Michael D. Collins

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
143 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Michael D. Collins is a scholar working on Oceanography, Geophysics and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael D. Collins has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 117 papers in Oceanography, 45 papers in Geophysics and 40 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Michael D. Collins's work include Underwater Acoustics Research (113 papers), Geophysical Methods and Applications (33 papers) and Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (30 papers). Michael D. Collins is often cited by papers focused on Underwater Acoustics Research (113 papers), Geophysical Methods and Applications (33 papers) and Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (30 papers). Michael D. Collins collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Australia. Michael D. Collins's co-authors include W. A. Kuperman, William L. Siegmann, Evan K. Westwood, Henrik Schmidt, Richard B. Evans, Joseph F. Lingevitch, Louis Fishman, Stanley A. Chin-Bing, John S. Perkins and Dalcio K. Dacol and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and The American Naturalist.

In The Last Decade

Michael D. Collins

140 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

A split-step Padé solution for the parabolic equation method 1993 2026 2004 2015 1993 200 400 600
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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.

  1. A split-step Padé solution for the parabolic equation method
    1993 618 citations Michael D. Collins The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael D. Collins United States 29 2.7k 1.4k 876 689 363 143 3.4k
Darrell R. Jackson United States 29 3.0k 1.1× 2.3k 1.6× 786 0.9× 509 0.7× 253 0.7× 145 4.7k
Michael B. Porter United States 23 2.3k 0.9× 1.6k 1.1× 490 0.6× 641 0.9× 197 0.5× 80 3.0k
Henrik Schmidt United States 16 1.7k 0.6× 1.3k 0.9× 484 0.6× 361 0.5× 207 0.6× 67 2.3k
Finn B. Jensen Italy 15 1.6k 0.6× 1.0k 0.7× 470 0.5× 396 0.6× 157 0.4× 34 2.0k
Bruce M. Howe United States 32 2.4k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 723 0.8× 986 1.4× 452 1.2× 169 3.9k
James F. Lynch United States 40 3.0k 1.1× 1.3k 0.9× 611 0.7× 1.7k 2.4× 514 1.4× 247 5.3k
Peter F. Worcester United States 30 3.2k 1.2× 1.2k 0.8× 776 0.9× 614 0.9× 675 1.9× 207 3.6k
Stan E. Dosso Canada 36 2.7k 1.0× 2.4k 1.7× 2.3k 2.6× 686 1.0× 245 0.7× 248 4.4k
Eric I. Thorsos United States 25 1.7k 0.6× 1.0k 0.7× 445 0.5× 144 0.2× 145 0.4× 108 3.2k
Kevin L. Williams United States 27 1.6k 0.6× 1.0k 0.7× 528 0.6× 244 0.4× 94 0.3× 148 2.1k

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All Works

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Collins, Michael D. & Joseph F. Lingevitch. (2021). Multi-Valued Eigen-Processing for Isolating Multiple Sources With a Rectangular Array. IEEE Access. 9. 8990–8996. 3 indexed citations
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Collins, Michael D., Joseph F. Lingevitch, & David Calvo. (2021). Fast and Accurate Seismic Computations in Laterally Varying Environments. IEEE Access. 9. 103258–103265. 3 indexed citations
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Collins, Michael D.. (2020). Application of image processing to evidence for the persistence of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis). Scientific Reports. 10(1). 14616–14616. 5 indexed citations
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Collins, Michael D., et al.. (2019). Acoustic recordings and modeling under seasonally varying sea ice. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 8323–8323. 19 indexed citations
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Collins, Michael D.. (2017). Video evidence and other information relevant to the conservation of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker ( Campephilus principalis ). Heliyon. 3(1). e00230–e00230. 13 indexed citations
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Collins, Michael D.. (2017). Periodic and transient motions of large woodpeckers. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 12551–12551. 8 indexed citations
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Collins, Michael D. & William L. Siegmann. (2016). Treatment of Variable Topography With the Seismoacoustic Parabolic Equation. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. 42(2). 488–493. 1 indexed citations
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Collins, Michael D.. (2011). Putative audio recordings of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 129(3). 1626–1630. 13 indexed citations
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Baird, Leemon C., et al.. (2007). The use of concurrent codes in computer programming and digital signal processing education. Journal of computing sciences in colleges. 23(1). 174–180. 6 indexed citations
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Cadotte, Marc W., et al.. (2006). On Testing the Competition‐Colonization Trade‐Off in a Multispecies Assemblage. The American Naturalist. 168(5). 704–709. 138 indexed citations
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Mills, Michael, Michael D. Collins, & Joseph F. Lingevitch. (2000). Two-way parabolic equation techniques for diffraction and scattering problems. Wave Motion. 31(2). 173–180. 16 indexed citations
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Lingevitch, Joseph F. & Michael D. Collins. (2000). Estimating elastic sediment properties with the self-starter. Wave Motion. 31(2). 157–163. 5 indexed citations
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Lingevitch, Joseph F. & Michael D. Collins. (1998). Wave propagation in range-dependent poro-acoustic waveguides. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 104(2). 783–790. 19 indexed citations
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Collins, Michael D., et al.. (1997). Rational operators for filtering. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 101(5). 2518–2523. 2 indexed citations
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Siegmann, William L., et al.. (1997). Nonlinear wide-angle paraxial acoustic propagation in shallow-water channels. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 102(1). 224–232. 4 indexed citations
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Collins, Michael D. & Louis Fishman. (1995). Efficient navigation of parameter landscapes. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 98(3). 1637–1644. 71 indexed citations
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Collins, Michael D., et al.. (1995). Applications of optimized rational approximations to parabolic equation modeling. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 98(5_Supplement). 2971–2971. 1 indexed citations
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Kuperman, W. A., et al.. (1993). Environmental source tracking using measured replica fields. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 94(3_Supplement). 1844–1844. 2 indexed citations
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Collins, Michael D.. (1993). Minimax rational approximations for the parabolic equation method. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 94(3_Supplement). 1884–1884. 1 indexed citations

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