2026 William A. Yost: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

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Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	36	8633	8325	2397	2224	295	6237

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Engineering and Technology

8633

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2397

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295

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Engineering and Technology

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6237

World Ranking

8633

National Ranking

2397

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

1046
Citations
A time domain description for the pitch strength of iterated rippled noise

William A. Yost;Roy Patterson;Stanley Sheft

259
Citations
PITCH STRENGTH OF ITERATED RIPPLED NOISE

William A. Yost

222
Citations
Pitch of iterated rippled noise

William A. Yost

207
Citations
Auditory image perception and analysis: the basis for hearing.

William A. Yost

202
Citations
Across-critical-band processing of amplitude-modulated tones.

William A. Yost;Stanley Sheft

193
Citations
Discrimination of interaural differences of level as a function of frequency.

William A. Yost;Raymond H. Dye

190
Citations
Modulation interference in detection and discrimination of amplitude modulation

William A. Yost;Stanley Sheft;Janie Opie

168
Citations
The relative strength of the tone and noise components in iterated rippled noise

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

167
Citations
Spatial hearing: The psychophysics of human sound localization, revised edition

William A. Yost

166
Citations
Auditory Processing of Complex Sounds

William A. Yost;Charles S. Watson

164
Citations
Lateral position of sinusoids presented with interaural intensive and temporal differences

William A. Yost

154
Citations
A simulated “cocktail party” with up to three sound sources

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

138
Citations
Discriminations of interaural phase differences

William A. Yost

135
Citations
Relationship between postural stability and spatial hearing.

Xuan Zhong;William A. Yost

134
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Temporal integration in amplitude modulation detection

Stanley Sheft;William A. Yost

112
Citations
Pitch and pitch discrimination of broadband signals with rippled power spectra.

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

109
Citations
Lateralization of Filtered Clicks

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

106
Citations
The precedence effect: Revisited

William A. Yost;David R. Soderquist

92
Citations
Strength of the pitches associated with ripple noise

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

88
Citations
The dominance region and ripple noise pitch: A test of the peripheral weighting model

William A. Yost

70
Citations
Loudness recalibration as a function of level

Dan Mapes-Riordan;William A. Yost

63
Citations
The role of the envelope in processing iterated rippled noise.

William A. Yost;Roy Patterson;Stanley Sheft

63
Citations