Ivan Nijs

9.8k total citations
198 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Ivan Nijs is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Ivan Nijs has authored 198 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 83 papers in Plant Science and 69 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Ivan Nijs's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (95 papers), Plant and animal studies (50 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (49 papers). Ivan Nijs is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (95 papers), Plant and animal studies (50 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (49 papers). Ivan Nijs collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, China and Saudi Arabia. Ivan Nijs's co-authors include Hans J. De Boeck, Ann Milbau, Ivan A. Janssens, I. Impens, F. E. Dreesen, Jonas J. Lembrechts, R. Ceulemans, Louis Beyens, Jonathan Lenoir and Fred Kockelbergh and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Ivan Nijs

197 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ivan Nijs Belgium 43 2.4k 2.3k 2.3k 1.6k 1.4k 198 6.3k
Jüergen Kreyling Germany 49 2.8k 1.1× 1.8k 0.8× 3.1k 1.3× 2.1k 1.3× 1.2k 0.8× 136 7.1k
Michael E. Loik United States 36 2.3k 1.0× 1.7k 0.7× 3.5k 1.5× 1.8k 1.1× 1.1k 0.8× 85 6.2k
Marc Estiarte Spain 47 2.1k 0.9× 2.8k 1.2× 3.1k 1.3× 2.0k 1.2× 1.2k 0.8× 87 6.9k
William D. Stock Australia 41 3.3k 1.4× 2.3k 1.0× 2.0k 0.9× 2.3k 1.5× 1.6k 1.1× 124 6.9k
Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht Panama 30 3.0k 1.2× 1.4k 0.6× 2.2k 1.0× 1.0k 0.6× 1.2k 0.9× 55 5.0k
H. Wayne Polley United States 47 2.6k 1.1× 3.1k 1.3× 3.3k 1.4× 2.5k 1.5× 1.5k 1.1× 143 8.0k
Christian Ammer Germany 44 4.6k 1.9× 1.6k 0.7× 3.4k 1.5× 1.5k 0.9× 1.2k 0.8× 197 7.9k
Louis S. Santiago United States 40 2.5k 1.0× 2.2k 1.0× 3.2k 1.4× 1.1k 0.7× 1.4k 1.0× 108 6.4k
Cristina Armas Spain 35 3.6k 1.5× 2.4k 1.0× 1.5k 0.7× 1.4k 0.9× 2.2k 1.6× 72 5.9k
Pilar Castro‐Díez Spain 37 2.8k 1.2× 1.9k 0.8× 1.7k 0.8× 1.2k 0.7× 1.3k 0.9× 104 4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Ivan Nijs

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ivan Nijs

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ivan Nijs. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ivan Nijs. The network helps show where Ivan Nijs may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ivan Nijs

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Radujković, Dajana, Erik Verbruggen, Aníbal Pauchard, et al.. (2025). Road Disturbance Shifts Root Fungal Symbiont Types and Reduces the Connectivity of Plant‐Fungal Co‐Occurrence Networks in Mountains. Molecular Ecology. 34(20). e17771–e17771. 1 indexed citations
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D’Hose, Tommy, et al.. (2024). Can permanent grassland soils with elevated organic carbon buffer negative effects of more persistent precipitation regimes on forage grass performance?. The Science of The Total Environment. 918. 170623–170623. 2 indexed citations
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Frenne, Pieter De, et al.. (2024). Unpunctual in diversity: The effect of stand species richness on spring phenology of deciduous tree stands varies among species and years. Global Change Biology. 30(4). e17266–e17266. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Lingjuan, et al.. (2023). Longer dry and wet spells alter the stochasticity of microbial community assembly in grassland soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 178. 108969–108969. 30 indexed citations
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Meerbeek, Koenraad Van, Keith Larson, Jonathan Lenoir, et al.. (2023). The drivers of dark diversity in the Scandinavian mountains are metric‐dependent. Journal of Vegetation Science. 34(6). 3 indexed citations
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Nijs, Ivan, Hans J. De Boeck, Erik Verbruggen, et al.. (2023). Biochemical composition changes can be linked to the tolerance of four grassland species under more persistent precipitation regimes. Physiologia Plantarum. 175(6). e14083–e14083. 2 indexed citations
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Boeck, Hans J. De, Tommy D’Hose, Ivan A. Janssens, et al.. (2023). Basalt addition improves the performance of young grassland monocultures under more persistent weather featuring longer dry and wet spells. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 340. 109610–109610. 6 indexed citations
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Géron, Charly, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Jonathan Lenoir, et al.. (2021). Urban alien plants in temperate oceanic regions of Europe originate from warmer native ranges. Biological Invasions. 23(6). 1765–1779. 20 indexed citations
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Zhang, Helin, Daniel Bearup, Ivan Nijs, et al.. (2020). Dispersal network heterogeneity promotes species coexistence in hierarchical competitive communities. Ecology Letters. 24(1). 50–59. 15 indexed citations
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Kreyling, Jüergen, Jürgen Dengler, Iva Apostolova, et al.. (2020). Invader presence disrupts the stabilizing effect of species richness in plant community recovery after drought. Global Change Biology. 26(6). 3539–3551. 24 indexed citations
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AbdElgawad, Hamada, Han Asard, Gerrit T.S. Beemster, et al.. (2019). Interspecific plant competition mediates the metabolic and ecological signature of a plant–herbivore interaction under warming and elevated CO 2. Functional Ecology. 33(10). 1842–1853. 4 indexed citations
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El-Bana, Magdy, et al.. (2016). A mechanism of self‐organization in a desert with phytogenic mounds. Ecosphere. 7(11). 9 indexed citations
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Elberling, Bo, Claus Nordstrøm, Lisbeth Grøndahl, et al.. (2008). Soil CO2 and CH4 Production Controlled by Temperatures, Water, Freezing and Snowmelt.. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 1 indexed citations
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Nijs, Ivan, et al.. (2005). Fine-scale spatial pattern of Cleistogenes squarrosa population under different grazing intensities.. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 14(1). 11–17. 2 indexed citations
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Marchand, Fleur, Ivan Nijs, Mark Heuer, et al.. (2004). Climate Warming Postpones Senescence in High Arctic Tundra. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research. 36(4). 390–394. 48 indexed citations
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Deckmyn, Gaby, Ivan Nijs, & R. Ceulemans. (2000). A simple method to determine leaf angles of grass species. Journal of Experimental Botany. 51(349). 1467–1470. 14 indexed citations
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Deckmyn, Gaby, Ivan Nijs, & R. Ceulemans. (2000). A simple method to determine leaf angles of grass species. Journal of Experimental Botany. 51(349). 1467–1470. 2 indexed citations
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Chardez, D., et al.. (2000). Testate amoebae communities from terrestrial moss habitats in the Zackenberg Area [North-East Greenland]. Acta Protozoologica. 39(1). 27–33. 15 indexed citations

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