Ben Hicks

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
258 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Ben Hicks is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Management of Technology and Innovation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Hicks has authored 258 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 90 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 39 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation. Recurrent topics in Ben Hicks's work include Manufacturing Process and Optimization (75 papers), Design Education and Practice (74 papers) and Product Development and Customization (36 papers). Ben Hicks is often cited by papers focused on Manufacturing Process and Optimization (75 papers), Design Education and Practice (74 papers) and Product Development and Customization (36 papers). Ben Hicks collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Ben Hicks's co-authors include Chris Snider, S J Culley, Aydin Nassehi, David Jones, Jason Yon, Hamish McAlpine, James Gopsill, Glen Mullineux, Craig Loftus and Chris McMahon and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Sensors and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

In The Last Decade

Ben Hicks

237 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Characterising the Digital Twin: A systematic literature review

2020 1.3k citations David Jones, Chris Snider et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Ben Hicks	1.6k	1.1k	685	446	373	258	4.4k
Ying Liu	872 0.5×	955 0.9×	502 0.7×	341 0.8×	238 0.6×	499	6.6k
Ram D. Sriram	2.2k 1.4×	1.3k 1.2×	1.3k 1.8×	549 1.2×	381 1.0×	170	4.3k
Chun‐Hsien Chen	2.4k 1.5×	834 0.8×	1.5k 2.2×	446 1.0×	614 1.6×	217	7.3k
Klaus‐Dieter Thoben	2.1k 1.3×	581 0.5×	597 0.9×	803 1.8×	583 1.6×	258	4.8k
Yan Jin	542 0.3×	1.1k 1.0×	747 1.1×	288 0.6×	268 0.7×	284	3.5k
Luciënne Blessing	690 0.4×	1.4k 1.2×	974 1.4×	115 0.3×	240 0.6×	140	3.1k
Amaresh Chakrabarti	1.2k 0.7×	2.9k 2.6×	1.6k 2.3×	147 0.3×	475 1.3×	183	4.7k
Baicun Wang	2.1k 1.3×	720 0.7×	219 0.3×	294 0.7×	335 0.9×	63	4.0k
Karthik Ramani	2.0k 1.3×	2.5k 2.3×	599 0.9×	145 0.3×	541 1.5×	249	8.3k
S. K. Ong	3.0k 1.9×	1.4k 1.3×	575 0.8×	221 0.5×	635 1.7×	237	7.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Hicks

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All Works

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Nassehi, Aydin, et al.. (2024). Information Modelling of Extrusion-based 3D Printing Process for Digital Twins. Procedia CIRP. 128. 822–827. 1 indexed citations

Gopsill, James, et al.. (2024). Design delusions and prototyping: eliciting the link between prototypes and product performance. Proceedings of the Design Society. 4. 383–392. 1 indexed citations

Gopsill, James, et al.. (2024). Data mining prototyping knowledge graphs for design process insights. Journal of Engineering Design. 36(7-9). 1222–1248. 3 indexed citations

Gopsill, James, et al.. (2024). Investigating the influence and interplay of physical and virtual traits on the user perception of Mixed Reality prototypes. Design Science. 10.

Gopsill, James, et al.. (2024). Optimal configurations of Minimally Intelligent additive manufacturing machines for Makerspace production environments. Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturing. 38. 2 indexed citations

Gopsill, James, et al.. (2023). Maker communities and the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal analysis of Thingiverse’s response to supply shortages. Royal Society Open Science. 10(9). 230790–230790. 1 indexed citations

Hicks, Ben, et al.. (2023). A Cost–Benefit Analysis Simulation for the Digitalisation of Cold Supply Chains. Sensors. 23(8). 4147–4147. 5 indexed citations

Jones, David, et al.. (2023). The prototype taxonomised: Towards the capture, curation, and integration of physical models in new product development. Computers in Industry. 155. 104059–104059. 1 indexed citations

Snider, Chris, et al.. (2023). Knowledge dimensions in prototyping: investigating the what, when and how of knowledge generation during product development. Design Science. 9. 2 indexed citations

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Snider, Chris, et al.. (2021). Mixed reality in design prototyping: A systematic review. Design Studies. 77. 101046–101046. 68 indexed citations

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Gopsill, James, Chris Snider, & Ben Hicks. (2019). The emergent structures in digital engineering work: what can we learn from dynamic DSMs of near-identical systems design projects?. Design Science. 5. 5 indexed citations

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Ranscombe, Charlie, et al.. (2019). Designing with LEGO: exploring low fidelity visualization as a trigger for student behavior change toward idea fluency. International Journal of Technology and Design Education. 30(2). 367–388. 23 indexed citations

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Snider, Chris, et al.. (2018). Engineering Project Health Management: A Computational Approach for Project Management Support Through Analytics of Digital Engineering Activity. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. 66(3). 325–336. 14 indexed citations

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Snider, Chris, Stanko Škec, James Gopsill, & Ben Hicks. (2017). The characterisation of engineering activity through email communication and content dynamics, for support of engineering project management. Design Science. 3. 11 indexed citations

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Hicks, Ben, et al.. (2016). Towards the implementation of a predictive maintenance strategy: Lessons learned from a case study within a waste processing plant. PHM Society European Conference. 3(1). 3 indexed citations

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Culley, Stephen, et al.. (2011). Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED11), Vol. 5: Design for X, Design to X. Chalmers Research (Chalmers University of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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Ranscombe, Charlie, et al.. (2011). Characterizing and evaluating aesthetic features in vehicle design. Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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Hicks, Ben, Hamish McAlpine, Peter Törlind, et al.. (2008). The issues and benefits of an intelligent design observatory. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 2 indexed citations

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Hicks, Ben, et al.. (1999). Personal Financial Management. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 3 indexed citations

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Hicks, Ben. (1999). Developing a code for corporate ethics. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 3 indexed citations

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