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Researcher · Erasmus University Rotterdam · Netherlands

René B.M. de Koster

René B.M. de Koster publishes mostly in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Building and Construction and Management Information Systems, on topics such as Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization, Urban and Freight Transport Logistics and Optimization and Packing Problems.

ORCID 0000-0002-1740-7822 OpenAlex
World rank
#10,859
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Netherlands
#179
of 107,149
Works
324
Citations
16k
Citations per work
48.0
h-index
63
i10-index 162Top 0.3% in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering)
René B.M. de Koster

What does René B.M. de Koster research?

René B.M. de Koster's work is mostly in Engineering (66%), Business, Management and Accounting (6%), Computer Science (4%).

Physical Sciences: 227 works · 70.1% of their workEngineering: 214 works · 65.9% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 168 works · 51.9% of their workBuilding and Construction: 34 works · 10.5% of their workAutomotive Engineering: 11 works · 3.5% of their workComputer Science: 14 works · 4.2% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 14 works · 4.2% of their workEverything else: 69 works · 21.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 28 works · 8.5% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 20 works · 6.1% of their workManagement Information Systems: 20 works · 6.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 8 works · 2.4% of their workTransportation: 8 works · 2.4% of their workTHEIR WORKRené B.M. deKoster324works
Physical Sciences70%Social Sciences8%

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. Engineering21465.9%
    2. Computer Science144.2%
  2. Everything else6921.4%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting206.1%
    2. Social Sciences82.4%
  1. 1Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering52% of their works
  2. 2Building and Construction10% of their works
  3. 3Management Information Systems6% of their works
  4. 4Computer Networks and Communications4% of their works
  5. 5Automotive Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Transportation2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe René B.M. de Koster's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Order Picking, Warehouse Design, Genetic Algorithm, Heuristic Algorithms, City Logistics, Last Mile Delivery, Cutting and Packing.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Order Picking1911 topic
  2. Warehouse Design1911 topic
  3. Genetic Algorithm1292 topics
  4. Heuristic Algorithms1072 topics
  5. City Logistics821 topic
  6. Last Mile Delivery821 topic
  7. Cutting741 topic
  8. Packing741 topic
  9. Manufacturing551 topic
  10. Scheduling551 topic
  11. Container Terminals411 topic
  12. Operations Research411 topic
  13. Assembly Line Balancing381 topic
  14. Optimization Methods381 topic
  15. Tabu Search331 topic
  16. Vehicle Routing Problem331 topic
  17. Mobile Robots321 topic
  18. Online Algorithms321 topic

Where does René B.M. de Koster work?

René B.M. de Koster's main affiliation in the publication record is Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands.

How many publications and citations does René B.M. de Koster have?

OpenAlex counts 324 works and 15,536 citations for René B.M. de Koster, an h-index of 63, ranking #10,859 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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