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Researcher · DCS Corporation (United States) · United States

John Wesley Ruffner

John Wesley Ruffner publishes mostly in Aerospace Engineering, Social Psychology and Control and Systems Engineering, on topics such as Human-Automation Interaction and Safety, Aerospace and Aviation Technology and Impact of Light on Environment and Health.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,545,394
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#989,534
of 1,627,098
Works
58
Citations
108
Citations per work
1.9
h-index
6
i10-index 1Top 54% in Aerospace Engineering
John Wesley Ruffner

What does John Wesley Ruffner research?

John Wesley Ruffner's work is mostly in Engineering (28%), Psychology (18%), Computer Science (9%).

Physical Sciences: 25 works · 42.8% of their workEngineering: 16 works · 28.2% of their workAerospace Engineering: 12 works · 20.5% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 4 works · 7.7% of their workComputer Science: 5 works · 8.6% of their workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 works · 4.3% of their workHuman-Computer Interaction: 2 works · 4.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 6.0% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 works · 6.0% of their workEverything else: 23 works · 39.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 10 works · 17.9% of their workPsychology: 10 works · 17.9% of their workSocial Psychology: 10 works · 17.9% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn WesleyRuffner58works
Physical Sciences43%Social Sciences18%

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. Engineering1628.2%
    2. Computer Science58.6%
    3. Environmental Science36.0%
  2. Everything else2339.3%
    1. Psychology1017.9%
  1. 1Aerospace Engineering20% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology18% of their works
  3. 3Control and Systems Engineering8% of their works
  4. 4Global and Planetary Change6% of their works
  5. 5Human-Computer Interaction4% of their works
  6. 6Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Wesley Ruffner's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Automation, Trust, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Wind Estimation, Detection, Economic Growth, Nighttime Light Data and Air Traffic Management.

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. Automation161 topic
  2. Trust161 topic
  3. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles101 topic
  4. Wind Estimation101 topic
  5. Detection82 topics
  6. Economic Growth61 topic
  7. Nighttime Light Data61 topic
  8. Air Traffic Management51 topic
  9. Conflict Resolution51 topic
  10. Infrared51 topic
  11. Small Target51 topic
  12. Network Centric Warfare41 topic
  13. Organizational Design41 topic
  14. Emergency Responders31 topic
  15. Firefighters31 topic
  16. Measurement31 topic
  17. Optoelectronic31 topic

Where does John Wesley Ruffner work?

John Wesley Ruffner's main affiliation in the publication record is DCS Corporation (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does John Wesley Ruffner have?

OpenAlex counts 58 works and 108 citations for John Wesley Ruffner, an h-index of 6, ranking #3,545,394 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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