Stephen McPhail

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Stephen McPhail is a scholar working on Ocean Engineering, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen McPhail has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Ocean Engineering, 21 papers in Oceanography and 13 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Stephen McPhail's work include Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (40 papers), Maritime Navigation and Safety (23 papers) and Underwater Acoustics Research (16 papers). Stephen McPhail is often cited by papers focused on Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (40 papers), Maritime Navigation and Safety (23 papers) and Underwater Acoustics Research (16 papers). Stephen McPhail collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Stephen McPhail's co-authors include James Perrett, Miles Pebody, A. Webb, David White, Adrian Jenkins, Peter Stevenson, Pierre Dutrieux, Stanley S. Jacobs, Maaten Furlong and N.W. Millard and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Stephen McPhail

63 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stephen McPhail United Kingdom 26 868 748 589 338 257 63 2.0k
James Perrett United Kingdom 11 274 0.3× 608 0.8× 269 0.5× 261 0.8× 79 0.3× 22 1.1k
Alexander L. Forrest United States 17 335 0.4× 404 0.5× 337 0.6× 158 0.5× 127 0.5× 77 1.1k
Thomas Fritz Germany 22 342 0.4× 874 1.2× 468 0.8× 125 0.4× 2.1k 8.1× 114 2.8k
Thierry Toutin Canada 22 989 1.1× 453 0.6× 106 0.2× 218 0.6× 937 3.6× 73 2.1k
John R. Potter Singapore 25 997 1.1× 277 0.4× 918 1.6× 414 1.2× 102 0.4× 117 2.2k
Birgit Wessel Germany 19 202 0.2× 883 1.2× 166 0.3× 164 0.5× 975 3.8× 72 2.0k
Paola Rizzoli Germany 22 110 0.1× 1.3k 1.8× 560 1.0× 295 0.9× 1.2k 4.6× 123 2.6k
R. M. Dorrell United Kingdom 22 568 0.7× 509 0.7× 292 0.5× 405 1.2× 154 0.6× 71 1.8k
Ross Vennell New Zealand 24 212 0.2× 498 0.7× 586 1.0× 250 0.7× 675 2.6× 79 1.7k
Batuhan Osmanoğlu United States 16 236 0.3× 809 1.1× 102 0.2× 133 0.4× 948 3.7× 73 1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Stephen McPhail

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen McPhail

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen McPhail

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

All Works

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Davis, Peter E. D., Adrian Jenkins, Keith W. Nicholls, et al.. (2022). Observations of Modified Warm Deep Water Beneath Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica, From an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 127(11). 15 indexed citations
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Salavasidis, Georgios, Andrea Munafò, Stephen McPhail, et al.. (2021). Terrain-Aided Navigation With Coarse Maps—Toward an Arctic Crossing With an AUV. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. 46(4). 1192–1212. 29 indexed citations
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Harris, Catherine A., Georgios Salavasidis, Miles Pebody, et al.. (2021). Autosub Long Range 6000: A Multiple-Month Endurance AUV for Deep-Ocean Monitoring and Survey. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. 46(4). 1179–1191. 52 indexed citations
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McPhail, Stephen, et al.. (2019). Autosub Long Range AUV Missions Under the Filchner and Ronne Ice Shelves in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica - an Engineering Perspective. OCEANS 2019 - Marseille. 1–8. 27 indexed citations
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Furlong, Maaten, Stephen McPhail, Andrea Munafò, et al.. (2018). OCEANIDS: Building Next Generation Maritime Autonomous Systems. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa). 1. 6 indexed citations
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Salavasidis, Georgios, Andrea Munafò, Catherine A. Harris, et al.. (2018). Towards Arctic AUV Navigation. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 51(29). 287–292. 14 indexed citations
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Phillips, Alexander B., et al.. (2018). Autonomous Surface/Subsurface Survey System Field Trials. 1–6. 12 indexed citations
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Phillips, Alexander B., et al.. (2017). Autosub long range 1500: An ultra-endurance AUV with 6000 Km range. OCEANS 2017 - Aberdeen. 1–5. 42 indexed citations
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Salavasidis, Georgios, Catherine A. Harris, Stephen McPhail, Alexander B. Phillips, & Eric Rogers. (2016). Terrain Aided Navigation for Long Range AUV operations at arctic latitudes. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 115–123. 23 indexed citations
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Griffiths, Geoffrey & Stephen McPhail. (2011). AUVs for Depth and Distance: Autosub6000 and Autosub Long Range. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 6 indexed citations
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McPhail, Stephen. (2010). RRS Discovery Cruise 343, 27 Sep-15 Oct 2009. Deepwater trials of the Autosub6000 AUV, HyBIS, and telemetry systems. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1166–1166. 1 indexed citations
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Furlong, Maaten, Stephen McPhail, & Miles Pebody. (2009). A New Collision Avoidance System for the Autosub6000 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 3 indexed citations
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Morice, Colin, Sándor M. Veres, & Stephen McPhail. (2009). Terrain referencing for autonomous navigation of underwater vehicles. 28 indexed citations
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McPhail, Stephen. (2007). Autosub operations in the Arctic and the Antarctic. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 3 indexed citations
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Jones, Daniel O. B., et al.. (2005). Seabed photography from an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 4 indexed citations
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Griffiths, G., N.W. Millard, Stephen McPhail, et al.. (2001). Standard and special: Sensors used during the Autosub Science Missions programme. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 5 indexed citations
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Millard, N.W., Stephen McPhail, Peter Stevenson, et al.. (2001). Measurements of the sea ice thickness distribution and icebergs using Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Autosub 2 in Antarctica. AGUFM. 2001. 2 indexed citations
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Fernandes, Paul G., Andrew S. Brierley, E. John Simmonds, et al.. (2000). Fish do not avoid survey vessels. Nature. 404(6773). 35–36. 103 indexed citations
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Jackson, Ian, et al.. (1989). Recurrent anaphylactoid reaction during Caesarean section. Anaesthesia. 44(7). 585–587. 4 indexed citations
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McPhail, Stephen, et al.. (1985). An instrument to measure differential pore pressures in deep ocean sediments: Pop-Up-Pore Pressure Instrument (PUPPI). ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 4 indexed citations

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