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Researcher · Hasselt University · Belgium

Koen Vandewal

Koen Vandewal publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry, on topics such as Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Conducting polymers and applications and Perovskite Materials and Applications.

ORCID 0000-0001-5471-383X OpenAlex
World rank
#73,443
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#417
of 67,186
Works
309
Citations
22k
Citations per work
70.9
h-index
76
i10-index 173Top 0.3% in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Koen Vandewal

What does Koen Vandewal research?

Koen Vandewal's work is mostly in Engineering (60%), Materials Science (26%), Physics and Astronomy (5%).

Physical Sciences: 288 works · 93.2% of their workEngineering: 184 works · 59.7% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 176 works · 57.0% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 8 works · 2.7% of their workMaterials Science: 80 works · 26.0% of their workPolymers and Plastics: 60 works · 19.4% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 20 works · 6.6% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 15 works · 4.8% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 15 works · 4.8% of their workChemistry: 8 works · 2.7% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 8 works · 2.7% of their workEverything else: 21 works · 6.8% of their workTHEIR WORKKoen Vandewal309works
Physical Sciences93%

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. Engineering18459.7%
    2. Materials Science8026.0%
    3. Physics and Astronomy154.8%
    4. Chemistry82.7%
  2. Everything else216.8%
  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering57% of their works
  2. 2Polymers and Plastics19% of their works
  3. 3Materials Chemistry7% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering3% of their works
  6. 6Organic Chemistry3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Koen Vandewal's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Bulk Heterojunction, Conjugated Polymers, Organic Electronics, Biomedical Applications, Conducting Polymers, Polyaniline, Organometal Halide Perovskites and Perovskite Solar Cells.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Bulk Heterojunction2231 topic
  2. Conjugated Polymers2231 topic
  3. Organic Electronics1962 topics
  4. Biomedical Applications1782 topics
  5. Conducting Polymers1581 topic
  6. Polyaniline1581 topic
  7. Organometal Halide Perovskites691 topic
  8. Perovskite Solar Cells691 topic
  9. Organic Light-Emitting Diodes411 topic
  10. Phosphorescent Materials411 topic
  11. Molecular Electronics381 topic
  12. Self-Assembled Monolayers381 topic
  13. Plasmonics311 topic
  14. Thin-Film Transistors311 topic
  15. Endohedral Fullerenes201 topic
  16. Fullerenes201 topic
  17. Aggregation-Induced Emission171 topic
  18. Fluorescent Materials171 topic

Where does Koen Vandewal work?

Koen Vandewal's main affiliation in the publication record is Hasselt University, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Koen Vandewal have?

OpenAlex counts 309 works and 21,899 citations for Koen Vandewal, an h-index of 76, ranking #73,443 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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