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D-Index
49
Citations
15409
World Ranking
4213
National Ranking
278

Duncan McFarlane publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Duncan McFarlane sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 323 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Duncan McFarlane D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Duncan McFarlane sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Duncan McFarlane is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Business, Management and Accounting, with a significant focus on subfields such as Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management, Management Information Systems, and Information Systems.

The scientist's work centers on several main topics, including:

  • Digital Transformation in Industry
  • Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
  • Manufacturing Process and Optimization
  • Collaboration in agile enterprises
  • Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
  • Quality and Supply Management
  • Product Development and Customization

Duncan McFarlane has published extensively, contributing to venues such as:

  • IET conference proceedings
  • IFAC-PapersOnLine
  • Computers in Industry
  • International Journal of Production Research
  • Applied Sciences

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Digital interoperability in logistics and supply chain management: state-of-the-art and research avenues towards Physical Internet," 2021, Computers in Industry
  • "Extracting supply chain maps from news articles using deep neural networks," 2020, International Journal of Production Research
  • "Contributions of Healthcare 4.0 digital applications to the resilience of healthcare organizations during the COVID-19 outbreak," 2021, Technovation
  • "What does operational excellence mean in the Fourth Industrial Revolution era?," 2021, International Journal of Production Research
  • "What skills and abilities can automation technologies replicate and what does it mean for workers?," 2022, OECD social employment and migration working papers

The scientist collaborates frequently with a core group of co-authors, including:

  • Gregory Hawkridge
  • Anandarup Mukherjee
  • Gökçen Yılmaz
  • Jan Kaiser
  • Zhengyang Ling

In addition to journal papers and conference proceedings, Duncan McFarlane has contributed to book publications, notably with Springer Nature on the book titled "Service Oriented, Holonic and Multi-agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future," published in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Robust Controller Design Using Normalized Coprime Factor Plant Descriptions

    K. Glover;D. C. McFarlane

  • A loop-shaping design procedure using H/sub infinity / synthesis

    D. McFarlane;K. Glover

  • Robust stabilization of normalized coprime factor plant descriptions with H/sub infinity /-bounded uncertainty

    K. Glover;D. McFarlane

  • Optimal guaranteed cost control and filtering for uncertain linear systems

    I.R. Petersen;D.C. McFarlane

  • Auto ID systems and intelligent manufacturing control

    Duncan McFarlane;Sanjay Sarma;Jin Lung Chirn;C.Y Wong

  • The Impact of Automatic Identification on Supply Chain Operations

    Duncan McFarlane;Yossi Sheffi

  • Industrial adoption of agent-based technologies

    V. Marik;D. McFarlane

  • The intelligent product driven supply chain

    C.Y. Wong;D. McFarlane;A. Ahmad Zaharudin;V. Agarwal

  • Succeeding through service innovation : a service perspective for education, research, business and government

    Kevin Bishop;Greg Bolan;David Bowen;Chris Cromack

  • Adding sense to the Internet of Things

    Tomás Sánchez López;Damith C. Ranasinghe;Mark Harrison;Duncan Mcfarlane

  • Holonic and multi-agent systems for manufacturing

    Vladimír Mařík;Duncan McFarlane;Paul Valckenaers

  • Developments in holonic production planning and control

    Duncan C. Mcfarlane;Stefan Bussmann

  • Hierarchy in distributed shop floor control

    Luc Bongaerts;László Monostori;Duncan McFarlane;Botond Kádár

  • RFID-based product information in end-of-life decision making

    Ajith Kumar Parlikad;Duncan McFarlane

  • Taxonomy, technology and applications of smart objects

    Tomás Sánchez López;Damith Chinthana Ranasinghe;Bela Patkai;Duncan Mcfarlane

  • An algorithm for dynamic order-picking in warehouse operations

    Wenrong Lu;Duncan C. McFarlane;Vaggelis Giannikas;Quan Zhang

  • Supply chain data analytics for predicting supplier disruptions: a case study in complex asset manufacturing

    Alexandra Brintrup;Johnson Pak;David Ratiney;Tim Pearce

  • Augmented Reality in Warehouse Operations: Opportunities and Barriers

    Marie-Hélène Stoltz;Vaggelis Giannikas;Duncan McFarlane;James Strachan

  • Product intelligence in industrial control: Theory and practice

    Duncan C. McFarlane;Vaggelis Giannikas;Alex C. Y. Wong;Mark Harrison

  • Optimal guaranteed cost control of discrete‐time uncertain linear systems

    Ian R. Petersen;Duncan C. McFarlane;Mario A. Rotea

  • Robust stabilization of normalized coprime factor plant descriptions

    Duncan C. McFarlane;Keith Glover

Frequent Co-Authors

Damith C. Ranasinghe
Damith C. Ranasinghe University of Adelaide
Keith Glover
Keith Glover University of Cambridge
Ian R. Petersen
Ian R. Petersen Australian National University
Irene C. L. Ng
Irene C. L. Ng University of Warwick
Andrés J. García
Andrés J. García Georgia Institute of Technology
Damien Trentesaux
Damien Trentesaux University Polytechnic Hauts-de-France
Glenn Parry
Glenn Parry University of Surrey
Elgar Fleisch
Elgar Fleisch ETH Zurich

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