John McLean

1.9k total citations
37 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

John McLean is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, John McLean has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 15 papers in Information Systems and 13 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in John McLean's work include Security and Verification in Computing (19 papers), Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (13 papers) and Information and Cyber Security (7 papers). John McLean is often cited by papers focused on Security and Verification in Computing (19 papers), Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (13 papers) and Information and Cyber Security (7 papers). John McLean collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Hong Kong. John McLean's co-authors include Constance Heitmeyer, Carl E. Landwehr, Myla Archer, Peter Y. A. Ryan, Virgil D. Gligor, Jonathan K. Millen, James W. Gray, Catherine Meadows, Heinz Erzberger and David M. Weiss and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Computer and Journal of the ACM.

In The Last Decade

John McLean

35 papers receiving 917 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John McLean United States 14 886 417 391 379 310 37 1.1k
Jonathan K. Millen United States 20 1.1k 1.2× 379 0.9× 938 2.4× 698 1.8× 155 0.5× 53 1.4k
Sergio Maffeis United Kingdom 15 584 0.7× 240 0.6× 249 0.6× 346 0.9× 102 0.3× 32 771
Drew Dean United States 11 543 0.6× 301 0.7× 447 1.1× 233 0.6× 93 0.3× 15 786
Jay Ligatti United States 15 1.3k 1.5× 848 2.0× 492 1.3× 427 1.1× 132 0.4× 41 1.5k
Pau-Chen Cheng United States 13 539 0.6× 123 0.3× 392 1.0× 232 0.6× 194 0.6× 29 851
Mads Dam Sweden 17 556 0.6× 189 0.5× 350 0.9× 169 0.4× 60 0.2× 60 780
Shamim A. Naqvi United States 15 838 0.9× 328 0.8× 785 2.0× 188 0.5× 140 0.5× 28 1.1k
Catherine Meadows United States 19 974 1.1× 129 0.3× 1.2k 3.1× 839 2.2× 211 0.7× 78 1.6k
Trevor Jim United States 19 1.5k 1.7× 489 1.2× 640 1.6× 617 1.6× 195 0.6× 44 1.9k
Ellis Cohen United States 7 452 0.5× 195 0.5× 481 1.2× 169 0.4× 82 0.3× 9 765

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Fields of papers citing papers by John McLean

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John McLean

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ryan, Peter Y. A., John McLean, Jonathan K. Millen, & Virgil D. Gligor. (2005). Non-interference, who needs it?. 237–238. 26 indexed citations
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Landwehr, Carl E., Constance Heitmeyer, & John McLean. (2005). A security model for military message systems: retrospective. 48. 174–190. 11 indexed citations
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McLean, John. (2003). Twenty years of formal methods. 115–116. 5 indexed citations
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Gray, James W. & John McLean. (2002). Using temporal logic to specify and verify cryptographic protocols. 108–116. 11 indexed citations
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McLean, John, et al.. (2002). Confidentiality in a replicated architecture trusted database system: a formal model. 60–65. 2 indexed citations
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Meadows, Catherine & John McLean. (2002). Security and dependability: then and now. 166–170. 8 indexed citations
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McLean, John. (1992). Proving Noninterference and Functional Correctness Using Traces. Journal of Computer Security. 1(1). 37–57. 51 indexed citations
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McLean, John. (1990). Security models and information flow. 180–187. 174 indexed citations
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McLean, John. (1990). The specification and modeling of computer security. Computer. 23(1). 9–16. 67 indexed citations
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McLean, John. (1988). The algebra of security. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2–7. 54 indexed citations
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McLean, John, David M. Weiss, & Carl E. Landwehr. (1986). Executing Trace Specifications Using Prolog.. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 5 indexed citations
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McLean, John. (1985). Two dogmas of program specification. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 10(4). 85–87. 3 indexed citations
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McLean, John. (1984). A Formal Method for the Abstract Specification of Software. Journal of the ACM. 31(3). 600–627. 39 indexed citations
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McLean, John. (1982). A Formal Foundation for the Trace Method of Software Specification.. 1 indexed citations
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McLean, John & Heinz Erzberger. (1981). Design of a fuel-efficient guidance system for a STOL aircraft. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 2 indexed citations
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McLean, John. (1980). A new algorithm for horizontal capture trajectories. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 3 indexed citations
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McLean, John, et al.. (1973). An Interactive Real Time Simulation for Scheduling and Monitoring of STOL Aircraft in the Terminal Area. Journal of Aircraft. 10(6). 372–378. 1 indexed citations
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McLean, John, et al.. (1972). Guidance and Control Techniques for Automated Air Traffic Control. Journal of Aircraft. 9(7). 490–496. 3 indexed citations
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McLean, John. (1962). a Survey of Midcourse Guidance and Navigation Techniques for Lunar and Interplanetary Missions. NASA Special Publication. 17. 9. 2 indexed citations

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