Publication Information

{'id': 'https://openalex.org/W1995156887', 'doi': 'https://doi.org/10.1504/ijpqm.2009.023186', 'title': 'The analysis and evaluation of a quality system using the Six Sigma benchmark: evidence for the robustness of Six Sigma processes', 'display_name': 'The analysis and evaluation of a quality system using the Six Sigma benchmark: evidence for the robustness of Six Sigma processes', 'publication_year': 2009, 'publication_date': '2009-01-01', 'ids': {'openalex': 'https://openalex.org/W1995156887', 'doi': 'https://doi.org/10.1504/ijpqm.2009.023186', 'mag': '1995156887'}, 'language': 'en', 'primary_location': {'is_oa': False, 'landing_page_url': 'https://doi.org/10.1504/ijpqm.2009.023186', 'pdf_url': None, 'source': {'id': 'https://openalex.org/S83511262', 'display_name': 'International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management', 'issn_l': '1746-6474', 'issn': ['1746-6474', '1746-6482'], 'is_oa': False, 'is_in_doaj': False, 'is_core': True, 'host_organization': 'https://openalex.org/P4310317825', 'host_organization_name': 'Inderscience Publishers', 'host_organization_lineage': ['https://openalex.org/P4310317825'], 'host_organization_lineage_names': ['Inderscience Publishers'], 'type': 'journal'}, 'license': None, 'license_id': None, 'version': None, 'is_accepted': False, 'is_published': False}, 'type': 'article', 'type_crossref': 'journal-article', 'indexed_in': ['crossref'], 'open_access': {'is_oa': False, 'oa_status': 'closed', 'oa_url': None, 'any_repository_has_fulltext': False}, 'authorships': [{'author_position': 'first', 'author': {'id': 'https://openalex.org/A5011547051', 'display_name': 'Eisenhower C. Etienne', 'orcid': None}, 'institutions': [{'id': 'https://openalex.org/I8248082', 'display_name': 'Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University', 'ror': 'https://ror.org/00c4wc133', 'country_code': 'US', 'type': 'education', 'lineage': ['https://openalex.org/I8248082']}], 'countries': ['US'], 'is_corresponding': True, 'raw_author_name': 'Eisenhower C. Etienne', 'raw_affiliation_strings': ['School of Business and Industry, Florida A&M University, One SBI Plaza, Tallahassee, Florida, 32307, USA'], 'affiliations': [{'raw_affiliation_string': 'School of Business and Industry, Florida A&M University, One SBI Plaza, Tallahassee, Florida, 32307, USA', 'institution_ids': ['https://openalex.org/I8248082']}]}], 'institution_assertions': [], 'countries_distinct_count': 1, 'institutions_distinct_count': 1, 'corresponding_author_ids': ['https://openalex.org/A5011547051'], 'corresponding_institution_ids': ['https://openalex.org/I8248082'], 'apc_list': None, 'apc_paid': None, 'fwci': 3.471, 'has_fulltext': True, 'fulltext_origin': 'ngrams', 'cited_by_count': 15, 'citation_normalized_percentile': {'value': 0.857161, 'is_in_top_1_percent': False, 'is_in_top_10_percent': False}, 'cited_by_percentile_year': {'min': 86, 'max': 87}, 'biblio': {'volume': '4', 'issue': '2', 'first_page': '178', 'last_page': '178'}, 'is_retracted': False, 'is_paratext': False, 'primary_topic': {'id': 'https://openalex.org/T10164', 'display_name': 'Quality and Supply Management', 'score': 0.9694, 'subfield': {'id': 'https://openalex.org/subfields/1404', 'display_name': 'Management Information Systems'}, 'field': {'id': 'https://openalex.org/fields/14', 'display_name': 'Business, Management and Accounting'}, 'domain': {'id': 'https://openalex.org/domains/2', 'display_name': 'Social Sciences'}}, 'topics': [{'id': 'https://openalex.org/T10164', 'display_name': 'Quality and Supply Management', 'score': 0.9694, 'subfield': {'id': 'https://openalex.org/subfields/1404', 'display_name': 'Management Information Systems'}, 'field': {'id': 'https://openalex.org/fields/14', 'display_name': 'Business, Management and Accounting'}, 'domain': {'id': 'https://openalex.org/domains/2', 'display_name': 'Social Sciences'}}], 'keywords': [{'id': 'https://openalex.org/keywords/benchmark', 'display_name': 'Benchmark (surveying)', 'score': 0.76925445}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/keywords/sigma', 'display_name': 'Sigma', 'score': 0.76283014}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/keywords/robustness', 'display_name': 'Robustness', 'score': 0.63012826}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/keywords/lean-six-sigma', 'display_name': 'Lean Six Sigma', 'score': 0.41206777}], 'concepts': [{'id': 'https://openalex.org/C23119410', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q236908', 'display_name': 'Six Sigma', 'level': 3, 'score': 0.97287583}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/C185798385', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1161707', 'display_name': 'Benchmark (surveying)', 'level': 2, 'score': 0.76925445}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/C2778049214', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7512234', 'display_name': 'Sigma', 'level': 2, 'score': 0.76283014}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/C63479239', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7353546', 'display_name': 'Robustness (evolution)', 'level': 3, 'score': 0.63012826}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/C161272170', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q289076', 'display_name': 'Design for Six Sigma', 'level': 4, 'score': 0.61624074}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/C2779530757', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1207505', 'display_name': 'Quality (philosophy)', 'level': 2, 'score': 0.44913262}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/C98045186', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q205663', 'display_name': 'Process (computing)', 'level': 2, 'score': 0.41228887}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/C2778139897', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6509447', 'display_name': 'Lean Six Sigma', 'level': 4, 'score': 0.41206777}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/C41008148', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198', 'display_name': 'Computer science', 'level': 0, 'score': 0.39664432}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/C200601418', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2193887', 'display_name': 'Reliability engineering', 'level': 1, 'score': 0.3725527}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/C127413603', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11023', 'display_name': 'Engineering', 'level': 0, 'score': 0.36894777}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/C21547014', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1423657', 'display_name': 'Operations management', 'level': 1, 'score': 0.25355494}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/C121332964', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q413', 'display_name': 'Physics', 'level': 0, 'score': 0.08379248}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/C205649164', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1071', 'display_name': 'Geography', 'level': 0, 'score': 0.06832802}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/C58640448', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42515', 'display_name': 'Cartography', 'level': 1, 'score': 0.0659323}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/C104317684', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7187', 'display_name': 'Gene', 'level': 2, 'score': 0.0}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/C55493867', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7094', 'display_name': 'Biochemistry', 'level': 1, 'score': 0.0}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/C185592680', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2329', 'display_name': 'Chemistry', 'level': 0, 'score': 0.0}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/C62520636', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q944', 'display_name': 'Quantum mechanics', 'level': 1, 'score': 0.0}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/C137335462', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380772', 'display_name': 'Lean manufacturing', 'level': 2, 'score': 0.0}, {'id': 'https://openalex.org/C111919701', 'wikidata': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9135', 'display_name': 'Operating system', 'level': 1, 'score': 0.0}], 'mesh': [], 'locations_count': 1, 'locations': [{'is_oa': False, 'landing_page_url': 'https://doi.org/10.1504/ijpqm.2009.023186', 'pdf_url': None, 'source': {'id': 'https://openalex.org/S83511262', 'display_name': 'International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management', 'issn_l': '1746-6474', 'issn': ['1746-6474', '1746-6482'], 'is_oa': False, 'is_in_doaj': False, 'is_core': True, 'host_organization': 'https://openalex.org/P4310317825', 'host_organization_name': 'Inderscience Publishers', 'host_organization_lineage': ['https://openalex.org/P4310317825'], 'host_organization_lineage_names': ['Inderscience Publishers'], 'type': 'journal'}, 'license': None, 'license_id': None, 'version': None, 'is_accepted': False, 'is_published': False}], 'best_oa_location': None, 'sustainable_development_goals': [{'score': 0.45, 'id': 'https://metadata.un.org/sdg/9', 'display_name': 'Industry, innovation and infrastructure'}], 'grants': [], 'datasets': [], 'versions': [], 'referenced_works_count': 17, 'referenced_works': ['https://openalex.org/W115598873', 'https://openalex.org/W1492070156', 'https://openalex.org/W1525757005', 'https://openalex.org/W1561082337', 'https://openalex.org/W1589103605', 'https://openalex.org/W1605701154', 'https://openalex.org/W2005497495', 'https://openalex.org/W205932201', 'https://openalex.org/W2091311817', 'https://openalex.org/W2094067165', 'https://openalex.org/W2403525708', 'https://openalex.org/W2993740710', 'https://openalex.org/W3109172920', 'https://openalex.org/W328806478', 'https://openalex.org/W4285719527', 'https://openalex.org/W565455913', 'https://openalex.org/W575235388'], 'related_works': ['https://openalex.org/W954853502', 'https://openalex.org/W875699251', 'https://openalex.org/W599336953', 'https://openalex.org/W4286008869', 'https://openalex.org/W4240483126', 'https://openalex.org/W4210812602', 'https://openalex.org/W2164586163', 'https://openalex.org/W2018304657', 'https://openalex.org/W1973392338', 'https://openalex.org/W177387012'], 'abstract_inverted_index': {'This': [0], 'paper': [1], 'shows': [2], 'how': [3, 62], 'Six': [4, 25, 41, 49, 57, 81, 95, 104, 123, 138], 'Sigma': [5, 26, 42, 50, 58, 82, 96, 105, 124, 139], 'methods': [6], 'can': [7], 'be': [8], 'used': [9], 'to': [10, 39, 71], 'analyse': [11], 'the': [12, 31, 47, 56, 64, 80, 114, 127, 130], 'quality': [13, 37, 66, 120, 135], 'system': [14, 38, 67, 121], 'of': [15, 34, 113, 117, 129, 132], 'a': [16, 20, 35, 118], 'company': [17], 'based': [18], 'on': [19], 'case': [21], 'study.': [22], 'It': [23, 60], 'broadens': [24], 'analysis': [27, 85], 'by': [28], 'first': [29], 'comparing': [30], 'qualitative': [32, 115], 'characteristics': [33, 116], "company's": [36, 48, 65, 119], 'benchmark': [40], 'practices.': [43], 'Second,': [44], 'it': [45], 'computes': [46], 'metrics': [51, 89], 'and': [52, 74], 'compares': [53], 'these': [54], 'with': [55, 79], 'benchmark.': [59, 83], 'investigates': [61], 'well': [63], 'performs': [68], 'when': [69], 'subjected': [70], 'process': [72, 134], 'drift': [73], 'tightened': [75], 'customer': [76], 'requirements': [77], 'compared': [78], 'The': [84, 98], 'provides': [86], 'richer': [87], 'sigma': [88], 'than': [90], 'those': [91], 'found': [92], 'in': [93], 'published': [94], 'tables.': [97], 'quantitative': [99, 137], 'results': [100], 'provide': [101], 'evidence': [102], 'that': [103, 111], 'processes': [106], 'are': [107], 'robust.': [108], 'They': [109], 'show': [110], 'divergence': [112], 'from': [122, 136], 'practices': [125], 'mirrors': [126], 'deviation': [128], 'performance': [131], 'its': [133], 'metrics.': [140]}, 'cited_by_api_url': 'https://api.openalex.org/works?filter=cites:W1995156887', 'counts_by_year': [{'year': 2024, 'cited_by_count': 1}, {'year': 2021, 'cited_by_count': 1}, {'year': 2015, 'cited_by_count': 1}, {'year': 2014, 'cited_by_count': 2}, {'year': 2013, 'cited_by_count': 2}, {'year': 2012, 'cited_by_count': 4}], 'updated_date': '2024-12-10T05:45:15.885949', 'created_date': '2016-06-24'}