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Researcher · Graz University of Technology · Austria

Rainer E. Burkard

Rainer E. Burkard publishes mostly in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Computer Networks and Communications, on topics such as Optimization and Packing Problems, Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods and Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization.

OpenAlex
World rank
#398,774
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Austria
#2,684
of 43,330
Works
263
Citations
8.4k
Citations per work
31.9
h-index
39
i10-index 106Top 1.9% in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering)
Rainer E. Burkard

What does Rainer E. Burkard research?

Rainer E. Burkard's work is mostly in Engineering (38%), Computer Science (20%), Business, Management and Accounting (5%).

Physical Sciences: 153 works · 58.2% of their workEngineering: 100 works · 37.9% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 75 works · 28.7% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 14 works · 5.3% of their workComputational Mechanics: 10 works · 3.9% of their workComputer Science: 53 works · 20.3% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 34 works · 13.1% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 19 works · 7.2% of their workEverything else: 97 works · 36.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 13 works · 5.0% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 13 works · 5.0% of their workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 13 works · 5.0% of their workTHEIR WORKRainer E. Burkard263works
Physical Sciences58%Social Sciences5%

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. Engineering10037.9%
    2. Computer Science5320.3%
  2. Everything else9736.8%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting135.0%
  1. 1Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering29% of their works
  2. 2Computational Theory and Mathematics13% of their works
  3. 3Computer Networks and Communications7% of their works
  4. 4Control and Systems Engineering5% of their works
  5. 5Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management5% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rainer E. Burkard's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Heuristic Algorithms, Genetic Algorithm, Cutting, Packing, Approximation Algorithms, Tabu Search, Vehicle Routing Problem and Order Picking.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Heuristic Algorithms982 topics
  2. Genetic Algorithm932 topics
  3. Cutting571 topic
  4. Packing571 topic
  5. Approximation Algorithms542 topics
  6. Tabu Search411 topic
  7. Vehicle Routing Problem411 topic
  8. Order Picking371 topic
  9. Warehouse Design371 topic
  10. Manufacturing361 topic
  11. Scheduling361 topic
  12. Disaster Relief321 topic
  13. Humanitarian Logistics321 topic
  14. Graph Theory311 topic
  15. Parameterized Complexity311 topic
  16. Mobile Robots261 topic
  17. Online Algorithms261 topic
  18. Delaunay Triangulations231 topic
  19. Mesh Generation231 topic

Where does Rainer E. Burkard work?

Rainer E. Burkard's main affiliation in the publication record is Graz University of Technology, Austria.

How many publications and citations does Rainer E. Burkard have?

OpenAlex counts 263 works and 8,382 citations for Rainer E. Burkard, an h-index of 39, ranking #398,774 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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