John Downer
Impact in
- Health Informatics top 10%
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- Occupational Health and Safety Research
Papers in
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- Risk Perception and Management 7
- Information Systems Theories and Implementation 2
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- Nuclear and radioactivity studies 4
- Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy 2
- Co-authors
- T.P.S. Powell (1 shared paper)Henry Rothstein (2 shared papers)John P. Zubek (1 shared paper)Jonathan Ives (2 shared papers)Helen Smith (1 shared paper)B.G. Cragg (1 shared paper)S Jonas (1 shared paper)Oskar Hansson (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- Regulation & Governance (2 papers)British Journal of Sociology (1 paper)Psychopharmacology (1 paper)Accounting Organizations and Society (1 paper)American Journal of Sociology (1 paper)
- Partner nations
- United KingdomUnited StatesNetherlands
In The Last Decade
John Downer
27 papers receiving 441 citations
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 126
- Health Informatics 20
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology 41
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 67
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 49
- Medical Laboratory Technology 6
Countries citing papers authored by John Downer
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Fields of papers citing papers by John Downer
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Co-authors
The 24 scholars most cited alongside John Downer, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 28 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1965 | 78 | |
| 2 | 2011 | 58 | |
| 3 | 2010 | 49 | |
| 4 | 2007 | 39 | |
| 5 | 2012 | 38 | |
| 6 | 2013 | 32 | |
| 7 | 2011 | 28 | |
| 8 | 2023 | 24 | |
| 9 | When failure is an option: redundancy, reliability and regulation in complex technical systems | 2009 | 23 |
| 10 | 2015 | 21 | |
| 11 | 1954 | 18 | |
| 12 | 1967 | 15 | |
| 13 | 2017 | 14 | |
| 14 | 1964 | 10 | |
| 15 | Anatomy of a Failure | 2010 | 8 |
| 16 | 2023 | 7 | |
| 17 | 2025 | 4 | |
| 18 | Watching the Watchmaker:: On Regulating the Social in Lieu of the Technical | 2009 | 3 |
| 19 | 2023 | 3 | |
| 20 | When Failure Is an option:: Redundancy, Reliability, and Risk. | 2009 | 3 |
About John Downer
John Downer is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Political Science and International Relations, Control and Systems Engineering and Information Systems and Management, having authored 28 papers that have together received 488 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Risk Perception and Management (7 papers), Nuclear and radioactivity studies (4 papers), Nuclear Issues and Defense (3 papers), Risk and Safety Analysis (2 papers), Information Systems Theories and Implementation (2 papers), Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy (2 papers), Research, Science, and Academia (2 papers) and Policy Transfer and Learning (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Health Informatics (20 citations), Radiological and Ultrasound Technology (41 citations), Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (67 citations), Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (49 citations) and Medical Laboratory Technology (6 citations). John Downer has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include T.P.S. Powell, Henry Rothstein, John P. Zubek, Jonathan Ives, Helen Smith, B.G. Cragg, S Jonas, Oskar Hansson, Kristin Shrader‐Frechette and Rafaela Hillerbrand. Their work appears in journals such as Regulation & Governance, British Journal of Sociology, Psychopharmacology, Accounting Organizations and Society and American Journal of Sociology.
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