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Researcher · KU Leuven · Belgium

Jan Diels

Jan Diels publishes mostly in Soil Science, Plant Science and Environmental Engineering, on topics such as Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Soil and Unsaturated Flow and Soil erosion and sediment transport.

ORCID 0000-0002-0317-8280 OpenAlex
World rank
#589,551
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#5,172
of 67,186
Works
299
Citations
6.5k
Citations per work
21.8
h-index
48
i10-index 128Top 2.5% in Soil Science
Jan Diels

What does Jan Diels research?

Jan Diels's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (38%), Environmental Science (17%), Engineering (7%).

Everything else: 116 works · 38.9% of their workLife Sciences: 112 works · 37.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 112 works · 37.6% of their workSoil Science: 47 works · 15.8% of their workPlant Science: 41 works · 13.6% of their workAgronomy and Crop Science: 25 works · 8.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 70 works · 23.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 50 works · 16.8% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 33 works · 11.1% of their workWater Science and Technology: 17 works · 5.7% of their workEngineering: 20 works · 6.7% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 20 works · 6.7% of their workTHEIR WORKJan Diels299works
Life Sciences38%Physical Sciences24%

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. Everything else11638.9%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences11237.6%
    1. Environmental Science5016.8%
    2. Engineering206.7%
  1. 1Soil Science16% of their works
  2. 2Plant Science14% of their works
  3. 3Environmental Engineering11% of their works
  4. 4Agronomy and Crop Science8% of their works
  5. 5Civil and Structural Engineering7% of their works
  6. 6Water Science and Technology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jan Diels's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Land Use Change, Hydrological Modeling, Nitrogen Cycle, Soil Carbon Sequestration, Soil Hydraulic Properties, Unsaturated Soil Mechanics and Agricultural Sustainability.

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. Climate Change802 topics
  2. Land Use Change712 topics
  3. Hydrological Modeling662 topics
  4. Nitrogen Cycle451 topic
  5. Soil Carbon Sequestration451 topic
  6. Soil Hydraulic Properties431 topic
  7. Unsaturated Soil Mechanics431 topic
  8. Agricultural Sustainability361 topic
  9. Soil Erosion361 topic
  10. Agricultural Productivity351 topic
  11. Intercropping351 topic
  12. Model Evaluation351 topic
  13. Water Resources351 topic
  14. Nutrient Cycling341 topic
  15. Water Quality341 topic
  16. Remote Sensing311 topic
  17. Soil Moisture311 topic
  18. Maize Yield231 topic
  19. Nitrogen Uptake231 topic

Where does Jan Diels work?

Jan Diels's main affiliation in the publication record is KU Leuven, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Jan Diels have?

OpenAlex counts 299 works and 6,514 citations for Jan Diels, an h-index of 48, ranking #589,551 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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