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Researcher · Flanders Hydraulics · Belgium

Sven Smolders

Sven Smolders publishes mostly in Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, Coastal and Marine Dynamics and Geological formations and processes.

ORCID 0000-0002-4253-4081 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,143,471
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#37,230
of 67,186
Works
53
Citations
389
Citations per work
7.3
h-index
9
i10-index 7Top 68% in Ecology
Sven Smolders

What does Sven Smolders research?

Sven Smolders's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (36%), Environmental Science (24%), Engineering (11%).

Physical Sciences: 38 works · 70.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 19 works · 35.8% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 12 works · 22.8% of their workAtmospheric Science: 4 works · 8.1% of their workOceanography: 3 works · 4.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 13 works · 23.6% of their workEcology: 13 works · 23.6% of their workEngineering: 6 works · 11.4% of their workBuilding and Construction: 3 works · 5.7% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 3 works · 5.7% of their workEverything else: 15 works · 29.2% of their workTHEIR WORKSven Smolders53works
Physical Sciences71%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences1935.8%
    2. Environmental Science1323.6%
    3. Engineering611.4%
  2. Everything else1529.2%
  1. 1Ecology24% of their works
  2. 2Earth-Surface Processes23% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science8% of their works
  4. 4Building and Construction6% of their works
  5. 5Civil and Structural Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Oceanography5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sven Smolders's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Sea-Level Rise, Coastal Protection, Mangrove Forests, Sediment Transport, Coastal Dynamics, Shoreline Change and Fluvial Systems.

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. Climate Change354 topics
  2. Sea-Level Rise352 topics
  3. Coastal Protection221 topic
  4. Mangrove Forests221 topic
  5. Sediment Transport162 topics
  6. Coastal Dynamics131 topic
  7. Shoreline Change131 topic
  8. Fluvial Systems111 topic
  9. Sedimentation111 topic
  10. Hurricanes71 topic
  11. Tropical Cyclones71 topic
  12. BIM-GIS Integration51 topic
  13. CityGML51 topic
  14. Carbon31 topic
  15. Glacial Cycles31 topic
  16. Hydrodynamic Processes31 topic
  17. Numerical Modeling31 topic
  18. Paleoclimatology31 topic
  19. Peatlands31 topic

Where does Sven Smolders work?

Sven Smolders's main affiliation in the publication record is Flanders Hydraulics, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Sven Smolders have?

OpenAlex counts 53 works and 389 citations for Sven Smolders, an h-index of 9, ranking #4,143,471 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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