Question 1

What is KU Leuven known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, KU Leuven stands highest in Health Sciences (#85 of 9,902 worldwide), Social Sciences (#94 of 9,585 worldwide) and Medicine (#85 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Transplantation, Classics and Public Administration (Transplantation is 3.5× its share of world research).

Question 2

How does KU Leuven rank in research?

Accepted Answer

KU Leuven ranks #88 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#77 all time), and #1 of 105 in Belgium.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at KU Leuven?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, Jeroen Raes, Bart De Strooper and Peter Carmeliet lead among researchers whose main affiliation is KU Leuven.

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from KU Leuven?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from KU Leuven is "The Pascal Visual Object Classes (VOC) Challenge" (Mark Everingham, Luc Van Gool, Christopher K. I. Williams et al., 2009), with 20,137 citations. Next come "Conducting Meta-Analyses in R with the metafor Package" (19,468) and "Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging" (18,398).

Question 5

Which research topics does KU Leuven publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Mental Health Research Topics, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces and Building Energy and Comfort Optimization.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at KU Leuven?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Globalization, Quality of Life, Genetics and Treatment.

Question 7

Which fields of science does KU Leuven work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 36% of research at KU Leuven is in Physical Sciences, 26% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (23%), Engineering (15%), Social Sciences (10%).

Question 8

Which institutions have research most like KU Leuven's?

Accepted Answer

Radboud University Nijmegen has the research profile closest to KU Leuven's (similarity 0.76 on a scale to 1), with both strong in Neuroscience, followed by University of Pittsburgh and University of Freiburg.

Question 9

Is KU Leuven's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% lower than in 2018-2021.