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D-Index
36
Citations
6237
World Ranking
8635
National Ranking
2398

William A. Yost publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William A. Yost sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 295 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

William A. Yost D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William A. Yost sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - ASA Gold Medal, Acoustical Society of America For research on binaural hearing, pitch and modulation perception, and for service to the acoustics community.
  • 1995 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

William A. Yost is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of neuroscience, with a notable emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and speech and hearing. Their work spans fields such as signal processing, sensory systems, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including hearing loss and rehabilitation, noise effects and management, speech and audio processing, and multisensory perception and integration. Other areas covered by their research include hearing, cochlea, tinnitus, genetics, acoustic wave phenomena, and hearing impairment and communication.

William A. Yost's recent scholarly output includes publications such as the following:

  • Effects of Head Movements on Sound-Source Localization in Single-Sided Deaf Patients With Their Cochlear Implant On Versus Off, 2020, Ear and Hearing
  • Sound source localization is a multisystem process, 2020, Nippon Onkyo Gakkaishi/Acoustical science and technology/Nihon Onkyo Gakkaishi
  • Effects of Bilateral Automatic Gain Control Synchronization in Cochlear Implants With and Without Head Movements: Sound Source Localization in the Frontal Hemifield, 2021, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Molecular analysis of individual differences in talker search at the cocktail-party, 2022, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Do I have a hearing loss?, 2021, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Frequent collaborators in Yost's research include:

  • M. Torben Pastore
  • Yi Zhou
  • Michael F. Dorman
  • Kathryn R. Pulling
  • Chen Chen

Their work appears regularly in several scientific outlets, with a concentration in the following venues:

  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Acoustics Today
  • Proceedings of meetings on acoustics
  • Ear and Hearing
  • Nippon Onkyo Gakkaishi/Acoustical science and technology/Nihon Onkyo Gakkaishi

William A. Yost's contributions have been recognized with awards including the ASA Gold Medal from the Acoustical Society of America in 2018, cited for research on binaural hearing, pitch and modulation perception, and service to the acoustics community. They were also named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1995.

Best Publications

  • The precedence effect.

    Ruth Y. Litovsky;H. Steven Colburn;William A. Yost;Sandra J. Guzman

  • A time domain description for the pitch strength of iterated rippled noise

    William A. Yost;Roy Patterson;Stanley Sheft

  • PITCH STRENGTH OF ITERATED RIPPLED NOISE

    William A. Yost

  • Pitch of iterated rippled noise

    William A. Yost

  • Auditory image perception and analysis: the basis for hearing.

    William A. Yost

  • Across-critical-band processing of amplitude-modulated tones.

    William A. Yost;Stanley Sheft

  • Discrimination of interaural differences of level as a function of frequency.

    William A. Yost;Raymond H. Dye

  • Modulation interference in detection and discrimination of amplitude modulation

    William A. Yost;Stanley Sheft;Janie Opie

  • The relative strength of the tone and noise components in iterated rippled noise

    Roy D. Patterson;Stephen Handel;William A. Yost;A. Jaysurya Datta

  • Spatial hearing: The psychophysics of human sound localization, revised edition

    William A. Yost

  • Auditory Processing of Complex Sounds

    William A. Yost;Charles S. Watson

  • Lateral position of sinusoids presented with interaural intensive and temporal differences

    William A. Yost

  • A simulated “cocktail party” with up to three sound sources

    William A. Yost;Raymond H. Dye;Stanley Sheft

  • Discriminations of interaural phase differences

    William A. Yost

  • Relationship between postural stability and spatial hearing.

    Xuan Zhong;William A. Yost

  • Temporal integration in amplitude modulation detection

    Stanley Sheft;William A. Yost

  • Pitch and pitch discrimination of broadband signals with rippled power spectra.

    William A. Yost;William A. Yost;Richard Hill;Tony Perez‐Falcon

  • Lateralization of Filtered Clicks

    W. A. Yost;F. L. Wightman;David M. Green

  • The precedence effect: Revisited

    William A. Yost;David R. Soderquist

  • Strength of the pitches associated with ripple noise

    William A. Yost;William A. Yost;Richard Hill

  • The dominance region and ripple noise pitch: A test of the peripheral weighting model

    William A. Yost

  • Loudness recalibration as a function of level

    Dan Mapes-Riordan;William A. Yost

  • The role of the envelope in processing iterated rippled noise.

    William A. Yost;Roy Patterson;Stanley Sheft

Frequent Co-Authors

Roy D. Patterson
Roy D. Patterson University of Cambridge
David M. Green
David M. Green University of Florida
Arthur N. Popper
Arthur N. Popper University of Maryland, College Park
Gerald Kidd
Gerald Kidd Boston University
H. Steven Colburn
H. Steven Colburn Boston University
Constantine Trahiotis
Constantine Trahiotis University of Connecticut Health Center
David F. Dolan
David F. Dolan University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John C. Middlebrooks
John C. Middlebrooks University of California, Irvine
Richard M. Warren
Richard M. Warren University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

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