William Ferguson

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

William Ferguson is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Building and Construction and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, William Ferguson has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 10 papers in Building and Construction and 8 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in William Ferguson's work include Wood Treatment and Properties (6 papers), Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (6 papers) and Disaster Response and Management (5 papers). William Ferguson is often cited by papers focused on Wood Treatment and Properties (6 papers), Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (6 papers) and Disaster Response and Management (5 papers). William Ferguson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. William Ferguson's co-authors include Gillian J.C. McNeillage, W.J. Herbert, Ian Turner, Joyce M. Piper, B. Burt Gerstman, Dianne Tomita, Frank E. Lundin, Bruce V. Stadel, Gerald J. Kost and John A. Christ and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and American Journal of Epidemiology.

In The Last Decade

William Ferguson

57 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Ferguson United States	17	251	218	155	144	139	64	1.6k
Clemens Kunz Germany	34	213 0.8×	87 0.4×	73 0.5×	100 0.7×	85 0.6×	67	3.7k
Paul C. Turner United Kingdom	44	75 0.3×	124 0.6×	241 1.6×	261 1.8×	20 0.1×	100	5.6k
Paul T. Scott United States	27	220 0.9×	311 1.4×	307 2.0×	37 0.3×	31 0.2×	150	3.1k
Young‐Il Kim South Korea	29	446 1.8×	189 0.9×	248 1.6×	99 0.7×	16 0.1×	176	3.0k
David C. Straus United States	33	167 0.7×	660 3.0×	45 0.3×	14 0.1×	26 0.2×	146	4.2k
Alain Le Faou France	25	133 0.5×	166 0.8×	71 0.5×	11 0.1×	64 0.5×	107	2.5k
Donald H. Beezhold United States	42	314 1.3×	881 4.0×	73 0.5×	21 0.1×	37 0.3×	184	6.8k
E.D. Frank United States	20	381 1.5×	20 0.1×	252 1.6×	60 0.4×	20 0.1×	52	1.9k
Caroline Duchaine Canada	47	356 1.4×	430 2.0×	86 0.6×	39 0.3×	7 0.1×	196	6.0k
Kelley J. Donham United States	39	136 0.5×	840 3.9×	278 1.8×	35 0.2×	6 0.0×	139	4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by William Ferguson

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Ferguson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Ferguson

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Ward, Thomas, et al.. (2024). The real-time infection hospitalisation and fatality risk across the COVID-19 pandemic in England. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4633–4633. 9 indexed citations

Ward, Thomas, Mitzi Morris, Andrew Gelman, et al.. (2023). Bayesian spatial modelling of localised SARS-CoV-2 transmission through mobility networks across England. PLoS Computational Biology. 19(11). e1011580–e1011580. 3 indexed citations

Ferguson, William, Karen K. Kemp, & Gerald J. Kost. (2016). Using a geographic information system to enhance patient access to point-of-care diagnostics in a limited-resource setting. International Journal of Health Geographics. 15(1). 10–10. 35 indexed citations

Kost, Gerald J., et al.. (2015). Molecular detection and point-of-care testing in Ebola virus disease and other threats: a new global public health framework to stop outbreaks. Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics. 15(10). 1245–1259. 25 indexed citations

Ferguson, William, et al.. (2014). Dynamic Temperature and Humidity Environmental Profiles: Impact for Future Emergency and Disaster Preparedness and Response. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. 29(1). 4–12. 8 indexed citations

Kost, Gerald J., et al.. (2013). The role of point-of-care testing in complex emergency and disaster resilience. 73–110. 1 indexed citations

Louie, Richard F., et al.. (2013). Innovations in point-of-care testing for enhanced United States disaster caches. American Journal of Disaster Medicine. 8(3). 181–204. 10 indexed citations

Louie, Richard F., et al.. (2012). Effects of Dynamic Temperature and Humidity Stresses on Point-of-Care Glucose Testing for Disaster Care. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 6(3). 232–240. 14 indexed citations

Ferguson, William, et al.. (2012). Geographic Information Systems Can Enhance Crisis Standards of Care During Complex Emergencies and Disasters. Point of Care The Journal of Near-Patient Testing & Technology. 11(4). 184–190. 6 indexed citations

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Agrawal, Abinash, et al.. (2002). Effects of Carbonate Species on the Kinetics of Dechlorination of 1,1,1-Trichloroethane by Zero-Valent Iron. Environmental Science & Technology. 36(20). 4326–4333. 149 indexed citations

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Ferguson, William, et al.. (1997). Books in brief: Fiction and poetry. The New York times book review. 26. 1 indexed citations

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Wysowski, Diane K., et al.. (1996). Sedative-hypnotic drugs and the risk of hip fracture. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 49(1). 111–113. 24 indexed citations

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Turner, Ian & William Ferguson. (1995). An unstructured mesh cell-centered control volume method for simulating heat and mass transfer in porous media: Application to softwood drying—Part II: The anisotropic model. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 19(11). 668–674. 23 indexed citations

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Ferguson, William & Ian Turner. (1995). STUDY OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL CELL-CENTERED AND VERTEX-CENTERED CONTROL-VOLUME SCHEMES APPLIED TO HIGH-TEMPERATURE TIMBER DRYING. Numerical Heat Transfer Part B Fundamentals. 27(4). 393–415. 8 indexed citations

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Gerstman, B. Burt, Joyce M. Piper, Dianne Tomita, et al.. (1991). Oral Contraceptive Estrogen Dose and the Risk of Deep Venous Thromboembolic Disease. American Journal of Epidemiology. 133(1). 32–37. 244 indexed citations

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Gerstman, B. Burt, Joyce M. Piper, Joel Freiman, et al.. (1990). Oral Contraceptive Oestrogen and Progestin Potencies and the Incidence of Deep Venous Thromboembolism. International Journal of Epidemiology. 19(4). 931–936. 38 indexed citations

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Ferguson, William, et al.. (1985). Mechanical Imagery in Spanish Golden Age Poetry. Hispanic Review. 53(4). 494–494. 5 indexed citations

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Ferguson, William, et al.. (1983). La versificacion imitativa en Fernando de Herrera. The Modern Language Review. 78(3). 734–734. 2 indexed citations

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Ferguson, William, et al.. (1983). Poets of Nicaragua: A Bilingual Anthology 1918-1979. World Literature Today. 57(2). 256–256. 1 indexed citations

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Ferguson, William, et al.. (1982). Design and Construction of a Simple, Continuous Flow Sulfur Dioxide Exposure Chamber. Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association. 32(2). 181–182. 1 indexed citations

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