Richard E. Barlow

14.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
96 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Richard E. Barlow is a scholar working on Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Statistics and Probability and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard E. Barlow has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, 30 papers in Statistics and Probability and 27 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in Richard E. Barlow's work include Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (31 papers), Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (28 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (16 papers). Richard E. Barlow is often cited by papers focused on Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (31 papers), Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (28 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (16 papers). Richard E. Barlow collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Australia. Richard E. Barlow's co-authors include Frank Proschan, Donald R. Smith, Erwin Straub, Larry C. Hunter, Albert W. Marshall, Nozer D. Singpurwalla, H. D. Brunk, J.B. Fussell, R. Campo and Ernest M. Scheuer and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Econometrica and Technometrics.

In The Last Decade

Richard E. Barlow

93 papers receiving 8.9k citations

Hit Papers

Statistical Theory of Reliability and Life Testing-Probab... 1966 2026 1986 2006 1977 1966 1976 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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. Statistical Theory of Reliability and Life Testing-Probability Models
    1977 2.7k citations Richard E. Barlow, Frank Proschan et al. Technometrics profile →
  2. Mathematical Theory of Reliability
    1966 2.0k citations Richard E. Barlow, Frank Proschan et al. profile →
  3. Statistical Theory of Reliability and Life Testing Probability Models
    1976 991 citations Richard E. Barlow, Frank Proschan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard E. Barlow United States 33 4.5k 4.4k 3.1k 2.0k 2.0k 96 10.0k
Frank Proschan United States 50 8.2k 1.8× 6.1k 1.4× 4.2k 1.4× 2.5k 1.3× 4.0k 2.0× 175 15.2k
Nozer D. Singpurwalla United States 38 2.5k 0.6× 2.2k 0.5× 1.7k 0.6× 1.4k 0.7× 690 0.4× 178 5.8k
J. George Shanthikumar United States 50 3.4k 0.7× 2.1k 0.5× 1.7k 0.5× 621 0.3× 3.8k 1.9× 323 12.2k
Moshe Shaked United States 35 4.5k 1.0× 1.6k 0.4× 1.9k 0.6× 353 0.2× 3.0k 1.5× 170 7.5k
N. Balakrishnan Canada 67 19.5k 4.3× 5.9k 1.3× 12.1k 4.0× 681 0.3× 4.0k 2.1× 1.0k 24.8k
Peter W. Glynn United States 52 2.7k 0.6× 423 0.1× 1.0k 0.3× 305 0.2× 4.3k 2.2× 349 11.0k
Mark J. Schervish United States 31 1.5k 0.3× 253 0.1× 816 0.3× 303 0.2× 3.0k 1.6× 118 10.6k
Marcel F. Neuts United States 43 1.4k 0.3× 1.2k 0.3× 280 0.1× 301 0.2× 2.5k 1.3× 184 8.5k
Kishor S. Trivedi United States 69 638 0.1× 4.2k 1.0× 1.6k 0.5× 6.5k 3.3× 984 0.5× 508 20.1k
W. David Kelton United States 27 531 0.1× 277 0.1× 776 0.3× 443 0.2× 3.5k 1.8× 114 9.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Barlow, Richard E., et al.. (2002). Classical and Bayes approaches to environmental stress screening (ESS): a comparison. 81–84. 2 indexed citations
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Barlow, Richard E. & Fabio Spizzichino. (1993). Schur-concave survival functions and survival analysis. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 46(3). 437–447. 28 indexed citations
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Barlow, Richard E. & Max B. Mendel. (1993). The Operational-Bayesian Approach In Reliability Theory. 1(1). 46–56. 3 indexed citations
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Barlow, Richard E. & Max B. Mendel. (1992). De Finetti-type Representations for Life Distributions. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 87(420). 1116–1122. 44 indexed citations
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Kiureghian, Armen Der, et al.. (1981). Seismic Reliability of Flow and Communication Networks. 81–96. 2 indexed citations
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Barlow, Richard E.. (1979). Geometry of the total time on test transform. Naval Research Logistics Quarterly. 26(3). 393–402. 40 indexed citations
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Barlow, Richard E.. (1978). Statistische Theorie der Zuverlässigkeit : wahrscheinlichkeitstheoretische Modelle. Akademie Verlag eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Barlow, Richard E. & Martin L. Goldman. (1978). Computed tomography of the skeletal system. PubMed. 2(1). 27–35. 2 indexed citations
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Barlow, Richard E., et al.. (1978). Stress-rupture life of Kevlar/epoxy spherical pressure vessels. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 14 indexed citations
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Barlow, Richard E., et al.. (1977). Reliability and Fault Tree Analysis. Technometrics. 19(3). 346–346. 300 indexed citations
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Block, Henry W., et al.. (1977). Statistical Theory of Reliability and Life Testing: Probability Models.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 72(357). 227–227. 99 indexed citations
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Barlow, Richard E. & Frank Proschan. (1975). Importance of system components and fault tree events. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 3(2). 153–173. 214 indexed citations
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Barlow, Richard E., et al.. (1973). Introduction to Fault Tree Analysis. 45 indexed citations
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Barlow, Richard E. & Ernest M. Scheuer. (1971). Estimation from Accelerated Life Tests. Technometrics. 13(1). 145–145. 4 indexed citations
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Barlow, Richard E., Shanti S. Gupta, & S. Panchapakesan. (1969). On the Distribution of the Maximum and Minimum of Ratios of Order Statistics. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 40(3). 918–934. 7 indexed citations
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Barlow, Richard E., Albert Madansky, Frank Proschan, & Ernest M. Scheuer. (1968). Statistical Estimation Procedures for the “Burn-In” Process. Technometrics. 10(1). 51–62. 29 indexed citations
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Barlow, Richard E., Albert Madansky, Frank Proschan, & Ernest M. Scheuer. (1968). Statistical Estimation Procedures for the "Burn-In" Process. Technometrics. 10(1). 51–51. 13 indexed citations
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Barlow, Richard E. & Frank Proschan. (1966). Inequalities for Linear Combinations of Order Statistics from Restricted Families. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 37(6). 1574–1592. 105 indexed citations
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Barlow, Richard E. & Ernest M. Scheuer. (1966). Reliability Growth during a Development Testing Program. Technometrics. 8(1). 53–53. 32 indexed citations
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Barlow, Richard E.. (1963). Renewal Theory. Technometrics. 5(4). 529–530. 1 indexed citations

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