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James S. Thorp

James S. Thorp

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
71
Citations
23285
World Ranking
843
National Ranking
363

Overview

James S. Thorp was affiliated with Virginia Tech in the United States. Their research contributions were primarily in the field of medicine, with specific focus on public health, environmental and occupational health, civil and structural engineering, and general health professions.

The scientist's work spanned multiple topics, including:

  • Tailings Management and Properties
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
  • Ethics in Clinical Research

Thorp authored papers published in venues such as Mine Closure and Trials. Notable publications included:

  • Development of a safety case for a closed tailings storage facility in the tropics, 2024, Mine Closure
  • The role of intersectionality in shaping participant engagement with health research through digital methods: findings from a qualitative study, 2025, Trials

Their frequent collaborators consisted of several researchers, among them:

  • Jiří Herza
  • Cherish Boxall
  • Felicity L. Bishop
  • Nisreen A Alwan
  • Shaun Treweek

Best Publications

  • Synchronized Phasor Measurements and Their Applications

    Arun G Phadke;James S Thorp

  • Computer Relaying for Power Systems

    Arun G. Phadke;James S. Thorp

  • Synchronized Phasor Measurement Applications in Power Systems

    Jaime De La Ree;Virgilio Centeno;James S Thorp;A G Phadke

  • A New Measurement Technique for Tracking Voltage Phasors, Local System Frequency, and Rate of Change of Frequency

    A. G. Phadke;J. S. Thorp;M. G. Adamiak

  • Cascading dynamics and mitigation assessment in power system disturbances via a hidden failure model

    Jie Chen;James S. Thorp;Ian Dobson

  • State Estimlatjon with Phasor Measurements

    A. G. Phadke;J. S. Thorp;K. J. Karimi

  • An Alternative for Including Phasor Measurements in State Estimators

    Ming Zhou;V.A. Centeno;J.S. Thorp;A.G. Phadke

  • EPOCHS: a platform for agent-based electric power and communication simulation built from commercial off-the-shelf components

    K. Hopkinson;Xiaoru Wang;R. Giovanini;J. Thorp

  • Power System Protection

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  • Expose hidden failures to prevent cascading outages [in power systems]

    A.G. Phadke;J.S. Thorp

  • On voltage collapse in electric power systems

    H.-D. Chiang;I. Dobson;R.J. Thomas;J.S. Thorp

  • Decision trees for real-time transient stability prediction

    S. Rovnyak;S. Kretsinger;J. Thorp;D. Brown

  • Wide Area Protection—Technology and Infrastructures

    M.G. Adamiak;A.P. Apostolov;M.M. Begovic;C.F. Henville

  • Real Time Voltage-Phasor Measurements for Static State Estimation

    J. S. Thorp;A. G. Phadke;K. J. Karimi

  • IEEE Standard for Synchrophasors for Power Systems

    K.E. Martin;G. Benmouyal;M.G. Adamiak;M. Begovic

  • Electromechanical wave propagation in large electric power systems

    J.S. Thorp;C.E. Seyler;A.G. Phadke

  • Synchronized sampling and phasor measurements for relaying and control

    A.G. Phadke;B. Pickett;M. Adamiak;M. Begovic

  • GECO: Global Event-Driven Co-Simulation Framework for Interconnected Power System and Communication Network

    Hua Lin;S. S. Veda;S. S. Shukla;L. Mili

  • A New Computer-Based Flux-Restrained Current-Differential Relay for Power Transformer Protection

    A. G. Phadke;J. S. Thorp

  • Anatomy of power system blackouts: preventive relaying strategies

    S. Tamronglak;S.H. Horowitz;A.G. Phadke;J.S. Thorp

  • Stability regions of nonlinear dynamical systems: a constructive methodology

    H.-D. Chiang;J.S. Thorp

Frequent Co-Authors

Arun G. Phadke
Arun G. Phadke Virginia Tech
Hsiao-Dong Chiang
Hsiao-Dong Chiang Cornell University
Chih-Wen Liu
Chih-Wen Liu National Taiwan University
Miroslav Begovic
Miroslav Begovic Texas A&M University
Lamine Mili
Lamine Mili Virginia Tech
Ian Dobson
Ian Dobson Iowa State University
Tarlochan S. Sidhu
Tarlochan S. Sidhu University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Mladen Kezunovic
Mladen Kezunovic Texas A&M University
Mark W. Spong
Mark W. Spong The University of Texas at Dallas
Noel C. MacDonald
Noel C. MacDonald University of California, Santa Barbara

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