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Researcher · KU Leuven · Belgium

Gert Verstraeten

Gert Verstraeten publishes mostly in Ecology, Soil Science and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Soil erosion and sediment transport, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-6529-7381 OpenAlex
World rank
#133,616
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#1,237
of 18,604
Works
122
Citations
636
Citations per work
5.2

What does Gert Verstraeten research?

Ecology: 19.8%Soil Science: 18.3%Atmospheric Science: 10.7%Water Science and Technology: 7.6%other fields: 43.6%20%top field
Ecology19.8%Soil Science18.3%Atmospheric Science10.7%Water Science and Technology7.6%other fields43.6%

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

  1. 1Ecology20% of their works
  2. 2Soil Science18% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science11% of their works
  4. 4Water Science and Technology8% of their works
  5. 5Earth-Surface Processes6% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gert Verstraeten's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Land Use Change, Global Carbon Budget, Sediment Transport, Agricultural Sustainability, Soil Erosion, 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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change365 topics
  2. Land Use Change332 topics
  3. Global Carbon Budget292 topics
  4. Sediment Transport273 topics
  5. Agricultural Sustainability241 topic
  6. Soil Erosion241 topic
  7. Riparian Vegetation141 topic
  8. River Restoration141 topic
  9. Glacial Cycles131 topic
  10. Paleoclimatology131 topic
  11. Hydrological Modeling91 topic
  12. Water Resources91 topic
  13. Carbon51 topic
  14. Coastal Protection51 topic
  15. Mangrove Forests51 topic
  16. Peatlands51 topic
  17. Aeolian Processes41 topic
  18. Fluvial Systems41 topic
  19. Sedimentation41 topic
  20. Wind Erosion41 topic

Where does Gert Verstraeten work?

Gert Verstraeten's main affiliation in the publication record is KU Leuven, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Gert Verstraeten have?

Science Explorer counts 122 works and 636 citations for Gert Verstraeten, ranking #133,616 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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