Rolf Pfeifer

93 papers and 5.7k indexed citations
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About

Rolf Pfeifer is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Rolf Pfeifer has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 30 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 23 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Rolf Pfeifer’s work include Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (19 papers), Robot Manipulation and Learning (16 papers) and Robotic Locomotion and Control (16 papers). Rolf Pfeifer is often cited by papers focused on Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (19 papers), Robot Manipulation and Learning (16 papers) and Robotic Locomotion and Control (16 papers). Rolf Pfeifer collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Japan and United States. Rolf Pfeifer's co-authors include Josh Bongard, Fumiya Iida, Max Lungarella, Christian Scheier, Helmut Häuser, Kohei Nakajima, Luc Steels, Zoltan Schreter, Thomas Labhart and Dimitrios Lambrinos and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rolf Pfeifer

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

Rolf Pfeifer

91 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Rolf Pfeifer

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