Heroen Verbruggen

10.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
168 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Heroen Verbruggen is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Heroen Verbruggen has authored 168 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 135 papers in Oceanography, 80 papers in Ecology and 42 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Heroen Verbruggen's work include Marine and coastal plant biology (122 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (90 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (41 papers). Heroen Verbruggen is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal plant biology (122 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (90 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (41 papers). Heroen Verbruggen collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Belgium and United States. Heroen Verbruggen's co-authors include Olivier De Clerck, Frédérik Leliaert, L. Tyberghein, Frédéric Mineur, Vanessa R. Marcelino, Klaas Pauly, Ester Á. Serrão, Charles Troupin, Jorge Assis and Samuel Bosch and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Heroen Verbruggen

161 papers receiving 7.1k citations

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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.

Bio‐ORACLE: a global environmental dataset for marine species distribution modelling

2011 718 citations L. Tyberghein, Heroen Verbruggen et al. Global Ecology and Biogeography profile →
Bio‐ORACLE v2.0: Extending marine data layers for bioclimatic modelling

2017 660 citations Jorge Assis, L. Tyberghein et al. Global Ecology and Biogeography profile →
Phylogeny and Molecular Evolution of the Green Algae

2012 619 citations Frédérik Leliaert, Heroen Verbruggen et al. profile →
Bio‐ORACLE v3.0. Pushing marine data layers to the CMIP6 Earth System Models of climate change research

2024 68 citations Jorge Assis, Vinícius Salazar et al. Global Ecology and Biogeography profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heroen Verbruggen Australia	41	4.2k	3.7k	1.5k	1.2k	877	168	7.2k
Olivier De Clerck Belgium	45	5.3k 1.2×	4.0k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	931 1.1×	236	8.3k
Frédérik Leliaert Belgium	40	3.3k 0.8×	2.7k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	367 0.3×	854 1.0×	159	5.7k
Myriam Valéro France	45	3.5k 0.8×	2.2k 0.6×	686 0.5×	765 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	138	5.1k
Gabriele Procaccini Italy	46	4.2k 1.0×	3.5k 0.9×	941 0.6×	1.1k 0.9×	633 0.7×	150	5.9k
Ester Á. Serrão Portugal	59	8.1k 1.9×	6.7k 1.8×	951 0.6×	2.7k 2.3×	1.5k 1.7×	324	11.8k
Gary W. Saunders Canada	47	6.3k 1.5×	3.9k 1.1×	1.7k 1.2×	739 0.6×	913 1.0×	219	8.0k
Maarten Boersma Germany	44	3.0k 0.7×	3.5k 1.0×	391 0.3×	1.5k 1.2×	422 0.5×	202	6.9k
Colomban de Vargas France	57	3.9k 0.9×	6.9k 1.9×	4.7k 3.1×	641 0.5×	235 0.3×	131	10.1k
Hendrik Schubert Germany	33	2.0k 0.5×	1.4k 0.4×	773 0.5×	460 0.4×	410 0.5×	160	4.2k
Sophie Arnaud‐Haond France	44	2.5k 0.6×	3.3k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	954 1.1×	120	6.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heroen Verbruggen

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Assis, Jorge, Vinícius Salazar, Lennert Schepers, et al.. (2024). Bio‐ORACLE v3.0. Pushing marine data layers to the CMIP6 Earth System Models of climate change research. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33(4). 68 indexed citations breakdown →

Courtney, Michael, et al.. (2024). An optimized CTAB method for genomic DNA extraction from green seaweeds (Ulvophyceae). Applications in Plant Sciences. 13(1). e11625–e11625. 3 indexed citations

Turnbull, Robert, et al.. (2023). MetaGenePipe: An Automated, Portable Pipeline forContig-based Functional and Taxonomic Analysis. The Journal of Open Source Software. 8(82). 4851–4851.

Marcelino, Vanessa R., et al.. (2022). Ten Ostreobium (Ulvophyceae) strains from Great Barrier Reef corals as a resource for algal endolith biology and genomics. Phycologia. 61(4). 452–458. 4 indexed citations

Salazar, Vinícius, Robert Turnbull, Edoardo Tescari, et al.. (2022). Metaphor—A workflow for streamlined assembly and binning of metagenomes. GigaScience. 12. 11 indexed citations

Tandon, Kshitij, Francesco Ricci, Joana F. Costa, et al.. (2022). Genomic view of the diversity and functional role of archaea and bacteria in the skeleton of the reef-building corals Porites lutea and Isopora palifera. GigaScience. 12. 13 indexed citations

Chan, Cheong Xin, et al.. (2021). Tightly Constrained Genome Reduction and Relaxation of Purifying Selection during Secondary Plastid Endosymbiosis. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(1). 8 indexed citations

Jackson, Christopher J., et al.. (2021). Nuclear genome of a pedinophyte pinpoints genomic innovation and streamlining in the green algae. New Phytologist. 233(5). 2144–2154. 5 indexed citations

Bringloe, Trevor T., Heroen Verbruggen, & Gary W. Saunders. (2020). Unique biodiversity in Arctic marine forests is shaped by diverse recolonization pathways and far northern glacial refugia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(36). 22590–22596. 40 indexed citations

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Jackson, Christopher J., et al.. (2020). The inflated mitochondrial genomes of siphonous green algae reflect processes driving expansion of noncoding DNA and proliferation of introns. PeerJ. 8. e8273–e8273. 16 indexed citations

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Díaz‐Tapia, Pilar, Christine A. Maggs, Wendy A. Nelson, Erasmo C. Macaya, & Heroen Verbruggen. (2019). Reassessment of the genus Lophurella (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) from Australia and New Zealand reveals four cryptic species. European Journal of Phycology. 55(1). 113–128. 20 indexed citations

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Cortona, Andrea Del, Joana F. Costa, Shao‐Lun Liu, et al.. (2018). Complete mitochondrial genomes of six species of the freshwater red algal order Batrachospermales (Rhodophyta). Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 3(2). 607–610. 3 indexed citations

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Oliveira, Mariana C., Christopher J. Jackson, Pilar Díaz‐Tapia, et al.. (2018). High-throughput sequencing for algal systematics. European Journal of Phycology. 53(3). 256–272. 36 indexed citations

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Cortona, Andrea Del, et al.. (2017). ORGANIZATION OF PLASTID GENOMES IN THE FRESHWATER RED ALGAL ORDER BATRACHOSPERMALES (RHODOPHYTA). Phycologia. 42–43. 4 indexed citations

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Marcelino, Vanessa R., et al.. (2016). Evolutionary Dynamics of Chloroplast Genomes in Low Light: A Case Study of the Endolithic Green Alga Ostreobium quekettii. Genome Biology and Evolution. 8(9). 2939–2951. 38 indexed citations

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Fučíková, Karolina, Frédérik Leliaert, Endymion D. Cooper, et al.. (2014). New phylogenetic hypotheses for the core Chlorophyta based on chloroplast sequence data. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 8 indexed citations

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Cocquyt, Ellen, Heroen Verbruggen, Frédérik Leliaert, et al.. (2009). Gain and loss of elongation factor genes in green algae. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 9(1). 39–39. 26 indexed citations

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Leliaert, Frédérik, et al.. (2009). The identity of the Qingdao algal bloom. Phycological Research. 4 indexed citations

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Verbruggen, Heroen, Olivier De Clerck, & Eric Coppejans. (2005). Deviant segments hamper a morphometric approach towards Halimeda taxonomy. Cryptogamie Algologie. 26(3). 259–274. 18 indexed citations

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Clerck, Olivier De, Eric Coppejans, Tom Schils, et al.. (2004). The marine red algae of Rodrigues (Mauritius, Indian Ocean). Journal of Natural History. 38(23-24). 3021–3057. 12 indexed citations

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