Ellen C. Hopmans

28.0k total citations · 11 hit papers
220 papers, 21.0k citations indexed

About

Ellen C. Hopmans is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ellen C. Hopmans has authored 220 papers receiving a total of 21.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 135 papers in Ecology, 82 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 71 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Ellen C. Hopmans's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (100 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (79 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (68 papers). Ellen C. Hopmans is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (100 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (79 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (68 papers). Ellen C. Hopmans collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Ellen C. Hopmans's 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 and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ellen C. Hopmans

217 papers receiving 20.6k citations

Hit Papers

A novel proxy for terrestrial organic matter in sediments... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2004 2002 2016 2012 2006 250 500 750
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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.

  1. A novel proxy for terrestrial organic matter in sediments based on branched and isoprenoid tetraether lipids
    2004 967 citations Ellen C. Hopmans, Johan W.H. Weijers et al. profile →
  2. 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 →
  3. 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 →
  4. The organic geochemistry of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids: A review
    2012 826 citations Stefan Schouten, Ellen C. Hopmans et al. profile →
  5. Environmental controls on bacterial tetraether membrane lipid distribution in soils
    2006 742 citations Johan W.H. Weijers, Stefan Schouten et al. profile →
  6. 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 →
  7. Crenarchaeol
    2002 519 citations Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Stefan Schouten et al. profile →
  8. 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 →
  9. 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 →
  10. 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 →
  11. The effect of improved chromatography on GDGT-based palaeoproxies
    2015 399 citations Ellen C. Hopmans, Stefan Schouten et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ellen C. Hopmans Netherlands 71 11.0k 10.3k 7.5k 4.6k 3.6k 220 21.0k
Timothy I. Eglinton United States 79 12.2k 1.1× 8.1k 0.8× 5.9k 0.8× 6.3k 1.4× 797 0.2× 412 22.3k
Richard D. Pancost United Kingdom 81 11.8k 1.1× 6.7k 0.7× 6.3k 0.8× 3.8k 0.8× 1.4k 0.4× 335 21.0k
Kai‐Uwe Hinrichs Germany 69 4.0k 0.4× 9.0k 0.9× 10.5k 1.4× 3.0k 0.7× 4.0k 1.1× 259 17.4k
Stuart G. Wakeham United States 76 5.6k 0.5× 7.5k 0.7× 4.4k 0.6× 8.9k 1.9× 1.5k 0.4× 206 17.5k
John I. Hedges United States 90 8.5k 0.8× 13.4k 1.3× 7.1k 1.0× 16.0k 3.5× 1.3k 0.4× 142 32.0k
John K. Volkman Australia 74 4.3k 0.4× 5.0k 0.5× 3.8k 0.5× 5.7k 1.2× 2.5k 0.7× 193 19.6k
G. Eglinton United Kingdom 81 10.3k 0.9× 6.6k 0.6× 4.2k 0.6× 4.7k 1.0× 2.2k 0.6× 340 25.3k
Roger E. Summons United States 82 5.9k 0.5× 5.3k 0.5× 5.1k 0.7× 2.6k 0.6× 4.0k 1.1× 370 24.2k
Patrick G. Hatcher United States 93 4.4k 0.4× 7.0k 0.7× 3.3k 0.4× 6.4k 1.4× 1.8k 0.5× 398 26.7k
Bo Barker Jørgensen Denmark 115 5.9k 0.5× 19.3k 1.9× 19.2k 2.6× 13.8k 3.0× 6.0k 1.7× 358 41.6k

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All Works

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Damsté, Jaap S. Sinninghe, Michel Koenen, Vera Thiel, et al.. (2025). A Comprehensive Study of Biohopanoid Production in Alphaproteobacteria : Biosynthetic, Chemotaxonomical, and Geobiological Implications. Geobiology. 23(6). e70038–e70038.
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Bale, Nicole J., Rick Hennekam, Darci Rush, et al.. (2025). Impact of deoxygenation and hydrological changes on the Black Sea nitrogen cycle during the Last Deglaciation and Holocene. Climate of the past. 21(6). 957–971. 1 indexed citations
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Erdem, Zeynep, et al.. (2024). Loss of nitrogen via anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) in the California Current system during the late Quaternary. Biogeosciences. 21(6). 1517–1532. 2 indexed citations
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Ding, Su, Vincent Grossi, Ellen C. Hopmans, et al.. (2024). Nitrogen and sulfur for phosphorus: Lipidome adaptation of anaerobic sulfate-reducing bacteria in phosphorus-deprived conditions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(24). e2400711121–e2400711121. 6 indexed citations
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Richter, Nora, Ellen C. Hopmans, Pedro M. Raposeiro, et al.. (2023). Distributions of bacteriohopanepolyols in lakes and coastal lagoons of the Azores Archipelago. Biogeosciences. 20(11). 2065–2098. 4 indexed citations
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Villanueva, Laura, Ellen C. Hopmans, Peter Kraal, et al.. (2022). Bacteriohopanetetrol- x : constraining its application as a lipid biomarker for marine anammox using the water column oxygen gradient of the Benguela upwelling system. Biogeosciences. 19(1). 201–221. 8 indexed citations
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Häggi, Christoph, Ellen C. Hopmans, Enno Schefuß, et al.. (2021). Negligible Quantities of Particulate Low‐Temperature Pyrogenic Carbon Reach the Atlantic Ocean via the Amazon River. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 35(9). e2021GB006990–e2021GB006990. 9 indexed citations
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McClymont, Erin L., Nicole J. Bale, Ellen C. Hopmans, et al.. (2021). Archaeal intact polar lipids in polar waters: a comparison between the Amundsen and Scotia seas. Biogeosciences. 18(11). 3485–3504. 6 indexed citations
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Villanueva, Laura, F. A. Bastiaan von Meijenfeldt, Alexander B. Westbye, et al.. (2020). Bridging the membrane lipid divide: bacteria of the FCB group superphylum have the potential to synthesize archaeal ether lipids. The ISME Journal. 15(1). 168–182. 70 indexed citations
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Hopmans, Ellen C., et al.. (2018). Benthic archaea as potential sources of tetraether membrane lipids in sediments across an oxygen minimum zone. Biogeosciences. 15(13). 4047–4064. 51 indexed citations
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Bale, Nicole J., Tracy A. Villareal, Ellen C. Hopmans, et al.. (2018). C 5 glycolipids of heterocystous cyanobacteria track symbiont abundance in the diatom Hemiaulus hauckii across the tropical North Atlantic. Biogeosciences. 15(4). 1229–1241. 13 indexed citations
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Maat, Douwe S., Nicole J. Bale, Ellen C. Hopmans, et al.. (2016). Increasing P limitation and viral infection impact lipid remodeling of the picophytoplankter Micromonas pusilla. Biogeosciences. 13(5). 1667–1676. 14 indexed citations
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Schouten, Stefan, et al.. (2016). Factors Controlling the Stable Nitrogen Isotopic Composition (δ15N) of Lipids in Marine Animals. PLoS ONE. 11(1). e0146321–e0146321. 20 indexed citations
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Maat, Douwe S., Nicole J. Bale, Ellen C. Hopmans, et al.. (2014). Acquisition of intact polar lipids from the prymnesiophyte Phaeocystis globosa by its lytic virus PgV-07T. Biogeosciences. 11(1). 185–194. 7 indexed citations
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Rush, Darci, Ellen C. Hopmans, Stuart G. Wakeham, Stefan Schouten, & Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté. (2012). Occurrence and distribution of ladderane oxidation products in different oceanic regimes. Biogeosciences. 9(7). 2407–2418. 20 indexed citations
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Niemann, Helge, Alina Stadnitskaia, Stefanie B. Wirth, et al.. (2012). Bacterial GDGTs in Holocene sediments and catchment soils of a high Alpine lake: application of the MBT/CBT-paleothermometer. Climate of the past. 8(3). 889–906. 63 indexed citations
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Brandsma, Joost, Ellen C. Hopmans, C.J.M. Philippart, et al.. (2012). Low temporal variation in the intact polar lipid composition of North Sea coastal marine water reveals limited chemotaxonomic value. Biogeosciences. 9(3). 1073–1084. 26 indexed citations
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Weijers, Johan W.H., Guido L. B. Wiesenberg, Roland Bol, Ellen C. Hopmans, & Richard D. Pancost. (2010). Carbon isotopic composition of branched tetraether membrane lipids in soils suggest a rapid turnover and a heterotrophic life style of their source organism(s). Biogeosciences. 7(9). 2959–2973. 155 indexed citations
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Bauersachs, Thorsten, Stefan Schouten, Ellen C. Hopmans, & Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté. (2009). Fossilized intact polar lipids of photosynthetic organisms in ancient subsurface sediments. AGUFM. 2009. 1 indexed citations

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