David Wright

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

David Wright is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Geometry and Topology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Wright has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 13 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 13 papers in Geometry and Topology. Recurrent topics in David Wright's work include Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (17 papers), Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (8 papers) and Advanced Topology and Set Theory (6 papers). David Wright is often cited by papers focused on Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (17 papers), Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (8 papers) and Advanced Topology and Set Theory (6 papers). David Wright collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Germany. David Wright's co-authors include Rachel Finn, Bernd Carsten Stahl, Paul De Hert, Michaël Friedewald, Charles D. Raab, Serge Gutwirth, Tally Hatzakis, Rowena Rodrigues, Philip Brey and Kush Wadhwa and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Communications of the ACM and Journal of Business Research.

In The Last Decade

David Wright

77 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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Unmanned aircraft systems: Surveillance, ethics and privacy in civil applications

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Fighting foreign information manipulation and interference 2025 ·David Wright, (unknown)	0
2	A systematic review of artificial intelligence impact assessments 2023 ·Artificial Intelligence Review ·Bernd Carsten Stahl, Josephina Antoniou, (unknown), Laurence Brooks, (unknown), (unknown), A. S. Kirichenko, Samuel Marchal, Rowena Rodrigues, (unknown), (unknown), David Wright	65
3	Methods for Practising Ethics in Research and Innovation: A Literature Review, Critical Analysis and Recommendations 2017 ·Science and Engineering Ethics ·Wessel Reijers, David Wright, Philip Brey, Karsten Weber, Rowena Rodrigues, Declan O’Sullivan, Bert Gordijn	73
4	Contractible 3-manifolds and the double 3-space property 2016 ·Transactions of the American Mathematical Society ·(unknown), Dušan Repovš, David Wright	1
5	Integrating privacy impact assessment in risk management 2014 ·International Data Privacy Law ·David Wright, Kush Wadhwa, Monica Lagazio, Charles D. Raab, (unknown)	9
6	A Strategy for Operationalizing Privacy by Design 2014 ·The Information Society ·(unknown), David Wright	21
7	Simply connected open 3-manifolds with rigid genus one ends 2013 ·Revista Matemática Complutense ·(unknown), Dušan Repovš, David Wright	1
8	The state of the art in privacy impact assessment 2012 ·Computer law & security review ·David Wright	51
9	A Privacy Impact Assessment Framework for data protection and privacy rights 2011 ·Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) ·David Wright, Kush Wadhwa, Paul De Hert, (unknown)	9
10	Structuring stakeholder e‐inclusion needs 2010 ·Journal of Information Communication and Ethics in Society ·David Wright	6
11	The Illusion of Security: A fiction scenario of daily life 2008 ·Communications of the ACM ·David Wright, Michaël Friedewald, (unknown), Michiel Verlinden, Serge Gutwirth, Yves Punie, Ioannis Maghiros, Elena Vildjiounaite, Petteri Alahuhta	6
12	The visible set of a compactum in Rn 2001 ·Topology and its Applications ·(unknown), David Wright	1
13	The North Korean Missile Program 2001 ·APS ·David Wright	2
14	On compacta with convex projections 1999 ·Topology and its Applications ·Jan J. Dijkstra, (unknown), David Wright	9
15	Missile defense: the sequel 1997 ·Technology Review ·(unknown), David Wright	1
16	Contractible open manifolds which are not covering spaces 1992 ·Topology ·David Wright	19
17	Rigid sets in the Hilbert cube 1986 ·Topology and its Applications ·(unknown), David Wright	0
18	Codimension one spheres in Rn with double tangent balls 1982 ·Topology and its Applications ·(unknown), David Wright	10
19	A decomposition of En (n≥3) into points and a null sequence of cellular sets 1979 ·General Topology and its Applications ·David Wright	4
20	Degrees of Minimal Embeddings for Some Direct Products 1975 ·American Journal of Mathematics ·David Wright	16

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