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Researcher · ETH Zurich · Switzerland

Dirk Helbing

Dirk Helbing publishes mostly in Control and Systems Engineering, Transportation and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Traffic control and management, Transportation Planning and Optimization and Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics.

World rank
#1,135
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#22
of 19,404
Works
163
Citations
3k
Citations per work
18.5

What does Dirk Helbing research?

Control and Systems Engineering: 11.8%Transportation: 8.7%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 8.2%Sociology and Political Science: 7.7%other fields: 63.6%12%top field
Control and Systems Engineering11.8%Transportation8.7%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics8.2%Sociology and Political Science7.7%other fields63.6%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Control and Systems Engineering12% of their works
  2. 2Transportation9% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics8% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  5. 5Ocean Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Dirk Helbing's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Intelligent Transportation Systems, Traffic Flow, Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control, Microscopic Simulation, Agent-Based Modeling, Network Dynamics, Social Influence and Public Transport.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Intelligent Transportation Systems282 topics
  2. Traffic Flow282 topics
  3. Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control211 topic
  4. Microscopic Simulation211 topic
  5. Agent-Based Modeling192 topics
  6. Network Dynamics152 topics
  7. Social Influence152 topics
  8. Public Transport141 topic
  9. Travel Behavior141 topic
  10. Evacuation121 topic
  11. Pedestrian Dynamics121 topic
  12. Altruism91 topic
  13. Cooperation91 topic
  14. Community Structure81 topic
  15. Scale-Free Networks81 topic
  16. Bounded Confidence71 topic
  17. Deep Learning71 topic
  18. Opinion Dynamics71 topic
  19. Short-Term Forecasting71 topic
  20. Soft Systems Methodology51 topic
  21. System Dynamics51 topic

Where does Dirk Helbing work?

Dirk Helbing's main affiliation in the publication record is ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Dirk Helbing have?

Science Explorer counts 163 works and 3,013 citations for Dirk Helbing, ranking #1,135 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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