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Researcher · Ghent University · Belgium

Roel Vaeyens

Roel Vaeyens publishes mostly in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Genetics, on topics such as Sports Performance and Training, Sports injuries and prevention and Sport Psychology and Performance.

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World rank
#47,192
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#207
of 67,186
Works
95
Citations
9.3k
Citations per work
97.5
h-index
50
i10-index 66Top 2.7% in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Roel Vaeyens

What does Roel Vaeyens research?

Roel Vaeyens's work is mostly in Medicine (47%), Psychology (20%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%).

Health Sciences: 48 works · 50.9% of their workMedicine: 45 works · 47.2% of their workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 41 works · 43.1% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 works · 4.1% of their workHealth Professions: 4 works · 3.7% of their workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 4 works · 3.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 22 works · 23.6% of their workPsychology: 19 works · 19.5% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 19 works · 19.5% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 works · 4.1% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 works · 4.1% of their workEverything else: 20 works · 20.6% of their workLife Sciences: 5 works · 4.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 works · 4.9% of their workGenetics: 5 works · 4.9% of their workTHEIR WORKRoel Vaeyens95works
Life Sciences5%Health Sciences51%Social Sciences24%

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. Medicine4547.2%
    2. Health Professions43.7%
    1. Psychology1919.5%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance44.1%
  3. Everything else2020.6%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology54.9%
  1. 1Orthopedics and Sports Medicine43% of their works
  2. 2Developmental and Educational Psychology20% of their works
  3. 3Genetics5% of their works
  4. 4Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health4% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics4% of their works
  6. 6Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Roel Vaeyens's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Performance Analysis, Training Load, Epidemiology, Muscle Injuries, Sports Injury, Physical Activity, Expert Performance and Motor Imagery.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Performance Analysis661 topic
  2. Training Load661 topic
  3. Epidemiology552 topics
  4. Muscle Injuries491 topic
  5. Sports Injury491 topic
  6. Physical Activity373 topics
  7. Expert Performance341 topic
  8. Motor Imagery341 topic
  9. Developmental Coordination Disorder181 topic
  10. Motor Skill Competence181 topic
  11. ACE Gene131 topic
  12. ACTN3 Genotype131 topic
  13. Competitive Balance111 topic
  14. Prediction Markets111 topic
  15. Intrinsic Motivation81 topic
  16. Self-Determination Theory81 topic
  17. Obesity61 topic
  18. Overweight61 topic

Where does Roel Vaeyens work?

Roel Vaeyens's main affiliation in the publication record is Ghent University, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Roel Vaeyens have?

OpenAlex counts 95 works and 9,263 citations for Roel Vaeyens, an h-index of 50, ranking #47,192 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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