William J. Williams

9.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
208 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

William J. Williams is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Control and Systems Engineering and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, William J. Williams has authored 208 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Atmospheric Science, 57 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 54 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in William J. Williams's work include Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (52 papers), Machine Fault Diagnosis Techniques (50 papers) and Image and Signal Denoising Methods (41 papers). William J. Williams is often cited by papers focused on Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (52 papers), Machine Fault Diagnosis Techniques (50 papers) and Image and Signal Denoising Methods (41 papers). William J. Williams collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Japan. William J. Williams's co-authors include Eddy C. Carmack, J. Jeong, Mary‐Louise Timmermans, F. A. McLaughlin, Richard Krishfield, Andrey Proshutinsky, Sarah Zimmermann, Motoyo Itoh, Michiyo Yamamoto‐Kawai and Koji Shimada and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

William J. Williams

199 papers receiving 6.5k 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.

Improved time-frequency representation of multicomponent signals using exponential kernels

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William J. Williams United States	41	2.4k	1.7k	1.1k	1.1k	847	208	6.8k
David J. Thomson United Kingdom	46	3.3k 1.4×	1.2k 0.7×	165 0.1×	313 0.3×	2.4k 2.9×	246	12.5k
Donald B. Percival United States	40	1.4k 0.6×	840 0.5×	102 0.1×	400 0.4×	1.4k 1.6×	110	10.5k
Christopher Torrence United States	5	4.4k 1.8×	2.4k 1.4×	189 0.2×	228 0.2×	4.7k 5.6×	6	13.6k
Quanan Zheng United States	35	2.9k 1.2×	5.0k 3.0×	238 0.2×	6.5k 5.8×	2.5k 3.0×	190	22.5k
Bernd Jähne Germany	35	1.3k 0.5×	1.8k 1.1×	506 0.4×	102 0.1×	1.2k 1.4×	189	9.0k
Zhaohua Wu China	36	2.9k 1.2×	1.6k 0.9×	67 0.1×	4.2k 3.8×	3.8k 4.4×	139	15.2k
Gilbert P. Compo United States	29	6.5k 2.7×	3.2k 1.9×	204 0.2×	222 0.2×	6.8k 8.1×	72	15.0k
John A. Barron United States	36	2.9k 1.2×	942 0.6×	507 0.4×	87 0.1×	463 0.5×	194	8.5k
Andrew T. Walden United Kingdom	29	684 0.3×	588 0.3×	52 0.0×	627 0.6×	802 0.9×	110	7.6k
Samuel S. P. Shen United States	30	1.6k 0.7×	534 0.3×	68 0.1×	888 0.8×	2.1k 2.5×	113	5.1k

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yamamoto‐Kawai, Michiyo, et al.. (2025). Vertical Expansion of Aragonite Undersaturated Waters in the Canada Basin of the Arctic Ocean From 2003 to 2019. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 130(2). 1 indexed citations

Strœve, Julienne, Jens K. Ehn, William J. Williams, et al.. (2024). Surface primary producer phenology in Dease Strait, NU, Canada, examined using submersed oceanographic sensors and satellite remote sensing. Arctic Science. 10(4). 673–687. 1 indexed citations

Christl, Marcus, et al.. (2024). Circulation Timescales and Pathways of Atlantic Water in the Canada Basin: Insights From Transient Tracers ¹²⁹I and ²³⁶U. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 129(6). 2 indexed citations

Guéguen, Céline, et al.. (2023). Interannual Variability of Fluorescent Dissolved Organic Matter Composition in the Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean From 2007 to 2017. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 128(6). 4 indexed citations

Nishino, Shigeto, Jinyoung Jung, Kyoung‐Ho Cho, et al.. (2023). Atlantic-origin water extension into the Pacific Arctic induced an anomalous biogeochemical event. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6235–6235. 12 indexed citations

Smith, J. N., et al.. (2021). A Changing Arctic Ocean: How Measured and Modeled ¹²⁹I Distributions Indicate Fundamental Shifts in Circulation Between 1994 and 2015. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 126(3). 22 indexed citations

Baumann, Till M., Igor V. Polyakov, Laurie Padman, et al.. (2020). Arctic tidal current atlas. Scientific Data. 7(1). 275–275. 17 indexed citations

Proshutinsky, Andrey, Richard Krishfield, John M. Toole, et al.. (2019). Analysis of the Beaufort Gyre Freshwater Content in 2003–2018. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 124(12). 9658–9689. 144 indexed citations

Hughes, Kenneth, Jody Klymak, William J. Williams, & Humfrey Melling. (2018). Tidally Modulated Internal Hydraulic Flow and Energetics in the Central Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 123(8). 5210–5229. 9 indexed citations

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Timmermans, Mary‐Louise, et al.. (2018). Surface Drifter Observations From the Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Sea: Evidence for Submesoscale Dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 123(4). 2635–2645. 27 indexed citations

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Tran, Patricia Q., et al.. (2018). Genomic evidence for the degradation of terrestrial organic matter by pelagic Arctic Ocean Chloroflexi bacteria. Communications Biology. 1(1). 90–90. 79 indexed citations

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Williams, William J. & Eddy C. Carmack. (2015). The ‘interior’ shelves of the Arctic Ocean: Physical oceanographic setting, climatology and effects of sea-ice retreat on cross-shelf exchange. Progress In Oceanography. 139. 24–41. 77 indexed citations

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Williams, William J., Thomas J. Weingartner, & Albert J. Hermann. (2007). Idealized three‐dimensional modeling of seasonal variation in the Alaska Coastal Current. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 112(C7). 14 indexed citations

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Aviyente, Selin, Linda A. W. Brakel, Ramesh Kumar Kushwaha, et al.. (2004). Characterization of Event Related Potentials Using Information Theoretic Distance Measures. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 51(5). 737–743. 18 indexed citations

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Djurdjanović, Dragan, et al.. (2000). Computerized classification of temporomandibular joint sounds. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 47(8). 977–984. 14 indexed citations

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Shi, Jianjun, et al.. (1999). Multiple Fault Detection and Isolation Using the Haar Transform, Part 2: Application to the Stamping Process. Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering. 121(2). 295–299. 31 indexed citations

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Beydoun, Ahmad, et al.. (1997). Mutual information analysis and detection of interictal morphological differences in interictal epileptiform discharges of patients with partial epilepsies. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology. 103(4). 426–433. 8 indexed citations

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Widmalm, Sven, et al.. (1996). Classification of temporomandibular joint sounds based upon their reduced interference distribution. Journal of Oral Rehabilitation. 23(1). 35–43. 29 indexed citations

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Jeong, Jechang, G. Cunningham, & William J. Williams. (1990). Instantaneous frequency and kernel requirements for discrete time-frequency distributions. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 1348. 170–180. 1 indexed citations

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Williams, William J.. (1964). The Activity of Lung Microsomes in Blood Coagulation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 239(3). 933–942. 39 indexed citations

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