Tom Gilb

1.5k total citations
52 papers, 961 citations indexed

About

Tom Gilb is a scholar working on Information Systems, Software and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Gilb has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 961 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Information Systems, 9 papers in Software and 8 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Tom Gilb's work include Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (19 papers), Software Engineering Research (10 papers) and Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (8 papers). Tom Gilb is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (19 papers), Software Engineering Research (10 papers) and Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (8 papers). Tom Gilb collaborates with scholars based in United States, Norway and China. Tom Gilb's co-authors include D. Graham, Mark W. Maier, Gerald M. Weinberg and Alistair Cockburn and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Software, Journal of Systems and Software and IEEE Engineering Management Review.

In The Last Decade

Tom Gilb

42 papers receiving 772 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tom Gilb United States 9 779 445 241 95 93 52 961
Dan Port United States 17 966 1.2× 558 1.3× 270 1.1× 151 1.6× 127 1.4× 60 1.1k
D.J. Reifer United States 5 526 0.7× 305 0.7× 126 0.5× 90 0.9× 81 0.9× 8 648
O. Gotel United Kingdom 6 873 1.1× 358 0.8× 416 1.7× 130 1.4× 81 0.9× 10 989
Clive Finkelstein United Kingdom 4 693 0.9× 282 0.6× 327 1.4× 107 1.1× 55 0.6× 7 836
Günther Ruhe Canada 16 579 0.7× 204 0.5× 243 1.0× 80 0.8× 72 0.8× 54 836
Kevin Ryan Ireland 7 675 0.9× 227 0.5× 352 1.5× 75 0.8× 42 0.5× 20 802
Kristian Sandahl Sweden 15 688 0.9× 313 0.7× 276 1.1× 150 1.6× 93 1.0× 44 862
Adam Trendowicz Germany 14 604 0.8× 328 0.7× 203 0.8× 130 1.4× 51 0.5× 30 849
Robert B. Grady United States 9 707 0.9× 414 0.9× 182 0.8× 82 0.9× 58 0.6× 9 834
William W. Agresti United States 13 421 0.5× 274 0.6× 185 0.8× 86 0.9× 52 0.6× 46 665

Countries citing papers authored by Tom Gilb

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Gilb

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Gilb

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gilb, Tom. (2011). Estimation: A Paradigm Shift Toward Dynamic Design-to-Cost and Radical Management. 13(1). 1–19, v. 2 indexed citations
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Gilb, Tom & Alistair Cockburn. (2008). Point/Counterpoint. IEEE Software. 25(2). 64–67. 1 indexed citations
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Gilb, Tom. (2007). Requirement Relationships: A Theory, Some Principles, and a Practical Approach. INCOSE International Symposium. 17(1). 1797–1810.
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Gilb, Tom. (2007). 7.6.4 Some Powerful Systems Engineering Heuristics. INCOSE International Symposium. 17(1). 1211–1227. 2 indexed citations
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Gilb, Tom. (2006). 6.3.2 No Cure No Pay: How to Contract for Software Services. INCOSE International Symposium. 16(1). 910–925. 2 indexed citations
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Gilb, Tom. (2005). 12.3 Project Failure Prevention: 10 Principles for Project Control. INCOSE International Symposium. 15(1). 1743–1760. 1 indexed citations
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Gilb, Tom. (2000). The 10 Most Powerful Principles for Quality in Software and Software Organizations. 4 indexed citations
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Gilb, Tom. (2000). Planning to Get the Most Out of Inspection. 6 indexed citations
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Gilb, Tom. (1993). Practical purposeful creativity constructs. AI & Society. 7(1). 90–100. 1 indexed citations
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Gilb, Tom. (1989). Estimating the risk. IEEE Press eBooks. 53–62. 9 indexed citations
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Gilb, Tom. (1987). Design by objectives. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 12(2). 42–49. 6 indexed citations
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Gilb, Tom. (1983). Looking at problems through technoscopes. Data Processing. 25(3). 13–17. 1 indexed citations
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Gilb, Tom. (1981). System attribute specification. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 6(3). 78–79. 3 indexed citations
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Gilb, Tom. (1981). Evolutionary development. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 6(2). 17–17. 33 indexed citations
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Gilb, Tom. (1981). Evolutionary development. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 6(2). 17–17. 4 indexed citations
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Gilb, Tom. (1979). A comment on "the definition of maintainability". ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 4(3). 32–33. 2 indexed citations
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Gilb, Tom. (1978). Software What is It Made of?. IEEE Engineering Management Review. 6(4). 36–36.
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Gilb, Tom. (1978). Multidimensional quantified goals should direct software design processes. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 3(3). 26–28. 1 indexed citations

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