F.P. Lees

3.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
77 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

F.P. Lees is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, F.P. Lees has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 30 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and 10 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in F.P. Lees's work include Fault Detection and Control Systems (30 papers), Risk and Safety Analysis (30 papers) and Occupational Health and Safety Research (7 papers). F.P. Lees is often cited by papers focused on Fault Detection and Control Systems (30 papers), Risk and Safety Analysis (30 papers) and Occupational Health and Safety Research (7 papers). F.P. Lees collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Russia and Finland. F.P. Lees's co-authors include L.G. Gibilaro, P.W.H. Chung, Andrew Hunt, D. J. Sherwin, P. A. Davies, Judith Petts and John Andrews and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Hazardous Materials, Automatica and Chemical Engineering Science.

In The Last Decade

F.P. Lees

73 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Loss prevention in the process industries 1980 2026 1995 2010 1980 1996 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. Loss prevention in the process industries
    1980 694 citations F.P. Lees profile →
  2. Lees' Loss Prevention in the Process Industries: Hazard Identification, Assessment and Control
    1996 551 citations F.P. Lees Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
F.P. Lees United Kingdom 19 1.3k 607 525 501 460 77 2.4k
Salim Ahmed Canada 31 1.6k 1.2× 1.5k 2.5× 291 0.6× 644 1.3× 417 0.9× 136 3.5k
Edoardo Patelli United Kingdom 33 1.5k 1.2× 524 0.9× 134 0.3× 247 0.5× 572 1.2× 181 3.2k
M. Marseguerra Italy 26 1.1k 0.8× 493 0.8× 372 0.7× 179 0.4× 1.2k 2.6× 133 2.8k
Warren D. Seider United States 31 457 0.4× 2.3k 3.8× 99 0.2× 223 0.4× 110 0.2× 134 4.2k
Ernest J. Henley United States 20 464 0.4× 877 1.4× 92 0.2× 78 0.2× 344 0.7× 70 3.0k
Syed Imtiaz Canada 28 1.1k 0.9× 1.7k 2.7× 119 0.2× 367 0.7× 230 0.5× 133 3.0k
En Sup Yoon South Korea 21 325 0.3× 560 0.9× 171 0.3× 115 0.2× 69 0.1× 107 1.4k
Jai Prakash Gupta India 18 391 0.3× 73 0.1× 91 0.2× 207 0.4× 56 0.1× 61 1.1k
Jiansong Wu China 27 455 0.4× 92 0.2× 282 0.5× 134 0.3× 390 0.8× 96 1.7k
Jinqiu Hu China 20 430 0.3× 316 0.5× 93 0.2× 166 0.3× 182 0.4× 84 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by F.P. Lees

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Fields of papers citing papers by F.P. Lees

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of F.P. Lees

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of F.P. Lees. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of F.P. Lees 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 F.P. Lees. F.P. Lees 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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Chung, P.W.H., et al.. (1999). HAZID, A Computer Aid for Hazard Identification. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 77(6). 317–327. 43 indexed citations
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Lees, F.P.. (1996). Lees' Loss Prevention in the Process Industries: Hazard Identification, Assessment and Control. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 551 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lees, F.P.. (1994). The assessment of major hazard: a model for fatal injury from burns. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 72(3). 127–134. 3 indexed citations
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Lees, F.P., et al.. (1994). A Model for Hazard Assessment of the Explosion of an Explosives Vehicle in a Built-Up Area. 1 indexed citations
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Lees, F.P.. (1993). Major Accident Inquiries - Lawyers or Engineers?. 21. 1 indexed citations
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Hunt, Andrew, et al.. (1993). The propagation of faults in process plants: 8, control systems in fault tree synthesis. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 39(2). 211–227. 12 indexed citations
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Hunt, Andrew, et al.. (1993). The propagation of faults in process plants: 10, fault tree synthesis-2. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 39(2). 243–250. 10 indexed citations
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Davies, P. A. & F.P. Lees. (1991). Accident speed of freight trains. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 28(3). 367–370. 1 indexed citations
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Petts, Judith, et al.. (1987). The assessment of major hazards: The density and other characteristics of the exposed population around a hazard source. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 14(3). 337–363. 8 indexed citations
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Lees, F.P., et al.. (1986). The assessment of major hazards: The lethal toxicity of bromine. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 13(3). 279–299. 17 indexed citations
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Lees, F.P., et al.. (1986). The propagation of faults in process plants: 3. An interactive, computer-based facility. Reliability Engineering. 16(1). 63–86. 20 indexed citations
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Lees, F.P.. (1984). Process computer alarm and disturbance analysis: outline of methods for systematic synthesis of the fault propagation structure. Computers & Chemical Engineering. 8(2). 91–103. 14 indexed citations
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Lees, F.P., et al.. (1981). Some data on the reliability of pressure equipment in the chemical plant environment. International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping. 9(5). 327–338. 3 indexed citations
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Lees, F.P.. (1981). Dynamics, exposure and hazard assessment of toxic chemicals. The Chemical Engineering Journal. 21(1). 80–81. 87 indexed citations
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Sherwin, D. J. & F.P. Lees. (1980). An Investigation of the Application of Failure Data Analysis to Decision-Making in Maintenance of Process Plants. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. 194(1). 308–319. 1 indexed citations
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Lees, F.P., et al.. (1974). The influence of the process characteristics on the role of the human operator in process control. Applied Ergonomics. 5(1). 21–25. 7 indexed citations
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Lees, F.P., et al.. (1972). A survey of simple transfer-function derivations from high-order state-variable models. Automatica. 8(6). 765–775. 103 indexed citations
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Gibilaro, L.G. & F.P. Lees. (1969). The reduction of complex transfer function models to simple models using the method of moments. Chemical Engineering Science. 24(1). 85–93. 68 indexed citations

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