William O. Brown

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
113 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

William O. Brown is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Aerospace Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, William O. Brown has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Atmospheric Science, 24 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in William O. Brown's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (23 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (12 papers) and Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (10 papers). William O. Brown is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (23 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (12 papers) and Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (10 papers). William O. Brown collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. William O. Brown's co-authors include Eric Helland, Janet Kiholm Smith, W. R. Blevin, Richard C. K. Burdekin, Stephen A. Cohn, Raymond D. Sauer, Douglas H. Lowenthal, Randolph D. Borys, Michael T. Maloney and T.W. Horst and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, The Journal of Finance and Journal of Financial Economics.

In The Last Decade

William O. Brown

107 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William O. Brown United States	27	924	680	515	504	396	113	2.8k
Robert J. Gordon United States	46	794 0.9×	184 0.3×	99 0.2×	120 0.2×	1.5k 3.7×	262	7.4k
Harold L. Cole United States	34	492 0.5×	426 0.6×	255 0.5×	455 0.9×	2.7k 6.7×	103	4.6k
Hong Ma China	26	303 0.3×	184 0.3×	410 0.8×	104 0.2×	752 1.9×	78	2.3k
David Henderson Australia	24	258 0.3×	195 0.3×	342 0.7×	62 0.1×	322 0.8×	126	2.0k
James L. Powell United States	37	444 0.5×	302 0.4×	124 0.2×	264 0.5×	2.6k 6.7×	101	7.9k
Brian D. Wright United States	35	165 0.2×	191 0.3×	359 0.7×	286 0.6×	2.5k 6.3×	166	4.9k
Douglas D. Davis United States	55	6.8k 7.4×	4.0k 5.9×	201 0.4×	144 0.3×	937 2.4×	247	9.9k
Robert C. Allen United States	42	218 0.2×	179 0.3×	292 0.6×	92 0.2×	3.5k 8.7×	231	7.3k
Haifeng Qian United States	22	404 0.4×	472 0.7×	273 0.5×	212 0.4×	656 1.7×	67	1.9k
Peter Walton United Kingdom	23	381 0.4×	675 1.0×	240 0.5×	618 1.2×	123 0.3×	88	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William O. Brown

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All Works

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Livermore, Philip W., et al.. (2025). Local flow estimation at the top of the Earth’s core using Physics Informed Neural Networks. Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors. 367. 107424–107424. 1 indexed citations

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Hoch, Sebastian W., et al.. (2025). Elucidating New Particle Formation in Complex Terrain During the Winter 2022 Cold Fog Amongst Complex Terrain (CFACT) Campaign. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 130(8).

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Carvalho, Leila M. V., Charles Jones, Stephan F. J. De Wekker, et al.. (2025). Insights on the Spatiotemporal Variability of Downslope Winds in Coastal Santa Barbara: A Case Study from the Sundowner Winds Experiment (SWEX). Monthly Weather Review. 153(12). 2635–2649.

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Hiscox, April L., Junming Wang, David A. R. Kristovich, et al.. (2023). Exploring Influences of Shallow Topography in Stable Boundary Layers: The SAVANT Field Campaign. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 104(2). E520–E541. 4 indexed citations

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Pu, Zhaoxia, Eric R. Pardyjak, Sebastian W. Hoch, et al.. (2023). Cold Fog Amongst Complex Terrain. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 104(11). E2030–E2052. 5 indexed citations

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Lawrence, Dale, David C. Fritts, Ling Wang, et al.. (2022). Instabilities, Dynamics, and Energetics accompanying Atmospheric Layering (IDEAL): high-resolution in situ observations and modeling in and above the nocturnal boundary layer. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 15(13). 4023–4045. 5 indexed citations

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Lawrence, Dale, David C. Fritts, Ling Wang, et al.. (2021). Instabilities, Dynamics, and Energetics accompanying Atmospheric Layering (IDEAL) Campaign: High-Resolution in situ Observations above the Nocturnal Boundary Layer. 2 indexed citations

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Brown, William O. & Eric Helland. (2006). Corporate Philanthropic Practices. Econstor (Econstor). 30 indexed citations

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Brown, William O.. (2005). The Sierra Rotors Project, Observations of Mountain Waves. 2 indexed citations

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Brown, William O.. (2005). A Demonstration of a Scanning Multiple Antenna UHF Radar. 1 indexed citations

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Brown, William O., Richard C. K. Burdekin, & Marc Weidenmier. (2004). Consols, Financial Stability, and Pax Britannia. Econstor (Econstor). 1 indexed citations

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Stenner, Michael D., William O. Brown, Olivier Pfister, & D. Gauthier. (2000). Observation of polarization instabilities in a two-photon laser.. 14. 1 indexed citations

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Ingham, Philip W., Sverker Nystedt, Yoshiro Nakano, et al.. (2000). Patched represses the Hedgehog signalling pathway by promoting modification of the Smoothened protein. Current Biology. 10(20). 1315–1318. 122 indexed citations

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Gauthier, D., William O. Brown, Jeffrey R. Gardner, & R. Vilaseca. (1997). Laser Beam Amplification Resulting From Collective Atomic Recoil. Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. 110–111. 1 indexed citations

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Brown, William O. & Richard R. Heim. (1997). Drought in the United States: 1996 Summary and Historical Perspective. JAMA Network Open. 6(10). e2336992–e2336992. 1 indexed citations

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Brown, William O., et al.. (1995). Multiple antenna FDI observations on the MU radar. 384. 2 indexed citations

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Sauer, Raymond D. & William O. Brown. (1993). Does the basketball market believe in the hot hand? Comment. American Economic Review. 83(5). 1377–1386. 70 indexed citations

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Brown, William O. & G. J. Fraser. (1991). Radar interferometry on MF SA radar. 248. 2 indexed citations

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Ross, D. B., J. P. McFadden, B. Au, & William O. Brown. (1974). A remote sensing study of Pacific hurricane Ava. 9 indexed citations

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Brown, William O., et al.. (1958). Transition in Africa : studies in political adaptation. 4 indexed citations

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