B.W. Johnson

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

B.W. Johnson is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Software and Hardware and Architecture. According to data from OpenAlex, B.W. Johnson has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 38 papers in Software and 37 papers in Hardware and Architecture. Recurrent topics in B.W. Johnson's work include Software Reliability and Analysis Research (33 papers), Radiation Effects in Electronics (30 papers) and Embedded Systems Design Techniques (21 papers). B.W. Johnson is often cited by papers focused on Software Reliability and Analysis Research (33 papers), Radiation Effects in Electronics (30 papers) and Embedded Systems Design Techniques (21 papers). B.W. Johnson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and China. B.W. Johnson's co-authors include J.H. Aylor, Liudong Xing, Shivani Kumar, William A. Wulf, Stephen R. Welke, John Lach, Nisha George, Gregory Levitin, Yuanshun Dai and J.B. Dugan and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.

In The Last Decade

B.W. Johnson

86 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Design & analysis of fault tolerant digital systems 1988 2026 2000 2013 1988 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. Design & analysis of fault tolerant digital systems
    1988 622 citations B.W. Johnson Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc. eBooks 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.W. Johnson United States 18 743 676 434 429 333 91 1.7k
Ricky W. Butler United States 17 146 0.2× 274 0.4× 520 1.2× 347 0.8× 244 0.7× 74 1.2k
Timothy Tsai United States 15 974 1.3× 562 0.8× 473 1.1× 616 1.4× 125 0.4× 39 1.8k
Sasikumar Punnekkat Sweden 19 182 0.2× 690 1.0× 269 0.6× 688 1.6× 140 0.4× 138 1.4k
Jaume Abella Spain 24 1.1k 1.5× 1.9k 2.8× 176 0.4× 937 2.2× 84 0.3× 240 2.6k
Jogesh K. Muppala Hong Kong 23 371 0.5× 245 0.4× 242 0.6× 1.1k 2.6× 191 0.6× 102 1.7k
Michael Glaß Germany 20 314 0.4× 706 1.0× 119 0.3× 428 1.0× 124 0.4× 99 1.5k
Neeraj Suri Germany 26 546 0.7× 425 0.6× 477 1.1× 1.5k 3.4× 104 0.3× 210 2.4k
Yashwant K. Malaiya United States 29 736 1.0× 747 1.1× 1.6k 3.6× 490 1.1× 420 1.3× 132 2.9k
C.M. Krishna United States 23 783 1.1× 1.2k 1.8× 84 0.2× 901 2.1× 69 0.2× 119 1.9k
John Rushby United States 27 143 0.2× 605 0.9× 767 1.8× 748 1.7× 302 0.9× 95 2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by B.W. Johnson

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Fields of papers citing papers by B.W. Johnson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of B.W. Johnson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of B.W. Johnson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of B.W. Johnson 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.W. Johnson. B.W. Johnson 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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Johnson, B.W., et al.. (2010). Bit-slice logic interleaving for spatial multi-bit soft-error tolerance. 206. 141–150. 6 indexed citations
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Johnson, B.W. & Kevin B. Moore. (2008). Differences in Income Estimates Derived from Survey and Tax Data. 8 indexed citations
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Johnson, B.W., et al.. (2005). A theory of run-time verification for safety critical reactive systems. 95(25). 1324–1324.
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Yu, Yangyang, et al.. (2005). A state of research review on fault injection techniques and a case study. 386–392. 2 indexed citations
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Johnson, B.W., et al.. (2005). Dependability Metrics to Assess Safety-Critical Systems. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 54(3). 498–505. 35 indexed citations
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Aylor, J.H., et al.. (2002). Compacting randomly generated test sets. 153–156. 2 indexed citations
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Johnson, B.W., Julia Pet‐Edwards, & Andrew J. Schwab. (2002). Conditional expectations in the evaluation of fault-tolerant systems. 242–247. 3 indexed citations
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Schwab, Andrew J., B.W. Johnson, & J.B. Dugan. (2002). Analysis techniques for real-time, fault-tolerant, VLSI processing arrays. 137–143. 1 indexed citations
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Johnson, B.W., et al.. (2002). A fault-list generation algorithm for the evaluation of system coverage. 425–432. 8 indexed citations
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Johnson, B.W., et al.. (2002). Coverage estimation using statistics of the extremes for when testing reveals no failures. IEEE Transactions on Computers. 51(1). 3–12. 8 indexed citations
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Kumar, Shivani, J.H. Aylor, B.W. Johnson, William A. Wulf, & Ronald D. Williams. (2002). An abstract hardware/software model for early performance evaluation. 74. 299–306. 1 indexed citations
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Johnson, B.W.. (1996). An introduction to the design and analysis of fault-tolerant systems. Prentice-Hall, Inc eBooks. 1–87. 22 indexed citations
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Kumar, Shivani, J.H. Aylor, B.W. Johnson, & William A. Wulf. (1994). Object-oriented techniques in hardware design. Computer. 27(6). 64–70. 51 indexed citations
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Johnson, B.W., et al.. (1993). Implementation-independent model of an instruction set architecture in VHDL. IEEE Design & Test of Computers. 10(3). 42–54. 6 indexed citations
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Dietmeyer, D.L., et al.. (1992). Three decades of HDLs. I. CDL through TI-HDL. IEEE Design & Test of Computers. 9(2). 69–81. 7 indexed citations
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Johnson, B.W.. (1988). Design & analysis of fault tolerant digital systems. Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc. eBooks. 622 indexed citations breakdown →
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Johnson, B.W., et al.. (1981). A microprocessor-based multi-mode multi-channel averager. Journal of Physics E Scientific Instruments. 14(1). 73–79. 6 indexed citations
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Johnson, B.W., et al.. (1970). Example Application Of D_RAMP For Safety Analysis. WIT transactions on the built environment. 6.

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