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Herman Van Oyen

Herman Van Oyen

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
60
Citations
12993
World Ranking
1475
National Ranking
13

Herman Van Oyen publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Herman Van Oyen sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 287 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Herman Van Oyen D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Herman Van Oyen sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 60 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Herman Van Oyen is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and social sciences. Their work spans a significant number of publications, with a focus on infectious diseases, general health professions, epidemiology, health, and modeling and simulation as key subfields of study.

The main topics covered in Herman Van Oyen's research include:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Data-Driven Disease Surveillance

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Van Oyen include:

  • Low-dose hydroxychloroquine therapy and mortality in hospitalised patients with COVID-19: a nationwide observational study of 8075 participants (2020), published in International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents
  • The role of organizational characteristics on the outcome of COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU in Belgium (2020), published in The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • Belgian population norms for the EQ-5D-5L, 2018 (2021), published in Quality of Life Research
  • All-cause mortality supports the COVID-19 mortality in Belgium and comparison with major fatal events of the last century (2020), published in Archives of Public Health
  • Towards a European health research and innovation cloud (HRIC) (2020), published in Genome Medicine

Van Oyen frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Brecht Devleesschauwer
  • Lucy Catteau
  • Chloé Wyndham-Thomas
  • Nina Van Goethem
  • Petronille Bogaert

The scientist has published in multiple venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in:

  • Archives of Public Health
  • European Journal of Public Health
  • Research Square
  • Vaccine
  • BMC Infectious Diseases

In addition to journal articles, Van Oyen has contributed to book publications, including a work published by Springer Nature (Netherlands):

  • International Handbook of Health Expectancies (2020)

Best Publications

  • Death toll exceeded 70,000 in Europe during the summer of 2003

    Jean-Marie Robine;Siu Lan K. Cheung;Sophie Le Roy;Herman Van Oyen

  • Inequalities in healthy life years in the 25 countries of the European Union in 2005: a cross-national meta-regression analysis.

    Carol Jagger;Clare Gillies;Francesco Moscone;Emmanuelle Cambois

  • Calculating disability-adjusted life years to quantify burden of disease

    Brecht Devleesschauwer;Brecht Devleesschauwer;Arie H. Havelaar;Charline Maertens de Noordhout;Juanita A. Haagsma

  • Health Expectancy Calculation by the Sullivan Method: A Practical Guide

    Carol Jagger;Herman Van Oyen;Jean-Marie Robine

  • Comparative appraisal of educational inequalities in overweight and obesity among adults in 19 European countries

    Albert-Jan R Roskam;Albert-Jan R Roskam;Anton E Kunst;Herman Van Oyen;Stefaan Demarest

  • The Global Activity Limitation Index measured function and disability similarly across European countries.

    Carol Jagger;Clare Gillies;Emmanuelle Cambois;Herman Van Oyen

  • Assessing the validity of the Global Activity Limitation Indicator in fourteen European countries

    Nicolas Berger;Herman Van Oyen;Emmanuelle Cambois;Tony Fouweather

  • Gender differences in healthy life years within the EU: an exploration of the "health-survival" paradox.

    Herman Van Oyen;Wilma Nusselder;Carol Jagger;Petra Kolip

  • The reliability of the Minimum European Health Module.

    Bianca Cox;Herman Van Oyen;Emmanuelle Cambois;Carol Jagger

  • High Prevalence of Thyroid Disorders in Pregnant Women in a Mildly Iodine-deficient Country: A Population-Based Study

    Rodrigo Moreno-Reyes;Daniel Glinoer;Herman Van Oyen;Stefanie Vandevijvere

  • High Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency in Pregnant Women: A National Cross-Sectional Survey

    Stefanie Vandevijvere;Sihame Amsalkhir;Herman Van Oyen;Rodrigo Moreno-Reyes

  • DALY calculation in practice: A stepwise approach

    Brecht Devleesschauwer;Brecht Devleesschauwer;Arie H. Havelaar;Charline Maertens de Noordhout;Juanita A. Haagsma

  • Mild iodine deficiency in pregnancy in Europe and its consequences for cognitive and psychomotor development of children: A review

    Caroline Trumpff;Jean De Schepper;Jean Tafforeau;Herman Van Oyen

  • Survey error in measuring socio-economic risk factors of health status: a comparison of a survey and a census

    Vincent Lorant;Stefaan Demarest;Pieter-Jan Miermans;Herman Van Oyen

  • Trends in Health Expectancies

    Jean-Marie Robine;Carol Jagger;Eileen M. Crimmins;Yasuhiko Saito

  • Report on excess mortality in Europe during summer 2003

    Jean-Marie Robine;Siu Lan Cheung;Sophie Le Roy;Herman Van Oyen

  • Monitoring population disability: evaluation of a new Global Activity Limitation Indicator (GALI).

    Herman Van Oyen;Johan Van Der Heyden;Ron Perenboom;Carrol Jagger

  • Socioeconomic factors contributing to under-five mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: a decomposition analysis

    Carine Van Malderen;Agbessi Amouzou;Aluisio J. D. Barros;Bruno Masquelier;Bruno Masquelier

  • Reproducibility and validity of a diet quality index for children assessed using a FFQ

    Inge Huybrechts;Carine Vereecken;Dirk De Bacquer;Stefanie Vandevijvere

  • Eating out of home in Belgium: current situation and policy implications.

    Stefanie Vandevijvere;Carl Lachat;Patrick Kolsteren;Herman Van Oyen

  • The Belgian food consumption survey: aims, design and methods

    Stéphanie De Vriese;Guy De Backer;Stefaan De Henauw;Isabelle Huybrechts

Frequent Co-Authors

Wilma J. Nusselder
Wilma J. Nusselder Erasmus University Rotterdam
Stefanie Vandevijvere
Stefanie Vandevijvere University of Auckland
Inge Huybrechts
Inge Huybrechts International Agency For Research On Cancer
Carol Jagger
Carol Jagger Newcastle University
Patrick Deboosere
Patrick Deboosere Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Guy De Backer
Guy De Backer Ghent University
John Van Camp
John Van Camp Ghent University

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