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Researcher · Airwave Solutions (United Kingdom) · United Kingdom

Howard Block

Howard Block publishes mostly in Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications and Management Information Systems, on topics such as Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services, Mobile and Web Applications and Software Engineering and Design Patterns.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,992,662
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#300,934
of 367,258
Works
21
Citations
23
Citations per work
1.1
h-index
2
i10-index 1Top 94% in Information Systems
Howard Block

What does Howard Block research?

Howard Block's work is mostly in Computer Science (61%), Business, Management and Accounting (8%), Social Sciences (8%).

Physical Sciences: 14 works · 67.4% of their workComputer Science: 13 works · 61.3% of their workInformation Systems: 9 works · 42.9% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 3 works · 14.3% of their workSoftware: 1 works · 4.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 1 works · 6.1% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 works · 6.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 16.4% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 works · 8.2% of their workManagement Information Systems: 2 works · 8.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 8.2% of their workDevelopment: 2 works · 8.2% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 16.2% of their workTHEIR WORKHoward Block21works
Physical Sciences67%Social Sciences16%

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 Science1361.3%
    2. Environmental Science16.1%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting28.2%
    2. Social Sciences28.2%
  3. Everything else316.2%
  1. 1Information Systems43% of their works
  2. 2Computer Networks and Communications14% of their works
  3. 3Management Information Systems8% of their works
  4. 4Development8% of their works
  5. 5Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis6% of their works
  6. 6Software4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Howard Block's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: QoS-Aware Middleware, Semantic Web Services, Distributed Systems, Cross-Platform Development, Garment Industry, Labor Conditions, Mobile Application Development and Log Analysis.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. QoS-Aware Middleware71 topic
  2. Semantic Web Services71 topic
  3. Distributed Systems52 topics
  4. Cross-Platform Development41 topic
  5. Garment Industry41 topic
  6. Labor Conditions41 topic
  7. Mobile Application Development41 topic
  8. Log Analysis31 topic
  9. Model-Driven Development31 topic
  10. Performance Prediction31 topic
  11. Rich Internet Applications31 topic
  12. Academic Libraries21 topic
  13. Grid Computing21 topic
  14. Information Systems21 topic
  15. Resource Management21 topic
  16. Software Development21 topic
  17. Web 2.021 topic

Where does Howard Block work?

Howard Block's main affiliation in the publication record is Airwave Solutions (United Kingdom), United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Howard Block have?

OpenAlex counts 21 works and 23 citations for Howard Block, an h-index of 2, ranking #4,992,662 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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