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Richard C. Larson

Richard C. Larson

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
40
Citations
8738
World Ranking
7197
National Ranking
1963

Richard C. Larson publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 102 publications — 9th percentile

9% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Richard C. Larson 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 Richard C. Larson 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

  • 2014 - ACM Gordon Bell Prize For Anton 2: Raising the Bar for Performance and Programmability in a Special-Purpose Molecular Dynamics Supercomputer
  • 2009 - ACM Gordon Bell Prize For Anton 2: Raising the Bar for Performance and Programmability in a Special-Purpose Molecular Dynamics Supercomputer
  • 1993 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For developing and applying operations research methodologies in public and private-sector service industries.

Overview

Richard C. Larson is affiliated with MIT in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Engineering, with notable focus on subfields such as Infectious Diseases, Civil and Structural Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, and Epidemiology.

The main topics of their work include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Water Systems and Optimization
  • Machine Learning and Algorithms
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection
  • Distributed Sensor Networks and Detection Algorithms
  • Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

Richard C. Larson's recent publications involve research on SARS-CoV-2 detection and related sensor networks. These papers include:

  • Sampling manholes to home in on SARS-CoV-2 infections, 2020, published in PLoS ONE
  • Placing sensors in sewer networks: A system to pinpoint new cases of coronavirus, 2021, published in PLoS ONE
  • Sampling Manholes to Home in on SARS-CoV-2 Infections, 2020, published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Placing Sensors in Sewer Networks: A System to Pinpoint New Cases of Coronavirus, 2020, published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Social network theory-an underutilized opportunity to align innovative methods with the demands of the opioid epidemic, 2020, published in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse

The venues where Richard C. Larson frequently publishes are:

  • PLoS ONE
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
  • Greenhouse Gases Science and Technology
  • Creative Education

Collaborations are an essential part of their work. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Oded Berman
  • Mehdi Nourinejad
  • Christina M. Cutter
  • Mahshid Abir

Richard C. Larson has received several awards recognizing contributions in their field. These include the ACM Gordon Bell Prize awarded twice, in 2014 and 2009, both cited for work related to Anton 2, a special-purpose molecular dynamics supercomputer.

In addition, they were elected as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1993 for achievements in developing and applying operations research methodologies in public and private-sector service industries.

Best Publications

  • Urban Operations Research

    Richard C. Larson;Amedeo R. Odoni

  • A hypercube queuing model for facility location and redistricting in urban emergency services

    Richard C. Larson

  • OR Forum—Perspectives on Queues: Social Justice and the Psychology of Queueing

    Richard C. Larson

  • Approximating the Performance of Urban Emergency Service Systems

    Richard C. Larson

  • Optimal Location of Discretionary Service Facilities

    Oded Berman;Richard C. Larson;Nikoletta Fouska

  • Urban Police Patrol Analysis

    Richard C. Larson

  • Too Many PhD Graduates or Too Few Academic Job Openings: The Basic Reproductive Number R0 in Academia.

    Richard Charles Larson;Navid Ghaffarzadegan;Yi Xue

  • Optimal Server Location on a Network Operating as an M/G/1 Queue

    Oded Berman;Richard C. Larson;Samuel S. Chiu

  • Methods for Allocating Urban Emergency Units: A Survey

    Jan M. Chaiken;Richard C. Larson

  • The Energy Box: Locally Automated Optimal Control of Residential Electricity Usage

    Daniel Livengood;Richard C. Larson

  • Facility Locations with the Manhattan Metric in the Presence of Barriers to Travel

    Richard C. Larson;Ghazala Sadiq

  • ESTIA: a real-time consumer control scheme for space conditioning usage under sport electricity pricing

    P. Constantopoulos;F. C. Schweppe;R. C. Larson

  • FINDING MINIMUM RECTILINEAR DISTANCE PATHS IN THE PRESENCE OF BARRIERS.

    Richard C. Larson;Victor O. K. Li

  • Models of a Total Criminal Justice System

    Alfred Blumstein;Richard Larson

  • Responding to Emergencies: Lessons Learned and the Need for Analysis

    Richard C. Larson;Michael D. Metzger;Michael F. Cahn

  • Locating Discretionary Service Facilities, II: Maximizing Market Size, Minimizing Inconvenience

    Oded Berman;Dimitris Bertsimas;Richard C. Larson

  • Transporting Sludge to the 106-Mile Site: An Inventory/Routing Model for Fleet Sizing and Logistics System Design

    Richard C. Larson

  • THE STOCHASTIC QUEUE P-MEDIAN PROBLEM

    Oded Berman;Richard C. Larson;Cekil Parkan

  • The queue inference engine: deducing queue statistics from transactional data

    Richard C. Larson

  • Optimizing the use of contingent labor when demand is uncertain

    Edieal J. Pinker;Richard C. Larson

  • Deliveries in an Inventory/Routing Problem Using Stochastic Dynamic Programming

    Oded Berman;Richard C. Larson

Frequent Co-Authors

Oded Berman
Oded Berman University of Toronto
Alfred Blumstein
Alfred Blumstein Carnegie Mellon University
John S. Brownstein
John S. Brownstein Boston Children's Hospital
Jonathan P. Caulkins
Jonathan P. Caulkins Carnegie Mellon University
Victor O. K. Li
Victor O. K. Li University of Hong Kong

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