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D-Index
40
Citations
49671
World Ranking
7139
National Ranking
1932

John A. Swets 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 John A. Swets sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 96 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

John A. Swets 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 John A. Swets sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 1990 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1990 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 1965 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John A. Swets was affiliated with Raytheon in the United States. Throughout their career, they contributed to research and development within a corporate and scientific context, primarily based in the United States.

Swets received multiple awards highlighting their recognition in the scientific community. These included the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2013, membership in the National Academy of Sciences awarded in 1990, the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology by the American Psychological Association in 1990, and fellowship status in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) granted in 1965.

There are no recorded publications, coauthors, venues, fields of study, subfields, or specific main topics of research available in the provided data. Similarly, information about book publications is not documented.

Best Publications

  • Signal detection theory and psychophysics

    David Marvin Green;John Arthur Swets

  • Measuring the accuracy of diagnostic systems

    John A. Swets

  • Decision processes in perception.

    John A. Swets;Wilson P. Tanner Jr.;Theodore G. Birdsall

  • A decision-making theory of visual detection.

    Wilson P. Tanner Jr.;John A. Swets

  • Evaluation of diagnostic systems : methods from signal detection theory

    John Arthur Swets;Ronald M. Pickett

  • Psychological Science Can Improve Diagnostic Decisions

    John A. Swets;Robyn M. Dawes;John Monahan

  • Signal Detection Theory and ROC Analysis in Psychology and Diagnostics: Collected Papers

    John Arthur Swets

  • The Relative Operating Characteristic in Psychology A technique for isolating effects of response bias finds wide use in the study of perception and cognition

    John A. Swets

  • ROC analysis applied to the evaluation of medical imaging techniques.

    John A. Swets

  • Better decisions through science.

    John A. Swets;Robyn M. Dawes;John Monahan

  • Signal detection and recognition by human observers : contemporary readings

    John Arthur Swets

  • Is There a Sensory Threshold

    John A. Swets

  • Enhancing human performance: issues, theories, and techniques

    Daniel Druckman;John A Swets

  • Assessment of diagnostic technologies

    John A. Swets;Ronald M. Pickett;Susan F. Whitehead;David J. Getty

  • Information Retrieval Systems.

    John A. Swets

  • The science of choosing the right decision threshold in high-stakes diagnostics.

    John A. Swets

  • Enhanced interpretation of diagnostic images.

    Getty Dj;Pickett Rm;D'Orsi Cj;Swets Ja

  • Effectiveness of information retrieval methods

    John A. Swets

  • System operator response to warnings of danger: A laboratory investigation of the effects of the predictive value of a warning on human response time.

    David J. Getty;John A. Swets;Ronald M. Pickett;David Gonthier

  • Factors affecting the slope of empirical ROC curves: Comparison of binary and rating responses

    Joseph Markowitz;John A. Swets

  • Multiple Observations of Signals in Noise

    John A. Swets;Elizabeth F. Shipley;Molly J. McKey;David M. Green

  • Computer-Aided Instruction

    John A. Swets;Wallace Feurzeig

  • Staging prostate cancer with MR imaging: a combined radiologist-computer system.

    S. E. Seltzer;D. J. Getty;C. M. C. Tempany;R. M. Pickett

  • Signal detection and identification at successive stages of observation

    John A. Swets;David M. Green;David J. Getty;Joel B. Swets

  • Indices of Signal Detectability Obtained with Various Psychophysical Procedures

    John A. Swets

  • Invariance of signal detectability over stages of practice and levels of motivation

    John A. Swets;Susan T. Sewall

  • Signal Detection Theory Applied to Vigilance

    John A. Swets

  • On the Width of Critical Bands

    John A. Swets;David M. Green;Wilson P. Tanner

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Green
David M. Green University of Florida
Barbara J. McNeil
Barbara J. McNeil Harvard University
John Monahan
John Monahan University of Virginia
Robyn M. Dawes
Robyn M. Dawes Carnegie Mellon University
Robert A. Greenes
Robert A. Greenes Arizona State University
Clare M. Tempany
Clare M. Tempany Brigham and Women's Hospital
Richard J. Herrnstein
Richard J. Herrnstein Harvard University
Sanjay Saini
Sanjay Saini Harvard University
Robert A. Bjork
Robert A. Bjork University of California, Los Angeles
Colin B. Begg
Colin B. Begg Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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