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D-Index
62
Citations
19313
World Ranking
1851
National Ranking
596

Richard L. Church 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 Richard L. Church sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 224 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard L. Church 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 L. Church sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% 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

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Richard L. Church is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within engineering and business, management, and accounting, with significant publication records in both fields.

The main fields of study associated with Richard L. Church include:

  • Engineering
  • Business, Management and Accounting

Key subfields of study encompass:

  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Building and Construction
  • Transportation
  • Global and Planetary Change

The primary research topics that Richard L. Church has contributed to include:

  • Facility Location and Emergency Management
  • Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
  • Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
  • Municipal Solid Waste Management

Recent papers by Richard L. Church include:

  • Review of obnoxious facilities location problems, 2021, Computers & Operations Research
  • Solving the p-median problem on regular and lattice networks, 2020, Computers & Operations Research
  • Single facility siting involving allocation decisions, 2020, European Journal of Operational Research
  • Service allocation equity in location coverage analytics, 2022, European Journal of Operational Research
  • Revisiting spatial optimization in the era of geospatial big data and GeoAI, 2024, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Richard L. Church on multiple publications include:

  • Alan T. Murray
  • Jing Xu
  • Zvi Drezner
  • B. Amelia Pludow
  • Ran Wei

The venues where Richard L. Church has most often published are:

  • Computers & Operations Research
  • European Journal of Operational Research
  • Computers Environment and Urban Systems
  • Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science
  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Richard L. Church was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009.

Best Publications

  • THE MAXIMAL COVERING LOCATION PROBLEM

    Richard Church;Charles R. Velle

  • Mapping Chaparral in the Santa Monica Mountains Using Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Models

    D.A. Roberts;M. Gardner;R. Church;S. Ustin

  • Reserve selection as a maximal covering location problem

    Richard L. Church;David M. Stoms;Frank W. Davis

  • Geographical information systems and location science

    Richard L. Church

  • Identifying Critical Infrastructure: The Median and Covering Facility Interdiction Problems

    Richard L. Church;Maria P. Scaparra;Richard S. Middleton

  • A bilevel mixed-integer program for critical infrastructure protection planning

    Maria P. Scaparra;Richard L. Church

  • Finding shortest paths on real road networks: the case for A*

    W. Zeng;R. L. Church

  • Planning for Disruptions in Supply Chain Networks

    Lawrence V. Snyder;Maria P. Scaparra;Mark S. Daskin;Richard L. Church

  • Modelling community evacuation vulnerability using GIS

    Thomas J. Cova;Richard L. Church

  • The Team/Fleet Models for Simultaneous Facility and Equipment Siting

    David Schilling;D. Jack Elzinga;Jared Cohon;Richard Church

  • Mapping transit-based access: integrating GIS, routes and schedules

    T. L. Lei;R. L. Church

  • Locating an Obnoxious Facility on a Network

    Richard L. Church;Robert S. Garfinkel

  • Protecting Critical Assets: The r-interdiction median problem with fortification

    Richard L. Church;Maria Paola Scaparra

  • Measuring Accessibility for People with a Disability

    Richard L. Church;James R. Marston

  • Business Site Selection, Location Analysis and GIS

    Richard L. Church;Alan T. Murray

  • Theoretical and Computational Links between the p-Median, Location Set-covering, and the Maximal Covering Location Problem

    Richard L. Church;Charles S. ReVelle

  • Spatial optimization as a generative technique for sustainable multiobjective land-use allocation

    Arika Ligmann-Zielinska;Richard L. Church;Piotr Jankowski

  • Heuristic solution approaches to operational forest planning problems

    Alan T. Murray;Richard L. Church

  • Applying simulated annealing to location-planning models

    Alan T. Murray;Richard L. Church

  • An efficient measure of compactness for two-dimensional shapes and its application in regionalization problems

    Wenwen Li;MichaelF. Goodchild;Richard Church

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles ReVelle
Charles ReVelle Johns Hopkins University
Michael F. Goodchild
Michael F. Goodchild University of California, Santa Barbara
Mark S. Daskin
Mark S. Daskin University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Dar A. Roberts
Dar A. Roberts University of California, Santa Barbara
John R. Current
John R. Current The Ohio State University
Frank W. Davis
Frank W. Davis University of California, Santa Barbara
Andrés Weintraub
Andrés Weintraub University of Chile
Robert O. Green
Robert O. Green California Institute of Technology
Piotr Jankowski
Piotr Jankowski San Diego State University
Susan L. Ustin
Susan L. Ustin University of California, Davis

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