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2026

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
83
Citations
22572
World Ranking
443
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1

Terje Aven 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 Terje Aven sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 496 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Terje Aven 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 Terje Aven sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 59 scientists 31 D-Index: 114 scientists 32 D-Index: 129 scientists 33 D-Index: 189 scientists 34 D-Index: 200 scientists 35 D-Index: 262 scientists 36 D-Index: 311 scientists 37 D-Index: 312 scientists 38 D-Index: 350 scientists 39 D-Index: 385 scientists 40 D-Index: 348 scientists 41 D-Index: 362 scientists 42 D-Index: 426 scientists 43 D-Index: 380 scientists 44 D-Index: 310 scientists 45 D-Index: 341 scientists 46 D-Index: 301 scientists 47 D-Index: 306 scientists 48 D-Index: 271 scientists 49 D-Index: 246 scientists 50 D-Index: 210 scientists 51 D-Index: 253 scientists 52 D-Index: 213 scientists 53 D-Index: 221 scientists 54 D-Index: 195 scientists 55 D-Index: 186 scientists 56 D-Index: 170 scientists 57 D-Index: 167 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 144 scientists 60 D-Index: 152 scientists 61 D-Index: 141 scientists 62 D-Index: 138 scientists 63 D-Index: 131 scientists 64 D-Index: 118 scientists 65 D-Index: 114 scientists 66 D-Index: 119 scientists 67 D-Index: 95 scientists 68 D-Index: 87 scientists 69 D-Index: 77 scientists 70 D-Index: 89 scientists 71 D-Index: 69 scientists 72 D-Index: 54 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 55 scientists 75 D-Index: 54 scientists 76 D-Index: 49 scientists 77 D-Index: 53 scientists 78 D-Index: 46 scientists 79 D-Index: 28 scientists 80 D-Index: 39 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 24 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 36 scientists 85 D-Index: 18 scientists 86 D-Index: 25 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 26 scientists 89 D-Index: 27 scientists 90 D-Index: 23 scientists 91 D-Index: 15 scientists 92 D-Index: 12 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 15 scientists 95 D-Index: 10 scientists 96 D-Index: 13 scientists 97 D-Index: 13 scientists 98 D-Index: 9 scientists 99 D-Index: 7 scientists 100 D-Index: 7 scientists 101 D-Index: 8 scientists 102 D-Index: 7 scientists 103 D-Index: 7 scientists 104 D-Index: 9 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106 D-Index: 9 scientists 107+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 83 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Terje Aven is affiliated with the University of Stavanger in Norway and has contributed extensively to the fields of social sciences and decision sciences. Their work spans several subfields including sociology and political science, statistics, probability and uncertainty, civil and structural engineering, artificial intelligence, and radiological and ultrasound technology.

The primary focus of Terje Aven's research lies in risk and safety analysis, risk perception and management, infrastructure resilience and vulnerability analysis, disaster management and resilience, occupational health and safety research, supply chain resilience and risk management, and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI).

Terje Aven has published numerous papers across respected academic journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • "The COVID-19 pandemic: how can risk science help?", 2020, Journal of Risk Research
  • "A risk science perspective on the discussion concerning Safety I, Safety II and Safety III", 2021, Reliability Engineering & System Safety
  • "Risk science offers an integrated approach to resilience", 2022, Nature Sustainability
  • "Globalization and global risk: How risk analysis needs to be enhanced to be effective in confronting current threats", 2020, Reliability Engineering & System Safety
  • "Creating conditions for critical trust - How an uncertainty-based risk perspective relates to dimensions and types of trust", 2020, Safety Science

Their frequent coauthors include Shital Thekdi, Roger Flage, Ingrid Glette-Iversen, Seth D. Guikema, and Marja Ylönen, reflecting collaboration across various aspects of their research focus.

Terje Aven has published in key venues such as Risk Analysis, Journal of Risk Research, Safety Science, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, and SSRN Electronic Journal. These platforms reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their research and its application to both theoretical and practical challenges in risk and safety.

Best Publications

  • Risk assessment and risk management: Review of recent advances on their foundation

    Terje Aven

  • On risk defined as an event where the outcome is uncertain

    Terje Aven;Ortwin Renn

  • The risk concept—historical and recent development trends

    Terje Aven

  • On how to define, understand and describe risk

    Terje Aven

  • On Some Recent Definitions and Analysis Frameworks for Risk, Vulnerability, and Resilience

    Terje Aven

  • Some considerations on the treatment of uncertainties in risk assessment for practical decision making

    Terje Aven;Enrico Zio

  • Reliability Evaluation of Multistate Systems with Multistate Components

    Terje Aven

  • A unified framework for risk and vulnerability analysis covering both safety and security

    Terje Aven

  • A unified framework for risk and vulnerability analysis covering both safety and security

    Terje Aven

  • A new perspective on how to understand, assess and manage risk and the unforeseen

    Terje Aven;Bodil S. Krohn

  • Models and model uncertainty in the context of risk analysis

    Thomas Nilsen;Terje Aven

  • Misconceptions of Risk

    Terje Aven

  • On the meaning of a black swan in a risk context

    Terje Aven

  • EXPRESSING AND COMMUNICATING UNCERTAINTY IN RELATION TO QUANTITATIVE RISK ANALYSIS

    Roger Flage;Terje Aven

  • Risk Analysis: Assessing Uncertainties Beyond Expected Values and Probabilities

    Terje Aven

  • Foundations of risk analysis

    Terje Aven

  • Foundations of risk analysis : a knowledge and decision-oriented perspective

    Terje Aven

  • Practical implications of the new risk perspectives

    Terje Aven

  • Foundational issues in risk assessment and risk management.

    Terje Aven;Enrico Zio;Enrico Zio

  • Uncertainty in Risk Assessment: The Representation and Treatment of Uncertainties by Probabilistic and Non-Probabilistic Methods

    Terje Aven;Enrico Zio;Piero Baraldi;Roger Flage

  • Implications of black swans to the foundations and practice of risk assessment and management

    Terje Aven

  • Risk, Surprises and Black Swans: Fundamental Ideas and Concepts in Risk Assessment and Risk Management

    Terje Aven

  • A risk perspective suitable for resilience engineering

    Riana Steen;Terje Aven

  • On the new ISO guide on risk management terminology

    Terje Aven

  • A framework for reliability and risk centered maintenance

    Jon T. Selvik;Terje Aven

Frequent Co-Authors

Enrico Zio
Enrico Zio Polytechnic University of Milan
Piero Baraldi
Piero Baraldi Polytechnic University of Milan
Ortwin Renn
Ortwin Renn University of Stuttgart
Seth D. Guikema
Seth D. Guikema University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael Jones-Lee
Michael Jones-Lee Newcastle University
Rommert Dekker
Rommert Dekker Erasmus University Rotterdam
Frank Asche
Frank Asche University of Florida
Genserik Reniers
Genserik Reniers Delft University of Technology
Sven Ove Hansson
Sven Ove Hansson Royal Institute of Technology
Eugene A. Rosa
Eugene A. Rosa Washington State University

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