David Beckwée

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
89 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

David Beckwée is a scholar working on Pharmacology, Physiology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, David Beckwée has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Pharmacology, 23 papers in Physiology and 19 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in David Beckwée's work include Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (21 papers), Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery (14 papers) and Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders (12 papers). David Beckwée is often cited by papers focused on Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (21 papers), Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery (14 papers) and Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders (12 papers). David Beckwée collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and Spain. David Beckwée's co-authors include Ivan Bautmans, Jo Nijs, Eva Swinnen, Mirko Petrović, Laurence Leysen, Ingo Beyer, Nele Adriaenssens, Aldo Scafoglieri, Peter Vaes and Bart Jansen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

In The Last Decade

David Beckwée

74 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Frailty and the Prediction of Negative Health Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis

2016 698 citations David Beckwée, Aldo Scafoglieri et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Beckwée Belgium	22	1.3k	752	417	373	337	89	2.7k
Rosângela Corrêa Dias Brazil	33	1.2k 0.9×	779 1.0×	639 1.5×	325 0.9×	273 0.8×	127	3.0k
B. Penninx United States	12	1.6k 1.3×	620 0.8×	577 1.4×	166 0.4×	300 0.9×	16	3.2k
Jau‐Yih Tsauo Taiwan	29	829 0.6×	291 0.4×	303 0.7×	288 0.8×	697 2.1×	64	2.7k
Harnish P. Patel United Kingdom	25	3.1k 2.4×	1.2k 1.5×	562 1.3×	130 0.3×	444 1.3×	80	4.8k
Rei Ono Japan	27	778 0.6×	447 0.6×	596 1.4×	379 1.0×	572 1.7×	176	2.5k
Chiara Cavazzini United States	11	1.4k 1.1×	621 0.8×	388 0.9×	165 0.4×	242 0.7×	12	2.5k
João Marcos Domingues Dias Brazil	27	853 0.7×	493 0.7×	519 1.2×	273 0.7×	156 0.5×	85	2.1k
M. Nevitt United States	12	2.9k 2.2×	730 1.0×	696 1.7×	290 0.8×	716 2.1×	21	5.1k
T. B. Harris United States	15	2.4k 1.8×	616 0.8×	444 1.1×	181 0.5×	401 1.2×	17	3.8k
Michael Quittan Austria	35	852 0.7×	222 0.3×	464 1.1×	336 0.9×	758 2.2×	99	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by David Beckwée

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of David Beckwée's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by David Beckwée with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites David Beckwée more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by David Beckwée

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by David Beckwée. 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 David Beckwée. The network helps show where David Beckwée may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Beckwée

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Beckwée. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Beckwée 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 David Beckwée. David Beckwée is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Adriaenssens, Nele, Stéphane Steurbaut, An Vermeulen, et al.. (2025). Synergy of Body Composition, Exercise Oncology, and Pharmacokinetics: A Narrative Review of Personalizing Paclitaxel Treatment for Breast Cancer. Cancers. 17(8). 1271–1271.

Waele, Elisabeth De, et al.. (2025). Clinical Benefits of Exogenous Ketosis in Adults with Disease: A Systematic Review. Nutrients. 17(19). 3125–3125. 1 indexed citations

Schwab, Larry, Wim Peersman, Lieven Annemans, et al.. (2025). Unravelling the miscellaneous effects of exercise interventions on activities of daily living in frail older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Ageing Research Reviews. 112. 102893–102893.

Rodríguez-Esparza, Erick, et al.. (2024). Impact of infrared interference on Azure Kinect’s motion tracking performance during validation studies against marker-based gold standard. Gait & Posture. 113. 262–263.

Beckwée, David, et al.. (2024). Hip microinstability and its association with femoroacetabular impingement: A scoping review. PubMed. 14. 29–46. 1 indexed citations

Roose, Eva, Wilfried Cools, Laurence Leysen, et al.. (2024). Psychological factors influencing healthcare utilization in breast cancer survivors with pain. Pain Medicine. 25(12). 768–780.

Vitale, Jacopo Antonino, Eva Swinnen, David Beckwée, et al.. (2024). Effects of Prehabilitation With Advanced Technologies in Patients With Musculoskeletal Diseases Waiting for Surgery: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 26. e52943–e52943. 2 indexed citations

Lanckmans, Katrien, Stéphane Steurbaut, David Beckwée, et al.. (2024). Dose-Limiting Toxicities of Paclitaxel in Breast Cancer Patients: Studying Interactions Between Pharmacokinetics, Physical Activity, and Body Composition—A Protocol for an Observational Cohort Study. Cancers. 17(1). 50–50. 3 indexed citations

Lahousse, Astrid, Jo Nijs, David Beckwée, et al.. (2024). The effect of pain neuroscience education and behavioural graded activity in breast cancer survivors: a randomised controlled multi-center trial. European Journal of Cancer. 200. 113606–113606. 1 indexed citations

10.

Beckwée, David, Jo Nijs, Sita Bierma‐Zeinstra, et al.. (2024). Exercise therapy for knee osteoarthritis pain: how does it work? A study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 14(1). e074258–e074258. 1 indexed citations

11.

Vitale, Jacopo Antonino, Silvia Gianola, Greta Castellini, et al.. (2023). Effects of tele-prehabilitation on clinical and muscular recovery in patients awaiting knee replacement: protocol of a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 13(10). e073163–e073163.

12.

Roose, Eva, Eva Huysmans, Astrid Lahousse, et al.. (2023). Perceived Injustice in Cancer Survivors: Population-Specific Cut-Off Score and Relations with Personal Factors, Symptoms and Quality of Life—A Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 12(18). 5780–5780. 1 indexed citations

13.

Mertens, Michel GCAM, Mira Meeus, Isabel Baert, et al.. (2023). Identification of Metabolic Factors and Inflammatory Markers Predictive of Outcome after Total Knee Arthroplasty in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(10). 5796–5796. 7 indexed citations

14.

Lefeber, Nina, et al.. (2023). Immediate Effects of the Honda Walking Assist on Spatiotemporal Gait Characteristics in Older Adults. Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation. 39(1). 39–46.

15.

Rodríguez-López, Carlos, David Beckwée, Frank P. Luyten, Dieter Van Assche, & Evelien Van Roie. (2021). Reduced knee extensor torque production at low to moderate velocities in postmenopausal women with knee osteoarthritis. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. 31(11). 2144–2155. 3 indexed citations

16.

Swinnen, Eva, et al.. (2021). Effect of physical therapy on impairments in COVID-19 patients from intensive care to home rehabilitation: A rapid review. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine. 54. jrm00242–jrm00242. 10 indexed citations

17.

Huysmans, Eva, David Beckwée, Jo Nijs, et al.. (2020). The Relationship between Cognitive and Emotional Factors and Healthcare and Medication Use in People Experiencing Pain: A Systematic Review. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 9(8). 2486–2486. 18 indexed citations

18.

Gielen, Evelien, David Beckwée, Andreas Delaere, et al.. (2020). Nutritional interventions to improve muscle mass, muscle strength, and physical performance in older people: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Nutrition Reviews. 79(2). 121–147. 171 indexed citations

19.

Elma, Ömer, et al.. (2020). Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and heat to reduce pain in a chronic low back pain population: a randomized controlled clinical trial. Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy. 25(1). 86–96. 30 indexed citations

20.

Perkisas, Stany, Stéphane Baudry, Jürgen M. Bauer, et al.. (2018). Application of ultrasound for muscle assessment in sarcopenia: towards standardized measurements. European Geriatric Medicine. 9(6). 739–757. 139 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact