On the reading lists
- #247 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #11 in Robotics (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Introduced ROS, the dominant open software ecosystem for robotics research and development.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2009 (from OpenAlex)
- Citations
- 11,242 citations, as counted by
Semantic Scholar (non-commercial licence) - Named by
- the chatgpt list only
- Score
- 0.485 · computed rank 247 · consensus 0.45, must-read 0, citations percentile 1 (2000s · robotics), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0), and
Semantic Scholar (used under its non-commercial API licence). Each count names its source. See the method.