John A. Richards

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
94 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

John A. Richards is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Media Technology and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, John A. Richards has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Organic Chemistry, 20 papers in Media Technology and 13 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in John A. Richards's work include Remote-Sensing Image Classification (19 papers), Organometallic Compounds Synthesis and Characterization (16 papers) and Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (12 papers). John A. Richards is often cited by papers focused on Remote-Sensing Image Classification (19 papers), Organometallic Compounds Synthesis and Characterization (16 papers) and Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (12 papers). John A. Richards collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. John A. Richards's co-authors include Xiuping Jia, Philip G. Harrison, D. S. Simonett, Trevor J. King, Peter Woodgate, Andrew K. Skidmore, Guoqing Sun, A. Srinivasan, D. A. Landgrebe and P. H. Swain and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Analytical Chemistry and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

John A. Richards

90 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis 1993 2026 2004 2015 1993 200 400 600
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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. Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis
    1993 632 citations John A. Richards profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John A. Richards Australia 27 1.2k 837 830 697 496 94 3.5k
David R. Thompson United States 40 515 0.4× 958 1.1× 1.2k 1.5× 541 0.8× 1.7k 3.4× 342 5.9k
Steven P. Brumby United States 22 326 0.3× 927 1.1× 578 0.7× 455 0.7× 902 1.8× 117 2.9k
Haohuan Fu China 35 687 0.6× 1.0k 1.2× 541 0.7× 863 1.2× 607 1.2× 228 4.4k
Gregg Vane United States 15 1.4k 1.1× 692 0.8× 544 0.7× 454 0.7× 392 0.8× 35 2.7k
Prabhat K. Acharya United States 23 742 0.6× 1.1k 1.3× 1.0k 1.2× 968 1.4× 1.4k 2.8× 45 3.3k
M. Matsuoka Japan 32 1.2k 1.0× 336 0.4× 787 0.9× 541 0.8× 363 0.7× 305 4.8k
Thomas G. Chrien United States 11 1.3k 1.1× 700 0.8× 737 0.9× 336 0.5× 547 1.1× 45 2.7k
Robert A. Schowengerdt United States 22 1.6k 1.3× 1.2k 1.4× 741 0.9× 705 1.0× 729 1.5× 83 4.3k
Jay Pearlman United States 23 939 0.8× 829 1.0× 511 0.6× 409 0.6× 401 0.8× 113 2.8k
Heikki Saari Finland 23 271 0.2× 926 1.1× 1.5k 1.8× 1.2k 1.7× 1.3k 2.6× 73 3.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Richards, John A. & Xiuping Jia. (2008). Using Suitable Neighbors to Augment the Training Set in Hyperspectral Maximum Likelihood Classification. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 5(4). 774–777. 48 indexed citations
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Jia, Xiuping & John A. Richards. (2008). Managing the Spectral-Spatial Mix in Context Classification Using Markov Random Fields. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 5(2). 311–314. 52 indexed citations
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Lee, Tan & John A. Richards. (2005). Pixel Relaxation Labelling Using A Diminishing Neighbourhood Effect. 2. 634–637. 2 indexed citations
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Jia, Xiuping & John A. Richards. (2004). Cluster-space classification: a fast K-nearest neighbour classification for remote sensing hyperspectral data. 407–410. 5 indexed citations
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Jia, Xiuping & John A. Richards. (2003). Efficient transmission and classification of hyperspectral image data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 41(5). 1129–1131. 11 indexed citations
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Richards, John A., et al.. (2002). Forest discrimination using SAR multifrequency and multipolarization data. 1. 616–618.
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Richards, John A., et al.. (2002). Foreword. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 40(10). 2103–2103. 2 indexed citations
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Jia, Xiuping & John A. Richards. (1999). Segmented principal components transformation for efficient hyperspectral remote-sensing image display and classification. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 37(1). 538–542. 312 indexed citations
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Jia, Xiuping & John A. Richards. (1998). Progressive Two-Class Decision Classifier for Optimization of Class Discriminations. Remote Sensing of Environment. 63(3). 289–297. 10 indexed citations
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Papastamatiou, D., et al.. (1993). Earthquake response at Grangemouth. Géotechnique. 43(4). 537–553. 2 indexed citations
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Jia, Xiuping & John A. Richards. (1993). Binary coding of imaging spectrometer data for fast spectral matching and classification. Remote Sensing of Environment. 43(1). 47–53. 36 indexed citations
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ROGER, R. E., et al.. (1992). Lossless compression of AVIRIS data: Comparison of methods and instrument constraints. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 3 indexed citations
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Way, J., Jack F. Paris, Eric S. Kasischke, et al.. (1990). The effect of changing environmental conditions on microwave signatures of forest ecosystems: preliminary results of the March 1988 Alaskan aircraft SAR experiment. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 11(7). 1119–1144. 103 indexed citations
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Richards, John A., et al.. (1987). High Performance Liquid Chromatography Assay for Piroxicam in Pharmaceutical Products. Journal of Chromatographic Science. 25(7). 292–295. 10 indexed citations
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Richards, John A., et al.. (1984). Piecewise linear classification using seniority logic committee methods, with application to remote sensing. Pattern Recognition. 17(4). 453–464. 19 indexed citations
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Richards, John A., D. A. Landgrebe, & P. H. Swain. (1981). Pixel Labeling by Supervised Probabilistic Relaxation. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. PAMI-3(2). 188–191. 31 indexed citations
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Richards, John A., et al.. (1977). Low capacity codes for mass spectra based on statistical moments. Analytical Chemistry. 49(9). 1456–1458. 2 indexed citations
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Harrison, Philip G., et al.. (1977). Structural studies in main group chemistry. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 140(3). 273–287. 8 indexed citations
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Harrison, Philip G., Trevor J. King, & John A. Richards. (1976). Structural studies in main-group chemistry. Part XIII. The structure of bis(N-benzoyl-N-phenylhydroxylaminato)dichlorotin(IV). Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions. 1414–1414. 10 indexed citations
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Richards, John A., et al.. (1974). The truncated hill determinant as a tool in quadrupole mass filter studies. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Physics. 13(4). 443–451. 6 indexed citations

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