Richard McFee

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Richard McFee is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Biomedical Engineering and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard McFee has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 7 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 6 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Richard McFee's work include ECG Monitoring and Analysis (12 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (5 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (5 papers). Richard McFee is often cited by papers focused on ECG Monitoring and Analysis (12 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (5 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (5 papers). Richard McFee collaborates with scholars based in United States. Richard McFee's co-authors include Gerhard Baule, Stanley Rush, Franklin D. Johnston, J.A. Abildskov, P.P. Tarjan, Robert S. Wilkinson, Toby M. Maher and William J. Mueller and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, Journal of Applied Physics and Circulation Research.

In The Last Decade

Richard McFee

34 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Resistivity of Body Tissues at Low Frequencies 1963 2026 1984 2005 1963 100 200 300
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.

  1. Resistivity of Body Tissues at Low Frequencies
    1963 356 citations Stanley Rush, J.A. Abildskov et al. Circulation Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard McFee United States 16 651 427 400 280 273 34 1.7k
Ronald T. Wakai United States 30 1.2k 1.8× 264 0.6× 169 0.4× 906 3.2× 520 1.9× 107 2.8k
David B. Geselowitz United States 31 2.2k 3.4× 869 2.0× 762 1.9× 189 0.7× 523 1.9× 114 4.0k
T.C. Pilkington United States 24 831 1.3× 263 0.6× 291 0.7× 67 0.2× 213 0.8× 89 1.6k
Gerhard Baule United States 9 375 0.6× 127 0.3× 100 0.3× 206 0.7× 195 0.7× 12 784
Olaf Dössel Germany 33 2.6k 4.0× 891 2.1× 616 1.5× 321 1.1× 1.1k 4.1× 354 4.4k
Curtis C. Johnson United States 22 92 0.1× 1.0k 2.4× 817 2.0× 268 1.0× 311 1.1× 61 2.2k
Koji Nakajima Japan 18 221 0.3× 272 0.6× 166 0.4× 170 0.6× 50 0.2× 127 1.4k
Daniel A. Brody United States 22 1.5k 2.2× 222 0.5× 150 0.4× 52 0.2× 316 1.2× 93 2.1k
B. Milan Horáček Canada 27 1.7k 2.6× 187 0.4× 189 0.5× 164 0.6× 658 2.4× 128 2.2k
Olaf Doessel Germany 11 339 0.5× 251 0.6× 232 0.6× 269 1.0× 818 3.0× 66 1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard McFee

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McFee, Richard. (1984). Fluctuations in a non-Maxwellian gas. American Journal of Physics. 52(11). 1033–1037. 1 indexed citations
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McFee, Richard. (1983). Gas with a non-Maxwellian velocity distribution. Physical review. A, General physics. 27(4). 2233–2236. 1 indexed citations
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McFee, Richard. (1973). Comments on Professor C. Kittel's Letter “On the Nonexistence of Temperature Fluctuations in Small Systems”. American Journal of Physics. 41(10). 1212–1212. 5 indexed citations
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McFee, Richard & Gerhard Baule. (1972). Research in electrocardiography and magnetocardiography. Proceedings of the IEEE. 60(3). 290–321. 47 indexed citations
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McFee, Richard. (1971). Self-Rectification in Diodes and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. American Journal of Physics. 39(7). 814–820. 12 indexed citations
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McFee, Richard. (1971). Preliminary Study of a Nonbridge Method for Precision Measurement of Capacitors at Low Frequencies Using Operational Amplifiers and Resistance Standards. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. IM-20(3). 170–176. 1 indexed citations
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Baule, Gerhard & Richard McFee. (1970). The magnetic heart vector. American Heart Journal. 79(2). 223–236. 54 indexed citations
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Baule, Gerhard & Richard McFee. (1965). Theory of Magnetic Detection of the Heart's Electrical Activity. Journal of Applied Physics. 36(6). 2066–2073. 91 indexed citations
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Abildskov, J.A., et al.. (1963). Further observations with the normalized electrocardiogram and axis map. American Heart Journal. 65(2). 220–229. 5 indexed citations
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Rush, Stanley, J.A. Abildskov, & Richard McFee. (1963). Resistivity of Body Tissues at Low Frequencies. Circulation Research. 12(1). 40–50. 356 indexed citations breakdown →
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Baule, Gerhard & Richard McFee. (1963). Detection of the magnetic field of the heart. American Heart Journal. 66(1). 95–96. 250 indexed citations
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McFee, Richard, et al.. (1961). An Electronic Coordinate Transformer for Electrocardiography. 8(1). 52–54. 12 indexed citations
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McFee, Richard. (1961). Determining the response of nonlinear systems to arbitrary inputs. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers Part II Applications and Industry. 80(4). 189–193. 10 indexed citations
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McFee, Richard. (1961). Superconducting power transformers — A feasibility study. Electrical Engineering. 80(10). 754–760. 8 indexed citations
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McFee, Richard, Robert S. Wilkinson, & J.A. Abildskov. (1961). On the normalization of the electrical orientation of the heart and the representation of electrical axis by means of an axis map. American Heart Journal. 62(3). 391–397. 13 indexed citations
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McFee, Richard. (1960). On the interpretation of cancellation experiments. II. American Heart Journal. 59(3). 433–441. 11 indexed citations
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McFee, Richard. (1959). Optimum Input Leads for Cryogenic Apparatus. Review of Scientific Instruments. 30(2). 98–102. 106 indexed citations
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McFee, Richard & Toby M. Maher. (1959). Effect of surface reflections on rain cancellation of circularly polarized radars. IRE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 7(2). 199–201. 7 indexed citations
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McFee, Richard & Franklin D. Johnston. (1954). Electrocardiographic Leads. Circulation. 9(2). 255–266. 66 indexed citations
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McFee, Richard, et al.. (1952). Graphic Representation of Electrocardiographic Leads by Means of Fluid Mappers. Circulation. 6(1). 21–29. 30 indexed citations

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