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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
49
Citations
9457
World Ranking
2946
National Ranking
97

Materials Science

D-Index
49
Citations
9459
World Ranking
10486
National Ranking
307

John Canning publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John Canning sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 619 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

John Canning D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

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

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - OSA Fellows John  Canning University of Sydney & University of Technology interdisciplinary Photonics Laboratories (iPL), Australia “for significant scientific and engineering contributions in fundamental and applied photonics across materials, devices, system and instrumentation, and for translating these into industry” (Engineering and Science Research)
  • 2012 - SPIE Fellow
  • 1936 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John Canning is affiliated with the University of Technology Sydney in Australia and has an extensive research portfolio in the field of Engineering, with a particular focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering among other subfields. Their work encompasses a range of topics including Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors, Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics, Photonic and Optical Devices, and Biosensors and Analytical Detection.

Their research has contributed to areas such as Laser Material Processing Techniques, Reformation and Early Modern Christianity, and Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices.

John Canning's recent publications include:

  • Toward optical fibre fabrication using 3D printing technology (2020), published in Optical Fiber Technology
  • Recent Developments in Smartphone Spectrometer Sample Analysis (2021), published in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
  • Development of a lateral flow test for rapid pyrethroid detection using antibody-gated indicator-releasing hybrid materials (2020), published in The Analyst
  • The Toxicology Investigators Consortium 2020 Annual Report (2021), published in Journal of Medical Toxicology
  • Multichannel Smartphone Spectrometer Using Combined Diffraction Orders (2020), published in IEEE Sensors Letters

Frequent coauthors collaborating with John Canning include Gang-Ding Peng, Yanhua Luo, Md Arafat Hossain, Yushi Chu, and Protik Chandra Biswas.

Their publications often appear in venues such as Optics Letters, Optical Fiber Technology, Advanced Sensor Research, Optica Advanced Photonics Congress 2022, and Endocrine Abstracts.

In addition to journal articles, John Canning has contributed to book publications through Cambridge University Press and the Internet Archive, with titles including "Conciliarism, Humanism and Law" (2021) and "100 Great Events That Changed the World: From Babylonia to the Space Age" (2021).

John Canning has been recognized by several professional societies. Awards include election as an OSA Fellow in 2017 for contributions spanning fundamental and applied photonics across materials, devices, systems, instrumentation, and industry translation. They were also named a SPIE Fellow in 2012 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1936.

Best Publications

  • Fibre gratings and devices for sensors and lasers

    John Canning

  • Ultrahigh-temperature regenerated gratings in boron-codoped germanosilicate optical fiber using 193 nm.

    Somnath Bandyopadhyay;John Canning;Michael Stevenson;Kevin Cook

  • pi -phase-shifted periodic distributed structures in optical fibres by UV post-processing

    J. Canning;M.G. Sceats

  • Extreme Silica Optical Fibre Gratings.

    John Canning;Michael Stevenson;Somnath Bandyopadhyay;Kevin Cook

  • A microwave channelizer and spectroscope based on an integrated optical Bragg-grating Fabry-Perot and integrated hybrid Fresnel lens system

    S.T. Winnall;A.C. Lindsay;M.W. Austin;J. Canning

  • Ultrafast nanoporous silica formation driven by femtosecond laser irradiation

    Matthieu Lancry;Bertrand Poumellec;John Canning;Kevin Cook

  • Bragg gratings in air-silica structured fibers.

    NF Nathaniel Groothoff;J Canning;E Buckley;K Lyttikainen

  • Temperature Independent Highly Birefringent Photonic Crystal Fibre

    Andrew Michie;John Canning;Katja Lyytikäinen;Mattias Åslund

  • Ultrafast femtosecond-laser-induced fiber Bragg gratings in air-hole microstructured fibers for high-temperature pressure sensing.

    Charles M. Jewart;Qingqing Wang;John Canning;Dan Grobnic

  • Air-structured optical fiber drawn from a 3D-printed preform.

    Kevin Cook;John Canning;Sergio Leon-Saval;Zane Reid

  • Anatomy of a femtosecond laser processed silica waveguide [Invited]

    J. Canning;M. Lancry;K. Cook;A. Weickman

  • Bismuth and erbium codoped optical fiber with ultrabroadband luminescence across O-, E-, S-, C-, and L-bands.

    Yanhua Luo;Jianxiang Wen;Jianzhong Zhang;John Canning

  • Casting preforms for optical fibres

    Maryanne Large;Joseph Zagari;John Canning;Tom Ryan

  • Enhanced type IIA gratings for high-temperature operation

    NF Nathaniel Groothoff;J Canning

  • Combined "dual" absorption and fluorescence smartphone spectrometers.

    Arafat Hossain;John Canning;Sandra Ast;Kevin Cook

  • Strain and temperature characterization of photonic crystal fiber Bragg gratings

    Cicero Martelli;John Canning;Nathaniel Groothoff;Katja Lyytikainen

  • Micromachining structured optical fibers using focused ion beam milling

    Cicero Martelli;Paolo Olivero;John Canning;Nathaniel Groothoff

  • Lab-in-a-Phone: Smartphone-Based Portable Fluorometer for pH Measurements of Environmental Water

    Arafat Hossain;John Canning;Sandra Ast;Peter J. Rutledge

  • Water-core Fresnel fiber

    Cicero Martelli;John Canning;Katja Lyytikainen;Nathaniel Groothoff

  • Optical fiber smartphone spectrometer.

    Hossain Ma;Canning J;Cook K;Jamalipour A

  • Fibre lasers and related technologies

    John Canning

Frequent Co-Authors

Gang-Ding Peng
Gang-Ding Peng University of New South Wales
Maxwell J. Crossley
Maxwell J. Crossley University of Sydney
Yanhua Luo
Yanhua Luo Shanghai University
Mark Stevenson
Mark Stevenson University of Melbourne
Abbas Jamalipour
Abbas Jamalipour University of Sydney
Kevin P. Chen
Kevin P. Chen University of Pittsburgh
Stuart D. Jackson
Stuart D. Jackson Macquarie University
Li-Yang Shao
Li-Yang Shao Southern University of Science and Technology
Carlos Marques
Carlos Marques University of Aveiro
Rogério N. Nogueira
Rogério N. Nogueira University of Aveiro

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