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Researcher · Entrepreneurial Ecosystems · United States

Frank Thornton

Frank Thornton publishes mostly in Media Technology, Computer Networks and Communications and Information Systems, on topics such as RFID technology advancements, Information and Cyber Security and IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,624,172
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,222,551
of 1,627,098
Works
52
Citations
109
Citations per work
2.1
h-index
5
i10-index 4Top 79% in Media Technology
Frank Thornton

What does Frank Thornton research?

Frank Thornton's work is mostly in Engineering (29%), Computer Science (25%), Business, Management and Accounting (8%).

Physical Sciences: 28 works · 53.9% of their workEngineering: 15 works · 29.2% of their workMedia Technology: 10 works · 19.1% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 5 works · 10.1% of their workComputer Science: 13 works · 24.7% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 8 works · 14.6% of their workInformation Systems: 5 works · 10.1% of their workEverything else: 20 works · 38.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 4 works · 7.9% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 works · 7.9% of their workManagement Information Systems: 2 works · 4.5% of their workAccounting: 2 works · 3.4% of their workTHEIR WORKFrank Thornton52works
Physical Sciences54%Social Sciences8%

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. Engineering1529.2%
    2. Computer Science1324.7%
  2. Everything else2038.2%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting47.9%
  1. 1Media Technology19% of their works
  2. 2Computer Networks and Communications15% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems10% of their works
  4. 4Electrical and Electronic Engineering10% of their works
  5. 5Management Information Systems4% of their works
  6. 6Accounting3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Frank Thornton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Security, Privacy, RFID, Cybersecurity, Anomaly Detection, Distributed Systems, Handoff Decision Algorithms and Information Security.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Security172 topics
  2. Privacy151 topic
  3. RFID151 topic
  4. Cybersecurity72 topics
  5. Anomaly Detection52 topics
  6. Distributed Systems42 topics
  7. Handoff Decision Algorithms41 topic
  8. Information Security41 topic
  9. Mobility Support41 topic
  10. Policy Compliance41 topic
  11. Cross-Platform Development31 topic
  12. Intrusion Detection31 topic
  13. Mobile Application Development31 topic
  14. Network Security31 topic
  15. Distributed Storage21 topic
  16. Log Analysis21 topic
  17. Mobile Agents21 topic
  18. Network Coding21 topic
  19. Network Management21 topic
  20. Performance Prediction21 topic

Where does Frank Thornton work?

Frank Thornton's main affiliation in the publication record is Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, United States.

How many publications and citations does Frank Thornton have?

OpenAlex counts 52 works and 109 citations for Frank Thornton, an h-index of 5, ranking #4,624,172 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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