Dirk Lefeber

15.2k citations
358 papers · 11.2k · 3 hit papers · h-index 51

Impact in

    • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
    • Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics
    • Muscle activation and electromyography studies
    • Soft Robotics and Applications
    • Robotic Locomotion and Control
    • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
    • Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices

Papers in

    • Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics 241
    • Muscle activation and electromyography studies 163
    • Robotic Locomotion and Control 61
    • Soft Robotics and Applications 48
    • Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices 27
    • Robot Manipulation and Learning 48

Dirk Lefeber

354 papers receiving 10.9k citations

Dirk Lefeber's Hit Papers

Self-healing soft pneumatic robots 2017 · 447 citations
4470+5+11Years since publication200400600

Peers

Dirk Lefeber
Comparison fields: 5 of 169
  • Rehabilitation 1.3k
  • Biomedical Engineering 8.6k
  • Control and Systems Engineering 2.6k
  • Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation 273
  • Mechanical Engineering 1.5k
Replace Bram Vanderborght with:
Bram Vanderborght Belgium
Nikos G. Tsagarakis Italy
Maria Chiara Carrozza Italy
Darwin G. Caldwell Italy
Conor J. Walsh United States
Eugenio Guglielmelli Italy
Steven H. Collins United States
Etienne Burdet United Kingdom
Hannes Bleuler Switzerland
José L. Pons Spain
Dirk Lefeber relative to Bram Vanderborght Belgium Bram Vanderborght's profile →
Citations per field
00.5×1.5×
Bram Vanderborght · 1×
Citations per year

Countries citing papers authored by Dirk Lefeber

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Dirk Lefeber's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Dirk Lefeber with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Dirk Lefeber more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Dirk Lefeber

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Dirk Lefeber. 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 Dirk Lefeber. The network helps show where Dirk Lefeber may publish in the future.

Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Dirk Lefeber, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

Border = papers with Dirk Lefeber Line = papers co-authored together Dirk Lefeber links everyone, so they are left out of the graph.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown

Showing the 20 most-cited of 358 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.

#Work
1
Compliant actuator designs
Hit paper breakdown →
2009712
2
Pneumatic artificial muscles: actuators for robotics and automation
2002492
3
Self-healing soft pneumatic robots
Hit paper breakdown →
2017447
4
Variable Stiffness Actuators: Review on Design and Components
Hit paper breakdown →
2015348
5 2007313
6 2014224
7 2001203
8 2015169
9 2012167
10 2018165
11 2006156
12 2005154
13 2009144
14 2010134
15 2010134
16 2013132
17 2015128
18 2009127
19 2018124
20 2002118

About Dirk Lefeber

Dirk Lefeber is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Social Psychology and Rehabilitation, having authored 358 papers that have together received 11.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics (241 papers), Muscle activation and electromyography studies (163 papers), Robotic Locomotion and Control (61 papers), Soft Robotics and Applications (48 papers), Robot Manipulation and Learning (48 papers), Social Robot Interaction and HRI (34 papers), Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery (33 papers) and Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices (27 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Rehabilitation (1.3k citations), Biomedical Engineering (8.6k citations), Control and Systems Engineering (2.6k citations), Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (273 citations) and Mechanical Engineering (1.5k citations). Dirk Lefeber has collaborated with scholars based in Belgium, Italy and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Bram Vanderborght, Ronald Van Ham, Frank Daerden, Michaël Van Damme, Björn Verrelst, Pieter Beyl, Carlos Rodriguez‐Guerrero, Thomas G. Sugar, Kevin W. Hollander and Glenn Mathijssen. Their work appears in journals such as IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Mechanism and Machine Theory, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics and Mechatronics.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact