Peter Townsend

20.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
397 papers, 14.4k citations indexed

About

Peter Townsend is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Townsend has authored 397 papers receiving a total of 14.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 138 papers in Materials Chemistry, 124 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 98 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Peter Townsend's work include Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials (109 papers), Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics (76 papers) and Glass properties and applications (66 papers). Peter Townsend is often cited by papers focused on Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials (109 papers), Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics (76 papers) and Glass properties and applications (66 papers). Peter Townsend collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and United States. Peter Townsend's co-authors include Alastair Beattie, Peter Phillimore, S.W.S. McKeever, M. Moscovitch, David Blane, L. Zhang, B.J. Luff, Peter Chandler, P. J. Chandler and D.E. Hole and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Advanced Materials and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Peter Townsend

379 papers receiving 13.1k citations

Hit Papers

Poverty in the United Kingdom 1979 2026 1994 2010 1979 1987 1987 1989 1995 500 1000 1.5k

Peers

Peter Townsend
Comparison fields: 5 of 222
  • Materials Chemistry 3.8k
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering 2.6k
  • Sociology and Political Science 2.5k
  • General Health Professions 2.3k
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 1.9k
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
1 4
2 5
3 4
4 2
5 13
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Breadline Europe: The Measurement of Poverty
118
7
Trends in deprivation in the London labour market : a study of low incomes and unemployment in London between 1985 and 1992
2
8 2
9
Deprivation and ill health.
21
10 2
11 8
12
Disability in Britain : a manifesto of rights
9
13
Ion implantation, sputtering and their applications
214
14
Atomic collision phenomena in solids : proceedings of an International Conference held at the University of Sussex, Brighton, England, from 7th to 12th Sept., 1969
1
15
Duel of eagles
1
16
Social services for all
3
17
Poverty, socialism, and Labour in power
4
18
The aged in the welfare state : the interim report of a survey of persons aged 65 and over in Britain, 1962 and 1963
6
19
Social surveys of old age in Great Britain, 1945-58.
9
20
China phoenix : the revolution in China
2

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