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Researcher · KU Leuven · Belgium

Ben Somers

Ben Somers publishes mostly in Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Species Distribution and Climate Change and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications.

World rank
#62,528
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#514
of 18,604
Works
78
Citations
556
Citations per work
7.1

What does Ben Somers research?

Ecology: 25.4%Environmental Engineering: 14.1%Global and Planetary Change: 11.3%Ecological Modeling: 8.5%other fields: 40.7%25%top field
Ecology25.4%Environmental Engineering14.1%Global and Planetary Change11.3%Ecological Modeling8.5%other fields40.7%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Ecology25% of their works
  2. 2Environmental Engineering14% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change11% of their works
  4. 4Ecological Modeling8% of their works
  5. 5Analytical Chemistry7% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ben Somers's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biomass Estimation, Remote Sensing, Global Change, Phenology, Vegetation Monitoring, Biodiversity, Hyperspectral Imaging and Climate Change.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Biomass Estimation222 topics
  2. Remote Sensing203 topics
  3. Global Change192 topics
  4. Phenology161 topic
  5. Vegetation Monitoring161 topic
  6. Biodiversity92 topics
  7. Hyperspectral Imaging72 topics
  8. Climate Change61 topic
  9. Forest Carbon Stocks61 topic
  10. Land Use Change62 topics
  11. Lidar Remote Sensing61 topic
  12. Species Distribution Modeling61 topic
  13. Multivariate Calibration51 topic
  14. Near-Infrared Spectroscopy51 topic
  15. Ecosystem Services41 topic
  16. Urbanization41 topic
  17. Conservation31 topic
  18. Ecosystem31 topic
  19. Earthquake Damage21 topic
  20. Geohazards21 topic
  21. Hyperspectral21 topic
  22. Image Analysis21 topic

Where does Ben Somers work?

Ben Somers's main affiliation in the publication record is KU Leuven, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Ben Somers have?

Science Explorer counts 78 works and 556 citations for Ben Somers, ranking #62,528 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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