Gerhard Hiermann

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 745 citations indexed

About

Gerhard Hiermann is a scholar working on Automotive Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerhard Hiermann has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 745 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Automotive Engineering, 7 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 5 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Gerhard Hiermann's work include Transportation and Mobility Innovations (7 papers), Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure (6 papers) and Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (5 papers). Gerhard Hiermann is often cited by papers focused on Transportation and Mobility Innovations (7 papers), Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure (6 papers) and Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (5 papers). Gerhard Hiermann collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and France. Gerhard Hiermann's co-authors include Jakob Puchinger, Richard F. Hartl, Stefan Røpke, Thibaut Vidal, Günther R. Raidl, Andrea Rendl, Matthias Prandtstetter, Maximilian Schiffer, Grit Walther and Alexander Kröller and has published in prestigious journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Transportation Research Part B Methodological and Transportation Science.

In The Last Decade

Gerhard Hiermann

8 papers receiving 716 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.

The Electric Fleet Size and Mix Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Recharging Stations

2016 396 citations Gerhard Hiermann, Jakob Puchinger et al. European Journal of Operational Research profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gerhard Hiermann Austria	5	556	496	325	160	78	9	745
Zhixing Luo China	17	643 1.2×	389 0.8×	80 0.2×	256 1.6×	41 0.5×	32	816
Canhong Lin Hong Kong	8	546 1.0×	386 0.8×	96 0.3×	273 1.7×	22 0.3×	12	761
Enrico Bartolini Italy	12	520 0.9×	321 0.6×	70 0.2×	207 1.3×	21 0.3×	17	615
A. Stenger Germany	6	910 1.6×	831 1.7×	516 1.6×	343 2.1×	11 0.1×	7	1.2k
Justin C. Goodson United States	9	395 0.7×	364 0.7×	58 0.2×	193 1.2×	21 0.3×	13	546
Hasan Murat Afsar France	13	380 0.7×	203 0.4×	88 0.3×	121 0.8×	19 0.2×	31	549
Giusy Macrina Italy	11	645 1.2×	548 1.1×	149 0.5×	328 2.0×	11 0.1×	28	976
Stefan Bock Germany	17	505 0.9×	181 0.4×	45 0.1×	144 0.9×	39 0.5×	36	660
Daniele Ferone Italy	13	457 0.8×	149 0.3×	38 0.1×	126 0.8×	43 0.6×	33	589
Alejandro Montoya Colombia	8	425 0.8×	461 0.9×	358 1.1×	131 0.8×	8 0.1×	21	643

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerhard Hiermann

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

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Hiermann, Gerhard, et al.. (2025). Staggered routing in autonomous mobility-on-demand systems. European Journal of Operational Research. 327(3). 875–891.

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Hiermann, Gerhard, et al.. (2024). Strategic Workforce Planning in Crowdsourced Delivery With Hybrid Driver Fleets. Production and Operations Management. 33(11). 2177–2200. 1 indexed citations

3.

Hiermann, Gerhard, et al.. (2022). Electric Vehicle Charging Station Search in Stochastic Environments. Transportation Science. 56(2). 483–500. 10 indexed citations

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Schiffer, Maximilian, et al.. (2020). A polynomial-time algorithm for user-based relocation in free-floating car sharing systems. Transportation Research Part B Methodological. 143. 65–85. 32 indexed citations

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Hiermann, Gerhard, Richard F. Hartl, Jakob Puchinger, & Thibaut Vidal. (2018). Routing a mix of conventional, plug-in hybrid, and electric vehicles. European Journal of Operational Research. 272(1). 235–248. 152 indexed citations

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Hiermann, Gerhard, Richard F. Hartl, Jakob Puchinger, & Thibaut Vidal. (2018). Routing a Mix of Conventional, Plug-in Hybrid, and Electric Vehicles. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 3 indexed citations

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Hiermann, Gerhard, Jakob Puchinger, Stefan Røpke, & Richard F. Hartl. (2016). The Electric Fleet Size and Mix Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Recharging Stations. European Journal of Operational Research. 252(3). 995–1018. 396 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hiermann, Gerhard, Jakob Puchinger, & Richard F. Hartl. (2013). The Electric Fleet Size and Mix Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 2 indexed citations

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Hiermann, Gerhard, Matthias Prandtstetter, Andrea Rendl, Jakob Puchinger, & Günther R. Raidl. (2013). Metaheuristics for solving a multimodal home-healthcare scheduling problem. Central European Journal of Operations Research. 23(1). 89–113. 149 indexed citations

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