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Researcher · Ghent University · Belgium

Sofie Piepers

Sofie Piepers publishes mostly in Agronomy and Crop Science, Food Science and Small Animals, on topics such as Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows, Probiotics and Fermented Foods and Microbial infections and disease research.

ORCID 0000-0003-4753-9321 OpenAlex
World rank
#521,344
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#4,474
of 67,186
Works
206
Citations
5.2k
Citations per work
25.2
h-index
41
i10-index 94Top 2% in Agronomy and Crop Science
Sofie Piepers

What does Sofie Piepers research?

Sofie Piepers's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (47%), Immunology and Microbiology (10%), Veterinary (8%).

Life Sciences: 132 works · 63.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 97 works · 47.1% of their workAgronomy and Crop Science: 72 works · 34.9% of their workFood Science: 25 works · 12.2% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 20 works · 9.6% of their workMicrobiology: 13 works · 6.2% of their workImmunology: 7 works · 3.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 15 works · 7.2% of their workGenetics: 15 works · 7.2% of their workEverything else: 59 works · 28.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 16 works · 7.6% of their workVeterinary: 16 works · 7.6% of their workSmall Animals: 16 works · 7.6% of their workTHEIR WORKSofie Piepers206works
Life Sciences64%Health Sciences8%

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. Agricultural and Biological Sciences9747.1%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology209.6%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology157.2%
  2. Everything else5928.5%
    1. Veterinary167.6%
  1. 1Agronomy and Crop Science35% of their works
  2. 2Food Science12% of their works
  3. 3Small Animals8% of their works
  4. 4Genetics7% of their works
  5. 5Microbiology6% of their works
  6. 6Immunology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sofie Piepers's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Antimicrobial Resistance, Bovine Mastitis, Milk Quality, Probiotics, Lactic Acid Bacteria, Prebiotics, Mycoplasma and Pasteurella.

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. Antimicrobial Resistance1732 topics
  2. Bovine Mastitis1431 topic
  3. Milk Quality1431 topic
  4. Probiotics642 topics
  5. Lactic Acid Bacteria491 topic
  6. Prebiotics491 topic
  7. Mycoplasma301 topic
  8. Pasteurella301 topic
  9. Animal Welfare231 topic
  10. Stress Indicators231 topic
  11. Genomic Selection191 topic
  12. Plant Breeding191 topic
  13. Reproductive Loss181 topic
  14. Uterine Disease181 topic
  15. Human Milk Composition151 topic
  16. Preterm Infants151 topic
  17. Acute Phase Proteins131 topic
  18. Veterinary Diagnosis131 topic

Where does Sofie Piepers work?

Sofie Piepers's main affiliation in the publication record is Ghent University, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Sofie Piepers have?

OpenAlex counts 206 works and 5,188 citations for Sofie Piepers, an h-index of 41, ranking #521,344 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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