John Downer

716 total citations
28 papers, 478 citations indexed

About

John Downer is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, John Downer has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 478 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and 5 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in John Downer's work include Risk Perception and Management (7 papers), Nuclear and radioactivity studies (4 papers) and Nuclear Issues and Defense (3 papers). John Downer is often cited by papers focused on Risk Perception and Management (7 papers), Nuclear and radioactivity studies (4 papers) and Nuclear Issues and Defense (3 papers). John Downer collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. John Downer's co-authors include T.P.S. Powell, Henry Rothstein, John P. Zubek, B.G. Cragg, Jonathan Ives, Helen Smith, S Jonas, Stephen M. Gardiner, Oskar Hansson and Pius Krütli and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, American Journal of Sociology and Psychopharmacology.

In The Last Decade

John Downer

27 papers receiving 431 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Downer United Kingdom 13 114 67 61 58 55 28 478
Paul Raymond Bates Australia 11 16 0.1× 21 0.3× 32 0.5× 71 1.2× 13 0.2× 28 414
Yahui Wang China 14 77 0.7× 54 0.8× 7 0.1× 24 0.4× 38 0.7× 55 732
R Ashworth United Kingdom 14 76 0.7× 134 2.0× 10 0.2× 23 0.4× 22 0.4× 34 960
Bomi Song South Korea 13 25 0.2× 29 0.4× 46 0.8× 60 1.0× 5 0.1× 27 545
Somwrita Sarkar Australia 16 70 0.6× 30 0.4× 11 0.2× 14 0.2× 150 2.7× 44 660
Maarten Franssen Netherlands 14 98 0.9× 22 0.3× 1 0.0× 22 0.4× 112 2.0× 24 649
Niklas Möller Sweden 14 198 1.7× 30 0.4× 14 0.2× 42 0.8× 41 573
Michael Yu United States 9 49 0.4× 4 0.1× 5 0.1× 151 2.6× 33 0.6× 21 445
Eugene S. Ferguson United States 12 48 0.4× 16 0.2× 2 0.0× 6 0.1× 28 0.5× 45 611
Stephen Hess United States 11 63 0.6× 21 0.3× 15 0.3× 11 0.2× 39 377

Countries citing papers authored by John Downer

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Downer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Downer

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

All Works

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Downer, John, et al.. (2024). Mapping the Complexity of Legal Challenges for Trustworthy Drones on Construction Sites in the United Kingdom. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 1(3). 1–26. 1 indexed citations
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Downer, John. (2023). Rational Accidents. The MIT Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Smith, Helen, John Downer, & Jonathan Ives. (2023). Clinicians and AI use: where is the professional guidance?. Journal of Medical Ethics. 50(7). 437–441. 22 indexed citations
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Windsor, Shane P., et al.. (2023). Trustworthy Swarms. Explore Bristol Research. 1–11. 6 indexed citations
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Downer, John & M. V. Ramana. (2020). Empires built on sand: On the fundamental implausibility of reactor safety assessments and the implications for nuclear regulation. Regulation & Governance. 15(4). 1304–1325. 2 indexed citations
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Downer, John. (2017). The Aviation Paradox: Why We Can ‘Know’ Jetliners But Not Reactors. Minerva. 55(2). 229–248. 13 indexed citations
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Downer, John. (2016). Resilience in Retrospect:: Interpreting Fukushima’s disappearing consequences.. Bristol Research (University of Bristol). 2 indexed citations
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Taebi, Behnam, Oskar Hansson, John Downer, et al.. (2015). The Ethics of Nuclear Energy. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 21 indexed citations
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Downer, John. (2011). On audits and airplanes: Redundancy and reliability-assessment in high technologies. Accounting Organizations and Society. 36(4-5). 269–283. 28 indexed citations
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Downer, John. (2010). Trust and technology: the social foundations of aviation regulation. British Journal of Sociology. 61(1). 83–106. 49 indexed citations
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Downer, John. (2009). Watching the Watchmaker:: On Regulating the Social in Lieu of the Technical. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 3 indexed citations
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Downer, John. (2009). When failure is an option: redundancy, reliability and regulation in complex technical systems. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 22 indexed citations
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Downer, John. (2009). When Failure Is an option:: Redundancy, Reliability, and Risk.. Bristol Research (University of Bristol). 3 indexed citations
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Rothstein, Henry & John Downer. (2008). Risk in Policy-Making Managing the Risks of Risk Governance. 3 indexed citations
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Downer, John. (2007). When the Chick Hits the Fan. Social Studies of Science. 37(1). 7–26. 38 indexed citations
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Downer, John. (1988). Supersense: Perception in the Animal World. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 2 indexed citations
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Downer, John. (1985). Food Act 1984. Nutrition & Food Science. 85(3). 17–17. 1 indexed citations
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Downer, John, et al.. (1965). Centrifugal Fibres to the Retina in the Monkey and Cat. Nature. 207(5004). 1365–1367. 78 indexed citations

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