Geert Silversmit

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
82 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Geert Silversmit is a scholar working on Oncology, Materials Chemistry and Radiation. According to data from OpenAlex, Geert Silversmit has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Oncology, 17 papers in Materials Chemistry and 12 papers in Radiation. Recurrent topics in Geert Silversmit's work include Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection (10 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (10 papers) and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (10 papers). Geert Silversmit is often cited by papers focused on Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection (10 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (10 papers) and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (10 papers). Geert Silversmit collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Germany and France. Geert Silversmit's co-authors include Roger De Gryse, Guy Marin, Hilde Poelman, Diederik Depla, Bart Vekemans, László Vincze, Frank E. Brenker, S. Schmitz, László Vincze and J. McNeill and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Environmental Science & Technology and Analytical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Geert Silversmit

71 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Determination of the V2p XPS binding energies for different vanadium oxidation states (V5+ to V0+)

2004 1.6k citations Geert Silversmit et al. profile →
Hydrous mantle transition zone indicated by ringwoodite included within diamond

2014 569 citations Geert Silversmit, Bart Vekemans et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Geert Silversmit Belgium	24	1.5k	1.1k	838	585	581	82	3.9k
Giannantonio Cibin United Kingdom	37	2.2k 1.5×	2.2k 2.0×	284 0.3×	313 0.5×	962 1.7×	203	5.6k
Neal T. Skipper United Kingdom	44	2.7k 1.9×	998 0.9×	407 0.5×	364 0.6×	578 1.0×	119	7.6k
Huili Li China	37	2.8k 1.9×	2.1k 2.0×	242 0.3×	162 0.3×	361 0.6×	173	4.4k
Pier Paοlο Lottici Italy	39	2.6k 1.8×	1.3k 1.2×	335 0.4×	571 1.0×	781 1.3×	230	6.7k
Sébastien Kerisit United States	46	2.4k 1.6×	1.9k 1.7×	183 0.2×	518 0.9×	729 1.3×	155	7.3k
Changyong Park United States	42	2.2k 1.5×	886 0.8×	231 0.3×	1.2k 2.0×	760 1.3×	212	5.2k
Udo Becker United States	46	2.5k 1.7×	789 0.7×	438 0.5×	1.1k 1.9×	424 0.7×	157	6.3k
Alan A. Coelho Australia	20	3.9k 2.7×	1.2k 1.1×	177 0.2×	296 0.5×	1.3k 2.3×	33	5.8k
Pierre Florian France	41	3.1k 2.1×	939 0.9×	173 0.2×	362 0.6×	634 1.1×	151	5.3k
Joe Wong United States	39	4.2k 2.9×	1.2k 1.1×	329 0.4×	360 0.6×	691 1.2×	138	7.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Geert Silversmit

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20 of 20 papers shown

Silversmit, Geert, Philippe Nafteux, Camiel Rosman, et al.. (2025). Treatment and survival of patients with esophageal and gastric cancer in the Netherlands and Belgium: A population‐based comparison. International Journal of Cancer. 158(7). 1868–1880.

Damme, Nancy Van, Geert Silversmit, Alejandro Herreros‐Pomares, et al.. (2025). Increased hospital case volume is associated with improved survival and quality of care for uterine corpus cancer in Belgium. International Journal of Gynecological Cancer. 36(2). 102849–102849.

Bourgeois, Jolyce, Isabelle Savoye, Cindy De Gendt, et al.. (2024). Quality of surgery and treatment and its association with hospital volume: A population-based study in more than 5000 Belgian ovarian cancer patients. European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 50(3). 107978–107978. 1 indexed citations

Savoye, Isabelle, Geert Silversmit, Jolyce Bourgeois, et al.. (2023). Association between hospital volume and outcomes in invasive ovarian cancer in Belgium: A population-based study. European Journal of Cancer. 195. 113402–113402. 1 indexed citations

Tambuyzer, Tim, Dimitri Vanhauwaert, Tom Boterberg, et al.. (2023). Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Incidence and Observed Survival of Malignant Brain Tumors in Belgium. Cancers. 16(1). 63–63. 1 indexed citations

Leroy, Roos, Cindy De Gendt, Jolyce Bourgeois, et al.. (2023). Survival and Quality of care offered in Belgian hospitals with and without recognition for breast cancer.

Leroy, Roos, Cindy De Gendt, Jolyce Bourgeois, et al.. (2023). Borstkankerzorg in centra met en zonder erkenning voor borstkanker – Is er een verschil? - Synthese. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

Gendt, Cindy De, Geert Silversmit, Sandra Nuyts, et al.. (2023). Stage shift and relative survival for head and neck cancer during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based study of temporal trends. Frontiers in Oncology. 13. 1253968–1253968. 7 indexed citations

Neyt, Mattias, Nancy Thiry, Geert Silversmit, et al.. (2023). Belgian observational survival data (incidence years 2004–2017) and expenditure for innovative oncology drugs in twelve cancer indications. European Journal of Cancer. 182. 23–37. 4 indexed citations

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Ginckel, Ans Van, et al.. (2022). The right to be forgotten in breast cancer: new propositions. 1 indexed citations

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Savoye, Isabelle, Cindy De Gendt, Jolyce Bourgeois, et al.. (2022). Quality indicators for the management of epithelial ovarian cancer.

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Savoye, Isabelle, Cindy De Gendt, Jolyce Bourgeois, et al.. (2022). Quality indicators for the management of epithelial ovarian cancer. 1 indexed citations

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Neyt, Mattias, Nancy Thiry, Geert Silversmit, et al.. (2021). Benefits and costs of innovative oncology drugs in Belgium (2004-2017). 3 indexed citations

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Silversmit, Geert, Freija Verdoodt, Nancy Van Damme, Harlinde De Schutter, & Liesbet Van Eycken. (2021). Excess Mortality in a Nationwide Cohort of Cancer Patients during the Initial Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Belgium. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 30(9). 1615–1619. 7 indexed citations

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Leroy, Roos, Geert Silversmit, Sabine Stordeur, et al.. (2020). Improved survival in patients with head and neck cancer treated in higher volume centres: A population-based study in Belgium. European Journal of Cancer. 130. 81–91. 10 indexed citations

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Vrijens, France, Cindy De Gendt, Jo Robays, et al.. (2019). Association between surgical volume and post-operative mortality and survival after surgical resection in lung cancer in Belgium: A population-based study. European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 45(12). 2443–2450. 6 indexed citations

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Weberpals, Janick, Lina Jansen, Geert Silversmit, et al.. (2018). Comparative performance of a modified landmark approach when no time of treatment data are available within oncological databases: exemplary cohort study among resected pancreatic cancer patients. Clinical Epidemiology. Volume 10. 1109–1125. 7 indexed citations

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Henau, K., E. Van Eycken, Geert Silversmit, & Eero Pukkala. (2014). Regional variation in incidence for smoking and alcohol related cancers in Belgium. Cancer Epidemiology. 39(1). 55–65. 52 indexed citations

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Samber, Björn De, Roel Evens, Karel De Schamphelaere, et al.. (2010). Dual detection X-ray fluorescence cryotomography and mapping on the model organism Daphnia magna. Powder Diffraction. 25(2). 169–174. 21 indexed citations

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Silversmit, Geert, Bart Vekemans, Sergey I. Nikitenko, et al.. (2009). Polycapillary-optics-based micro-XANES and micro-EXAFS at a third-generation bending-magnet beamline. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 16(2). 237–246. 23 indexed citations

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