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Researcher · Orthopaedic Center · United States

Alan B. Johnston

Alan B. Johnston publishes mostly in Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Information Systems, on topics such as IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security, Mobile Agent-Based Network Management and Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,289,379
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,350,370
of 1,627,098
Works
49
Citations
3.8k
Citations per work
77.4
h-index
12
i10-index 13Top 34% in Computer Networks and Communications
Alan B. Johnston

What does Alan B. Johnston research?

Alan B. Johnston's work is mostly in Computer Science (48%), Engineering (23%), Medicine (8%).

Physical Sciences: 35 works · 71.3% of their workComputer Science: 24 works · 48.0% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 18 works · 36.4% of their workInformation Systems: 5 works · 9.3% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 1 works · 2.3% of their workEngineering: 11 works · 23.3% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 11 works · 23.3% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 15.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 4 works · 8.5% of their workMedicine: 4 works · 8.5% of their workSurgery: 4 works · 8.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 4.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 4.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 2 works · 4.7% of their workTHEIR WORKAlan B. Johnston49works
Physical Sciences71%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences5%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science2448.0%
    2. Engineering1123.3%
  2. Everything else815.5%
    1. Medicine48.5%
    1. Social Sciences24.7%
  1. 1Computer Networks and Communications36% of their works
  2. 2Electrical and Electronic Engineering23% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems9% of their works
  4. 4Surgery8% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science5% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan B. Johnston's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Distributed Systems, Handoff Decision Algorithms, Internet Applications, Mobility Support, Mobile Agents, Network Management, QoS-Aware Middleware and Semantic Web Services.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Distributed Systems252 topics
  2. Handoff Decision Algorithms251 topic
  3. Internet Applications252 topics
  4. Mobility Support251 topic
  5. Mobile Agents221 topic
  6. Network Management221 topic
  7. QoS-Aware Middleware91 topic
  8. Semantic Web Services91 topic
  9. Wireless Networks92 topics
  10. CDMA Systems61 topic
  11. Power Control61 topic
  12. CIM XML41 topic
  13. Common Information Model41 topic
  14. Rotator Cuff Tears41 topic
  15. Shoulder Pathology41 topic
  16. Congestion Control31 topic
  17. Peer-to-Peer31 topic
  18. Scalable31 topic
  19. TCP31 topic

Where does Alan B. Johnston work?

Alan B. Johnston's main affiliation in the publication record is Orthopaedic Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alan B. Johnston have?

OpenAlex counts 49 works and 3,795 citations for Alan B. Johnston, an h-index of 12, ranking #5,289,379 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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