Richard W. Selby

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
78 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Richard W. Selby is a scholar working on Information Systems, Software and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard W. Selby has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Information Systems, 24 papers in Software and 20 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Richard W. Selby's work include Software Engineering Research (35 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (22 papers) and Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (19 papers). Richard W. Selby is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (35 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (22 papers) and Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (19 papers). Richard W. Selby collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Cameroon. Richard W. Selby's co-authors include Victor R. Basili, A. Porter, David H. Hutchens, Thomas E. Starzl, Barry Boehm, C. Westland, Bradford Clark, Raymond Madachy, Ellis Horowitz and Michael A. Cusumano and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Experimental Medicine, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism and Annals of Surgery.

In The Last Decade

Richard W. Selby

71 papers receiving 3.8k citations

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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.

Hepatic Resection Versus Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard W. Selby United States	26	2.3k	1.5k	786	748	585	78	4.2k
Michael Stumm Canada	36	1.2k 0.5×	189 0.1×	123 0.2×	505 0.7×	195 0.3×	109	4.8k
Heng Yin China	42	1.8k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	30 0.0×	1.7k 2.3×	145 0.2×	169	6.4k
David M. Hilbert United States	31	289 0.1×	52 0.0×	138 0.2×	162 0.2×	134 0.2×	73	6.5k
Craig C. Hofmeister United States	37	612 0.3×	117 0.1×	43 0.1×	596 0.8×	123 0.2×	252	5.9k
Jan Heering Germany	24	851 0.4×	973 0.6×	15 0.0×	1.2k 1.6×	33 0.1×	99	2.8k
David Shepherd United States	27	896 0.4×	336 0.2×	17 0.0×	425 0.6×	40 0.1×	134	2.1k
Zhiliang Ying United States	39	227 0.1×	52 0.0×	37 0.0×	939 1.3×	93 0.2×	139	4.8k
Paolo Traverso Italy	30	2.1k 0.9×	334 0.2×	7 0.0×	2.6k 3.5×	107 0.2×	128	4.7k
Jeffrey J. P. Tsai United States	31	980 0.4×	211 0.1×	25 0.0×	877 1.2×	20 0.0×	203	3.0k
David L. Dill United States	45	957 0.4×	4.2k 2.8×	9 0.0×	3.2k 4.3×	100 0.2×	176	12.5k

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Oluwole, Akinola Stephen, Uwem Friday Ekpo, J. Russell Stothard, et al.. (2025). Towards elimination of genital schistosomiasis in Africa: Outlining strategic public health objectives and measures to protect future generations. Parasitology. 152(14). 1554–1560.

Dixon, Ruth, Susan D’Souza, Richard W. Selby, et al.. (2024). Persistent transmission of onchocerciasis in Kwanware-Ottou focus in Wenchi health district, Ghana. BMC Infectious Diseases. 24(1). 1156–1156.

Dixon, Ruth, Benjamin Biholong, Richard W. Selby, et al.. (2023). Ivermectin and doxycycline treatments against Onchocerciasis: Adaptations and impact among semi-nomadic population in Massangam Health District, Cameroon. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 17(7). e0011463–e0011463. 1 indexed citations

Selby, Richard W.. (2007). Software Engineering: Barry W. Boehm's Lifetime Contributions to Software Development, Management, and Research (Practitioners). 10 indexed citations

Selby, Richard W.. (2005). Event-Driven Software Architectures for Large-Scale Systems. 1 indexed citations

Cusumano, Michael A. & Richard W. Selby. (1997). How Microsoft builds software. Communications of the ACM. 40(6). 53–61. 118 indexed citations

Cusumano, Michael A. & Richard W. Selby. (1996). How Microsoft Competes. Research-Technology Management. 39(1). 26–30. 5 indexed citations

Rombach, H. Dieter, Victor R. Basili, & Richard W. Selby. (1993). Experimental software engineering issues : critical assessment and future directions : International Workshop, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, September 14-18, 1992 : proceedings. Springer eBooks. 14 indexed citations

Abu‐Elmagd, Kareem, Richard W. Selby, Shunzaburo Iwatsuki, et al.. (1993). Cholangiocarcinoma and sclerosing cholangitis: clinical characteristics and effect on survival after liver transplantation.. PubMed. 25(1 Pt 2). 1124–5. 47 indexed citations

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Abu‐Elmagd, Kareem, Oscar Bronsther, Ashokkumar Jain, et al.. (1993). Recent advances in hepatic transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh.. PubMed. 137–52. 2 indexed citations

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Rombach, H. Dieter, Victor R. Basili, & Richard W. Selby. (1992). Proceedings of the International Workshop on Experimental Software Engineering Issues: Critical Assessment and Future Directions. 1 indexed citations

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Nüssler, Andreas K., Mauricio Di Silvio, Timothy R. Billiar, et al.. (1992). Stimulation of the nitric oxide synthase pathway in human hepatocytes by cytokines and endotoxin.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 176(1). 261–264. 370 indexed citations

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Selby, Richard W., et al.. (1991). Metric-driven analysis and feedback systems for enabling empirically guided software development. International Conference on Software Engineering. 288–298. 62 indexed citations

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Kusne, Shimon, M. K. Breinig, J. Stephen Dummer, et al.. (1991). Herpes Simplex Virus Hepatitis after Solid Organ Transplantation in Adults. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 163(5). 1001–1007. 82 indexed citations

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Asonuma, K., S Takaya, Richard W. Selby, et al.. (1991). THE CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ARTERIAL KETONE BODY RATIO AS AN EARLY INDICATOR OF GRAFT VIABILITY IN HUMAN LIVER TRANSPLANTATION. Transplantation. 51(1). 164–171. 70 indexed citations

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Selby, Richard W.. (1990). Empirically based analysis of failures in software systems. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 39(4). 444–454. 17 indexed citations

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Selby, Richard W.. (1988). Empirically analyzing software Reuse in a production environment. IEEE Computer Society Press eBooks. 176–189. 32 indexed citations

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Basili, Victor R. & Richard W. Selby. (1987). Comparing the Effectiveness of Software Testing Strategies. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. SE-13(12). 1278–1296. 325 indexed citations

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Basili, Victor R. & Richard W. Selby. (1985). Calculation and use of an environment's characteristic software metric set. International Conference on Software Engineering. 386–391. 20 indexed citations

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Selby, Richard W., et al.. (1984). Evaluating software testing strategies. 2 indexed citations

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