Pieter van Gelder

8.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
284 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Pieter van Gelder is a scholar working on Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Ocean Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Pieter van Gelder has authored 284 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, 71 papers in Ocean Engineering and 70 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Pieter van Gelder's work include Risk and Safety Analysis (47 papers), Maritime Navigation and Safety (45 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (42 papers). Pieter van Gelder is often cited by papers focused on Risk and Safety Analysis (47 papers), Maritime Navigation and Safety (45 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (42 papers). Pieter van Gelder collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, China and United States. Pieter van Gelder's co-authors include Yamin Huang, J.K. Vrijling, Pengfei Chen, Linying Chen, Junmin Mou, Sebastiaan N. Jonkman, Eleonora Papadimitriou, Nima Khakzad, Rudy R. Negenborn and Jun Ma and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Pieter van Gelder

261 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories sort by overperformance

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.

Ship collision avoidance methods: State-of-the-art

2019 318 citations Rudy R. Negenborn, Pieter van Gelder et al. profile →
Generalized velocity obstacle algorithm for preventing ship collisions at sea

2019 186 citations Pieter van Gelder et al. Ocean Engineering profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pieter van Gelder Netherlands	44	2.1k	1.4k	1.1k	939	920	284	6.3k
Christine A. Shoemaker United States	41	1.4k 0.7×	952 0.7×	499 0.4×	797 0.8×	1.8k 1.9×	177	6.5k
Limao Zhang China	53	1.1k 0.5×	352 0.2×	1.1k 1.0×	3.5k 3.7×	932 1.0×	278	9.8k
Seth D. Guikema United States	42	373 0.2×	1.3k 0.9×	639 0.6×	1.9k 2.0×	749 0.8×	186	5.6k
Yeou‐Koung Tung United States	31	903 0.4×	989 0.7×	339 0.3×	1.6k 1.7×	555 0.6×	137	3.5k
Yue Li China	46	313 0.1×	881 0.6×	428 0.4×	2.7k 2.8×	2.0k 2.2×	267	6.4k
Annan Zhou China	64	1.5k 0.7×	995 0.7×	264 0.2×	9.0k 9.6×	1.5k 1.7×	385	13.7k
Francesca Pianosi United Kingdom	34	1.2k 0.6×	1.7k 1.2×	589 0.5×	904 1.0×	1.2k 1.3×	97	5.0k
Solomon Tesfamariam Canada	44	659 0.3×	405 0.3×	976 0.9×	4.1k 4.4×	692 0.8×	265	7.1k
Shui‐Long Shen China	86	2.3k 1.1×	1.8k 1.3×	332 0.3×	15.4k 16.4×	2.4k 2.6×	428	22.0k
Richard L. Church United States	48	2.0k 0.9×	1.9k 1.3×	326 0.3×	1.0k 1.1×	635 0.7×	193	11.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Pieter van Gelder

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Pieter van Gelder's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Pieter van Gelder with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Pieter van Gelder more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Pieter van Gelder

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Pieter van Gelder. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Pieter van Gelder. The network helps show where Pieter van Gelder may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pieter van Gelder

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Papadimitriou, Eleonora, et al.. (2025). Experimental trust dynamics modelling in supervised autonomous ship navigation in collision avoidance scenarios. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives. 34. 101634–101634.

Gelder, Pieter van, et al.. (2025). Multi-perspective nautical safety risk assessment of allisions with offshore wind parks. Applied Ocean Research. 158. 104564–104564.

Papadimitriou, Eleonora, et al.. (2025). Enhancing collision avoidance in mixed waterborne transport: Human-mimic navigation and decision-making by autonomous vessels. Ocean Engineering. 322. 120443–120443. 1 indexed citations

Lin, Chaoning, et al.. (2024). On the multi‐parameters identification of concrete dams: A novel stochastic inverse approach. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. 48(16). 3792–3810.

Xu, Bo, et al.. (2024). Risk Assessment of High-grade Highway Construction Based on Combined Weighting and Fuzzy Mathematics. 2(1). 16–30. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Yi, et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal Point–Trace Matching Based on Multi-Dimensional Feature Fuzzy Similarity Model. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 12(10). 1883–1883. 1 indexed citations

Tselentis, Dimitrios I., Eleonora Papadimitriou, & Pieter van Gelder. (2023). The usefulness of artificial intelligence for safety assessment of different transport modes. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 186. 107034–107034. 26 indexed citations

Papadimitriou, Eleonora, Haneen Farah, Geerten van de Kaa, et al.. (2022). Towards common ethical and safe ‘behaviour’ standards for automated vehicles. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 174. 106724–106724. 23 indexed citations

Pieters, Wolter, et al.. (2021). Biases in security risk management: Do security professionals follow prospect theory in their decisions?. Radboud Repository (Radboud University).

10.

Schipper, Matthieu A. de, et al.. (2017). Uncertainty assessment in coastal morphology prediction with a bayesian network. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 1 indexed citations

11.

Daamen, Winnie, et al.. (2016). Framework to mitigate risks of crowd disasters at mass events in public urban space. Transportation Research Board 95th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 2 indexed citations

12.

Mustaffa, Zahiraniza, et al.. (2009). A Discussion of Deterministic Vs. Probabilistic Method In Assessing Marine Pipeline Corrosions. 3 indexed citations

13.

Chen, Xiaobing, et al.. (2008). Detecting changes in extreme precipitation and extreme streamflow in the Dongjiang River Basin in southern China. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 12(1). 207–221. 137 indexed citations

14.

Quý, Nguyễn Minh, et al.. (2007). Modeling of Ship Motion Responses and its Applications in Risk-Based Desing and Operation of Entrance Channels. Journal of maritime research. 4(2). 47–62. 4 indexed citations

15.

Gelder, Pieter van, et al.. (2007). Detecting long-memory: Monte Carlo simulations and application to daily streamflow processes. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 11(2). 851–862. 26 indexed citations

16.

Jonkman, Sebastiaan N., Pieter van Gelder, & J.K. Vrijling. (2003). An overview of quantitative risk measures for loss of life and economic damage. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 99(1). 1–30. 315 indexed citations

17.

Bedford, Tim & Pieter van Gelder. (2003). Safety and reliability : proceedings of ESREL 2003, European Safety and Reliability Conference 2003, 15-18 June 2003, Maastricht, The Netherlands. A.A. Balkema eBooks. 5 indexed citations

18.

Gelder, Pieter van, et al.. (2002). Statistical Analysis Of Pageviews On Web Sites. WIT transactions on information and communication technologies. 28. 2 indexed citations

19.

Chen, Yuanfang, et al.. (2002). Study of parameter estimation methods for Pearson-III distribution in flood frequency analysis. IAHS-AISH publication. 263–269. 11 indexed citations

20.

Gelder, Pieter van, et al.. (2000). The MEDCAR study: clinical evidence for recovery from atrial electrical remodelling after cardioversion of atrial fibrillation. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact