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Researcher · Hasselt University · Belgium

Kris Braekers

Kris Braekers publishes mostly in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Building and Construction and Automotive Engineering, on topics such as Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods, Urban and Freight Transport Logistics and Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization.

ORCID 0000-0001-6052-6846 OpenAlex
World rank
#444,200
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#3,725
of 67,186
Works
118
Citations
4.1k
Citations per work
34.7
h-index
28
i10-index 40Top 5.3% in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering)
Kris Braekers

What does Kris Braekers research?

Kris Braekers's work is mostly in Engineering (70%), Social Sciences (6%), Health Professions (4%).

Physical Sciences: 83 works · 70.4% of their workEngineering: 83 works · 70.4% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 57 works · 48.7% of their workBuilding and Construction: 13 works · 10.9% of their workAutomotive Engineering: 9 works · 7.9% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 23 works · 19.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 7 works · 5.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 7 works · 5.9% of their workTransportation: 7 works · 5.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 5 works · 4.1% of their workHealth Professions: 5 works · 4.1% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 5 works · 4.1% of their workTHEIR WORKKris Braekers118works
Physical Sciences70%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences6%

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. Engineering8370.4%
  2. Everything else2319.6%
    1. Social Sciences75.9%
    1. Health Professions54.1%
  1. 1Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering49% of their works
  2. 2Building and Construction11% of their works
  3. 3Automotive Engineering8% of their works
  4. 4Transportation6% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions4% of their works
  6. 6Control and Systems Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kris Braekers's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Heuristic Algorithms, Tabu Search, Vehicle Routing Problem, Environmental Impacts, City Logistics, Last Mile Delivery, Order Picking and Warehouse Design.

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. Heuristic Algorithms962 topics
  2. Tabu Search691 topic
  3. Vehicle Routing Problem691 topic
  4. Environmental Impacts622 topics
  5. City Logistics351 topic
  6. Last Mile Delivery351 topic
  7. Order Picking301 topic
  8. Warehouse Design301 topic
  9. Cutting271 topic
  10. Packing271 topic
  11. Ridesharing271 topic
  12. Shared Autonomous Vehicles271 topic
  13. Container Terminals261 topic
  14. Operations Research261 topic
  15. Public Transport191 topic
  16. Travel Behavior191 topic
  17. Operating Room71 topic
  18. Scheduling71 topic

Where does Kris Braekers work?

Kris Braekers's main affiliation in the publication record is Hasselt University, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Kris Braekers have?

OpenAlex counts 118 works and 4,090 citations for Kris Braekers, an h-index of 28, ranking #444,200 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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