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Researcher · Lancaster University · United Kingdom

Peter Checkland

Peter Checkland publishes mostly in Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science and General Health Professions, on topics such as Complex Systems and Decision Making, Chaos, Complexity, and Education and Information Systems Theories and Implementation.

OpenAlex
World rank
#44,865
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#4,266
of 90,785
Works
29
Citations
1.5k
Citations per work
52.6

What does Peter Checkland research?

Management Science and Operations Research: 26.5%Sociology and Political Science: 8.8%General Health Professions: 8.8%Computational Theory and Mathematics: 8.8%other fields: 47.1%26%top field
Management Science and Operations Research26.5%Sociology and Political Science8.8%General Health Professions8.8%Computational Theory and Mathematics8.8%other fields47.1%

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

  1. 1Management Science and Operations Research26% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science9% of their works
  3. 3General Health Professions9% of their works
  4. 4Computational Theory and Mathematics9% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence9% of their works
  6. 6Management Information Systems6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter Checkland's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Modeling, Soft Systems Methodology, System Dynamics, Complexity Theory, Design Science, Emergence, Knowledge Representation and Sociomateriality.

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. Modeling102 topics
  2. Soft Systems Methodology81 topic
  3. System Dynamics81 topic
  4. Complexity Theory31 topic
  5. Design Science31 topic
  6. Emergence31 topic
  7. Knowledge Representation32 topics
  8. Sociomateriality31 topic
  9. Decision Support21 topic
  10. Fuzzy Cognitive Maps21 topic
  11. Cognition11 topic
  12. Femtosecond Laser11 topic
  13. Information Architecture11 topic
  14. Knowledge Mapping11 topic
  15. Micromachining11 topic
  16. Ontology11 topic
  17. Physics of Mind11 topic
  18. Semantic Web11 topic

Where does Peter Checkland work?

Peter Checkland's main affiliation in the publication record is Lancaster University, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Peter Checkland have?

Science Explorer counts 29 works and 1,526 citations for Peter Checkland, ranking #44,865 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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