John M. Watts

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

John M. Watts is a scholar working on Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Ocean Engineering and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, John M. Watts has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, 3 papers in Ocean Engineering and 3 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in John M. Watts's work include Fire dynamics and safety research (5 papers), Underground infrastructure and sustainability (3 papers) and Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics (3 papers). John M. Watts is often cited by papers focused on Fire dynamics and safety research (5 papers), Underground infrastructure and sustainability (3 papers) and Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics (3 papers). John M. Watts collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. John M. Watts's co-authors include Christopher J. Wieczorek, Morgan J. Hurley, José L. Torero, Kazunori Harada, Daniel T. Gottuk, Erica D. Kuligowski, John R. Hall, G. Ramachandran, Baljinder K. Kandola and D.J. Rasbash and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Pediatrics, Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and British Journal of Radiology.

In The Last Decade

John M. Watts

38 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k

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. Watts United States 14 1.6k 931 492 471 311 45 2.7k
Daniel T. Gottuk United States 10 1.8k 1.1× 828 0.9× 554 1.1× 476 1.0× 313 1.0× 27 2.5k
Christopher J. Wieczorek United States 6 1.5k 0.9× 733 0.8× 501 1.0× 431 0.9× 314 1.0× 9 2.1k
Morgan J. Hurley United States 5 1.5k 0.9× 753 0.8× 488 1.0× 430 0.9× 308 1.0× 11 2.1k
Michael Spearpoint New Zealand 24 1.4k 0.9× 848 0.9× 304 0.6× 367 0.8× 330 1.1× 169 2.3k
Simo Hostikka Finland 26 1.8k 1.1× 1.0k 1.1× 643 1.3× 542 1.2× 280 0.9× 137 2.5k
Richard D. Peacock United States 25 1.7k 1.1× 1.5k 1.6× 350 0.7× 317 0.7× 478 1.5× 91 2.6k
Congling Shi China 35 1.7k 1.0× 1.3k 1.4× 578 1.2× 678 1.4× 1.2k 3.7× 198 4.4k
Jianping Zhang China 31 1.2k 0.8× 500 0.5× 572 1.2× 378 0.8× 728 2.3× 212 3.4k
Vytenis Babrauskas United States 36 3.7k 2.3× 1.1k 1.2× 1.6k 3.2× 862 1.8× 1.6k 5.0× 133 5.1k
Long Shi China 42 1.6k 1.0× 1.1k 1.2× 575 1.2× 770 1.6× 465 1.5× 248 5.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by John M. Watts

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hurley, Morgan J., Daniel T. Gottuk, John R. Hall, et al.. (2015). SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2065 indexed citations breakdown →
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Watts, John M., et al.. (2004). Fire Safe Building Rehabilitation. APT Bulletin. 35(4). 58–58. 2 indexed citations
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Watts, John M.. (2003). Fire-Risk Indexing: A Systemic Approach to Building-Code "Equivalency" for Historic Buildings. APT Bulletin. 34(4). 23–23. 3 indexed citations
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Watts, John M. & R. E. Solomon. (2002). Fire Safety Code for Historic Structures. Fire Technology. 38(4). 301–310. 12 indexed citations
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Watts, John M.. (2001). Nonthermal Fire Damage. Fire Technology. 37(2). 107–108.
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Watts, John M.. (2000). Editorial: Rescuing Truth from Familiarity. Fire Technology. 36(1). 1–2. 4 indexed citations
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Watts, John M., et al.. (1998). Development of a Prototypical Historic Fire Risk Index to Evaluate Fire Safety in Historic Buildings Final Report prepared with the support of the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training National Park Service United States Department of the Interior. 2 indexed citations
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Watts, John M.. (1996). Angle of exit remoteness. Fire Technology. 32(1). 76–82. 1 indexed citations
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McMillan, Douglas, Victor Chernick, Neil Finer, et al.. (1995). Effects of two rescue doses of synthetic surfactant in 344 infants with respiratory distress syndrome weighing 750 to 1249 grams: A double-blind, placebo-controlled multicenter Canadian trial. The Journal of Pediatrics. 126(5). S90–S98. 14 indexed citations
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Watts, John M.. (1995). Fuzzy fire safety. Fire Technology. 31(3). 193–194. 7 indexed citations
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Watts, John M.. (1995). Software review. Fire Technology. 31(4). 369–371. 3 indexed citations
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Watts, John M.. (1993). Protecting our heritage from fire. Fire Technology. 29(2). 97–98. 1 indexed citations
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Watts, John M.. (1991). Fire scenarios. Fire Technology. 27(4). 289–290. 1 indexed citations
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Watts, John M.. (1991). Criteria For Fire Risk Ranking. Fire Safety Science. 3. 457–466. 21 indexed citations
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Watts, John M.. (1988). Fire risk analysis. Fire Technology. 24(4). 289–290. 18 indexed citations
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Watts, John M.. (1987). Computer models for evacuation analysis. Fire Safety Journal. 12(3). 237–245. 58 indexed citations
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Watts, John M.. (1987). Expert systems. Fire Technology. 23(1). 1–2. 2 indexed citations
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Watts, John M.. (1978). A THEORETICAL RATIONALIZATION OF A GOAL-ORIENTED SYSTEMS APPROACH TO BUILDING FIRE SAFETY.. Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 79. 22329. 4 indexed citations
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Watts, John M., et al.. (1970). Further Investigations of Movement Time between Brake and Accelerator Pedals in Automobiles. Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. 12(6). 559–561. 24 indexed citations
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Watts, John M.. (1968). A para-oesophageal hernia with interchangeable contents of the hernial sac. British Journal of Radiology. 41(488). 631–632. 1 indexed citations

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