Stephen L. Smith

11.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
228 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Stephen L. Smith is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Computer Networks and Communications and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen L. Smith has authored 228 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 54 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 35 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Stephen L. Smith's work include Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (51 papers), Optimization and Search Problems (44 papers) and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (35 papers). Stephen L. Smith is often cited by papers focused on Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (51 papers), Optimization and Search Problems (44 papers) and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (35 papers). Stephen L. Smith collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Stephen L. Smith's co-authors include Honggen Xiao, Daniel Guttentag, Daniela Rus, Robin Nunkoo, Mark E. Havitz, Luke R. Potwarka, Steven L. Waslander, Călin Belta, Francesco Bullo and Haywantee Ramkissoon and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Proceedings of the IEEE.

In The Last Decade

Stephen L. Smith

216 papers receiving 7.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Why Tourists Choose Airbnb: A Motivation-Based Segmentation Study

2017 552 citations Stephen L. Smith et al. profile →
Assessing Airbnb as a disruptive innovation relative to hotels: Substitution and comparative performance expectations

2017 384 citations Stephen L. Smith et al. profile →
Residents’ attitudes to tourism: a longitudinal study of 140 articles from 1984 to 2010

2012 343 citations Stephen L. Smith et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen L. Smith Canada	46	3.9k	1.7k	1.2k	969	968	228	8.1k
John D. C. Little United States	36	605 0.2×	3.3k 1.9×	1.1k 0.9×	899 0.9×	136 0.1×	76	8.7k
Mark Hansen United States	41	732 0.2×	276 0.2×	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	1.0k 1.0×	181	8.3k
Sangwon Park South Korea	33	3.5k 0.9×	1.9k 1.1×	720 0.6×	528 0.5×	55 0.1×	132	5.5k
Horst Treiblmaier Austria	44	1.2k 0.3×	882 0.5×	536 0.5×	76 0.1×	233 0.2×	167	6.8k
Éric Gilbert United States	50	3.4k 0.9×	381 0.2×	514 0.4×	194 0.2×	1.6k 1.7×	139	13.2k
Bernard J. Jansen United States	56	3.7k 1.0×	2.0k 1.2×	728 0.6×	122 0.1×	880 0.9×	432	14.1k
Shu‐Chuan Chu China	46	3.3k 0.9×	2.1k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	61 0.1×	1.4k 1.5×	303	9.3k
Wu He United States	41	2.0k 0.5×	660 0.4×	2.6k 2.2×	75 0.1×	403 0.4×	144	9.1k
Weiguo Fan United States	52	4.0k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	384 0.3×	147 0.2×	1.1k 1.2×	266	10.3k
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis United States	36	2.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	630 0.5×	228 0.2×	667 0.7×	109	9.6k

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Smith, Stephen L., et al.. (2025). To Lead or to Follow? Adaptive Robot Task Planning in Human–Robot Collaboration. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 41. 4215–4235. 1 indexed citations

Alonso–Mora, Javier, et al.. (2024). Regret-Based Sampling of Pareto Fronts for Multiobjective Robot Planning Problems. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 40. 3778–3794. 3 indexed citations

Fan, Kevin, et al.. (2024). Human leading or following preferences: Effects on human perception of the robot and the human–robot collaboration. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 183. 104821–104821. 5 indexed citations

Sundaram, Shreyas, et al.. (2024). Multirobot Persistent Monitoring: Minimizing Latency and Number of Robots With Recharging Constraints. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 41. 236–252. 5 indexed citations

Smith, Stephen L., et al.. (2024). Scalarizing Multi-Objective Robot Planning Problems Using Weighted Maximization. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 9(3). 2503–2510. 6 indexed citations

Smith, Stephen L., et al.. (2023). Predictive Dead Reckoning for Online Peer-to-Peer Games. IEEE Transactions on Games. 16(1). 173–184.

Alonso–Mora, Javier, et al.. (2023). Optimizing Task Waiting Times in Dynamic Vehicle Routing. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 8(9). 5520–5527. 5 indexed citations

Smith, Stephen L., et al.. (2023). Spatio-Temporal Lattice Planning Using Optimal Motion Primitives. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 24(11). 11950–11962. 2 indexed citations

Smith, Stephen L., et al.. (2022). Joint Estimation of Expertise and Reward Preferences From Human Demonstrations. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 39(1). 681–698. 2 indexed citations

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Gharesifard, Bahman, et al.. (2022). Submodular Maximization With Limited Function Access. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 68(9). 5522–5535. 5 indexed citations

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Mahajan, Aditya, et al.. (2022). Scalable Operator Allocation for Multirobot Assistance: A Restless Bandit Approach. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. 9(3). 1397–1408. 12 indexed citations

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Smith, Stephen L., et al.. (2022). Tunable Trajectory Planner Using G³ Curves. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. 7(2). 273–285. 11 indexed citations

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Smith, Stephen L., et al.. (2021). Learning Submodular Objectives for Team Environmental Monitoring. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 7(2). 960–967. 9 indexed citations

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Smith, Stephen L., et al.. (2021). Universally Safe Swerve Maneuvers for Autonomous Driving. IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. 2. 482–494. 10 indexed citations

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Smith, Stephen L., et al.. (2021). Rebalancing Self-Interested Drivers in Ride-Sharing Networks to Improve Customer Wait-Time. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. 8(4). 1637–1648. 8 indexed citations

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Smith, Stephen L., et al.. (2019). An SMT-Based Approach to Motion Planning for Multiple Robots With Complex Constraints. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 35(3). 669–684. 17 indexed citations

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Ding, Xu Chu, Stephen L. Smith, Călin Belta, & Daniela Rus. (2016). LTL Control in Uncertain Environments with Probabilistic Satisfaction Guarantees. OpenBU/Boston University Institutional Repository (Boston University). 19 indexed citations

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Robinson, Peter, Michael Lück, & Stephen L. Smith. (2013). Themes in tourism.. Tourism. 219–260. 5 indexed citations

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Smith, Stephen L.. (2011). Quantitative Methods in Tourism: A Handbook. Tourism Recreation Research. 36(3). 311–312. 2 indexed citations

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Grunsfeld, J. M., et al.. (1999). Hubble Space Telescope Third Servicing Mission: The Perspective from Orbit. American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts. 195.

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