2026 Duncan McFarlane: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	49	4211	4047	279	261	323	15409

Discipline name

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Engineering and Technology

4211

4047

279

261

323

15409

Engineering and Technology

D-Index

Citations

15409

World Ranking

4211

National Ranking

279

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

1588
Citations
A loop-shaping design procedure using H/sub infinity / synthesis

D. McFarlane;K. Glover

1499
Citations
Robust stabilization of normalized coprime factor plant descriptions with H/sub infinity /-bounded uncertainty

K. Glover;D. McFarlane

952
Citations
Optimal guaranteed cost control and filtering for uncertain linear systems

I.R. Petersen;D.C. McFarlane

761
Citations
Auto ID systems and intelligent manufacturing control

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

616
Citations
The Impact of Automatic Identification on Supply Chain Operations

Duncan McFarlane;Yossi Sheffi

457
Citations
Industrial adoption of agent-based technologies

V. Marik;D. McFarlane

387
Citations
The intelligent product driven supply chain

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

356
Citations
Succeeding through service innovation : a service perspective for education, research, business and government

Kevin Bishop;Greg Bolan;David Bowen;Chris Cromack

347
Citations
Adding sense to the Internet of Things

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

318
Citations
Holonic and multi-agent systems for manufacturing

Vladimír Mařík;Duncan McFarlane;Paul Valckenaers

317
Citations
Developments in holonic production planning and control

Duncan C. Mcfarlane;Stefan Bussmann

287
Citations
Hierarchy in distributed shop floor control

Luc Bongaerts;László Monostori;Duncan McFarlane;Botond Kádár

243
Citations
RFID-based product information in end-of-life decision making

Ajith Kumar Parlikad;Duncan McFarlane

225
Citations
Taxonomy, technology and applications of smart objects

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

220
Citations
An algorithm for dynamic order-picking in warehouse operations

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

200
Citations
Supply chain data analytics for predicting supplier disruptions: a case study in complex asset manufacturing

Alexandra Brintrup;Johnson Pak;David Ratiney;Tim Pearce

187
Citations
Augmented Reality in Warehouse Operations: Opportunities and Barriers

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

163
Citations
Product intelligence in industrial control: Theory and practice

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

150
Citations
Optimal guaranteed cost control of discrete‐time uncertain linear systems

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

150
Citations
Robust stabilization of normalized coprime factor plant descriptions

Duncan C. McFarlane;Keith Glover

57
Citations