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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 54 2635 2399 18 18 238 15215

Kristof Van Oost publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Kristof Van Oost between 1998 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Kristof Van Oost published across 28 years, from 1998 to 2025, averaging 11.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 29 publications in 2025. 48 of the 334 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1998 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 29. Peak 29 publications in 2025. 1998: 4 publications 1999: 6 publications 2000: 5 publications 2001: 11 publications 2002: 8 publications 2003: 9 publications 2004: 4 publications 2005: 9 publications 2006: 7 publications 2007: 7 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 4 publications 2010: 8 publications 2011: 7 publications 2012: 13 publications 2013: 18 publications 2014: 23 publications 2015: 9 publications 2016: 15 publications 2017: 14 publications 2018: 9 publications 2019: 17 publications 2020: 18 publications 2021: 19 publications 2022: 25 publications 2023: 13 publications 2024: 19 publications 2025: 29 publications
1998 2025

334 publications in total across all disciplines

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Kristof Van Oost: publications per year, 1998 to 2025
Year Publications
1998 4
1999 6
2000 5
2001 11
2002 8
2003 9
2004 4
2005 9
2006 7
2007 7
2008 4
2009 4
2010 8
2011 7
2012 13
2013 18
2014 23
2015 9
2016 15
2017 14
2018 9
2019 17
2020 18
2021 19
2022 25
2023 13
2024 19
2025 29
Total 334
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Kristof Van Oost publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kristof Van Oost sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 238–247 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 238 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243 238
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Kristof Van Oost D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kristof Van Oost sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 54 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163 54
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Kristof Van Oost is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a particular emphasis on soil science, ecology, and environmental engineering.

Their work covers various specialized subfields including soil science, ecology, environmental engineering, global and planetary change, and water science and technology. Major topics addressed in their research include soil erosion and sediment transport, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, soil geostatistics and mapping, peatlands and wetlands ecology, hydrology and watershed management studies, as well as remote sensing and LiDAR applications and their use in agriculture.

Kristof Van Oost has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing
  • Biogeosciences
  • CATENA
  • SOIL

Their recent papers reflect a broad interest in soil and environmental topics, including:

  • Plutonium aided reconstruction of caesium atmospheric fallout in European topsoils, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Multiplatform-SfM and TLS Data Fusion for Monitoring Agricultural Terraces in Complex Topographic and Landcover Conditions, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Insights into the future of soil erosion, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ending the Cinderella status of terraces and lynchets in Europe: The geomorphology of agricultural terraces and implications for ecosystem services and climate adaptation, 2021, Geomorphology
  • Global rainfall erosivity database (GloREDa) and monthly R-factor data at 1 km spatial resolution, 2023, Data in Brief

Collaboration forms a significant part of their research activity. Frequent coauthors include Johan Six, Pascal Boeckx, Marijn Bauters, Matti Barthel, and Travis W. Drake, with whom they have coauthored numerous publications.

Best Publications

  • An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion.

    Pasquale Borrelli;David A. Robinson;Larissa R. Fleischer;Emanuele Lugato

  • The impact of agricultural soil erosion on the global carbon cycle

    K. Van Oost;T. A. Quine;G. Govers;S. De Gryze

  • The impact of agricultural soil erosion on biogeochemical cycling

    John N. Quinton;Gerard Govers;Kristof Van Oost;Richard D. Bardgett

  • Soil carbon storage controlled by interactions between geochemistry and climate

    Sebastian Doetterl;Sebastian Doetterl;Antoine Stevens;Antoine Stevens;Johan Six;Roel Merckx

  • Evaluating the effects of changes in landscape structure on soil erosion by water and tillage

    Kristof Van Oost;Gerard Govers;Phillipe Desmet

  • Global rainfall erosivity assessment based on high-temporal resolution rainfall records

    Panos Panagos;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger;Bofu Yu

  • Modelling mean annual sediment yield using a distributed approach

    Anton J. J. Van Rompaey;Gert Verstraeten;Kristof Van Oost;Gerard Govers

  • Soil erosion as a driver of land-use change

    Martha M. Bakker;Gerard Govers;Costas Kosmas;Veerle Vanacker

  • Reproducibility of UAV-based earth topography reconstructions based on Structure-from-Motion algorithms

    François Clapuyt;Veerle Vanacker;Kristof Van Oost

  • Rill erosion: Exploring the relationship between experiments, modelling and field observations

    Gerard Govers;Rafael Giménez;Kristof Van Oost

  • Carbon cycling in eroding landscapes: geomorphic controls on soil organic C pool composition and C stabilization

    Sebastian Doetterl;Sebastian Doetterl;Johan Six;Bas Van Wesemael;Kristof Van Oost

  • Evaluating an integrated approach to catchment management to reduce soil loss and sediment pollution through modelling

    Gert Verstraeten;Kristof Van Oost;Anton Van Rompaey;Jean Poesen

  • Natural vs anthropogenic streams in Europe: History, ecology and implications for restoration, river-rewilding and riverine ecosystem services

    Antony G. Brown;Laurent Lespez;David A. Sear;Jean-Jacques Macaire

  • Landscape‐scale modeling of carbon cycling under the impact of soil redistribution: The role of tillage erosion

    Kristof Van Oost;Gerard Govers;Timothy A. Quine;Goswin Heckrath

  • Human-induced erosion has offset one-third of carbon emissions from land cover change

    Zhengang Wang;Thomas Hoffmann;Johan Six;Jed O. Kaplan

  • Assessing the performance of GIS- based machine learning models with different accuracy measures for determining susceptibility to gully erosion.

    Younes Garosi;Mohsen Sheklabadi;Christian Conoscenti;Hamid Reza Pourghasemi

  • Lateral transport of soil carbon and land-atmosphere CO2 flux induced by water erosion in China.

    Yao Yue;Yao Yue;Jinren Ni;Philippe Ciais;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao

  • Legacy of human-induced C erosion and burial on soil–atmosphere C exchange

    Kristof Van Oost;Gert Verstraeten;Sebastian Doetterl;Bastiaan Notebaert

  • A step towards a holistic assessment of soil degradation in Europe: Coupling on-site erosion with sediment transfer and carbon fluxes.

    P. Borrelli;K. Van Oost;K. Meusburger;C. Alewell

  • Comparison of differences in resolution and sources of controlling factors for gully erosion susceptibility mapping

    Younes Garosi;Mohsen Sheklabadi;Hamid Reza Pourghasemi;Ali Asghar Besalatpour

  • Tillage erosion and its effect on soil properties and crop yield in Denmark

    G Heckrath;J Djurhuus;T A Quine;K Van Oost

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerard Govers
Gerard Govers KU Leuven
Jean Poesen
Jean Poesen KU Leuven
Bas van Wesemael
Bas van Wesemael Université Catholique de Louvain
Veerle Vanacker
Veerle Vanacker Université Catholique de Louvain
Johan Six
Johan Six ETH Zurich
Timothy A. Quine
Timothy A. Quine University of Exeter
Roel Merckx
Roel Merckx KU Leuven
Marnik Vanclooster
Marnik Vanclooster Université Catholique de Louvain

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