C.W. Bac

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 949 citations indexed

About

C.W. Bac is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, C.W. Bac has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 949 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Plant Science, 3 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in C.W. Bac's work include Smart Agriculture and AI (8 papers), Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control (3 papers) and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (2 papers). C.W. Bac is often cited by papers focused on Smart Agriculture and AI (8 papers), Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control (3 papers) and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (2 papers). C.W. Bac collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Israel and Bulgaria. C.W. Bac's co-authors include J. Hemming, E.J. van Henten, Yael Edan, R. Barth, B.A.J. van Tuijl, Sigal Berman, J. Bontsema, E.J. Pekkeriet and Tony E. Grift and has published in prestigious journals such as Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Biosystems Engineering and Journal of Field Robotics.

In The Last Decade

C.W. Bac

10 papers receiving 902 citations

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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.

Harvesting Robots for High‐value Crops: State‐of‐the‐art Review and Challenges Ahead

2014 457 citations C.W. Bac, E.J. van Henten et al. Journal of Field Robotics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
C.W. Bac Netherlands	7	772	250	118	112	98	10	949
R. Barth Netherlands	11	751 1.0×	221 0.9×	125 1.1×	103 0.9×	89 0.9×	18	975
Qingchun Feng China	20	740 1.0×	218 0.9×	111 0.9×	124 1.1×	61 0.6×	66	1.0k
Ya Xiong Norway	13	716 0.9×	215 0.9×	71 0.6×	145 1.3×	73 0.7×	25	1.2k
Lars Grimstad Norway	9	588 0.8×	201 0.8×	103 0.9×	78 0.7×	98 1.0×	14	782
Chris Lehnert Australia	10	608 0.8×	156 0.6×	155 1.3×	105 0.9×	124 1.3×	29	848
Luis Emmi Spain	16	581 0.8×	154 0.6×	99 0.8×	65 0.6×	93 0.9×	32	927
Jinhui Li China	12	754 1.0×	134 0.5×	179 1.5×	117 1.0×	109 1.1×	29	1.1k
B.A.J. van Tuijl Netherlands	12	854 1.1×	248 1.0×	123 1.0×	99 0.9×	97 1.0×	32	1.2k
Theodore Pachidis Greece	15	439 0.6×	146 0.6×	131 1.1×	94 0.8×	46 0.5×	51	868
Hongyu Zhou Australia	10	430 0.6×	172 0.7×	136 1.2×	156 1.4×	115 1.2×	13	757

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of C.W. Bac

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

All Works

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Bac, C.W., et al.. (2017). Performance Evaluation of a Harvesting Robot for Sweet Pepper. Journal of Field Robotics. 34(6). 1123–1139. 181 indexed citations

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Bac, C.W., et al.. (2015). Analysis of a motion planning problem for sweet-pepper harvesting in a dense obstacle environment. Biosystems Engineering. 146. 85–97. 54 indexed citations

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Bac, C.W., J. Hemming, & E.J. van Henten. (2014). Stem localization of sweet-pepper plants using the support wire as a visual cue. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 105. 111–120. 74 indexed citations

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Bac, C.W., E.J. van Henten, J. Hemming, & Yael Edan. (2014). Harvesting Robots for High‐value Crops: State‐of‐the‐art Review and Challenges Ahead. Journal of Field Robotics. 31(6). 888–911. 457 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hemming, J., J. Bontsema, C.W. Bac, et al.. (2014). CROPS : intelligent sensing and manipulation for sustainable production and harvesting of high value crops, clever robots for crops : final report sweet-pepper harvesting robot. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 3 indexed citations

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Hemming, J., C.W. Bac, B.A.J. van Tuijl, et al.. (2014). A robot for harvesting sweet-pepper in greenhouses. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 49 indexed citations

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Bac, C.W., J. Hemming, & E.J. van Henten. (2013). Robust pixel-based classification of obstacles for robotic harvesting of sweet-pepper. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 96. 148–162. 93 indexed citations

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Henten, E.J. van, C.W. Bac, J. Hemming, & Yael Edan. (2013). Robotics in protected cultivation. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 46(18). 170–177. 31 indexed citations

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Bac, C.W., J. Hemming, & E.J. van Henten. (2013). Pixel classification and post-processing of plant parts using multi-spectral images of sweet-pepper. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 46(4). 150–155. 6 indexed citations

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Bac, C.W., et al.. (2011). Development of a Tabletop Guidance System for Educational Robots. Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 27(5). 829–838. 1 indexed citations

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