Nick Laan

1000 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 810 citations indexed

About

Nick Laan is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nick Laan has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 810 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Computational Mechanics, 3 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 3 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nick Laan's work include Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer (3 papers), Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies (2 papers) and Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction (2 papers). Nick Laan is often cited by papers focused on Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer (3 papers), Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies (2 papers) and Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction (2 papers). Nick Laan collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, France and Switzerland. Nick Laan's co-authors include Karla G. de Bruin, Daniel Bonn, Christophe Josserand, Denis Bartolo, Jan Carmeliet, Noushine Shahidzadeh, Dominique Derome, Denise Slenter, Mark Jermy and David Brutin and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Langmuir and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Nick Laan

10 papers receiving 789 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.

Maximum Diameter of Impacting Liquid Droplets

2014 378 citations Nick Laan, Karla G. de Bruin et al. Physical Review Applied profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nick Laan Netherlands	8	646	477	191	166	72	10	810
Karla G. de Bruin Netherlands	14	724 1.1×	515 1.1×	196 1.0×	179 1.1×	82 1.1×	16	1.1k
Michelle Driscoll United States	10	383 0.6×	232 0.5×	93 0.5×	135 0.8×	188 2.6×	19	711
Ashley James United States	8	526 0.8×	140 0.3×	162 0.8×	32 0.2×	138 1.9×	15	655
Hendrik J. J. Staat Netherlands	5	809 1.3×	549 1.2×	223 1.2×	172 1.0×	46 0.6×	6	872
Leonardo Gordillo Chile	10	231 0.4×	149 0.3×	45 0.2×	43 0.3×	30 0.4×	21	379
Varun Kulkarni United States	10	293 0.5×	38 0.1×	124 0.6×	46 0.3×	74 1.0×	26	357
Stefan Herbert Germany	8	258 0.4×	127 0.3×	75 0.4×	47 0.3×	77 1.1×	18	364
Jiangrong Xu China	12	443 0.7×	31 0.1×	166 0.9×	16 0.1×	70 1.0×	62	647
Guillaume Dupeux France	7	244 0.4×	196 0.4×	84 0.4×	12 0.1×	80 1.1×	11	358
David J. Torres United States	10	506 0.8×	37 0.1×	81 0.4×	9 0.1×	104 1.4×	24	717

Countries citing papers authored by Nick Laan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nick Laan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nick Laan

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

All Works

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Laan, Nick, et al.. (2019). The influence of coagulation on the drying dynamics of blood pools. Forensic Science International. 305. 110008–110008. 7 indexed citations

2.

Laan, Nick, et al.. (2017). Effect of Wetting on Drop Splashing of Newtonian Fluids and Blood. Langmuir. 34(18). 5163–5168. 67 indexed citations

3.

Laan, Nick, et al.. (2016). Morphology of drying blood pools. Forensic Science International. 267. 104–109. 41 indexed citations

4.

Laan, Nick, et al.. (2015). Bloodstain Pattern Analysis: implementation of a fluid dynamic model for position determination of victims. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 11461–11461. 65 indexed citations

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Laan, Nick. (2015). Impact of blood droplets. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 1 indexed citations

6.

Laan, Nick, Karla G. de Bruin, Noushine Shahidzadeh, et al.. (2015). Universal rescaling of drop impact on smooth and rough surfaces. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 786. 206 indexed citations

7.

Laan, Nick, Karla G. de Bruin, Denis Bartolo, Christophe Josserand, & Daniel Bonn. (2014). Maximum Diameter of Impacting Liquid Droplets. Physical Review Applied. 2(4). 378 indexed citations breakdown →

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Laan, Nick, Rolf H. Bremmer, Maurice C. G. Aalders, & Karla G. de Bruin. (2013). Volume Determination of Fresh and Dried Bloodstains by Means of Optical Coherence Tomography. Journal of Forensic Sciences. 59(1). 34–41. 22 indexed citations

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Bremmer, Rolf H., Stephen C. Kanick, Nick Laan, et al.. (2011). Non-contact spectroscopic determination of large blood volume fractions in turbid media. Biomedical Optics Express. 2(2). 396–396. 10 indexed citations

10.

Laan, Nick. (1995). Stylometry and Method. The Case of Euripides. Literary and Linguistic Computing. 10(4). 271–278. 13 indexed citations

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