Applied Optics

2.1(top 20%)

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44.2K(top 1%)

papers

1.1M(top 1%)

citations

275(top 1%)

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2.1(top 20%)

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44.8K

all documents

1.1M

doc citations

442(top 1%)

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Top Authors (by article citations)

#	Author	Articles	Citations	R ARank	R CRank
1	Michael S Patterson	2	1,859	1	1
2	Andrew T Young	1	866	1	1
3	William D Philpot	1	270	3	1
4	Jürgen Jahns	1	256	1	1
5	Rebecca R Richards-Kortum	1	182	2	1
6	Steven L Jacques	1	146	1	2
7	Yasuhiro Sasano	2	180	1	1
7	Edward Browell	3	256	1	1
9	Jay B Jeffries	1	105	2	2
10	Shin-Tson Wu	1	96	1	1
11	Jouni Peltoniemi	2	175	1	1
12	Masashi Ohkawa	1	81	1	1
13	Shubha Sathyendranath	1	77	1	2
13	Trevor Platt	1	77	1	2
15	Willem M Star	2	106	1	1
16	Jorge Ojeda-Castaneda	2	77	1	1
17	Neal S Peachey	1	58	1	2
17	Kenneth Grattan	1	58	1	1
19	Ursula Gibson	1	57	1	1
20	Warren J Wiscombe	1	54	1	1
21	Brian C Wilson	1	51	1	2
22	Joseph Rosen	1	46	1	1
22	G C Tang	1	46	1	2
24	Jon C Geist	2	51	1	1
24	Douglas J Mcknight	1	41	1	1
26	Elias Glytsis	1	40	2	2
26	Chang Kwon Hwangbo	2	76	1	1
26	Jesper Munch	1	40	1	1
29	Wolfgang Steinbrecht	1	39	1	1
30	J-H Yee	1	38	2	1
31	R C Mcphedran	1	37	1	1
32	David B Elliott	1	35	1	2
33	K Vedam	1	33	1	2
34	J-P Wolf	1	31	3	3
35	Carl Figdor	1	30	1	3
35	Kenzo Miyazaki	1	30	1	2
37	David McKenzie	1	28	3	3
38	R M A Azzam	1	27	2	2
39	Robert H Hauge	1	26	1	1
39	Gregory W Faris	1	26	1	1
41	Leon Golub	1	25	1	1
41	Jakob Woisetschläger	1	25	1	1
43	Krzysztof Patorski	1	24	1	2
43	G C Valley	1	24	2	2
45	Greg J Smallwood	2	43	1	1
45	Gopal Bhar	1	22	2	2
45	S Das	1	22	2	2
48	Frank H Peters	1	21	1	1
48	Michael W Berns	1	21	4	5
48	Daniel T Cassidy	2	33	1	1
51	Gabriel Cristobal	1	20	1	1
52	Francesco Bloisi	1	19	1	1
52	Luciano Rosario Maria Vicari	1	19	1	2
52	Andre Knoesen	1	19	1	1
55	Pierre H Chavel	1	17	1	1
56	Volker Schulz-von der Gathen	1	16	1	1
56	Alan D Kersey	1	16	2	2
56	L A Coldren	1	16	2	3
59	Fabio Ferri	1	15	1	1
60	Marco de Petris	1	14	1	1
60	Eli Peli	1	14	1	2
62	Christopher J White, Macc, Mscai	1	13	1	1
62	Akhlesh Lakhtakia	1	13	3	7
62	Joseph N Mait	3	28	1	2
65	Reimund Gerhard	1	11	1	1
65	James H Churnside	1	11	2	2
67	David M Villeneuve	1	10	1	1
68	Merritt Deeter	2	9	1	1
68	John R Miller	1	8	1	1
70	Hideaki Haneishi	1	7	1	2
70	Etienne Barnard	1	7	1	1
70	Virendra Rai	1	7	1	1
73	Jun Ohta	1	6	1	5
73	John Barnard	1	6	1	1
73	Maria L Calvo	1	6	1	1
73	Ci-Ling Pan	1	6	1	1
73	Juha Fagerholm	1	6	1	1
73	R Fedosejevs	1	6	1	2
79	José Rebordão	1	5	1	1
79	Mark Cronin-Golomb	1	5	3	4
79	Fernando Moreno	1	5	1	1
79	Kenneth W Tobin	1	5	1	1
83	Jonathan W Arenberg	1	4	1	1
83	Luis Jiménez del Barco	1	4	1	1
86	Zbigniew Jaroszewicz	1	3	1	1
86	Charles W Bruce	1	3	1	1
88	Norio Saito	1	2	4	4
88	Stephen Burns	1	2	1	2
88	Harpreet Singh	1	2	1	1
88	Brian Bennett	1	2	2	1
88	Thomas Gaussiran	1	2	1	1
93	F J Duarte	1	1	1	3
93	Simon E Labov	1	1	1	2
93	Umberto Amato	1	1	1	1
96	John F Currie	1	0	1	4
96	V Moreno	1	0	1	0

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