John M. Carson

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
99 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

John M. Carson is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, John M. Carson has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 20 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 10 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in John M. Carson's work include Space Satellite Systems and Control (29 papers), Spacecraft Dynamics and Control (28 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (18 papers). John M. Carson is often cited by papers focused on Space Satellite Systems and Control (29 papers), Spacecraft Dynamics and Control (28 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (18 papers). John M. Carson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. John M. Carson's co-authors include Behçet Açıkmeşe, Lars Blackmore, Mehran Mesbahi, Taylor P. Reynolds, Danylo Malyuta, Michael Szmuk, Richard M. Murray, Farzin Amzajerdian, Nikolas Trawny and A. Huertas and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

John M. Carson

91 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Lossless Convexification of Nonconvex Control Bound and P... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 50 100 150 200
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.

  1. Lossless Convexification of Nonconvex Control Bound and Pointing Constraints of the Soft Landing Optimal Control Problem
    2013 215 citations Behçet Açıkmeşe, John M. Carson et al. 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 M. Carson United States 21 836 230 227 182 74 99 1.5k
Vladimir G. Ivancevic Australia 17 48 0.1× 33 0.1× 101 0.4× 114 0.6× 46 0.6× 86 877
Anne Wright United States 16 69 0.1× 26 0.1× 53 0.2× 99 0.5× 55 0.7× 47 1.1k
Chun-Lin Liu United States 18 1.1k 1.4× 24 0.1× 17 0.1× 51 0.3× 35 0.5× 71 2.1k
Guillermo J. Ortega Spain 21 111 0.1× 49 0.2× 57 0.3× 21 0.1× 67 0.9× 142 1.4k
Michael Magee United States 16 266 0.3× 16 0.1× 21 0.1× 409 2.2× 15 0.2× 80 912
Xuming Wang China 17 114 0.1× 5 0.0× 58 0.3× 173 1.0× 47 0.6× 86 973
James Hardy United Kingdom 15 33 0.0× 17 0.1× 107 0.5× 17 0.1× 104 1.4× 48 704
José R. Martí Canada 40 32 0.0× 1.6k 7.0× 2.8k 12.5× 17 0.1× 93 1.3× 174 5.0k
Tingting Xu China 15 60 0.1× 6 0.0× 63 0.3× 31 0.2× 76 1.0× 58 1.0k
David L. Farnsworth United States 11 18 0.0× 83 0.4× 30 0.1× 16 0.1× 84 1.1× 52 1.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by John M. Carson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John M. Carson

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

All Works

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Carson, John M., et al.. (2025). Continuous-Time Line-of-Sight Constrained Trajectory Planning for 6-Degree of Freedom Systems. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 10(5). 4332–4339.
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Yu, Yue, et al.. (2023). Real-Time Sequential Conic Optimization for Multi-Phase Rocket Landing Guidance. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 56(2). 3118–3125. 22 indexed citations
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Reynolds, Taylor P., Michael Szmuk, Danylo Malyuta, et al.. (2020). Dual Quaternion-Based Powered Descent Guidance with State-Triggered Constraints. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 43(9). 1584–1599. 75 indexed citations
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Carson, John M.. (2018). The Measure of Merit. Princeton University Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Carson, John M., et al.. (2017). COBALT: Development of a Platform to Flight Test Lander GN&C Technologies on Suborbital Rockets. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference. 8 indexed citations
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Amzajerdian, Farzin, et al.. (2017). Demonstration of coherent Doppler lidar for navigation in GPS-denied environments. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 10191. 1019102–1019102. 2 indexed citations
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Epp, Chirold, et al.. (2015). Developing Autonomous Precision Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology from Concepts through Terrestrially Flight-Tested Prototypes. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference. 12 indexed citations
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Blackmore, Lars, Behçet Açıkmeşe, & John M. Carson. (2012). Lossless convexification of control constraints for a class of nonlinear optimal control problems. Systems & Control Letters. 61(8). 863–870. 65 indexed citations
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Wolf, Aron A., et al.. (2011). Toward improved landing precision on Mars. 1–8. 17 indexed citations
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Carson, John M.. (2011). Army Alpha, Army Brass, and the Search for Army Intelligence. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Carson, John M.. (2011). Has psychology “found its true path”? Methods, objectivity, and cries of “crisis” in early twentieth-century French psychology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 43(2). 445–454. 5 indexed citations
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Ford, K L, et al.. (2008). Remote Predictive Mapping 2. Gamma-Ray Spectrometry: A Tool for Mapping Canada's North. Geoscience Canada. 35. 6 indexed citations
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Bell, Christopher, et al.. (2004). Ascorbic acid does not affect the age-associated reduction in maximal cardiac output and oxygen consumption in healthy adults. Journal of Applied Physiology. 98(3). 845–849. 25 indexed citations
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Carson, John M.. (2001). Opening the Democracy Box. Social Studies of Science. 31(3). 425–428. 5 indexed citations
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Carson, John M.. (1999). Minding Matter/Mattering Mind: Knowledge and the Subject in Nineteenth-Century Psychology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 30(3). 345–376. 13 indexed citations
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Carson, John M.. (1993). Army Alpha, Army Brass, and the Search for Army Intelligence. Isis. 84(2). 278–309. 30 indexed citations
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Ford, K L, et al.. (1992). Radioactivity Maps of Nova Scotia. Atlantic Geology. 28(1). 1 indexed citations

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