Richard Johnston

5.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
128 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Richard Johnston is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Biomedical Engineering and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Johnston has authored 128 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 27 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 22 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Richard Johnston's work include Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging (21 papers), Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging (17 papers) and Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (15 papers). Richard Johnston is often cited by papers focused on Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging (21 papers), Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging (17 papers) and Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (15 papers). Richard Johnston collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Richard Johnston's co-authors include Etta D. Pisano, Stephen M. Pizer, Keith E. Muller, D. E. Sayers, Z. Zhong, David B. Washburn, D. Chapman, Nicholas F. Gmür, F. Arfelli and W. Thomlinson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Scientific Reports and Radiology.

In The Last Decade

Richard Johnston

120 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Diffraction enhanced x-ray imaging

1997 864 citations Richard Johnston, Etta D. Pisano et al. profile →
Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization image processing to improve the detection of simulated spiculations in dense mammograms

1998 515 citations Etta D. Pisano, Bradley M. Hemminger et al. profile →
Contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization: speed and effectiveness

2002 446 citations Stephen M. Pizer, Richard Johnston et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard Johnston United States	24	1.2k	1.1k	1.1k	851	453	128	3.8k
Gábor Székely Switzerland	41	477 0.4×	1.6k 1.4×	1.4k 1.4×	1.5k 1.7×	299 0.7×	197	5.3k
Françoise Peyrin France	54	1.3k 1.1×	2.3k 2.0×	3.4k 3.2×	713 0.8×	366 0.8×	311	8.6k
Kees Joost Batenburg Netherlands	33	980 0.8×	1.8k 1.6×	1.8k 1.7×	760 0.9×	220 0.5×	151	5.1k
Calvin R. Maurer United States	44	1.1k 0.9×	2.7k 2.4×	2.3k 2.2×	3.6k 4.2×	129 0.3×	116	8.2k
L.A. Feldkamp United States	30	1.7k 1.4×	3.7k 3.3×	3.4k 3.2×	510 0.6×	484 1.1×	100	9.4k
Eli Gibson United States	31	142 0.1×	1.0k 0.9×	745 0.7×	706 0.8×	1.0k 2.3×	152	3.7k
Rongguang Liang United States	35	208 0.2×	280 0.3×	2.1k 2.0×	1.3k 1.6×	526 1.2×	213	3.9k
Timur E. Gureyev Australia	40	6.7k 5.5×	1.5k 1.4×	3.0k 2.8×	787 0.9×	228 0.5×	151	8.5k
Timm Weitkamp France	39	5.1k 4.2×	1.3k 1.2×	2.3k 2.2×	592 0.7×	413 0.9×	194	6.9k
David W. Holdsworth Canada	51	479 0.4×	2.2k 2.0×	2.3k 2.2×	310 0.4×	183 0.4×	302	8.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Richard Johnston

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Johnston

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Johnston

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Reynolds, Jack, et al.. (2025). Assessing the effect of size variation in graphite and alginate matrices for thermochemical heat storage. Applied Thermal Engineering. 269. 126138–126138.

Shi, Yongquan, Hongfang Lu, Feihu Zhao, et al.. (2024). Rapid assessment of the osteogenic capacity of hydroxyapatite/aragonite using a murine tibial periosteal ossification model. Bioactive Materials. 45. 257–273.

Roces, Flavio, et al.. (2023). Developmental biomechanics and age polyethism in leaf-cutter ants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(2000). 20230355–20230355. 8 indexed citations

Johnston, Richard, et al.. (2023). A biomechanical model for the relation between bite force and mandibular opening angle in arthropods. Royal Society Open Science. 10(2). 20 indexed citations

Campbell, J. E., Yuanbo T. Tang, Richard Johnston, et al.. (2022). Indentation Plastometry of Welds. Advanced Engineering Materials. 24(9). 25 indexed citations

Han, Quanquan, Yuchen Gu, Rossitza Setchi, et al.. (2019). Additive manufacturing of high-strength crack-free Ni-based Hastelloy X superalloy. Additive manufacturing. 30. 100919–100919. 177 indexed citations

Robinson, M., Shwe Soe, Richard Johnston, et al.. (2019). Mechanical characterisation of additively manufactured elastomeric structures for variable strain rate applications. Additive manufacturing. 27. 398–407. 28 indexed citations

Mitchell, R. L., Mark Coleman, Peter Davies, et al.. (2019). Macro-to-nanoscale investigation of wall-plate joints in the acorn barnacle Semibalanus balanoides : correlative imaging, biological form and function, and bioinspiration. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 16(157). 20190218–20190218. 13 indexed citations

Johnston, Richard, R. L. Mitchell, Cameron Pleydell‐Pearce, et al.. (2019). Correlating Microstructure to in situ Micromechanical Behaviour and Toughening Strategies in Biological Materials. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 25(S2). 372–373. 2 indexed citations

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Reynolds, Thomas, Henry C. Burridge, Richard Johnston, et al.. (2018). Cell geometry across the ring structure of Sitka spruce. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 15(142). 20180144–20180144. 9 indexed citations

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Davies, Siwan M., et al.. (2017). Phantom creation and analysis: Improving X-Ray microtomography scanning of soft sediment cores containing volcanic ash. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 849. 12012–12012. 2 indexed citations

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North, Laura, et al.. (2017). Interrelated chemical-microstructural-nanomechanical variations in the structural units of the cuttlebone of Sepia officinalis. APL Materials. 5(11). 19 indexed citations

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Dowsett, David, et al.. (1998). Physics of diagnostic imaging. 26 indexed citations

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Pisano, Etta D., Bradley M. Hemminger, William F. Garrett, et al.. (1996). Does clahe image processing improve the detectability of simulated spiculations in dense breasts in a laboratory setting?. Academic Radiology. 3(12). 1066–1066. 1 indexed citations

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Beard, David V., et al.. (1994). <title>Cognitive load during computed-tomography interpretation</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2166. 131–138. 3 indexed citations

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Beard, David V., Richard Johnston, Etta D. Pisano, Bradley M. Hemminger, & Stephen M. Pizer. (1991). <title>Radiology workstation for mammography: preliminary observations, eyetracker studies, and design</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1446. 289–296. 1 indexed citations

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Pizer, Stephen M., et al.. (1990). Visual psychophysics and medical imaging: nonparametric adaptive method for rapid threshold estimation in sensitivity experiments. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 9(4). 353–365. 7 indexed citations

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Esser, Peter D. & Richard Johnston. (1984). Technology of nuclear magnetic resonance. 5 indexed citations

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Kowalsky, Richard J., Richard Johnston, & F.H.Y. Chan. (1977). Dose Calibrator Performance and Quality Control. Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology. 5(1). 35–40. 6 indexed citations

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Johnston, Richard. (1969). The effect of judicial review on federal-state relations in Australia, Canada, and the United States. 3 indexed citations

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