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Researcher · Ghent University · Belgium

Tom Defloor

Tom Defloor publishes mostly in Occupational Therapy, General Health Professions and Surgery, on topics such as Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management, Wound Healing and Treatments and Diagnosis and Treatment of Venous Diseases.

OpenAlex
World rank
#382,378
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#3,176
of 67,186
Works
213
Citations
8.9k
Citations per work
41.9
h-index
52
i10-index 78Top 0.4% in Occupational Therapy
Tom Defloor

What does Tom Defloor research?

Tom Defloor's work is mostly in Medicine (33%), Health Professions (31%).

Health Sciences: 135 works · 63.2% of their workMedicine: 69 works · 32.6% of their workSurgery: 23 works · 10.9% of their workRehabilitation: 19 works · 8.8% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 18 works · 8.6% of their workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 9 works · 4.3% of their workHealth Professions: 65 works · 30.6% of their workOccupational Therapy: 37 works · 17.5% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 28 works · 13.1% of their workEverything else: 78 works · 36.8% of their workTHEIR WORKTom Defloor213works
Health Sciences63%

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. Medicine6932.6%
    2. Health Professions6530.6%
  2. Everything else7836.8%
  1. 1Occupational Therapy18% of their works
  2. 2General Health Professions13% of their works
  3. 3Surgery11% of their works
  4. 4Rehabilitation9% of their works
  5. 5Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health9% of their works
  6. 6Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Tom Defloor's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Quality of Life, Prevention, Cost Analysis, Pressure Ulcers, Risk Assessment, Diabetes, Wound Healing and Epidemiology.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Quality of Life1152 topics
  2. Prevention1062 topics
  3. Cost Analysis1012 topics
  4. Pressure Ulcers851 topic
  5. Risk Assessment851 topic
  6. Diabetes642 topics
  7. Wound Healing642 topics
  8. Epidemiology512 topics
  9. Macrophages431 topic
  10. Regeneration431 topic
  11. Clinical Guidelines312 topics
  12. Chronic Venous Insufficiency301 topic
  13. Varicose Veins301 topic
  14. Foot Ulcers211 topic
  15. Healthcare Legislation211 topic
  16. Management211 topic
  17. Patient Rights211 topic
  18. Antimicrobial Prophylaxis161 topic
  19. Health Checks161 topic
  20. Preventive Services161 topic
  21. Surgical Site Infection161 topic
  22. Guideline Development151 topic
  23. Quality Assessment151 topic

Where does Tom Defloor work?

Tom Defloor's main affiliation in the publication record is Ghent University, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Tom Defloor have?

OpenAlex counts 213 works and 8,925 citations for Tom Defloor, an h-index of 52, ranking #382,378 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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