W. A. Richards

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

W. A. Richards is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, W. A. Richards has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 5 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 4 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in W. A. Richards's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (10 papers), Color Science and Applications (4 papers) and Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry (2 papers). W. A. Richards is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (10 papers), Color Science and Applications (4 papers) and Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry (2 papers). W. A. Richards collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Italy. W. A. Richards's co-authors include Donald D. Hoffman, Hugh R. Wilson, Jan J. Koenderink, John Miles Foley, Diana Richards, Brendan D. McKay, Raymond van Ee, Liliana Albertazzi, James T. Todd and Flip Phillips and has published in prestigious journals such as Cognition, Vision Research and Journal of the Optical Society of America A.

In The Last Decade

W. A. Richards

21 papers receiving 1.6k 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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1984 978 citations Donald D. Hoffman, W. A. Richards Cognition profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. A. Richards United States	14	914	773	222	202	190	21	1.8k
Donald D. Hoffman United States	29	1.9k 2.1×	1.6k 2.1×	356 1.6×	368 1.8×	382 2.0×	78	3.5k
H. K. Nishihara Japan	16	874 1.0×	960 1.2×	285 1.3×	89 0.4×	132 0.7×	38	2.3k
Zygmunt Pizlo United States	24	935 1.0×	739 1.0×	141 0.6×	50 0.2×	222 1.2×	126	1.9k
John P. Frisby United Kingdom	23	1.3k 1.4×	733 0.9×	143 0.6×	34 0.2×	237 1.2×	60	1.9k
John I. Yellott United States	20	692 0.8×	187 0.2×	120 0.5×	91 0.5×	155 0.8×	58	1.8k
Amy A. Gooch United States	23	690 0.8×	1.4k 1.8×	67 0.3×	570 2.8×	204 1.1×	48	2.5k
Joyce Farrell United States	25	602 0.7×	696 0.9×	94 0.4×	39 0.2×	134 0.7×	95	1.7k
Heiko Neumann Germany	26	1.2k 1.4×	907 1.2×	131 0.6×	44 0.2×	152 0.8×	161	2.4k
Roland W. Fleming Germany	29	2.1k 2.3×	1.4k 1.8×	429 1.9×	220 1.1×	603 3.2×	151	3.4k
K. Prazdny United States	16	1.2k 1.3×	1.4k 1.8×	79 0.4×	38 0.2×	167 0.9×	32	2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. A. Richards

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Richards, W. A.. (2015). Anigrafs : Experiments in Cooperative Cognitive Architecture. 2 indexed citations

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Richards, W. A.. (2015). Anigrafs. The MIT Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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Koenderink, Jan J., Liliana Albertazzi, Andrea J. van Doorn, et al.. (2010). Does monocular visual space contain planes?. Acta Psychologica. 134(1). 40–47. 13 indexed citations

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Richards, Diana, Brendan D. McKay, & W. A. Richards. (1998). Collective Choice and Mutual Knowledge Structures. Advances in Complex Systems. 1(02n03). 221–236. 14 indexed citations

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Wilson, Hugh R. & W. A. Richards. (1992). Curvature and separation discrimination at texture boundaries. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 9(10). 1653–1653. 72 indexed citations

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Koenderink, Jan J. & W. A. Richards. (1992). Why is snow so bright?. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 9(5). 643–643. 19 indexed citations

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Wilson, Hugh R. & W. A. Richards. (1989). Mechanisms of contour curvature discrimination. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 6(1). 106–106. 84 indexed citations

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Richards, W. A., et al.. (1988). Visual perception of moving parts. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 5(12). 2045–2045. 11 indexed citations

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Richards, W. A.. (1988). Natural Computation. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 145 indexed citations

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Richards, W. A., Jan J. Koenderink, & Donald D. Hoffman. (1987). Inferring three-dimensional shapes from two-dimensional silhouettes. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 4(7). 1168–1168. 76 indexed citations

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Richards, W. A., et al.. (1985). Boundaries of Visual Motion. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 32 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Donald D. & W. A. Richards. (1984). Parts of recognition (A). DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1. 1215. 48 indexed citations

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Richards, W. A., et al.. (1984). Color Vision: Representing Material Categories. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 13 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Donald D. & W. A. Richards. (1984). Parts of recognition. Cognition. 18(1-3). 65–96. 978 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hoffman, Donald D. & W. A. Richards. (1982). Representing smooth plane curves for recognition: implications for figure-ground reversal. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 5–8. 26 indexed citations

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Richards, W. A.. (1982). Lightness scale from image intensity distributions. Applied Optics. 21(14). 2569–2569. 53 indexed citations

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Richards, W. A., et al.. (1982). Color vision and image intensities: When are changes material?. Biological Cybernetics. 45(3). 215–226. 123 indexed citations

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Richards, W. A., et al.. (1982). Equation Counting and the Interpretation of Sensory Data. Perception. 11(5). 557–576. 14 indexed citations

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Richards, W. A.. (1981). A lightness scale from image intensity distributions. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 3 indexed citations

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Foley, John Miles & W. A. Richards. (1978). Binocular depth mixture with non-symmetric disparities. Vision Research. 18(3). 251–256. 9 indexed citations

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