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Researcher · ETH Zurich · Switzerland

Dirk Helbing

Dirk Helbing publishes mostly in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Sociology and Political Science and Control and Systems Engineering, on topics such as Traffic control and management, Transportation Planning and Optimization and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation.

ORCID 0000-0002-9898-0101 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,287
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#8
of 80,918
Works
737
Citations
68k
Citations per work
92.1
h-index
103
i10-index 336Top 0.1% in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Dirk Helbing

What does Dirk Helbing research?

Dirk Helbing's work is mostly in Social Sciences (16%), Engineering (13%), Physics and Astronomy (12%).

Everything else: 383 works · 51.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 180 works · 24.4% of their workEngineering: 95 works · 12.9% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 60 works · 8.2% of their workOcean Engineering: 35 works · 4.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 85 works · 11.5% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 85 works · 11.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 175 works · 23.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 120 works · 16.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 66 works · 9.0% of their workTransportation: 54 works · 7.3% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 55 works · 7.4% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 55 works · 7.4% of their workTHEIR WORKDirk Helbing737works
Physical Sciences24%Social Sciences24%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
  1. Everything else38351.9%
    1. Engineering9512.9%
    2. Physics and Astronomy8511.5%
    1. Social Sciences12016.3%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance557.4%
  1. 1Statistical and Nonlinear Physics12% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science9% of their works
  3. 3Control and Systems Engineering8% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics7% of their works
  5. 5Transportation7% of their works
  6. 6Ocean Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Dirk Helbing's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Agent-Based Modeling, Network Dynamics, Social Influence, Altruism, Cooperation, Microscopic Simulation, Traffic Flow 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. Agent-Based Modeling2603 topics
  2. Network Dynamics1762 topics
  3. Social Influence1762 topics
  4. Altruism1562 topics
  5. Cooperation1562 topics
  6. Microscopic Simulation1511 topic
  7. Traffic Flow1511 topic
  8. Public Transport1181 topic
  9. Travel Behavior1181 topic
  10. Evolutionary Games1001 topic
  11. Social Networks1001 topic
  12. Bounded Confidence951 topic
  13. Opinion Dynamics951 topic
  14. Evacuation891 topic
  15. Pedestrian Dynamics891 topic
  16. Community Structure811 topic
  17. Scale-Free Networks811 topic
  18. Econophysics761 topic
  19. Multifractal Analysis761 topic
  20. Economic Experiments561 topic
  21. Social Preferences561 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?

OpenAlex counts 737 works and 67,911 citations for Dirk Helbing, an h-index of 103, ranking #1,287 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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