Rainer Drath

2.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
73 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Rainer Drath is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Management Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Rainer Drath has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 8 papers in Management Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Rainer Drath's work include Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (55 papers), Manufacturing Process and Optimization (29 papers) and Digital Transformation in Industry (11 papers). Rainer Drath is often cited by papers focused on Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (55 papers), Manufacturing Process and Optimization (29 papers) and Digital Transformation in Industry (11 papers). Rainer Drath collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Japan. Rainer Drath's co-authors include Alexander Horch, Miriam Schleipen, J. Peschke, Lorenz Hundt, Mike Barth, Alexander Fay, Michael Hoffmeister, Ulrich Epple, Somayeh Malakuti and Sten Grüner and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, Sensors and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.

In The Last Decade

Rainer Drath

69 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Industrie 4.0: Hit or Hype? [Industry Forum] 2008 2026 2014 2020 2014 2008 200 400 600
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. Industrie 4.0: Hit or Hype? [Industry Forum]
    2014 691 citations Rainer Drath, Alexander Horch profile →
  2. AutomationML - the glue for seamless automation engineering
    2008 190 citations Rainer Drath, J. Peschke et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rainer Drath Germany 15 1.1k 236 211 192 165 73 1.6k
Hesuan Hu China 31 1.5k 1.3× 224 0.9× 368 1.7× 181 0.9× 125 0.8× 141 2.4k
Shanhu Yang United States 6 1.2k 1.1× 212 0.9× 399 1.9× 176 0.9× 139 0.8× 7 1.8k
Francisco Maturana United States 18 712 0.6× 176 0.7× 196 0.9× 242 1.3× 93 0.6× 70 1.2k
Michael ten Hompel Germany 20 838 0.7× 93 0.4× 185 0.9× 188 1.0× 107 0.6× 116 1.7k
Cunbo Zhuang China 14 1.3k 1.1× 152 0.6× 146 0.7× 100 0.5× 130 0.8× 44 1.7k
Young B. Moon United States 19 561 0.5× 175 0.7× 329 1.6× 156 0.8× 127 0.8× 83 1.4k
Reiner Anderl Germany 21 1.3k 1.1× 125 0.5× 174 0.8× 158 0.8× 184 1.1× 190 1.9k
Xuesong Zhang China 15 584 0.5× 246 1.0× 128 0.6× 120 0.6× 160 1.0× 48 1.3k
Botond Kádár Hungary 21 1.8k 1.6× 140 0.6× 313 1.5× 143 0.7× 111 0.7× 71 2.2k
Lifeng Zhou United States 13 531 0.5× 142 0.6× 158 0.7× 317 1.7× 115 0.7× 34 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Rainer Drath

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rainer Drath

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rainer Drath

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

All Works

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Greiner, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Integrating Robots in Modular Production Environments via the Module Type Package. 1–7. 1 indexed citations
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Drath, Rainer, et al.. (2024). Data Integration for Digital Twins in Industrial Automation: A Systematic Literature Review. IEEE Access. 12. 139129–139153. 5 indexed citations
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Drath, Rainer, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of Visual Notations as a Basis for ICS Security Design Decisions. IEEE Access. 11. 9967–9994. 6 indexed citations
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Drath, Rainer, et al.. (2022). Warum wir ein Security-Engineering-Informationsmodell brauchen. 3 indexed citations
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Barth, Mike, et al.. (2022). A Methodology for classifying Data relevance to utilize external Data Sources in the Digital Twin. 2022 IEEE 27th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA). 1–4. 3 indexed citations
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Drath, Rainer, et al.. (2022). How to survive a PhD – using Design Thinking methods and the Business Model Canvas. 2022 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON). 4. 1652–1657. 1 indexed citations
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Horch, Alexander, et al.. (2022). Security by Design Integration Mechanisms for Industrial Control Systems. IECON 2022 – 48th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. 1–6. 6 indexed citations
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Drath, Rainer, et al.. (2019). Towards Meaningful Interoperability for Heterogeneous Engineering Tools via AutomationML. 1286–1290. 3 indexed citations
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Drath, Rainer, et al.. (2018). Digitalization of the IEC PAS 63131 Standard with AutomationML. 901–909. 5 indexed citations
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Berardinelli, Luca, et al.. (2016). On the evolution of CAEX: A language engineering perspective. 1–8. 8 indexed citations
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Lüder, Arndt, et al.. (2011). Beschreibung mechatronischer Objekte durch Merkmale. atp magazin. 53(07-08). 62–62. 2 indexed citations
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Drath, Rainer, Alexander Fay, & Mike Barth. (2011). Interoperabilität von Engineering-Werkzeugen. at - Automatisierungstechnik. 59(7). 451–460. 17 indexed citations
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Hundt, Lorenz, Rainer Drath, Arndt Lüder, & J. Peschke. (2008). Seamless automation engineering with AutomationML. 1–8. 17 indexed citations
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Yim, Sang‐Youp, et al.. (2006). Using process topology in plant-wide control loop performance assessment. Computers & Chemical Engineering. 31(2). 86–99. 48 indexed citations
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Matsuno, Hiroshi, Atsushi Doi, Rainer Drath, & Satoru Miyano. (2000). Genomic Object Net: Object Oriented Representation of Biological Systems. Proceedings Genome Informatics Workshop/Genome informatics. 11. 229–230. 8 indexed citations
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Doi, Atsushi, Rainer Drath, Masao Nagasaki, Hiroshi Matsuno, & Satoru Miyano. (1999). Protein Dynamics Observations of Lambda Phage by Hybrid Petri Net. Proceedings Genome Informatics Workshop/Genome informatics. 10. 217–218. 2 indexed citations

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