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Researcher · Brunel University of London · United Kingdom

Ken Darby-Dowman

Ken Darby-Dowman publishes mostly in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management Science and Operations Research and Control and Systems Engineering, on topics such as Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods, Optimization and Mathematical Programming and Transportation Planning and Optimization.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,275,631
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#100,216
of 367,258
Works
39
Citations
751
Citations per work
19.3
h-index
14
i10-index 18Top 24% in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering)
Ken Darby-Dowman

What does Ken Darby-Dowman research?

Ken Darby-Dowman's work is mostly in Engineering (32%), Computer Science (13%), Decision Sciences (11%).

Physical Sciences: 18 works · 45.7% of their workEngineering: 13 works · 32.4% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 9 works · 23.8% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 works · 8.6% of their workComputer Science: 5 works · 13.3% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 3 works · 7.6% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 works · 5.7% of their workEverything else: 14 works · 36.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 7 works · 18.1% of their workDecision Sciences: 4 works · 11.4% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 4 works · 11.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 6.7% of their workTransportation: 3 works · 6.7% of their workTHEIR WORKKen Darby-Dowman39works
Physical Sciences46%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. Engineering1332.4%
    2. Computer Science513.3%
  2. Everything else1436.2%
    1. Decision Sciences411.4%
    2. Social Sciences36.7%
  1. 1Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering24% of their works
  2. 2Management Science and Operations Research11% of their works
  3. 3Control and Systems Engineering9% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence8% of their works
  5. 5Transportation7% of their works
  6. 6Computer Networks and Communications6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ken Darby-Dowman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Metaheuristics, Genetic Algorithm, Heuristic Algorithms, Vehicle Routing Problem, Global Optimization, Convex Optimization, Aggregate Production Planning and Fuzzy Goal Programming.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Metaheuristics152 topics
  2. Genetic Algorithm102 topics
  3. Heuristic Algorithms101 topic
  4. Vehicle Routing Problem101 topic
  5. Global Optimization92 topics
  6. Convex Optimization82 topics
  7. Aggregate Production Planning61 topic
  8. Fuzzy Goal Programming61 topic
  9. Public Transport61 topic
  10. Travel Behavior61 topic
  11. Differential Evolution51 topic
  12. Particle Swarm Optimization51 topic
  13. Constraint Optimization41 topic
  14. Distributed Algorithms41 topic
  15. Manufacturing41 topic
  16. Optimization Software41 topic
  17. Risk Management41 topic
  18. Robust Optimization41 topic
  19. Scheduling41 topic
  20. Semidefinite Programming41 topic

Where does Ken Darby-Dowman work?

Ken Darby-Dowman's main affiliation in the publication record is Brunel University of London, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Ken Darby-Dowman have?

OpenAlex counts 39 works and 751 citations for Ken Darby-Dowman, an h-index of 14, ranking #1,275,631 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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