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2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
55
Citations
18103
World Ranking
4209
National Ranking
94

Rolf Pfeifer 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 Rolf Pfeifer sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 287 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rolf Pfeifer 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 Rolf Pfeifer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% 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 Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Rolf Pfeifer is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. The academic profile reflects their involvement in scientific research connected to this institution.

There are no records available detailing their recent papers, co-authors, or the venues in which their work has been predominantly published.

Similarly, the profile does not provide information regarding their main fields or subfields of study nor specific topics they have focused on throughout their research career.

No book publications or awards are listed in the available data, which implies that such information may not be documented or publicly disclosed at this time.

Best Publications

  • Understanding Intelligence

    Rolf Pfeifer;Christian Scheier;Isabelle Follath

  • How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence

    Rolf Pfeifer;Josh Bongard

  • Self-Organization, Embodiment, and Biologically Inspired Robotics

    Rolf Pfeifer;Max Lungarella;Fumiya Iida;Fumiya Iida

  • Developmental robotics: a survey

    Max Lungarella;Giorgio Metta;Rolf Pfeifer;Giulio Sandini

  • A mobile robot employing insect strategies for navigation

    Dimitrios Lambrinos;Ralf Möller;Thomas Labhart;Rolf Pfeifer

  • The challenges ahead for bio-inspired 'soft' robotics

    Rolf Pfeifer;Max Lungarella;Fumiya Iida

  • Towards a theoretical foundation for morphological computation with compliant bodies

    Helmut Hauser;Auke J. Ijspeert;Rudolf M. Füchslin;Rolf Pfeifer

  • Morphological Computation --- Connecting Brain, Body, and Environment

    Rolf Pfeifer;Gabriel Gómez

  • Information processing via physical soft body

    Kohei Nakajima;Helmut Hauser;Tao Li;Rolf Pfeifer

  • An autonomous agent navigating with a polarized light compass

    Dimitrios Lambrinos;Hiroshi Kobayashi;Rolf Pfeifer;Marinus Maris

  • Sensory—motor coordination: The metaphor and beyond

    Rolf Pfeifer;Christian Scheier

  • Connectionism in Perspective

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

  • Body Schema in Robotics: A Review

    M Hoffmann;H Marques;A Arieta;H Sumioka

  • How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence (Bradford Books)

    Rolf Pfeifer;Josh C. Bongard

  • Distributed adaptive control : the self-organization of structured behavior

    Paul F.M.J. Verschure;Ben J.A. Kröse;Rolf Pfeifer

  • Building “Fungus Eaters”: Design Principles of Autonomous Agents

    Rolf Pfeifer

  • Evolving Complete Agents using Artificial Ontogeny

    Josh C. Bongard;Rolf Pfeifer

  • Visual Servoing of Soft Robot Manipulator in Constrained Environments With an Adaptive Controller

    Hesheng Wang;Bohan Yang;Yuting Liu;Weidong Chen

  • Repeated structure and dissociation of genotypic and phenotypic complexity in artificial ontogeny

    Josh C. Bongard;Rolf Pfeifer

  • Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation and Collective Intelligence in the scientific method: a research agenda and operational framework

    Thierry Bücheler;Jan Henrik Sieg;Rudolf Marcel Füchslin;Rolf Pfeifer

  • Multimodal saliency-based bottom-up attention a framework for the humanoid robot iCub

    J. Ruesch;M. Lopes;A. Bernardino;J. Hornstein

  • From Animals to Animats 5. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior

    Rolf Pfeifer;Bruce Blumberg;Jean-Arcady Meyer;Stewart W. Wilson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Arcady Meyer
Jean-Arcady Meyer University of Göttingen
Stewart W. Wilson
Stewart W. Wilson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fumiya Iida
Fumiya Iida University of Cambridge
Josh Bongard
Josh Bongard University of Vermont
Rüdiger Wehner
Rüdiger Wehner University of Zurich
Hans-Christoph Pape
Hans-Christoph Pape University of Zurich
Paul F. M. J. Verschure
Paul F. M. J. Verschure Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Yasuo Kuniyoshi University of Tokyo
Luc Steels
Luc Steels Spanish National Research Council
Darwin G. Caldwell
Darwin G. Caldwell Italian Institute of Technology

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