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Researcher · Hasselt University · Belgium

Christian Van den Broeck

Christian Van den Broeck publishes mostly in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Civil and Structural Engineering, on topics such as Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, stochastic dynamics and bifurcation and Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect.

OpenAlex
World rank
#842,489
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#7,710
of 67,186
Works
70
Citations
4k
Citations per work
57.3
h-index
23
i10-index 32Top 14% in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Christian Van den Broeck

What does Christian Van den Broeck research?

Christian Van den Broeck's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (54%), Engineering (6%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (4%).

Physical Sciences: 43 works · 62.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 38 works · 53.9% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 26 works · 37.6% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 9 works · 12.2% of their workCondensed Matter Physics: 3 works · 4.1% of their workEngineering: 4 works · 5.6% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 4 works · 5.6% of their workMaterials Science: 2 works · 2.5% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 2 works · 2.5% of their workEverything else: 24 works · 34.4% of their workLife Sciences: 3 works · 3.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 works · 3.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 3 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKChristian Van denBroeck70works
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences62%

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. Physics and Astronomy3853.9%
    2. Engineering45.6%
    3. Materials Science22.5%
  2. Everything else2434.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology33.6%
  1. 1Statistical and Nonlinear Physics38% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics12% of their works
  3. 3Civil and Structural Engineering6% of their works
  4. 4Condensed Matter Physics4% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology4% of their works
  6. 6Materials Chemistry2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Christian Van den Broeck's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Fluctuation Theorems, Stochastic Thermodynamics, Metamaterials, Brownian Motors, Phase Transitions, Stochastic Resonance, Casimir Effect and Quantum Vacuum.

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. Fluctuation Theorems501 topic
  2. Stochastic Thermodynamics501 topic
  3. Metamaterials232 topics
  4. Brownian Motors141 topic
  5. Phase Transitions142 topics
  6. Stochastic Resonance141 topic
  7. Casimir Effect121 topic
  8. Quantum Vacuum121 topic
  9. Daytime Radiative Cooling111 topic
  10. Radiative Cooling111 topic
  11. Critical Phenomena71 topic
  12. Long-Range Interactions71 topic
  13. Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics71 topic
  14. Random Walk Algorithm71 topic
  15. Facilitated Diffusion51 topic
  16. Protein-DNA Interaction51 topic
  17. Thermodiffusion51 topic
  18. Thermophoresis51 topic

Where does Christian Van den Broeck work?

Christian Van den Broeck's main affiliation in the publication record is Hasselt University, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Christian Van den Broeck have?

OpenAlex counts 70 works and 4,009 citations for Christian Van den Broeck, an h-index of 23, ranking #842,489 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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