William J. Cody

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
167 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

William J. Cody is a scholar working on Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, William J. Cody has authored 167 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Plant Science, 58 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 26 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in William J. Cody's work include Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies (63 papers), Botany and Plant Ecology Studies (46 papers) and Numerical Methods and Algorithms (21 papers). William J. Cody is often cited by papers focused on Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies (63 papers), Botany and Plant Ecology Studies (46 papers) and Numerical Methods and Algorithms (21 papers). William J. Cody collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Spain. William J. Cody's co-authors include A. E. Porsild, Henry C. Thacher, Günter Meinardus, R. S. Varga, David F. Murray, K. E. Hillstrom, William B. Rouse, C. W. Crompton, B. A. Bennett and Catherine E. Kennedy and has published in prestigious journals such as Automatica, Communications of the ACM and Mathematics of Computation.

In The Last Decade

William J. Cody

160 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Vascular plants of continental Northwest Territories, Can... 1980 2026 1995 2010 1980 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Vascular plants of continental Northwest Territories, Canada /
    1980 372 citations William J. Cody et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William J. Cody United States 23 471 443 378 344 311 167 2.3k
D. Rees United Kingdom 52 531 1.1× 157 0.4× 564 1.5× 1.2k 3.6× 314 1.0× 378 11.2k
R. Leféver Belgium 32 116 0.2× 204 0.5× 130 0.3× 216 0.6× 218 0.7× 64 5.2k
P. Holgate United Kingdom 23 127 0.3× 206 0.5× 136 0.4× 32 0.1× 283 0.9× 94 2.7k
Charles M. Newman United States 50 53 0.1× 461 1.0× 295 0.8× 48 0.1× 359 1.2× 204 6.2k
Philip D. Rabinowitz United States 23 30 0.1× 129 0.3× 153 0.4× 505 1.5× 100 0.3× 79 3.2k
Edward A. Bender United States 25 90 0.2× 315 0.7× 1.0k 2.7× 29 0.1× 530 1.7× 126 4.8k
Mitsugu Matsushita Japan 32 103 0.2× 137 0.3× 162 0.4× 319 0.9× 370 1.2× 134 4.2k
Michael F. Barnsley United States 26 89 0.2× 55 0.1× 876 2.3× 116 0.3× 94 0.3× 108 6.9k
Stephen Taylor United States 31 119 0.3× 184 0.4× 83 0.2× 271 0.8× 1.0k 3.2× 120 3.2k
Robert E. O’Malley United States 28 59 0.1× 232 0.5× 892 2.4× 40 0.1× 317 1.0× 93 4.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William J. Cody

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cody, William J., Catherine E. Kennedy, & B. A. Bennett. (2001). New records of vascular plants in the Yukon Territory III. The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 115(2). 301–322. 9 indexed citations
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Cody, William J., Catherine E. Kennedy, & B. A. Bennett. (2000). New records of vascular plants in the Yukon Territory II. The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 114(3). 417–443. 7 indexed citations
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Cody, William J., et al.. (2000). Alien and invasive native vascular plants along the Norman Wells Pipeline, District of Mackenzie, Northwest Territories. The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 114(1). 126–137. 14 indexed citations
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Cody, William J., Catherine E. Kennedy, & B. A. Bennett. (1998). New records of vascular plants in the Yukon Territory. The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 112(2). 289–328. 9 indexed citations
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Cody, William J.. (1994). The flora of the Yukon Territory: Additions, range extensions and comments. The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 108(4). 428–476. 6 indexed citations
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Cody, William J., et al.. (1986). A hawk's-beard, Crepis pulchra, adventive in Ontario. The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 100(3). 376–377. 2 indexed citations
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Cody, William J.. (1986). Agriculture Canada Research Branch Centennial 1886-1986. The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 100(3). 418–422. 1 indexed citations
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Cody, William J. & Donald M. Britton. (1985). Male Fern, Dryopteris filix-mas, a phytogeographically important discovery in northern Saskatchewan. The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 99(1). 101–102. 1 indexed citations
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Cody, William J. & Donald M. Britton. (1984). Polystichum lemmonii, a Rock Shield-fern new to British Columbia and Canada. The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 98(3). 375–375. 1 indexed citations
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Scotter, George W. & William J. Cody. (1979). Interesting vascular plants from southeastern Yukon Territory. The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 93(2). 163–170. 5 indexed citations
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Cody, William J.. (1978). Range extensions and comments on the vascular flora of the continental Northwest Territories. The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 92(2). 144–150. 6 indexed citations
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Cody, William J., et al.. (1976). Additions to the Vascular Flora of Melville Island, Franklin District, Northwest Territories. The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 90(1). 70–72. 1 indexed citations
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Cody, William J. & C. Frankton. (1971). Ragged Robin, Lychnis flos-cuculi L. (Caryophyllaceae), in Canada. The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 85(3). 256–257. 2 indexed citations
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Cody, William J. & K. E. Hillstrom. (1970). Chebyshev approximations for the Coulomb phase shift. Mathematics of Computation. 24(111). 671–677. 14 indexed citations
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Cody, William J.. (1969). Rational Chebyshev approximations for the error function. Mathematics of Computation. 23(107). 631–637. 193 indexed citations
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Cody, William J. & K. E. Hillstrom. (1967). Chebyshev approximations for the natural logarithm of the Gamma function. Mathematics of Computation. 21(98). 198–203. 12 indexed citations
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Cody, William J., et al.. (1964). The elastic scattering of slow positrons by hydrogen atoms. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 278(1375). 479–489. 35 indexed citations
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Cody, William J.. (1960). Plants of the Vicinity of Norman Wells, Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories. The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 74(2). 71–100. 3 indexed citations
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Cody, William J.. (1956). New Plant Records for Northern Alberta and Southern Mackenzie District. The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 70(3). 101–130. 9 indexed citations
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Cody, William J.. (1951). Additions and annotations to the flora of Southampton Island, Northwest Territories, Canada. The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 65(4). 140–143. 4 indexed citations

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