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Researcher · KU Leuven · Belgium

Jean Poesen

Jean Poesen publishes mostly in Soil Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Ecology, on topics such as Soil erosion and sediment transport, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies.

World rank
#110,511
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#997
of 18,604
Works
436
Citations
2.4k
Citations per work
5.6

What does Jean Poesen research?

Soil Science: 27.4%Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 15.5%Ecology: 10.9%Water Science and Technology: 7.9%other fields: 38.3%27%top field
Soil Science27.4%Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law15.5%Ecology10.9%Water Science and Technology7.9%other fields38.3%

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

  1. 1Soil Science27% of their works
  2. 2Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law16% of their works
  3. 3Ecology11% of their works
  4. 4Water Science and Technology8% of their works
  5. 5Earth-Surface Processes6% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jean Poesen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Land Use Change, Agricultural Sustainability, Soil Erosion, Sediment Transport, Climate Change, Hydrological Modeling, 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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Land Use Change1542 topics
  2. Agricultural Sustainability1201 topic
  3. Soil Erosion1201 topic
  4. Sediment Transport1003 topics
  5. Climate Change984 topics
  6. Hydrological Modeling442 topics
  7. Riparian Vegetation411 topic
  8. River Restoration411 topic
  9. Remote Sensing402 topics
  10. Model Evaluation341 topic
  11. Water Resources341 topic
  12. Hazard301 topic
  13. Landslide301 topic
  14. Pastoralists291 topic
  15. Rangeland Degradation291 topic
  16. Aeolian Processes251 topic
  17. Wind Erosion251 topic
  18. Flood Risk101 topic
  19. Surface Water Mapping101 topic
  20. Root Reinforcement91 topic
  21. Slope Stability91 topic

Where does Jean Poesen work?

Jean Poesen's main affiliation in the publication record is KU Leuven, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Jean Poesen have?

Science Explorer counts 436 works and 2,433 citations for Jean Poesen, ranking #110,511 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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