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Dirk Helbing

Dirk Helbing

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Social Sciences and Humanities
Switzerland
2026
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Engineering and Technology
Switzerland
2022

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 105 66 55 1 1 510 66550

Dirk Helbing publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Dirk Helbing between 1959 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Dirk Helbing published across 67 years, from 1959 to 2025, averaging 9.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 45 publications in 2010. 31 of the 666 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1959 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 45. Peak 45 publications in 2010. 1959: 1 publication 1960: 0 publications 1961: 0 publications 1962: 0 publications 1963: 0 publications 1964: 0 publications 1965: 0 publications 1966: 0 publications 1967: 0 publications 1968: 0 publications 1969: 0 publications 1970: 0 publications 1971: 0 publications 1972: 0 publications 1973: 0 publications 1974: 0 publications 1975: 0 publications 1976: 0 publications 1977: 0 publications 1978: 0 publications 1979: 0 publications 1980: 1 publication 1981: 0 publications 1982: 0 publications 1983: 0 publications 1984: 0 publications 1985: 0 publications 1986: 0 publications 1987: 2 publications 1988: 1 publication 1989: 1 publication 1990: 1 publication 1991: 1 publication 1992: 5 publications 1993: 2 publications 1994: 3 publications 1995: 5 publications 1996: 6 publications 1997: 9 publications 1998: 16 publications 1999: 12 publications 2000: 19 publications 2001: 15 publications 2002: 18 publications 2003: 24 publications 2004: 14 publications 2005: 24 publications 2006: 25 publications 2007: 27 publications 2008: 32 publications 2009: 31 publications 2010: 45 publications 2011: 22 publications 2012: 43 publications 2013: 26 publications 2014: 28 publications 2015: 36 publications 2016: 16 publications 2017: 23 publications 2018: 9 publications 2019: 23 publications 2020: 7 publications 2021: 35 publications 2022: 13 publications 2023: 14 publications 2024: 21 publications 2025: 10 publications
1959 2025

666 publications in total across all disciplines

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Dirk Helbing: publications per year, 1959 to 2025
Year Publications
1959 1
1960 0
1961 0
1962 0
1963 0
1964 0
1965 0
1966 0
1967 0
1968 0
1969 0
1970 0
1971 0
1972 0
1973 0
1974 0
1975 0
1976 0
1977 0
1978 0
1979 0
1980 1
1981 0
1982 0
1983 0
1984 0
1985 0
1986 0
1987 2
1988 1
1989 1
1990 1
1991 1
1992 5
1993 2
1994 3
1995 5
1996 6
1997 9
1998 16
1999 12
2000 19
2001 15
2002 18
2003 24
2004 14
2005 24
2006 25
2007 27
2008 32
2009 31
2010 45
2011 22
2012 43
2013 26
2014 28
2015 36
2016 16
2017 23
2018 9
2019 23
2020 7
2021 35
2022 13
2023 14
2024 21
2025 10
Total 666
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Dirk Helbing publications per year - data summary

  • Dirk Helbing, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from ETH Zurich, has 666 publications recorded across 67 years, from 1959 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1959 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive year is 2010, with 45 publications.
  • The least productive years with any output are 1959, 1980, 1988, 1989 and others, with 1 publication each.
  • 26 of the 67 years in the span carry no publications at all (1960, 1961, 1962, 1963 and others).
  • The rate of publication averages 9.9 papers per year over the whole span, or 16.2 per year counting only the 41 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 93 publications, 14% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1959-1981: 2 publications (0.1 per year); 1982-2004: 154 publications (6.7 per year); 2005-2025: 510 publications (24.3 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Dirk Helbing publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dirk Helbing sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 504–513 publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 510 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406
114–123 474
124–133 453
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391
174–183 313
184–193 319
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170
244–253 167
254–263 162
264–273 138
274–283 138
284–293 113
294–303 106
304–313 95
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6 510
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100
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Dirk Helbing publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 7,777 Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 54 ranges running from 44–53 to 570+ publications.
  • Dirk Helbing, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from ETH Zurich, records 510 publications - the 98th percentile of the discipline.
  • 98% of ranked Social Sciences and Humanities scientists score the same or lower than Dirk Helbing, and about 2% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 164–173 publications range, and Dirk Helbing ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 114–123 publications, holding 474 scientists (6% of the field).
  • 57% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 174–183 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 570 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Dirk Helbing D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dirk Helbing sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 100+ D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 105 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

View D-Index distribution as a table
Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308
42 313
43 300
44 269
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186
50 187
51 166
52 138
53 141
54 131
55 137
56 109
57 129
58 95
59 105
60 106
61 86
62 94
63 77
64 79
65 59
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40
70 43
71 40
72 50
73 46
74 43
75 45
76 45
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97 105
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Dirk Helbing D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 7,777 Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 71 ranges running from 30 to 100+ D-Index.
  • Dirk Helbing, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from ETH Zurich, records 105 D-Index - the 99th percentile of the discipline.
  • 99% of ranked Social Sciences and Humanities scientists score the same or lower than Dirk Helbing, and about 1% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 45 D-Index range, and Dirk Helbing ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 42 D-Index, holding 313 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 59% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 47 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more, 97 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2008 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Economics and Empirical Social Sciences

Overview

Dirk Helbing is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and works primarily in the field of Social Sciences. Their research spans various subfields, including Sociology and Political Science, Transportation, Information Systems, Control and Systems Engineering, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

Their research focuses on several main topics, among which are:

  • Traffic control and management
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored include:

  • The role of complexity for digital twins of cities, 2023, Nature Computational Science
  • Participatory resilience: Surviving, recovering and improving together, 2022, Sustainable Cities and Society
  • Ethics of Smart Cities: Towards Value-Sensitive Design and Co-Evolving City Life, 2021, Sustainability
  • Democracy by Design: Perspectives for Digitally Assisted, Participatory Upgrades of Society, 2023, Journal of Computational Science
  • Fire evacuation supported by centralized and decentralized visual guidance systems, 2021, Safety Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Dirk Helbing include:

  • Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo
  • Carina Ines Hausladen
  • Sachit Mahajan
  • Evangelos Pournaras
  • Marcin Korecki

The scientist publishes recurrently in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Ethics and Information Technology
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

Dirk Helbing has also contributed to book publications, with a title released by Springer Nature:

  • Finance 4.0 - Towards a Socio-Ecological Finance System, 2021

In recognition of their work, the scientist received the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften award in 2008 for contributions in Economics and Empirical Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Social Force Model for Pedestrian Dynamics

    Dirk Helbing;Péter Molnár

  • Congested traffic states in empirical observations and microscopic simulations

    Martin Treiber;Ansgar Hennecke;Dirk Helbing

  • Traffic and related self-driven many-particle systems

    Dirk Helbing;Dirk Helbing

  • Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities

    Luís M. A. Bettencourt;José Lobo;Dirk Helbing;Christian Kühnert

  • General Lane-Changing Model MOBIL for Car-Following Models

    Arne Kesting;Martin Treiber;Dirk Helbing

  • GENERALIZED FORCE MODEL OF TRAFFIC DYNAMICS

    Dirk Helbing;Benno Tilch

  • Globally networked risks and how to respond

    Dirk Helbing

  • Science of science

    Santo Fortunato;Carl T. Bergstrom;Katy Börner;James A. Evans

  • Dynamics of crowd disasters: an empirical study.

    Dirk Helbing;Anders Johansson;Habib Zein Al-Abideen

  • How simple rules determine pedestrian behavior and crowd disasters

    Mehdi Moussaïd;Dirk Helbing;Guy Theraulaz

  • How social influence can undermine the wisdom of crowd effect

    Jan Lorenz;Heiko Rauhut;Frank Schweitzer;Dirk Helbing

  • The Walking Behaviour of Pedestrian Social Groups and Its Impact on Crowd Dynamics

    Mehdi Moussaïd;Mehdi Moussaïd;Mehdi Moussaïd;Niriaska Perozo;Niriaska Perozo;Simon Garnier;Dirk Helbing;Dirk Helbing

  • Simulation of pedestrian crowds in normal and evacuation situations

    Dirk Helbing;Illés J. Farkas;Peter Molnar;Tamás Vicsek

  • Adaptive cruise control design for active congestion avoidance

    Arne Kesting;Martin Treiber;Martin Schönhof;Dirk Helbing

  • A Fluid-Dynamic Model for the Movement of Pedestrians

    Dirk Helbing

  • Delays, inaccuracies and anticipation in microscopic traffic models

    Martin Treiber;Arne Kesting;Dirk Helbing

  • Specification of the social force pedestrian model by evolutionary adjustment to video tracking data

    Anders Johansson;Dirk Helbing;Pradyumn Kumar Shukla

  • Saving human lives: what complexity science and information systems can contribute

    Dirk Helbing;Dirk Brockmann;Dirk Brockmann;Thomas Chadefaux;Karsten Donnay

  • Experimental study of the behavioural mechanisms underlying self-organization in human crowds

    Mehdi Moussaïd;Dirk Helbing;Simon Garnier;Anders Johansson

  • The outbreak of cooperation among success-driven individuals under noisy conditions

    Dirk Helbing;Wenjian Yu

  • Manifesto of computational social science

    R. Conte;N. Gilbert;G. Bonelli;C. Cioffi-Revilla

  • Modelling the evolution of human trail systems

    Dirk Helbing;Joachim Keltsch;Péter Molnár

  • Quantitative Sociodynamics: Stochastic Methods and Models of Social Interaction Processes

    Dirk Helbing

  • Scaling laws in the spatial structure of urban road networks

    Stefan Lämmer;Björn Gehlsen;Dirk Helbing

  • A mathematical model for the behavior of pedestrians

    Dirk Helbing

  • Crowd disasters as systemic failures: analysis of the Love Parade disaster

    Dirk Helbing;Dirk Helbing;Pratik Mukerji

  • How to Save Human Lives with Complexity Science.

    Dirk Helbing;Dirk Brockmann;Thomas Chadefaux;Karsten Donnay

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Treiber
Martin Treiber TU Dresden
Arne Kesting
Arne Kesting TU Dresden
Tamás Vicsek
Tamás Vicsek Eötvös Loránd University
Paul Lukowicz
Paul Lukowicz German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Matjaž Perc
Matjaž Perc University of Maribor
Hans J. Herrmann
Hans J. Herrmann ESPCI Paris
Albert-László Barabási
Albert-László Barabási Northeastern University
Rosaria Conte
Rosaria Conte National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Gerd Gigerenzer
Gerd Gigerenzer Max Planck Institute for Human Development

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