Kingsly C. Beng

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 600 citations indexed

About

Kingsly C. Beng is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Kingsly C. Beng has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 600 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Ecology, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Kingsly C. Beng's work include Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (6 papers), Identification and Quantification in Food (3 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (3 papers). Kingsly C. Beng is often cited by papers focused on Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (6 papers), Identification and Quantification in Food (3 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (3 papers). Kingsly C. Beng collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and Poland. Kingsly C. Beng's co-authors include Richard T. Corlett, Kyle W. Tomlinson, Alice C. Hughes, Ferry Slik, Yann Surget‐Groba, Yanqiang Jin, Jian‐Wei Tang, Qinli Xiong, Chenggang Liu and Youning Hu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Limnology and Oceanography.

In The Last Decade

Kingsly C. Beng

12 papers receiving 588 citations

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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.

Applications of environmental DNA (eDNA) in ecology and conservation: opportunities, challenges and prospects

2020 405 citations Kingsly C. Beng, Richard T. Corlett Biodiversity and Conservation profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kingsly C. Beng China	7	482	304	89	85	58	13	600
Michael Wright Canada	11	435 0.9×	283 0.9×	55 0.6×	113 1.3×	44 0.8×	19	517
Thomas J. Creedy United Kingdom	10	231 0.5×	131 0.4×	98 1.1×	108 1.3×	66 1.1×	22	458
Blaise Tymen France	5	226 0.5×	63 0.2×	159 1.8×	50 0.6×	105 1.8×	6	427
Eduardo Mateos Spain	14	222 0.5×	161 0.5×	70 0.8×	30 0.4×	228 3.9×	49	576
Geneviève Lajoie Canada	11	168 0.3×	67 0.2×	179 2.0×	90 1.1×	78 1.3×	18	476
Antoine Duparc France	9	595 1.2×	417 1.4×	138 1.6×	107 1.3×	74 1.3×	15	677
Göran Hartman Sweden	13	438 0.9×	255 0.8×	94 1.1×	38 0.4×	28 0.5×	16	808
Jiaqi Tan United States	10	152 0.3×	62 0.2×	205 2.3×	62 0.7×	31 0.5×	13	418
Valentina La Morgia Italy	12	235 0.5×	45 0.1×	104 1.2×	62 0.7×	29 0.5×	32	414
Julia Chacón‐Labella Spain	13	128 0.3×	47 0.2×	220 2.5×	51 0.6×	88 1.5×	19	404

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kingsly C. Beng

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13 of 13 papers shown

Rubinetti, Sara, Bernadette Pogoda, Alexey Androsov, et al.. (2025). Connectivity and larval drift across marine protected areas in the German bight, North Sea: Necessity of stepping stones. Journal of Sea Research. 204. 102563–102563. 1 indexed citations

Beng, Kingsly C., Sławek Cerbin, Michael T. Monaghan, & Justyna Wolinska. (2025). Long‐term changes to plankton communities in artificially heated lakes. Limnology and Oceanography. 70(10). 3029–3042.

Cerbin, Sławek, et al.. (2025). Warming increases richness and shapes assemblages of eukaryotic parasitic plankton. Environmental Microbiome. 20(1). 76–76. 1 indexed citations

John, Uwe, et al.. (2024). Roaming the Seas—Assessing Marine Invertebrate Biodiversity Along Salinity Gradients With Zooplankton and eDNA Metabarcoding. Environmental DNA. 6(6). 2 indexed citations

Beng, Kingsly C., et al.. (2021). Temporal dynamics of freshwater planktonic parasites inferred using a DNA metabarcoding time-series. Parasitology. 148(13). 1602–1611. 8 indexed citations

Beng, Kingsly C. & Richard T. Corlett. (2020). Applications of environmental DNA (eDNA) in ecology and conservation: opportunities, challenges and prospects. Biodiversity and Conservation. 29(7). 2089–2121. 405 indexed citations breakdown →

Beng, Kingsly C. & Richard T. Corlett. (2019). Identifying the mechanisms that shape fungal community and metacommunity patterns in Yunnan, China. Fungal ecology. 42. 100862–100862. 7 indexed citations

Beng, Kingsly C. & Richard T. Corlett. (2019). Amplicon sequencing dataset of soil fungi and associated environmental variables collected in karst and non-karst sites across Yunnan province, southwest China. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 27. 104575–104575. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Chenggang, Yanqiang Jin, Youning Hu, et al.. (2019). Drivers of soil bacterial community structure and diversity in tropical agroforestry systems. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 278. 24–34. 54 indexed citations

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Beng, Kingsly C., Richard T. Corlett, & Kyle W. Tomlinson. (2018). Seasonal changes in the diversity and composition of the litter fauna in native forests and rubber plantations. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 10232–10232. 10 indexed citations

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Chen, Jin, et al.. (2017). Feeding behavior and activity budget of the southern yellow‐cheeked crested gibbons (Nomascus gabriellae) in a lowland tropical forest. American Journal of Primatology. 79(8). 21 indexed citations

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Beng, Kingsly C., Kyle W. Tomlinson, Yann Surget‐Groba, et al.. (2016). The utility of DNA metabarcoding for studying the response of arthropod diversity and composition to land-use change in the tropics. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 24965–24965. 84 indexed citations

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Mohandass, Dharmalingam, et al.. (2016). Recruitment of saplings in active tea plantations of the Nilgiri Mountains: Implications for restoration ecology. 57(1). 4 indexed citations

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