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Mathematics

D-Index
36
Citations
5498
World Ranking
2642
National Ranking
13

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
36
Citations
5394
World Ranking
8702
National Ranking
21

Maxim Finkelstein publication distribution in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mathematics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Maxim Finkelstein sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 315 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 537 publications or more.

Maxim Finkelstein D-index placement in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mathematics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Maxim Finkelstein sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 174 scientists 31 D-Index: 151 scientists 32 D-Index: 174 scientists 33 D-Index: 117 scientists 34 D-Index: 136 scientists 35 D-Index: 127 scientists 36 D-Index: 145 scientists 37 D-Index: 153 scientists 38 D-Index: 150 scientists 39 D-Index: 150 scientists 40 D-Index: 138 scientists 41 D-Index: 136 scientists 42 D-Index: 93 scientists 43 D-Index: 108 scientists 44 D-Index: 115 scientists 45 D-Index: 112 scientists 46 D-Index: 103 scientists 47 D-Index: 75 scientists 48 D-Index: 59 scientists 49 D-Index: 67 scientists 50 D-Index: 60 scientists 51 D-Index: 57 scientists 52 D-Index: 59 scientists 53 D-Index: 62 scientists 54 D-Index: 60 scientists 55 D-Index: 50 scientists 56 D-Index: 42 scientists 57 D-Index: 54 scientists 58 D-Index: 50 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 41 scientists 61 D-Index: 35 scientists 62 D-Index: 40 scientists 63 D-Index: 21 scientists 64 D-Index: 31 scientists 65 D-Index: 27 scientists 66 D-Index: 29 scientists 67 D-Index: 19 scientists 68 D-Index: 25 scientists 69 D-Index: 17 scientists 70 D-Index: 18 scientists 71 D-Index: 12 scientists 72 D-Index: 14 scientists 73 D-Index: 13 scientists 74 D-Index: 18 scientists 75 D-Index: 9 scientists 76 D-Index: 11 scientists 77 D-Index: 10 scientists 78 D-Index: 9 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 10 scientists 82 D-Index: 5 scientists 83 D-Index: 5 scientists 84 D-Index: 13 scientists 85 D-Index: 6 scientists 86+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 86 D-Index or more.

Overview

Maxim Finkelstein is affiliated with the University of the Free State in South Africa. The primary research focus encompasses fields such as Engineering and Mathematics, with a significant number of publications in these areas.

The scientist's research spans multiple subfields, including Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality; Statistics and Probability; Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty; Software; and Management Science and Operations Research.

Main topics covered in the research include Reliability and Maintenance Optimization, Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications, Software Reliability and Analysis Research, Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design, Risk and Safety Analysis, Probability and Risk Models, and Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis.

Publication output frequently appears in key academic venues such as:

  • Reliability Engineering & System Safety
  • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part O Journal of Risk and Reliability
  • Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry
  • Methodology And Computing In Applied Probability
  • Test

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Maxim Finkelstein include:

  • Optimal mission abort policies for repairable multistate systems performing multi-attempt mission (2021, Reliability Engineering & System Safety)
  • Optimal inspections and mission abort policies for multistate systems (2021, Reliability Engineering & System Safety)
  • Optimal warranty policy with inspection for heterogeneous, stochastically degrading items (2020, European Journal of Operational Research)
  • State-based mission abort policies for multistate systems (2020, Reliability Engineering & System Safety)
  • Mission abort and rescue for multistate systems operating under the Poisson process of shocks (2020, Reliability Engineering & System Safety)

Frequent co-authors include Ji Hwan, Gregory Levitin, Nil Kamal Hazra, Dheeraj Goyal, and Yanping Xiang.

Best Publications

  • Failure Rate Modelling for Reliability and Risk

    Maxim Finkelstein

  • Failure Rate Modelling for Reliability and Risk

    Maxim Finkelstein

  • Stochastic Modeling for Reliability

    Maxim Finkelstein;Ji Hwan Cha

  • An opportunistic condition-based maintenance policy for offshore wind turbine blades subjected to degradation and environmental shocks

    Mahmood Shafiee;Maxim Finkelstein;Christophe Bérenguer

  • On the reversed hazard rate

    Maxim S. Finkelstein

  • An optimal age-based group maintenance policy for multi-unit degrading systems

    Mahmood Shafiee;Maxim Finkelstein;Maxim Finkelstein

  • On new classes of extreme shock models and some generalizations

    Ji Hwan Cha;Maxim Finkelstein;Maxim Finkelstein

  • Optimal Mission Abort Policy for Systems Operating in a Random Environment.

    Gregory Levitin;Gregory Levitin;Maxim Finkelstein;Maxim Finkelstein

  • A scale model of general repair

    M.S. Finkelstein

  • Optimal mission abort policy for systems in a random environment with variable shock rate

    Gregory Levitin;Gregory Levitin;Maxim Finkelstein;Maxim Finkelstein

  • Wearing-out of components in a variable environment

    M.S. Finkelstein

  • On preventive maintenance of systems with lifetimes dependent on a random shock process

    Ji Hwan Cha;Maxim Finkelstein;Maxim Finkelstein;Gregory Levitin

  • On a terminating shock process with independent wear increments

    Ji Hwan Cha;Maxim Finkelstein;Maxim Finkelstein

  • On optimal upgrade level for used products under given cost structures

    Mahmood Shafiee;Mahmood Shafiee;Maxim Finkelstein;Maxim Finkelstein;Stefanka Chukova

  • Bivariate preventive maintenance of systems with lifetimes dependent on a random shock process

    Ji Hwan Cha;Maxim Finkelstein;Gregory Levitin

  • 'Time-free' preventive maintenance of systems with structures described by signatures

    Maxim Finkelstein;Maxim Finkelstein;Ilya Gertsbakh

  • MODELING A FAILURE RATE FOR A MIXTURE OF DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS

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  • On statistical and information-based virtual age of degrading systems

    Maxim Finkelstein;Maxim Finkelstein

  • Point Processes for Reliability Analysis

    Ji Hwan Cha;Maxim Finkelstein

  • Asymptotic behavior of a general class of mixture failure rates

    Maxim Finkelstein;Veronica Esaulova

  • On stochastic comparisons of maximum order statistics from the location-scale family of distributions

    Nil Kamal Hazra;Mithu Rani Kuiti;Maxim Finkelstein;Asok K. Nanda

  • Some notes on two types of minimal repair

    M. S. Finkelstein

  • Minimal repair in heterogeneous populations

    M. S. Finkelstein

  • Stochastic Modeling for Reliability : Shocks, Burn-in and Heterogeneous populations

    Maxim Finkelstein;Ji Hwan Cha

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory Levitin
Gregory Levitin Southwest Jiaotong University
Mahmood Shafiee
Mahmood Shafiee University of Kent
Yuanshun Dai
Yuanshun Dai University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
James W. Vaupel
James W. Vaupel University of Southern Denmark
Hong-Zhong Huang
Hong-Zhong Huang University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Christophe Bérenguer
Christophe Bérenguer Grenoble Alpes University
Serkan Eryilmaz
Serkan Eryilmaz Atilim University
Ming J. Zuo
Ming J. Zuo University of Alberta
Yan-Feng Li
Yan-Feng Li University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

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