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Researcher · University of Antwerp · Belgium

Sara Bals

Sara Bals publishes mostly in Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, on topics such as Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications, Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties and Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques.

ORCID 0000-0002-4249-8017 OpenAlex
World rank
#164,763
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#1,160
of 67,186
Works
801
Citations
34k
Citations per work
42.8
h-index
90
i10-index 456Top 0.3% in Materials Chemistry
Sara Bals

What does Sara Bals research?

Sara Bals's work is mostly in Materials Science (37%), Engineering (18%), Energy (6%).

Physical Sciences: 486 works · 60.7% of their workMaterials Science: 293 works · 36.6% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 233 works · 29.1% of their workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 60 works · 7.5% of their workEngineering: 145 works · 18.1% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 90 works · 11.2% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 55 works · 6.9% of their workEnergy: 48 works · 6.0% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 48 works · 6.0% of their workEverything else: 271 works · 33.8% of their workLife Sciences: 44 works · 5.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 44 works · 5.5% of their workStructural Biology: 44 works · 5.5% of their workTHEIR WORKSara Bals801works
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences61%

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. Materials Science29336.6%
    2. Engineering14518.1%
    3. Energy486.0%
  2. Everything else27133.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology445.5%
  1. 1Materials Chemistry29% of their works
  2. 2Electrical and Electronic Engineering11% of their works
  3. 3Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials8% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment6% of their works
  6. 6Structural Biology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sara Bals's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nanocrystals, Photovoltaics, Biomedical Applications, Catalysis, Stability, Cryo-Electron Microscopy, Single-Particle Analysis and Bioimaging.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Nanocrystals1702 topics
  2. Photovoltaics1702 topics
  3. Biomedical Applications1682 topics
  4. Catalysis1342 topics
  5. Stability1232 topics
  6. Cryo-Electron Microscopy1211 topic
  7. Single-Particle Analysis1211 topic
  8. Bioimaging1191 topic
  9. Quantum Dots1191 topic
  10. Scanning Electron Microscopy1141 topic
  11. X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy1141 topic
  12. Efficiency1102 topics
  13. Gold Nanoparticles1041 topic
  14. Plasmonic Nanoparticles1041 topic
  15. Nanoparticles701 topic
  16. Oxidation701 topic
  17. Atomically Precise641 topic
  18. Noble Metal Nanoclusters641 topic
  19. Organometal Halide Perovskites591 topic
  20. Perovskite Solar Cells591 topic
  21. CZTS511 topic
  22. Thin-Film Solar Cells511 topic

Where does Sara Bals work?

Sara Bals's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Antwerp, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Sara Bals have?

OpenAlex counts 801 works and 34,280 citations for Sara Bals, an h-index of 90, ranking #164,763 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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