Terje Aven

19.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
346 papers, 12.9k citations indexed

About

Terje Aven is a scholar working on Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Sociology and Political Science and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Terje Aven has authored 346 papers receiving a total of 12.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 229 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, 110 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 80 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Terje Aven's work include Risk and Safety Analysis (220 papers), Risk Perception and Management (102 papers) and Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (78 papers). Terje Aven is often cited by papers focused on Risk and Safety Analysis (220 papers), Risk Perception and Management (102 papers) and Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (78 papers). Terje Aven collaborates with scholars based in Norway, United States and France. Terje Aven's co-authors include Ortwin Renn, Enrico Zio, Roger Flage, Jan Erik Vinnem, Uwe Jensen, Thomas R. Nilsen, Seth D. Guikema, Riana Steen, Peng Huang and Shital Thekdi and has published in prestigious journals such as Technometrics, Journal of Hazardous Materials and European Journal of Operational Research.

In The Last Decade

Terje Aven

330 papers receiving 12.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Risk assessment and risk management: Review of recent advances on their foundation

2015 910 citations Terje Aven European Journal of Operational Research profile →
On risk defined as an event where the outcome is uncertain

2009 511 citations Terje Aven et al. profile →
The risk concept—historical and recent development trends

2011 408 citations Terje Aven Reliability Engineering & System Safety profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Terje Aven Norway	63	6.2k	2.8k	2.6k	2.5k	2.1k	346	12.9k
Enrico Zio Italy	84	9.8k 1.6×	1.6k 0.6×	731 0.3×	8.6k 3.4×	5.1k 2.5×	1.1k	32.0k
Faisal Khan Canada	82	16.7k 2.7×	8.2k 2.9×	657 0.2×	5.1k 2.0×	2.5k 1.2×	791	31.4k
Genserik Reniers Belgium	49	5.5k 0.9×	3.8k 1.4×	499 0.2×	1.5k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	332	8.8k
Yacov Y. Haimes United States	45	2.6k 0.4×	414 0.1×	1.4k 0.5×	664 0.3×	3.9k 1.9×	287	10.6k
Rehan Sadiq Canada	66	1.7k 0.3×	716 0.3×	504 0.2×	598 0.2×	3.2k 1.6×	493	17.1k
Igor Linkov United States	61	1.2k 0.2×	831 0.3×	2.3k 0.9×	508 0.2×	2.7k 1.3×	405	15.5k
Detlof von Winterfeldt United States	34	1.4k 0.2×	433 0.2×	2.8k 1.1×	427 0.2×	3.0k 1.4×	106	9.9k
Hu‐Chen Liu China	64	3.3k 0.5×	1.0k 0.4×	269 0.1×	1.4k 0.6×	325 0.2×	172	12.3k
José Emmanuel Ramírez-Márquez United States	38	1.9k 0.3×	247 0.1×	517 0.2×	1.7k 0.7×	2.3k 1.1×	168	5.3k
Kash Barker United States	34	1.7k 0.3×	426 0.2×	972 0.4×	497 0.2×	3.4k 1.7×	127	5.5k

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Aven, Terje, et al.. (2024). A risk science perspective on the treatment of uncertainty in EIAs: An illustrative case from Norwegian EIA regulation. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 110. 107656–107656. 1 indexed citations

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Aven, Terje, David Rı́os Insua, Refik Soyer, Xiaoyan Zhu, & Enrico Zio. (2024). Fifty years of reliability in operations research. European Journal of Operational Research. 324(2). 361–381. 2 indexed citations

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Thekdi, Shital & Terje Aven. (2024). Understanding explainability and interpretability for risk science applications. Safety Science. 176. 106566–106566. 5 indexed citations

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Derbyshire, James & Terje Aven. (2024). Out of sight but still in mind: Developing an expectation for surprises by formalizing unknowledge in a contemporary risk‐assessment framework. Risk Analysis. 45(6). 1199–1206. 2 indexed citations

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Thekdi, Shital & Terje Aven. (2023). Understanding the implications of low knowledge and high uncertainty in risk studies. Risk Analysis. 44(7). 1651–1665. 1 indexed citations

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Thekdi, Shital & Terje Aven. (2023). Is risk analysis a source of misinformation? The undermining effects of uncertainty on credibility. Safety Science. 163. 106129–106129. 6 indexed citations

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Thekdi, Shital & Terje Aven. (2023). Risk science applied to major risk events in history. Risk Analysis. 44(8). 1949–1958.

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Thekdi, Shital & Terje Aven. (2023). Characterization of biases and their impact on the integrity of a risk study. Safety Science. 170. 106376–106376. 5 indexed citations

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Thekdi, Shital & Terje Aven. (2023). A classification system for characterizing the integrity and quality of evidence in risk studies. Risk Analysis. 44(1). 264–280. 9 indexed citations

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Thekdi, Shital & Terje Aven. (2021). Risk Science in Higher Education: The Current and Future Role of Risk Science in the University Curriculum. Risk Analysis. 41(12). 2322–2335. 8 indexed citations

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Aven, Terje, et al.. (2021). On the meaning of and relationship between dragon-kings, black swans and related concepts. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 211. 107625–107625. 25 indexed citations

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Thekdi, Shital & Terje Aven. (2020). A Risk‐Science Approach to Vulnerability Classification. Risk Analysis. 41(8). 1289–1303. 7 indexed citations

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Aven, Terje. (2019). Fundamental Principles of Risk Management and Governance: Review of Recent Advances. 29(1). 3–10.

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Aven, Terje & Bo Bergman. (2012). A Conceptualistic Pragmatism in a Risk Assessment Context. International Journal of Performability Engineering. 8(3). 223–232. 4 indexed citations

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Aven, Terje. (2011). On how to conceptualise and describe risk. Duo Research Archive (University of Oslo). 6. 6 indexed citations

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Aven, Terje. (2009). Trends in Quantitative Risk Assessments. International Journal of Performability Engineering. 5(5). 447. 5 indexed citations

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Aven, Terje. (2009). RISK ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT. BASIC CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES. Reliability: Theory & Applications. 4. 8 indexed citations

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Abrahamsen, Eirik Bjorheim & Terje Aven. (2008). Safety oriented bubble diagrams in project risk management. 1. 2 indexed citations

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Aven, Terje & Jan Erik Vinnem. (2007). Risk, Reliability and Societal Safety: Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference 2007 (ESREL 2007), Stavanger, Norway, 25-27 June 2007. 8 indexed citations

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Aven, Terje. (1985). A theorem for determining the compensator of a counting process. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. 12(1). 69–72. 21 indexed citations

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