John Kay

8.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
205 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

John Kay is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Economics and Econometrics and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, John Kay has authored 205 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 55 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 21 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in John Kay's work include Electrical Fault Detection and Protection (43 papers), Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (24 papers) and Risk and Safety Analysis (21 papers). John Kay is often cited by papers focused on Electrical Fault Detection and Protection (43 papers), Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (24 papers) and Risk and Safety Analysis (21 papers). John Kay collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United Kingdom and United States. John Kay's co-authors include John Vickers, George Yarrow, Dick Thompson, Leslie Hannah, Mervyn King, R. Rothschild, Colin Mayer, C N Morris, Evan Davis and John Hulland and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Marketing and Environmental Health Perspectives.

In The Last Decade

John Kay

188 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Kay Canada	36	1.9k	1.4k	1.2k	620	502	205	5.0k
Joshua S. Gans Canada	41	3.3k 1.7×	2.7k 1.9×	1.3k 1.1×	284 0.5×	244 0.5×	299	7.2k
Andrew C. Worthington Australia	38	3.2k 1.7×	472 0.3×	1.7k 1.4×	1.5k 2.4×	411 0.8×	281	5.6k
Robert D. Willig United States	24	3.8k 2.0×	1.8k 1.3×	837 0.7×	748 1.2×	1.1k 2.2×	70	5.9k
William E. Becker United States	35	981 0.5×	966 0.7×	849 0.7×	218 0.4×	190 0.4×	176	6.6k
Robert Gibbons United States	29	3.9k 2.0×	1.7k 1.2×	1.6k 1.3×	437 0.7×	312 0.6×	50	7.5k
John Vickers United Kingdom	37	5.1k 2.7×	2.7k 1.9×	1.4k 1.2×	831 1.3×	1.2k 2.3×	106	7.9k
John C. Panzar United States	15	3.5k 1.8×	1.8k 1.3×	1.4k 1.1×	1.5k 2.4×	1.2k 2.3×	35	6.3k
Richard N. Langlois United States	32	2.1k 1.1×	3.0k 2.1×	611 0.5×	155 0.3×	416 0.8×	117	5.7k
Norman J. Ireland United Kingdom	19	2.1k 1.1×	1.0k 0.7×	596 0.5×	284 0.5×	240 0.5×	72	3.4k
Timothy F. Bresnahan United States	33	5.8k 3.0×	2.7k 1.9×	879 0.7×	634 1.0×	1.4k 2.8×	78	8.6k

Countries citing papers authored by John Kay

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Kay

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Kay, John, et al.. (2024). Safety Through Switching Speed. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 60(5). 7940–7948.

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Kay, John, et al.. (2024). Solid-State Circuit Breaker Technologies – Advanced Protection and Control Capabilities for Forest Products Applications. 86–96.

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Hussain, Ghulam Amjad, Waqar Hassan, Farhan Mahmood, et al.. (2023). Review on Partial Discharge Diagnostic Techniques for High Voltage Equipment in Power Systems. IEEE Access. 11. 51382–51394. 46 indexed citations

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Hussain, Ghulam Amjad, Waqar Hassan, Farhan Mahmood, & John Kay. (2023). Partial Discharge Based Risk Assessment Framework for MV Switchgear Containing Electrical Defects. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 59(6). 7868–7875. 4 indexed citations

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Kay, John, et al.. (2023). Doors Wide Open: Safety Beyond the Standards. 1–10. 1 indexed citations

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Kay, John, et al.. (2023). Safety Through Speed. 547–555. 2 indexed citations

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Kay, John, et al.. (2022). Analysis and Overview of Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) as Applied to Forest Products Applications. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 58(6). 6879–6885. 2 indexed citations

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Hussain, Ghulam Amjad, Waqar Hassan, Farhan Mahmood, & John Kay. (2022). Risk Assessment of Electrical Defects in MV Switchgear Using Partial Discharge Diagnostics. 1 indexed citations

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Kay, John, et al.. (2022). Extending The Life Of Low Voltage Adjustable Speed Drives. 397–405. 1 indexed citations

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Hassan, Waqar, Farhan Mahmood, Ghulam Amjad Hussain, Salman Amin, & John Kay. (2021). Feature Extraction of Partial Discharges During Multiple Simultaneous Defects in Low-Voltage Electric Machines. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 70. 1–10. 14 indexed citations

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Kay, John. (2019). This is your pilot speaking .... 12–13. 1 indexed citations

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Kay, John, et al.. (2017). Applying Arc-Resistant Technologies to Medium-Voltage Variable Frequency Drives. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 54(2). 1930–1937.

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Kay, John, et al.. (2015). Enhancing Traditional Process SCADA and Historians for Industrial and Commercial Power Systems With Energy (Via IEC 61850). IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 52(1). 76–82. 13 indexed citations

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Kay, John. (2007). La liebre y la tortuga: Una fábula para ejecutivos senior. 22–23. 1 indexed citations

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Kay, John. (2004). The truth about markets : why some nations are rich but most remain poor. Penguin eBooks. 16 indexed citations

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Kay, John. (1998). La honradez: no es simplemente una política de empresa. Harvard-Deusto business review. 58–63.

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Kay, John. (1993). La estructura de la estrategia. Harvard-Deusto business review. 34–44. 6 indexed citations

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Kay, John. (1987). The state and the market : the UK experience of privatisation. Institutional Repository, Hitotsubashi University (Hitotsubashi University). 1 indexed citations

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Kay, John. (1987). public ownership, public regulation or public subsidy?. European Economic Review. 31(1-2). 343–345. 3 indexed citations

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Matthew, H C G, Ross McKibbin, & John Kay. (1976). The franchise factor in the rise of the Labour Party. The English Historical Review. XCI(CCCLXI). 723–752. 61 indexed citations

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