Thomas Croft

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Thomas Croft is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Croft has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 11 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 5 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Thomas Croft's work include Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (15 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (12 papers) and Planetary Science and Exploration (9 papers). Thomas Croft is often cited by papers focused on Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (15 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (12 papers) and Planetary Science and Exploration (9 papers). Thomas Croft collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Thomas Croft's co-authors include G.E. Bottomley, J. D. Anderson, G. L. Tyler, V. R. Eshleman, G. E. Wood, G. S. Levy, G. F. Lindal, Henry B. Hotz, P. E. Doms and D. N. Sweetnam and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Croft

37 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Croft United States	15	949	404	335	310	268	41	1.8k
Y. Gagne France	18	392 0.4×	34 0.1×	609 1.8×	59 0.2×	162 0.6×	32	2.6k
Ernest K. Smith United States	11	476 0.5×	123 0.3×	94 0.3×	30 0.1×	512 1.9×	41	913
Emmanuel Lévêque France	23	353 0.4×	101 0.3×	492 1.5×	30 0.1×	193 0.7×	54	2.2k
Paul F. Fougère United States	19	692 0.7×	58 0.1×	61 0.2×	25 0.1×	155 0.6×	41	1.2k
M. B. Cohen United States	27	1.8k 1.9×	281 0.7×	311 0.9×	19 0.1×	335 1.3×	123	2.2k
C. G. Little United States	20	685 0.7×	45 0.1×	233 0.7×	14 0.0×	348 1.3×	50	1.3k
C. C. Counselman United States	22	1.1k 1.1×	129 0.3×	64 0.2×	24 0.1×	856 3.2×	74	1.7k
Z. Kolláth Hungary	22	825 0.9×	52 0.1×	574 1.7×	25 0.1×	89 0.3×	79	1.5k
C. Baudet France	18	256 0.3×	23 0.1×	371 1.1×	26 0.1×	146 0.5×	44	1.7k
A. R. Jacobson United States	25	1.7k 1.8×	265 0.7×	587 1.8×	6 0.0×	287 1.1×	100	2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Croft

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Smotherman, Michael, Thomas Croft, & Silvio Macías. (2022). Biosonar discrimination of fine surface textures by echolocating free-tailed bats. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10. 3 indexed citations

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Croft, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Socially Distanced Activism. Policy Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Croft, Thomas, et al.. (2017). The Responsible Investor Handbook. 1 indexed citations

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Croft, Thomas. (2005). Calculating Fresnel regions in the presence of strong refraction. 15. 484–485.

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Croft, Thomas. (1981). Radiometry with nighttime DMSP images in digital form. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. 47. 2 indexed citations

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Croft, Thomas. (1980). Surface reflections of Pioneer Venus Probe radio signals. Geophysical Research Letters. 7(7). 521–524. 4 indexed citations

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Croft, Thomas. (1979). The brightness of lights on Earth at night, digitally recorded by DMSP satellite. Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World. 39 indexed citations

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Eshleman, V. R., G. L. Tyler, G. E. Wood, et al.. (1979). Radio Science with Voyager at Jupiter: Initial Voyager 2 Results and a Voyager 1 Measure of the Io Torus. Science. 206(4421). 959–962. 52 indexed citations

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Croft, Thomas. (1978). Nighttime Images of the Earth from Space. Scientific American. 239(1). 86–98. 229 indexed citations

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Croft, Thomas. (1977). Long-Lived Landers for Venus.. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 9. 500. 1 indexed citations

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Croft, Thomas. (1977). Two Types of Radio Occultation Fresnel Zones Lead to Different Scintillation Profiles. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 9. 469. 1 indexed citations

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Croft, Thomas. (1973). Traveling regions of high solar wind density observed in early August 1972. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 78(16). 3159–3166. 19 indexed citations

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Croft, Thomas. (1973). Burning Waste Gas in Oil Fields. Nature. 245(5425). 375–376. 79 indexed citations

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Croft, Thomas. (1971). Failure of Visual Estimation of Motion under Strobe. Nature. 231(5302). 397–397. 9 indexed citations

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Landt, J. A. & Thomas Croft. (1970). Shape of a solar wind disturbance on July 9, 1966, inferred from radio signal delay to Pioneer 6. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 75(25). 4623–4630. 8 indexed citations

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Croft, Thomas, et al.. (1969). Comparison of simultaneous forward and backscatter soundings to verify a proposed focusing mechanism of HF sky waves. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 74(9). 2443–2446. 5 indexed citations

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Croft, Thomas, et al.. (1968). Exact Ray Calculations in a Quasi‐Parabolic Ionosphere With No Magnetic Field. Radio Science. 3(1). 69–74. 122 indexed citations

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Croft, Thomas. (1967). Computation of HF Ground Backscatter Amplitude. Radio Science. 2(7). 739–746. 28 indexed citations

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Croft, Thomas, et al.. (1963). A FAST, VERSATILE RAY-TRACING PROGRAM FOR IBM 7090 DIGITAL COMPUTERS,. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 7 indexed citations

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Croft, Thomas & R. Bryn Fenwick. (1963). Chart for determining the effects of ionospheric tilts using an idealized model. Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards Section D Radio Propagation. 67D(6). 735–735. 2 indexed citations

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