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Researcher · GZA Ziekenhuizen Campus Sint-Augustinus · Belgium

Kris De Smedt

Kris De Smedt publishes mostly in Surgery, Pharmacology and Pathology and Forensic Medicine, on topics such as Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, Pain Management and Treatment and Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,134,719
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#19,568
of 67,186
Works
26
Citations
496
Citations per work
19.1
h-index
12
i10-index 12Top 38% in Surgery
Kris De Smedt

What does Kris De Smedt research?

Kris De Smedt's work is mostly in Medicine (71%).

Health Sciences: 18 works · 70.7% of their workMedicine: 18 works · 70.7% of their workSurgery: 4 works · 17.3% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 4 works · 14.7% of their workPharmacology: 4 works · 14.7% of their workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 3 works · 12.0% of their workNeurology: 2 works · 8.0% of their workGenetics: 1 works · 4.0% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 29.3% of their workTHEIR WORKKris De Smedt26works
Health Sciences71%

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. Medicine1870.7%
  2. Everything else829.3%
  1. 1Surgery17% of their works
  2. 2Pharmacology15% of their works
  3. 3Pathology and Forensic Medicine15% of their works
  4. 4Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine12% of their works
  5. 5Neurology8% of their works
  6. 6Genetics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kris De Smedt's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Low Back Pain, Chronic Pain, Global Burden, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Intervertebral Disc, Lumbar Disc Degeneration, Spinal Cord Stimulation and Endoscopic Surgery.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Low Back Pain202 topics
  2. Chronic Pain111 topic
  3. Global Burden111 topic
  4. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome91 topic
  5. Intervertebral Disc91 topic
  6. Lumbar Disc Degeneration91 topic
  7. Spinal Cord Stimulation91 topic
  8. Endoscopic Surgery31 topic
  9. Glioblastoma31 topic
  10. Pedicle Screw Fixation31 topic
  11. Skull Base Reconstruction31 topic
  12. Temozolomide31 topic
  13. Vertebroplasty31 topic
  14. Electromagnetics21 topic
  15. Finite-Difference Time-Domain21 topic
  16. Negative Ion Sources21 topic
  17. Superconducting Cavities21 topic

Where does Kris De Smedt work?

Kris De Smedt's main affiliation in the publication record is GZA Ziekenhuizen Campus Sint-Augustinus, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Kris De Smedt have?

OpenAlex counts 26 works and 496 citations for Kris De Smedt, an h-index of 12, ranking #2,134,719 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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