2026 Stefan Decker: 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	81	1015	983	38	38	401	27237

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Stefan Decker is affiliated with RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of computer science and engineering, with a significant concentration in artificial intelligence, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and information systems.

Their main subfields of study include:

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Information Systems
Molecular Biology
Information Systems and Management

The scientist's research covers a range of topics that include:

Semantic Web and Ontologies
Scientific Computing and Data Management
Data Quality and Management
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
Digital Transformation in Industry

Stefan Decker has contributed frequently to publication venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
IEEE Access
Scientific Data

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Stefan Decker include:

"Explainable AI for Bioinformatics: Methods, Tools and Applications" (2023) in Briefings in Bioinformatics
"FactDAG: Formalizing Data Interoperability in an Internet of Production" (2020) in IEEE Internet of Things Journal
"DeepKneeExplainer: Explainable Knee Osteoarthritis Diagnosis From Radiographs and Magnetic Resonance Imaging" (2021) in IEEE Access
"An LLM-Driven Chatbot in Higher Education for Databases and Information Systems" (2024) in IEEE Transactions on Education
"A Privacy-Preserving Distributed Analytics Platform for Health Care Data" (2022) in Methods of Information in Medicine

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

Oya Beyan
Lars Gleim
Yongli Mou
Christoph Lange
Sascha Welten

Best Publications

Description Logic Programs: Combining Logic Programs with Description Logic

Benjamin Grosof;Ian Horrocks;Raphael Volz;Stefan Decker

2652
Citations
Creating Semantic Web contents with Protege-2000

N.F. Noy;M. Sintek;S. Decker;M. Crubezy

1614
Citations
The Semantic Web: the roles of XML and RDF

S. Decker;S. Melnik;F. van Harmelen;D. Fensel

1337
Citations
EDUTELLA: a P2P networking infrastructure based on RDF

Wolfgang Nejdl;Boris Wolf;Changtao Qu;Stefan Decker

1246
Citations
The Semantic Web - ISWC 2006

Isabel Cruz;Stefan Decker;Dean Allemang;Chris Preist

990
Citations
Ontobroker: Ontology Based Access to Distributed and Semi-Structured Information

Stefan Decker;Michael Erdmann;Dieter Fensel;Rudi Studer

865
Citations
OIL in a Nutshell

Dieter Fensel;Ian Horrocks;Frank van Harmelen;Stefan Decker

667
Citations
TRIPLE - A Query, Inference, and Transformation Language for the Semantic Web

Michael Sintek;Stefan Decker

549
Citations
YARS2: a federated repository for querying graph structured data from the web

Andreas Harth;Jürgen Umbrich;Aidan Hogan;Stefan Decker

405
Citations
Optimized index structures for querying RDF from the Web

A. Harth;S. Decker

387
Citations
Towards semantically-interlinked online communities

John G. Breslin;Andreas Harth;Uldis Bojars;Stefan Decker

366
Citations
The Future of Social Networks on the Internet: The Need for Semantics

J. Breslin;S. Decker

365
Citations
HyperCuP: hypercubes, ontologies, and efficient search on peer-to-peer networks

Mario Schlosser;Michael Sintek;Stefan Decker;Wolfgang Nejdl

354
Citations
Extending faceted navigation for RDF data

Eyal Oren;Renaud Delbru;Stefan Decker

328
Citations
Searching and browsing Linked Data with SWSE: The Semantic Web Search Engine

Aidan Hogan;Andreas Harth;Jürgen Umbrich;Sheila Kinsella

309
Citations
The Social Semantic Web

John G. Breslin;Alexandre Passant;Stefan Decker

307
Citations
Semantic community Web portals

S. Staab;S. Staab;J. Angele;S. Decker;S. Decker;M. Erdmann

303
Citations
Online social and business networking communities

Ina O'Murchu;John G. Breslin;Stefan Decker

299
Citations
Ontology-based resource matching in the grid: the grid meets the semantic web

Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit;Stefan Decker;Carl Kesselman

293
Citations
Deep learning-based clustering approaches for bioinformatics

Md. Rezaul Karim;Oya Beyan;Oya Beyan;Achille Zappa;Ivan G. Costa

275
Citations
OIL in a nutshell.

D.A. Fensel;I. Horrocks;F.A.H. van Harmelen;S. Decker

6
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John G. Breslin University of Galway

Dieter Fensel University of Innsbruck

Rudi Studer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Michael Sintek German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

Andreas Harth University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Siegfried Handschuh University of St. Gallen

Axel Polleres Vienna University of Economics and Business

Aidan Hogan University of Chile

Steffen Staab University of Stuttgart

Ian Horrocks University of Oxford

External Links

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