William McLean

6.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
165 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

William McLean is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, William McLean has authored 165 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Materials Chemistry, 52 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 40 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in William McLean's work include Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (36 papers), Nuclear Materials and Properties (27 papers) and Fractional Differential Equations Solutions (23 papers). William McLean is often cited by papers focused on Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (36 papers), Nuclear Materials and Properties (27 papers) and Fractional Differential Equations Solutions (23 papers). William McLean collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Saudi Arabia. William McLean's co-authors include Kassem Mustapha, Vidar Thomée, T. Venkatesan, N. Jisrawi, S. A. Shaheen, Mark Croft, Hong-lin Liao, P. Lindenfeld, D. Dijkkamp and X. D. Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

William McLean

162 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Preparation of Y-Ba-Cu oxide superconductor thin films using pulsed laser evaporation from high T c bulk material

1987 866 citations T. Venkatesan, William McLean et al. Applied Physics Letters profile →
A Discrete Grönwall Inequality with Applications to Numerical Schemes for Subdiffusion Problems

2019 243 citations William McLean et al. SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis profile →

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Time-fractional diffusion equations with randomness, and efficient numerical estimations of expected values 2025 ·Numerical Algorithms ·Josef Dick, (unknown), William McLean, Kassem Mustapha	1
2	An $$\alpha $$-Robust and Second-Order Accurate Scheme for a Subdiffusion Equation 2024 ·Journal of Scientific Computing ·(unknown), William McLean, Josef Dick	2
3	Parabolic oxidation kinetics of a plutonium alloy at room temperature 2021 ·Corrosion Science ·Scott Donald, (unknown), J.M. Haschke, (unknown), (unknown), David J. Roberts, A. J. Nelson, B W Chung, William McLean	19
4	General H₂O Outgassing Model Applicable to Silica-Filled Silicones 2020 ·Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research ·Hom N. Sharma, L. N. Dinh, (unknown), Robert S. Maxwell, William McLean	4
5	Phase Change-Driven Negative Activation Energies in Pd/Carbon-Based/Organic Getter Hydrogenation Reactions 2020 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry A ·L. N. Dinh, Hom N. Sharma, (unknown), William McLean, Robert S. Maxwell	4
6	Hydrogen Uptake Kinetics of 1,4-Bis(phenylethynyl)benzene (DEB) Rubberized Coating on Silicone Foam Substrate 2019 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·(unknown), Hom N. Sharma, C. K. Saw, (unknown), (unknown), Thomas S. Wilson, William McLean, Robert S. Maxwell, L. N. Dinh	16
7	Moisture Corrosion of LiH: A Kinetic Investigation by DRIFT Spectroscopy 2019 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry A ·(unknown), J.M. Haschke, William McLean, L. N. Dinh	7
8	Well-posedness and regularity of time-fractional, advection-diffusion-reaction equations 2018 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·William McLean, Kassem Mustapha, (unknown), Omar Knio	2
9	Exponential sum approximations and fast evaluation of fractional integrals 2016 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·William McLean	1
10	Numerical solution via Laplace transforms of a fractional order evolution equation 2010 ·Journal of Integral Equations and Applications ·William McLean, Vidar Thomée	88
11	Discontinuous Galerkin method for an evolution equation with a memory term of positive type 2009 ·Mathematics of Computation ·Kassem Mustapha, William McLean	51
12	Anisotropic Mesh Refinement: The Conditioning of Galerkin Boundary Element Matrices and Simple Preconditioners 2006 ·SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis ·Ivan G. Graham, William McLean	23
13	H2O outgassing from silica-filled polysiloxane TR55 2004 ·Journal of Colloid and Interface Science ·L. N. Dinh, (unknown), Robert S. Maxwell, W. J. Siekhaus, (unknown), William McLean	13
14	Numerical Evaluation of Some Trigonometric Series 1994 ·Mathematics of Computation ·William McLean	3
15	Fully-Discrete Collocation Methods for an Integral Equation of the First Kind 1994 ·Journal of Integral Equations and Applications ·William McLean	4
16	Recovery of original superconducting properties in ion-irradiated Y1Ba2Cu3O7−x thin films 1990 ·Applied Physics Letters ·S. Vadlamannati, P. England, N. G. Stoffel, R. Ramesh, T. S. Ravi, D. M. Hwang, Alp T. Findikoğlu, (unknown), T. Venkatesan, William McLean	9
17	A spectral Galerkin method for a boundary integral equation 1986 ·Mathematics of Computation ·William McLean	37
18	A Spectral Galerkin Method for a Boundary Integral Equation 1986 ·Mathematics of Computation ·William McLean	26
19	Chemisorption of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide on gold-supported thorium oxide films 1983 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry ·William McLean, C.A. Colmenares, Rachael L. Smith, G. A. Somorjai	18
20	Measurement of the Superconducting Order-Parameter Relaxation Time from Harmonic Generation 1976 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), William McLean	26

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