R. Bell

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

R. Bell is a scholar working on Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, R. Bell has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, 9 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in R. Bell's work include Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy (12 papers), Risk and Safety Analysis (9 papers) and Electrical Fault Detection and Protection (4 papers). R. Bell is often cited by papers focused on Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy (12 papers), Risk and Safety Analysis (9 papers) and Electrical Fault Detection and Protection (4 papers). R. Bell collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Denmark and Germany. R. Bell's co-authors include Dietmar Reinert, S. M. Smith and Robert Wright and has published in prestigious journals such as Safety Science, IEEE Software and Microprocessors and Microsystems.

In The Last Decade

R. Bell

13 papers receiving 871 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

IEC 61508: functional safety of electrical/electronic/ programme electronic safety-related systems: overview

1999 948 citations R. Bell profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
R. Bell United Kingdom	5	488	412	397	164	156	15	1.0k
Suprasad V. Amari United States	27	1.5k 3.0×	918 2.2×	1.0k 2.6×	185 1.1×	17 0.1×	67	2.0k
Lalit Kumar Singh India	16	299 0.6×	413 1.0×	356 0.9×	214 1.3×	11 0.1×	80	737
Sieteng Soh Australia	19	256 0.5×	114 0.3×	135 0.3×	53 0.3×	56 0.4×	124	1.3k
Mattias Nyberg Sweden	21	181 0.4×	189 0.5×	261 0.7×	1.2k 7.2×	21 0.1×	119	1.6k
H.A. Thompson United Kingdom	13	140 0.3×	131 0.3×	89 0.2×	191 1.2×	43 0.3×	58	543
Iain Bate United Kingdom	21	130 0.3×	56 0.1×	148 0.4×	95 0.6×	807 5.2×	142	1.3k
Neeraj Kumar Goyal India	15	119 0.2×	53 0.1×	199 0.5×	34 0.2×	52 0.3×	69	622
DeJiu Chen Sweden	14	100 0.2×	17 0.0×	193 0.5×	140 0.9×	156 1.0×	81	549
Mark Lawford Canada	15	67 0.1×	22 0.1×	179 0.5×	159 1.0×	153 1.0×	66	1.1k
Martin Fränzle Germany	15	51 0.1×	34 0.1×	236 0.6×	286 1.7×	159 1.0×	98	1.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by R. Bell

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of R. Bell

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All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Bell, R.. (2009). Introduction & Revision of IEC 61508. Measurement and Control. 42(6). 174–179. 2 indexed citations

2.

Bell, R., et al.. (2006). Managing competence for safety-related systems. 2006. 202–206. 4 indexed citations

3.

Bell, R.. (2006). Introduction to IEC 61508. 3–12. 40 indexed citations

4.

Bell, R., et al.. (2006). Human factors in electrical, electronic and programmable electronic safety-related systems. 2006. 253–259. 1 indexed citations

5.

Bell, R.. (1999). IEC 61508: functional safety of electrical/electronic/ programme electronic safety-related systems: overview. 948 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bell, R., et al.. (1995). Tools that bind: creating integrated environments. IEEE Software. 12(2). 76–85. 20 indexed citations

7.

Bell, R., et al.. (1995). Tools to engineer new technologies into applications. IEEE Software. 12(2). 11–16. 4 indexed citations

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Bell, R., et al.. (1994). Safety-related control and protection systems: standards update. Computing & Control Engineering Journal. 5(1). 6–12. 5 indexed citations

9.

Bell, R. & Dietmar Reinert. (1993). Risk and system integrity concepts for safety-related control systems. Microprocessors and Microsystems. 17(1). 3–15. 16 indexed citations

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Bell, R., et al.. (1992). Risk and system integrity concepts for safety-related control systems. Safety Science. 15(4-6). 283–308. 1 indexed citations

11.

Bell, R., et al.. (1990). An overview of IEC draft standard: 'Functional safety of programmable electronic systems'. 151–163.

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Bell, R. & S. M. Smith. (1990). Functional Safety Of Programmable Electronic Systems. 31–39. 4 indexed citations

13.

Bell, R., et al.. (1987). European collaborative project on the assessment of programmable electronic systems. Journal of Occupational Accidents. 9(2). 123–135. 2 indexed citations

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Bell, R.. (1987). HSE Guidelines on Programmable Electronic Systems in Safety-Related Applications. Safety and Reliability. 7(2). 17–18.

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Bell, R., et al.. (1983). Safety Integrity Assessment of Programmable Electronic Systems. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 16(18). 1–12. 1 indexed citations

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