William A. Shurcliff

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

William A. Shurcliff is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, William A. Shurcliff has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Building and Construction, 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 3 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in William A. Shurcliff's work include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (3 papers), Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry (3 papers) and Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (2 papers). William A. Shurcliff is often cited by papers focused on Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (3 papers), Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry (3 papers) and Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (2 papers). William A. Shurcliff collaborates with scholars based in United States. William A. Shurcliff's co-authors include George R. Bird, M. Stanley Livingston, Jay DeYoung, Thornton Page and Stanley S. Ballard and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William A. Shurcliff

35 papers receiving 913 citations

Hit Papers

Polarized Light 1962 2026 1983 2004 1962 100 200 300
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. Polarized Light
    1962 367 citations William A. Shurcliff Harvard University Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William A. Shurcliff United States 10 336 327 250 96 83 37 1.0k
Francis A. Jenkins United States 2 295 0.9× 209 0.6× 342 1.4× 79 0.8× 35 0.4× 2 979
William L. Wolfe United States 17 328 1.0× 270 0.8× 385 1.5× 54 0.6× 62 0.7× 86 1.3k
R. Clark Jones United States 19 216 0.6× 313 1.0× 285 1.1× 64 0.7× 113 1.4× 50 1.1k
G. W. Day United States 20 488 1.5× 246 0.8× 1.0k 4.1× 80 0.8× 76 0.9× 72 1.5k
P.E. Ciddor Australia 10 442 1.3× 295 0.9× 428 1.7× 39 0.4× 67 0.8× 32 1.3k
G. R. Fowles United States 10 342 1.0× 134 0.4× 395 1.6× 76 0.8× 26 0.3× 21 793
Yukitoshi Otani Japan 15 345 1.0× 493 1.5× 229 0.9× 82 0.9× 35 0.4× 159 956
Dennis H. Goldstein United States 13 263 0.8× 805 2.5× 168 0.7× 101 1.1× 39 0.5× 43 1.2k
Michal Odstrčil Switzerland 21 289 0.9× 261 0.8× 203 0.8× 67 0.7× 105 1.3× 52 1.6k
G. Rasigni France 17 249 0.7× 185 0.6× 140 0.6× 107 1.1× 8 0.1× 80 1.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by William A. Shurcliff

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William A. Shurcliff

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of William A. Shurcliff. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of William A. Shurcliff 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 William A. Shurcliff. William A. Shurcliff 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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Shurcliff, William A.. (1994). What holds up the steel wheels of an automobile?. The Physics Teacher. 32(5). 296–297. 1 indexed citations
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Shurcliff, William A., et al.. (1985). Roof Pond Systems. Journal of Solar Energy Engineering. 107(2). 186–187. 7 indexed citations
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Shurcliff, William A.. (1984). Computers, Intelligence, and Emotion. Science. 224(4654). 1158–1158. 1 indexed citations
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Shurcliff, William A.. (1981). Super insulated houses and double envelope houses: A survey of principles and practice. 4 indexed citations
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Shurcliff, William A.. (1980). Thermal Shutters and Shades: Over 100 Schemes for Reducing Heat Loss Through Windows. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 3 indexed citations
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Shurcliff, William A.. (1979). New Inventions in Low Cost Solar Heating: 100 Daring Schemes Tried and Untried. 1 indexed citations
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Shurcliff, William A., et al.. (1979). The Sun: Our Future Energy Source. American Journal of Physics. 47(10). 923–923. 9 indexed citations
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Shurcliff, William A.. (1970). S/S/T and sonic boom handbook. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 3 indexed citations
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Shurcliff, William A.. (1966). Frequency Scale for Spectra. Science. 151(3709). 402–404. 1 indexed citations
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Shurcliff, William A.. (1963). Studies in optics. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids. 24(3). 498–499. 3 indexed citations
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Shurcliff, William A.. (1962). Polarized Light. Harvard University Press eBooks. 367 indexed citations breakdown →
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Shurcliff, William A., et al.. (1962). THE PARTICHROME ANALYZER FOR THE DETECTION AND ENUMERATION OF BACTERIA. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 99(2). 290–297. 6 indexed citations
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Shurcliff, William A.. (1959). Colour Vision Phenomenon of a New Class. Nature. 183(4655). 202–202. 1 indexed citations
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Shurcliff, William A.. (1959). New Visual Phenomenon: The Greenish-Yellow Blotch. Journal of the Optical Society of America. 49(11). 1041–1041. 1 indexed citations
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Bird, George R. & William A. Shurcliff. (1959). Pile-of-Plates Polarizers for the Infrared: Improvement in Analysis and Design. Journal of the Optical Society of America. 49(3). 235–235. 35 indexed citations
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DeYoung, Jay, et al.. (1957). New Principle for Focusing a High-Power Microscope and Means for Accomplishing the Focusing Automatically and with Great Accuracy*. Journal of the Optical Society of America. 47(1). 76–76. 7 indexed citations
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Shurcliff, William A., et al.. (1956). Measuring Spectral Properties of High-Extinction Polarizers. Journal of the Optical Society of America. 46(3). 229–229. 1 indexed citations
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Shurcliff, William A.. (1955). Haidinger’s Brushes and Circularly Polarized Light. Journal of the Optical Society of America. 45(5). 399–399. 10 indexed citations
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Shurcliff, William A., et al.. (1954). Equipment to Measure and Control Synchronization Errors in 3-D Projection. Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. 62(2). 134–141. 5 indexed citations
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Shurcliff, William A.. (1951). Radiance Amplification by Multi-Stage Fluorescence System. Journal of the Optical Society of America. 41(3). 209–209. 41 indexed citations

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