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Researcher · KU Leuven · Belgium

Willem F. Broekaert

Willem F. Broekaert publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Nutrition and Dietetics, on topics such as Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology, Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities and Biochemical and Structural Characterization.

OpenAlex
World rank
#57,681
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#284
of 67,186
Works
126
Citations
16k
Citations per work
126.6
h-index
61
i10-index 93Top 1.9% in Molecular Biology
Willem F. Broekaert

What does Willem F. Broekaert research?

Willem F. Broekaert's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (34%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (23%), Nursing (15%).

Life Sciences: 82 works · 64.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 43 works · 34.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 30 works · 23.7% of their workBiotechnology: 9 works · 7.0% of their workGenetics: 4 works · 3.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 29 works · 23.2% of their workPlant Science: 29 works · 23.2% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 9 works · 7.5% of their workMicrobiology: 9 works · 7.5% of their workEverything else: 26 works · 20.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 19 works · 14.8% of their workNursing: 19 works · 14.8% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 19 works · 14.8% of their workTHEIR WORKWillem F.Broekaert126works
Life Sciences65%Health Sciences15%

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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4334.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2923.2%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology97.5%
  2. Everything else2620.4%
    1. Nursing1914.8%
  1. 1Molecular Biology24% of their works
  2. 2Plant Science23% of their works
  3. 3Nutrition and Dietetics15% of their works
  4. 4Microbiology8% of their works
  5. 5Biotechnology7% of their works
  6. 6Genetics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Willem F. Broekaert's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Dietary Fiber, Health Benefits, Fructans, Inulin, Antimicrobial Peptides, Host Defense, Cyclotides and Sortase.

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. Dietary Fiber492 topics
  2. Health Benefits492 topics
  3. Fructans281 topic
  4. Inulin281 topic
  5. Antimicrobial Peptides271 topic
  6. Host Defense271 topic
  7. Cyclotides261 topic
  8. Sortase261 topic
  9. Glycemic Index211 topic
  10. Starch211 topic
  11. Plant Molecular Farming201 topic
  12. Recombinant Proteins201 topic
  13. Plant Immunity171 topic
  14. Rhizosphere Interactions171 topic
  15. Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation141 topic
  16. Plant Secondary Metabolites141 topic
  17. Genetic Adaptation101 topic
  18. Lactase Persistence101 topic

Where does Willem F. Broekaert work?

Willem F. Broekaert's main affiliation in the publication record is KU Leuven, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Willem F. Broekaert have?

OpenAlex counts 126 works and 15,953 citations for Willem F. Broekaert, an h-index of 61, ranking #57,681 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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