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Researcher · Ghent University · Belgium

Alain Van Hiel

Alain Van Hiel publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, on topics such as Social and Intergroup Psychology, Cultural Differences and Values and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment.

ORCID 0000-0003-2286-737X OpenAlex
World rank
#19,004
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#48
of 67,186
Works
273
Citations
11k
Citations per work
39.9
h-index
60
i10-index 153Top 0.2% in Sociology and Political Science
Alain Van Hiel

What does Alain Van Hiel research?

Alain Van Hiel's work is mostly in Social Sciences (39%), Psychology (26%), Neuroscience (7%).

Social Sciences: 179 works · 65.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 106 works · 38.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 84 works · 30.6% of their workSafety Research: 12 works · 4.5% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 10 works · 3.8% of their workPsychology: 72 works · 26.5% of their workSocial Psychology: 55 works · 20.0% of their workClinical Psychology: 18 works · 6.5% of their workEverything else: 76 works · 27.8% of their workLife Sciences: 19 works · 6.8% of their workNeuroscience: 19 works · 6.8% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 19 works · 6.8% of their workTHEIR WORKAlain Van Hiel273works
Life Sciences7%Social Sciences65%

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. Social Sciences10638.9%
    2. Psychology7226.5%
  2. Everything else7627.8%
    1. Neuroscience196.8%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science31% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology20% of their works
  3. 3Cognitive Neuroscience7% of their works
  4. 4Clinical Psychology6% of their works
  5. 5Safety Research4% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alain Van Hiel's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Implicit Bias, Intergroup Contact, Social Identity, Emotion, Cultural Psychology, Values, Disgust and Moral Judgment.

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.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Implicit Bias1532 topics
  2. Intergroup Contact1361 topic
  3. Social Identity1361 topic
  4. Emotion1142 topics
  5. Cultural Psychology761 topic
  6. Values761 topic
  7. Disgust381 topic
  8. Moral Judgment381 topic
  9. Mental Health362 topics
  10. Economic Experiments241 topic
  11. Social Preferences241 topic
  12. Self-Regulation201 topic
  13. Theory of Planned Behaviour201 topic
  14. Big Five191 topic
  15. Personality Traits191 topic
  16. Health Inequities171 topic
  17. Racial Discrimination171 topic
  18. Ethical Decision Making141 topic
  19. Moral Identity141 topic

Where does Alain Van Hiel work?

Alain Van Hiel's main affiliation in the publication record is Ghent University, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Alain Van Hiel have?

OpenAlex counts 273 works and 10,895 citations for Alain Van Hiel, an h-index of 60, ranking #19,004 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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