Wolfgang Kröger

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Wolfgang Kröger is a scholar working on Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Civil and Structural Engineering and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, Wolfgang Kröger has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, 12 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 9 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in Wolfgang Kröger's work include Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (12 papers), Nuclear and radioactivity studies (11 papers) and Risk and Safety Analysis (9 papers). Wolfgang Kröger is often cited by papers focused on Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (12 papers), Nuclear and radioactivity studies (11 papers) and Risk and Safety Analysis (9 papers). Wolfgang Kröger collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Wolfgang Kröger's co-authors include Enrico Zio, Ortwin Renn, Irene Eusgeld, Cen Nan, Todd S. Bridges, Thomas Clemen, Cate Fox‐Lent, Didier Sornette, Felix Creutzig and Benjamin Scharte and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Energy Policy and Nature Climate Change.

In The Last Decade

Wolfgang Kröger

38 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Changing the resilience paradigm 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300 400
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. Changing the resilience paradigm
    2014 451 citations Igor Linkov, Todd S. Bridges et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers

Wolfgang Kröger
Linda K. Nozick United States
José Emmanuel Ramirez‐Marquez United States
Hiba Baroud United States
Terrence Kelly United States
Devanandham Henry United States
Henrik Hassel Sweden
Royce A. Francis United States
Raghav Pant United Kingdom
J.P. Peerenboom United States
Steven M. Rinaldi United States
Linda K. Nozick United States
Wolfgang Kröger
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Countries citing papers authored by Wolfgang Kröger

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wolfgang Kröger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Wolfgang Kröger. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Wolfgang Kröger. The network helps show where Wolfgang Kröger may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wolfgang Kröger

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wolfgang Kröger. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wolfgang Kröger 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 Wolfgang Kröger. Wolfgang Kröger 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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Kröger, Wolfgang. (2025). How safe should automated vehicles be? - A survey and proposal for discussion. Next research.. 2(2). 100238–100238.
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Kajitani, Yoshio, et al.. (2023). A framework to estimate a long-term power shortage risk following large-scale earthquake and tsunami disasters. PLoS ONE. 18(3). e0283686–e0283686. 2 indexed citations
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Ayoub, Ali, et al.. (2021). The ETH Zurich curated nuclear events database: Layout, event classification, and analysis of contributing factors. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 213. 107781–107781. 10 indexed citations
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Kröger, Wolfgang. (2020). Automated vehicle driving: background and deduction of governance needs. Journal of Risk Research. 24(1). 14–27. 11 indexed citations
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Renn, Ortwin, Manfred D. Laubichler, Klaus Lucas, et al.. (2020). Systemic Risks from Different Perspectives. Risk Analysis. 42(9). 1902–1920. 106 indexed citations
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Sornette, Didier, Wolfgang Kröger, & Spencer Wheatley. (2018). New Ways and Needs for Exploiting Nuclear Energy. 13 indexed citations
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Graham, John D., Harvey V. Fineberg, Dirk Helbing, et al.. (2017). The Emergence of Risks: Contributing Factors. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 6 indexed citations
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Linkov, Igor, Todd S. Bridges, Felix Creutzig, et al.. (2014). Changing the resilience paradigm. Nature Climate Change. 4(6). 407–409. 451 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kröger, Wolfgang & Didier Sornette. (2013). Reflections on Limitations of Current PSA – Methodology. 5 indexed citations
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Nan, Cen, Irene Eusgeld, & Wolfgang Kröger. (2013). Analyzing vulnerabilities between SCADA system and SUC due to interdependencies. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 113. 76–93. 35 indexed citations
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Streffer, C., et al.. (2011). Radioactive Waste. 1 indexed citations
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Kröger, Wolfgang, et al.. (2009). Analyzing maintenance strategies by agent-based simulations: A feasibility study. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 94(9). 1416–1421. 40 indexed citations
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Gheorghe, Adrian V., et al.. (2004). Comprehensive risk assessment for rail transportation of dangerous goods: a validated platform for decision support. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 88(3). 247–272. 59 indexed citations
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Kröger, Wolfgang, et al.. (1991). Safety aspects and safety research. Energy. 16(1-2). 381–393.
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Kröger, Wolfgang, J. Mertens, & J. Wolters. (1990). Basic risk analyses for high-temperature reactors. Nuclear Engineering and Design. 121(2). 299–309. 3 indexed citations
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Kröger, Wolfgang & R. Schulten. (1990). Technology and Safety Aspects of the German High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor. Nuclear Technology. 91(2). 154–164. 1 indexed citations
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Kröger, Wolfgang. (1988). Grundlinien der Minjungtheologie. Evangelische Theologie. 48(4). 360–369.
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Kröger, Wolfgang & J. Wolters. (1986). Experience in the Use of Probabilistic Safety Analysis for the Development of Safety Concepts for Commercial High-Temperature Reactors. Nuclear Technology. 74(1). 53–64. 1 indexed citations
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Kröger, Wolfgang, et al.. (1981). Das Publikum als Richter: Lessing und die 'kleineren Respondenten' im Fragmentenstreit. The Modern Language Review. 76(2). 501–501.

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