Publications:
- Co-author of one book published in 2025 in CRC Press, Taylor & Francis (Boca Raton, FL, USA, Abingdon, UK) (www.routledge.com), one book published in 2021 in CRC Press, Taylor & Francis (Boca Raton, FL, USA) (www.routledge.com), voted by the Editorial Board of CRC Press as 2021 Outstanding Title in STEM, one book published in Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier (Oxford, UK, 2019) (www.elsevier.com, www.sciencedirect.com), one book published in Editura Tehnica Publishers (Bucharest, 1997), author / co-author of ten books in Editura Orizonturi Universitare Publishers (Timisoara, 1999-2009) and four books in Editura Politehnica Publishers (Timisoara, 2001-2022) (please visit the attached list).
- Editor of three books published in Springer (2012, 2019) (www.springer.com, www.springer.com, www.springer.com).
- Co-author of 31 book chapters published in Springer, Academic Press, Kluwer Academic Publishers, IET Digital Library, World Scientific and Atlantis Press (please visit the attached list).
- Co-author of 124 papers published in Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (formerly ISI Web of Knowledge) journals: Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Information Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Expert Systems with Applications, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, ISA Transactions, Computers in Industry, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Applied Soft Computing, Journal of The Franklin Institute, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, European Journal of Control, Asian Journal of Control, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Knowledge-Based Systems, IEEE Transactions on Education, IEEE Systems Journal, International Journal of Systems Science, International Journal of General Systems, Acta Astronautica, IET Control Theory & Applications, Neurocomputing, Electrical Engineering, Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, Scientific Reports, etc., in Elsevier, Springer, John Wiley and Sons, Taylor & Francis, Nature, The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, etc. (please visit the attached list).
- 15 Highly Cited Papers according to Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (Expert Systems with Applications, 2023; Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology, 2024; Proceedings of the Romanian Academy, Series A: Mathematics, Physics, Technical Sciences, Information Science, 2022; IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2017; European Journal of Control, 2021; IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2020; Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021; IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2022; Information Sciences, 2022; Information Sciences, 2022; International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 2021; International Journal of Systems Science, 2021; Computers in Industry, 2011; Information Sciences, 2017; Knowledge-Based Systems, 2013) as of September/October 2023, May/June 2023, July/August 2022, March/April 2022, September/October 2021, May/June 2018 and November/December 2015.
- Five Hot Papers according to Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2022; Information Sciences, 2022; International Journal of Systems Science, 2021; European Journal of Control, 2021; Computers in Industry, 2015) as of May/June 2023, November/December 2022, July/August 2022, March/April 2022 and November/December 2015.
- One Top Cited Article in 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 according to Wiley (Wiley, 2022, Wiley, 2023).
- Co-author of 52 papers published in refereed journals / contributions to books (please visit the attached list).
- Author / co-author of more than 150 papers published in refereed academic conferences (IFAC, IEEE, IFSA, EUFIT, ECC and others) organized in Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, UK, USA, Zambia (please visit the attached list).
- Author / co-author of more than 50 papers published in refereed academic conferences organized in Romania.
- The address of and the link to the researcherid.com profile: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-6993-2009.
- The address of and the link to the Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID): https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2060-7403.
- Cumulative Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (formerly ISI Web of Knowledge) impact factor (IF) = 340.615, cumulative IF according to 2023 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) released by Clarivate Analytics in 2024 = 554.206 (the IF of leader journals in my field is around 3, please visit the attached list).
- 13988 citations, Hirsch index (h-index) = 76 and Egghe index (g-index) = 104 according to Harzing, A.W. (2007) Publish or Perish, available from www.harzing.com, 13621 citations, h-index = 76 and i10-index = 204 according to Scholar Google, available from scholar.google.com, at June 13, 2025.
- 10542 citations in Scopus articles of my 450 Scopus articles, h-index = 70 according to Scopus, available from www.scopus.com, at June 13, 2025.
- 8453 citations in Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (formerly ISI Web of Knowledge) articles of my 360 Clarivate Analytics Web of Science articles, h-index = 61 according to Clarivate Analytics Web of Science, available from www.researcherid.com transferred to www.webofscience.com, at June 13, 2025.
- More than 7000 independent citations, cumulative Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (formerly ISI Web of Knowledge) impact factor (IF) of independent citations: 574.685, cumulative IF according to 2013 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) released by Clarivate Analytics in 2014: 623.687 (the IF of leader journals in my field is around 3, please visit the attached list).
- h-index = 60 (self citations of all authors are excluded), h-index = 57 (self citations of all authors are excluded) according to Scopus (www.scopus.com), h-index = 54 (self citations of all authors are excluded) according to Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (www.researcherid.com).
- My Erdös number is 3 (please visit the attached proof).
- Editor, Proceedings of the 7th and 8th International Conferences on Technical Informatics CONTI'2006 and CONTI'2008, Timisoara, Romania, Editura Politehnica, Timisoara, 2006 and 2008.
