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Researcher · Sasol (South Africa) · South Africa

Jan van de Loosdrecht

Jan van de Loosdrecht publishes mostly in Catalysis, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, on topics such as Catalysts for Methane Reforming, Catalytic Processes in Materials Science and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion.

OpenAlex
World rank
#620,819
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#2,375
of 29,826
Works
44
Citations
3k
Citations per work
69.2
h-index
25
i10-index 33Top 17% in Catalysis
Jan van de Loosdrecht

What does Jan van de Loosdrecht research?

Jan van de Loosdrecht's work is mostly in Chemical Engineering (32%), Materials Science (27%), Engineering (19%).

Physical Sciences: 40 works · 90.2% of their workChemical Engineering: 14 works · 32.5% of their workCatalysis: 14 works · 32.5% of their workMaterials Science: 12 works · 26.8% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 12 works · 26.8% of their workEngineering: 8 works · 18.7% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 5 works · 10.6% of their workMechanical Engineering: 4 works · 8.1% of their workEnergy: 5 works · 12.2% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 5 works · 12.2% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 8.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 1 works · 1.6% of their workMedicine: 1 works · 1.6% of their workOncology: 1 works · 1.6% of their workTHEIR WORKJan van deLoosdrecht44works
Physical Sciences90%Health Sciences2%

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. Chemical Engineering1432.5%
    2. Materials Science1226.8%
    3. Engineering818.7%
    4. Energy512.2%
  2. Everything else48.2%
    1. Medicine11.6%
  1. 1Catalysis32% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry27% of their works
  3. 3Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment12% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering11% of their works
  5. 5Mechanical Engineering8% of their works
  6. 6Oncology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jan van de Loosdrecht's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Catalytic, Carbon Dioxide, Catalysis, Hydrogenation, Nanoparticles, Oxidation, Heterogeneous Catalysts and Ionic Liquids.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Catalytic442 topics
  2. Carbon Dioxide351 topic
  3. Catalysis353 topics
  4. Hydrogenation351 topic
  5. Nanoparticles261 topic
  6. Oxidation261 topic
  7. Heterogeneous Catalysts202 topics
  8. Ionic Liquids202 topics
  9. Electrocatalysis131 topic
  10. Energy Conversion131 topic
  11. Biomass111 topic
  12. Catalytic Conversion111 topic
  13. Desulfurization91 topic
  14. Hydrodeoxygenation91 topic
  15. Dehydrogenation51 topic
  16. Oxidative51 topic
  17. Dealloying41 topic
  18. Nanoporous Metals41 topic
  19. Lanthanide Luminescence31 topic
  20. MRI Contrast Agents31 topic

Where does Jan van de Loosdrecht work?

Jan van de Loosdrecht's main affiliation in the publication record is Sasol (South Africa), South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Jan van de Loosdrecht have?

OpenAlex counts 44 works and 3,046 citations for Jan van de Loosdrecht, an h-index of 25, ranking #620,819 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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