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Researcher · Ghent University · Belgium

Willy Verstraete

Willy Verstraete publishes mostly in Pollution, Molecular Biology and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, on topics such as Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal, Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation and Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production.

ORCID 0000-0002-3140-3713 OpenAlex
World rank
#58,180
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#289
of 67,186
Works
1,244
Citations
97k
Citations per work
78.2
h-index
159
i10-index 707Top 0.1% in Pollution
Willy Verstraete

What does Willy Verstraete research?

Willy Verstraete's work is mostly in Environmental Science (31%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (7%), Engineering (5%).

Everything else: 707 works · 56.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 445 works · 35.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 387 works · 31.1% of their workPollution: 175 works · 14.1% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 77 works · 6.2% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 76 works · 6.1% of their workWater Science and Technology: 58 works · 4.7% of their workEngineering: 58 works · 4.7% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 58 works · 4.7% of their workLife Sciences: 92 works · 7.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 92 works · 7.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 92 works · 7.4% of their workTHEIR WORKWilly Verstraete1,244works
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences36%

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. Everything else70756.8%
    1. Environmental Science38731.1%
    2. Engineering584.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology927.4%
  1. 1Pollution14% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology7% of their works
  3. 3Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering6% of their works
  4. 4Environmental Engineering6% of their works
  5. 5Water Science and Technology5% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Willy Verstraete's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Wastewater Treatment, Anammox Bacteria, Nitrogen-Cycling Network, Hydrogen Production, Microbial Ecology, Extracellular Electron Transfer, Microbial Fuel Cells and Anaerobic Digestion.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Wastewater Treatment4913 topics
  2. Anammox Bacteria3021 topic
  3. Nitrogen-Cycling Network3021 topic
  4. Hydrogen Production2572 topics
  5. Microbial Ecology1382 topics
  6. Extracellular Electron Transfer1311 topic
  7. Microbial Fuel Cells1311 topic
  8. Anaerobic Digestion1261 topic
  9. Biogas Production1261 topic
  10. Marine Microbes831 topic
  11. Microbial Biogeography831 topic
  12. Gut Microbiota701 topic
  13. Microbial Communities701 topic
  14. Prebiotics601 topic
  15. Probiotics601 topic
  16. Constructed Wetlands581 topic
  17. Nutrient Removal581 topic
  18. Disinfection By-Products551 topic
  19. Drinking Water551 topic

Where does Willy Verstraete work?

Willy Verstraete's main affiliation in the publication record is Ghent University, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Willy Verstraete have?

OpenAlex counts 1,244 works and 97,294 citations for Willy Verstraete, an h-index of 159, ranking #58,180 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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