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Researcher · KU Leuven · Belgium

Pieter Vansteenwegen

Pieter Vansteenwegen publishes mostly in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Transportation and Automotive Engineering, on topics such as Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods, Transportation Planning and Optimization and Transportation and Mobility Innovations.

ORCID 0000-0002-5646-669X OpenAlex
World rank
#104,667
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#684
of 67,186
Works
249
Citations
7.2k
Citations per work
29.1
h-index
43
i10-index 81Top 1.3% in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering)
Pieter Vansteenwegen

What does Pieter Vansteenwegen research?

Pieter Vansteenwegen's work is mostly in Engineering (58%), Social Sciences (14%), Computer Science (4%).

Physical Sciences: 155 works · 62.2% of their workEngineering: 145 works · 58.1% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 94 works · 37.9% of their workAutomotive Engineering: 28 works · 11.1% of their workBuilding and Construction: 15 works · 6.0% of their workMechanical Engineering: 8 works · 3.1% of their workComputer Science: 10 works · 4.1% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 10 works · 4.1% of their workEverything else: 60 works · 24.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 34 works · 13.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 34 works · 13.6% of their workTransportation: 34 works · 13.6% of their workTHEIR WORKPieterVansteenwegen249works
Physical Sciences62%Social Sciences14%

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. Engineering14558.1%
    2. Computer Science104.1%
  2. Everything else6024.2%
    1. Social Sciences3413.6%
  1. 1Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering38% of their works
  2. 2Transportation14% of their works
  3. 3Automotive Engineering11% of their works
  4. 4Building and Construction6% of their works
  5. 5Computer Networks and Communications4% of their works
  6. 6Mechanical Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Pieter Vansteenwegen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Heuristic Algorithms, Metaheuristics, Tabu Search, Vehicle Routing Problem, Environmental Impacts, Public Transport, Travel Behavior and Ridesharing.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Heuristic Algorithms1482 topics
  2. Metaheuristics1332 topics
  3. Tabu Search1151 topic
  4. Vehicle Routing Problem1151 topic
  5. Environmental Impacts962 topics
  6. Public Transport781 topic
  7. Travel Behavior781 topic
  8. Ridesharing731 topic
  9. Shared Autonomous Vehicles731 topic
  10. Railway Timetabling541 topic
  11. Train Scheduling541 topic
  12. Cutting331 topic
  13. Packing331 topic
  14. City Logistics231 topic
  15. Last Mile Delivery231 topic
  16. Order Picking201 topic
  17. Warehouse Design201 topic
  18. Rostering181 topic
  19. Scheduling181 topic

Where does Pieter Vansteenwegen work?

Pieter Vansteenwegen's main affiliation in the publication record is KU Leuven, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Pieter Vansteenwegen have?

OpenAlex counts 249 works and 7,248 citations for Pieter Vansteenwegen, an h-index of 43, ranking #104,667 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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