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Researcher · Lancaster University · United Kingdom

Ian Sommerville

Ian Sommerville publishes mostly in Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Mechanical Engineering, on topics such as Software Engineering Techniques and Practices, Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies and Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services.

OpenAlex
World rank
#45,038
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#4,279
of 90,785
Works
93
Citations
530
Citations per work
5.7

What does Ian Sommerville research?

Information Systems: 19.1%Artificial Intelligence: 10.0%Mechanical Engineering: 9.1%Management Information Systems: 8.2%other fields: 53.6%19%top field
Information Systems19.1%Artificial Intelligence10.0%Mechanical Engineering9.1%Management Information Systems8.2%other fields53.6%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Information Systems19% of their works
  2. 2Artificial Intelligence10% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering9% of their works
  4. 4Management Information Systems8% of their works
  5. 5Computer Networks and Communications6% of their works
  6. 6Human-Computer Interaction4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ian Sommerville's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Requirements Engineering, Agile Software Development, Distributed Systems, Empirical Studies, Autonomic Computing, Business Process Management, QoS-Aware Middleware and Self-Adaptive Systems.

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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Requirements Engineering132 topics
  2. Agile Software Development71 topic
  3. Distributed Systems72 topics
  4. Empirical Studies71 topic
  5. Autonomic Computing61 topic
  6. Business Process Management61 topic
  7. QoS-Aware Middleware61 topic
  8. Self-Adaptive Systems61 topic
  9. Semantic Web Services61 topic
  10. Workflow Mining61 topic
  11. Human-Computer Interaction41 topic
  12. Log Analysis41 topic
  13. Metallurgy41 topic
  14. Performance Prediction41 topic
  15. Thermochemical41 topic
  16. Usability41 topic
  17. Big Data31 topic
  18. Cloud Computing31 topic

Where does Ian Sommerville work?

Ian Sommerville's main affiliation in the publication record is Lancaster University, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Ian Sommerville have?

Science Explorer counts 93 works and 530 citations for Ian Sommerville, ranking #45,038 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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