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Researcher · KU Leuven · Belgium

Ann C. Mertens

Ann C. Mertens publishes mostly in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Surgery, on topics such as Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research and Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes.

ORCID 0000-0002-1649-4311 OpenAlex
World rank
#34,471
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#127
of 67,186
Works
268
Citations
30k
Citations per work
111.3
h-index
85
i10-index 135Top 0.2% in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Ann C. Mertens

What does Ann C. Mertens research?

Ann C. Mertens's work is mostly in Medicine (59%).

Health Sciences: 158 works · 59.0% of their workMedicine: 158 works · 59.0% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 43 works · 16.1% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 34 works · 12.6% of their workSurgery: 29 works · 10.7% of their workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 21 works · 7.7% of their workPhysiology: 16 works · 6.0% of their workOncology: 16 works · 5.9% of their workEverything else: 110 works · 41.0% of their workTHEIR WORKAnn C. Mertens268works
Health Sciences59%

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. Medicine15859.0%
  2. Everything else11041.0%
  1. 1Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health16% of their works
  2. 2Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health13% of their works
  3. 3Surgery11% of their works
  4. 4Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism8% of their works
  5. 5Physiology6% of their works
  6. 6Oncology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ann C. Mertens's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Childhood Cancer, Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, Diabetes and Lifestyle Intervention.

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. Childhood Cancer Survivor Study1071 topic
  2. Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory1071 topic
  3. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia721 topic
  4. Childhood Cancer721 topic
  5. Obesity543 topics
  6. Type 2 Diabetes432 topics
  7. Diabetes402 topics
  8. Lifestyle Intervention402 topics
  9. Cancer332 topics
  10. Metabolic Syndrome282 topics
  11. Bariatric Surgery261 topic
  12. Metabolic Surgery261 topic
  13. Cholesterol-lowering201 topic
  14. Statins201 topic
  15. Children191 topic
  16. Parental Illness191 topic
  17. Cardiovascular Outcomes171 topic
  18. Glucose Control171 topic
  19. Body Mass Index141 topic
  20. Breast Cancer141 topic
  21. Cardiovascular Disease141 topic
  22. Insulin Resistance141 topic

Where does Ann C. Mertens work?

Ann C. Mertens's main affiliation in the publication record is KU Leuven, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Ann C. Mertens have?

OpenAlex counts 268 works and 29,837 citations for Ann C. Mertens, an h-index of 85, ranking #34,471 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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