Vera Hummel

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 925 citations indexed

About

Vera Hummel is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management Information Systems and Management of Technology and Innovation. According to data from OpenAlex, Vera Hummel has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 925 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 4 papers in Management Information Systems and 4 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation. Recurrent topics in Vera Hummel's work include Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (20 papers), Digital Transformation in Industry (13 papers) and Manufacturing Process and Optimization (8 papers). Vera Hummel is often cited by papers focused on Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (20 papers), Digital Transformation in Industry (13 papers) and Manufacturing Process and Optimization (8 papers). Vera Hummel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and South Africa. Vera Hummel's co-authors include Wilfried Sihn, Fabian Ranz, Michael Tisch, Joachim Metternich, Eberhard Abele, George Chryssolouris, Hoda ElMaraghy, Waguih ElMaraghy, Gunilla Sivard and Günther Seliger and has published in prestigious journals such as Sensors, CIRP Annals and Procedia Manufacturing.

In The Last Decade

Vera Hummel

27 papers receiving 853 citations

Hit Papers

Learning Factories for Research, Education, and Training 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 50 100 150 200 250
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. Learning Factories for Research, Education, and Training
    2015 260 citations Joachim Metternich, Wilfried Sihn et al. Procedia CIRP profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Vera Hummel Germany 11 691 91 86 80 78 32 925
Nikos Panopoulos Greece 22 631 0.9× 94 1.0× 76 0.9× 55 0.7× 76 1.0× 47 1.4k
Vasilios Zogopoulos Greece 16 482 0.7× 73 0.8× 84 1.0× 61 0.8× 53 0.7× 28 953
Jorge D. Camba United States 16 440 0.6× 67 0.7× 114 1.3× 52 0.7× 216 2.8× 82 1.1k
Dimitris Mavrikios Greece 18 753 1.1× 98 1.1× 144 1.7× 187 2.3× 198 2.5× 29 1.4k
Konstantinos Georgoulias Greece 16 772 1.1× 122 1.3× 123 1.4× 65 0.8× 138 1.8× 24 1.3k
Christos Giannoulis Greece 15 314 0.5× 34 0.4× 61 0.7× 66 0.8× 76 1.0× 30 727
Philipp Hold Austria 10 435 0.6× 102 1.1× 85 1.0× 50 0.6× 21 0.3× 17 632
Sebastian Schlund Austria 14 337 0.5× 85 0.9× 64 0.7× 22 0.3× 38 0.5× 63 614
Michael Tisch Germany 13 694 1.0× 151 1.7× 112 1.3× 171 2.1× 100 1.3× 25 998
Mathias Schmitt Germany 5 709 1.0× 170 1.9× 109 1.3× 17 0.2× 43 0.6× 10 983

Countries citing papers authored by Vera Hummel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Vera Hummel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vera Hummel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Vera Hummel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Vera Hummel 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 Vera Hummel. Vera Hummel 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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Hummel, Vera, et al.. (2024). Development of a Simulation-Based Solution Concept for AI-Driven Clustering / Combination of Pick and Stow Operations to Improve Logistics Performance in SMEs. Reutlingen University Academic Bibliography (Reutlingen University). 1145–1150.
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Hummel, Vera, et al.. (2023). Camera-Based Indoor Positioning System for the Creation of Digital Shadows of Plant Layouts. Sensors. 23(21). 8845–8845.
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Hummel, Vera, et al.. (2020). Cooperation between Learning Factories: Approach and Example. Procedia Manufacturing. 45. 222–227. 2 indexed citations
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Hummel, Vera, et al.. (2020). Development of a catalogue of criteria for the evaluation of the self-organization of flexible intralogistics systems. Procedia CIRP. 93. 832–837. 3 indexed citations
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Darun, Mohd Ridzuan, et al.. (2019). The Learning Factory – A New Stimulus to Enhance International Collaboration. Procedia Manufacturing. 31. 290–295. 6 indexed citations
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Hummel, Vera, et al.. (2019). Self-organization of changeable intralogistics systems at the ESB Logistics Learning Factory. Procedia Manufacturing. 31. 194–199. 8 indexed citations
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Hummel, Vera, et al.. (2019). 21st century knowledge dissemination: adaptive games to address the skills gap. 366–374. 1 indexed citations
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Ranz, Fabian, et al.. (2018). A Morphology of Human Robot Collaboration Systems for Industrial Assembly. Procedia CIRP. 72. 99–104. 28 indexed citations
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Ranz, Fabian, et al.. (2018). A study on challenges in the implementation of human-robot collaboration. Reutlingen University Academic Bibliography (Reutlingen University). 1. 29–39. 7 indexed citations
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Lutz, Matthias, et al.. (2018). Automation of Intralogistic Processes through Flexibilisation - A Method for the Flexible Configuration and Evaluation of Systems of Systems. Reutlingen University Academic Bibliography (Reutlingen University). 390–398. 4 indexed citations
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Hummel, Vera, et al.. (2018). Development of a descriptive model for intralogistics as a foundation for an autonomous control method for intralogistics systems. Procedia Manufacturing. 23. 225–230. 7 indexed citations
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Ranz, Fabian, Vera Hummel, & Wilfried Sihn. (2017). Capability-based Task Allocation in Human-robot Collaboration. Procedia Manufacturing. 9. 182–189. 109 indexed citations
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Hold, Philipp, Fabian Ranz, Wilfried Sihn, & Vera Hummel. (2016). Planning Operator Support in Cyber-Physical Assembly Systems. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 49(32). 60–65. 13 indexed citations
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Hummel, Vera, et al.. (2016). The learning factory : a didactic platform for knowledge transfer in South Africa. SUNScholar (Stellenbosch University). 1 indexed citations
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Jäger, Andreas, Jörg Bauer, Vera Hummel, & Wilfried Sihn. (2014). LOPEC – Logistics Personal Excellence by Continuous Self-assessment. Procedia CIRP. 25. 69–74. 5 indexed citations

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