Phil Scarf

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
104 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Phil Scarf is a scholar working on Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Software and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Phil Scarf has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, 27 papers in Software and 25 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Phil Scarf's work include Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (55 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (27 papers) and Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (21 papers). Phil Scarf is often cited by papers focused on Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (55 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (27 papers) and Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (21 papers). Phil Scarf collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Brazil and France. Phil Scarf's co-authors include Cristiano Alexandre Virgínio Cavalcante, Bram de Jonge, M.D. Berrade, Rommert Dekker, P. J. Laycock, Ian G. McHale, Richard Dwight, Phuc Do, Sohail Akhtar and Xin Shi and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of The Electrochemical Society, European Journal of Operational Research and Sports Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Phil Scarf

103 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

  1. A review on maintenance optimization
    2019 378 citations Phil Scarf et al. European Journal of Operational Research profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Phil Scarf 1.8k 746 714 482 431 104 3.1k
Cristiano Alexandre Virgínio Cavalcante 1.0k 0.6× 398 0.5× 453 0.6× 186 0.4× 29 0.1× 80 1.6k
Aarnout Brombacher 437 0.2× 148 0.2× 288 0.4× 85 0.2× 18 0.0× 153 2.0k
Uday Kumar 655 0.4× 108 0.1× 332 0.5× 100 0.2× 41 0.1× 70 1.9k
Khalifa N. Al‐Khalifa 400 0.2× 140 0.2× 271 0.4× 212 0.4× 42 0.1× 46 1.5k
Adolfo Crespo Márquez 959 0.5× 126 0.2× 304 0.4× 38 0.1× 39 0.1× 153 2.9k
Imad Alsyouf 486 0.3× 59 0.1× 215 0.3× 52 0.1× 45 0.1× 92 1.8k
Alexandre Voisin 428 0.2× 109 0.1× 171 0.2× 78 0.2× 13 0.0× 62 1.2k
Benjamin S. Blanchard 677 0.4× 128 0.2× 165 0.2× 15 0.0× 32 0.1× 18 2.1k
Long Liu 338 0.2× 61 0.1× 722 1.0× 65 0.1× 50 0.1× 36 1.9k
Ying-Ming Wang 162 0.1× 31 0.0× 262 0.4× 232 0.5× 62 0.1× 69 2.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Phil Scarf

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Phil Scarf

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All Works

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Dwight, Richard, et al.. (2025). Maintenance planning using a digital twin: principles and case studies. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 265. 111496–111496. 1 indexed citations
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Cavalcante, Cristiano Alexandre Virgínio, et al.. (2025). An aperiodic inspection and replacement policy based on the delay-time model with component-lifetime heterogeneity. Quality Technology & Quantitative Management. 1–20.
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Scarf, Phil, et al.. (2024). On periodic maintenance for a protection system. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part O Journal of Risk and Reliability. 239(3). 568–583. 1 indexed citations
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Scarf, Phil, et al.. (2024). Modified age-based replacement. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 245. 110022–110022. 7 indexed citations
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Alotaibi, Naif M., et al.. (2023). Modified-opportunistic inspection and the case of remote, groundwater well-heads. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 237. 109389–109389. 4 indexed citations
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Cavalcante, Cristiano Alexandre Virgínio, et al.. (2022). A hybrid maintenance policy with fixed periodic structure and opportunistic replacement. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part O Journal of Risk and Reliability. 237(3). 579–591. 8 indexed citations
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Cavalcante, Cristiano Alexandre Virgínio, Phil Scarf, Phuc Do, & Shaomin Wu. (2022). SPECIAL ISSUE ON RELIABILITY, RISK AND MAINTENANCE. Pesquisa Operacional. 42(spe1). 1 indexed citations
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Scarf, Phil, et al.. (2022). A unified theory for bivariate scores in possessive ball-sports: The case of handball. European Journal of Operational Research. 304(3). 1099–1112. 5 indexed citations
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Baker, Rose, et al.. (2021). The binomial-match, outcome uncertainty, and the case of netball. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 73(8). 1856–1872. 5 indexed citations
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Scarf, Phil, et al.. (2019). Delay-time modelling of a critical system subject to random inspections. European Journal of Operational Research. 278(3). 772–782. 43 indexed citations
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Shrahili, Mansour, et al.. (2019). Virtual series-system models of imperfect repair. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 188. 604–613. 9 indexed citations
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Cavalcante, Cristiano Alexandre Virgínio, Phil Scarf, & M.D. Berrade. (2019). Imperfect Inspection of a System With Unrevealed Failure and an Unrevealed Defective State. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 68(2). 764–775. 41 indexed citations
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Scarf, Phil, et al.. (2018). On outcome uncertainty and scoring rates in sport: The case of international rugby union. European Journal of Operational Research. 273(2). 721–730. 23 indexed citations
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Cavalcante, Cristiano Alexandre Virgínio, et al.. (2018). Modelling inspection and replacement quality for a protection system. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 176. 145–153. 29 indexed citations
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Do, Phuc, et al.. (2018). Modelling and application of condition-based maintenance for a two-component system with stochastic and economic dependencies. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 182. 86–97. 76 indexed citations
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Cavalcante, Cristiano Alexandre Virgínio, et al.. (2017). A general inspection and opportunistic replacement policy for one-component systems of variable quality. European Journal of Operational Research. 266(3). 911–919. 55 indexed citations
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Wu, Shaomin & Phil Scarf. (2016). Two new stochastic models of the failure process of a series system. European Journal of Operational Research. 257(3). 763–772. 26 indexed citations
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Wang, Wenbin, Phil Scarf, Shaomin Wu, & Enrico Zio. (2015). Mathematical Applications to Reliability and Maintenance Problems in Engineering Systems. Mathematical Problems in Engineering. 2015. 1–2. 2 indexed citations
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Scarf, Phil, Adriaan Van Horenbeek, Cristiano Alexandre Virgínio Cavalcante, & Liliane Pintelon. (2012). Modelling the effect of maintenance quality on spare parts inventory. Lirias (KU Leuven). 1 indexed citations
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Scarf, Phil. (1992). Estimation for a four parameter generalized extreme value distribution. Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods. 21(8). 2185–2201. 13 indexed citations

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