2026 Robert Weibel: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	43	7997	7770	150	150	192	7642

Overview

Robert Weibel is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research is situated primarily within the social sciences, with a focus on interdisciplinary fields intersecting transportation, geography, health, and computational methods.

Their main fields of study include:

Social Sciences

They have significant contributions in several subfields, such as:

Transportation
Geography, Planning and Development
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Signal Processing
Health

Robert Weibel's scholarly work addresses a variety of specific research topics, including:

Urban Transport and Accessibility
Geographic Information Systems Studies
Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
Health disparities and outcomes
Older Adults Driving Studies
Data Management and Algorithms
Automated Road and Building Extraction

They have a record of publishing in numerous academic venues, among which the most frequent include:

International Journal of Geographical Information Systems
Abstracts of the ICA
Cartography and Geographic Information Science
Innovation in Aging
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent publications by Robert Weibel span topics related to Bayesian phylogenetic models, cultural evolution, and physical activity detection. Selected recent papers are:

"Detecting contact in language trees: a Bayesian phylogenetic model with horizontal transfer," 2022, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
"Can Bayesian phylogeography reconstruct migrations and expansions in linguistic evolution?", 2021, Royal Society Open Science
"Contact-tracing in cultural evolution: a Bayesian mixture model to detect geographic areas of language contact," 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
"Using Accelerometer and GPS Data for Real-Life Physical Activity Type Detection," 2020, Sensors
"Progress in computational movement analysis - towards movement data science," 2020, International Journal of Geographical Information Systems

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

Cheng Fu
Haosheng Huang
Zhiyong Zhou
Christina Röcke
Arno Schmidt-Trücksäss

Best Publications

A review and conceptual framework of automated map generalization

Kurt E. Brassel;Robert Weibel

578
Citations
Towards a taxonomy of movement patterns

Somayeh Dodge;Robert Weibel;Anna-Katharina Lautenschütz

505
Citations
Discovering relative motion patterns in groups of moving point objects

Patrick Laube;Stephan Imfeld;Robert Weibel

387
Citations
Revealing the physics of movement: Comparing the similarity of movement characteristics of different types of moving objects

Somayeh Dodge;Robert Weibel;Ehsan Forootan

267
Citations
GIS and generalization : methodology and practice

J. C. Müller;J. P. Lagrange;R. Weibel

255
Citations
Spatial information retrieval and geographical ontologies an overview of the SPIRIT project

Christopher B. Jones;R. Purves;A. Ruas;M. Sanderson

225
Citations
Analysis and visualisation of movement: an interdisciplinary review

Urška Demšar;Kevin Buchin;Francesca Cagnacci;Kamran Safi;Kamran Safi

200
Citations
An Approach for the Classification of Urban Building Structures Based on Discriminant Analysis Techniques

Stefan Steiniger;Tilman Lange;Dirk Burghardt;Robert Weibel

191
Citations
Generalization of Spatial Data: Principles and Selected Algorithms

Robert Weibel

185
Citations
Transport mode detection based on mobile phone network data: A systematic review

Haosheng Huang;Yi Cheng;Robert Weibel

183
Citations
Integrating multi agent, object oriented and algorithmic techniques for improved automoated map generalisation

M. Barrault;N. Regnauld;C. Duchene;K. Haire

155
Citations
Movement similarity assessment using symbolic representation of trajectories

Somayeh Dodge;Patrick Laube;Robert Weibel

153
Citations
The application of agents in automated map generalization

S. Lamy;A. Ruas;Y. Demazeu;M. Jackson

135
Citations
Modelling the Overall Process of Generalisation

Lars Harrie;Robert Weibel

134
Citations
Models and Experiments for Adaptive Computer-Assisted Terrain Generalization

Robert Weibel

134
Citations
Efficient transmission of vector data over the Internet

Bisheng Yang;Ross Purves;Robert Weibel

129
Citations
A Conceptual Framework for Uncertainty Investigation in Map‐based Land Cover Change Modelling

Stefan Leyk;Ruedi Boesch;Robert Weibel

122
Citations
An algorithm for point cluster generalization based on the Voronoi diagram

Haowen Yan;Robert Weibel

120
Citations
Computational Perspectives on Map Generalization

Robert Weibel;Christopher B. Jones

110
Citations
Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

Patrick Lüscher;Robert Weibel;William Mackaness

33
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ross S. Purves University of Zurich

Monika Sester University of Hannover

Bettina Speckmann Eindhoven University of Technology

Bisheng Yang Wuhan University

Mike Martin University of Zurich

Natalia Andrienko Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems

Gennady Andrienko Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems

Christopher B. Jones Cardiff University

Pieter Muysken Radboud University

Gerardo Moreno University of Extremadura

External Links

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