Axel Krieger

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
166 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Axel Krieger is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Surgery and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Axel Krieger has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 77 papers in Surgery and 33 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Axel Krieger's work include Soft Robotics and Applications (67 papers), Surgical Simulation and Training (49 papers) and Anatomy and Medical Technology (28 papers). Axel Krieger is often cited by papers focused on Soft Robotics and Applications (67 papers), Surgical Simulation and Training (49 papers) and Anatomy and Medical Technology (28 papers). Axel Krieger collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Türkiye. Axel Krieger's co-authors include Justin D. Opfermann, Simon Léonard, Peter C.W. Kim, Gábor Fichtinger, Laura Olivieri, Louis L. Whitcomb, Azad Shademan, Ryan Decker, Ergin Atalar and Dilip S. Nath and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Axel Krieger

156 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

Supervised autonomous robotic soft tissue surgery 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 2022 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Supervised autonomous robotic soft tissue surgery
    2016 373 citations Justin D. Opfermann, Simon Léonard et al. profile →
  2. Autonomous robotic laparoscopic surgery for intestinal anastomosis
    2022 183 citations Hamed Saeidi, Justin D. Opfermann et al. Science Robotics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Axel Krieger United States 29 2.2k 1.6k 644 611 450 166 3.7k
Didier Mutter France 42 1.4k 0.6× 4.4k 2.7× 1.3k 2.1× 592 1.0× 994 2.2× 230 6.6k
Kevin Cleary United States 40 3.1k 1.4× 2.3k 1.4× 741 1.2× 1.2k 2.0× 1.3k 2.8× 273 6.2k
Robert Rohling Canada 35 2.7k 1.2× 1.2k 0.7× 271 0.4× 2.1k 3.4× 1.1k 2.4× 260 4.8k
Luc Soler France 37 1.8k 0.8× 2.0k 1.3× 485 0.8× 548 0.9× 1.7k 3.8× 139 4.2k
Nobuhiko Hata United States 39 2.8k 1.2× 1.4k 0.9× 872 1.4× 1.4k 2.3× 960 2.1× 169 5.1k
Samuel Kadoury Canada 30 1.3k 0.6× 879 0.5× 892 1.4× 2.0k 3.2× 611 1.4× 163 4.4k
Ichiro Sakuma Japan 31 1.5k 0.7× 914 0.6× 259 0.4× 455 0.7× 664 1.5× 299 3.6k
Peter Kazanzides United States 33 3.3k 1.5× 2.1k 1.3× 499 0.8× 919 1.5× 1.3k 2.9× 242 5.6k
Frank J. Rybicki United States 26 1.5k 0.7× 1.2k 0.7× 448 0.7× 565 0.9× 166 0.4× 82 2.9k
Hongen Liao China 36 1.7k 0.8× 1.1k 0.7× 240 0.4× 829 1.4× 1.6k 3.6× 266 4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Axel Krieger

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Fields of papers citing papers by Axel Krieger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Axel Krieger

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Opfermann, Justin D., et al.. (2025). Will your next surgeon be a robot? Autonomy and AI in robotic surgery. Science Robotics. 10(104). eadt0187–eadt0187. 2 indexed citations
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Kim, Ji Woong, et al.. (2024). Robots learning to imitate surgeons — challenges and possibilities. Nature Reviews Urology. 21(8). 451–452. 2 indexed citations
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Loke, Yue‐Hin, et al.. (2024). Automatic Laplacian-based shape optimization for patient-specific vascular grafts. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 184. 109308–109308.
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Opfermann, Justin D., et al.. (2024). Design and Evaluation of an Eye Mountable AutoDALK Robot for Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty. Micromachines. 15(6). 788–788. 1 indexed citations
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Kuntz, Alan, et al.. (2024). General-purpose foundation models for increased autonomy in robot-assisted surgery. Nature Machine Intelligence. 6(11). 1275–1283. 8 indexed citations
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Kazanzides, Peter, Gábor Fichtinger, Axel Krieger, et al.. (2024). SlicerROS2: A Research and Development Module for Image-Guided Robotic Interventions. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics. 6(4). 1334–1344. 2 indexed citations
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Erin, Önder, et al.. (2024). Investigating Haptic Feedback in Vision-Deficient Millirobot Telemanipulation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 9(7). 6178–6185. 2 indexed citations
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Mair, Lamar O., et al.. (2023). Time-Scale Separation Analysis for Surgical Needle Control in Electromagnetic Robotic Systems. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 56(3). 307–312.
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Barnes, N., Mirosław Janowski, Dheeraj Gandhi, et al.. (2023). Toward a novel soft robotic system for minimally invasive interventions. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. 18(9). 1547–1557. 11 indexed citations
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Loke, Yue‐Hin, et al.. (2022). Computational Fontan Analysis: Preserving Accuracy While Expediting Workflow. World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery. 13(3). 293–301. 4 indexed citations
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Xu, Xin, William E. Bentley, Mark Fuge, et al.. (2022). 3D MICROPRINTING OF MULTI-ACTUATOR SOFT ROBOTS ONTO 3D-PRINTED MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES VIA EX SITU DIRECT LASER WRITING. 332–335. 7 indexed citations
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Deguet, Anton, Simon Léonard, Junichi Tokuda, et al.. (2022). Bridging 3D Slicer and ROS2 for Image-Guided Robotic Interventions. Sensors. 22(14). 5336–5336. 3 indexed citations
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Erin, Önder, et al.. (2022). Enhanced Accuracy in Magnetic Actuation: Closed-Loop Control of a Magnetic Agent With Low-Error Numerical Magnetic Model Estimation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 7(4). 9429–9436. 8 indexed citations
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Saeidi, Hamed, Justin D. Opfermann, Michael Kam, et al.. (2022). Autonomous robotic laparoscopic surgery for intestinal anastomosis. Science Robotics. 7(62). eabj2908–eabj2908. 183 indexed citations breakdown →
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Su, Hao, et al.. (2021). Physical human–robot interaction for clinical care in infectious environments. Nature Machine Intelligence. 3(3). 184–186. 23 indexed citations
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Murphy, Robin R., et al.. (2021). Medical Robots for Infectious Diseases: Lessons and Challenges from the COVID-19 Pandemic. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 28(1). 18–27. 47 indexed citations
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Loke, Yue‐Hin, et al.. (2021). Semi-Automatic Planning and Three-Dimensional Electrospinning of Patient-Specific Grafts for Fontan Surgery. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 69(1). 186–198. 8 indexed citations
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Saeidi, Hamed, Michael Kam, Justin D. Opfermann, et al.. (2019). Supervised Autonomous Electrosurgery via Biocompatible Near-Infrared Tissue Tracking Techniques. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics. 1(4). 228–236. 17 indexed citations

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