Robert Laws

633 total citations
53 papers, 481 citations indexed

About

Robert Laws is a scholar working on Oceanography, Geophysics and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Laws has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 481 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Oceanography, 29 papers in Geophysics and 23 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Robert Laws's work include Underwater Acoustics Research (29 papers), Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (23 papers) and Seismic Waves and Analysis (23 papers). Robert Laws is often cited by papers focused on Underwater Acoustics Research (29 papers), Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (23 papers) and Seismic Waves and Analysis (23 papers). Robert Laws collaborates with scholars based in British Virgin Islands, United Kingdom and Norway. Robert Laws's co-authors include Ed Kragh, Les Hatton, David Halliday, Lasse Amundsen, Johan O. A. Robertsson, Michael A. Ainslie, Martin Landrø, Peter H. Dahl, Christ A. F. de Jong and Ali Özbek and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Geophysical Journal International and Advances in experimental medicine and biology.

In The Last Decade

Robert Laws

48 papers receiving 419 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert Laws British Virgin Islands 13 296 279 185 83 33 53 481
Gregg Parkes United Kingdom 10 191 0.6× 293 1.1× 157 0.8× 28 0.3× 33 1.0× 22 432
В. Г. Петников Russia 12 442 1.5× 93 0.3× 173 0.9× 70 0.8× 9 0.3× 60 499
D.C. Finfer United Kingdom 12 132 0.4× 117 0.4× 131 0.7× 79 1.0× 22 0.7× 29 341
William H. Dragoset United States 8 123 0.4× 181 0.6× 106 0.6× 65 0.8× 20 0.6× 21 303
Chen‐Fen Huang Taiwan 13 435 1.5× 141 0.5× 314 1.7× 100 1.2× 4 0.1× 61 521
Shima Abadi United States 9 205 0.7× 71 0.3× 93 0.5× 65 0.8× 8 0.2× 45 298
Jorge C. Novarini United States 13 302 1.0× 37 0.1× 161 0.9× 53 0.6× 19 0.6× 47 416
Stephen C. Wales United States 9 237 0.8× 81 0.3× 109 0.6× 159 1.9× 3 0.1× 26 378
Bill Dragoset United States 13 138 0.5× 513 1.8× 294 1.6× 27 0.3× 4 0.1× 32 636
Steve Stanic United States 11 259 0.9× 38 0.1× 172 0.9× 56 0.7× 5 0.2× 31 315

Countries citing papers authored by Robert Laws

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert Laws

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Laws

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All Works

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Laws, Robert, et al.. (2021). A Practical Marine-Vibrator System Optimized for Geophysical Applications. 1–5. 1 indexed citations
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Halliday, David, et al.. (2017). Separating Simultaneous Sources Using Phase Sequencing and Reconstruction in Marine Seismic Vibrators. Proceedings. 5 indexed citations
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Halliday, David, Robert Laws, & Ali Özbek. (2017). Phase sequencing, marine vibrators, and high-multiplicity simultaneous sources. 57–61. 3 indexed citations
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Laws, Robert, et al.. (2017). Reducing environmental footprint from a new air gun design. 730. 1606–1609.
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Ainslie, Michael A., Michele B. Halvorsen, Robert Laws, et al.. (2016). Verification of airgun sound field models for environmental impact assessment. Proceedings of meetings on acoustics. 70018–70018. 16 indexed citations
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Laws, Robert, et al.. (2016). Exploiting the control of phase in marine vibrators. First Break. 34(11). 6 indexed citations
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Laws, Robert, et al.. (2014). On coherence and emitted acoustic energy of marine seismic sources. 67–71. 3 indexed citations
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Laws, Robert, et al.. (2012). Hypercluster of Airguns – More Low Frequencies for the Same Quantity of Air. Proceedings. 17 indexed citations
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Laws, Robert. (2011). Cetacean Hearing-Damage Zones Around a Seismic Source. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 730. 473–476. 10 indexed citations
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Laws, Robert, et al.. (2008). Are Seismic Sources Too Loud?. 70th EAGE Conference and Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2008. 7 indexed citations
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Laws, Robert, et al.. (2008). THE MARINE SEISMIC AIR GUN. Bioacoustics. 17(1-3). 124–127. 4 indexed citations
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Kragh, Ed & Robert Laws. (2006). Rough seas and statistical deconvolution. Geophysical Prospecting. 54(4). 475–485. 11 indexed citations
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Laws, Robert & Ed Kragh. (2006). Sea surface shape derivation above the seismic streamer. Geophysical Prospecting. 54(6). 817–828. 8 indexed citations
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Laws, Robert & Ed Kragh. (2002). Rough seas and time‐lapse seismic. Geophysical Prospecting. 50(2). 195–208. 51 indexed citations
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Laws, Robert, et al.. (1990). Computer modelling of clustured airguns. First Break. 8(9). 63 indexed citations
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Laws, Robert, Gregg Parkes, & Les Hatton. (1988). ENERGY‐INTERACTION: THE LONG‐RANGE INTERACTION OF SEISMIC SOURCES1. Geophysical Prospecting. 36(4). 333–348. 4 indexed citations

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