William H. Sumby

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

William H. Sumby is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, William H. Sumby has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 3 papers in Signal Processing and 3 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in William H. Sumby's work include Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation (3 papers), Speech and Audio Processing (3 papers) and Speech Recognition and Synthesis (2 papers). William H. Sumby is often cited by papers focused on Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation (3 papers), Speech and Audio Processing (3 papers) and Speech Recognition and Synthesis (2 papers). William H. Sumby collaborates with scholars based in United States and Norway. William H. Sumby's co-authors include Irwin Pollack, J. M. Pickett and Frederick C. Frick and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Language and Speech and Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior.

In The Last Decade

William H. Sumby

9 papers receiving 1.9k 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 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.

Visual Contribution to Speech Intelligibility in Noise

1954 1.9k citations William H. Sumby, Irwin Pollack The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America profile →

Peers

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Grant Fairbanks United States

Carl E. Williams United States

Lynne E. Bernstein United States

Leigh A. Thorpe Canada

Franklin S. Cooper United States

Richard E. Pastore United States

J. M. Pickett United States

Donald G. Jamieson Canada

Edward T. Auer United States

Arthur S. House United States

Grant Fairbanks United States

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Countries citing papers authored by William H. Sumby

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Fields of papers citing papers by William H. Sumby

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William H. Sumby

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of William H. Sumby. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of William H. Sumby 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 H. Sumby. William H. Sumby is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Sumby, William H.. (1963). Word frequency and serial position effects. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior. 1(6). 443–450. 86 indexed citations

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Sumby, William H.. (1962). On the Choice of Strategies in the Identification of Spoken Words Mixed with Noise. Language and Speech. 5(3). 119–124. 1 indexed citations

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Sumby, William H.. (1960). The Control Tower Language: A Case Study of A Specialized Language-in-Action. Language and Speech. 3(2). 61–70. 3 indexed citations

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Sumby, William H., et al.. (1958). Information Transmission with Elementary Auditory Displays. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 30(7_Supplement). 674–674. 2 indexed citations

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Sumby, William H., et al.. (1958). Information Transmission with Elementary Auditory Displays. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 30(5). 425–429. 3 indexed citations

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Sumby, William H. & Irwin Pollack. (1954). Visual Contribution to Speech Intelligibility in Noise. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 26(2). 212–215. 1873 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pollack, Irwin, J. M. Pickett, & William H. Sumby. (1954). On the Identification of Speakers by Voice. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 26(3). 403–406. 115 indexed citations

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Pollack, Irwin, J. M. Pickett, & William H. Sumby. (1953). Voice Identification of Speakers. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 25(4_Supplement). 823–823. 1 indexed citations

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Frick, Frederick C. & William H. Sumby. (1952). Control Tower Language. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 24(6). 595–596. 12 indexed citations

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