Rob Alexander

939 total citations
37 papers, 499 citations indexed

About

Rob Alexander is a scholar working on Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and Radiological and Ultrasound Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rob Alexander has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 499 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, 12 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and 9 papers in Radiological and Ultrasound Technology. Recurrent topics in Rob Alexander's work include Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy (13 papers), Risk and Safety Analysis (12 papers) and Occupational Health and Safety Research (9 papers). Rob Alexander is often cited by papers focused on Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy (13 papers), Risk and Safety Analysis (12 papers) and Occupational Health and Safety Research (9 papers). Rob Alexander collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Switzerland. Rob Alexander's co-authors include Andrew Rae, Richard Hawkins, Joanna Hodge, John McDermid, Tim Kelly, David J. Provan, Jonathan M. Aitken, Mario Gleirscher, Radu Călinescu and James Law and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Reliability Engineering & System Safety and Safety Science.

In The Last Decade

Rob Alexander

36 papers receiving 477 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rob Alexander United Kingdom 12 158 120 80 80 73 37 499
Walter Schön France 13 265 1.7× 120 1.0× 152 1.9× 82 1.0× 65 0.9× 38 507
Cody Fleming United States 13 160 1.0× 117 1.0× 119 1.5× 25 0.3× 48 0.7× 50 520
Matthew L. Bolton United States 18 146 0.9× 94 0.8× 245 3.1× 161 2.0× 151 2.1× 88 1.0k
Francesca Favarò United States 13 164 1.0× 137 1.1× 321 4.0× 41 0.5× 37 0.5× 22 782
Zhaoyi Xu United States 11 118 0.7× 38 0.3× 119 1.5× 81 1.0× 14 0.2× 36 602
Enno Ruijters Netherlands 5 230 1.5× 60 0.5× 181 2.3× 55 0.7× 171 2.3× 7 534
Ian Cameron Australia 11 132 0.8× 88 0.7× 48 0.6× 14 0.2× 11 0.2× 30 571
Hong-Zhong Huang China 7 241 1.5× 25 0.2× 104 1.3× 54 0.7× 22 0.3× 12 560
Richard Hawkins United Kingdom 11 113 0.7× 14 0.1× 242 3.0× 87 1.1× 174 2.4× 41 444
Mohamed Sallak France 14 289 1.8× 55 0.5× 225 2.8× 55 0.7× 96 1.3× 48 501

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rob Alexander

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rob Alexander

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hawkins, Richard, et al.. (2024). Understanding safety engineering practice: Comparing safety engineering practice as desired, as required, and as observed. Safety Science. 172. 106424–106424. 1 indexed citations
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Gheraibia, Youcef, et al.. (2021). Runtime Decision Making Under Uncertainty in Autonomous Vehicles. White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York). 2 indexed citations
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Habli, Ibrahim, Rob Alexander, & Richard Hawkins. (2021). Safety Cases: An Impending Crisis?. White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York). 1 indexed citations
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Gleirscher, Mario, et al.. (2021). A Modular Digital Twinning Framework for Safety Assurance of Collaborative Robotics. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 8. 758099–758099. 40 indexed citations
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Habli, Ibrahim, Rob Alexander, Richard Hawkins, et al.. (2020). Enhancing COVID-19 decision making by creating an assurance case for epidemiological models. BMJ Health & Care Informatics. 27(3). e100165–e100165. 7 indexed citations
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Alexander, Rob, Hamid Asgari, Rob Ashmore, et al.. (2020). Safety Assurance Objectives for Autonomous Systems. White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York). 7 indexed citations
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Rae, Andrew, et al.. (2020). A manifesto for Reality-based Safety Science. Safety Science. 126. 104654–104654. 54 indexed citations
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Habli, Ibrahim, et al.. (2018). Evaluation of Mutation Testing in a Nuclear Industry Case Study. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 67(4). 1406–1419. 19 indexed citations
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Rae, Andrew & Rob Alexander. (2017). Forecasts or fortune-telling: When are expert judgements of safety risk valid?. Safety Science. 99. 156–165. 49 indexed citations
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Hao, Wei, Jon Timmis, & Rob Alexander. (2017). Evolving test environments to identify faults in swarm robotics algorithms. 6. 929–935. 1 indexed citations
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Alexander, Rob, et al.. (2017). A Safety-Case Approach to Ethical Considerations for Autonomous Vehicles. 2 (6 .)–2 (6 .). 4 indexed citations
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Rae, Andrew & Rob Alexander. (2016). Probative blindness and false assurance about safety. Safety Science. 92. 190–204. 15 indexed citations
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Alexander, Rob, et al.. (2016). Safe Multi-objective Planning with a Posteriori Preferences. White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York). 2. 78–85. 1 indexed citations
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Alexander, Rob, et al.. (2015). Situation coverage – a coverage criterion for testing autonomous robots. White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York). 20 indexed citations
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Alexander, Rob, et al.. (2013). The discovery and quantification of risk in high dimensional search spaces. 175–176. 1 indexed citations
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Alexander, Rob & Tim Kelly. (2012). Supporting systems of systems hazard analysis using multi-agent simulation. Safety Science. 51(1). 302–318. 22 indexed citations
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Alexander, Rob, Andrew Rae, & Mark Nicholson. (2010). Matching research goals and methods in system safety engineering. 2C2–2C2. 1 indexed citations
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Rae, Andrew, Mark Nicholson, & Rob Alexander. (2010). The state of practice in system safety research evaluation. PD1–PD1. 11 indexed citations
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Alexander, Rob, et al.. (2008). Structuring safety cases for autonomous systems. 4C1–4C1. 5 indexed citations

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