Nancy Leveson

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Nancy Leveson is a scholar working on Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Software and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, Nancy Leveson has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, 3 papers in Software and 3 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in Nancy Leveson's work include Software Reliability and Analysis Research (3 papers), Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy (3 papers) and Risk and Safety Analysis (3 papers). Nancy Leveson is often cited by papers focused on Software Reliability and Analysis Research (3 papers), Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy (3 papers) and Risk and Safety Analysis (3 papers). Nancy Leveson collaborates with scholars based in United States. Nancy Leveson's co-authors include Nicolas Dulac, Kristina Lundqvist, Yuko Miyamoto, Ioana Koglbauer and J. P. Thomas and has published in prestigious journals such as Safety Science, International Conference on Software Engineering and 21st Aerospace Sciences Meeting.

In The Last Decade

Nancy Leveson

7 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

A new accident model for engineering safer systems

2003 1.5k citations Nancy Leveson Safety Science profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Nancy Leveson	1.2k	1.1k	326	318	277	7	1.6k
Trevor Kletz	824 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	89 0.3×	270 0.8×	198 0.7×	99	1.7k
Jinkyun Park	979 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	616 1.9×	303 1.0×	77 0.3×	132	1.7k
Tom Kontogiannis	557 0.5×	446 0.4×	493 1.5×	274 0.9×	83 0.3×	57	1.3k
Vinh N. Dang	654 0.6×	1.0k 0.9×	238 0.7×	304 1.0×	47 0.2×	73	1.4k
John G. Everett	1.1k 0.9×	656 0.6×	285 0.9×	131 0.4×	251 0.9×	30	1.5k
A. Roy Duff	1.5k 1.3×	1.0k 1.0×	390 1.2×	155 0.5×	384 1.4×	15	1.8k
Micaela Demichela	393 0.3×	563 0.5×	84 0.3×	146 0.5×	107 0.4×	143	1.1k
Brian H.W. Guo	1.0k 0.9×	619 0.6×	262 0.8×	76 0.2×	164 0.6×	48	1.5k
Olga Aneziris	579 0.5×	656 0.6×	91 0.3×	158 0.5×	119 0.4×	44	993
P.C. Cacciabue	369 0.3×	430 0.4×	515 1.6×	236 0.7×	62 0.2×	81	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nancy Leveson

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

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Koglbauer, Ioana & Nancy Leveson. (2017). System-Theoretic Analysis of Air Vehicle Separation in Visual Flight. 117–131. 3 indexed citations

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Miyamoto, Yuko, et al.. (2012). Safety Guided Design of Crew Return Vehicle in Concept Design Phase Using STAMP/STPA. 699. 65. 13 indexed citations

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Leveson, Nancy & Nicolas Dulac. (2005). Safety and Risk-Based Design in Complex Systems-of-Systems. 22 indexed citations

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Leveson, Nancy. (2003). A new accident model for engineering safer systems. Safety Science. 42(4). 237–270. 1520 indexed citations breakdown →

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Leveson, Nancy, et al.. (2002). An analysis of causation in aerospace accidents. 1. 4A3/1–4A3/12. 21 indexed citations

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Leveson, Nancy. (1990). Evaluation of software safety. International Conference on Software Engineering. 223–224. 2 indexed citations

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Thomas, J. P. & Nancy Leveson. (1983). Applying existing safety design techniques to software safety. 21st Aerospace Sciences Meeting. 1 indexed citations

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