William S. Lewis

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 694 citations indexed

About

William S. Lewis is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Philosophy and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, William S. Lewis has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 694 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 8 papers in Philosophy and 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in William S. Lewis's work include Astro and Planetary Science (10 papers), Planetary Science and Exploration (6 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (5 papers). William S. Lewis is often cited by papers focused on Astro and Planetary Science (10 papers), Planetary Science and Exploration (6 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (5 papers). William S. Lewis collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Taiwan. William S. Lewis's co-authors include J. H. Waite, J. I. Lunine, O. Mousis, B. Magee, B. D. Teolis, T. Brockwell, M.-J. Nguyen, R. L. McNutt, J. H. Westlake and Christopher R. Glein and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

William S. Lewis

20 papers receiving 659 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.

Liquid water on Enceladus from observations of ammonia and 40Ar in the plume

2009 402 citations J. H. Waite, William S. Lewis et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William S. Lewis United States	9	576	125	101	66	45	23	694
F. Zambon Italy	18	966 1.7×	216 1.7×	345 3.4×	20 0.3×	33 0.7×	117	1.1k
S. M. Howell United States	12	259 0.4×	156 1.2×	36 0.4×	78 1.2×	30 0.7×	37	553
J. A. Rathbun United States	17	921 1.6×	254 2.0×	62 0.6×	62 0.9×	68 1.5×	79	1.0k
Á. Juhász Hungary	13	605 1.1×	108 0.9×	67 0.7×	67 1.0×	64 1.4×	26	681
Antti Kallio Finland	6	262 0.5×	77 0.6×	81 0.8×	10 0.2×	10 0.2×	19	363
Natasha M. Johnson United States	12	344 0.6×	78 0.6×	80 0.8×	8 0.1×	7 0.2×	51	442
R. E. Johnson United States	13	495 0.9×	101 0.8×	43 0.4×	31 0.5×	92 2.0×	38	573
F. Bühler Switzerland	12	665 1.2×	101 0.8×	85 0.8×	21 0.3×	41 0.9×	25	775
J. B. Dalton United States	7	331 0.6×	97 0.8×	55 0.5×	40 0.6×	16 0.4×	19	380
A. A. Mamoutkine United States	9	867 1.5×	368 2.9×	49 0.5×	43 0.7×	64 1.4×	13	910

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lewis, William S.. (2016). Althusser’s Scientism and Aleatory Materialism. Creative Matter (Skidmore College). 2(1). 22.

Waite, J. H., William S. Lewis, B. Magee, et al.. (2009). Liquid water on Enceladus from observations of ammonia and 40Ar in the plume. Nature. 460(7254). 487–490. 402 indexed citations breakdown →

Mousis, O., J. I. Lunine, Matthew A. Pasek, et al.. (2009). A primordial origin for the atmospheric methane of Saturn’s moon Titan. Icarus. 204(2). 749–751. 27 indexed citations

Waite, J. H., B. Magee, T. Brockwell, et al.. (2008). Enceladus Plume Composition. LPICo. 1774. 305. 15 indexed citations

Lewis, William S.. (2008). War, Manipulation of Consent, and Deliberative Democracy. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy. 22(4). 266–277. 1 indexed citations

Lewis, William S.. (2007). Concrete Analysis and Pragmatic Social Theory (Notes Towards an Althusserian Critical Theory). International Studies in Philosophy. 39(2). 97–116.

Lewis, William S.. (2007). Editorial Introduction to Louis Althusser's 'Letter to the Central Committee of the PCF, 18 March 1966'. Historical Materialism. 15(2). 133–151. 1 indexed citations

Baker, D. N., H. J. Singer, J. Miller, et al.. (2007). Space Radiation Hazards and the Vision for Space Exploration: A Report on the October 2005 Wintergreen Conference. Space Weather. 5(2). 4 indexed citations

Burch, J. L., J. Goldstein, William S. Lewis, et al.. (2006). Tethys and Dione: Sources of Outward Flowing Plasma in Saturn's Magnetosphere. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2006. 1 indexed citations

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Lewis, William S.. (2005). Art or Propaganda? Dewey and Adorno on the Relationship between Politics and Art. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy. 19(1). 42–54. 2 indexed citations

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Lewis, William S.. (2005). The Under-theorization of Overdetermination in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. Creative Matter (Skidmore College). 4(2). 3 indexed citations

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Lewis, William S.. (2005). Art or Propaganda? Dewey and Adorno on the Relationship between Politics and Art. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy. 19(1). 42–54. 4 indexed citations

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Lewis, William S.. (2005). The Under-theorization of Overdetermination in the Political Philosophy of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. Creative Matter (Skidmore College). 11. 4 indexed citations

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Lewis, William S.. (2005). Knowledge versus “Knowledge”: Louis Althusser on the Autonomy of Science and Philosophy from Ideology. Rethinking Marxism. 17(3). 455–470. 3 indexed citations

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Marsden, Philip D., et al.. (2003). The Archaeology of the "Mary Rose" Vol. 1. Sealed by time: the loss and recovery of the "Mary Rose". 1 indexed citations

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Waite, J. H., Denis Grodent, T. Majeed, et al.. (2000). Multispectral observations of Jupiter's aurora. Advances in Space Research. 26(10). 1453–1475. 16 indexed citations

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Johnson, R. E., R. M. Killen, J. H. Waite, & William S. Lewis. (1998). Europa's surface composition and sputter‐produced ionosphere. Geophysical Research Letters. 25(17). 3257–3260. 54 indexed citations

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Lewis, William S.. (1988). Martin Heidegger: Political Texts, 1933-1934. New German Critique. 96–96.

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Ting‐Beall, H. Ping, V. F. Holland, J Freytag, William S. Lewis, & David F. Hastings. (1984). Asymmetric mass distribution of (Na+ + K+)-ATPase in membranes studied by freeze-fracture-etch electron microscopy. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 776(2). 190–196. 5 indexed citations

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Lewis, William S., et al.. (1965). “JUMPERS SYNDROME”. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 5(6). 812–818. 50 indexed citations

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