Niall MacKay

431 total citations
23 papers, 164 citations indexed

About

Niall MacKay is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Niall MacKay has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 164 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 3 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Niall MacKay's work include Military Defense Systems Analysis (9 papers), Guidance and Control Systems (4 papers) and Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (4 papers). Niall MacKay is often cited by papers focused on Military Defense Systems Analysis (9 papers), Guidance and Control Systems (4 papers) and Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (4 papers). Niall MacKay collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Niall MacKay's co-authors include Dominic Johnson, Kyle Y. Lin, Moshe Kress, I. R. Johnson, Michael P. Atkinson, Daniel A. Keir, Ben Powell, A. Jamie Wood, Jose Ignacio Priego‐Quesada and Gustav W. Delius and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biomechanics, Operations Research and Journal of the Operational Research Society.

In The Last Decade

Niall MacKay

19 papers receiving 156 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Niall MacKay United Kingdom	7	72	53	44	22	18	23	164
F. W. Lanchester	2	63 0.9×	38 0.7×	42 1.0×	13 0.6×	13 0.7×	2	145
Xiongding Liu China	9	17 0.2×	53 1.0×	46 1.0×	174 7.9×	90 5.0×	31	308
Suoyi Tan China	8	8 0.1×	24 0.5×	23 0.5×	137 6.2×	8 0.4×	27	260
Alessandro Stranieri Belgium	4	36 0.5×	19 0.4×	16 0.4×	21 1.0×	2 0.1×	4	180
Feng Shu China	12	9 0.1×	104 2.0×	198 4.5×	39 1.8×	30 1.7×	25	327
George Forrest Young United States	6	7 0.1×	29 0.5×	26 0.6×	110 5.0×	18 1.0×	7	285
Felix Albrecht United States	9	9 0.1×	40 0.8×	34 0.8×	12 0.5×	107 5.9×	26	252
E. Barany United States	10	5 0.1×	14 0.3×	167 3.8×	37 1.7×	27 1.5×	40	283
Tianyi Chen China	10	14 0.2×	15 0.3×	3 0.1×	2 0.1×	9 0.5×	26	211

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Kress, Moshe & Niall MacKay. (2025). Modeling Civilian and Militant Casualties in Asymmetric Wars: The Case of Gaza 2024. White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York). 2(1). 300–308.

Priego‐Quesada, Jose Ignacio, et al.. (2025). Effect of aerobic fitness on the validity of the Calera Research™ sensor to estimate core temperature during exercise. Journal of Thermal Biology. 127. 104067–104067. 2 indexed citations

MacKay, Niall, et al.. (2024). Robustness of steady state and stochastic cyclicity in generalized coalescence-fragmentation models. The European Physical Journal B. 97(2).

MacKay, Niall, et al.. (2023). Quantifying Counterfactual Military History. 1 indexed citations

Powell, Ben, et al.. (2022). Skew-adjusted extremized-mean: A simple method for identifying and learning from contrarian minorities in groups of forecasters.. Decision. 11(1). 173–193. 1 indexed citations

Atkinson, Michael P., Moshe Kress, & Niall MacKay. (2020). Targeting, Deployment, and Loss-Tolerance in Lanchester Engagements. Operations Research. 69(1). 71–81. 6 indexed citations

Kress, Moshe, Kyle Y. Lin, & Niall MacKay. (2018). The Attrition Dynamics of Multilateral War. Operations Research. 66(4). 950–956. 11 indexed citations

MacKay, Niall, et al.. (2016). Weight of Shell Must Tell: A Lanchestrian Reappraisal of the Battle of Jutland. History. 101(347). 536–563. 3 indexed citations

MacKay, Niall, et al.. (2016). Weighing the fog of war: Illustrating the power of Bayesian methods for historical analysis through the Battle of the Dogger Bank. Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History. 49(2). 80–91.

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MacKay, Niall, et al.. (2014). Concentration and Asymmetry in Air Combat: Lessons for the Defensive employment of Air Power. White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York). 1 indexed citations

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Lin, Kyle Y. & Niall MacKay. (2014). The optimal policy for the one-against-many heterogeneous Lanchester model. Operations Research Letters. 42(6-7). 473–477. 13 indexed citations

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Johnson, Dominic & Niall MacKay. (2014). Fight the power: Lanchester's laws of combat in human evolution. Evolution and Human Behavior. 36(2). 152–163. 38 indexed citations

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MacKay, Niall. (2012). Response to ‘Some comments on MacKay's Lanchester mixed forces model’. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 63(11). 1633–1633. 4 indexed citations

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MacKay, Niall, et al.. (2011). Safety in Numbers: Ideas of Concentration in Royal Air Force Fighter Defence from Lanchester to the Battle of Britain. History. 96(323). 304–325. 4 indexed citations

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MacKay, Niall. (2009). Scaling of human body mass with height: The body mass index revisited. Journal of Biomechanics. 43(4). 764–766. 27 indexed citations

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Johnson, I. R. & Niall MacKay. (2008). Lanchester models and the battle of Britain. Naval Research Logistics (NRL). 58(3). 210–222. 15 indexed citations

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MacKay, Niall. (2008). Lanchester models for mixed forces with semi-dynamical target allocation. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 60(10). 1421–1427. 19 indexed citations

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Delius, Gustav W. & Niall MacKay. (2001). Quantum group symmetry in sine-Gordon and affine Toda field theories. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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MacKay, Niall. (1993). ASPECTS OF YANGIAN-INVARIANT FACTORIZED S-MATRICES. 209–230. 1 indexed citations

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MacKay, Niall, et al.. (1959). Electrical installation at Calder Hall nuclear power station. Proceedings of the IEE Part A Power Engineering. 106(27). 245–245.

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