Christian Smith

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
94 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Christian Smith is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Smith has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 28 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 28 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Christian Smith's work include Robot Manipulation and Learning (36 papers), Teleoperation and Haptic Systems (23 papers) and Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (12 papers). Christian Smith is often cited by papers focused on Robot Manipulation and Learning (36 papers), Teleoperation and Haptic Systems (23 papers) and Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (12 papers). Christian Smith collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and United Kingdom. Christian Smith's co-authors include Yiannis Karayiannidis, Danica Kragić, Petter Ögren, Xavi Gratal, Peng Qi, Lazaros Nalpantidis, Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Elena M. Gutierrez-Farewik, Matteo Iovino and Takayuki Kanda and has published in prestigious journals such as Water Research, Scientific Reports and Immunological Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Christian Smith

85 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Dual arm manipulation—A survey

2012 392 citations Christian Smith, Yiannis Karayiannidis et al. Robotics and Autonomous Systems profile →
A survey of Behavior Trees in robotics and AI

2022 132 citations Matteo Iovino, Jonathan Styrud et al. Robotics and Autonomous Systems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian Smith Sweden	19	888	623	447	386	327	94	2.0k
Yu Sun United States	23	510 0.6×	352 0.6×	198 0.4×	132 0.3×	323 1.0×	80	1.4k
Jun Takamatsu Japan	21	629 0.7×	365 0.6×	193 0.4×	202 0.5×	615 1.9×	186	1.6k
Kosuke Sekiyama Japan	19	504 0.6×	792 1.3×	174 0.4×	211 0.5×	312 1.0×	160	1.6k
Fei Chen China	21	755 0.9×	576 0.9×	122 0.3×	320 0.8×	284 0.9×	151	1.8k
Costas S. Tzafestas Greece	19	369 0.4×	447 0.7×	126 0.3×	303 0.8×	263 0.8×	100	1.1k
Hikaru Inooka Japan	19	832 0.9×	648 1.0×	83 0.2×	394 1.0×	179 0.5×	206	1.7k
Pedro J. Sanz Spain	27	940 1.1×	469 0.8×	148 0.3×	624 1.6×	857 2.6×	148	2.4k
Kai‐Tai Song Taiwan	23	824 0.9×	358 0.6×	221 0.5×	188 0.5×	1.4k 4.2×	147	2.1k
Yusuke Tamura Japan	23	372 0.4×	330 0.5×	122 0.3×	125 0.3×	505 1.5×	166	2.1k
Guido Bugmann United Kingdom	21	254 0.3×	698 1.1×	436 1.0×	175 0.5×	185 0.6×	67	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Christian Smith

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christian Smith

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Smith

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christian Smith. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christian Smith 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 Christian Smith. Christian Smith is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Khanna, Parag, et al.. (2025). Adapting Robot’s Explanation for Failures Based on Observed Human Behavior in Human-Robot Collaboration. 15087–15094.

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Khanna, Parag, et al.. (2025). Early detection of human handover intentions in human–robot collaboration: Comparing EEG, gaze, and hand motion. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 196. 105244–105244.

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Styrud, Jonathan, et al.. (2024). BeBOP - Combining Reactive Planning and Bayesian Optimization to Solve Robotic Manipulation Tasks. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 16459–16466. 5 indexed citations

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Iovino, Matteo, et al.. (2022). A survey of Behavior Trees in robotics and AI. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 154. 104096–104096. 132 indexed citations breakdown →

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Karayiannidis, Yiannis, et al.. (2016). Adaptive control for pivoting with visual and tactile feedback. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 399–406. 49 indexed citations

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Højris, Bo, et al.. (2016). A novel, optical, on-line bacteria sensor for monitoring drinking water quality. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 23935–23935. 79 indexed citations

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Colledanchise, Michele, et al.. (2014). Towards a unified behavior trees framework for robot control. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 5420–5427. 120 indexed citations

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Karayiannidis, Yiannis, et al.. (2014). Online contact point estimation for uncalibrated tool use. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 2488–2494. 36 indexed citations

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Smith, Christian, et al.. (2014). Evaluation of ATP measurements to detect microbial ingress by wastewater and surface water in drinking water. Water Research. 64. 309–320. 61 indexed citations

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Karayiannidis, Yiannis, et al.. (2013). Online kinematics estimation for active human-robot manipulation of jointly held objects. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 4872–4878. 8 indexed citations

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Smith, Christian, et al.. (2012). A More Cohesive Summarizer. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 1161–1170. 5 indexed citations

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Smith, Christian, Henrik Danielsson, & Arne Jönsson. (2012). Cohesion in Automatically Created Summaries. 3 indexed citations

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Smith, Christian, et al.. (2012). This also affects the context - Errors in extraction based summaries. Language Resources and Evaluation. 173–178. 5 indexed citations

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Smith, Christian & Arne Jönsson. (2011). Enhancing extraction based summarization with outside word space. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 1062–1070. 8 indexed citations

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Smith, Christian, et al.. (2010). Towards a Rule Based System for Automatic Simplification of Texts. 17–18. 10 indexed citations

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Smith, Christian & Henrik I. Christensen. (2009). Robot manipulators. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2 indexed citations

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Jönsson, Arne, et al.. (2008). Using Language Technology to Improve Interaction and Provide Skim Reading Abilities to Audio Information Services. 1289. 1 indexed citations

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Smith, Christian, et al.. (2008). Teleoperation for a ball-catching task with significant dynamics. Neural Networks. 21(4). 604–620. 11 indexed citations

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Smith, Christian. (1983). Thermal hydrology and heat flow of Beowawe geothermal area, Nevada. Geophysics. 48(5). 618–626. 14 indexed citations

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Smith, Christian, et al.. (1980). Model for a deep conduit to the Beowawe geothermal system, Eureka and Lander Counties, Nevada. 4. 2 indexed citations

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