B.F. Jones

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

B.F. Jones is a scholar working on Software, Information Systems and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, B.F. Jones has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Software, 11 papers in Information Systems and 6 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in B.F. Jones's work include Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (14 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (8 papers) and Software Engineering Research (8 papers). B.F. Jones is often cited by papers focused on Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (14 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (8 papers) and Software Engineering Research (8 papers). B.F. Jones collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Chile. B.F. Jones's co-authors include Mark Harman, Peter Plassmann, Shuang‐Hua Yang, Lili Yang, Joachim Wegener, Harmen Sthamer, W.O. George, Brian S. Mitchell, Martin Shepperd and Spiros Mancoridis and has published in prestigious journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics and IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.

In The Last Decade

B.F. Jones

32 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Search-based software engineering 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Search-based software engineering
    2001 601 citations Mark Harman, B.F. Jones Information and Software Technology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
B.F. Jones United Kingdom 17 1.1k 896 524 295 282 37 2.4k
Amandeep Kaur India 26 154 0.1× 305 0.3× 105 0.2× 775 2.6× 92 0.3× 137 2.6k
Sonali Agarwal India 24 96 0.1× 464 0.5× 232 0.4× 998 3.4× 21 0.1× 144 2.3k
Željko Žilić Canada 20 112 0.1× 212 0.2× 22 0.0× 237 0.8× 53 0.2× 171 1.7k
Jun Zheng China 24 153 0.1× 361 0.4× 40 0.1× 503 1.7× 9 0.0× 175 2.3k
Dan Yang China 25 230 0.2× 486 0.5× 113 0.2× 543 1.8× 4 0.0× 173 2.1k
José L. Risco‐Martín Spain 17 82 0.1× 209 0.2× 22 0.0× 267 0.9× 26 0.1× 120 1.3k
Pierangelo Veltri Italy 23 37 0.0× 183 0.2× 205 0.4× 629 2.1× 146 0.5× 237 2.2k
S. Marrone Italy 18 160 0.1× 180 0.2× 71 0.1× 176 0.6× 3 0.0× 96 1.1k
Pradeep Singh India 18 178 0.2× 315 0.4× 55 0.1× 669 2.3× 8 0.0× 98 1.4k
Kaushik Roy United States 31 20 0.0× 349 0.4× 239 0.5× 1.1k 3.9× 21 0.1× 284 3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by B.F. Jones

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Fields of papers citing papers by B.F. Jones

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of B.F. Jones

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ring, E. F. J., K. Ammer, Piotr Murawski, et al.. (2005). Standardization of infrared imaging. PubMed. 3. 1183–1185. 39 indexed citations
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Jones, B.F., Gerald Schaefer, & Shunzhi Zhu. (2005). Content-based image retrieval for medical infrared images. PubMed. 3. 1186–1187. 12 indexed citations
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Jones, B.F., et al.. (2005). Genetic algorithm based software integration with minimum software risk. Information and Software Technology. 48(3). 133–141. 14 indexed citations
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Clarke, J.A., Mark Harman, Robert M. Hierons, et al.. (2003). Reformulating software engineering as a search. 1 indexed citations
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Jones, B.F. & Peter Plassmann. (2002). Digital infrared thermal imaging of human skin. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine. 21(6). 41–48. 198 indexed citations
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Jones, B.F. & E. F. J. Ring. (2002). A database of archival infrared thermal imaging in medicine papers. 2. 654–655. 1 indexed citations
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Harman, Mark & B.F. Jones. (2001). SEMINAL: software engineering using metaheuristic INnovative ALgorithms. International Conference on Software Engineering. 762–763. 5 indexed citations
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Jones, B.F., et al.. (2001). A proposed taxonomy for nailfold capillaries based on their morphology. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 20(4). 333–341. 32 indexed citations
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George, W.O., et al.. (2001). Water and its homologues: a comparison of hydrogen–bonding phenomena. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 359(1785). 1611–1629. 26 indexed citations
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Harman, Mark & B.F. Jones. (2001). The SEMINAL workshop. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 26(6). 62–66. 7 indexed citations
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Jones, B.F., et al.. (2000). Structural performance measure of evolutionary testing applied to worst-case timing of real-time systems. IEE Proceedings - Software. 147(2). 25–25. 15 indexed citations
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George, W.O., et al.. (2000). Computations of medium strength hydrogen bonds–complexes of mono- and bi-functional carbonyl and nitrile compounds with hydrogen chloride. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2(21). 4910–4917. 16 indexed citations
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George, W.O., et al.. (2000). Ab initio computations on simple carbonyl compounds. Journal of Molecular Structure. 550-551. 281–296. 12 indexed citations
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Harman, Mark, et al.. (1999). Towards a Maturity Model for Empirical Studies of Software Testing. 1 indexed citations
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Jones, B.F.. (1998). A reappraisal of the use of infrared thermal image analysis in medicine. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 17(6). 1019–1027. 399 indexed citations
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Jones, B.F., et al.. (1996). Automatic structural testing using genetic algorithms. Software Engineering Journal. 11(5). 299–299. 243 indexed citations
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Jones, B.F., et al.. (1988). Use of viewer-centred descriptions of objects to improve the computational efficiency and accuracy of photometric stereo. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 1(2). 111–118. 1 indexed citations
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Jones, B.F., et al.. (1970). The Automatic Generation Of Software Test Data Sets Using Adaptive Search Techniques. WIT transactions on information and communication technologies. 14. 40 indexed citations
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Burgess, Colin J. & B.F. Jones. (1970). Should software quality be a major issue when teaching first year programming to software engineers. WIT transactions on information and communication technologies. 7.
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Jones, B.F. & Colin J. Burgess. (1970). Training The Next Generation Of Software Engineers: Is Software Quality Being Taught In British Degrees?. WIT transactions on information and communication technologies. 8. 637–650. 1 indexed citations

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