Royce A. Francis

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Royce A. Francis is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Media Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Royce A. Francis has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 7 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 6 papers in Media Technology. Recurrent topics in Royce A. Francis's work include Engineering Education and Curriculum Development (6 papers), Design Education and Practice (5 papers) and Water Systems and Optimization (4 papers). Royce A. Francis is often cited by papers focused on Engineering Education and Curriculum Development (6 papers), Design Education and Practice (5 papers) and Water Systems and Optimization (4 papers). Royce A. Francis collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Royce A. Francis's co-authors include Seth D. Guikema, Lucas Henneman, Jeanne M. VanBriesen, Mitchell J. Small, George M. Gray, Peter LaPuma, Shannon M. Lloyd, Srinivas Reddy Geedipally, Soma S. Dhavala and Sarah LaRocca and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Royce A. Francis

31 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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A metric and frameworks for resilience analysis of engineered and infrastructure systems

2013 802 citations Royce A. Francis et al. Reliability Engineering & System Safety profile →

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Eric D. Vugrin United States

Hiba Baroud United States

Wolfgang Kröger Switzerland

Sue McNeil United States

Qing-Chang Lu China

José Emmanuel Ramirez‐Marquez United States

Devanandham Henry United States

Henry H. Willis United States

Raghav Pant United Kingdom

Lisa Aultman-Hall United States

Eric D. Vugrin United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Royce A. Francis

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Francis, Royce A., et al.. (2024). Engineering Judgment and Decision Making in Undergraduate Student Writing. 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings. 3 indexed citations

McNeil, Sue, Bryan T. Adey, Panagiotis Ch. Anastasopoulos, et al.. (2024). Journal of Infrastructure Systems : Thirty Years and an Opportunity to Refocus. Journal of Infrastructure Systems. 31(1).

Francis, Royce A., et al.. (2022). New conceptual approaches to cognition in systems engineering: applying the 4 E's of cognition. Systems Engineering. 25(6). 609–617.

Francis, Royce A., et al.. (2020). Exploring the role of engineering judgment in engineer identity formation through student technical reports. 1–4. 3 indexed citations

Francis, Royce A., et al.. (2019). The role of protocol layers and macro-cognitive functions in engineered system resilience. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 190. 106508–106508. 7 indexed citations

Francis, Royce A., et al.. (2019). Investigating adoption patterns of residential low impact development (LID) using classification trees. Environment Systems & Decisions. 39(3). 295–306. 5 indexed citations

Francis, Royce A., et al.. (2018). Analyzing chemical substitution decisions among chemical and product manufacturers. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy. 21(2). 395–411. 3 indexed citations

Francis, Royce A., et al.. (2018). On the Role of Protocol-Driven Resilience in Coupled Infrastructure and Natural System Resilience. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 14(5). 578–580. 1 indexed citations

Francis, Royce A., et al.. (2017). Disinfection byproduct regulatory compliance surrogates and bromide-associated risk. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 58. 191–207. 27 indexed citations

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Francis, Royce A. & Nii Attoh-Okine. (2017). Uncertainty Analysis and Decision-Making in Infrastructure Systems under Climate Change. ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems Part A Civil Engineering. 4(1). 1 indexed citations

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Lloyd, Shannon M., et al.. (2014). An Approach to Integrating Occupational Safety and Health into Life Cycle Assessment: Development and Application of Work Environment Characterization Factors. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 19(1). 27–37. 28 indexed citations

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Francis, Royce A., et al.. (2014). Decision-Analytic Approach for Water Sustainability Definition: A Higher Education Case Study. Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis. 21(3-4). 125–138. 2 indexed citations

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Francis, Royce A., et al.. (2014). Drought risk modelling for thermoelectric power plants siting using an excess over threshold approach. International Journal of System of Systems Engineering. 5(1). 25–25. 2 indexed citations

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Gray, George M., et al.. (2013). The work environment disability-adjusted life year for use with life cycle assessment: a methodological approach. Environmental Health. 12(1). 21–21. 16 indexed citations

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Francis, Royce A., et al.. (2013). A metric and frameworks for resilience analysis of engineered and infrastructure systems. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 121. 90–103. 802 indexed citations breakdown →

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Francis, Royce A., Srinivas Reddy Geedipally, Seth D. Guikema, et al.. (2011). Characterizing the Performance of the Conway‐Maxwell Poisson Generalized Linear Model. Risk Analysis. 32(1). 167–183. 51 indexed citations

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Francis, Royce A., Jeanne M. VanBriesen, & Mitchell J. Small. (2010). Bayesian Statistical Modeling of Disinfection Byproduct (DBP) Bromine Incorporation in the ICR Database. Environmental Science & Technology. 44(4). 1232–1239. 23 indexed citations

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Francis, Royce A., Mitchell J. Small, & Jeanne M. VanBriesen. (2009). Multivariate distributions of disinfection by-products in chlorinated drinking water. Water Research. 43(14). 3453–3468. 28 indexed citations

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Francis, Royce A., et al.. (2007). Decision-Support Software for the Industrial-Scale Chromatographic Purification of Antibodies. Biotechnology Progress. 23(4). 888–894. 4 indexed citations

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Francis, Royce A., et al.. (2006). A decision-support model for evaluating changes in biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes. Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering. 30(1). 1–11. 12 indexed citations

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