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Researcher · KU Leuven · Belgium

Walter Sermeus

Walter Sermeus publishes mostly in General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Economics and Econometrics, on topics such as Clinical practice guidelines implementation, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life and Nursing education and management.

ORCID 0000-0002-5915-1845 OpenAlex
World rank
#139,763
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#947
of 67,186
Works
476
Citations
20k
Citations per work
43.0
h-index
63
i10-index 204Top 0.5% in General Health Professions
Walter Sermeus

What does Walter Sermeus research?

Walter Sermeus's work is mostly in Health Professions (34%), Medicine (11%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (8%).

Health Sciences: 239 works · 50.2% of their workHealth Professions: 162 works · 34.1% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 121 works · 25.4% of their workEmergency Medical Services: 21 works · 4.5% of their workHealth Information Management: 20 works · 4.2% of their workMedicine: 54 works · 11.4% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 54 works · 11.4% of their workNursing: 22 works · 4.7% of their workResearch and Theory: 22 works · 4.7% of their workEverything else: 198 works · 41.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 39 works · 8.2% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 39 works · 8.2% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 39 works · 8.2% of their workTHEIR WORKWalter Sermeus476works
Health Sciences50%Social 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. Health Professions16234.1%
    2. Medicine5411.4%
    3. Nursing224.7%
  2. Everything else19841.6%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance398.2%
  1. 1General Health Professions25% of their works
  2. 2Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health11% of their works
  3. 3Economics and Econometrics8% of their works
  4. 4Research and Theory5% of their works
  5. 5Emergency Medical Services4% of their works
  6. 6Health Information Management4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Walter Sermeus's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Patient Outcomes, Primary Care, Clinical Guidelines, Guideline Development, Quality of Life, Quality Improvement, Cost-effectiveness Analysis and Health Utility Measures.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Patient Outcomes2043 topics
  2. Primary Care1063 topics
  3. Clinical Guidelines1031 topic
  4. Guideline Development1031 topic
  5. Quality of Life912 topics
  6. Quality Improvement812 topics
  7. Cost-effectiveness Analysis571 topic
  8. Health Utility Measures571 topic
  9. Job Satisfaction561 topic
  10. Nursing Staffing561 topic
  11. Nursing Diagnoses451 topic
  12. Nursing Documentation451 topic
  13. Continuity of Care361 topic
  14. Interprofessional Education361 topic
  15. Patient-Centered Medical Home361 topic
  16. Teamwork361 topic
  17. Chronic Conditions341 topic
  18. Multimorbidity341 topic
  19. Nursing Home311 topic
  20. Quality of Care311 topic

Where does Walter Sermeus work?

Walter Sermeus's main affiliation in the publication record is KU Leuven, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Walter Sermeus have?

OpenAlex counts 476 works and 20,484 citations for Walter Sermeus, an h-index of 63, ranking #139,763 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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