John Mason

902 total citations · 1 hit paper
3 papers, 541 citations indexed

About

John Mason is a scholar working on Information Systems and Management, Chemical Health and Safety and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, John Mason has authored 3 papers receiving a total of 541 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 1 paper in Information Systems and Management, 1 paper in Chemical Health and Safety and 1 paper in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in John Mason's work include Risk and Safety Analysis (1 paper), Combustion and Detonation Processes (1 paper) and Scientific Computing and Data Management (1 paper). John Mason is often cited by papers focused on Risk and Safety Analysis (1 paper), Combustion and Detonation Processes (1 paper) and Scientific Computing and Data Management (1 paper). John Mason collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom. John Mason's co-authors include M G Cox and has published in prestigious journals such as Process Safety Progress and Open Research Online (The Open University).

In The Last Decade

John Mason

3 papers receiving 461 citations

Hit Papers

Researching Your Own Practice: The Discipline of Noticing 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 100 200 300 400 500
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. Researching Your Own Practice: The Discipline of Noticing
    2001 525 citations John Mason Open Research Online (The Open University) 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 Mason United Kingdom 2 444 110 105 66 27 3 541
Elaine Simmt Canada 8 404 0.9× 122 1.1× 141 1.3× 52 0.8× 22 0.8× 28 516
Janet Bowers United States 10 518 1.2× 213 1.9× 122 1.2× 60 0.9× 32 1.2× 24 650
Ulla Runesson Sweden 13 583 1.3× 215 2.0× 111 1.1× 67 1.0× 19 0.7× 43 689
Heinz Steinbring Germany 15 647 1.5× 185 1.7× 236 2.2× 83 1.3× 16 0.6× 46 775
Fran Arbaugh United States 15 636 1.4× 120 1.1× 100 1.0× 69 1.0× 32 1.2× 50 694
Joanna O. Masingila United States 13 554 1.2× 168 1.5× 127 1.2× 59 0.9× 33 1.2× 39 676
Anna Sierpińska Canada 12 590 1.3× 163 1.5× 211 2.0× 60 0.9× 18 0.7× 34 680
Janet Ainley United Kingdom 14 387 0.9× 107 1.0× 279 2.7× 57 0.9× 29 1.1× 35 568
Anne Bennison Australia 13 435 1.0× 105 1.0× 65 0.6× 58 0.9× 64 2.4× 39 511
Cathery Yeh United States 9 377 0.8× 86 0.8× 60 0.6× 72 1.1× 14 0.5× 28 452

Countries citing papers authored by John Mason

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Mason

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by John Mason. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by John Mason. The network helps show where John Mason may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Mason

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

All Works

3 of 3 papers shown
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Mason, John, et al.. (2009). Modernization of an ammonia plant safety shutdown system. Process Safety Progress. 28(3). 282–292. 1 indexed citations
2.
Mason, John. (2001). Researching Your Own Practice: The Discipline of Noticing. Open Research Online (The Open University). 525 indexed citations breakdown →
3.
Mason, John & M G Cox. (1989). Scientific Software Systems. 15 indexed citations

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