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Researcher · National Institute for Public Health and the Environment · Netherlands

Hein Sprong

Hein Sprong publishes mostly in Parasitology, Infectious Diseases and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, on topics such as Vector-borne infectious diseases, Viral Infections and Vectors and Vector-Borne Animal Diseases.

ORCID 0000-0002-0218-4320 OpenAlex
World rank
#26,486
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Netherlands
#490
of 107,149
Works
388
Citations
20k
Citations per work
51.0
h-index
71
i10-index 222Top 0.4% in Parasitology
Hein Sprong

What does Hein Sprong research?

Hein Sprong's work is mostly in Immunology and Microbiology (35%), Medicine (27%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (16%).

Life Sciences: 218 works · 56.1% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 135 works · 34.8% of their workParasitology: 135 works · 34.8% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 63 works · 16.3% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 40 works · 10.2% of their workInsect Science: 24 works · 6.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 19 works · 5.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 19 works · 5.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 106 works · 27.2% of their workMedicine: 106 works · 27.2% of their workInfectious Diseases: 74 works · 19.0% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 32 works · 8.2% of their workEverything else: 65 works · 16.7% of their workTHEIR WORKHein Sprong388works
Life Sciences56%Health Sciences27%

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. Immunology and Microbiology13534.8%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences6316.3%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology195.0%
    1. Medicine10627.2%
  3. Everything else6516.7%
  1. 1Parasitology35% of their works
  2. 2Infectious Diseases19% of their works
  3. 3Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics10% of their works
  4. 4Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health8% of their works
  5. 5Insect Science6% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Hein Sprong's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Public Health, Pathogenesis, Pathogen Transmission, Host-Pathogen Interactions, Lyme Disease, Tick-Borne Diseases and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology6395 topics
  2. Public Health4302 topics
  3. Pathogenesis3423 topics
  4. Pathogen Transmission2872 topics
  5. Host-Pathogen Interactions2772 topics
  6. Lyme Disease2541 topic
  7. Tick-Borne Diseases2541 topic
  8. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers1761 topic
  9. Zoonotic Infections1761 topic
  10. Bluetongue Virus1041 topic
  11. Culicoides Biting Midges1041 topic
  12. Vector Control662 topics
  13. Bartonella621 topic
  14. Infections621 topic
  15. Arboviral Diseases431 topic
  16. Zika Virus431 topic
  17. Honey Bees381 topic
  18. Neonicotinoids381 topic
  19. One Health331 topic
  20. Zoonotic Diseases331 topic
  21. Symbiont231 topic
  22. Wolbachia231 topic

Where does Hein Sprong work?

Hein Sprong's main affiliation in the publication record is National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands.

How many publications and citations does Hein Sprong have?

OpenAlex counts 388 works and 19,779 citations for Hein Sprong, an h-index of 71, ranking #26,486 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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