William C. Purdy

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
197 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

William C. Purdy is a scholar working on Electrochemistry, Spectroscopy and Bioengineering. According to data from OpenAlex, William C. Purdy has authored 197 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Electrochemistry, 49 papers in Spectroscopy and 44 papers in Bioengineering. Recurrent topics in William C. Purdy's work include Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (52 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Sensors (44 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (42 papers). William C. Purdy is often cited by papers focused on Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (52 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Sensors (44 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (42 papers). William C. Purdy collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and China. William C. Purdy's co-authors include Li Song, Gary D. Christian, G P Butrimovitz, Stephen G. Weber, Edward C. Knoblock, George M. Anderson, Bruce Jon Compton, Simon N. Young, Serge Gauthier and Li Song and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Analytical Chemistry and Langmuir.

In The Last Decade

William C. Purdy

189 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

Cyclodextrins and their applications in analytical chemistry

1992 916 citations William C. Purdy et al. profile →
Direct measurement of zinc in plasma by atomic absorption spectroscopy.

1979 354 citations William C. Purdy et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William C. Purdy Canada	30	1.0k	1.0k	908	818	756	197	4.4k
Alan Townshend United Kingdom	36	1.1k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	1.5k 1.6×	1.4k 1.7×	781 1.0×	220	5.7k
Gary D. Christian United States	34	1.1k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	568 0.8×	228	4.6k
A. K. Covington United Kingdom	33	764 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	835 0.9×	600 0.7×	491 0.6×	176	4.9k
D. D. Perrin Australia	30	997 1.0×	599 0.6×	386 0.4×	506 0.6×	1.8k 2.3×	93	6.2k
Peter T. Kissinger United States	46	2.4k 2.3×	2.0k 1.9×	2.2k 2.4×	1.9k 2.3×	2.0k 2.6×	187	8.7k
Bengt Danielsson Sweden	47	659 0.6×	822 0.8×	2.4k 2.7×	1.8k 2.2×	2.5k 3.3×	296	7.6k
Björn Persson Sweden	29	551 0.5×	537 0.5×	667 0.7×	402 0.5×	1.1k 1.4×	163	3.6k
P. Zuman United States	32	649 0.6×	2.9k 2.8×	2.3k 2.5×	1.0k 1.3×	603 0.8×	298	6.2k
Charles N. Reilley United States	50	1.3k 1.2×	2.0k 2.0×	1.4k 1.5×	926 1.1×	592 0.8×	183	7.0k
Kenichiro Nakashima Japan	36	1.4k 1.3×	222 0.2×	560 0.6×	794 1.0×	967 1.3×	277	4.9k

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Chrisman, Matthew, et al.. (2020). Assessing sitting and standing in college students using height-adjustable desks. Health Education Journal. 79(6). 735–744. 5 indexed citations

McDonough, Patricia M., Shannon Calderone, & William C. Purdy. (2007). State Grant Aid and Its Effects on Students’ College Choices. BMJ Open. 9(3). e024999–e024999. 6 indexed citations

Anderson, George M. & William C. Purdy. (2006). A Liquid Chromatographic-Fluorometric Method for the Analysis of Picogram Amounts of Tryptophan Metabolites in Cerebrospinal Fluid. Analytical Letters.

Zeng, Baizhao & William C. Purdy. (1999). Influence of Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide on the Voltammetric Behavior of Thiopurines at a Silver Electrode. Electroanalysis. 11(12). 879–884. 1 indexed citations

Purdy, William C., et al.. (1995). Chromatographic techniques for the isolation and purification of lipoproteins. Journal of Chromatography B Biomedical Sciences and Applications. 671(1-2). 237–253. 16 indexed citations

Spencer, Brian J. & William C. Purdy. (1995). High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic Separation of Equilin, Estrone, and Estrone Derivatives with Cyclodextrins as Mobile Phase Additives. Journal of Liquid Chromatography. 18(20). 4063–4080. 16 indexed citations

Spencer, Brian J. & William C. Purdy. (1995). High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic Separation of Derivatized Amino Acids Enantiomers Using Modified β-Cyclodextrin as a Mobile Phase Additive. Analytical Letters. 28(10). 1865–1881. 6 indexed citations

Purdy, William C., et al.. (1994). Capillary electrophoretic separation of nucleotide isomers via complexation with cyclodextrin and borate. Journal of Chromatography B Biomedical Sciences and Applications. 657(2). 365–372. 38 indexed citations

Purdy, William C., et al.. (1992). Characterization of plasma apolipoproteins by capillary electrophoresis. Journal of Chromatography B Biomedical Sciences and Applications. 583(1). 111–115. 23 indexed citations

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Purdy, William C., et al.. (1992). A rapid separation of α- and β-lipoproteins by affinity chromatography. Clinical Biochemistry. 25(2). 89–91. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Song & William C. Purdy. (1991). Liquid chromatographic separation of phenothiazines and structurally-related drugs using a β-cyclodextrin bonded phase column. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis. 9(5). 409–415. 14 indexed citations

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Purdy, William C., et al.. (1990). Determination of sorbitan trioleate in metered-dose inhalers by supercritical-fluid chromatography. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis. 8(3). 303–305. 2 indexed citations

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Gennett, Thomas & William C. Purdy. (1990). Voltammetric determination of the ion-exchange behavior of AQ polymers [poly(ester sulfonic acid) anionomers] in acetonitrile. Analytical Chemistry. 62(19). 2155–2158. 38 indexed citations

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Paleologou, Michael, et al.. (1990). Liquid Chromatographic Retention Behavior and Separation of Chlorophenols on a -Cyclodextrin Bonded-Phase Column, Part I. Monoaromatic Chlorophenols: Retention Behavior. Journal of Chromatographic Science. 28(6). 311–318. 25 indexed citations

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Crawhall, J.C. & William C. Purdy. (1982). New analytical approaches in clinical chemistry. TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry. 1(8). 184–187. 2 indexed citations

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Gramlich, J. W., et al.. (1980). Absolute isotopic abundance and the atomic weight of a reference sample of thallium. Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards. 85(1). 1–1. 98 indexed citations

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Weber, Stephen G. & William C. Purdy. (1979). Homogeneous Voltammetric Immunoassay: A Preliminary Study. Analytical Letters. 12(1). 1–9. 64 indexed citations

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Purdy, William C., et al.. (1969). Extraction of vanadium into isobutyl methyl ketone1. Talanta. 16(1). 124–129. 16 indexed citations

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Purdy, William C.. (1965). Electroanalytical methods in biochemistry. Andalas University Repository (Andalas University). 12 indexed citations

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Purdy, William C. & David N. Hume. (1955). COLORIMETRIC DETERMINATION OF MANGANESE. OXIDATION WITH BROMATE IN SULFURIC ACID MEDIUM. Analytical Chemistry. 1 indexed citations

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