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Researcher · Research Institute for Nature and Forest · Belgium

Dirk Maes

Dirk Maes publishes mostly in Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Plant Science, on topics such as Environmental Conservation and Management, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies and Botany and Plant Ecology Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-7947-3788 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,336,509
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#15,969
of 18,604
Works
52
Citations
19
Citations per work
0.4

What does Dirk Maes research?

Ecology: 16.9%Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 12.7%Plant Science: 11.3%Insect Science: 9.9%other fields: 49.2%17%top field
Ecology16.9%Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law12.7%Plant Science11.3%Insect Science9.9%other fields49.2%

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

  1. 1Ecology17% of their works
  2. 2Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law13% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science11% of their works
  4. 4Insect Science10% of their works
  5. 5Nature and Landscape Conservation10% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Dirk Maes's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Biodiversity Conservation, Invasive Species, Biodiversity Offsets, Conservation, No Net Loss and Dead Wood.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Biodiversity144 topics
  2. Climate Change134 topics
  3. Biodiversity Conservation112 topics
  4. Invasive Species113 topics
  5. Biodiversity Offsets91 topic
  6. Conservation92 topics
  7. No Net Loss91 topic
  8. Dead Wood61 topic
  9. Forest Management61 topic
  10. Global Change62 topics
  11. Habitat Fragmentation62 topics
  12. Climate Change Impacts51 topic
  13. Flora51 topic
  14. Forest Carbon Sequestration51 topic
  15. Vascular Plants51 topic
  16. Ecosystem41 topic
  17. Functional Diversity41 topic
  18. Carbon31 topic
  19. Ecological Niche31 topic
  20. Peatlands31 topic
  21. Species Distribution Modeling31 topic
  22. Ecosystem Services21 topic
  23. Pollinator Decline21 topic

Where does Dirk Maes work?

Dirk Maes's main affiliation in the publication record is Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Dirk Maes have?

Science Explorer counts 52 works and 19 citations for Dirk Maes, ranking #1,336,509 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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