J. A. Bather

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

J. A. Bather is a scholar working on Management Science and Operations Research, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, J. A. Bather has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Management Science and Operations Research, 16 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 12 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in J. A. Bather's work include Optimization and Search Problems (12 papers), Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research (11 papers) and Auction Theory and Applications (8 papers). J. A. Bather is often cited by papers focused on Optimization and Search Problems (12 papers), Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research (11 papers) and Auction Theory and Applications (8 papers). J. A. Bather collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and India. J. A. Bather's co-authors include John Gittins, Lakdére Benkherouf, Herman Chernoff, D.P. Atherton, A. M. Walker, Richard Bellman, Stuart E. Dreyfus, David Salmond, Murat Efe and Hisashi Mine and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology), Journal of the Operational Research Society and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics).

In The Last Decade

J. A. Bather

56 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Multi-Armed Bandit Allocation Indices.

1990 643 citations J. A. Bather, John Gittins Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
J. A. Bather United Kingdom	21	736	667	496	289	250	57	2.0k
Cyrus Derman United States	26	559 0.8×	394 0.6×	406 0.8×	592 2.0×	460 1.8×	70	2.6k
Adam Shwartz Israel	20	508 0.7×	385 0.6×	554 1.1×	483 1.7×	201 0.8×	63	1.6k
Steven I. Marcus United States	39	800 1.1×	1.1k 1.7×	1.0k 2.0×	427 1.5×	304 1.2×	220	4.7k
Uriel G. Rothblum Israel	26	664 0.9×	256 0.4×	223 0.4×	246 0.9×	144 0.6×	155	2.6k
Eugene A. Feinberg United States	19	421 0.6×	423 0.6×	345 0.7×	460 1.6×	185 0.7×	103	1.5k
John N. Tsitsiklis United States	20	446 0.6×	476 0.7×	1.2k 2.3×	330 1.1×	100 0.4×	39	3.1k
Geert Jan Olsder Netherlands	22	392 0.5×	220 0.3×	362 0.7×	175 0.6×	41 0.2×	66	2.3k
Anatolii A. Puhalskii Russia	19	528 0.7×	267 0.4×	432 0.9×	617 2.1×	289 1.2×	38	1.6k
Bruce W. Schmeiser United States	24	1.1k 1.5×	535 0.8×	216 0.4×	324 1.1×	1.2k 4.9×	117	2.7k
Upendra Dave India	17	1.2k 1.6×	291 0.4×	595 1.2×	1.7k 6.0×	688 2.8×	53	3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by J. A. Bather

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of J. A. Bather's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by J. A. Bather with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites J. A. Bather more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by J. A. Bather

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by J. A. Bather. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by J. A. Bather. The network helps show where J. A. Bather may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of J. A. Bather

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of J. A. Bather. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of J. A. Bather 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 J. A. Bather. J. A. Bather is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

1.

Atherton, D.P., et al.. (2005). Data fusion for several Kalman filters tracking a single target. IEE Proceedings - Radar Sonar and Navigation. 152(5). 372–376. 17 indexed citations

2.

Bather, J. A.. (2001). Tracking and data fusion. 2001. v1–8. 230 indexed citations

3.

Bather, J. A.. (2000). Decision Theory: An Introduction to Dynamic Programming and Sequential Decisions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. eBooks. 45 indexed citations

4.

Bather, J. A.. (2000). Decision theory. 16 indexed citations

5.

Efe, Murat, J. A. Bather, & D.P. Atherton. (1999). An adaptive Kalman filter with sequential rescaling of process noise. 3913–3917 vol.6. 17 indexed citations

6.

Bather, J. A.. (1992). Search models. Journal of Applied Probability. 29(3). 605–615. 1 indexed citations

7.

Bather, J. A. & Lakdére Benkherouf. (1991). Oil Exploration: A Property of Beale's Model. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 42(11). 1019–1023. 1 indexed citations

8.

Bather, J. A. & John Gittins. (1990). Multi-Armed Bandit Allocation Indices.. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society). 153(2). 257–257. 643 indexed citations breakdown →

9.

Bather, J. A.. (1988). Stoppping rules and ordered families of distributions. Sequential Analysis. 7(2). 111–126. 6 indexed citations

10.

Benkherouf, Lakdére & J. A. Bather. (1988). Oil exploration: sequential decisions in the face of uncertainty. Journal of Applied Probability. 25(3). 529–543. 56 indexed citations

11.

Bather, J. A. & Gordon Simons. (1985). The Minimax Risk for Two-Stage Procedures in Clinical Trials. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology). 47(3). 466–475. 4 indexed citations

12.

Bather, J. A. & John Whitehead. (1983). The Design and Analysis of Sequential Clinical Trials.. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General). 146(4). 436–436. 8 indexed citations

13.

Bather, J. A., et al.. (1982). The secretary problem with an unknown number of candidates. Journal of Applied Probability. 19(3). 619–630. 14 indexed citations

14.

Bather, J. A.. (1973). Optimal decision procedures for finite Markov chains. Part II: Communicating systems. Advances in Applied Probability. 5(3). 521–540. 9 indexed citations

15.

Bather, J. A.. (1973). Optimal decision procedures for finite markov chains. Part I: Examples. Advances in Applied Probability. 5(2). 328–339. 57 indexed citations

16.

Bather, J. A.. (1973). Optimal decision procedures for finite Markov chains. Part II: Communicating systems. Advances in Applied Probability. 5(3). 521–540. 55 indexed citations

17.

Bather, J. A.. (1966). A continuous time inventory model. Journal of Applied Probability. 3(2). 538–549. 78 indexed citations

18.

Bather, J. A., Richard Bellman, & Stuart E. Dreyfus. (1963). Applied Dynamic Programming.. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General). 126(4). 598–598. 36 indexed citations

19.

Bather, J. A.. (1963). Two non-linear birth and death processes. Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society. 3(1). 104–116. 2 indexed citations

20.

Bather, J. A. & A. M. Walker. (1962). Bayes procedures for deciding the Sign of a normal mean. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 58(4). 599–620. 27 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact