Ben Somers

10.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
185 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Ben Somers is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Somers has authored 185 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Ecology, 84 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 60 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ben Somers's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (107 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (58 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (31 papers). Ben Somers is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (107 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (58 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (31 papers). Ben Somers collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and Germany. Ben Somers's co-authors include Pol Coppin, Gregory P. Asner, Laurent Tits, Stephanie Delalieux, Willem W. Verstraeten, Olivier Honnay, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Stef Lhermitte, Antonio Plaza and Jeroen Degerickx and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Ben Somers

179 papers receiving 5.3k 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.

Endmember variability in Spectral Mixture Analysis: A review

2011 531 citations Ben Somers, Laurent Tits et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ben Somers Belgium	41	2.8k	2.0k	1.4k	1.4k	964	185	5.4k
Ruiliang Pu United States	51	4.5k 1.6×	2.9k 1.4×	1.2k 0.8×	2.8k 2.1×	1.5k 1.6×	157	7.6k
Renaud Mathieu South Africa	38	2.9k 1.0×	1.7k 0.8×	467 0.3×	1.8k 1.3×	711 0.7×	113	4.7k
George Alan Blackburn United Kingdom	37	3.3k 1.2×	2.0k 1.0×	456 0.3×	1.6k 1.2×	664 0.7×	110	5.5k
Raymond F. Kokaly United States	31	2.4k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	828 0.9×	99	5.5k
James E. Vogelmann United States	32	4.3k 1.5×	3.7k 1.8×	704 0.5×	2.0k 1.5×	997 1.0×	59	6.6k
Zheng Niu China	44	4.3k 1.6×	2.8k 1.4×	610 0.4×	2.7k 2.0×	1.4k 1.4×	287	7.6k
Giorgos Mountrakis United States	26	2.6k 0.9×	1.9k 0.9×	1.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	68	5.1k
Liangyun Liu China	41	4.2k 1.5×	3.8k 1.9×	488 0.3×	1.7k 1.2×	1.3k 1.4×	292	6.6k
Sebastian van der Linden Germany	34	2.1k 0.8×	2.2k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	870 0.9×	85	4.2k
Jadunandan Dash United Kingdom	41	4.8k 1.7×	3.2k 1.6×	407 0.3×	2.2k 1.6×	1.1k 1.2×	157	6.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Ben Somers

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Somers

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Somers

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

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Keersmaecker, Wanda De, Stéphanie Horion, Stefan Oehmcke, et al.. (2025). Predictability of abrupt shifts in dryland ecosystem functioning. Nature Climate Change. 15(1). 86–91. 8 indexed citations

Dewaelheyns, Valérie, et al.. (2024). From gardens to neighbourhoods: Characterizing the climate adaptation contribution of the garden landscape in Flanders. Urban forestry & urban greening. 102. 128588–128588. 3 indexed citations

Dewaelheyns, Valérie, et al.. (2024). What can Nature-based Solutions in domestic gardens contribute to climate change adaption in Western-Europe? a systematic review. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 12. 4 indexed citations

Verbist, Bruno, et al.. (2024). Wetness severity increases abrupt shifts in ecosystem functioning in arid savannas. Global Change Biology. 30(3). e17235–e17235. 6 indexed citations

Oliveira, Rafael S., et al.. (2024). Estimating vegetation water content from Sentinel-1 C-band SAR data over savanna and grassland ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters. 19(3). 34019–34019. 8 indexed citations

Aerts, Raf, et al.. (2024). Spatial configuration of green space matters: Associations between urban land cover and air temperature. Landscape and Urban Planning. 249. 105121–105121. 37 indexed citations

Diels, Jan, et al.. (2023). Maximising runoff retention by vegetated landscape elements positioned through spatial optimisation. Landscape and Urban Planning. 243. 104968–104968. 3 indexed citations

Somers, Ben, et al.. (2022). Sentinel-Based Adaptation of the Local Climate Zones Framework to a South African Context. Remote Sensing. 14(15). 3594–3594. 2 indexed citations

Keersmaecker, Wanda De, et al.. (2022). Climatic legacy effects on the drought response of the Amazon rainforest. Global Change Biology. 28(19). 5808–5819. 11 indexed citations

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Mertens, Koen, Kurt Heungens, David Nuyttens, et al.. (2022). Ultra-High-Resolution UAV-Based Detection of Alternaria solani Infections in Potato Fields. Remote Sensing. 14(24). 6232–6232. 15 indexed citations

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Hishe, Hadgu, et al.. (2021). A combination of climate, tree diversity and local human disturbance determine the stability of dry Afromontane forests. Forest Ecosystems. 8(1). 17 indexed citations

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Helsen, Kenny, et al.. (2020). Optical traits perform equally well as directly‐measured functional traits in explaining the impact of an invasive plant on litter decomposition. Journal of Ecology. 108(5). 2000–2011. 16 indexed citations

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Souverijns, Niels, Marcel Buchhorn, Stéphanie Horion, et al.. (2020). Thirty Years of Land Cover and Fraction Cover Changes over the Sudano-Sahel Using Landsat Time Series. Remote Sensing. 12(22). 3817–3817. 24 indexed citations

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Degerickx, Jeroen, et al.. (2020). Urban Tree Health Classification Across Tree Species by Combining Airborne Laser Scanning and Imaging Spectroscopy. Remote Sensing. 12(15). 2435–2435. 20 indexed citations

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Helsen, Kenny, et al.. (2019). Community assembly on extensive green roofs: Effects of dispersal‐, abiotic‐ and biotic filtering on the spontaneous species‐ and functional diversity. Journal of Vegetation Science. 30(6). 1078–1088. 12 indexed citations

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Somers, Ben, et al.. (2019). Remote sensing of coastal vegetation: Dealing with high species turnover by mapping multiple floristic gradients. Applied Vegetation Science. 22(4). 534–546. 5 indexed citations

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Ewald, Michael, Raf Aerts, Jonathan Lenoir, et al.. (2018). LiDAR derived forest structure data improves predictions of canopy N and P concentrations from imaging spectroscopy. Remote Sensing of Environment. 211. 13–25. 22 indexed citations

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Vranken, Liesbet, et al.. (2018). Do Looks Matter? A Case Study on Extensive Green Roofs Using Discrete Choice Experiments. Sustainability. 10(2). 309–309. 40 indexed citations

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Keersmaecker, Wanda De, Stef Lhermitte, Michael J. Hill, et al.. (2017). Assessment of Regional Vegetation Response to Climate Anomalies: A Case Study for Australia Using GIMMS NDVI Time Series between 1982 and 2006. Remote Sensing. 9(1). 34–34. 46 indexed citations

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Kimirei, Ismael A., et al.. (2016). The decline in phytoplankton biomass and prawn catches in the Rufiji-Mafia Channel, Tanzania. 15(1). 15–29. 10 indexed citations

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