R. W. Saunders

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

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R. W. Saunders is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, R. W. Saunders has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Atmospheric Science, 12 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 6 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in R. W. Saunders's work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (18 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (18 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (6 papers). R. W. Saunders is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (18 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (18 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (6 papers). R. W. Saunders collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and Germany. R. W. Saunders's co-authors include J. M. C. Plane, Lucy J. Carpenter, Alfonso Saiz‐Lopez, G. McFiggans, Juan Carlos Gómez Martı́n, Ravi Kumar, Alex R. Baker, R. von Glasow, S. M. MacDonald and Julie Wilson and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Environmental Science & Technology and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

R. W. Saunders

26 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Atmospheric Chemistry of Iodine

2011 484 citations Alfonso Saiz‐Lopez, J. M. C. Plane et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
R. W. Saunders United Kingdom	17	1.2k	681	233	206	203	26	1.7k
Juan Carlos Gómez Martı́n United Kingdom	27	1.5k 1.3×	809 1.2×	286 1.2×	229 1.1×	279 1.4×	79	2.4k
Otto Schrems Germany	32	1.9k 1.6×	1.3k 1.9×	150 0.6×	117 0.6×	288 1.4×	141	2.8k
Thorsten Bartels‐Rausch Switzerland	25	1.1k 1.0×	362 0.5×	289 1.2×	44 0.2×	268 1.3×	68	1.8k
Bertrand Chazallon France	23	291 0.2×	281 0.4×	238 1.0×	97 0.5×	48 0.2×	51	1.6k
A. Tabazadeh United States	33	2.9k 2.4×	1.9k 2.8×	147 0.6×	30 0.1×	232 1.1×	61	3.1k
Krishna L. Foster United States	15	695 0.6×	258 0.4×	108 0.5×	40 0.2×	217 1.1×	20	1.5k
T. L. Malkin United Kingdom	15	1.4k 1.2×	857 1.3×	330 1.4×	78 0.4×	170 0.8×	19	1.8k
Randall R. Friedl United States	24	1.8k 1.5×	709 1.0×	135 0.6×	68 0.3×	185 0.9×	58	2.2k
I. Horn Germany	35	481 0.4×	132 0.2×	141 0.6×	393 1.9×	136 0.7×	96	5.3k
D.T. Jost Switzerland	25	1.3k 1.1×	858 1.3×	192 0.8×	374 1.8×	514 2.5×	80	2.4k

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Plane, J. M. C., R. W. Saunders, Jonas Hedin, et al.. (2013). A combined rocket-borne and ground-based study of the sodium layer and charged dust in the upper mesosphere. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. 118. 151–160. 26 indexed citations

Carpenter, Lucy J., S. M. MacDonald, Marvin Shaw, et al.. (2013). Atmospheric iodine levels influenced by sea surface emissions of inorganic iodine. Nature Geoscience. 6(2). 108–111. 244 indexed citations

Dhomse, Sandip, R. W. Saunders, Wenshou Tian, Martyn P. Chipperfield, & J. M. C. Plane. (2013). Plutonium‐238 observations as a test of modeled transport and surface deposition of meteoric smoke particles. Geophysical Research Letters. 40(16). 4454–4458. 26 indexed citations

Murray, Benjamin J., Allen E. Haddrell, James F. Davies, et al.. (2012). Glass formation and unusual hygroscopic growth of iodic acid solution droplets with relevance for iodine oxide particles in the coastal marine boundary layer. 7 indexed citations

Saunders, R. W., Sandip Dhomse, Wenshou Tian, Martyn P. Chipperfield, & J. M. C. Plane. (2012). Interactions of meteoric smoke particles with sulphuric acid in the Earth's stratosphere. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 12(10). 4387–4398. 42 indexed citations

Murray, Benjamin J., Allen E. Haddrell, James F. Davies, et al.. (2012). Glass formation and unusual hygroscopic growth of iodic acid solution droplets with relevance for iodine mediated particle formation in the marine boundary layer. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 12(18). 8575–8587. 56 indexed citations

Saunders, R. W. & J. M. C. Plane. (2011). A photo-chemical method for the production of olivine nanoparticles as cosmic dust analogues. Icarus. 212(1). 373–382. 34 indexed citations

Mahajan, Anoop S., J. M. C. Plane, H. Oetjen, et al.. (2010). Measurement and modelling of tropospheric reactive halogen species over the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 10(10). 4611–4624. 125 indexed citations

Kumar, Ravi, R. W. Saunders, Anoop S. Mahajan, J. M. C. Plane, & Benjamin J. Murray. (2010). Physical properties of iodate solutions and the deliquescence of crystalline I ₂ O ₅ and HIO ₃. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 10(24). 12251–12260. 32 indexed citations

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Saunders, R. W., Ottmar Möhler, Martin Schnaiter, et al.. (2010). An aerosol chamber investigation of the heterogeneous ice nucleating potential of refractory nanoparticles. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 10(3). 1227–1247. 29 indexed citations

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Saunders, R. W. & J. M. C. Plane. (2010). The formation and growth of Fe2O3 nanoparticles from the photo-oxidation of iron pentacarbonyl. Journal of Aerosol Science. 41(5). 475–489. 8 indexed citations

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Mahajan, Anoop S., J. M. C. Plane, H. Oetjen, et al.. (2009). Measurement and modelling of reactive halogen species over the tropical Atlantic Ocean. 2 indexed citations

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Saunders, R. W., Piers Forster, & J. M. C. Plane. (2007). Potential climatic effects of meteoric smoke in the Earth's paleo‐atmosphere. Geophysical Research Letters. 34(16). 10 indexed citations

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Saunders, R. W. & J. M. C. Plane. (2006). Inorganic aerosol formation and growth in the Earth's lower and upper atmosphere. Journal de Physique IV (Proceedings). 139(1). 239–256. 1 indexed citations

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Saunders, R. W. & J. M. C. Plane. (2005). Formation Pathways and Composition of Iodine Oxide Ultra-Fine Particles. Environmental Chemistry. 2(4). 299–303. 79 indexed citations

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Saiz‐Lopez, Alfonso, R. W. Saunders, D. Melissa Joseph, Stephen H. Ashworth, & J. M. C. Plane. (2004). Absolute absorption cross-section and photolysis rate of I2. UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia). 85 indexed citations

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McFiggans, G., Hugh Coe, R. Burgess, et al.. (2004). Direct evidence for coastal iodine particles from Laminaria macroalgae – linkage to emissions of molecular iodine. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 4(3). 701–713. 206 indexed citations

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Wrathall, A.E., R. W. Saunders, M. Dawson, et al.. (1998). Prevention of transmission of sheep pulmonary adenomatosis by embryo transfer. Veterinary Record. 142(25). 687–689. 8 indexed citations

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Wrathall, A.E., et al.. (1991). Efficacy of embryo transfer (ET) in preventing the transmission of sheep pulmonary adenomatosis (SPA) — Progress report. Theriogenology. 35(1). 252–252. 2 indexed citations

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Saunders, R. W.. (1991). The Effect of Particle Agglomeration in Pharmaceutical Preparations. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D (The Statistician). 40(1). 77–77. 9 indexed citations

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