William L. Wolfe

2.0k total citations
86 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

William L. Wolfe is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, William L. Wolfe has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 25 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 18 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in William L. Wolfe's work include Calibration and Measurement Techniques (20 papers), Surface Roughness and Optical Measurements (14 papers) and Infrared Target Detection Methodologies (10 papers). William L. Wolfe is often cited by papers focused on Calibration and Measurement Techniques (20 papers), Surface Roughness and Optical Measurements (14 papers) and Infrared Target Detection Methodologies (10 papers). William L. Wolfe collaborates with scholars based in United States. William L. Wolfe's co-authors include George J. Zissis, Eustace L. Dereniak, William S. Bickel, Gorden Videen, James E. Harvey, Olof Biström, Kelly B. Miller, Jeffrey M. Hoffman, James Palmer and Marija S. Scholl and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Applied Physics and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

William L. Wolfe

81 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William L. Wolfe United States 17 385 328 270 251 240 86 1.3k
M. Katzin United States 5 398 1.0× 381 1.2× 223 0.8× 382 1.5× 360 1.5× 15 1.5k
P.E. Ciddor Australia 10 428 1.1× 442 1.3× 295 1.1× 101 0.4× 196 0.8× 32 1.3k
Shen Jian China 19 270 0.7× 649 2.0× 445 1.6× 124 0.5× 123 0.5× 161 1.3k
Klaus‐Peter Möllmann Germany 14 276 0.7× 162 0.5× 181 0.7× 206 0.8× 73 0.3× 78 1.3k
H. E. Bass United States 18 191 0.5× 113 0.3× 516 1.9× 403 1.6× 205 0.9× 57 1.4k
Preben Buchhave Denmark 18 472 1.2× 541 1.6× 100 0.4× 117 0.5× 341 1.4× 84 1.1k
R. Clark Jones United States 19 285 0.7× 216 0.7× 313 1.2× 141 0.6× 90 0.4× 50 1.1k
Leonard M. Hanssen United States 25 265 0.7× 372 1.1× 300 1.1× 575 2.3× 267 1.1× 144 1.8k
Jason D. Schmidt United States 13 471 1.2× 591 1.8× 307 1.1× 130 0.5× 96 0.4× 63 1.1k
Francis A. Jenkins United States 2 342 0.9× 295 0.9× 209 0.8× 54 0.2× 98 0.4× 2 979

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Satre, Derek D., William L. Wolfe, Stuart J. Eisendrath, & Constance Weisner. (2008). Computerized Screening for Alcohol and Drug Use Among Adults Seeking Outpatient Psychiatric Services. Psychiatric Services. 59(4). 441–444. 5 indexed citations
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Wolfe, William L.. (2006). Optics Made Clear: The Nature of Light and How We Use It. SPIE eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Wolfe, William L.. (1999). Infrared Design Examples. SPIE eBooks. 5 indexed citations
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Wolfe, William L.. (1998). Introduction to Radiometry. SPIE eBooks. 74 indexed citations
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Wolfe, William L.. (1997). Introduction to Imaging Spectrometers. SPIE eBooks. 59 indexed citations
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Videen, Gorden, et al.. (1993). Scattering from a small sphere near a surface. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 10(1). 118–118. 56 indexed citations
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Wolfe, William L., et al.. (1991). Simultaneous alignment and multiple surface figure testing of optical system components via wavefront aberration measurement and reverse optimization. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1354. 533–533. 2 indexed citations
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Johnson, R. Barry & William L. Wolfe. (1985). Selected papers on infrared design. 4 indexed citations
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Wolfe, William L., et al.. (1983). <title>Comparison Of Theory And Experiments For Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) Of Microrough Surfaces</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 362. 40–45. 1 indexed citations
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Wolfe, William L., et al.. (1983). <title>Comparison Of Measurements By Different Instruments Of The Far-Infrared Reflectance Of Rough, Optically Black Coatings</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 362. 46–53. 3 indexed citations
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Wolfe, William L., et al.. (1983). Scattering from microrough surfaces: comparison of theory and experiment. Journal of the Optical Society of America. 73(11). 1596–1596. 25 indexed citations
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Wolfe, William L., et al.. (1982). Measurements of Martin Black at ~10 μm. Applied Optics. 21(17). 3178–3178. 4 indexed citations
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Wolfe, William L., et al.. (1982). Bidirectional reflectance distribution function of the Infrared Astronomical Satellite solar-shield material. Applied Optics. 21(18). 3323–3323. 6 indexed citations
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Dereniak, Eustace L., et al.. (1981). <title>The Theory And Measurement Of Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (Brdf) And Bidirectional Transmittance Distribution Function (BTDF)</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 257. 154–160. 67 indexed citations
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Ewbank, M. D., et al.. (1980). The temperature dependence of optical and mechanical properties of Tl3AsSe3. Journal of Applied Physics. 51(7). 3848–3852. 19 indexed citations
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Wolfe, William L., et al.. (1979). Image chopping techniques for fast measurement of irradiance distribution parameters. Applied Optics. 18(3). 389–389. 8 indexed citations
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Wolfe, William L.. (1973). Photon Number D* Figure of Merit. Applied Optics. 12(3). 619–619. 2 indexed citations
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Wolfe, William L.. (1966). Materials for Optical Instrumentation. Applied Optics. 5(12). 1871–1871. 1 indexed citations
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Ballard, Stanley S., et al.. (1962). Errata. Applied Optics. 1(6). 785–785. 1 indexed citations
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Wolfe, William L., et al.. (1959). Optical-Mechanical Scanning Techniques. Proceedings of the IRE. 47(9). 1546–1550. 14 indexed citations

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