Alan Burns

224 papers and 5.1k indexed citations
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About

Alan Burns is a scholar working on Hardware and Architecture, Computer Networks and Communications and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Burns has authored 224 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 176 papers in Hardware and Architecture, 107 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 77 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Alan Burns’s work include Real-Time Systems Scheduling (165 papers), Embedded Systems Design Techniques (91 papers) and Distributed systems and fault tolerance (81 papers). Alan Burns is often cited by papers focused on Real-Time Systems Scheduling (165 papers), Embedded Systems Design Techniques (91 papers) and Distributed systems and fault tolerance (81 papers). Alan Burns collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Spain. Alan Burns's co-authors include Andy Wellings, Robert I. Davis, K. Tindell, Neil Audsley, Reinder J. Bril, Johan J. Lukkien, Mike Richardson, Guillem Bernat, Fengxiang Zhang and Peter Puschner and has published in prestigious journals such as MIS Quarterly, The American Historical Review and ACM Computing Surveys.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Burns

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

Alan Burns

192 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Burns

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by Alan Burns

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Top Papers & Citation Paths

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