Vincent B Wickwar

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

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Vincent B Wickwar is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Vincent B Wickwar has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 33 papers in Atmospheric Science and 19 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Vincent B Wickwar's work include Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (73 papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (36 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (24 papers). Vincent B Wickwar is often cited by papers focused on Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (73 papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (36 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (24 papers). Vincent B Wickwar collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Puerto Rico. Vincent B Wickwar's co-authors include H. C. Carlson, W. Kofman, J. W. Meriwether, R. G. Burnside, John D. Kelly, George P. Mantas, Michael J. Taylor, T. L. Killeen, J. E. Salah and R. J. Sica and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Vincent B Wickwar

83 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Revised global model of thermosphere winds using satellite and ground‐based observations

1991 553 citations R. M. Johnson, T. L. Killeen et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vincent B Wickwar United States	30	2.4k	850	663	595	473	98	2.7k
C. A. Tepley United States	34	2.6k 1.1×	554 0.7×	1.2k 1.7×	319 0.5×	522 1.1×	107	2.9k
S. Kirkwood Sweden	28	2.0k 0.9×	881 1.0×	998 1.5×	310 0.5×	324 0.7×	161	2.5k
Yasunobu Ogawa Japan	24	2.1k 0.9×	735 0.9×	926 1.4×	434 0.7×	384 0.8×	206	2.8k
S. A. González United States	28	2.2k 0.9×	843 1.0×	494 0.7×	375 0.6×	866 1.8×	82	2.3k
M. J. Nicolls United States	32	3.2k 1.3×	1.4k 1.7×	542 0.8×	753 1.3×	1.0k 2.2×	132	3.4k
D. Lummerzheim United States	32	2.5k 1.0×	801 0.9×	660 1.0×	677 1.1×	199 0.4×	98	2.6k
Steven Franke United States	27	1.9k 0.8×	792 0.9×	1.1k 1.6×	237 0.4×	602 1.3×	86	2.6k
Jeffrey Baumgardner United States	32	2.7k 1.1×	727 0.9×	758 1.1×	325 0.5×	697 1.5×	101	2.8k
Esa Turunen Finland	27	2.0k 0.8×	638 0.8×	960 1.4×	235 0.4×	207 0.4×	75	2.2k
B. Häusler Germany	33	2.7k 1.1×	246 0.3×	468 0.7×	253 0.4×	408 0.9×	94	2.9k

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Wickwar, Vincent B, et al.. (2016). Variations in Mesospheric Neutral Densities from Rayleigh Lidar Observations at Utah State University. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations

Wickwar, Vincent B, et al.. (2016). Early Temperatures Observed with the Extremely Sensitive Rayleigh Lidar at Utah State University. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 119. 13007–13007. 3 indexed citations

Wickwar, Vincent B, et al.. (2016). Searching for Troposphere-Mesosphere Connections Using the ALO-USU Rayleigh-Scatter Lidar. Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University).

Shepherd, M. G., et al.. (2001). Retrieval and validation of mesospheric temperatures from Wind Imaging Interferometer observations. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 106(A11). 24813–24829. 27 indexed citations

Meriwether, J. W., et al.. (1998). Rayleigh lidar measurements of the temporal frequency and vertical wavenumber spectra in the mesosphere over the Rocky Mountain region. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 103(D6). 6405–6416. 13 indexed citations

Zhou, Liqun, Vincent B Wickwar, & R. W. Schunk. (1998). Solving the Navier–Stokes Systems with Weak Viscosity and Strong Heat Conduction Using the Flux-Corrected Transport Technique and the Alternating-Directional Explicit Method. Journal of Computational Physics. 144(2). 379–401. 1 indexed citations

Meredith, Nigel P., et al.. (1995). First summer results on winds in the upper mesosphere derived from the 843 nm hydroxyl emissions measured from the Bear Lake Observatory, Utah. Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics. 57(9). 995–1008. 8 indexed citations

Smith, Roger W., et al.. (1989). Mapping the Wind in the Polar Thermosphere: A Case Study within the CEDAR Program. Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University). 2 indexed citations

Rasmussen, C. E., R. W. Schunk, & Vincent B Wickwar. (1988). A photochemical equilibrium model for ionospheric conductivity. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 93(A9). 9831–9840. 80 indexed citations

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Jørgensen, Thea Suldrup, et al.. (1987). A substorm resulting from energy storage in the magnetosphere. Annales Geophysicae. 5(6). 511–518. 1 indexed citations

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Johnson, R. M., Vincent B Wickwar, R. G. Roble, & J. G. Luhmann. (1987). Lower-Thermospheric Winds at High Latitude. Annales Geophysicae. 383–404. 1 indexed citations

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Beaujardière, O. de La, Vincent B Wickwar, John D. Kelly, & J. H. King. (1985). Effect of the interplanetary magnetic field Y component on the high‐latitude nightside convection. Geophysical Research Letters. 12(7). 461–464. 20 indexed citations

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Wickwar, Vincent B, et al.. (1984). Sondrestrom overview. Geophysical Research Letters. 11(9). 883–886. 32 indexed citations

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Wickwar, Vincent B, et al.. (1983). Incoherent scatter measurements of ion‐neutral collision frequencies and temperatures in the lower thermosphere of the auroral region. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 88(A12). 10137–10144. 42 indexed citations

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Beaujardière, O. de La, M. J. Baron, Vincent B Wickwar, C. A. Senior, & J. V. Evans. (1982). MITHRAS: A Program of Simultaneous Radar Observations of the High-Latitude Auroral Zone.. Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University). 5 indexed citations

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Wickwar, Vincent B. (1982). Auroral-Region Dynamics Determined with the Chatanika Radar.. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 1 indexed citations

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Mantas, George P., H. C. Carlson, & Vincent B Wickwar. (1978). Photoelectron flux buildup in the plasmasphere. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 83(A1). 1–15. 45 indexed citations

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Fontheim, Ernest G., R. S. B. Ong, R. G. Roble, et al.. (1978). Effect of anomalous transport coefficients on the thermal structure of the storm time auroral ionosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 83(A10). 4831–4836. 9 indexed citations

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Wickwar, Vincent B. (1972). The 6300Å Predawn Enhancement: Excitation by Protoelectrons from the Magnetic Conjugate Point. Annals of Geophysics. 27(1). 187–192. 9 indexed citations

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Wickwar, Vincent B. (1972). The 6300 Å predawn enhancement: Excitation by photoelectrons from the magnetic conjugate point.. 28. 187–192. 3 indexed citations

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