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Researcher · Ghent University · Belgium

Dirk Verschuren

Dirk Verschuren publishes mostly in Ecology, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Chemistry, on topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity and Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0002-9116-5446 OpenAlex
World rank
#419,525
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#3,507
of 67,186
Works
309
Citations
12k
Citations per work
38.8
h-index
53
i10-index 148Top 2% in Ecology
Dirk Verschuren

What does Dirk Verschuren research?

Dirk Verschuren's work is mostly in Environmental Science (34%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (28%), Social Sciences (4%).

Physical Sciences: 190 works · 61.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 104 works · 33.6% of their workEcology: 70 works · 22.8% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 24 works · 7.9% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 9 works · 2.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 86 works · 27.8% of their workAtmospheric Science: 66 works · 21.4% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 20 works · 6.4% of their workEverything else: 106 works · 34.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 14 works · 4.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 14 works · 4.4% of their workAnthropology: 14 works · 4.4% of their workTHEIR WORKDirk Verschuren309works
Physical Sciences61%Social Sciences4%

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 Science10433.6%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences8627.8%
  2. Everything else10634.2%
    1. Social Sciences144.4%
  1. 1Ecology23% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science21% of their works
  3. 3Environmental Chemistry8% of their works
  4. 4Earth-Surface Processes6% of their works
  5. 5Anthropology4% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Dirk Verschuren's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Glacial Cycles, Paleoclimatology, Eutrophication, Water Quality, Biodiversity Loss, Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change2653 topics
  2. Glacial Cycles1381 topic
  3. Paleoclimatology1381 topic
  4. Eutrophication1272 topics
  5. Water Quality1272 topics
  6. Biodiversity Loss892 topics
  7. Lake Tanganyika701 topic
  8. Lake Victoria701 topic
  9. Cyanobacteria571 topic
  10. Harmful Algal Blooms571 topic
  11. Fluvial Systems391 topic
  12. Sedimentation391 topic
  13. Hominin Genetics291 topic
  14. Paleolithic Archaeology291 topic
  15. Stable Isotopes261 topic
  16. Trophic Position261 topic
  17. Freshwater Mussels191 topic
  18. Invasive Species191 topic
  19. Land Use181 topic
  20. Stream Ecosystems181 topic

Where does Dirk Verschuren work?

Dirk Verschuren's main affiliation in the publication record is Ghent University, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Dirk Verschuren have?

OpenAlex counts 309 works and 11,981 citations for Dirk Verschuren, an h-index of 53, ranking #419,525 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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