R.T. Hoctor

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

R.T. Hoctor is a scholar working on Signal Processing, Aerospace Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, R.T. Hoctor has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Signal Processing, 9 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 7 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in R.T. Hoctor's work include Antenna Design and Optimization (6 papers), Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Techniques (4 papers) and Blind Source Separation Techniques (4 papers). R.T. Hoctor is often cited by papers focused on Antenna Design and Optimization (6 papers), Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Techniques (4 papers) and Blind Source Separation Techniques (4 papers). R.T. Hoctor collaborates with scholars based in United States. R.T. Hoctor's co-authors include Harold W. Tomlinson, S.A. Kassam, Aaron Dentinger, Frederick W. Wheeler, Kai E. Thomenius, Eamon B. Barrett, Peter Tu, Xiaoming Liu, B. D. Milbrath and Chuanyi Ji and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

In The Last Decade

R.T. Hoctor

23 papers receiving 959 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Delay-hopped transmitted-reference RF communications

2003 428 citations R.T. Hoctor, Harold W. Tomlinson profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
R.T. Hoctor United States	10	611	570	291	229	62	26	1.0k
Quanhua Liu China	20	1.0k 1.7×	301 0.5×	220 0.8×	536 2.3×	46 0.7×	121	1.5k
N.L. Scott New Zealand	6	223 0.4×	504 0.9×	130 0.4×	184 0.8×	37 0.6×	17	766
Weixing Sheng China	16	769 1.3×	708 1.2×	282 1.0×	89 0.4×	34 0.5×	187	1.2k
A.G. Stove United Kingdom	11	824 1.3×	416 0.7×	100 0.3×	338 1.5×	68 1.1×	23	1.1k
Eric L. Mokole United States	18	1.2k 2.0×	676 1.2×	178 0.6×	309 1.3×	105 1.7×	56	1.6k
Andrea Francesco Morabito Italy	27	1.1k 1.8×	848 1.5×	60 0.2×	318 1.4×	125 2.0×	104	1.6k
B.D. Steinberg United States	12	696 1.1×	206 0.4×	123 0.4×	434 1.9×	41 0.7×	35	1.1k
Renbiao Wu China	16	322 0.5×	159 0.3×	203 0.7×	197 0.9×	12 0.2×	70	777
Zhuang Zhao-wen China	14	409 0.7×	258 0.5×	78 0.3×	119 0.5×	47 0.8×	141	742
Jeffrey A. Nanzer United States	22	887 1.5×	1.4k 2.4×	142 0.5×	456 2.0×	164 2.6×	194	2.0k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Hoctor, R.T. & Scott Dianis. (2011). Ring array PSF synthesis by delay dithering. 286. 1143–1147. 1 indexed citations

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Hoctor, R.T., et al.. (2011). SORIS—A standoff radiation imaging system. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment. 652(1). 5–9. 15 indexed citations

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Dentinger, Aaron & R.T. Hoctor. (2010). Non-invasive hemodynamic state monitoring using ultrasound. PubMed. 68. 5306–5309. 2 indexed citations

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Hoctor, R.T., Aaron Dentinger, & Kai E. Thomenius. (2007). Array signal processing for local arterial pulse wave velocity measurement using ultrasound. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control. 54(5). 1018–1027. 12 indexed citations

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Hoctor, R.T., Frederick W. Wheeler, & Eamon B. Barrett. (2006). <title>Computed spectroscopy using segmented apertures</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6065. 60650H–60650H.

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Hershey, John E., Stephen F. Bush, & R.T. Hoctor. (2006). Communications and Control—A Natural Linkage for SWARM. Journal of Network and Systems Management. 14(1). 7–13. 3 indexed citations

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Hoctor, R.T., Aaron Dentinger, & Kai E. Thomenius. (2006). Array Signal Processing Approaches to Ultrasound-Based Arterial Pulse Wave Velocity Estimation. 5. 985–988. 3 indexed citations

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Hoctor, R.T., et al.. (2005). A physical layer for the CAN bus using modulated PLC. 176–180. 2 indexed citations

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Hoctor, R.T., Aaron Dentinger, & Kai E. Thomenius. (2005). Signal processing for ultrasound-based arterial pulse wave velocity estimation. 2. 1492–1497. 8 indexed citations

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Hoctor, R.T.. (2004). Multiple access capacity in multipath channels of delay-hopped transmitted-reference UWB. 315–319. 5 indexed citations

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Hoctor, R.T. & Kai E. Thomenius. (2004). Focus correction for ultrasound imaging through mammography compression plate. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 115(2). 462–462. 1 indexed citations

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Hoctor, R.T. & S.A. Kassam. (2003). An algorithm for order statistic determination and L-filtering. 3. 1686–1689. 1 indexed citations

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Hoctor, R.T. & Harold W. Tomlinson. (2003). Delay-hopped transmitted-reference RF communications. 265–269. 428 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hoctor, R.T. & S.A. Kassam. (2003). An efficient structure for nonlinear L- and C-filtering. 298. 1491–1494.

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Hershey, John E., R.T. Hoctor, & A.A. Hassan. (1997). Modest but useful erasure technique for DPSK. Electronics Letters. 33(1). 21–22.

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Hoctor, R.T. & S.A. Kassam. (1996). Array redundancy for active line arrays. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 5(7). 1179–1183. 29 indexed citations

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Hoctor, R.T. & S.A. Kassam. (1992). High resolution coherent source location using transmit/receive arrays. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 1(1). 88–100. 16 indexed citations

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Kassam, S.A., et al.. (1991). Aperture synthesis for imaging systems using rectangular boundary arrays. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 89(2). 799–810. 3 indexed citations

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Hoctor, R.T.. (1990). The coarray approach to aperture synthesis for active and passive imaging. Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania). 2 indexed citations

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Ji, Chuanyi, R.T. Hoctor, & S.A. Kassam. (1989). Elliptical boundary arrays for coherent and incoherent imaging. IEE Proceedings F Radar and Signal Processing. 136(5). 210–210. 5 indexed citations

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