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Business and Management

D-Index
61
Citations
13968
World Ranking
506
National Ranking
225

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
63
Citations
15877
World Ranking
1746
National Ranking
566

Overview

Alan L. Porter is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans several intersecting fields, primarily focusing on Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Infectious Diseases, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Strategy and Management.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics, including:

  • Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
  • Intellectual Property and Patents
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Economic and Technological Innovation
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Big Data and Business Intelligence

Alan L. Porter has contributed to various publication venues throughout their career. The most frequent venues include:

  • Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
  • Scientometrics
  • Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics
  • International Journal of Molecular Medicine

Recent papers by Porter demonstrate a diverse range of research interests across innovation, public health, and technology management. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Insecticide resistance management and industry: the origins and evolution of the Insecticide Resistance Action Committee (IRAC) and the mode of action classification scheme" (2021), published in Pest Management Science
  • "Co-citation, bibliographic coupling and leading authors, institutions and countries in the 50 years of Technological Forecasting and Social Change" (2021), published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • "Yoga practice in the UK: a cross-sectional survey of motivation, health benefits and behaviours" (2020), published in BMJ Open
  • "[Comment] COVID-19 vaccine safety" (2020), published in International Journal of Molecular Medicine
  • "Vaccine- and natural infection-induced mechanisms that could modulate vaccine safety" (2020), published in Toxicology Reports

Frequent collaborators in Porter's work include:

  • Yi Zhang
  • Ronald N. Kostoff
  • Michael B. Briggs
  • Nils C. Newman
  • Ying Huang

Best Publications

  • Forecasting and Management of Technology

    Alan L. Porter

  • Is science becoming more interdisciplinary? Measuring and mapping six research fields over time

    Alan L. Porter;Ismael Rafols

  • Tech Mining: Exploiting New Technologies for Competitive Advantage

    Alan L. Porter;Scott W. Cunningham

  • Measuring researcher interdisciplinarity

    Alan L. Porter;Alan L. Porter;Alex S. Cohen;J. David Roessner;Marty Perreault

  • Refining search terms for nanotechnology

    Alan L. Porter;Jan Youtie;Philip Shapira;David J. Schoeneck

  • Technology futures analysis: Toward integration of the field and new methods

    A.L. Porter;B. Ashton;G. Clar;J.F. Coates

  • Technology opportunities analysis

    Alan L. Porter;Michael J. Detampel

  • On the Future of Technological Forecasting

    Vary Coates;Mahmud Farooque;Richard Klavans;Koty Lapid

  • Interdisciplinary research: meaning, metrics and nurture

    Alan L Porter;J David Roessner;Alex S Cohen;Marty Perreault

  • Automated extraction and visualization of information for technological intelligence and forecasting

    Donghua Zhu;Alan L. Porter

  • An indicator of cross-disciplinary research

    Alan L. Porter;Daryl E. Chubin

  • Research profiling: Improving the literature review

    Alan L. Porter;Alisa Kongthon;Jye-Chyi J. C. Lu

  • Emerging technologies: quantitative identification and measurement

    S. Cozzens;S. Gatchair;J. Kang;K.S. Kim

  • Technology life cycle analysis method based on patent documents

    Lidan Gao;Lidan Gao;Alan L. Porter;Jing Wang;Shu Fang

  • Clustering scientific documents with topic modeling

    Chyi-Kwei Yau;Alan Porter;Nils Newman;Arho Suominen

  • How interdisciplinary is nanotechnology

    Alan L. Porter;Alan L. Porter;Jan Youtie

  • A Guidebook for Technology Assessment and Impact Analysis

    Alan L. Porter;Frederick A. Rossini;Stanley R. Carpenter;A. T. Roper

  • The ABCs of ABDs: A Study of Incomplete Doctorates

    Penelope Jacks;Daryl E. Chubin;Alan L. Porter;Terry Connolly

  • Topic analysis and forecasting for science, technology and innovation: Methodology with a case study focusing on big data research

    Yi Zhang;Yi Zhang;Guangquan Zhang;Hongshu Chen;Hongshu Chen;Alan L. Porter

  • Capturing new developments in an emerging technology: an updated search strategy for identifying nanotechnology research outputs

    Sanjay K. Arora;Alan L. Porter;Jan Youtie;Philip Shapira

  • “Term clumping” for technical intelligence: A case study on dye-sensitized solar cells

    Yi Zhang;Alan L. Porter;Alan L. Porter;Zhengyin Hu;Ying Guo

  • Patent overlay mapping: Visualizing technological distance

    Luciano Kay;Nils C. Newman;Jan L. Youtie;Alan L. Porter

  • Forecasting Innovation Pathways (FIP) for new and emerging science and technologies

    Douglas K. R. Robinson;Lu Huang;Yan Guo;Alan L. Porter

  • Forecasting Innovation Pathways (FIP) for new and emerging science and technologies

    Douglas K.R. Robinson;Lu Huang;Ying Guo;Alan L. Porter

  • Innovation forecasting

    R.J. Watts;A.L. Porter

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip Shapira
Philip Shapira University of Manchester
Ismael Rafols
Ismael Rafols Leiden University
Terry Connolly
Terry Connolly University of Arizona
Ronald N. Kostoff
Ronald N. Kostoff Georgia Institute of Technology
Guangquan Zhang
Guangquan Zhang University of Technology Sydney
Jie Lu
Jie Lu University of Technology Sydney
Aristidis Tsatsakis
Aristidis Tsatsakis University of Crete
José M. Merigó
José M. Merigó University of Technology Sydney
Demetrios A. Spandidos
Demetrios A. Spandidos University of Crete
Xian Zhang
Xian Zhang Hefei Institutes of Physical Science

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