William W. Wood

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
110 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

William W. Wood is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, William W. Wood has authored 110 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 18 papers in Materials Chemistry and 17 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in William W. Wood's work include Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics (13 papers), Material Dynamics and Properties (12 papers) and Combustion and Detonation Processes (11 papers). William W. Wood is often cited by papers focused on Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics (13 papers), Material Dynamics and Properties (12 papers) and Combustion and Detonation Processes (11 papers). William W. Wood collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. William W. Wood's co-authors include Jerome J. Erpenbeck, A.G. Hannam, Frazier Parker, John G. Kirkwood, Wildon Fickett, Zevi W. Salsburg, Keiichi Sasaki, Yoshinobu Maeda, F. Lado and Kenji Takada and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Physical review. B, Condensed matter.

In The Last Decade

William W. Wood

104 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

  1. Preliminary Results from a Recalculation of the Monte Carlo Equation of State of Hard Spheres
    1957 431 citations William W. Wood et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William W. Wood United States 35 1.4k 1.3k 532 506 497 110 4.3k
G. T. Gillies United States 32 595 0.4× 902 0.7× 18 0.0× 264 0.5× 768 1.5× 201 4.4k
H. Z. Cummins United States 45 4.4k 3.2× 1.3k 1.0× 7 0.0× 293 0.6× 2.3k 4.6× 151 7.4k
D. Weaire Ireland 53 7.1k 5.3× 1.8k 1.4× 6 0.0× 173 0.3× 2.2k 4.4× 314 11.8k
Theodore H. Maiman United States 8 660 0.5× 427 0.3× 22 0.0× 46 0.1× 1.2k 2.4× 12 3.3k
H. Schneider Germany 43 2.4k 1.8× 1.1k 0.9× 6 0.0× 220 0.4× 3.8k 7.7× 370 7.4k
R. R. Alfano United States 64 1.8k 1.4× 6.8k 5.3× 4 0.0× 241 0.5× 8.7k 17.5× 792 19.4k
Robert W. Brown United States 35 272 0.2× 1.1k 0.8× 4 0.0× 85 0.2× 650 1.3× 168 6.2k
D. I. Hoult United States 34 680 0.5× 911 0.7× 5 0.0× 90 0.2× 2.1k 4.2× 73 7.7k
Jean‐Michel Hartmann France 49 1.6k 1.2× 2.2k 1.7× 18 0.0× 31 0.1× 3.6k 7.2× 473 9.6k
Kees Joost Batenburg Netherlands 33 823 0.6× 1.8k 1.4× 8 0.0× 94 0.2× 420 0.8× 151 5.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William W. Wood

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All Works

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Ghosh, Manik C., Gary D. Collins, Bolormaa Vandanmagsar, et al.. (2009). Activation of Wnt5A signaling is required for CXC chemokine ligand 12–mediated T-cell migration. Blood. 114(7). 1366–1373. 54 indexed citations
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Weeraratna, Ashani T., Audrey N. Kalehua, Michael S. Wade, et al.. (2006). Alterations in immunological and neurological gene expression patterns in Alzheimer's disease tissues. Experimental Cell Research. 313(3). 450–461. 85 indexed citations
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Jones, David, et al.. (2001). A concise synthesis of homochiral trans-perhydroazulenes and trans-hydrindanes. Tetrahedron Letters. 42(11). 2193–2195. 9 indexed citations
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Wood, William W., Jerome J. Erpenbeck, George A. Baker, & J. D. Johnson. (2000). Molecular dynamics ensemble, equation of state, and ergodicity. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 63(1). 11106–11106. 16 indexed citations
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Wood, William W.. (1994). <title>Reliability of optical connectors and splices</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2074. 276–287. 2 indexed citations
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Page, Philip C. Bulman, et al.. (1993). Lewis acid mediated addition of 2-acyl-1,3-dithianes to α,β-unsaturated ketones: Synthesis of cyclohexenedione mono-dithioacetals.. Tetrahedron. 49(45). 10369–10386. 6 indexed citations
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Wood, William W., et al.. (1992). A Convenient Synthesis of Aryl Nitroso Compounds. Synthetic Communications. 22(12). 1683–1686. 17 indexed citations
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Wood, William W.. (1987). A review of masticatory muscle function. Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry. 57(2). 222–232. 62 indexed citations
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Wood, William W. & Graham Watson. (1987). The total synthesis of (–)-litsenolides C-1 and C-2. Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1. 2681–2688. 8 indexed citations
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Wood, William W.. (1986). Medial pterygoid muscle activity during chewing and clenching. Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry. 55(5). 615–621. 24 indexed citations
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Wood, William W., Kenji Takada, & A.G. Hannam. (1986). The electromyographic activity of the inferior part of the human lateral pterygoid muscle during clenching and chewing. Archives of Oral Biology. 31(4). 245–253. 61 indexed citations
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Wood, William W., et al.. (1984). Agricultural land use policy: Implications for state and local government. California Agriculture. 38(7). 6–8. 1 indexed citations
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Wood, William W.. (1977). Inertial oscillations in a rigid axisymmetric container. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 358(1692). 17–30. 4 indexed citations
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Wood, William W., et al.. (1974). The motion of dislocations. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 336(1605). 191–209. 6 indexed citations
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Wood, William W.. (1973). A Review of Computer Studies in the Kinetic Theory of Fluids. 451–490. 2 indexed citations
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Wood, William W.. (1967). Experimental mechanics at velocity extremes —Very high strain rates. Experimental Mechanics. 7(10). 441–446. 36 indexed citations
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Wood, William W.. (1966). An oscillatory disturbance of rigidly rotating fluid. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 293(1433). 181–212. 29 indexed citations
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Wood, William W. & John G. Kirkwood. (1958). Present Status of Detonation Theory. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 29(4). 957–958. 13 indexed citations
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Fickett, Wildon, William W. Wood, & Zevi W. Salsburg. (1957). Investigations of the Detonation Properties of Condensed Explosives with Equations of State Based on Intermolecular Potentials. I. RDX with Fixed Product Composition. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 27(6). 1324–1329. 8 indexed citations
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Wood, William W.. (1957). The asymptotic expansions at large Reynolds numbers for steady motion between non-coaxial rotating cylinders. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 3(2). 159–175. 39 indexed citations

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