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Researcher · Ghent University · Belgium

Nico Boon

Nico Boon publishes mostly in Pollution, Molecular Biology and Ecology, on topics such as Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation.

ORCID 0000-0002-7734-3103 OpenAlex
World rank
#117,596
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#796
of 67,186
Works
994
Citations
55k
Citations per work
55.2
h-index
127
i10-index 544Top 0.1% in Pollution
Nico Boon

What does Nico Boon research?

Nico Boon's work is mostly in Environmental Science (30%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%), Engineering (5%).

Everything else: 552 works · 55.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 345 works · 34.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 293 works · 29.5% of their workPollution: 107 works · 10.8% of their workEcology: 70 works · 7.0% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 68 works · 6.8% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 49 works · 4.9% of their workEngineering: 52 works · 5.2% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 52 works · 5.2% of their workLife Sciences: 97 works · 9.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 97 works · 9.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 97 works · 9.8% of their workTHEIR WORKNico Boon994works
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences35%

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. Everything else55255.5%
    1. Environmental Science29329.5%
    2. Engineering525.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology979.8%
  1. 1Pollution11% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology10% of their works
  3. 3Ecology7% of their works
  4. 4Environmental Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nico Boon's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Wastewater Treatment, Microbial Ecology, Anammox Bacteria, Nitrogen-Cycling Network, Hydrogen Production, Marine Microbes, Microbial Biogeography and Microbial Communities.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Wastewater Treatment2822 topics
  2. Microbial Ecology2282 topics
  3. Anammox Bacteria1761 topic
  4. Nitrogen-Cycling Network1761 topic
  5. Hydrogen Production1642 topics
  6. Marine Microbes1441 topic
  7. Microbial Biogeography1441 topic
  8. Microbial Communities1202 topics
  9. Extracellular Electron Transfer1061 topic
  10. Microbial Fuel Cells1061 topic
  11. Disinfection By-Products841 topic
  12. Drinking Water841 topic
  13. Gut Microbiota761 topic
  14. Short-Chain Fatty Acids761 topic
  15. Microbial Carbonate Precipitation591 topic
  16. Soil Improvement591 topic
  17. Anaerobic Digestion581 topic
  18. Biogas Production581 topic
  19. Anaerobic441 topic
  20. Methane Oxidation441 topic

Where does Nico Boon work?

Nico Boon's main affiliation in the publication record is Ghent University, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Nico Boon have?

OpenAlex counts 994 works and 54,867 citations for Nico Boon, an h-index of 127, ranking #117,596 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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