Stephen Read

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Stephen Read is a scholar working on Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Civil and Structural Engineering and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Read has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, 3 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 3 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Stephen Read's work include Traffic and Road Safety (5 papers), Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques (3 papers) and Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis (3 papers). Stephen Read is often cited by papers focused on Traffic and Road Safety (5 papers), Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques (3 papers) and Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis (3 papers). Stephen Read collaborates with scholars based in United States. Stephen Read's co-authors include Sarah Lichtenstein, Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff, Barbara Harris Combs, Michael D. Fontaine, Young‐Jun Kweon, Scott Himes and Vikash V. Gayah and has published in prestigious journals such as Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Policy Sciences and ITE journal.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Read

7 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

How safe is safe enough? A psychometric study of attitudes towards technological risks and benefits

1978 1.9k citations Baruch Fischhoff, Paul Slovic et al. Policy Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen Read United States	3	1.4k	248	223	178	161	7	1.9k
James Flynn United States	22	2.4k 1.7×	226 0.9×	438 2.0×	503 2.8×	172 1.1×	43	3.5k
Jacque Emel United States	7	1.8k 1.3×	184 0.7×	391 1.8×	287 1.6×	41 0.3×	14	2.5k
Chauncey Starr United States	13	887 0.6×	326 1.3×	186 0.8×	130 0.7×	103 0.6×	35	1.6k
Peter M. Sandman United States	25	1.2k 0.8×	111 0.4×	151 0.7×	146 0.8×	74 0.5×	50	2.3k
Craig W. Trumbo United States	23	1.7k 1.2×	79 0.3×	277 1.2×	319 1.8×	45 0.3×	43	2.6k
Barbara Harris Combs United States	9	2.2k 1.6×	397 1.6×	337 1.5×	222 1.2×	676 4.2×	23	3.6k
H.J. Otway Italy	18	932 0.7×	284 1.1×	154 0.7×	129 0.7×	84 0.5×	50	1.4k
Heinz Gutscher Switzerland	19	1.8k 1.3×	78 0.3×	744 3.3×	543 3.1×	135 0.8×	26	3.0k
Jeryl L. Mumpower United States	18	476 0.3×	109 0.4×	72 0.3×	81 0.5×	143 0.9×	61	1.3k
Dominic Golding United States	8	811 0.6×	98 0.4×	280 1.3×	206 1.2×	22 0.1×	12	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Stephen Read

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen Read

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Stephen Read. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Stephen Read. The network helps show where Stephen Read may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Read

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Stephen Read. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Stephen Read 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 Stephen Read. Stephen Read is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Himes, Scott, et al.. (2020). Estimating Baseline Numbers for Safety Measure Target Setting in Virginia. Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board. 2674(8). 523–535. 1 indexed citations

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Read, Stephen, et al.. (2017). Systemic Safety Analysis of Extended Highway Corridors. Transportation Research Board 96th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 1 indexed citations

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Kweon, Young‐Jun, et al.. (2014). Guidance on Customization of Highway Safety Manual for Virginia. Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board. 2435(1). 27–36. 3 indexed citations

4.

Read, Stephen, et al.. (2009). Improving Data Accuracy of Roadway Departure Crashes: Practice in Virginia, USA, and Its National Implications. ITE journal. 79(10). 24–29. 8 indexed citations

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Fontaine, Michael D. & Stephen Read. (2007). Evaluation of Highway Safety Corridors. Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board. 2009(1). 46–54. 1 indexed citations

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Fontaine, Michael D. & Stephen Read. (2006). Development and Evaluation of Virginia's Highway Safety Corridor Program. 2 indexed citations

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Fischhoff, Baruch, Paul Slovic, Sarah Lichtenstein, Stephen Read, & Barbara Harris Combs. (1978). How safe is safe enough? A psychometric study of attitudes towards technological risks and benefits. Policy Sciences. 9(2). 127–152. 1900 indexed citations breakdown →

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