Stephen L. Smith publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Stephen L. Smith between 1975 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Stephen L. Smith published across 51 years, from 1975 to 2025, averaging 6.5 papers a year. Output peaked at 23 publications in 2022. 20 of the 329 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications

5 10 15 20

1975 2025

329 publications in total across all disciplines

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Stephen L. Smith: publications per year, 1975 to 2025
Year	Publications
1975	2
1976	0
1977	1
1978	0
1979	3
1980	4
1981	2
1982	4
1983	2
1984	2
1985	5
1986	2
1987	2
1988	1
1989	2
1990	5
1991	5
1992	3
1993	2
1994	4
1995	3
1996	2
1997	3
1998	4
1999	2
2000	3
2001	2
2002	2
2003	2
2004	4
2005	6
2006	10
2007	6
2008	12
2009	11
2010	20
2011	20
2012	6
2013	12
2014	14
2015	10
2016	7
2017	7
2018	9
2019	13
2020	16
2021	9
2022	23
2023	20
2024	16
2025	4
Total	329

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Stephen L. Smith publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen L. Smith sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

100 200 300 400

44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 206 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications	Scientists	This scientist
44–53	28
54–63	61
64–73	161
74–83	225
84–93	301
94–103	390
104–113	406
114–123	474
124–133	453
134–143	434
144–153	407
154–163	411
164–173	391
174–183	313
184–193	319
194–203	304
204–213	285	206
214–223	246
224–233	213
234–243	170
244–253	167
254–263	162
264–273	138
274–283	138
284–293	113
294–303	106
304–313	95
314–323	101
324–333	81
334–343	69
344–353	56
354–363	36
364–373	42
374–383	41
384–393	44
394–403	27
404–413	30
414–423	20
424–433	29
434–443	29
444–453	25
454–463	19
464–473	21
474–483	11
484–493	17
494–503	7
504–513	6
514–523	12
524–533	10
534–543	7
544–553	6
554–563	12
564–569	8
570+	100

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Stephen L. Smith D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen L. Smith sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

100 200 300

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index	Scientists	This scientist
30	177
31	210
32	222
33	188
34	181
35	243
36	261
37	272
38	278
39	300
40	297
41	308
42	313
43	300
44	269
45	260
46	228
47	251
48	203	48
49	186
50	187
51	166
52	138
53	141
54	131
55	137
56	109
57	129
58	95
59	105
60	106
61	86
62	94
63	77
64	79
65	59
66	68
67	51
68	49
69	40
70	43
71	40
72	50
73	46
74	43
75	45
76	45
77	30
78	25
79	31
80	29
81	18
82	21
83	26
84	15
85	15
86	19
87	19
88	12
89	7
90	19
91	20
92	13
93	9
94	13
95	8
96	7
97	6
98	6
99	6
100+	97

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Overview

Stephen L. Smith is a researcher affiliated with the University of Guelph in Canada. Their work spans multiple areas within computer science and engineering, particularly focusing on robotics and control systems. They have contributed extensively to research in control and systems engineering, artificial intelligence, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

Their research themes include robotic path planning algorithms, optimization and search problems, advanced control systems optimization, and human-automation interaction and safety. Additional focuses include reinforcement learning applications in robotics, robot manipulation and learning, and control systems and identification.

Frequent coauthors in their body of work are:

Nils Wilde
Armin Sadeghi
Alexander Botros
Abhinav Dahiya
Kerstin Dautenhahn

Stephen L. Smith has published in several venues with multiple contributions to:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems

Notable recent publications include:

A survey of multi-agent Human-Robot Interaction systems, 2022, Robotics and Autonomous Systems
The diffusion of Airbnb: a comparative look at earlier adopters, later adopters, and non-adopters, 2020, Current Issues in Tourism
Optimal Partitioning of Non-Convex Environments for Minimum Turn Coverage Planning, 2022, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Safety-Critical Control of Stochastic Systems using Stochastic Control Barrier Functions, 2021, 2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
Learning Control Barrier Functions with High Relative Degree for Safety-Critical Control, 2021, 2021 European Control Conference (ECC)

Their main fields of study consist of:

Computer Science
Engineering

Within these fields, their subfields of study are:

Control and Systems Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Networks and Communications
Computational Theory and Mathematics

Best Publications

Tourism Analysis: A Handbook

Stephen L J Smith

1423
Citations
THE TOURISM PRODUCT

Stephen L.J. Smith

1403
Citations
Why Tourists Choose Airbnb: A Motivation-Based Segmentation Study:

Daniel Guttentag;Stephen Smith;Luke Potwarka;Mark Havitz

860
Citations
Segmenting Canadian Culinary Tourists

Elena Ignatov;Stephen Smith

655
Citations
Assessing Airbnb as a disruptive innovation relative to hotels: Substitution and comparative performance expectations

Daniel A. Guttentag;Stephen L.J. Smith

641
Citations
Defining tourism a supply-side view

Stephen L.J. Smith

585
Citations
Residents’ attitudes to tourism: a longitudinal study of 140 articles from 1984 to 2010

Robin Nunkoo;Stephen L. J. Smith;Haywantee Ramkissoon

555
Citations
Culinary Tourism Supply Chains: A Preliminary Examination

Stephen L. J. Smith;Honggen Xiao

533
Citations
The making of tourism research: Insights from a Social Sciences Journal

Honggen Xiao;Stephen L.J. Smith

487
Citations
Practical Tourism Research

Stephen L.J. Smith

391
Citations
Robotic load balancing for mobility-on-demand systems

Marco Pavone;Stephen L Smith;Emilio Frazzoli;Daniela Rus

339
Citations
Planning Paths for Package Delivery in Heterogeneous Multirobot Teams

Neil Mathew;Stephen L. Smith;Steven L. Waslander

332
Citations
Case studies in tourism research: A state-of-the-art analysis

Honggen Xiao;Stephen L.J. Smith

332
Citations
Political economy of tourism: trust in government actors, political support, and their determinants.

Robin Nunkoo;Robin Nunkoo;Stephen L.J. Smith

325
Citations
Ethnic tourism development:: Chinese Government Perspectives

Li Yang;Geoffrey Wall;Stephen L.J. Smith

293
Citations
Dynamic Vehicle Routing for Robotic Systems

F. Bullo;E. Frazzoli;M. Pavone;K. Savla

275
Citations
Tourism Statistics

Unknown

227
Citations
The use of Tourism knowledge: Research Propositions

Honggen Xiao;Stephen L.J. Smith

214
Citations
Optimal Control of Markov Decision Processes With Linear Temporal Logic Constraints

Xuchu Ding;Stephen L. Smith;Calin Belta;Daniela Rus

197
Citations
Profiling Taiwanese ecotourists using a self-definition approach.

Chang-Hung (Teresa) Tao;Paul F.J. Eagles;Stephen L.J. Smith

191
Citations
Ethnic representations: destination imagery.

Christine N. Buzinde;Carla Almeida Santos;Stephen L.J. Smith

185
Citations
A Test Of Plog's Allocentric/Psychocentric Model: Evidence From Seven Nations

Stephen L.J. Smith

156
Citations
Submodularity and greedy algorithms in sensor scheduling for linear dynamical systems

Syed Talha Jawaid;Stephen L. Smith

150
Citations
GLNS: An effective large neighborhood search heuristic for the Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem

Stephen L. Smith;Frank Imeson

140
Citations
Dynamic Vehicle Routing for Robotic Systems Planning optimal routes for multiple vehicles performing different tasks is discussed; fundamental limits on achievable performance are established for tasks that are generated by exogenous processes.

Francesco Bullo;Emilio Frazzoli;Marco Pavone;Ketan Savla

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniela Rus MIT

Francesco Bullo University of California, Santa Barbara

Calin Belta Boston University

Dana Kulic Monash University

Honggen Xiao Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Marco Pavone Stanford University

Emilio Frazzoli ETH Zurich

Mac Schwager Stanford University

Krzysztof Czarnecki University of Waterloo

Bruce A. Francis University of Toronto

External Links

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