William C. Yager

6.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
6 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

William C. Yager is a scholar working on Ecology, Civil and Structural Engineering and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, William C. Yager has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Ecology, 1 paper in Civil and Structural Engineering and 1 paper in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in William C. Yager's work include Heat Transfer and Optimization (1 paper), Mathematics and Applications (1 paper) and Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics (1 paper). William C. Yager is often cited by papers focused on Heat Transfer and Optimization (1 paper), Mathematics and Applications (1 paper) and Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics (1 paper). William C. Yager collaborates with scholars based in United States. William C. Yager's co-authors include and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the Franklin Institute.

In The Last Decade

William C. Yager

6 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

Open channel hydraulics 1958 2026 1980 2003 1960 1958 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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. Open channel hydraulics
    1960 3.6k citations William C. Yager Journal of the Franklin Institute profile →
  2. Mathematics for science and engineering
    1958 400 citations William C. Yager Journal of the Franklin Institute profile →

Peers

William C. Yager
R. A. Bagnold United States
R. A. Wooding Australia
J.‐Y. Parlange United States
S. W. Tyler United States
Mario Putti Italy
George Constantinescu United States
Christophe Ancey Switzerland
Gareth Pender United Kingdom
Guangqian Wang China
Peter Lehmann Switzerland
R. A. Bagnold United States
William C. Yager
Citations per year, relative to William C. Yager William C. Yager (= 1×) peers R. A. Bagnold

Countries citing papers authored by William C. Yager

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Fields of papers citing papers by William C. Yager

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

6 of 6 papers shown
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Yager, William C.. (1960). Hyperstatic structures. Journal of the Franklin Institute. 269(1). 64–65. 4 indexed citations
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Yager, William C.. (1960). Open channel hydraulics. Journal of the Franklin Institute. 270(1). 59–59. 3625 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yager, William C.. (1960). Advanced mechanics of fluids. Journal of the Franklin Institute. 269(1). 66–67. 7 indexed citations
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Yager, William C.. (1958). Mathematics for science and engineering. Journal of the Franklin Institute. 265(2). 156–157. 400 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yager, William C.. (1957). Elastic waves in layered media. Journal of the Franklin Institute. 264(5). 424–425. 320 indexed citations
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Yager, William C.. (1957). The physics of flow through porous media. Journal of the Franklin Institute. 264(4). 345–346. 483 indexed citations

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