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Researcher · KU Leuven · Belgium

Willy Herroelen

Willy Herroelen publishes mostly in Management Science and Operations Research, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Information Systems, on topics such as Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling, Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms and Construction Project Management and Performance.

OpenAlex
World rank
#343,473
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#2,772
of 67,186
Works
195
Citations
7.9k
Citations per work
40.4
h-index
41
i10-index 63Top 2.3% in Management Science and Operations Research
Willy Herroelen

What does Willy Herroelen research?

Willy Herroelen's work is mostly in Decision Sciences (41%), Engineering (34%), Computer Science (7%).

Social Sciences: 84 works · 43.3% of their workDecision Sciences: 80 works · 40.8% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 80 works · 40.8% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5 works · 2.5% of their workManagement Information Systems: 5 works · 2.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 80 works · 40.8% of their workEngineering: 66 works · 34.1% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 59 works · 30.5% of their workBuilding and Construction: 7 works · 3.6% of their workComputer Science: 13 works · 6.7% of their workInformation Systems: 9 works · 4.4% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 4 works · 2.3% of their workEverything else: 31 works · 15.9% of their workTHEIR WORKWilly Herroelen195works
Physical Sciences41%Social Sciences43%

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. Decision Sciences8040.8%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting52.5%
    1. Engineering6634.1%
    2. Computer Science136.7%
  3. Everything else3115.9%
  1. 1Management Science and Operations Research41% of their works
  2. 2Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering30% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems4% of their works
  4. 4Building and Construction4% of their works
  5. 5Management Information Systems2% of their works
  6. 6Computer Networks and Communications2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Willy Herroelen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genetic Algorithm, Project Scheduling, Resource-Constrained, Manufacturing, Scheduling, Risk Management, Construction Projects and Project Success.

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. Genetic Algorithm2122 topics
  2. Project Scheduling1171 topic
  3. Resource-Constrained1171 topic
  4. Manufacturing951 topic
  5. Scheduling951 topic
  6. Risk Management562 topics
  7. Construction Projects411 topic
  8. Project Success411 topic
  9. Operations Management241 topic
  10. Theory of Constraints241 topic
  11. Assembly Planning201 topic
  12. Design for Manufacture201 topic
  13. Agile Software Development181 topic
  14. Empirical Studies181 topic
  15. Order Picking161 topic
  16. Warehouse Design161 topic
  17. BIM151 topic
  18. Construction151 topic

Where does Willy Herroelen work?

Willy Herroelen's main affiliation in the publication record is KU Leuven, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Willy Herroelen have?

OpenAlex counts 195 works and 7,881 citations for Willy Herroelen, an h-index of 41, ranking #343,473 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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