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Stefan Decker 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 Stefan Decker sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 401 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stefan Decker 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 Stefan Decker sits on this spectrum.

30–31 D-Index: 879 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 983 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 918 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 990 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 968 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 907 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 821 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 763 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 689 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 543 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 543 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 518 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 500 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 458 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 400 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 337 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 308 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 292 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 249 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 213 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 192 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 189 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 165 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 139 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 119 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 121 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 113 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 88 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 87 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 75 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 69 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 57 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 46 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 38 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 34 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 36 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 27 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 37 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 18 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 31 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 19 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 16 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 20 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 15 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 5 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 20 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 8 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 5 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 7 scientists 130 D-Index: 3 scientists 131+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 81 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% 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 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

  • Creating Semantic Web contents with Protege-2000

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

  • The Semantic Web: the roles of XML and RDF

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

  • EDUTELLA: a P2P networking infrastructure based on RDF

    Wolfgang Nejdl;Boris Wolf;Changtao Qu;Stefan Decker

  • The Semantic Web - ISWC 2006

    Isabel Cruz;Stefan Decker;Dean Allemang;Chris Preist

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

    Stefan Decker;Michael Erdmann;Dieter Fensel;Rudi Studer

  • OIL in a Nutshell

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

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

    Michael Sintek;Stefan Decker

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

    Andreas Harth;Jürgen Umbrich;Aidan Hogan;Stefan Decker

  • Optimized index structures for querying RDF from the Web

    A. Harth;S. Decker

  • Towards semantically-interlinked online communities

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

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

    J. Breslin;S. Decker

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

    Mario Schlosser;Michael Sintek;Stefan Decker;Wolfgang Nejdl

  • Extending faceted navigation for RDF data

    Eyal Oren;Renaud Delbru;Stefan Decker

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

    Aidan Hogan;Andreas Harth;Jürgen Umbrich;Sheila Kinsella

  • The Social Semantic Web

    John G. Breslin;Alexandre Passant;Stefan Decker

  • Semantic community Web portals

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

  • Online social and business networking communities

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

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

    Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit;Stefan Decker;Carl Kesselman

  • Deep learning-based clustering approaches for bioinformatics

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

  • OIL in a nutshell.

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

Frequent Co-Authors

John G. Breslin
John G. Breslin University of Galway
Dieter Fensel
Dieter Fensel University of Innsbruck
Rudi Studer
Rudi Studer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Michael Sintek
Michael Sintek German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Andreas Harth
Andreas Harth University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Siegfried Handschuh
Siegfried Handschuh University of St. Gallen
Axel Polleres
Axel Polleres Vienna University of Economics and Business
Aidan Hogan
Aidan Hogan University of Chile
Steffen Staab
Steffen Staab University of Stuttgart
Ian Horrocks
Ian Horrocks University of Oxford

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