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Researcher · Solvay (Belgium) · Belgium

Ruben Vandenplas

Ruben Vandenplas publishes mostly in Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Gender Studies, on topics such as Media Studies and Communication, Social Media and Politics and Misinformation and Its Impacts.

ORCID 0000-0002-4950-7465 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,431,159
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#30,957
of 67,186
Works
17
Citations
73
Citations per work
4.3
h-index
3
i10-index 3Top 85% in Communication
Ruben Vandenplas

What does Ruben Vandenplas research?

Ruben Vandenplas's work is mostly in Social Sciences (61%), Medicine (3%), Business, Management and Accounting (3%).

Social Sciences: 12 works · 67.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 10 works · 61.4% of their workCommunication: 5 works · 32.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 4 works · 22.6% of their workGender Studies: 1 works · 6.5% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 works · 3.2% of their workManagement Information Systems: 1 works · 3.2% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 works · 3.2% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 works · 3.2% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 29.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 1 works · 3.2% of their workMedicine: 1 works · 3.2% of their workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 works · 3.2% of their workTHEIR WORKRuben Vandenplas17works
Health Sciences3%Social Sciences68%

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. Social Sciences1061.4%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting13.2%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance13.2%
  2. Everything else529.0%
    1. Medicine13.2%
  1. 1Communication32% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science23% of their works
  3. 3Gender Studies6% of their works
  4. 4Management Information Systems3% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics3% of their works
  6. 6Orthopedics and Sports Medicine3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ruben Vandenplas's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Media, Agenda Setting, Media Framing, Digital Divide, Political Participation, Fake News, Misinformation and Community Empowerment.

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. Social Media93 topics
  2. Agenda Setting51 topic
  3. Media Framing51 topic
  4. Digital Divide41 topic
  5. Political Participation41 topic
  6. Fake News31 topic
  7. Misinformation31 topic
  8. Community Empowerment22 topics
  9. Feminism21 topic
  10. Neoliberalism21 topic
  11. Sustainability22 topics
  12. Agriculture11 topic
  13. Epidemiology11 topic
  14. Food Security11 topic
  15. Food Tourism11 topic
  16. Gastronomy11 topic
  17. Maternal Health11 topic
  18. Sports Injury11 topic
  19. Stunting11 topic

Where does Ruben Vandenplas work?

Ruben Vandenplas's main affiliation in the publication record is Solvay (Belgium), Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Ruben Vandenplas have?

OpenAlex counts 17 works and 73 citations for Ruben Vandenplas, an h-index of 3, ranking #3,431,159 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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