Bernhard Steffen

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 740 citations indexed

About

Bernhard Steffen is a scholar working on Ocean Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernhard Steffen has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 740 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Ocean Engineering, 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 4 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Bernhard Steffen's work include Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics (6 papers), Traffic control and management (4 papers) and Electromagnetic Simulation and Numerical Methods (4 papers). Bernhard Steffen is often cited by papers focused on Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics (6 papers), Traffic control and management (4 papers) and Electromagnetic Simulation and Numerical Methods (4 papers). Bernhard Steffen collaborates with scholars based in Germany. Bernhard Steffen's co-authors include Armin Seyfried, Maik Boltes, Thomas Lippert, Wolfram Klingsch, Tobias Rupprecht, O. Passon, Jun Zhang, Thomas Weiland, Godehard Sutmann and Richard K. Cooper and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Computational Physics, Computer Physics Communications and Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.

In The Last Decade

Bernhard Steffen

14 papers receiving 688 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

New Insights into Pedestrian Flow Through Bottlenecks

2009 347 citations Armin Seyfried, O. Passon et al. Transportation Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bernhard Steffen Germany	9	564	311	302	233	114	14	740
Shin-ichi Tadaki Japan	13	222 0.4×	68 0.2×	772 2.6×	512 2.2×	64 0.6×	40	1.0k
Christian Dogbé France	11	396 0.7×	93 0.3×	328 1.1×	211 0.9×	13 0.1×	26	684
Ihor Lubashevsky Russia	12	130 0.2×	17 0.1×	306 1.0×	251 1.1×	9 0.1×	56	567
Michael Schmidt Germany	12	23 0.0×	18 0.1×	84 0.3×	67 0.3×	242 2.1×	60	549
S.J. Porter United Kingdom	15	147 0.3×	19 0.1×	35 0.1×	12 0.1×	898 7.9×	54	1.2k
Komal S. Shetye United States	15	30 0.1×	142 0.5×	402 1.3×	5 0.0×	836 7.3×	55	1.3k
Xiaoqun Wang China	16	44 0.1×	8 0.0×	65 0.2×	11 0.0×	43 0.4×	62	943
F. Pérez Spain	17	48 0.1×	8 0.0×	61 0.2×	7 0.0×	302 2.6×	90	793
Takumi Ichimura Japan	11	49 0.1×	13 0.0×	21 0.1×	32 0.1×	34 0.3×	101	496
Pedro Vieira Portugal	12	21 0.0×	11 0.0×	49 0.2×	33 0.1×	350 3.1×	110	552

Countries citing papers authored by Bernhard Steffen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bernhard Steffen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bernhard Steffen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bernhard Steffen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bernhard Steffen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Bernhard Steffen. Bernhard Steffen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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14 of 14 papers shown

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Chraibi, Mohcine & Bernhard Steffen. (2016). Multiscale simulation of pedestrians for efficient predictive modeling in large events. 11(4). 299–310. 2 indexed citations

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Tordeux, Antoine, Jun Zhang, Bernhard Steffen, & Armin Seyfried. (2015). Quantitative comparison of estimations for the density within pedestrian streams. Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment. 2015(6). P06030–P06030. 4 indexed citations

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Lämmel, Gregor, Armin Seyfried, & Bernhard Steffen. (2014). Large scale and microscopic: a fast simulation approach for urban areas. Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 10 indexed citations

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Boltes, Maik, Jun Zhang, Armin Seyfried, & Bernhard Steffen. (2011). T-junction: Experiments, trajectory collection, and analysis. 158–165. 30 indexed citations

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Seyfried, Armin, O. Passon, Bernhard Steffen, et al.. (2009). New Insights into Pedestrian Flow Through Bottlenecks. Transportation Science. 43(3). 395–406. 347 indexed citations breakdown →

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Seyfried, Armin, Bernhard Steffen, & Thomas Lippert. (2006). Basics of modelling the pedestrian flow. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 368(1). 232–238. 177 indexed citations

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Sutmann, Godehard & Bernhard Steffen. (2005). A particle–particle particle-multigrid method for long-range interactions in molecular simulations. Computer Physics Communications. 169(1-3). 343–346. 15 indexed citations

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Steffen, Bernhard, Tiziana Margaria, Andreas Claßen, & Volker Braun. (1996). Incremental Formalization: A Key to Industrial Success.. 17. 78. 20 indexed citations

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Becker, Ulrich, M. Dehler, M. Dohlus, et al.. (1994). Die Gitter-Maxwellgleichungen, Theorie und Anwendungsspektrum. 1 indexed citations

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Bartsch, Michael, M. Dehler, M. Dohlus, et al.. (1992). Solution of Maxwell's equations. Computer Physics Communications. 73(1-3). 22–39. 52 indexed citations

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Bartsch, Michael, M. Dehler, M. Dohlus, et al.. (1990). MAFIA release 3.X. 1 indexed citations

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Cooper, Richard K., M. Dehler, M. Dohlus, et al.. (1990). Maxwell's Grid Equations. Frequenz. 44(1). 29 indexed citations

13.

Cooper, Richard K., et al.. (1986). MAFIA - A Three Dimensional Electromagnetic CAD System for Magnets, RF Structures and Transient Wake Field Calculations. 48 indexed citations

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Steffen, Bernhard. (1978). A numerical method for the evaluation of an equilibrium configuration of a toroidal pinch. Journal of Computational Physics. 27(2). 180–191. 4 indexed citations

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