Ward Heylen

39 papers and 728 indexed citations
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About

Ward Heylen is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ward Heylen has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 728 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 14 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 10 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ward Heylen’s work include Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (26 papers), Optical measurement and interference techniques (8 papers) and Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation (8 papers). Ward Heylen is often cited by papers focused on Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (26 papers), Optical measurement and interference techniques (8 papers) and Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation (8 papers). Ward Heylen collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, China and Chile. Ward Heylen's co-authors include Viviana Meruane, Ronnie Belmans, H. Sol, Kay Hameyer, Gert Roebben, Irina Trendafilova, Paul Sas, Li Liu, Omer Van der Biest and Konstantina Lambrinou and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Journal of Sound and Vibration and Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ward Heylen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ward Heylen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ward Heylen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ward Heylen. Ward Heylen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Fields of papers citing papers by Ward Heylen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ward Heylen. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ward Heylen. The network helps show where Ward Heylen may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Ward Heylen

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