2026 Boris S. Kerner: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	53	3319	3178	102	98	346	14969

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Engineering and Technology

3319

3178

102

346

14969

Engineering and Technology

D-Index

Citations

14969

World Ranking

3319

National Ranking

102

Overview

Boris S. Kerner is affiliated with the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and social sciences, with significant work in subfields such as control and systems engineering, building and construction, transportation, automotive engineering, and ocean engineering.

The main topics of Boris S. Kerner's work include:

Traffic control and management
Traffic prediction and management techniques
Transportation planning and optimization
Autonomous vehicle technology and safety
Evacuation and crowd dynamics
Simulation and modeling applications
Robotic path planning algorithms

Boris S. Kerner has published extensively in various scientific venues, frequently appearing in:

Physical review. E
arXiv (Cornell University)
Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
SSRN Electronic Journal
Computer Research and Modeling

Recent papers authored by Boris S. Kerner include:

"Effect of autonomous driving on traffic breakdown in mixed traffic flow: A comparison of classical ACC with three-traffic-phase-ACC (TPACC)" (2020), published in Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
"Physics of automated-driving vehicular traffic" (2023), published in Physical review. E
"A methodology of cooperative driving based on microscopic traffic prediction" (2024), published in Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Other related coauthors who have frequently collaborated with Boris S. Kerner are:

Sergey L. Klenov
Michael Schreckenberg
Vincent Wiering
Dominik Wegerle
Tobias Sachon

Best Publications

THE PHYSICS OF TRAFFIC

Boris S Kerner

1157
Citations
Cluster effect in initially homogeneous traffic flow.

Boris S. Kerner;P Konhäuser

1065
Citations
EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES OF SELF-ORGANIZATION IN TRAFFIC FLOW

B. S. Kerner

725
Citations
EXPERIMENTAL PROPERTIES OF PHASE TRANSITIONS IN TRAFFIC FLOW

B. S. Kerner;H. Rehborn

700
Citations
Structure and parameters of clusters in traffic flow.

B. S. Kerner;P. Konhäuser

676
Citations
Experimental properties of complexity in traffic flow

Boris S. Kerner;H Rehborn

673
Citations
EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF TRAFFIC JAMS

Boris S. Kerner;H Rehborn

669
Citations
Introduction to Modern Traffic Flow Theory and Control

Boris S. Kerner

657
Citations
Cellular automata approach to three-phase traffic theory

Boris S Kerner;Sergey L Klenov;Dietrich E Wolf

474
Citations
Three-phase traffic theory and highway capacity

Boris S. Kerner

431
Citations
The Physics of Traffic: Empirical Freeway Pattern Features, Engineering Applications, and Theory

Boris S. Kerner

413
Citations
Empirical macroscopic features of spatial-temporal traffic patterns at highway bottlenecks.

Boris S. Kerner

376
Citations
A microscopic model for phase transitions in traffic flow

Boris S Kerner;Sergey L Klenov

294
Citations
LOCAL CLUSTER EFFECT IN DIFFERENT TRAFFIC FLOW MODELS

Matthias Herrmann;Boris S Kerner

278
Citations
Traffic state detection with floating car data in road networks

B.S. Kerner;C. Demir;R.G. Herrtwich;S.L. Klenov

237
Citations
CONGESTED TRAFFIC FLOW: OBSERVATIONS AND THEORY

Boris S. Kerner

234
Citations
Criticism of generally accepted fundamentals and methodologies of traffic and transportation theory: A brief review

Boris S. Kerner

183
Citations
Microscopic theory of spatial-temporal congested traffic patterns at highway bottlenecks

Boris S. Kerner;Sergey L. Klenov

181
Citations
DETERMINISTIC SPONTANEOUS APPEARANCE OF TRAFFIC JAMS IN SLIGHTLY INHOMOGENEOUS TRAFFIC FLOW

B. S. Kerner;P. Konhäuser;M. Schilke

165
Citations
Failure of classical traffic flow theories: Stochastic highway capacity and automatic driving

Boris S. Kerner

164
Citations
Complexity of Synchronized Flow and Related Problems for Basic Assumptions of Traffic Flow Theories

Boris S. Kerner

163
Citations
Recognition and tracking of spatial–temporal congested traffic patterns on freeways

Boris S. Kerner;Hubert Rehborn;Mario Aleksic;Andreas Haug

160
Citations
Deterministic microscopic three-phase traffic flow models

Boris S Kerner;Sergey L Klenov

156
Citations