Ilse Smets

2.5k total citations
122 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Ilse Smets is a scholar working on Pollution, Water Science and Technology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ilse Smets has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Pollution, 43 papers in Water Science and Technology and 24 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Ilse Smets's work include Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (41 papers), Membrane Separation Technologies (25 papers) and Advanced Control Systems Optimization (18 papers). Ilse Smets is often cited by papers focused on Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (41 papers), Membrane Separation Technologies (25 papers) and Advanced Control Systems Optimization (18 papers). Ilse Smets collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and Spain. Ilse Smets's co-authors include Jan Van Impe, Raf Dewil, Marcel Ameloot, Rob Van den Broeck, R. Jenné, E. N. Banadda, Bart Peeters, Lutgarde Raskin, Paul Steels and Steven J. Skerlos and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Water Research and Bioresource Technology.

In The Last Decade

Ilse Smets

114 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ilse Smets Belgium 25 664 577 397 389 334 122 2.0k
Christian Rosén Sweden 32 759 1.1× 856 1.5× 1.1k 2.6× 429 1.1× 561 1.7× 77 3.2k
Spyros A. Svoronos United States 23 276 0.4× 483 0.8× 613 1.5× 186 0.5× 379 1.1× 80 1.9k
Hongbin Liu China 27 441 0.7× 236 0.4× 228 0.6× 314 0.8× 397 1.2× 102 2.4k
Yu Shen China 31 963 1.5× 936 1.6× 207 0.5× 409 1.1× 147 0.4× 133 2.9k
Haidong Hu China 31 480 0.7× 1.1k 1.9× 459 1.2× 453 1.2× 49 0.1× 110 2.5k
Li Sun China 21 404 0.6× 458 0.8× 81 0.2× 328 0.8× 378 1.1× 78 1.8k
Javier Lafuente Spain 44 784 1.2× 2.5k 4.3× 633 1.6× 1.0k 2.6× 227 0.7× 160 4.9k
Desheng Li China 29 564 0.8× 1.2k 2.0× 85 0.2× 516 1.3× 154 0.5× 110 2.5k
Sylvie Gillot France 23 868 1.3× 1.1k 1.9× 34 0.1× 447 1.1× 279 0.8× 59 1.9k
C. Hellinga Netherlands 16 197 0.3× 846 1.5× 369 0.9× 375 1.0× 316 0.9× 26 1.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ilse Smets

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ilse Smets

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

All Works

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Smets, Ilse, et al.. (2024). Reviewing Improved Anaerobic Digestion by Combined Pre-Treatment of Waste-Activated Sludge (WAS). Sustainability. 16(15). 6419–6419. 11 indexed citations
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Smets, Ilse, et al.. (2023). Quantification of hydrolysis activity in a biological wastewater treatment context. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 107(7-8). 2143–2153. 4 indexed citations
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Springael, Dirk, et al.. (2020). A high-throughput assay to quantify protein hydrolysis in aerobic and anaerobic wastewater treatment processes. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 104(18). 8037–8048. 11 indexed citations
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Simoens, Kenneth, et al.. (2017). Cofactor F430 as a biomarker for methanogenic activity: application to an anaerobic bioreactor system. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 102(3). 1191–1201. 10 indexed citations
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Naessens, Wouter, et al.. (2016). Towards improved membrane fouling modelling : from an empirical to a spatially explicit framework. Lirias (KU Leuven). 2 indexed citations
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Impe, Jan Van & Ilse Smets. (2011). Toward a Reliable and Generic Applicable Soluble Microbial Polymer Extraction Protocol. Environmental Engineering Science. 29(3). 174–179. 5 indexed citations
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Peeters, Bart, et al.. (2011). Polyelectrolyte Flocculation of Waste Activated Sludge in Decanter Centrifuge Applications: Lab Evaluation by a Centrifugal Compaction Test. Environmental Engineering Science. 28(11). 765–773. 12 indexed citations
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Peeters, Bart, et al.. (2010). Using a Shear Test-Based Lab Protocol to Map the Sticky Phase of Activated Sludge. Environmental Engineering Science. 28(1). 81–85. 27 indexed citations
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Smets, Ilse, et al.. (2010). Simvastatin interferes with process outgrowth and branching of oligodendrocytes. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 88(15). 3361–3375. 17 indexed citations
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Gins, Geert, Ilse Smets, & Jan Van Impe. (2006). Efficient tracking of the dominant eigenspace of a normalized kernel matrix, part I: the algorithm. 1 indexed citations
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Gins, Geert, Ilse Smets, & Jan Van Impe. (2006). Efficient tracking of the dominant eigenspace of a normalized kernel matrix, part II: performance assessment. 1 indexed citations
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Smets, Ilse, et al.. (2003). The effect of pH on indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) biosynthesis of Azospirillum brasilense Sp7. Symbiosis. 35. 199–208. 20 indexed citations
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Smets, Ilse, et al.. (2003). Linearization of the activated sludge model ASM1 for fast and reliable predictions. Water Research. 37(8). 1831–1851. 69 indexed citations
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Smets, Ilse & Jan Van Impe. (2002). Optimal control of tubular chemical reactors: performance assessment under transient conditions. 2 indexed citations
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Smets, Ilse, Kristel Bernaerts, Jun Sun, et al.. (2002). Sensitivity function‐based model reduction: A bacterial gene expression case study. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 80(2). 195–200. 24 indexed citations
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Smets, Ilse, Wolfgang Zeiske, Paul Steels, & Willy Van Driessche. (1998). Na + dependence of single-channel current and channel density generate saturation of Na + uptake in A6 cells. Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology. 435(5). 604–609. 6 indexed citations

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