Robert Harle

3.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
51 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Robert Harle is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Harle has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 16 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 13 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Robert Harle's work include Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (33 papers), Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies (10 papers) and Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems (9 papers). Robert Harle is often cited by papers focused on Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (33 papers), Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies (10 papers) and Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems (9 papers). Robert Harle collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Finland and United States. Robert Harle's co-authors include Ramsey Faragher, A. Hopper, Alastair R. Beresford, Andrew Rice, Simon I Hay, Joseph Newman, Ian Wassell, Ran Guan, Alessandro Montanari and Cecilia Mascolo and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Access and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

In The Last Decade

Robert Harle

50 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

A Survey of Indoor Inertial Positioning Systems for Pedes... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2013 2015 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. A Survey of Indoor Inertial Positioning Systems for Pedestrians
    2013 636 citations Robert Harle IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials profile →
  2. Location Fingerprinting With Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons
    2015 626 citations Ramsey Faragher, Robert Harle IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications profile →
  3. Pedestrian localisation for indoor environments
    2008 383 citations Robert Harle et al. Apollo (University of Cambridge) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert Harle United Kingdom 20 2.3k 829 780 668 642 51 2.9k
Longfei Shangguan United States 35 2.2k 1.0× 507 0.6× 452 0.6× 681 1.0× 643 1.0× 85 3.1k
Wei Xi China 25 2.0k 0.9× 287 0.3× 504 0.6× 741 1.1× 548 0.9× 124 2.8k
Han Zou Singapore 37 2.8k 1.2× 433 0.5× 617 0.8× 1.0k 1.5× 986 1.5× 72 3.9k
Haiyong Luo China 30 1.3k 0.6× 649 0.8× 423 0.5× 288 0.4× 555 0.9× 123 2.3k
Xuyu Wang United States 29 3.1k 1.4× 653 0.8× 999 1.3× 938 1.4× 541 0.8× 117 4.1k
Panlong Yang China 32 2.0k 0.9× 273 0.3× 255 0.3× 1.2k 1.8× 545 0.8× 213 3.3k
Anthony Rowe United States 30 1.7k 0.7× 331 0.4× 363 0.5× 1.3k 1.9× 667 1.0× 139 3.0k
Yuanchao Shu China 22 1.2k 0.5× 342 0.4× 375 0.5× 506 0.8× 374 0.6× 83 2.0k
Igor Bisio Italy 30 1.3k 0.6× 1.1k 1.4× 252 0.3× 1.5k 2.2× 437 0.7× 143 2.9k
Hojung Cha South Korea 30 2.4k 1.1× 300 0.4× 520 0.7× 1.6k 2.5× 637 1.0× 180 3.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert Harle

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Harle

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Guan, Ran & Robert Harle. (2022). Crowdsourcing Mobile Data for A Passive Indoor Positioning System - The MAA Case Study. 59–67. 1 indexed citations
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Kawsar, Fahim, Robert Harle, Alessandro Montanari, & Chulhong Min. (2021). EarComp 2021: Second International Workshop on Earable Computing. 135–138. 1 indexed citations
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Harle, Robert, et al.. (2017). MSGD: Scalable back-end for indoor magnetic field-based GraphSLAM. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 3855–3862. 13 indexed citations
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Harle, Robert, et al.. (2016). A Portable, Inexpensive Point-Tracking System for Validation of Wearable Biomechanics Sensors. 115–123. 1 indexed citations
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Faragher, Ramsey & Robert Harle. (2015). Location Fingerprinting With Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 33(11). 2418–2428. 626 indexed citations breakdown →
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Harle, Robert, et al.. (2015). Measuring Temporal Parameters of Gait with Foot Mounted IMUs in Steady State Running. 24–33. 6 indexed citations
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Faragher, Ramsey & Robert Harle. (2014). An Analysis of the Accuracy of Bluetooth Low Energy for Indoor Positioning Applications. 201–210. 227 indexed citations
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Faragher, Ramsey & Robert Harle. (2013). SmartSLAM - An Efficient Smartphone Indoor Positioning System Exploiting Machine Learning and Opportunistic Sensing. 1006–1019. 48 indexed citations
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Harle, Robert. (2013). A Survey of Indoor Inertial Positioning Systems for Pedestrians. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. 15(3). 1281–1293. 636 indexed citations breakdown →
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Harle, Robert, Salman Taherian, Marcelo Pias, et al.. (2011). Towards real-time profiling of sprints using wearable pressure sensors. Computer Communications. 35(6). 650–660. 24 indexed citations
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Harle, Robert, et al.. (2010). Concurrent scheduling in the Active Bat location system. 27 indexed citations
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Harle, Robert, et al.. (2008). Pedestrian localisation for indoor environments. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 114–123. 383 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wassell, Ian, et al.. (2007). Performance of IEEE 802.11a in Vehicular Contexts. 4272. 854–858. 34 indexed citations
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Harle, Robert. (2007). Spatial Indexing for Location-Aware Systems. 1–8. 1 indexed citations
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Harle, Robert, et al.. (2006). POISE: An Inexpensive, Low-Power Location Sensor Based on Electrostatics. 1–3. 1 indexed citations
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Harle, Robert & Alastair R. Beresford. (2005). Keeping big brother off the road [road congestion charging scheme]. IEE Review. 51(10). 34–37. 6 indexed citations
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Rice, Andrew & Robert Harle. (2005). Evaluating lateration-based positioning algorithms for fine-grained tracking. 54–61. 9 indexed citations
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Harle, Robert & A. Hopper. (2004). Dynamic world models from ray-tracing. cmu ri tr 96 6. 55–64. 9 indexed citations
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Harle, Robert & A. Hopper. (2004). Using personnel movements for indoor autonomous environment discovery. 125–132. 9 indexed citations
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Harle, Robert & Todd Cowen. (1978). Determination of probenecid in serum by high-performance liquid chromatography. The Analyst. 103(1226). 492–492. 15 indexed citations

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