Roland Winston

5.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
158 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Roland Winston is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Roland Winston has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 64 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 32 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Roland Winston's work include Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (57 papers), solar cell performance optimization (55 papers) and Photovoltaic System Optimization Techniques (30 papers). Roland Winston is often cited by papers focused on Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (57 papers), solar cell performance optimization (55 papers) and Photovoltaic System Optimization Techniques (30 papers). Roland Winston collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Israel. Roland Winston's co-authors include Frank Kreith, John A. Duffie, William A. Beckman, Lun Jiang, Bennett Widyolar, J. O’Gallagher, Harald Ries, Ari Rabl, Yong Sin Kim and Jeffrey M. Gordon and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Physics Today.

In The Last Decade

Roland Winston

146 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

Solar-Energy Thermal Processes 1974 2026 1991 2008 1976 1974 1989 250 500 750
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. Solar-Energy Thermal Processes
    1976 910 citations Roland Winston et al. profile →
  2. Principles of solar concentrators of a novel design
    1974 412 citations Roland Winston Solar Energy profile →
  3. High Collection Nonimaging Optics
    1989 404 citations Roland Winston Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Roland Winston United States 29 2.5k 1.7k 737 652 536 158 4.2k
Tao Wang China 30 898 0.4× 2.8k 1.6× 437 0.6× 213 0.3× 580 1.1× 319 4.4k
M. S. Sodha India 29 1.4k 0.6× 535 0.3× 667 0.9× 363 0.6× 160 0.3× 271 3.7k
Zhiguo Wang China 31 126 0.1× 558 0.3× 1.1k 1.4× 277 0.4× 1.6k 3.0× 389 4.9k
J.R. Hull United States 33 383 0.2× 847 0.5× 764 1.0× 133 0.2× 1.7k 3.2× 162 4.3k
John R. Howell United States 37 543 0.2× 356 0.2× 1.1k 1.5× 106 0.2× 774 1.4× 201 5.6k
Dario Ambrosini Italy 29 148 0.1× 387 0.2× 277 0.4× 58 0.1× 272 0.5× 151 2.9k
Ping Yan China 35 158 0.1× 3.5k 2.0× 257 0.3× 54 0.1× 456 0.9× 432 5.1k
D. Myers United States 23 808 0.3× 810 0.5× 35 0.0× 805 1.2× 96 0.2× 85 2.0k
M. Pınar Mengüç United States 34 327 0.1× 527 0.3× 657 0.9× 33 0.1× 1.2k 2.2× 197 5.7k
Jun Tang China 33 95 0.0× 1.5k 0.9× 277 0.4× 726 1.1× 868 1.6× 303 4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Roland Winston

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Fields of papers citing papers by Roland Winston

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roland Winston

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Roland Winston. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Roland Winston 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 Roland Winston. Roland Winston 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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Winston, Roland. (2023). Cylindrical radiant energy direction device with refractive medium. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information).
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Winston, Roland. (2023). Radiant energy collector. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information).
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Winston, Roland & Eli Yablonovitch. (2020). Nonimaging Optics: Efficient Design for Illumination and Solar Concentration XVII. 11495. 1 indexed citations
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Widyolar, Bennett, et al.. (2019). Theoretical and experimental performance of a two-stage (50X) hybrid spectrum splitting solar collector tested to 600 °C. Applied Energy. 239. 514–525. 43 indexed citations
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Winston, Roland, et al.. (2017). Étendue and angular acceptance of the asymmetric compound parabolic concentrator. Journal of Photonics for Energy. 7(2). 28003–28003. 1 indexed citations
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Shatz, Narkis, John C. Bortz, & Roland Winston. (2010). Thermodynamic efficiency of solar concentrators. Optics Express. 18(S1). A5–A5. 22 indexed citations
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Winston, Roland & Weiya Zhang. (2009). Novel aplanatic designs. Optics Letters. 34(19). 3018–3018. 12 indexed citations
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Winston, Roland & Pablo Benı́tez. (2006). Nonimaging Optics and Efficient Illumination Systems III. 6338. 3 indexed citations
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Feuermann, Daniel, et al.. (2005). Realization of compact, passively-cooled, high-flux photovoltaic prototypes. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5942. 59420Q–59420Q. 1 indexed citations
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Cabibbo, N., E. C. Swallow, & Roland Winston. (2004). Semileptonic Hyperon Decays and Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Unitarity. Physical Review Letters. 92(25). 251803–251803. 41 indexed citations
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Shatz, Narkis, John C. Bortz, Harald Ries, & Roland Winston. (1997). <title>Nonrotationally symmetric nonimaging systems that overcome the flux-transfer performance limit imposed by skewness conservation</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3139. 76–85. 5 indexed citations
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Winston, Roland. (1995). Selected papers on nonimaging optics. 106. 7 indexed citations
13.
Littlejohn, Robert G. & Roland Winston. (1993). Corrections to classical radiometry. TuV.2–TuV.2. 3 indexed citations
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Littlejohn, Robert G. & Roland Winston. (1993). Corrections to classical radiometry. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 10(9). 2024–2024. 34 indexed citations
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Chandrasekhar, S., Valeria Ferrari, & Roland Winston. (1991). On the non-radial oscillations of a star - II. Further amplifications. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 434(1892). 635–641. 19 indexed citations
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O’Gallagher, J., W.T. Welford, & Roland Winston. (1987). Axially symmetric nonimaging flux concentrators with the maximum theoretical concentration ratio. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 4(1). 66–66. 18 indexed citations
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Snail, Keith A., J. O’Gallagher, & Roland Winston. (1984). A stationary evacuated collector with integrated concentrator. Solar Energy. 33(5). 441–449. 24 indexed citations
18.
Winston, Roland. (1980). Nonimaging concentrators (A). Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 70. 1629. 2 indexed citations
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Rabl, Ari, et al.. (1976). Lens-mirror combinations with maximal concentration (A). Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 66. 1068. 2 indexed citations
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Clarke, Lionel & Roland Winston. (1955). CALCULATION OF FINSIDE COEFFICIENTS IN LONGITUDINAL FINNED-TUBE EXCHANGERS. Chemical engineering progress. 2 indexed citations

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