William B. Cairncross

60 total papers · 1.5k total citations
17 papers, 814 citations indexed

About

William B. Cairncross is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Radiation. According to data from OpenAlex, William B. Cairncross has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 814 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 4 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 3 papers in Radiation. Recurrent topics in William B. Cairncross's work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (9 papers), Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (6 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (6 papers). William B. Cairncross is often cited by papers focused on Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (9 papers), Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (6 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (6 papers). William B. Cairncross collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. William B. Cairncross's co-authors include Jun Ye, Tanya Roussy, Eric Cornell, Yan Zhou, Daniel Gresh, Kevin C. Cossel, M. Grau, Kenneth Wang, Yichao Yu and Kang-Kuen Ni and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy.

In The Last Decade

William B. Cairncross

17 papers receiving 798 citations

Hit Papers

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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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. An improved bound on the electron’s electric dipole moment
    2023 158 citations Tanya Roussy, Luke Caldwell et al. Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
William B. Cairncross 687 209 125 99 43 17 814
Adam West 475 0.7× 358 1.7× 45 0.4× 106 1.1× 96 2.2× 13 765
Wade G. Rellergert 753 1.1× 131 0.6× 151 1.2× 150 1.5× 14 0.3× 23 867
S. B. Cahn 596 0.9× 191 0.9× 50 0.4× 84 0.8× 88 2.0× 33 714
Cristian D. Panda 497 0.7× 366 1.8× 48 0.4× 106 1.1× 103 2.4× 18 820
Brendon O'Leary 507 0.7× 373 1.8× 38 0.3× 114 1.2× 95 2.2× 8 796
T. Schätz 689 1.0× 315 1.5× 234 1.9× 31 0.3× 35 0.8× 19 841
Edmund Meyer 858 1.2× 63 0.3× 34 0.3× 226 2.3× 42 1.0× 27 960
A. G. Radnaev 770 1.1× 116 0.6× 267 2.1× 38 0.4× 33 0.8× 14 833
C. J. Foot 731 1.1× 50 0.2× 121 1.0× 147 1.5× 18 0.4× 29 780
G. Werth 669 1.0× 166 0.8× 105 0.8× 181 1.8× 11 0.3× 42 788

Countries citing papers authored by William B. Cairncross

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Fields of papers citing papers by William B. Cairncross

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William B. Cairncross

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