Raymond Rishel

6.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
46 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Raymond Rishel is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Finance. According to data from OpenAlex, Raymond Rishel has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 14 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 12 papers in Finance. Recurrent topics in Raymond Rishel's work include Stochastic processes and financial applications (11 papers), Aerospace Engineering and Control Systems (8 papers) and Advanced Control Systems Optimization (6 papers). Raymond Rishel is often cited by papers focused on Stochastic processes and financial applications (11 papers), Aerospace Engineering and Control Systems (8 papers) and Advanced Control Systems Optimization (6 papers). Raymond Rishel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Raymond Rishel's co-authors include Wendell H. Fleming, Kurt Helmes, Robert J. Elliott, Lawrence A. Harris, Vladimír Beneš, R. Ellis and Armand M. Makowski and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications and Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.

In The Last Decade

Raymond Rishel

41 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

Deterministic and Stochastic Optimal Control. 1975 2026 1992 2009 1976 1975 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. Deterministic and Stochastic Optimal Control.
    1976 1.8k citations Wendell H. Fleming, Raymond Rishel et al. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General) profile →
  2. Deterministic and Stochastic Optimal Control
    1975 1.7k citations Wendell H. Fleming, Raymond Rishel profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Raymond Rishel United States 12 998 846 771 700 657 46 4.3k
R. Z. Khas’minskiĭ United States 27 912 0.9× 1.1k 1.3× 826 1.1× 735 1.1× 125 0.2× 85 4.3k
Andris Abakuks United Kingdom 11 854 0.9× 200 0.2× 574 0.7× 400 0.6× 220 0.3× 23 3.4k
S. N. Ethier United States 18 1.7k 1.7× 275 0.3× 529 0.7× 317 0.5× 404 0.6× 70 6.1k
Thomas G. Kurtz United States 38 2.7k 2.7× 539 0.6× 859 1.1× 832 1.2× 642 1.0× 102 10.6k
George Yin United States 42 2.1k 2.1× 1.8k 2.2× 1.2k 1.6× 1.2k 1.7× 495 0.8× 430 7.0k
R. Z. Has’minskiĭ Russia 8 608 0.6× 995 1.2× 406 0.5× 308 0.4× 89 0.1× 11 2.9k
Wendell H. Fleming United States 39 3.1k 3.1× 1.5k 1.7× 970 1.3× 1.1k 1.6× 1.9k 2.8× 116 9.5k
Saul Jacka United Kingdom 13 1.6k 1.6× 547 0.6× 152 0.2× 283 0.4× 697 1.1× 53 3.9k
Guy Barles France 39 1.9k 1.9× 678 0.8× 261 0.3× 863 1.2× 611 0.9× 112 5.5k
L. S. Pontryagin Russia 11 129 0.1× 1.6k 1.9× 853 1.1× 763 1.1× 437 0.7× 29 6.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rishel, Raymond. (2006). Whether to sell or hold a stock. Communications in Information and Systems. 6(3). 193–202. 8 indexed citations
2.
Rishel, Raymond. (2003). Controlled wear processes: modeling-optimal control. 724–726. 3 indexed citations
3.
Rishel, Raymond. (1995). Tracking the output of a poorly known markov process. Stochastics and stochastics reports. 52(1-2). 147–156. 1 indexed citations
4.
Elliott, Robert J. & Raymond Rishel. (1994). Estimating the implicit interest rate of a risky asset. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 49(2). 199–206. 21 indexed citations
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Helmes, Kurt & Raymond Rishel. (1992). The solution of a partially observed stochastic optimal control problem in terms of predicted miss. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 37(9). 1462–1464. 10 indexed citations
6.
Rishel, Raymond. (1991). Controlled wear process: modeling optimal control. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 36(9). 1100–1102. 37 indexed citations
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Helmes, Kurt & Raymond Rishel. (1990). The solution of a partially observed stochastic optimal control problem in terms of predicted miss. 2133–2136 vol.4. 3 indexed citations
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Rishel, Raymond. (1986). An Exact Formula for a Linear Quadratic Adaptive Stochastic Optimal Control Law. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. 24(4). 667–674. 9 indexed citations
9.
Rishel, Raymond. (1981). Group preventive maintenance An example of controlled jump processes. 786–791. 2 indexed citations
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Rishel, Raymond. (1978). State estimation for partially observed jump processes. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 65(3). 731–743. 2 indexed citations
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Rishel, Raymond. (1977). Optimality for completely observed controlled jump processes. 141–143. 2 indexed citations
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Fleming, Wendell H., et al.. (1976). Deterministic and Stochastic Optimal Control.. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General). 139(4). 546–546. 1844 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rishel, Raymond. (1975). Dynamic Programming and Minimum Principles for Systems with Jump Markov Disturbances. SIAM Journal on Control. 13(2). 338–371. 126 indexed citations
14.
Rishel, Raymond, et al.. (1973). Optimum Network Call-Carrying Capacity. Bell System Technical Journal. 52(7). 1195–1214. 9 indexed citations
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Rishel, Raymond, et al.. (1973). Overload Model of Telephone Network Operation. Bell System Technical Journal. 52(9). 1589–1615. 10 indexed citations
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Rishel, Raymond. (1968). Optimal terminal guidance of an air-to-surface missile.. Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. 5(6). 649–654. 3 indexed citations
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Rishel, Raymond. (1966). An Example Concerning Rockets Capable of Impulsive Thrust. SIAM Journal on Control. 4(4). 740–744. 3 indexed citations
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Rishel, Raymond. (1962). A stochastic treatment of a control system with breakdown and repair. Information and Control. 5(2). 144–152. 3 indexed citations
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Rishel, Raymond. (1960). Area As the Integral of Lengths of Contours. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 97(1). 95–95. 2 indexed citations
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Rishel, Raymond. (1960). Area as the integral of lengths of contours. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 97(1). 95–119. 1 indexed citations

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