Eric Specking

660 total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 324 citations indexed

About

Eric Specking is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and Media Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric Specking has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 324 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 9 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and 9 papers in Media Technology. Recurrent topics in Eric Specking's work include Systems Engineering Methodologies and Applications (11 papers), Technology Assessment and Management (9 papers) and Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (7 papers). Eric Specking is often cited by papers focused on Systems Engineering Methodologies and Applications (11 papers), Technology Assessment and Management (9 papers) and Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (7 papers). Eric Specking collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Ghana. Eric Specking's co-authors include Gregory S. Parnell, Edward Pohl, Randy Buchanan, Simon R. Goerger, Matthew R. Phillips, Scott Jackson, Timothy Ferris, Amy L. Warren, Edgar C. Clausen and Adrienne Minerick and has published in prestigious journals such as Risk Analysis, Applied Sciences and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.

In The Last Decade

Eric Specking

25 papers receiving 314 citations

Hit Papers

Smart Cities—A Structured Literature Review 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 50 100 150
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. Smart Cities—A Structured Literature Review
    2023 153 citations Gregory S. Parnell, Eric Specking et al. Smart Cities profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Eric Specking United States 9 92 68 60 57 48 33 324
Sergey Ivanov Russia 8 33 0.4× 25 0.4× 21 0.3× 11 0.2× 17 0.4× 31 311
Allen G. Greenwood United States 12 14 0.2× 14 0.2× 22 0.4× 38 0.7× 13 0.3× 40 315
V. Xanthakis Greece 7 12 0.1× 50 0.7× 45 0.8× 70 1.2× 5 0.1× 7 309
Lucian Toma Romania 11 127 1.4× 33 0.5× 286 4.8× 31 0.5× 12 0.3× 74 668
Yingshan Tao China 4 99 1.1× 26 0.4× 34 0.6× 12 0.2× 7 0.1× 8 323
Iman Mohamad Sharaf Egypt 13 7 0.1× 25 0.4× 70 1.2× 11 0.2× 13 0.3× 40 355
Ali K. Raz United States 10 5 0.1× 28 0.4× 138 2.3× 80 1.4× 9 0.2× 51 304
Daniele Cenni Italy 11 98 1.1× 9 0.1× 37 0.6× 4 0.1× 20 0.4× 31 382
Siham Benhadou Morocco 9 25 0.3× 10 0.1× 27 0.5× 7 0.1× 9 0.2× 40 231
José Espiritu United States 8 7 0.1× 8 0.1× 45 0.8× 145 2.5× 30 0.6× 30 355

Countries citing papers authored by Eric Specking

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Fields of papers citing papers by Eric Specking

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eric Specking

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Eric Specking. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Eric Specking 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 Eric Specking. Eric Specking 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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Specking, Eric & Edgar C. Clausen. (2025). Engineering Outreach: A Summer Program Approach.
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Specking, Eric, et al.. (2024). Improving Gender Equity in Engineering—Perspectives from Academia and Literature. Papers on Engineering Education Repository (American Society for Engineering Education).
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Parnell, Gregory S., et al.. (2023). Smart Cities—A Structured Literature Review. Smart Cities. 6(4). 1719–1743. 153 indexed citations breakdown →
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Parnell, Gregory S., C. Robert Kenley, Eric Specking, & Edward Pohl. (2022). Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering. INCOSE International Symposium. 32(1). 1010–1021.
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Specking, Eric, et al.. (2022). Best Practices for Stakeholder Engagement for Government R&D Organizations. Engineering Management Journal. 35(1). 50–69. 3 indexed citations
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Specking, Eric, et al.. (2021). Quantitative Set-Based Design to Inform Design Teams. Applied Sciences. 11(3). 1239–1239. 3 indexed citations
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Warren, Amy L., et al.. (2020). Board 131: Engaging Underrepresented Students in Engineering through Targeted and Thematic Summer Camp Content (Work in Progress, Diversity). Papers on Engineering Education Repository (American Society for Engineering Education). 1 indexed citations
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Pohl, Edward, et al.. (2020). Raising the Level of Participation in Study Abroad by Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Students. 25.1095.1–25.1095.10. 1 indexed citations
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Herrera, Andrés, Eric Specking, & Richard J. Ham. (2020). International Student Recruiting and Retention in Post-graduate STEM Education.
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Specking, Eric, et al.. (2020). Why Did the EM Study Abroad Program Become one of the Most Popular on Campus?. Papers on Engineering Education Repository (American Society for Engineering Education). 24.1378.1–24.1378.9.
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Parnell, Gregory S., et al.. (2020). Set‐based design: The state‐of‐practice and research opportunities. Systems Engineering. 23(5). 557–578. 23 indexed citations
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Specking, Eric, et al.. (2019). Defining Resilience for Engineered Systems. 8(2). 11–11. 13 indexed citations
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Parnell, Gregory S., et al.. (2019). Demonstrating set-based design techniques: an unmanned aerial vehicle case study. The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation Applications Methodology Technology. 17(4). 339–355. 13 indexed citations
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Specking, Eric, Gregory S. Parnell, Edward Pohl, & Randy Buchanan. (2019). Evaluating a Set-Based Design Tradespace Exploration Process. Procedia Computer Science. 153. 185–192. 6 indexed citations
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Specking, Eric, et al.. (2019). Assessing Engineering Resilience for Systems with Multiple Performance Measures. Risk Analysis. 39(9). 1899–1912. 25 indexed citations
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Parnell, Gregory S., et al.. (2019). Convergent set-based design for complex resilient systems. Environment Systems & Decisions. 39(2). 118–127. 8 indexed citations
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Ferris, Timothy, Eric Specking, Scott Jackson, Gregory S. Parnell, & Edward Pohl. (2018). The Fundamental Nature of Resilience of Engineered Systems. INCOSE International Symposium. 28(1). 1311–1321. 4 indexed citations
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Specking, Eric, Gregory S. Parnell, Edward Pohl, & Randy Buchanan. (2018). Early Design Space Exploration with Model-Based System Engineering and Set-Based Design. Systems. 6(4). 45–45. 25 indexed citations
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Parnell, Gregory S., et al.. (2017). Engineered Resilient Systems with Value Focused Thinking. INCOSE International Symposium. 27(1). 1371–1385. 9 indexed citations
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Specking, Eric, et al.. (2015). Perceptions and Misconceptions of Industrial Engineering from First-year Engineering Students. 26.1222.1–26.1222.19. 1 indexed citations

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