W. Flanagan

28.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 455 citations indexed

About

W. Flanagan is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Flanagan has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 455 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 2 papers in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation and 2 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in W. Flanagan's work include Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics (4 papers), Muscle activation and electromyography studies (4 papers) and Particle Detector Development and Performance (2 papers). W. Flanagan is often cited by papers focused on Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics (4 papers), Muscle activation and electromyography studies (4 papers) and Particle Detector Development and Performance (2 papers). W. Flanagan collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and South Korea. W. Flanagan's co-authors include Aaron J. Young, Jonathan Camargo, Viv Kendon, Ben Tregenna, T. Kamon, Paul Sheldon, Bhaskar Dutta, W.E. Johns, Kuver Sinha and Kechen Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biomechanics, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and New Journal of Physics.

In The Last Decade

W. Flanagan

6 papers receiving 448 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.

A comprehensive, open-source dataset of lower limb biomechanics in multiple conditions of stairs, ramps, and level-ground ambulation and transitions

2021 195 citations Jonathan Camargo, W. Flanagan et al. Journal of Biomechanics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. Flanagan United States	4	227	173	106	67	52	9	455
Hung Tien Bui Canada	11	267 1.2×	32 0.2×	91 0.9×	8 0.1×	12 0.2×	39	589
F. Rotaru Romania	6	26 0.1×	51 0.3×	15 0.1×	11 0.2×		51	161
Eric W. Fischer Germany	9	86 0.4×	18 0.1×		144 2.1×	57 1.1×	17	274
Aziz Benlarbi‐Delaï France	10	112 0.5×	31 0.2×	2 0.0×	9 0.1×	7 0.1×	59	300
Jerry Chen Taiwan	6	39 0.2×	97 0.6×	12 0.1×	6 0.1×	1 0.0×	11	292
Abolfazl Soltani Switzerland	8	69 0.3×	65 0.4×	5 0.0×		76 1.5×	10	208
Mahdi Naghshvarianjahromi Canada	14	86 0.4×	33 0.2×	4 0.0×	25 0.4×	2 0.0×	36	612
Luca Pedrelli Italy	5	11 0.0×	450 2.6×	3 0.0×	7 0.1×	14 0.3×	10	533
Henryk Josiński Poland	8	101 0.4×	49 0.3×	2 0.0×		31 0.6×	32	219

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. Flanagan

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

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Rose, Michael, et al.. (2025). The Impact of ankle range of motion on lower-limb gait biomechanics. Journal of Biomechanics. 189. 112811–112811.

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Flanagan, W., et al.. (2025). Metamorphic Flexure Bearings for Extended Range of Motion. Journal of Mechanical Design. 147(10). 105001–105001. 1 indexed citations

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Flanagan, W., et al.. (2024). A Robotic Clamped-Kinematic System to Study Knee Ligament Injury. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 53(1). 193–206.

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Flanagan, W., et al.. (2023). Prosthetic Limb Attachment via Electromagnetic Attraction Through a Closed Skin Envelope. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 71(5). 1552–1564. 1 indexed citations

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Flanagan, W., et al.. (2021). Thermal Neutron Measurements with an Unpowered, Miniature, Solid-State Device. arXiv (Cornell University).

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Camargo, Jonathan, et al.. (2021). A comprehensive, open-source dataset of lower limb biomechanics in multiple conditions of stairs, ramps, and level-ground ambulation and transitions. Journal of Biomechanics. 119. 110320–110320. 195 indexed citations breakdown →

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Camargo, Jonathan, et al.. (2021). A Machine Learning Strategy for Locomotion Classification and Parameter Estimation Using Fusion of Wearable Sensors. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 68(5). 1569–1578. 54 indexed citations

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Dutta, Bhaskar, W. Flanagan, W.E. Johns, et al.. (2014). Probing compressed top squark scenarios at the LHC at 14 TeV. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 90(9). 32 indexed citations

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Tregenna, Ben, et al.. (2003). Controlling discrete quantum walks: coins and initial states. New Journal of Physics. 5. 83–83. 172 indexed citations

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