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Researcher · Royal HaskoningDHV (Netherlands) · Netherlands

Gert Jan Akkerman

Gert Jan Akkerman publishes mostly in Civil and Structural Engineering, Earth-Surface Processes and Mechanical Engineering, on topics such as Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes.

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World rank
#4,173,711
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Netherlands
#78,873
of 107,149
Works
23
Citations
98
Citations per work
4.3
h-index
4
i10-index 3Top 87% in Civil and Structural Engineering
Gert Jan Akkerman

What does Gert Jan Akkerman research?

Gert Jan Akkerman's work is mostly in Engineering (39%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (14%), Environmental Science (7%).

Physical Sciences: 14 works · 59.0% of their workEngineering: 9 works · 38.6% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 6 works · 25.0% of their workMechanical Engineering: 2 works · 6.8% of their workOcean Engineering: 2 works · 6.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 works · 13.6% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 3 works · 13.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 2 works · 6.8% of their workEcology: 2 works · 6.8% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 36.5% of their workLife Sciences: 1 works · 4.5% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 works · 4.5% of their workSoil Science: 1 works · 4.5% of their workTHEIR WORKGert Jan Akkerman23works
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences59%

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. Engineering938.6%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences313.6%
    3. Environmental Science26.8%
  2. Everything else836.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences14.5%
  1. 1Civil and Structural Engineering25% of their works
  2. 2Earth-Surface Processes14% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering7% of their works
  4. 4Ocean Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Ecology7% of their works
  6. 6Soil Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gert Jan Akkerman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Sediment Transport, Soil Reinforcement, Coastal Dynamics, Sea-Level Rise, Fiber Reinforcement, Geosynthetics, Riparian Vegetation and River Restoration.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Sediment Transport72 topics
  2. Soil Reinforcement52 topics
  3. Coastal Dynamics41 topic
  4. Sea-Level Rise41 topic
  5. Fiber Reinforcement31 topic
  6. Geosynthetics31 topic
  7. Riparian Vegetation31 topic
  8. River Restoration31 topic
  9. Agricultural Sustainability21 topic
  10. BIM-GIS Integration21 topic
  11. CityGML21 topic
  12. Impact21 topic
  13. Renewable Energy21 topic
  14. Root Reinforcement21 topic
  15. Slope Stability21 topic
  16. Soil Erosion21 topic
  17. Tsunami21 topic
  18. Wave Energy21 topic

Where does Gert Jan Akkerman work?

Gert Jan Akkerman's main affiliation in the publication record is Royal HaskoningDHV (Netherlands), Netherlands.

How many publications and citations does Gert Jan Akkerman have?

OpenAlex counts 23 works and 98 citations for Gert Jan Akkerman, an h-index of 4, ranking #4,173,711 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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