Richard Leach

14.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
350 papers, 10.6k citations indexed

About

Richard Leach is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Leach has authored 350 papers receiving a total of 10.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 233 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 153 papers in Computational Mechanics and 108 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Richard Leach's work include Advanced Measurement and Metrology Techniques (154 papers), Surface Roughness and Optical Measurements (125 papers) and Optical measurement and interference techniques (105 papers). Richard Leach is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Measurement and Metrology Techniques (154 papers), Surface Roughness and Optical Measurements (125 papers) and Optical measurement and interference techniques (105 papers). Richard Leach collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and China. Richard Leach's co-authors include Nicola Senin, Adam Thompson, Claudiu Giusca, Adam T. Clare, Ian Maskery, Matthias Hirsch, Sarah Everton, Rong Su, Liam Blunt and Simone Carmignato and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Richard Leach

331 papers receiving 9.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Review of in-situ process monitoring and in-situ metrology for metal additive manufacturing

2016 1.1k citations Richard Leach et al. profile →
Surface texture metrology for metal additive manufacturing: a review

2016 560 citations Andrew Townsend, Nicola Senin et al. Precision Engineering profile →
Optical Measurement of Surface Topography

2011 478 citations Richard Leach profile →
Characterisation of Areal Surface Texture

2013 432 citations Richard Leach profile →
X-ray computed tomography for additive manufacturing: a review

2016 357 citations Adam Thompson, Ian Maskery et al. Measurement Science and Technology profile →
On-machine and in-process surface metrology for precision manufacturing

2019 309 citations Han Haitjema, Richard Leach et al. CIRP Annals profile →

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This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Richard Leach. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Richard Leach based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Richard Leach. Richard Leach is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Detecting microscale surface imperfections in powder bed fusion through light scattering and machine learning – validation of inspection principles 2025 ·Precision Engineering ·(unknown), (unknown), Richard Leach, Mingyu Liu	1
2	Framework for uncertainty evaluation in optical surface topography measurement using a virtual instrument 2025 ·Measurement ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Rong Su, Han Haitjema, Samanta Piano, Richard Leach	0
3	Comparison of Fourier optics-based methods for modeling coherence scanning interferometry 2024 ·Optical Engineering ·(unknown), (unknown), Peter J. de Groot, Peter Lehmann, (unknown), Rong Su, Richard Leach, Samanta Piano	4
4	New Standard for Metal Powder Bed Fusion Surface Texture Measurement and Characterisation 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Adam Thompson, Lewis Newton, Richard Leach	4
5	Improving the localisation of features for the calibration of cameras using EfficientNets 2023 ·Optics Express ·(unknown), (unknown), Richard Leach, Samanta Piano	4
6	Evaluating parametric uncertainty using non-linear regression in fringe projection 2022 ·Optics and Lasers in Engineering ·(unknown), (unknown), Richard Leach	3
7	The implication and evaluation of geometrical imperfections on manufactured surfaces 2022 ·CIRP Annals ·Brigid Mullany, Enrico Savio, Han Haitjema, Richard Leach	12
8	Autonomous image background removal for accurate and efficient close-range photogrammetry 2022 ·Measurement Science and Technology ·(unknown), Richard Leach, Samanta Piano	2
9	Detailed Three-Dimensional Building Façade Reconstruction: A Review on Applications, Data and Technologies 2022 ·Remote Sensing ·(unknown), (unknown), Richard Leach, Stephen Grebby	14
10	Smart optical coordinate and surface metrology 2022 ·Measurement Science and Technology ·(unknown), Adam Thompson, (unknown), (unknown), David T. Branson, Richard Leach, Samanta Piano	11
11	Traceable Reference Full Metrology Chain for Innovative Aspheric and Freeform Optical Surfaces Accurate at the Nanometer Level 2021 ·Sensors ·(unknown), Rong Su, Ville Heikkinen, (unknown), (unknown), Youichi Bitou, (unknown), Charyar Mehdi-Souzani, Bandar Alzahrani, Xiangchao Zhang, (unknown), Christof Pruß, Vít Lédl, Nabil Anwer, Mohamed Lamjed Bouazizi, Richard Leach, (unknown)	2
12	Low Thermal Expansion Machine Frame Designs Using Lattice Structures 2021 ·Applied Sciences ·(unknown), Ian Maskery, Ian Ashcroft, Richard Leach	5
13	International comparison of noise in areal surface topography measurements 2021 ·Surface Topography Metrology and Properties ·(unknown), Han Haitjema, Richard Leach, Peter J. de Groot	21
14	Generation and categorisation of surface texture data using a modified progressively growing adversarial network 2021 ·Precision Engineering ·(unknown), Lewis Newton, Richard Leach, Samanta Piano	11
15	Predistorting Projected Fringes for High-Accuracy 3-D Phase Mapping in Fringe Projection Profilometry 2021 ·IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement ·Jian Wang, Zonghua Zhang, Richard Leach, Wenlong Lu, Jianfeng Xu	17
16	Amplitude-wavelength maps for X-ray computed tomography systems 2020 ·Precision Engineering ·Herminso Villarraga-Gómez, (unknown), Richard Leach, Stuart T. Smith	19
17	Fast and accurate mean-shift vector based wavelength extraction for chromatic confocal microscopy 2019 ·Measurement Science and Technology ·Wenlong Lu, Chen Cheng, Hong Zhu, Jian Wang, Richard Leach, (unknown), Jie Wang, Xiangqian Jiang	12
18	Hierarchical-information-based characterization of multiscale structured surfaces 2018 ·CIRP Annals ·Chi Fai Cheung, Mingyu Liu, Richard Leach, Xiaobing Feng, Chenyang Zhao	11
19	Surface texture metrology for metal additive manufacturing: a review breakdown → 2016 ·Precision Engineering ·Andrew Townsend, Nicola Senin, Liam Blunt, Richard Leach, John S. Taylor	560
20	Comparison of commercial software packages for calculating surface texture parameters 2010 ·University of Huddersfield Repository (University of Huddersfield) ·Richard Leach, (unknown), Xiangqian Jiang, Liam Blunt, Claudiu Giusca	2

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