Stefan Schwerdfeger

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Stefan Schwerdfeger is a scholar working on Automotive Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefan Schwerdfeger has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Automotive Engineering, 15 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 12 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Stefan Schwerdfeger's work include Transportation and Mobility Innovations (14 papers), Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization (9 papers) and Urban and Freight Transport Logistics (8 papers). Stefan Schwerdfeger is often cited by papers focused on Transportation and Mobility Innovations (14 papers), Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization (9 papers) and Urban and Freight Transport Logistics (8 papers). Stefan Schwerdfeger collaborates with scholars based in Germany and Denmark. Stefan Schwerdfeger's co-authors include Nils Boysen, Stefan Fedtke, Dirk Briskorn, Felix Weidinger, Simon Emde, Konrad Stephan, Stefan Bock, Marlin W. Ulmer and Alena Otto and has published in prestigious journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies and Transportation Research Part B Methodological.

In The Last Decade

Stefan Schwerdfeger

26 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

Last-mile delivery concepts: a survey from an operational research perspective

2020 336 citations Nils Boysen, Stefan Fedtke et al. OR Spectrum profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Stefan Schwerdfeger	668	644	600	199	191	27	1.2k
Marlin W. Ulmer	1.1k 1.6×	1.2k 1.9×	877 1.5×	136 0.7×	493 2.6×	56	1.8k
Matthias Winkenbach	971 1.5×	695 1.1×	924 1.5×	408 2.1×	321 1.7×	43	1.8k
Sin C. Ho	839 1.3×	919 1.4×	569 0.9×	67 0.3×	634 3.3×	23	1.6k
Giusy Macrina	645 1.0×	548 0.9×	328 0.5×	313 1.6×	67 0.4×	28	976
Nilson Herazo-Padilla	805 1.2×	449 0.7×	431 0.7×	56 0.3×	172 0.9×	12	1.0k
Zhixing Luo	643 1.0×	389 0.6×	256 0.4×	62 0.3×	96 0.5×	32	816
Michael Drexl	1.2k 1.8×	633 1.0×	610 1.0×	82 0.4×	180 0.9×	23	1.4k
Maria Battarra	714 1.1×	365 0.6×	301 0.5×	128 0.6×	171 0.9×	35	1.0k
Iman Dayarian	358 0.5×	275 0.4×	240 0.4×	104 0.5×	66 0.3×	20	569
Gerardo Berbeglia	821 1.2×	738 1.1×	475 0.8×	18 0.1×	251 1.3×	22	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefan Schwerdfeger

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Schwerdfeger, Stefan, Nils Boysen, Dirk Briskorn, & Konrad Stephan. (2024). Keep on moving: Optimized placement of moving walkways in airport terminals. Transportation Research Part B Methodological. 183. 102926–102926. 1 indexed citations

Boysen, Nils, et al.. (2024). Public transport crowdshipping: moving shipments among parcel lockers located at public transport stations. OR Spectrum. 46(3). 873–907. 7 indexed citations

Boysen, Nils, et al.. (2024). Jam in the Tunnel: On Urban Freight Tunnels, Their Operational Scheduling, and Unused Transport Capacity. Service Science. 16(3). 184–201. 3 indexed citations

Boysen, Nils, Konrad Stephan, & Stefan Schwerdfeger. (2024). Order consolidation in warehouses: The loop sorter scheduling problem. European Journal of Operational Research. 316(2). 459–472.

Boysen, Nils, Stefan Schwerdfeger, & Marlin W. Ulmer. (2023). Robotized sorting systems: Large-scale scheduling under real-time conditions with limited lookahead. European Journal of Operational Research. 310(2). 582–596. 12 indexed citations

Boysen, Nils, Stefan Schwerdfeger, & Konrad Stephan. (2022). A review of synchronization problems in parts-to-picker warehouses. European Journal of Operational Research. 307(3). 1374–1390. 16 indexed citations

Schwerdfeger, Stefan & Nils Boysen. (2022). Who moves the locker? A benchmark study of alternative mobile parcel locker concepts. Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies. 142. 103780–103780. 21 indexed citations

Schwerdfeger, Stefan, et al.. (2022). Make or break: Coordinated assignment of parking space for breaks and rest periods in long-haul trucking. Transportation Research Part B Methodological. 164. 45–64. 5 indexed citations

Boysen, Nils, Simon Emde, & Stefan Schwerdfeger. (2021). Crowdshipping by employees of distribution centers: Optimization approaches for matching supply and demand. European Journal of Operational Research. 296(2). 539–556. 50 indexed citations

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Boysen, Nils, Dirk Briskorn, Stefan Schwerdfeger, & Konrad Stephan. (2021). Optimizing carpool formation along high-occupancy vehicle lanes. European Journal of Operational Research. 293(3). 1097–1112. 12 indexed citations

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Schwerdfeger, Stefan, Stefan Bock, Nils Boysen, & Dirk Briskorn. (2021). Optimizing the electrification of roads with charge-while-drive technology. European Journal of Operational Research. 299(3). 1111–1127. 24 indexed citations

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Schwerdfeger, Stefan, Alena Otto, & Nils Boysen. (2021). Rail platooning: Scheduling trains along a rail corridor with rapid-shunting facilities. European Journal of Operational Research. 294(2). 760–778. 8 indexed citations

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Boysen, Nils, Stefan Fedtke, & Stefan Schwerdfeger. (2020). Last-mile delivery concepts: a survey from an operational research perspective. OR Spectrum. 43(1). 1–58. 336 indexed citations breakdown →

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Boysen, Nils, et al.. (2020). Scheduling taxi services for a team of car relocators. Computers & Operations Research. 128. 105188–105188. 3 indexed citations

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Boysen, Nils, Dirk Briskorn, & Stefan Schwerdfeger. (2019). Matching supply and demand in a sharing economy: Classification, computational complexity, and application. European Journal of Operational Research. 278(2). 578–595. 56 indexed citations

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Boysen, Nils, Stefan Schwerdfeger, & Felix Weidinger. (2018). Scheduling last-mile deliveries with truck-based autonomous robots. European Journal of Operational Research. 271(3). 1085–1099. 202 indexed citations

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Boysen, Nils, Dirk Briskorn, & Stefan Schwerdfeger. (2018). The identical-path truck platooning problem. Transportation Research Part B Methodological. 109. 26–39. 83 indexed citations

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Schwerdfeger, Stefan, Nils Boysen, & Dirk Briskorn. (2017). Just-in-time logistics for far-distant suppliers: scheduling truck departures from an intermediate cross-docking terminal. OR Spectrum. 40(1). 1–21. 19 indexed citations

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Schwerdfeger, Stefan, et al.. (2017). Reduction criteria, upper bounds, and a dynamic programming based heuristic for the max–min $$k_i$$ k i -partitioning problem. Journal of Heuristics. 24(2). 173–203. 1 indexed citations

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Schwerdfeger, Stefan, et al.. (2016). A fast and effective subset sum based improvement procedure for workload balancing on identical parallel machines. Computers & Operations Research. 73. 84–91. 9 indexed citations

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