Steffen Staab

27.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
335 papers, 10.3k citations indexed

About

Steffen Staab is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Steffen Staab has authored 335 papers receiving a total of 10.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 244 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 126 papers in Information Systems and 80 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Steffen Staab's work include Semantic Web and Ontologies (179 papers), Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services (86 papers) and Advanced Database Systems and Queries (58 papers). Steffen Staab is often cited by papers focused on Semantic Web and Ontologies (179 papers), Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services (86 papers) and Advanced Database Systems and Queries (58 papers). Steffen Staab collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Steffen Staab's co-authors include Rudi Studer, Alexander Maedche, Philipp Cimiano, Siegfried Handschuh, Andreas Hotho, York Sure, Hans-Peter Schnurr, Gerd Stumme, Ansgar Scherp and Christoph Tempich and has published in prestigious journals such as Genetics, Communications of the ACM and Expert Systems with Applications.

In The Last Decade

Steffen Staab

305 papers receiving 9.0k citations

Hit Papers

Handbook on Ontologies 2001 2026 2009 2017 2004 2021 2001 2012 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. Handbook on Ontologies
    2004 730 citations Steffen Staab, Rudi Studer profile →
  2. Knowledge Graphs
    2021 632 citations Steffen Staab et al. profile →
  3. Ontology learning for the Semantic Web
    2001 609 citations Alexander Maedche, Steffen Staab profile →
  4. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on World Wide Web
    2012 429 citations Alain Mille, Fabien Gandon et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Steffen Staab 7.4k 4.6k 2.0k 1.3k 896 335 10.3k
Tim Berners‐Lee 8.3k 1.1× 6.0k 1.3× 3.2k 1.6× 1.5k 1.2× 948 1.1× 87 13.1k
Stefan Decker 4.4k 0.6× 3.0k 0.6× 2.1k 1.1× 841 0.6× 434 0.5× 287 7.3k
Christian Bizer 9.7k 1.3× 4.9k 1.1× 2.4k 1.2× 1.8k 1.4× 451 0.5× 121 11.9k
Ian Horrocks 11.4k 1.5× 6.5k 1.4× 4.0k 2.0× 2.5k 1.9× 1.2k 1.3× 300 13.8k
Thomas Gruber 9.9k 1.3× 5.9k 1.3× 2.5k 1.3× 1.9k 1.4× 2.0k 2.3× 74 14.8k
Gerhard Weikum 7.9k 1.1× 4.0k 0.9× 4.9k 2.5× 661 0.5× 433 0.5× 472 12.8k
James Hendler 12.1k 1.6× 8.1k 1.8× 4.3k 2.2× 1.7k 1.3× 1.6k 1.8× 335 18.6k
Oren Etzioni 13.5k 1.8× 6.4k 1.4× 2.1k 1.1× 829 0.6× 260 0.3× 192 17.7k
Deborah L. McGuinness 10.0k 1.4× 6.1k 1.3× 3.1k 1.6× 1.9k 1.5× 1.4k 1.6× 214 13.8k
Jimmy Lin 7.4k 1.0× 4.1k 0.9× 1.7k 0.9× 1.0k 0.8× 172 0.2× 431 11.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Steffen Staab

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steffen Staab

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

All Works

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Lombardi, Alessio, et al.. (2025). AEC Co-design workflow for cross-domain querying and reasoning using Semantic Web Technologies. Automation in Construction. 176. 106226–106226.
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Pan, Jiaxin, Mojtaba Nayyeri, Yinan Li, & Steffen Staab. (2024). HGE: Embedding Temporal Knowledge Graphs in a Product Space of Heterogeneous Geometric Subspaces. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 38(8). 8913–8920. 1 indexed citations
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Jürjens, Jan, et al.. (2024). MBFair: a model-based verification methodology for detecting violations of individual fairness. Software & Systems Modeling. 24(1). 111–136.
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Shen, Jiaming, et al.. (2023). HiPrompt: Few-Shot Biomedical Knowledge Fusion via Hierarchy-Oriented Prompting. PubMed. 2023. 2052–2056. 7 indexed citations
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Staab, Steffen, et al.. (2023). SCENE: Reasoning About Traffic Scenes Using Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 8(3). 1531–1538. 29 indexed citations
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Staab, Steffen, et al.. (2017). Towards SPARQL instance-level Update in the Presence of OWL-DL TBoxes. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 1 indexed citations
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Staab, Steffen, et al.. (2017). Koral: A Glass Box Profiling System for Individual Components of Distributed RDF Stores.. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 3 indexed citations
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Mille, Alain, et al.. (2012). Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on World Wide Web. 429 indexed citations breakdown →
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Staab, Steffen. (2012). Managing Online Business Communities.. International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems.
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Schenk, Simon, et al.. (2009). Provenance, Trust, Explanations - and all that other Meta Knowledge.. Künstliche Intell.. 23. 24–30. 6 indexed citations
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Schenk, Simon, et al.. (2007). OWL SAIQL - An OWL DL query language for ontology extraction. 258. 1–11. 2 indexed citations
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Bloehdorn, Stephan, Philipp Cimiano, Andreas Hotho, & Steffen Staab. (2005). An Ontology-based Framework for Text Mining. 20(1). 87–112. 28 indexed citations
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Cimiano, Philipp & Steffen Staab. (2005). Learning Concept Hierarchies from Text with a Guided Agglomerative Clustering Algorithm. PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University). 33 indexed citations
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Cimiano, Philipp, Steffen Staab, & Julien Tane. (2003). Automatic Acquisition of Taxonomies from Text: FCA meets NLP. Publikationen an der Universität Bielefeld (Universität Bielefeld). 10. 41 indexed citations
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Hotho, Andreas, Alexander Maedche, Steffen Staab, & Rudi Studer. (2001). SEAL-II - The Soft Spot between Richly Structured and Unstructured Knowledge. MADOC (University of Mannheim). 13 indexed citations
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Handschuh, Siegfried, Steffen Staab, & Alexander Maedche. (2001). CREAM: creating relational metadata with a component-based, ontology-driven annotation framework. International Semantic Web Conference. 515–528. 77 indexed citations

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