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Researcher · KU Leuven · Belgium

Patrick De Causmaecker

Patrick De Causmaecker publishes mostly in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management Science and Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions, Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods and Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization.

ORCID 0000-0002-6763-1945 OpenAlex
World rank
#766,295
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#6,989
of 67,186
Works
271
Citations
6k
Citations per work
22.1
h-index
38
i10-index 79Top 2.1% in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering)
Patrick De Causmaecker

What does Patrick De Causmaecker research?

Patrick De Causmaecker's work is mostly in Computer Science (26%), Engineering (19%), Decision Sciences (16%).

Physical Sciences: 131 works · 48.3% of their workComputer Science: 70 works · 25.7% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 35 works · 12.9% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 27 works · 9.8% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 8 works · 3.0% of their workEngineering: 51 works · 19.0% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 51 works · 19.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 10 works · 3.6% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 10 works · 3.6% of their workEverything else: 98 works · 36.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 43 works · 15.7% of their workDecision Sciences: 43 works · 15.7% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 43 works · 15.7% of their workTHEIR WORKPatrick DeCausmaecker271works
Physical Sciences48%Social Sciences16%

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. Computer Science7025.7%
    2. Engineering5119.0%
    3. Physics and Astronomy103.6%
  2. Everything else9836.0%
    1. Decision Sciences4315.7%
  1. 1Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering19% of their works
  2. 2Management Science and Operations Research16% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence13% of their works
  4. 4Computer Networks and Communications10% of their works
  5. 5Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works
  6. 6Computational Theory and Mathematics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Patrick De Causmaecker's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Metaheuristics, Scheduling, Graph Coloring, Optimization, Rostering, Timetabling, Heuristic Algorithms and Genetic Algorithm.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Metaheuristics1804 topics
  2. Scheduling1413 topics
  3. Graph Coloring1242 topics
  4. Optimization1163 topics
  5. Rostering861 topic
  6. Timetabling861 topic
  7. Heuristic Algorithms722 topics
  8. Genetic Algorithm653 topics
  9. Tabu Search581 topic
  10. Vehicle Routing Problem581 topic
  11. Constraint Optimization381 topic
  12. Distributed Algorithms381 topic
  13. Flexible Job-shop381 topic
  14. Manufacturing381 topic
  15. Differential Evolution231 topic
  16. Particle Swarm Optimization231 topic
  17. Healthcare171 topic
  18. Operating Room171 topic
  19. Cutting141 topic
  20. Packing141 topic
  21. Project Scheduling131 topic
  22. Resource-Constrained131 topic

Where does Patrick De Causmaecker work?

Patrick De Causmaecker's main affiliation in the publication record is KU Leuven, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Patrick De Causmaecker have?

OpenAlex counts 271 works and 5,985 citations for Patrick De Causmaecker, an h-index of 38, ranking #766,295 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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