W. C. Wake

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

W. C. Wake is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, W. C. Wake has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 9 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 6 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in W. C. Wake's work include Mechanical Behavior of Composites (5 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (4 papers) and Fiber-reinforced polymer composites (3 papers). W. C. Wake is often cited by papers focused on Mechanical Behavior of Composites (5 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (4 papers) and Fiber-reinforced polymer composites (3 papers). W. C. Wake collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. W. C. Wake's co-authors include Robert Adams, Edward A. Fox, Deborah Hix, Lenwood S. Heath, Lucy Nowell, K.W. Allen, J. A. Shields, Robert K. France and L.R. Greenwood and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Communications of the ACM and Polymer.

In The Last Decade

W. C. Wake

34 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Structural Adhesive Joints in Engineering 1984 2026 1998 2012 1984 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Structural Adhesive Joints in Engineering
    1984 725 citations Robert Adams, W. C. Wake profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
W. C. Wake United Kingdom 13 764 391 329 199 193 36 1.4k
Autar Kaw United States 13 738 1.0× 363 0.9× 466 1.4× 144 0.7× 61 0.3× 84 1.5k
Alex Kootsookos Australia 11 277 0.4× 100 0.3× 244 0.7× 85 0.4× 78 0.4× 24 695
Nigamanth Sridhar United States 18 272 0.4× 102 0.3× 449 1.4× 33 0.2× 50 0.3× 70 1.1k
Karthik Ramani United States 22 419 0.5× 83 0.2× 339 1.0× 57 0.3× 14 0.1× 115 1.5k
Joachim Baumeister Germany 22 215 0.3× 114 0.3× 1.4k 4.3× 68 0.3× 180 0.9× 106 2.0k
Jianqiang Luo China 17 221 0.3× 59 0.2× 132 0.4× 31 0.2× 53 0.3× 57 1.2k
Huimin Chen China 18 104 0.1× 197 0.5× 391 1.2× 51 0.3× 16 0.1× 61 1.3k
Norbert Meyendorf Germany 16 458 0.6× 134 0.3× 386 1.2× 30 0.2× 31 0.2× 90 1.0k
Xu Wu China 18 55 0.1× 123 0.3× 410 1.2× 75 0.4× 98 0.5× 85 980
Jonathan P.-H. Belnoue United Kingdom 25 973 1.3× 276 0.7× 852 2.6× 59 0.3× 10 0.1× 87 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by W. C. Wake

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Fields of papers citing papers by W. C. Wake

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. C. Wake

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wake, W. C., et al.. (2006). Design Patterns in Java(TM) (2nd Edition) (Software Patterns Series). 2 indexed citations
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Wake, W. C.. (2003). Refactoring Workbook. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 71 indexed citations
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Wake, W. C., et al.. (1998). Java Foundation Classes: Swing Reference. Medical Entomology and Zoology.
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Wake, W. C., et al.. (1996). Improving responsiveness in interactive applications using queues. Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc. eBooks. 563–573. 4 indexed citations
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Heath, Lenwood S., Deborah Hix, Lucy Nowell, et al.. (1995). Envision. Communications of the ACM. 38(4). 52–53. 34 indexed citations
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Nowell, Lucy, et al.. (1994). Seeing Things Your Way: Information Visualization for a User-Centered Database of Computer Science Literature. VTechWorks (Virginia Tech).
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Fox, Edward A., et al.. (1993). Users, user interfaces, and objects: Envision, a digital library. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 44(8). 480–491. 89 indexed citations
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Wake, W. C.. (1988). Silicon and silicones E. G. Rochow, Springer‐Verlag, Berlin, 1987. pp. xi + 181, price DM 24.80. ISBN 3‐540‐17565‐2. British Polymer Journal. 20(5). 452–452. 1 indexed citations
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Allen, K.W., et al.. (1985). The concept of an endurance limit for adhesive joints. International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives. 5(1). 23–32. 7 indexed citations
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Adams, Robert & W. C. Wake. (1984). Structural Adhesive Joints in Engineering. 725 indexed citations breakdown →
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Allen, K.W., et al.. (1981). The Structure and Properties of Films of Siloxane Coupling Agents. The Journal of Adhesion. 12(3). 199–219. 14 indexed citations
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Allen, K.W., et al.. (1974). Bonding of Titanium Alloys. The Journal of Adhesion. 6(1-2). 153–164. 13 indexed citations
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Wake, W. C.. (1972). The Adhesion of Polymers to Each Other and to Fibres. The Journal of Adhesion. 3(4). 315–324. 4 indexed citations
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Wake, W. C., et al.. (1969). The Contact Adhesion of Self-Adhesive Strain Gauges. The Journal of Adhesion. 1(1). 7–15. 1 indexed citations
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Wake, W. C.. (1960). Bonds Between Rubber and Metal. Nature. 186(4720). 189–189. 2 indexed citations
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Wake, W. C., et al.. (1959). The heat of wetting of carbon black and mineral powders by benzene and related hydrocarbons. Transactions of the Faraday Society. 55. 1017–1017. 4 indexed citations
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Wake, W. C.. (1957). Sentence-Length Distributions of Greek Authors. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General). 120(3). 331–331. 32 indexed citations
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Wake, W. C., et al.. (1951). Light Stiffening of Rubber. Rubber Chemistry and Technology. 24(1). 1–17. 1 indexed citations

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