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Researcher · Deltares · Netherlands

Ad van der Spek

Ad van der Spek publishes mostly in Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics and Geological formations and processes.

ORCID 0000-0001-7131-4363 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,583,756
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Netherlands
#35,415
of 107,149
Works
98
Citations
2.4k
Citations per work
24.1
h-index
27
i10-index 45Top 11% in Earth-Surface Processes
Ad van der Spek

What does Ad van der Spek research?

Ad van der Spek's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (61%), Environmental Science (27%).

Physical Sciences: 86 works · 87.7% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 60 works · 60.9% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 39 works · 40.0% of their workAtmospheric Science: 15 works · 14.9% of their workOceanography: 6 works · 6.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 26 works · 26.8% of their workEcology: 18 works · 18.3% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 6 works · 6.4% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 works · 2.1% of their workEverything else: 12 works · 12.3% of their workTHEIR WORKAd van der Spek98works
Physical Sciences88%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences6060.9%
    2. Environmental Science2626.8%
  2. Everything else1212.3%
  1. 1Earth-Surface Processes40% of their works
  2. 2Ecology18% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science15% of their works
  4. 4Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law6% of their works
  5. 5Oceanography6% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ad van der Spek's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Sea-Level Rise, Climate Change, Sediment Transport, Coastal Dynamics, Shoreline Change, Coastal Protection, Mangrove Forests and Sedimentation.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Sea-Level Rise912 topics
  2. Climate Change794 topics
  3. Sediment Transport582 topics
  4. Coastal Dynamics521 topic
  5. Shoreline Change521 topic
  6. Coastal Protection391 topic
  7. Mangrove Forests391 topic
  8. Sedimentation392 topics
  9. Fluvial Systems351 topic
  10. Sequence Stratigraphy351 topic
  11. Holocene272 topics
  12. Sea Level272 topics
  13. Glacial Cycles231 topic
  14. Paleoclimatology231 topic
  15. Hurricanes111 topic
  16. Tropical Cyclones111 topic
  17. Ecosystem-Based Management101 topic
  18. Marine Spatial Planning101 topic
  19. Aeolian Processes61 topic
  20. Wind Erosion61 topic
  21. Black Sea41 topic
  22. paleoceanography41 topic

Where does Ad van der Spek work?

Ad van der Spek's main affiliation in the publication record is Deltares, Netherlands.

How many publications and citations does Ad van der Spek have?

OpenAlex counts 98 works and 2,360 citations for Ad van der Spek, an h-index of 27, ranking #1,583,756 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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