W. E. Knowles Middleton

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

W. E. Knowles Middleton is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Global and Planetary Change and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, W. E. Knowles Middleton has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 8 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 7 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in W. E. Knowles Middleton's work include History and Developments in Astronomy (7 papers), History of Science and Natural History (6 papers) and Historical Philosophy and Science (6 papers). W. E. Knowles Middleton is often cited by papers focused on History and Developments in Astronomy (7 papers), History of Science and Natural History (6 papers) and Historical Philosophy and Science (6 papers). W. E. Knowles Middleton collaborates with scholars based in Canada and United States. W. E. Knowles Middleton's co-authors include A. G. Mungall, Craig Sanders, Edward Rosen, Sanborn C. Brown, Günter Wyszecki, Asit K. Biswas, Robert E. Schofield, Andrew G. van Melsen, I. Bernard Cohen and Stillman Drake and has published in prestigious journals such as Ecology, Physics Today and Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

In The Last Decade

W. E. Knowles Middleton

48 papers receiving 923 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.

Vision Through the Atmosphere

1952 521 citations W. E. Knowles Middleton University of Toronto Press eBooks profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. E. Knowles Middleton Canada	13	404	296	201	137	120	55	1.1k
Scott Henderson United States	16	149 0.4×	146 0.5×	196 1.0×	72 0.5×	154 1.3×	57	1.4k
Alistair B. Fraser United States	14	282 0.7×	278 0.9×	33 0.2×	70 0.5×	107 0.9×	32	574
Fred E. Nicodemus United States	8	100 0.2×	68 0.2×	193 1.0×	149 1.1×	196 1.6×	16	923
J. A. Curcio United States	15	177 0.4×	117 0.4×	245 1.2×	103 0.8×	183 1.5×	29	1.5k
J. V. Dave United States	25	1.1k 2.7×	937 3.2×	43 0.2×	205 1.5×	257 2.1×	62	1.7k
Jerry E. Solomon United States	9	142 0.4×	321 1.1×	209 1.0×	221 1.6×	116 1.0×	18	1.8k
Kinsell L. Coulson United States	13	565 1.4×	380 1.3×	20 0.1×	200 1.5×	202 1.7×	34	1.2k
Robert L. Lucke United States	17	258 0.6×	279 0.9×	95 0.5×	20 0.1×	155 1.3×	58	1.0k
E. Richard Cohen United States	4	108 0.3×	138 0.5×	22 0.1×	83 0.6×	119 1.0×	7	1.3k
Michael J. Foster United States	17	648 1.6×	569 1.9×	150 0.7×	46 0.3×	59 0.5×	73	1.8k

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Middleton, W. E. Knowles. (2006). Physics at the National Research Council of Canada.

Middleton, W. E. Knowles. (1984). Mechanical Engineering at the National Research Council of Canada. 1 indexed citations

Middleton, W. E. Knowles. (1982). The Construction and Use of a Thermometer, by James Six, F.R.S., Prefaced by an Account of His Life and Works and the Use of His Thermometer over Two Hundred Years. Jill Austin , Anita McConnell. Isis. 73(1). 116–116. 1 indexed citations

Middleton, W. E. Knowles. (1982). The 1669 eruption of Mount Etna: Francesco d'Arezzo on the vitreous nature of lava. Archives of Natural History. 11(1). 99–102. 1 indexed citations

Middleton, W. E. Knowles, et al.. (1981). Physics at the National Research Council of Canada, 1929-1952. Technology and Culture. 22(1). 211–211. 1 indexed citations

Middleton, W. E. Knowles, et al.. (1980). Physics at the National Research Council of Canada, 1929–1952. American Journal of Physics. 48(11). 995–996. 5 indexed citations

Middleton, W. E. Knowles. (1975). Science in Rome, 1675–1700, and the Accademia Fisicomatematica of Giovanni Giustino Ciampini. The British Journal for the History of Science. 8(2). 138–154. 10 indexed citations

Middleton, W. E. Knowles. (1974). A little-Known Portrait of Giovanni Alfonso Borelli. Medical History. 18(1). 94–95. 3 indexed citations

Middleton, W. E. Knowles. (1965). A footnote to the history of the barometer. Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science. 20(2). 145–151. 2 indexed citations

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Middleton, W. E. Knowles. (1965). A history of the theories of rain and other forms of precipitation. 12 indexed citations

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Middleton, W. E. Knowles & Andrew G. van Melsen. (1963). Science and Technology. Technology and Culture. 4(1). 120–120. 1 indexed citations

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Schofield, Robert E. & W. E. Knowles Middleton. (1962). Pierre Bouguer's Optical Treatise on the Gradation of Light. Technology and Culture. 3(2). 183–183. 2 indexed citations

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Middleton, W. E. Knowles & Günter Wyszecki. (1957). Colors Produced by Reflection at Grazing Incidence from Rough Surfaces*. Journal of the Optical Society of America. 47(11). 1020–1020. 4 indexed citations

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Middleton, W. E. Knowles, et al.. (1954). Vision Through the Atmosphere. Physics Today. 7(3). 21–21. 19 indexed citations

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Middleton, W. E. Knowles. (1953). Comparison of Colorimetric Results from a Normal-Diffuse Spectrophotometer with Those from a 45-Degree-Normal Colorimeter for Semiglossy Specimens*. Journal of the Optical Society of America. 43(12). 1141–1141. 4 indexed citations

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Middleton, W. E. Knowles. (1953). Spherical Illumination as an Ecological Parameter, and an Improved Integrator. Ecology. 34(2). 416–421. 6 indexed citations

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Middleton, W. E. Knowles. (1952). Vision Through the Atmosphere. University of Toronto Press eBooks. 521 indexed citations breakdown →

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Middleton, W. E. Knowles & A. G. Mungall. (1952). On the psychophysical basis of meteorological estimates of “visibility”. Transactions American Geophysical Union. 33(4). 507–512. 2 indexed citations

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Middleton, W. E. Knowles, et al.. (1951). Device for testing aspheric surfaces.. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 41(11). 876. 1 indexed citations

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Middleton, W. E. Knowles, et al.. (1951). Variation in the Horizontal Distribution of Light from Candlepower Standards*. Journal of the Optical Society of America. 41(8). 513–513.

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