Maik Boltes

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Maik Boltes is a scholar working on Ocean Engineering, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, Maik Boltes has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Ocean Engineering, 13 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and 11 papers in Transportation. Recurrent topics in Maik Boltes's work include Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics (24 papers), Traffic and Road Safety (12 papers) and Transportation Planning and Optimization (10 papers). Maik Boltes is often cited by papers focused on Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics (24 papers), Traffic and Road Safety (12 papers) and Transportation Planning and Optimization (10 papers). Maik Boltes collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Australia and China. Maik Boltes's co-authors include Armin Seyfried, Bernhard Steffen, Tobias Rupprecht, Wolfram Klingsch, O. Passon, Jun Zhang, Milad Haghani, Majid Sarvi, Zahra Shahhoseini and Stefan Höll and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Maik Boltes

35 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

New Insights into Pedestrian Flow Through Bottlenecks 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 100 200 300
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.

  1. New Insights into Pedestrian Flow Through Bottlenecks
    2009 347 citations Armin Seyfried, O. Passon et al. Transportation Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Maik Boltes Germany 14 1.1k 643 453 443 114 37 1.2k
Claudio Feliciani Japan 21 925 0.9× 534 0.8× 434 1.0× 355 0.8× 127 1.1× 54 1.1k
Wolfram Klingsch Germany 6 1.3k 1.2× 766 1.2× 683 1.5× 464 1.0× 172 1.5× 18 1.3k
Gerta Köster Germany 18 752 0.7× 361 0.6× 281 0.6× 312 0.7× 111 1.0× 45 893
L. Filippidis United Kingdom 18 1.2k 1.1× 472 0.7× 246 0.5× 414 0.9× 179 1.6× 61 1.4k
Lizhong Yang China 16 960 0.9× 537 0.8× 379 0.8× 337 0.8× 146 1.3× 42 1.1k
Daichi Yanagisawa Japan 15 738 0.7× 395 0.6× 489 1.1× 324 0.7× 112 1.0× 57 889
M. Owen United Kingdom 10 642 0.6× 241 0.4× 194 0.4× 238 0.5× 87 0.8× 18 716
Zhijian Fu China 19 686 0.6× 399 0.6× 344 0.8× 304 0.7× 123 1.1× 43 792
E.W. Marchant United Kingdom 11 590 0.6× 303 0.5× 193 0.4× 196 0.4× 91 0.8× 18 808
Meng Shi Hong Kong 12 417 0.4× 222 0.3× 129 0.3× 161 0.4× 34 0.3× 36 609

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Fields of papers citing papers by Maik Boltes

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Maik Boltes

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All Works

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Boltes, Maik, et al.. (2024). Propagation of controlled frontward impulses through standing crowds. ArXiv.org. 9. 1–16. 1 indexed citations
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Kaiser, Vera, Berwin A. Turlach, Jutta Peterburs, et al.. (2024). Sensor-Based Gait and Balance Assessment in Healthy Adults: Analysis of Short-Term Training and Sensor Placement Effects. Sensors. 24(17). 5598–5598.
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Boltes, Maik, et al.. (2023). Influence of Gender Composition in Pedestrian Single-File Experiments. Applied Sciences. 13(9). 5450–5450. 5 indexed citations
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Boltes, Maik, et al.. (2022). System Comparison for Gait and Balance Monitoring Used for the Evaluation of a Home-Based Training. Sensors. 22(13). 4975–4975. 6 indexed citations
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Boltes, Maik, et al.. (2022). Influence of individual factors on fundamental diagrams of pedestrians. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 595. 127077–127077. 14 indexed citations
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Boltes, Maik, et al.. (2022). How people with disabilities influence crowd dynamics of pedestrian movement through bottlenecks. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 14273–14273. 12 indexed citations
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Boltes, Maik, et al.. (2021). A Hybrid Tracking System of Full-Body Motion Inside Crowds. Sensors. 21(6). 2108–2108. 9 indexed citations
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Boltes, Maik, et al.. (2021). Experimental study on age and gender differences in microscopic movement characteristics of students*. Chinese Physics B. 30(9). 98902–98902. 14 indexed citations
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Höll, Stefan, et al.. (2020). The influence of individual impairments in crowd dynamics. Fire and Materials. 45(4). 529–542. 17 indexed citations
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Haghani, Milad, Nikolai W. F. Bode, Maik Boltes, Alessandro Corbetta, & Emiliano Cristiani. (2019). Empirical Research on Pedestrians’ Behavior and Crowd Dynamics. Journal of Advanced Transportation. 2019. 1–2. 6 indexed citations
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Haghani, Milad, Emiliano Cristiani, Nikolai W. F. Bode, Maik Boltes, & Alessandro Corbetta. (2019). Panic, Irrationality, and Herding: Three Ambiguous Terms in Crowd Dynamics Research. Journal of Advanced Transportation. 2019. 1–58. 70 indexed citations
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Boltes, Maik, Andreas Schadschneider, Antoine Tordeux, et al.. (2016). Influences of Extraction Techniques on the Quality of Measured Quantities of Pedestrian Characteristics. JuSER (Forschungszentrum Jülich). 1. 1–618. 6 indexed citations
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Haghani, Milad, Majid Sarvi, Zahra Shahhoseini, & Maik Boltes. (2016). How Simple Hypothetical-Choice Experiments Can Be Utilized to Learn Humans’ Navigational Escape Decisions in Emergencies. PLoS ONE. 11(11). e0166908–e0166908. 43 indexed citations
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Seyfried, Armin, et al.. (2015). Universalities in Fundamental Diagrams of Cars, Bicycles, and Pedestrians. Transportation research circular. 2 indexed citations
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Steffen, Bernhard, Armin Seyfried, & Maik Boltes. (2011). RELIABILITY ISSUES IN THE MICROSCOPIC MODELING OF PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT. 254–259. 5 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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Schumacher, Jörg, et al.. (2008). Enstrophy amplification events in three-dimensional turbulence. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 18(4). 41103–41103. 1 indexed citations
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Passon, O., et al.. (2005). Laplace-filter enhanced haptic rendering of macromolecule s. JuSER (Forschungszentrum Jülich). 1 indexed citations

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