W.B. Colson

178 total papers · 2.3k total citations
95 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

W.B. Colson is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, W.B. Colson has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 47 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 47 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in W.B. Colson’s work include Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers (78 papers), Particle accelerators and beam dynamics (47 papers) and Gyrotron and Vacuum Electronics Research (42 papers). W.B. Colson is often cited by papers focused on Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers (78 papers), Particle accelerators and beam dynamics (47 papers) and Gyrotron and Vacuum Electronics Research (42 papers). W.B. Colson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Italy. W.B. Colson's co-authors include Roger A. Freedman, S. K. Ride, P. Elleaume, G. Dattoli, F. Ciocci, Alexander L. Fetter, D. Oepts, Juan F. Lam, William H. Louisell and J. Gallardo and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physics Today and Physics Letters A.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of W.B. Colson

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

W.B. Colson

90 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by W.B. Colson

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Countries citing papers authored by W.B. Colson

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