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Researcher · Utrecht University · Netherlands

Rens van Beek

Rens van Beek publishes mostly in Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management and Landslides and related hazards.

ORCID 0000-0002-4758-108X OpenAlex
World rank
#67,350
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Netherlands
#1,504
of 107,149
Works
311
Citations
21k
Citations per work
68.5
h-index
62
i10-index 113Top 1% in Water Science and Technology
Rens van Beek

What does Rens van Beek research?

Rens van Beek's work is mostly in Environmental Science (42%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (8%), Engineering (5%).

Physical Sciences: 172 works · 55.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 131 works · 42.0% of their workWater Science and Technology: 58 works · 18.5% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 53 works · 17.0% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 20 works · 6.5% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 25 works · 8.0% of their workAtmospheric Science: 25 works · 8.0% of their workEngineering: 16 works · 5.3% of their workOcean Engineering: 16 works · 5.3% of their workEverything else: 123 works · 39.5% of their workLife Sciences: 16 works · 5.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 16 works · 5.2% of their workSoil Science: 16 works · 5.2% of their workTHEIR WORKRens van Beek311works
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences55%

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. Environmental Science13142.0%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences258.0%
    3. Engineering165.3%
  2. Everything else12339.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences165.2%
  1. 1Water Science and Technology18% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change17% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science8% of their works
  4. 4Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law6% of their works
  5. 5Ocean Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Soil Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rens van Beek's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Hydrological Modeling, Water Resources, Land Use Change, Global Hydrology, Model Evaluation, Remote Sensing and Sustainability.

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. Climate Change2335 topics
  2. Hydrological Modeling1532 topics
  3. Water Resources1382 topics
  4. Land Use Change1322 topics
  5. Global Hydrology1061 topic
  6. Model Evaluation1061 topic
  7. Remote Sensing892 topics
  8. Sustainability542 topics
  9. Flood Risk471 topic
  10. Surface Water Mapping471 topic
  11. Hazard421 topic
  12. Landslide421 topic
  13. Root Reinforcement351 topic
  14. Slope Stability351 topic
  15. Reservoir Operation321 topic
  16. Water Demand321 topic
  17. Agricultural Sustainability261 topic
  18. Extreme Events261 topic
  19. Global Warming261 topic
  20. Soil Erosion261 topic
  21. Nexus221 topic
  22. Water221 topic

Where does Rens van Beek work?

Rens van Beek's main affiliation in the publication record is Utrecht University, Netherlands.

How many publications and citations does Rens van Beek have?

OpenAlex counts 311 works and 21,307 citations for Rens van Beek, an h-index of 62, ranking #67,350 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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