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Researcher · KU Leuven · Belgium

Ben Sprangers

Ben Sprangers publishes mostly in Nephrology, Immunology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, on topics such as Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments, Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies and Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes.

ORCID 0000-0003-1314-9675 OpenAlex
World rank
#228,744
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#1,727
of 67,186
Works
327
Citations
9.3k
Citations per work
28.4
h-index
53
i10-index 153Top 2.9% in Nephrology
Ben Sprangers

What does Ben Sprangers research?

Ben Sprangers's work is mostly in Medicine (48%), Immunology and Microbiology (10%).

Health Sciences: 158 works · 48.4% of their workMedicine: 158 works · 48.4% of their workNephrology: 54 works · 16.4% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 29 works · 8.8% of their workTransplantation: 26 works · 8.1% of their workOncology: 26 works · 8.0% of their workSurgery: 23 works · 7.1% of their workEverything else: 137 works · 42.0% of their workLife Sciences: 31 works · 9.6% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 31 works · 9.6% of their workImmunology: 31 works · 9.6% of their workTHEIR WORKBen Sprangers327works
Life Sciences10%Health Sciences48%

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. Medicine15848.4%
  2. Everything else13742.0%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology319.6%
  1. 1Nephrology16% of their works
  2. 2Immunology10% of their works
  3. 3Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine9% of their works
  4. 4Transplantation8% of their works
  5. 5Oncology8% of their works
  6. 6Surgery7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ben Sprangers's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Graft Survival, Kidney Transplantation, Renal Allograft, Glomerular Diseases, Nephrotic Syndrome, TGF-ß, Chronic Kidney Disease and Glomerular Filtration Rate.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Graft Survival1042 topics
  2. Kidney Transplantation721 topic
  3. Renal Allograft721 topic
  4. Glomerular Diseases641 topic
  5. Nephrotic Syndrome641 topic
  6. TGF-ß562 topics
  7. Chronic Kidney Disease351 topic
  8. Glomerular Filtration Rate351 topic
  9. Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury321 topic
  10. Liver Transplantation321 topic
  11. NK Cell Recognition291 topic
  12. Natural Killer Cells291 topic
  13. ANCA-associated251 topic
  14. Vasculitides251 topic
  15. Immune Checkpoint Blockade221 topic
  16. PD-1 and PD-L1221 topic
  17. CD4+CD25+211 topic
  18. Foxp3211 topic

Where does Ben Sprangers work?

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

How many publications and citations does Ben Sprangers have?

OpenAlex counts 327 works and 9,286 citations for Ben Sprangers, an h-index of 53, ranking #228,744 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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