Dirk Nelen

630 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 497 citations indexed

About

Dirk Nelen is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Dirk Nelen has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 497 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 5 papers in Environmental Engineering and 3 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Dirk Nelen's work include Environmental Impact and Sustainability (5 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (4 papers) and Extraction and Separation Processes (3 papers). Dirk Nelen is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Impact and Sustainability (5 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (4 papers) and Extraction and Separation Processes (3 papers). Dirk Nelen collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Austria and Germany. Dirk Nelen's co-authors include Alexej Parchomenko, Jeroen Gillabel, Helmut Rechberger, Karl C. Vrancken, Jef Peeters, Paúl Vanegas, Saskia Manshoven, Karel Van Acker, Steven Van Passel and Joost R. Duflou and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Resources Conservation and Recycling and Document Server@UHasselt (UHasselt).

In The Last Decade

Dirk Nelen

10 papers receiving 475 citations

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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.

Measuring the circular economy - A Multiple Correspondence Analysis of 63 metrics

2018 270 citations Alexej Parchomenko, Dirk Nelen et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dirk Nelen Belgium	6	306	238	107	100	84	10	497
Alexej Parchomenko Belgium	7	304 1.0×	214 0.9×	53 0.5×	106 1.1×	85 1.0×	7	531
Derek Diener Sweden	9	425 1.4×	202 0.8×	113 1.1×	178 1.8×	65 0.8×	10	619
Laura Cutaia Italy	13	215 0.7×	211 0.9×	139 1.3×	90 0.9×	135 1.6×	29	577
José Augusto de Oliveira Brazil	11	212 0.7×	103 0.4×	72 0.7×	120 1.2×	48 0.6×	50	497
Dominique Millet France	10	304 1.0×	81 0.3×	90 0.8×	103 1.0×	61 0.7×	25	453
Mark Krystofik United States	6	256 0.8×	155 0.7×	89 0.8×	89 0.9×	40 0.5×	6	397
Sahil Sahni United States	5	207 0.7×	147 0.6×	149 1.4×	50 0.5×	39 0.5×	9	515
Christine Cole United Kingdom	13	232 0.8×	230 1.0×	57 0.5×	103 1.0×	44 0.5×	18	417
Yovana María Barrera Saavedra Brazil	9	385 1.3×	170 0.7×	40 0.4×	134 1.3×	80 1.0×	17	600
J.C. Brezet Netherlands	9	264 0.9×	100 0.4×	65 0.6×	179 1.8×	53 0.6×	25	547

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dirk Nelen

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

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Parchomenko, Alexej, Dirk Nelen, Jeroen Gillabel, Karl C. Vrancken, & Helmut Rechberger. (2021). Resource effectiveness of the European automotive sector – a statistical entropy analysis over time. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 169. 105558–105558. 17 indexed citations

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Pohjalainen, Elina, et al.. (2020). Environmental aspects related to the use of critical raw materials in priority sectors and value chains. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Parchomenko, Alexej, Dirk Nelen, Jeroen Gillabel, Karl C. Vrancken, & Helmut Rechberger. (2020). Evaluation of the resource effectiveness of circular economy strategies through multilevel Statistical Entropy Analysis. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 161. 104925–104925. 30 indexed citations

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Parchomenko, Alexej, Dirk Nelen, Jeroen Gillabel, & Helmut Rechberger. (2018). Measuring the circular economy - A Multiple Correspondence Analysis of 63 metrics. Journal of Cleaner Production. 210. 200–216. 270 indexed citations breakdown →

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Peeters, Jef, et al.. (2017). Forecasting the recycling potential based on waste analysis: A case study for recycling Nd-Fe-B magnets from hard disk drives. Journal of Cleaner Production. 175. 96–108. 29 indexed citations

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Nelen, Dirk, et al.. (2014). A multidimensional indicator set to assess the benefits of WEEE material recycling. Journal of Cleaner Production. 83. 305–316. 96 indexed citations

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Nelen, Dirk, et al.. (2014). The environmental performance of plasma gasification within the framework of Enhanced Landfill Mining: A life cycle assessment study. 4 indexed citations

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Manshoven, Saskia, Dirk Nelen, & An Vercalsteren. (2013). RECYCLING OF GLASS FROM END OF LIFE VEHICLES: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF DIFFERENT SCENARIOS. 1 indexed citations

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Nelen, Dirk, et al.. (2013). Life cycle thinking as a decision tool for waste management policy. Revue de Métallurgie. 110(1). 17–28. 2 indexed citations

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Passel, Steven Van, et al.. (2012). Environmental and socio-economic impacts of landfills. Document Server@UHasselt (UHasselt). 47 indexed citations

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