Ellen C. Hopmans

28.0k citations

220 papers · 21.0k indexed · 11 hit papers · h-index 71

Co-authors: Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté Stefan Schouten Johan W.H. Weijers Richard D. Pancost Enno Schefuß Laura Villanueva W. Irene C. Rijpstra Jan A. J. Geenevasen
Topics: Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (100 papers)Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (79 papers)Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (68 papers)
Cited by: Environmental Chemistry Atmospheric Science Ecology
Journals: Nature Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Partner nations: Netherlands United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Ellen C. Hopmans

217 papers receiving 20.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

A novel proxy for terrestrial organic matter in sediments based on branched and isoprenoid tetraether lipids

2004 967 citations Ellen C. Hopmans, Enno Schefuß et al. profile →
Distributional variations in marine crenarchaeotal membrane lipids: a new tool for reconstructing ancient sea water temperatures?

2002 942 citations Stefan Schouten, Ellen C. Hopmans et al. profile →
Abundance and Diversity of Denitrifying and Anammox Bacteria in Seasonally Hypoxic and Sulfidic Sediments of the Saline Lake Grevelingen

2016 848 citations Ellen C. Hopmans, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté et al. profile →
The organic geochemistry of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids: A review

2012 826 citations Stefan Schouten, Ellen C. Hopmans et al. profile →
Environmental controls on bacterial tetraether membrane lipid distribution in soils

2006 742 citations Stefan Schouten, Ellen C. Hopmans et al. profile →
New indices and calibrations derived from the distribution of crenarchaeal isoprenoid tetraether lipids: Implications for past sea surface temperature reconstructions

2010 565 citations Stefan Schouten, Ellen C. Hopmans et al. profile →
Crenarchaeol

2002 519 citations Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Stefan Schouten et al. profile →
An improved method to determine the absolute abundance of glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether lipids

2006 498 citations Ellen C. Hopmans, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté et al. profile →
Northern Hemisphere Controls on Tropical Southeast African Climate During the Past 60,000 Years

2008 489 citations Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Ellen C. Hopmans et al. profile →
Occurrence and abundance of 6-methyl branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in soils: Implications for palaeoclimate reconstruction

2014 421 citations Ellen C. Hopmans, Stefan Schouten et al. profile →
The effect of improved chromatography on GDGT-based palaeoproxies

2015 399 citations Ellen C. Hopmans, Stefan Schouten et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A Comprehensive Study of Biohopanoid Production in Alphaproteobacteria : Biosynthetic, Chemotaxonomical, and Geobiological Implications 2025 ·Geobiology ·Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté,Michel Koenen,Vera Thiel,Nora Richter,Ellen C. Hopmans,Nicole J. Bale	0
2	Bioavailable carbon additions to soil promote free-living nitrogen fixation and microbial biomass growth with N-free lipids 2025 ·Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·(unknown),Su Ding,Ellen C. Hopmans,(unknown),(unknown),Erika Kothe,Markus Lange,Gerd Gleixner	3
3	Loss of nitrogen via anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) in the California Current system during the late Quaternary 2024 ·Biogeosciences ·(unknown),Zeynep Erdem,Ellen C. Hopmans,Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté,Darci Rush	2
4	Nitrogen and sulfur for phosphorus: Lipidome adaptation of anaerobic sulfate-reducing bacteria in phosphorus-deprived conditions 2024 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Su Ding,Vincent Grossi,Ellen C. Hopmans,Nicole J. Bale,Cristiana Cravo‐Laureau,Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté	6
5	Distributions of bacteriohopanepolyols in lakes and coastal lagoons of the Azores Archipelago 2023 ·Biogeosciences ·Nora Richter,Ellen C. Hopmans,(unknown),Pedro M. Raposeiro,Vítor Gonçalves,Ana C. Costa,Linda Amaral‐Zettler,Laura Villanueva,Darci Rush	4
6	Changes in the distribution of membrane lipids during growth of <i>Thermotoga maritima</i> at different temperatures: Indications for the potential mechanism of biosynthesis of ether-bound diabolic acid (membrane-spanning) lipids 2022 ·Flanders Marine Institute (Flanders Marine Institute) ·(unknown),Laura Villanueva,Nicole J. Bale,(unknown),Michel Koenen,Ellen C. Hopmans,Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté	11
7	Negligible Quantities of Particulate Low‐Temperature Pyrogenic Carbon Reach the Atlantic Ocean via the Amazon River 2021 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Christoph Häggi,Ellen C. Hopmans,Enno Schefuß,André Oliveira Sawakuchi,(unknown),Dailson José Bertassoli,Cristiano Mazur Chiessi,Stefan Mulitza,Henrique O. Sawakuchi,Paul A. Baker,Stefan Schouten	9
8	Bridging the membrane lipid divide: bacteria of the FCB group superphylum have the potential to synthesize archaeal ether lipids 2020 ·The ISME Journal ·Laura Villanueva,F. A. Bastiaan von Meijenfeldt,Alexander B. Westbye,(unknown),Ellen C. Hopmans,Bas E. Dutilh,Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté	70
9	The absence of intact polar lipid-derived GDGTs in marine waters dominated by Marine Group II: Implications for lipid biosynthesis in Archaea 2020 ·Scientific Reports ·(unknown),Ellen C. Hopmans,Nicole J. Bale,Stefan Schouten,Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté,Laura Villanueva	33
10	Interaction of Fire, Vegetation, and Climate in Tropical Ecosystems: A Multiproxy Study Over the Past 22,000 Years 2020 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·(unknown),Mahyar Mohtadi,Lydie M Dupont,Dierk Hebbeln,Sander van der Kaars,Ellen C. Hopmans,Stefan Schouten,E. J. Hyer,Enno Schefuß	16
11	Long-chain diols in rivers: distribution and potential biological sources 2018 ·Biogeosciences ·Julie Lattaud,Frédérique Kirkels,Francien Peterse,(unknown),Timothy I. Eglinton,Jens Hefter,Gesine Mollenhauer,Sergio Balzano,Laura Villanueva,Marcel T. J. van der Meer,Ellen C. Hopmans,Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté,Stefan Schouten	17
12	Factors Controlling the Stable Nitrogen Isotopic Composition (δ15N) of Lipids in Marine Animals 2016 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown),Stefan Schouten,Ellen C. Hopmans,Jack J. Middelburg,Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté	20
13	Acquisition of intact polar lipids from the prymnesiophyte Phaeocystis globosa by its lytic virus PgV-07T 2014 ·Biogeosciences ·Douwe S. Maat,Nicole J. Bale,Ellen C. Hopmans,Anne‐Claire Baudoux,Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté,Stefan Schouten,Corina P. D. Brussaard	7
14	Fossilized intact polar lipids of photosynthetic organisms in ancient subsurface sediments 2009 ·AGUFM ·Thorsten Bauersachs,Stefan Schouten,Ellen C. Hopmans,Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté	1
15	Application of ladderane lipids as a proxy for past anammox activity 2008 ·Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement ·Andrea Jaeschke,Max Ziegler,Gert‐Jan Reichart,Ellen C. Hopmans,Stefan Schouten,Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté	1
16	Ladderane lipid distribution in four genera of anammox bacteria 2008 ·Archives of Microbiology ·Jayne E. Rattray,Jack van de Vossenberg,Ellen C. Hopmans,Boran Kartal,Laura van Niftrik,W. Irene C. Rijpstra,Marc Strous,Mike S. M. Jetten,Stefan Schouten,Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté	80
17	Ladderane phospholipids in anammox bacteria comprise phosphocholine and phosphoethanolamine headgroups 2006 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Henry A. Boumann,Ellen C. Hopmans,(unknown),Huub J. M. Op den Camp,Jack van de Vossenberg,Marc Strous,Mike S. M. Jetten,Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté,Stefan Schouten	72
18	Analysis of intact tetraether lipids in archaeal cell material and sediments by high performance liquid chromatography/atmospheric pressure chemical ionization mass spectrometry 2000 ·Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry ·Ellen C. Hopmans,Stefan Schouten,Richard D. Pancost,Marcel T. J. van der Meer,Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté	419
19	Analysis of foods for heterocyclic aromatic amine carcinogens by solid-phase extraction and high-performance liquid chromatography 1997 ·Journal of Chromatography A ·Mark G. Knize,Cynthia P. Salmon,Ellen C. Hopmans,James S. Felton	90
20	Fumonisin B1 is fetotoxic in rats. 1995 ·PubMed ·S Lebepe-Mazur,(unknown),Ellen C. Hopmans,P MURPHY,Suzanne Hendrich	25

About Ellen C. Hopmans

Ellen C. Hopmans is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Ecology and Oceanography, having authored 220 papers that have together received 21.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (100 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (79 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (68 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Environmental Chemistry (7.5k citations), Atmospheric Science (11.0k citations) and Ecology (10.3k citations). Ellen C. Hopmans has collaborated with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Stefan Schouten, Johan W.H. Weijers, Richard D. Pancost, Enno Schefuß, Laura Villanueva, W. Irene C. Rijpstra, Jan A. J. Geenevasen, Yvonne A. Lipsewers and Stuart G. Wakeham. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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