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Researcher · Paine College · United States

William F. Lawless

William F. Lawless publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Management Science and Operations Research and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems, Complex Systems and Decision Making and Ecosystem dynamics and resilience.

World rank
#1,220,439
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#298,899
of 358,040
Works
39
Citations
36
Citations per work
0.9

What does William F. Lawless research?

Sociology and Political Science: 36.6%Management Science and Operations Research: 24.4%Global and Planetary Change: 12.2%Control and Systems Engineering: 9.8%other fields: 17.0%37%top field
Sociology and Political Science36.6%Management Science and Operations Research24.4%Global and Planetary Change12.2%Control and Systems Engineering9.8%other fields17.0%

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

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science37% of their works
  2. 2Management Science and Operations Research24% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change12% of their works
  4. 4Control and Systems Engineering10% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence5% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William F. Lawless's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Sustainability, Climate Change, Interdependence, Modeling, Soft Systems Methodology, System Dynamics, Early-warning Signals and Regime Shifts.

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. Sustainability202 topics
  2. Climate Change111 topic
  3. Interdependence111 topic
  4. Modeling112 topics
  5. Soft Systems Methodology91 topic
  6. System Dynamics91 topic
  7. Early-warning Signals51 topic
  8. Regime Shifts51 topic
  9. Complex Adaptive Systems21 topic
  10. Decision Support21 topic
  11. Fuzzy Cognitive Maps21 topic
  12. Model-Based Systems Engineering21 topic
  13. Embodied Cognition11 topic
  14. Networked Control Systems11 topic
  15. Parameter Estimation11 topic
  16. Predictive Brain Theory11 topic
  17. Stability Analysis11 topic
  18. System Identification11 topic

Where does William F. Lawless work?

William F. Lawless's main affiliation in the publication record is Paine College, United States.

How many publications and citations does William F. Lawless have?

Science Explorer counts 39 works and 36 citations for William F. Lawless, ranking #1,220,439 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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