×	704 2.0×	42	4.4k
Allan D. Pierce United States	25	709 0.9×	1.8k 2.9×	660 1.4×	1.0k 2.4×	335 1.0×	184	4.2k
T. Miloh Israel	31	838 1.1×	1.1k 1.8×	876 1.9×	284 0.7×	133 0.4×	197	3.6k
Louis A. Romero United States	22	469 0.6×	495 0.8×	248 0.5×	667 1.6×	318 0.9×	83	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Lord Rayleigh

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lord Rayleigh

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lord Rayleigh

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

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Rayleigh, Lord. (2012). The Life of Sir J. J. Thomson: Sometime Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 3 indexed citations

2.

Rayleigh, Lord. (1968). Life of John William Strutt : Third Baron Rayleigh, O.M., F.R.S.. University of Wisconsin Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

3.

Shankland, R. S., Lord Rayleigh, & Albert A. Michelson. (1967). Rayleigh and Michelson. Isis. 58(1). 86–88. 2 indexed citations

4.

Howard, John N., et al.. (1967). The Michelson-Rayleigh Correspondence of the AFCRL Rayleigh Archives. Isis. 58(1). 88–89. 1 indexed citations

5.

Rayleigh, Lord. (1966). The discovery of radioactivity and transmutation. Nuclear Physics. 75(3). 695–696.

6.

Rayleigh, Lord. (1966). Scientific papers. Nuclear Physics. 75(3). 696–696. 2 indexed citations

7.

Rayleigh, Lord & Norman H. Nachtrieb. (1957). The Theory of Sound. Physics Today. 10(1). 32–34. 2555 indexed citations breakdown →

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