Dirk Van den Poel

10.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
138 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Dirk Van den Poel is a scholar working on Marketing, Artificial Intelligence and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Dirk Van den Poel has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Marketing, 30 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 27 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Dirk Van den Poel's work include Customer churn and segmentation (47 papers), Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing (42 papers) and Customer Service Quality and Loyalty (26 papers). Dirk Van den Poel is often cited by papers focused on Customer churn and segmentation (47 papers), Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing (42 papers) and Customer Service Quality and Loyalty (26 papers). Dirk Van den Poel collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Germany and United States. Dirk Van den Poel's co-authors include Kristof Coussement, Michel Ballings, Jonathan Burez, Wouter Buckinx, Dirk Thorleuchter, Anita Prinzie, Dries F. Benoit, Bart Larivière, Joseph Leunis and Koen W. De Bock and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Marketing, European Journal of Operational Research and Journal of Business Research.

In The Last Decade

Dirk Van den Poel

136 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Evaluating multiple classifiers for stock price direction prediction

2015 387 citations Michel Ballings, Dirk Van den Poel et al. Expert Systems with Applications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dirk Van den Poel Belgium	44	3.0k	1.4k	1.3k	1.3k	1.1k	138	6.6k
Shu-Hsien Liao Taiwan	40	906 0.3×	1.1k 0.8×	700 0.5×	956 0.7×	786 0.7×	130	6.3k
Arpan Kumar Kar India	48	1.1k 0.4×	1.9k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	626 0.5×	2.3k 2.1×	188	8.1k
Indranil Bose India	37	923 0.3×	980 0.7×	945 0.7×	359 0.3×	1.4k 1.3×	142	4.7k
Weiguo Fan United States	52	1.8k 0.6×	3.1k 2.2×	2.1k 1.6×	818 0.6×	4.0k 3.7×	266	10.3k
G. Alan Wang United States	29	1.0k 0.3×	958 0.7×	777 0.6×	736 0.6×	1.7k 1.5×	102	4.2k
Zhi‐Ping Fan China	53	1.1k 0.4×	2.0k 1.5×	1.0k 0.8×	602 0.5×	1.2k 1.1×	229	8.4k
Ingoo Han South Korea	39	2.3k 0.8×	2.3k 1.7×	970 0.7×	1.8k 1.3×	4.3k 4.0×	112	9.7k
Yongtae Park South Korea	48	1.0k 0.4×	647 0.5×	530 0.4×	510 0.4×	618 0.6×	162	7.1k
Shahriar Akter Australia	47	2.0k 0.7×	937 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.1×	2.0k 1.9×	130	10.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dirk Van den Poel

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bogaert, Matthias, et al.. (2025). A Comparative Analysis of Topic Reduction Techniques for BERTopic. IEEE Access. 13. 204087–204103.

Larivière, Bart, et al.. (2024). Customer experiences and coping behaviors during crisis situations: The role of service adaptation and service transformation. Journal of Business Research. 188. 115089–115089. 2 indexed citations

Bogaert, Matthias, et al.. (2023). 360 Degrees rumor detection: When explanations got some explaining to do. European Journal of Operational Research. 317(2). 366–381. 11 indexed citations

Poel, Dirk Van den, et al.. (2021). A Performance Analysis of Fault Recovery in Stream Processing Frameworks. IEEE Access. 9. 93745–93763. 15 indexed citations

Poel, Dirk Van den, et al.. (2021). Influencing Factors in the Scalability of Distributed Stream Processing Jobs. IEEE Access. 9. 109413–109431. 8 indexed citations

Bogaert, Matthias, et al.. (2021). Evaluating the influence of Airbnb listings’ descriptions on demand. International Journal of Hospitality Management. 99. 103071–103071. 14 indexed citations

Poel, Dirk Van den, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of Stream Processing Frameworks. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 31(8). 1845–1858. 48 indexed citations

Poel, Dirk Van den, et al.. (2020). Machine learning refinery sensor data to predict catalyst saturation levels. Computers & Chemical Engineering. 134. 106722–106722. 11 indexed citations

Poel, Dirk Van den, et al.. (2016). Equity price direction prediction for day trading: Ensemble classification using technical analysis indicators with interaction effects. 3455–3462. 8 indexed citations

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Ballings, Michel, et al.. (2015). Evaluating multiple classifiers for stock price direction prediction. Expert Systems with Applications. 42(20). 7046–7056. 387 indexed citations breakdown →

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Poel, Dirk Van den, et al.. (2015). Predicting Consumer Load ProfilesUsing Commercial and Open Data. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 31(5). 3693–3701. 34 indexed citations

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Lausen, Berthold, Dirk Van den Poel, & Alfred Ultsch. (2013). Algorithms from and for Nature and Life: Classification and Data Analysis. Open Access at Essex (University of Essex). 4 indexed citations

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Baecke, Philippe & Dirk Van den Poel. (2012). Including the Salesperson Effect in Purchasing Behavior Models Using PROC GLIMMIX. 2 indexed citations

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Miguéis, Vera, Dirk Van den Poel, Ana S. Camanho, & João Falcão e Cunha. (2012). Modeling partial customer churn: On the value of first product-category purchase sequences. Expert Systems with Applications. 39(12). 11250–11256. 69 indexed citations

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Poel, Dirk Van den, et al.. (2010). Predicting decisions to donate and generosity in real-life: the added value of including measures of empathy. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

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Bock, Koen W. De, Kristof Coussement, & Dirk Van den Poel. (2010). GAMens: Applies GAMens, GAMrsm and GAMbag ensemble classifiers. R Package version 1.11.. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 2 indexed citations

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Verstraeten, Geert & Dirk Van den Poel. (2006). Using Predicted Outcome Stratified Sampling to Reduce the Variability in Predictive Performance of a One-Shot Train-and-Test Split for Individual Customer Predictions. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 214–224. 3 indexed citations

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Poel, Dirk Van den, et al.. (2003). Predicting Mail-Order Repeat Buying: Which Variables Matter?. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 48(3). 371–404. 15 indexed citations

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Verstraeten, Geert & Dirk Van den Poel. (2003). Quantifying Credit-scoring Performance. 29. 317–326.

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Poel, Dirk Van den & Geert Wets. (1996). Data Mining for Database Marketing: a mail-order company application. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

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