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Researcher · South Australian Water Corporation · Australia

Ben van den Akker

Ben van den Akker publishes mostly in Pollution, Water Science and Technology and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, on topics such as Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal, Water Treatment and Disinfection and Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment.

ORCID 0000-0002-1937-6097 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,483,298
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#45,856
of 140,210
Works
76
Citations
2.5k
Citations per work
32.2
h-index
26
i10-index 46Top 17% in Pollution
Ben van den Akker

What does Ben van den Akker research?

Ben van den Akker's work is mostly in Environmental Science (63%), Nursing (3%).

Physical Sciences: 48 works · 63.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 48 works · 63.0% of their workPollution: 16 works · 20.7% of their workWater Science and Technology: 10 works · 13.5% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 10 works · 12.5% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 9 works · 12.0% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 3 works · 4.3% of their workEverything else: 26 works · 33.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 3 works · 3.4% of their workNursing: 3 works · 3.4% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 3 works · 3.4% of their workTHEIR WORKBen van den Akker76works
Physical Sciences63%Health Sciences3%

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. Environmental Science4863.0%
  2. Everything else2633.6%
    1. Nursing33.4%
  1. 1Pollution21% of their works
  2. 2Water Science and Technology14% of their works
  3. 3Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis12% of their works
  4. 4Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering12% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Nutrition and Dietetics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ben van den Akker's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Wastewater Treatment, Anammox Bacteria, Nitrogen-Cycling Network, Disinfection By-Products, Drinking Water, Antibiotics, Constructed Wetlands and Nutrient Removal.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Wastewater Treatment422 topics
  2. Anammox Bacteria291 topic
  3. Nitrogen-Cycling Network291 topic
  4. Disinfection By-Products221 topic
  5. Drinking Water221 topic
  6. Antibiotics131 topic
  7. Constructed Wetlands131 topic
  8. Nutrient Removal131 topic
  9. Resistance Genes131 topic
  10. Pathogen Transport111 topic
  11. Waterborne Disease111 topic
  12. Desalination101 topic
  13. Membrane Technology101 topic
  14. Wastewater Reuse91 topic
  15. Water Scarcity91 topic
  16. Child Development71 topic
  17. Maternal and Child Undernutrition71 topic

Where does Ben van den Akker work?

Ben van den Akker's main affiliation in the publication record is South Australian Water Corporation, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Ben van den Akker have?

OpenAlex counts 76 works and 2,450 citations for Ben van den Akker, an h-index of 26, ranking #1,483,298 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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