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Nancy G. Leveson

Nancy G. Leveson

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
61
Citations
29589
World Ranking
2989
National Ranking
1467

Nancy G. Leveson publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nancy G. Leveson sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 226 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Nancy G. Leveson D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nancy G. Leveson sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 61 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2000 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to software safety.
  • 1999 - ACM AAAI Allen Newell Award For pioneering and developing the interdisciplinary field of software safety, developing innovative approaches to ensuring that computers do not contribute to loss of life and property. Dr. Leveson's work has influenced not only academic research but government standards and industrial practice world wide, spanning nuclear power, aerospace, medical, and various transportation systems. Dr. Leveson has built bridges between computer science and the fields of system engineering; mechanical, industrial and other engineering specialties; human factors and industrial psychology; organizational sociology; and formal accident theory.
  • 1995 - ACM Fellow Nancy Leveson is the founder of the field of software safety and has developed safety techniques that are used by industry and other researchers worldwide.

Overview

Nancy G. Leveson is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has a research focus centered on fields of Engineering and Decision Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Control and Systems Engineering, Social Psychology, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, and Radiological and Ultrasound Technology.

The main topics addressed in Nancy G. Leveson's research include Risk and Safety Analysis, Human-Automation Interaction and Safety, Occupational Health and Safety Research, Systems Engineering Methodologies and Applications, Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy, Complex Systems and Decision Making, and Healthcare Technology and Patient Monitoring.

The scientist has contributed to a range of publication venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Communications of the ACM
  • INCOSE International Symposium
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
  • Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting

Recent scholarly papers authored or coauthored by Nancy G. Leveson include:

  • Are you sure your software will not kill anyone? (2020), Communications of the ACM
  • Certification of Safety-Critical Systems (2023), Communications of the ACM
  • Design and Assurance of Control Software (2025), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Frequent collaborators in their research consist of John Thomas, Andrew Kopeikin, Alexander P. Hillman, Lawrence M. Wong, and Elizabeth Huynh.

Nancy G. Leveson has received several recognitions over their career. Among these are:

  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2000) for contributions to software safety
  • ACM AAAI Allen Newell Award (1999) for pioneering and developing the interdisciplinary field of software safety, influencing academic research, government standards, and industrial practice across multiple sectors
  • ACM Fellow (1995), recognized as the founder of the field of software safety with safety techniques adopted worldwide

Best Publications

  • Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts

    Erik Hollnagel;David D. Woods;Nancy Leveson

  • Safeware: System Safety and Computers

    Nancy G. Leveson

  • A new accident model for engineering safer systems

    Nancy G. Leveson

  • An investigation of the Therac-25 accidents

    N.G. Leveson;C.S. Turner

  • Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety

    Nancy G. Leveson

  • An experimental evaluation of the assumption of independence in multiversion programming

    J. C. Knight;N. G. Leveson

  • Requirements specification for process-control systems

    N.G. Leveson;M.P.E. Heimdahl;H. Hildreth;J.D. Reese

  • Software safety: why, what, and how

    Nancy G. Leveson

  • Safety analysis using Petri Nets

    N. G. Leveson;J. L. Stolzy

  • Applying systems thinking to analyze and learn from events

    Nancy G. Leveson

  • Moving Beyond Normal Accidents and High Reliability Organizations: A Systems Approach to Safety in Complex Systems

    Nancy Leveson;Nicolas Dulac;Karen Marais;John Carroll

  • Completeness and consistency in hierarchical state-based requirements

    M.P.E. Heimdahl;N.G. Leveson

  • Adverse Events in Robotic Surgery: A Retrospective Study of 14 Years of FDA Data.

    Homa Alemzadeh;Jaishankar Raman;Nancy Leveson;Zbigniew Kalbarczyk

  • Intent specifications: an approach to building human-centered specifications

    N.G. Leveson

  • A systems approach to risk management through leading safety indicators

    Nancy G Leveson

  • Role of Software in Spacecraft Accidents

    Nancy G. Leveson

  • An integrated approach to safety and security based on systems theory

    William Young;Nancy G. Leveson

  • Analyzing Software Safety

    N.G. Leveson;P.R. Harvey

  • Software requirements analysis for real-time process-control systems

    M.S. Jaffe;N.G. Leveson;M.P.E. Heimdahl;B.E. Melhart

  • Advancing a sociotechnical systems approach to workplace safety--developing the conceptual framework.

    Pascale Carayon;Peter Hancock;Nancy Leveson;Ian Noy

Frequent Co-Authors

John C. Knight
John C. Knight University of Virginia
Mats P. E. Heimdahl
Mats P. E. Heimdahl University of Minnesota
Sidney Dekker
Sidney Dekker Griffith University
Ravishankar K. Iyer
Ravishankar K. Iyer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Zbigniew Kalbarczyk
Zbigniew Kalbarczyk University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stefan Wagner
Stefan Wagner University of Stuttgart
Joseph H. Saleh
Joseph H. Saleh Georgia Institute of Technology
Peter A. Hancock
Peter A. Hancock University of Central Florida
Earl Hunt
Earl Hunt University of Washington

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