Robert Serfling

10.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Robert Serfling is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and Finance. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Serfling has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Statistics and Probability, 22 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and 13 papers in Finance. Recurrent topics in Robert Serfling's work include Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (42 papers), Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring (22 papers) and Statistical Methods and Inference (21 papers). Robert Serfling is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (42 papers), Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring (22 papers) and Statistical Methods and Inference (21 papers). Robert Serfling collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and India. Robert Serfling's co-authors include Yijun Zuo, Vytaras Brazauskas, Paul Janssen, Irene Coin, Xin Dang, Wolfgang Karl Härdle, Diane L. Souvaine, Mario Mörl, Shanshan Wang and Roelof Helmers and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Technometrics.

In The Last Decade

Robert Serfling

76 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

Approximation Theorems of Mathematical Statistics 1980 2026 1995 2010 1980 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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. Approximation Theorems of Mathematical Statistics
    1980 4.1k citations Robert Serfling Wiley series in probability and statistics 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 Serfling United States 27 4.3k 1.2k 1.2k 1.0k 888 76 6.5k
S. Kotz United States 6 3.2k 0.7× 1.6k 1.3× 1.1k 0.9× 912 0.9× 876 1.0× 8 7.2k
Art B. Owen United States 41 4.5k 1.1× 1.6k 1.3× 1.4k 1.1× 820 0.8× 779 0.9× 117 9.4k
N. Balakrishnan Canada 16 3.3k 0.8× 1.9k 1.5× 931 0.8× 845 0.8× 779 0.9× 43 6.9k
Elvezio Ronchetti Switzerland 30 4.5k 1.1× 1.8k 1.5× 1.1k 0.9× 610 0.6× 655 0.7× 91 7.9k
Luke Tierney United States 23 3.4k 0.8× 835 0.7× 2.2k 1.8× 681 0.7× 412 0.5× 67 6.3k
Tze Leung Lai United States 41 3.2k 0.8× 1.5k 1.2× 1.3k 1.1× 1.8k 1.8× 1.0k 1.2× 242 6.7k
Qi-Man Shao United States 33 3.4k 0.8× 682 0.6× 1.1k 0.9× 1.5k 1.5× 1.3k 1.5× 168 5.5k
Yasuhiro Omori Japan 12 2.6k 0.6× 1.4k 1.1× 910 0.8× 790 0.8× 1.1k 1.3× 43 6.6k
Holger Dette Germany 37 2.7k 0.6× 1.1k 0.9× 502 0.4× 2.5k 2.5× 655 0.7× 394 5.7k
Vı́ctor J. Yohai Argentina 31 3.7k 0.9× 1.9k 1.6× 716 0.6× 473 0.5× 568 0.6× 103 6.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert Serfling

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Serfling

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Robert Serfling. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Robert Serfling 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 Serfling. Robert Serfling 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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Kitte, Reni, Robert Serfling, Ulrich Blache, et al.. (2025). Optimal Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-mRNA for Transient CAR T Cell Generation. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(3). 965–965. 4 indexed citations
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Serfling, Robert, Reni Kitte, Nadja Hilger, et al.. (2023). Comparison of two lab-scale protocols for enhanced mRNA-based CAR-T cell generation and functionality. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 18160–18160. 4 indexed citations
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Serfling, Robert, Jan Møller, Ulrike Zabel, et al.. (2021). Determination of G-protein–coupled receptor oligomerization by molecular brightness analyses in single cells. Nature Protocols. 16(3). 1419–1451. 24 indexed citations
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Serfling, Robert, Christian Ihling, Edyta Burda, et al.. (2020). Exploring GPCR‐arrestin interfaces with genetically encoded crosslinkers. EMBO Reports. 21(11). e50437–e50437. 31 indexed citations
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Serfling, Robert, Lisa Seidel, Andreas Böck, et al.. (2019). Quantitative Single-Residue Bioorthogonal Labeling of G Protein-Coupled Receptors in Live Cells. ACS Chemical Biology. 14(6). 1141–1149. 32 indexed citations
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Wang, Shanshan & Robert Serfling. (2018). On masking and swamping robustness of leading nonparametric outlier identifiers for multivariate data. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 166. 32–49. 6 indexed citations
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Serfling, Robert, et al.. (2017). Designer tRNAs for efficient incorporation of non-canonical amino acids by the pyrrolysine system in mammalian cells. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(1). 1–10. 118 indexed citations
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Serfling, Robert & Irene Coin. (2016). Incorporation of Unnatural Amino Acids into Proteins Expressed in Mammalian Cells. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 580. 89–107. 22 indexed citations
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Wachsmuth, Manja, Ronny Lorenz, Robert Serfling, et al.. (2015). Design criteria for synthetic riboswitches acting on transcription. RNA Biology. 12(2). 221–231. 32 indexed citations
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Serfling, Robert, et al.. (2013). Computationally easy outlier detection via projection pursuit with finitely many directions. Journal of nonparametric statistics. 25(2). 447–461. 4 indexed citations
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Serfling, Robert. (2010). Equivariance and invariance properties of multivariate quantile and related functions, and the role of standardisation. Journal of nonparametric statistics. 22(7). 915–936. 55 indexed citations
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Dang, Xin & Robert Serfling. (2010). A numerical study of multiple imputation methods using nonparametric multivariate outlier identifiers and depth-based performance criteria with clinical laboratory data. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 81(5). 547–560. 5 indexed citations
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Dang, Xin, Robert Serfling, & Weihua Zhou. (2008). Influence functions of some depth functions, and application to depth-weighted L-statistics. Journal of nonparametric statistics. 21(1). 49–66. 9 indexed citations
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Serfling, Robert, et al.. (2006). Data Depth: Robust Multivariate Analysis, Computational Geometry and Applications. 65 indexed citations
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Wang, Jin & Robert Serfling. (2005). Nonparametric multivariate kurtosis and tailweight measures. Journal of nonparametric statistics. 17(4). 441–456. 18 indexed citations
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Serfling, Robert, et al.. (2005). Influence functions for a general class of depth-based generalized quantile functions. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 97(4). 810–826. 7 indexed citations
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Serfling, Robert. (2002). Generalized Quantile Processes Based on Multivariate Depth Functions, with Applications in Nonparametric Multivariate Analysis. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 83(1). 232–247. 22 indexed citations
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Helmers, Roelof, Paul Janssen, & Robert Serfling. (1990). Berry-Esséen and bootstrap results for generalized $L$-statistics. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. 17(1). 65–77. 16 indexed citations
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Serfling, Robert. (1980). Approximation Theorems of Mathematical Statistics. Wiley series in probability and statistics. 4067 indexed citations breakdown →

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