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Luc Steels publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Luc Steels sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 307 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Luc Steels D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Luc Steels sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 74 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award
  • 2009 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Luc Steels is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain and has contributed extensively to the field of Computer Science, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

Their research work spans several main topics, including:

  • Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
  • Cognitive Science and Mapping
  • Robotics and Automated Systems
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception

Luc Steels has published in various venues, some of which are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Social Media + Society
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence
  • Complex Systems

Recent papers include:

  • "Building Social Media Observatories for Monitoring Online Opinion Dynamics," 2020, Social Media + Society
  • "A Distributed Learning Algorithm for Communication Development," 2024, Complex Systems
  • "Personal dynamic memories are necessary to deal with meaning and understanding in human-centric AI," 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • "Aligning Figurative Paintings With Their Sources for Semantic Interpretation," 2023, International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence
  • "Usage-based learning of grammatical categories," 2022, Lirias (KU Leuven)

They frequently collaborate with several co-authors, including:

  • Sinem Aslan
  • Paul Van Eecke
  • Katrien Beuls
  • Remi van Trijp
  • Cosimo Della Santina

In addition to their articles, Luc Steels has contributed to book publications with notable publishers such as Springer Science+Business Media and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Titles include multiple editions of "Agents and Artificial Intelligence" published in 2022 and "Narrative-based Understanding of Society" expected in 2025.

Luc Steels was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Components of expertise

    Luc Steels

  • NoiseTube: Measuring and mapping noise pollution with mobile phones

    Nicolas Maisonneuve;Matthias Stevens;Maria E. Niessen;Luc Steels

  • Coordinating perceptually grounded categories through language: A case study for colour

    Luc Steels;Tony Belpaeme

  • Cooperation between distributed agents through self-organisation

    L. Steels

  • The synthetic modeling of language origins

    Luc Steels

  • Language networks: Their structure, function, and evolution

    Ricard V. Solé;Bernat Corominas-Murtra;Sergi Valverde;Luc Steels

  • The artificial life roots of artificial intelligence

    Luc Steels

  • A self-organizing spatial vocabulary

    Luc Steels

  • Evolving grounded communication for robots

    Luc Steels

  • The Artificial Life Route to Artificial Intelligence: Building Embodied, Situated Agents

    Luc Steels;Rodney Brooks

  • Sharp transition towards shared vocabularies in multi-agent systems

    Andrea Baronchelli;Maddalena Felici;Vittorio Loreto;Emanuele Caglioti

  • The Spontaneous Self-organization of an Adaptive Language

    Luc Steels

  • AIBO's first words: The social learning of language and meaning

    Luc Steels;Frédéric Kaplan

  • Second generation expert systems

    Luc Steels

  • Grounding adaptive language games in robotic agents.

    Luc Steels;Paul Vogt

  • The origins of syntax in visually grounded robotic agents

    Luc Steels

  • The Talking Heads Experiment: Origins of Words and Meanings

    Luc Steels

  • Language as a Complex Adaptive System

    Luc Steels

  • Modeling the cultural evolution of language

    Luc Steels

  • Language games for autonomous robots

    L. Steels

  • Self-organizing vocabularies.

    Luc Steels

  • Connectionism in Perspective

    Rolf Pfeifer;F. Fogelman-Soulie;Luc Steels;Z. Schreter

  • Evolutionary language games as a paradigm for integrated AI research

    Luc L. Steels

Frequent Co-Authors

Frédéric Kaplan
Frédéric Kaplan École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Vittorio Loreto
Vittorio Loreto Sapienza University of Rome
Tony Belpaeme
Tony Belpaeme Ghent University
Andrea Baronchelli
Andrea Baronchelli City, University of London
Rolf Pfeifer
Rolf Pfeifer University of Zurich
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Yasuo Kuniyoshi University of Tokyo
Guus Schreiber
Guus Schreiber Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Thomas L. Griffiths
Thomas L. Griffiths Princeton University
Eörs Szathmáry
Eörs Szathmáry Parmenides Foundation
Fumiya Iida
Fumiya Iida University of Cambridge

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