Willy Ranson

453 total citations
44 papers, 255 citations indexed

About

Willy Ranson is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Willy Ranson has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 255 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 10 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 8 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Willy Ranson's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (12 papers), Origins and Evolution of Life (8 papers) and Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices (6 papers). Willy Ranson is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (12 papers), Origins and Evolution of Life (8 papers) and Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices (6 papers). Willy Ranson collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and Russia. Willy Ranson's co-authors include Roger Vounckx, Ron Cottam, Johan Stiens, Debby Mangelings, Gino V. Baron, Gert Desmet, David Clicq, Hugo Thienpont, Heidi Ottevaere and Jürgen Van Erps and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics and Analytica Chimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

Willy Ranson

39 papers receiving 249 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Willy Ranson Belgium	10	78	64	49	35	26	44	255
Ron Cottam Belgium	10	86 1.1×	57 0.9×	67 1.4×	41 1.2×	32 1.2×	43	373
R. D. Thom United States	4	55 0.7×	16 0.3×	19 0.4×	38 1.1×	3 0.1×	8	259
Robert Smithson United States	9	71 0.9×	43 0.7×	74 1.5×	25 0.7×	22 0.8×	35	249
Franck Varenne France	8	32 0.4×	15 0.2×	11 0.2×	9 0.3×	16 0.6×	36	201
Andrew Rex United States	7	30 0.4×	36 0.6×	25 0.5×	24 0.7×	12 0.5×	19	437
Taichi Haruna Japan	7	16 0.2×	53 0.8×	12 0.2×	38 1.1×	7 0.3×	39	217
Tomoya Suzuki Japan	9	72 0.9×	29 0.5×	23 0.5×	11 0.3×		58	289
Dale Green United States	14	157 2.0×	72 1.1×	7 0.1×	39 1.1×		47	524
Young Jae Lee United States	10	18 0.2×	98 1.5×	19 0.4×	34 1.0×		20	333
Jean Le Bihan France	14	353 4.5×	69 1.1×	9 0.2×	7 0.2×	22 0.8×	77	560

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Willy Ranson

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cottam, Ron, Willy Ranson, & Roger Vounckx. (2016). Hierarchy and the Nature of Information. Information. 7(1). 1–1. 27 indexed citations

Zhu, Bin, Johan Stiens, Jürgen Van Erps, et al.. (2015). Resolution analysis of a polymethylmethacrylate tapered probe in near-field terahertz imaging. VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). 30(1). 30–41. 4 indexed citations

Cottam, Ron, Willy Ranson, & Roger Vounckx. (2014). Chaos and Chaos; Complexity and Hierarchy. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. 32(6). 579–592. 3 indexed citations

Cottam, Ron, Willy Ranson, & Roger Vounckx. (2013). Toward bridging the gap between life and physics. Biosystems. 112(2). 163–170.

Ranson, Willy, et al.. (2011). INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE FOR HIGHLY SENSITIVE THZ SPECTROSCOPY OF NANO-LITER LIQUIDS IN CAPILLARY TUBES. Electromagnetic waves. 121. 89–101. 21 indexed citations

Stiens, Johan, G. N. Shkerdin, В. М. Котов, et al.. (2010). Evanescent wave modulator for medium infrared wavelengths (8-12 μm). Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7597. 759711–759711. 3 indexed citations

Cottam, Ron, Willy Ranson, & Roger Vounckx. (2007). Re‐Mapping Robert Rosen's (M,R)‐Systems. Chemistry & Biodiversity. 4(10). 2352–2368. 13 indexed citations

Cottam, Ron, Willy Ranson, & Roger Vounckx. (2006). Replicating Robert Rosen's (M,R) Systems. VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).

Cottam, Ron, Willy Ranson, & Roger Vounckx. (2006). Living in Hyperscale: Internalization as a Search for Reunification. VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). 3 indexed citations

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Cottam, Ron, Willy Ranson, & Roger Vounckx. (2005). Life and simple systems. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. 22(5). 413–430. 14 indexed citations

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Cottam, Ron, Willy Ranson, & Roger Vounckx. (2004). Back to the Future: Anatomy of a System. VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).

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Clicq, David, Willy Ranson, Heidi Ottevaere, et al.. (2004). A novel microstep device for the size separation of cells. Electrophoresis. 25(10-11). 1714–1722. 17 indexed citations

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Cottam, Ron, Willy Ranson, & Roger Vounckx. (2004). Autocreative Hierarchy I: Structure - Ecosystemic Dependence and Autonomy. VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). 13 indexed citations

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Cottam, Ron, Willy Ranson, & Roger Vounckx. (2004). Autocreative hierarchy II: dynamics self-organization, emergence and level-changing. 766–773. 15 indexed citations

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Ranson, Willy, et al.. (2001). Reliability aspects of thermal micro-structures implemented on industrial 0.8 μm CMOS chips. Microelectronics Reliability. 41(2). 307–315. 3 indexed citations

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Cottam, Ron, Willy Ranson, & Roger Vounckx. (2000). A diffuse biosemiotic model for cell-to-tissue computational closure. Biosystems. 55(1-3). 159–171. 9 indexed citations

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Cottam, Ron, Willy Ranson, & Roger Vounckx. (1999). Life as its own Tool for Survival. VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). 5 indexed citations

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Cottam, Ron, Willy Ranson, & Roger Vounckx. (1998). Diffuse Rationality in Complex Systems. VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). 8 indexed citations

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Thienpont, Hugo, Andrew G. Kirk, Paul Heremans, et al.. (1998). Polarization-based reconfigurable optical interconnects in free-space optical processing modules. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 10(3). 367–369. 5 indexed citations

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Thienpont, Hugo, Irina Veretennicoff, Hervé Dupont, et al.. (1994). <title>Optical information processing planes with silicon technology</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2051. 180–192.

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