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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, Gut microbiota and health and Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production.

World rank
#24,817
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#191
of 18,604
Works
219
Citations
1.8k
Citations per work
8.4

What does Willy Verstraete research?

Pollution: 11.8%Molecular Biology: 8.0%Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 7.2%Environmental Engineering: 6.8%other fields: 66.2%12%top field
Pollution11.8%Molecular Biology8.0%Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering7.2%Environmental Engineering6.8%other fields66.2%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Pollution12% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology8% of their works
  3. 3Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering7% of their works
  4. 4Environmental Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Water Science and Technology4% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering4% 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 Communities, Anaerobic Digestion, Biogas Production and Gut Microbiota.

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 Treatment232 topics
  2. Anammox Bacteria171 topic
  3. Nitrogen-Cycling Network171 topic
  4. Hydrogen Production142 topics
  5. Microbial Communities132 topics
  6. Anaerobic Digestion81 topic
  7. Biogas Production81 topic
  8. Gut Microbiota81 topic
  9. Microbial Carbonate Precipitation81 topic
  10. Short-Chain Fatty Acids81 topic
  11. Soil Improvement81 topic
  12. Extracellular Electron Transfer61 topic
  13. Microbial Fuel Cells61 topic
  14. Prebiotics61 topic
  15. Probiotics61 topic
  16. Biodegradation51 topic
  17. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons51 topic
  18. Grouting41 topic
  19. Tunnel41 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?

Science Explorer counts 219 works and 1,847 citations for Willy Verstraete, ranking #24,817 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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