2026 Ronald A. Cole: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	44	7616	7396	3300	3175	158	7415

Overview

Ronald A. Cole is affiliated with Boulder Language Technologies in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, including Environmental Science and Materials Science, with detailed work in subfields such as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Materials Chemistry, Ecology, Artificial Intelligence, and Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes.

The scientist's work covers diverse topics that include:

Mercury impact and mitigation studies
Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
Marine animal studies overview
Speech and dialogue systems
Molten salt chemistry and electrochemical processes
Nuclear Materials and Properties
Fusion materials and technologies

Ronald A. Cole has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including:

Xinrong Ren
Winston T. Luke
Paul Kelley
Mark Cohen
Mark L. Olson

Their publications appear in a range of venues that reflect their interdisciplinary expertise. These venues include:

Atmosphere
arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A Vacuum Surfaces and Films

Highlighted recent papers by Ronald A. Cole include:

Long-Term Observations of Atmospheric Speciated Mercury at a Coastal Site in the Northern Gulf of Mexico during 2007-2018 (2020, Atmosphere)
My Science Tutor (MyST) -- A Large Corpus of Children's Conversational Speech (2023, arXiv [Cornell University])
Small-scale production of bespoke accelerated aging plutonium alloy (2025, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A Vacuum Surfaces and Films)

Best Publications

Reviewing automatic language identification

Y.K. Muthusamy;E. Barnard;R.A. Cole

394
Citations
The OGI multi-language telephone speech corpus.

Yeshwant K. Muthusamy;Ronald A. Cole;Beatrice T. Oshika

322
Citations
The challenge of spoken language systems: Research directions for the nineties

R. Cole;L. Hirschman;L. Atlas;M. Beckman

267
Citations
Universal speech tools: the CSLU toolkit.

Stephen Sutton;Ronald A. Cole;Jacques de Villiers;Johan Schalkwyk

261
Citations
Spoken letter recognition

Ronald Cole;Mark Fanty

243
Citations
Listening for mispronunciations: A measure of what we hear during speech

Ronald A. Cole

234
Citations
A performance comparison of trained multilayer perceptrons and trained classification trees

L. Atlas;J. Connor;D. Park;M. El-Sharkawi

199
Citations
New telephone speech corpora at CSLU.

Ronald A. Cole;Mike Noel;Terri Lander;T. Durham

186
Citations
Sound and spelling in spoken word recognition.

Jola Jakimik;Ronald A Cole;Alexander I Rudnicky

182
Citations
Developing and evaluating conversational agents

Dominic W. Massaro;Michael M. Cohen;Jonas Beskow;Ronald A. Cole

178
Citations
Perceptive animated interfaces: first steps toward a new paradigm for human-computer interaction

R. Cole;S. Van Vuuren;B. Pellom;K. Hacioglu

176
Citations
Perceptibility of phonetic features in fluent speech.

Ronald A. Cole;Jola Jakimik;William E. Cooper

140
Citations
Children's speech recognition with application to interactive books and tutors

A. Hagen;B. Pellom;R. Cole

130
Citations
Spoken Letter Recognition

Mark Fanty;Ronald Cole

129
Citations
The OGI kids² speech corpus and recognizers.

Khaldoun Shobaki;John-Paul Hosom;Ronald A. Cole

129
Citations
Listening for mispronunciations in a children's story: The use of context by children and adults

Ronald A. Cole;Charles A. Perfetti

116
Citations
The contribution of consonants versus vowels to word recognition in fluent speech

Unknown

115
Citations
Perceptual benchmarks for automatic language identification

Unknown

107
Citations
Highly accurate children's speech recognition for interactive reading tutors using subword units

Andreas Hagen;Bryan Pellom;Ronald Cole

102
Citations
Pitch detection with a neural-net classifier

E. Barnard;R.A. Cole;M.P. Vea;F.A. Alleva

101
Citations
Sentactics®: Computer-automated treatment of underlying forms

Cynthia K Thompson;Jung Won Janet Choy;Audrey Holland;Ronald Cole

95
Citations
University of Colorado dialog systems for travel and navigation

B. Pellom;W. Ward;J. Hansen;R. Cole

94
Citations
Experiments on spectrogram reading

V. Zue;R. Cole

92
Citations
Perception and production of fluent speech

Unknown

53
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Wayne H. Ward University of Colorado Boulder

Etienne Barnard North-West University

Mohammad H. Mahoor University of Denver

José A. B. Fortes University of Florida

Don Towsley University of Massachusetts Amherst

Sameer Pradhan Vassar College

Annie I. Antón Georgia Institute of Technology

Jaime G. Carbonell Carnegie Mellon University

Dominic W. Massaro University of California, Santa Cruz

Audrey Holland University of Arizona

External Links

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