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Researcher · KU Leuven · Belgium

Gérard Govers

Gérard Govers publishes mostly in Soil Science, Ecology and Water Science and Technology, on topics such as Soil erosion and sediment transport, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-9884-4778 OpenAlex
World rank
#206,118
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#1,526
of 67,186
Works
870
Citations
36k
Citations per work
41.1
h-index
100
i10-index 325Top 0.1% in Soil Science
Gérard Govers

What does Gérard Govers research?

Gérard Govers's work is mostly in Environmental Science (32%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (26%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (12%).

Physical Sciences: 380 works · 43.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 279 works · 32.1% of their workEcology: 144 works · 16.5% of their workWater Science and Technology: 77 works · 8.8% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 59 works · 6.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 101 works · 11.6% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 67 works · 7.7% of their workAtmospheric Science: 34 works · 3.9% of their workEverything else: 262 works · 30.1% of their workLife Sciences: 228 works · 26.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 228 works · 26.2% of their workSoil Science: 228 works · 26.2% of their workTHEIR WORKGérard Govers870works
Life Sciences26%Physical Sciences44%

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 Science27932.1%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences10111.6%
  2. Everything else26230.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences22826.2%
  1. 1Soil Science26% of their works
  2. 2Ecology16% of their works
  3. 3Water Science and Technology9% of their works
  4. 4Earth-Surface Processes8% of their works
  5. 5Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law7% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gérard Govers's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Land Use Change, Sediment Transport, Agricultural Sustainability, Soil Erosion, Climate Change, Riparian Vegetation, River Restoration and Hydrological Modeling.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Land Use Change6082 topics
  2. Sediment Transport4603 topics
  3. Agricultural Sustainability4531 topic
  4. Soil Erosion4531 topic
  5. Climate Change3814 topics
  6. Riparian Vegetation1941 topic
  7. River Restoration1941 topic
  8. Hydrological Modeling1551 topic
  9. Water Resources1551 topic
  10. Aeolian Processes1111 topic
  11. Wind Erosion1111 topic
  12. Glacial Cycles631 topic
  13. Paleoclimatology631 topic
  14. Nitrogen Cycle521 topic
  15. Soil Carbon Sequestration521 topic
  16. Hazard511 topic
  17. Landslide511 topic
  18. Nutrient Cycling451 topic
  19. Water Quality451 topic

Where does Gérard Govers work?

Gérard Govers's main affiliation in the publication record is KU Leuven, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Gérard Govers have?

OpenAlex counts 870 works and 35,714 citations for Gérard Govers, an h-index of 100, ranking #206,118 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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