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Researcher · Stellenbosch University · South Africa

Willem Heber van Zyl

Willem Heber van Zyl publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, on topics such as Biofuel production and bioconversion, Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction and Enzyme Production and Characterization.

ORCID 0000-0001-8195-353X OpenAlex
World rank
#543,495
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#2,038
of 29,826
Works
263
Citations
17k
Citations per work
64.2
h-index
57
i10-index 179Top 2.4% in Molecular Biology
Willem Heber van Zyl

What does Willem Heber van Zyl research?

Willem Heber van Zyl's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (43%), Engineering (25%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (12%).

Life Sciences: 146 works · 55.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 113 works · 43.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 76 works · 28.8% of their workBiotechnology: 29 works · 11.2% of their workCell Biology: 8 works · 3.1% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 33 works · 12.5% of their workPlant Science: 23 works · 8.8% of their workFood Science: 10 works · 3.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 65 works · 24.7% of their workEngineering: 65 works · 24.7% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 65 works · 24.7% of their workEverything else: 52 works · 19.7% of their workTHEIR WORKWillem Heber vanZyl263works
Life Sciences56%Physical Sciences25%

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 Biology11343.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences3312.5%
    1. Engineering6524.7%
  3. Everything else5219.7%
  1. 1Molecular Biology29% of their works
  2. 2Biomedical Engineering25% of their works
  3. 3Biotechnology11% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science9% of their works
  5. 5Food Science4% of their works
  6. 6Cell Biology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Willem Heber van Zyl's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Enzymatic Hydrolysis, Pretreatment, Fungal Pathogens, Genome-Scale Models, Metabolic Engineering, Biotechnological Applications, Genomics and Microbial Enzymes.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Enzymatic Hydrolysis1671 topic
  2. Pretreatment1671 topic
  3. Fungal Pathogens852 topics
  4. Genome-Scale Models831 topic
  5. Metabolic Engineering831 topic
  6. Biotechnological Applications681 topic
  7. Genomics681 topic
  8. Microbial Enzymes681 topic
  9. Yeast681 topic
  10. Microbial Modulation211 topic
  11. Wine Yeasts211 topic
  12. Hemicelluloses191 topic
  13. Pectin191 topic
  14. Endophytic Fungi171 topic
  15. Phylogenetic Analysis171 topic
  16. Biocatalysis161 topic
  17. Enzyme Immobilization161 topic

Where does Willem Heber van Zyl work?

Willem Heber van Zyl's main affiliation in the publication record is Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Willem Heber van Zyl have?

OpenAlex counts 263 works and 16,892 citations for Willem Heber van Zyl, an h-index of 57, ranking #543,495 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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