Brian Francis

210 papers and 9.1k indexed citations
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About

Brian Francis is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Statistics and Probability and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Francis has authored 210 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 25 papers in Statistics and Probability and 24 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Brian Francis’s work include Crime Patterns and Interventions (47 papers), Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (33 papers) and Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (15 papers). Brian Francis is often cited by papers focused on Crime Patterns and Interventions (47 papers), Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (33 papers) and Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (15 papers). Brian Francis collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. Brian Francis's co-authors include Jerald F. Lawless, Zhiyun Lin, Keith Soothill, G. Zames, Murray Aitkin, John Hinde, Manfredi Maggiore, Dorothy A. Anderson, Mireille E. Broucke and Juliet Harman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Statistical Association and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Francis

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

Fields of papers citing papers by Brian Francis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Brian Francis. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Brian Francis. The network helps show where Brian Francis may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Brian Francis

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