F.P. Lees

3.4k citations

77 papers · 2.4k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 19

Impact in

Chemical Health and Safety top 0.2%
- Chemical Safety and Risk Management
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty top 0.1%
- Risk and Safety Analysis

Papers in ⓘ

Control and Systems Engineering 36
- Fault Detection and Control Systems 30
- Industrial Automation and Control Systems 7
- Advanced Control Systems Optimization 5
- Control Systems and Identification 4
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 30
- Risk and Safety Analysis 30

Co-authors: L.G. Gibilaro (1 shared paper)P.W.H. Chung (5 shared papers)Andrew Hunt (5 shared papers)D. J. Sherwin (3 shared papers)P. A. Davies (3 shared papers)Judith Petts (2 shared papers)John Andrews (1 shared paper)
Journals: Journal of Hazardous Materials (13 papers)Chemical Engineering Science (9 papers)Process Safety and Environmental Protection (6 papers)Reliability Engineering & System Safety (6 papers)Computers & Chemical Engineering (2 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom Russia Finland

In The Last Decade

F.P. Lees

73 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Lees' Loss Prevention in the Process Industries: Hazard Identification, Assessment and Control 1996 · 551 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1996 Medical Entomology and Zoology
1980 CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

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1	Loss prevention in the process industries CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·F.P. Lees Hit paper breakdown →	1980	694
2	Lees' Loss Prevention in the Process Industries: Hazard Identification, Assessment and Control Medical Entomology and Zoology ·F.P. Lees Hit paper breakdown →	1996	551
3	A survey of simple transfer-function derivations from high-order state-variable models Automatica ·M.J. Bosley, F.P. Lees	1972	103
4	Dynamics, exposure and hazard assessment of toxic chemicals The Chemical Engineering Journal ·F.P. Lees	1981	87
5	The Human Operator in Process Control Medical Entomology and Zoology ·Elwyn Edwards, F.P. Lees	1974	84
6	The reduction of complex transfer function models to simple models using the method of moments Chemical Engineering Science ·L.G. Gibilaro, F.P. Lees	1969	68
7	Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications. Chemical Engineering Science ·F.P. Lees	1991	56
8	HAZID, A Computer Aid for Hazard Identification Process Safety and Environmental Protection ·S.A. McCoy, S.J. Wakeman, F.D. Larkin, M. Jefferson, P.W.H. Chung, A.G. Rushton, F.P. Lees, Perttu Heino	1999	43
9	The propagation of faults in process plants: 1. Modelling of fault propagation Reliability Engineering ·B.E. Kelly, F.P. Lees	1986	41
10	Process computer alarm and disturbance analysis: review of the state of the art Computers & Chemical Engineering ·F.P. Lees	1983	39
11	The propagation of faults in process plants: Hazard identification Reliability Engineering ·J.C. Parmar, F.P. Lees	1987	33
12	The assessment of major hazards: The lethal toxicity of chlorine Journal of Hazardous Materials ·R.M.J. Withers, F.P. Lees	1985	32
13	The propagation of faults in process plants: 2. Fault tree synthesis Reliability Engineering ·B.E. Kelly, F.P. Lees	1986	32
14	The assessment of major hazards: The lethal toxicity of chlorine Journal of Hazardous Materials ·R.M.J. Withers, F.P. Lees	1985	32
15	On the relation between the continued fraction expansion and moments matching methods of model reduction † International Journal of Control ·M.J. Bosley, H.W. Kropholler, F.P. Lees	1973	25
16	Safety in process plant design The Chemical Engineering Journal ·F.P. Lees	1980	23
17	The propagation of faults in process plants: 6, overview of, and modelling for, fault tree synthesis Reliability Engineering & System Safety ·Andrew Hunt, B.E. Kelly, J.S. Mullhi, F.P. Lees, A.G. Rushton	1993	22
18	The propagation of faults in process plants: 3. An interactive, computer-based facility Reliability Engineering ·B.E. Kelly, F.P. Lees	1986	20
19	Diffusion coefficient of water in some organic liquids Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data ·F.P. Lees, Parviz. Sarram	1971	19
20	Human reliability analysis The Chemical Engineering Journal ·F.P. Lees	1989	18

About F.P. Lees

F.P. Lees is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Mechanical Engineering, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology and Civil and Structural Engineering, having authored 77 papers that have together received 2.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Fault Detection and Control Systems (30 papers), Risk and Safety Analysis (30 papers), Industrial Automation and Control Systems (7 papers), Occupational Health and Safety Research (7 papers), Advanced Control Systems Optimization (5 papers), Quality and Safety in Healthcare (5 papers), Control Systems and Identification (4 papers) and Chemical Safety and Risk Management (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Chemical Health and Safety (146 citations), Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (1.3k citations), Radiological and Ultrasound Technology (501 citations), Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (460 citations) and Medical Laboratory Technology (68 citations). F.P. Lees has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Russia and Finland. Frequent co-authors include L.G. Gibilaro, P.W.H. Chung, Andrew Hunt, D. J. Sherwin, P. A. Davies, Judith Petts and John Andrews. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Hazardous Materials, Chemical Engineering Science, Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Reliability Engineering & System Safety and Computers & Chemical Engineering.

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