Dirk Helbing

64.5k total citations · 21 hit papers
367 papers, 41.4k citations indexed

About

Dirk Helbing is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Dirk Helbing has authored 367 papers receiving a total of 41.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 81 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 78 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Dirk Helbing's work include Traffic control and management (93 papers), Transportation Planning and Optimization (65 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (54 papers). Dirk Helbing is often cited by papers focused on Traffic control and management (93 papers), Transportation Planning and Optimization (65 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (54 papers). Dirk Helbing collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Dirk Helbing's co-authors include Martin Treiber, Péter Molnár, Illés J. Farkas, Tamás Vicsek, Anders Johansson, Arne Kesting, Mehdi Moussaïd, Benno Tilch, Dirk Brockmann and Guy Théraulaz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Dirk Helbing

354 papers receiving 39.1k citations

Hit Papers

Social force model for pedestrian dynamics 1995 2026 2005 2015 1995 2000 2000 2001 2007 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dirk Helbing Switzerland 81 16.9k 14.8k 13.0k 7.1k 6.4k 367 41.4k
Kalyanmoy Deb United States 88 12.4k 0.7× 5.6k 0.4× 1.3k 0.1× 4.1k 0.6× 1.8k 0.3× 566 101.6k
Fei‐Yue Wang China 84 9.3k 0.6× 1.4k 0.1× 5.0k 0.4× 6.9k 1.0× 1.5k 0.2× 1.2k 37.9k
Sepp Hochreiter Austria 36 4.8k 0.3× 2.0k 0.1× 2.0k 0.2× 3.7k 0.5× 1.3k 0.2× 109 69.8k
Lotfi A. Zadeh United States 63 14.9k 0.9× 2.6k 0.2× 932 0.1× 2.1k 0.3× 2.1k 0.3× 241 89.9k
Francisco Herrera Spain 145 8.7k 0.5× 1.6k 0.1× 748 0.1× 1.8k 0.3× 1.5k 0.2× 812 96.6k
Ilya Sutskever Canada 22 4.1k 0.2× 2.6k 0.2× 1.0k 0.1× 1.7k 0.2× 1.1k 0.2× 39 95.2k
Marco Dorigo Belgium 73 5.4k 0.3× 1.9k 0.1× 1.2k 0.1× 1.8k 0.3× 597 0.1× 354 53.2k
L. A. Zadeh United States 17 13.0k 0.8× 2.1k 0.1× 782 0.1× 1.9k 0.3× 1.5k 0.2× 37 63.4k
Qiang Yang Hong Kong 98 2.8k 0.2× 1.7k 0.1× 2.5k 0.2× 2.0k 0.3× 589 0.1× 860 62.9k
David Silver United States 42 7.8k 0.5× 1.3k 0.1× 747 0.1× 1.8k 0.2× 425 0.1× 99 48.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dirk Helbing

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dubey, Rohit K., et al.. (2024). FAIRLANE: A multi-agent approach to priority lane management in diverse traffic composition. Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies. 171. 104919–104919. 2 indexed citations
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Helbing, Dirk, et al.. (2024). How networks shape diversity for better or worse. Royal Society Open Science. 11(5). 230505–230505. 2 indexed citations
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Helbing, Dirk, Thomas Beschorner, Bruno S. Frey, et al.. (2021). Triage 4.0: On Death Algorithms and Technological Selection. Is Today’s Data- Driven Medical System Still Compatible with the Constitution?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10(1). 1989243–1989243. 2 indexed citations
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Helbing, Dirk, et al.. (2020). Public debate in the media matters: evidence from the European refugee crisis. EPJ Data Science. 9(1). 7 indexed citations
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Ren, Xiao-Long, et al.. (2019). Generalized network dismantling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(14). 6554–6559. 138 indexed citations
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Scholz, Roland W., Eric J. Bartelsman, Sarah Diefenbach, et al.. (2018). Unintended Side Effects of the Digital Transition: European Scientists’ Messages from a Proposition-Based Expert Round Table. Sustainability. 10(6). 2001–2001. 90 indexed citations
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Spaiser, Viktoria, et al.. (2017). Communication power struggles on social media: A case study of the 2011–12 Russian protests. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 14(2). 132–153. 40 indexed citations
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Helbing, Dirk, Bruno S. Frey, Gerd Gigerenzer, et al.. (2015). Das Digital Manifest. 5–39. 1 indexed citations
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Helbing, Dirk. (2014). Crystal Ball and Magic Wand - the Dangerous Promise of Big Data (Chapter 3 of Digital Society). SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Helbing, Dirk. (2014). How Society Works - Social Order by Self-Organization (Chapter 5 of Digital Society). SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Helbing, Dirk. (2014). The World after Big Data: What the Digital Revolution Means for Us. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Helbing, Dirk. (2014). Social Forces - Revealing the Causes of Success or Disaster (Chapter 6 of Digital Society). SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Helbing, Dirk. (2013). Globally Networked Risks and How to Respond. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations
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Chadefaux, Thomas & Dirk Helbing. (2012). The Rationality of Prejudices. PLoS ONE. 7(2). e30902–e30902. 5 indexed citations
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Tedeschi, Gabriele, Amin Mazloumian, Mauro Gallegati, & Dirk Helbing. (2012). Bankruptcy Cascades in Interbank Markets. Università Politecnica delle Marche (Università Politecnica delle Marche). 61 indexed citations
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Helbing, Dirk, et al.. (2007). Crowd turbulence: the physics of crowd disasters. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations
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Nagatani, Takashi & Dirk Helbing. (2003). Stabilization of a linear supply chain. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Helbing, Dirk. (2003). A Section-Based Queueing-Theoretical Traffic Model for Congestion and Travel Time Analysis. arXiv (Cornell University). 6 indexed citations
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Helbing, Dirk, et al.. (2000). Traffic and granular flow '99 : social, traffic, and granular dynamics. Springer eBooks. 43 indexed citations
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Helbing, Dirk. (1998). Die Physik auf neuen Pfaden. Physikalische Blätter. 54(1). 45–47. 1 indexed citations

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