Lieven Wittebolle

3.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
17 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

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Lieven Wittebolle is a scholar working on Ecology, Pollution and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Lieven Wittebolle has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Ecology, 12 papers in Pollution and 4 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Lieven Wittebolle's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (13 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (11 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (4 papers). Lieven Wittebolle is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (13 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (11 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (4 papers). Lieven Wittebolle collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Italy and France. Lieven Wittebolle's co-authors include Nico Boon, Willy Verstraete, Massimo Marzorati, Kim Heylen, Paul de Vos, Daniele Daffonchio, Bram Vanparys, Tuba Hande Ergüder, Annalisa Balloi and Lieven Clement and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Lieven Wittebolle

17 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Initial community evenness favours functionality under selective stress

2009 765 citations Lieven Wittebolle, Massimo Marzorati et al. Nature profile →
Environmental factors shaping the ecological niches of ammonia-oxidizing archaea

2009 582 citations Tuba Hande Ergüder, Nico Boon et al. FEMS Microbiology Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lieven Wittebolle Belgium	15	1.6k	1.5k	785	399	393	17	3.1k
Kim Heylen Belgium	33	1.6k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.7×	445 1.1×	354 0.9×	54	3.8k
Andrew Ogram United States	30	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	914 1.2×	239 0.6×	471 1.2×	77	3.5k
Rasmus Hansen Kirkegaard Denmark	20	2.0k 1.3×	2.1k 1.4×	1.4k 1.7×	657 1.6×	503 1.3×	28	4.3k
Li‐Nan Huang China	36	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	831 1.1×	285 0.7×	549 1.4×	69	3.9k
Aurélie Cébron France	31	1.2k 0.8×	1.8k 1.2×	572 0.7×	185 0.5×	786 2.0×	69	3.1k
Julia Vierheilig Austria	13	1.4k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	438 0.6×	480 1.2×	441 1.1×	20	2.6k
Valéria Maia de Oliveira Brazil	33	989 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	827 1.1×	228 0.6×	260 0.7×	123	3.0k
Andreas Pommerening‐Röser Germany	17	1.7k 1.1×	2.0k 1.3×	524 0.7×	671 1.7×	597 1.5×	23	3.1k
Daan R. Speth Netherlands	25	2.2k 1.4×	2.0k 1.3×	1.1k 1.3×	823 2.1×	521 1.3×	45	4.2k
J.M. Tiedje United States	18	2.2k 1.4×	1.3k 0.9×	1.9k 2.4×	298 0.7×	441 1.1×	29	4.4k

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17 of 17 papers shown

Marzorati, Massimo, Annalisa Balloi, Francesca de Ferra, et al.. (2010). Bacterial diversity and reductive dehalogenase redundancy in a 1,2-dichloroethane-degrading bacterial consortium enriched from a contaminated aquifer. Microbial Cell Factories. 9(1). 12–12. 26 indexed citations

Ergüder, Tuba Hande, Nico Boon, Lieven Wittebolle, Massimo Marzorati, & Willy Verstraete. (2009). Environmental factors shaping the ecological niches of ammonia-oxidizing archaea. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 33(5). 855–869. 582 indexed citations breakdown →

Wittebolle, Lieven, Willy Verstraete, & Nico Boon. (2009). The inoculum effect on the ammonia-oxidizing bacterial communities in parallel sequential batch reactors. Water Research. 43(17). 4149–4158. 54 indexed citations

Wittebolle, Lieven, Massimo Marzorati, Lieven Clement, et al.. (2009). Initial community evenness favours functionality under selective stress. Nature. 458(7238). 623–626. 765 indexed citations breakdown →

Wittebolle, Lieven, et al.. (2009). High reproducibility of ammonia-oxidizing bacterial communities in parallel sequential batch reactors. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 107(2). 385–394. 29 indexed citations

Marzorati, Massimo, Lieven Wittebolle, Nico Boon, Daniele Daffonchio, & Willy Verstraete. (2008). How to get more out of molecular fingerprints: practical tools for microbial ecology. Environmental Microbiology. 10(6). 1571–1581. 440 indexed citations

Verstraete, Willy, Lieven Wittebolle, Kim Heylen, et al.. (2007). Microbial Resource Management: The Road To Go for Environmental Biotechnology. Engineering in Life Sciences. 7(2). 117–126. 88 indexed citations

Vanparys, Bram, Eva Spieck, Kim Heylen, et al.. (2007). The phylogeny of the genus Nitrobacter based on comparative rep-PCR, 16S rRNA and nitrite oxidoreductase gene sequence analysis. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 30(4). 297–308. 65 indexed citations

Geets, Joke, Lieven Wittebolle, Kim Heylen, et al.. (2007). Real-time PCR assay for the simultaneous quantification of nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria in activated sludge. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 75(1). 211–221. 175 indexed citations

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Wittebolle, Lieven, Han Vervaeren, Willy Verstraete, & Nico Boon. (2007). Quantifying Community Dynamics of Nitrifiers in Functionally Stable Reactors. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 74(1). 286–293. 175 indexed citations

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Heylen, Kim, Dirk Gevers, Bram Vanparys, et al.. (2006). The incidence of nirS and nirK and their genetic heterogeneity in cultivated denitrifiers. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 10 indexed citations

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Heylen, Kim, Bram Vanparys, Dirk Gevers, et al.. (2006). Nitric oxide reductase ( norB ) gene sequence analysis reveals discrepancies with nitrite reductase ( nir ) gene phylogeny in cultivated denitrifiers. Environmental Microbiology. 9(4). 1072–1077. 48 indexed citations

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Heylen, Kim, Dirk Gevers, Bram Vanparys, et al.. (2006). The incidence of nirS and nirK and their genetic heterogeneity in cultivated denitrifiers. Environmental Microbiology. 8(11). 2012–2021. 199 indexed citations

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Heylen, Kim, Bram Vanparys, Lieven Wittebolle, et al.. (2006). Cultivation of Denitrifying Bacteria: Optimization of Isolation Conditions and Diversity Study. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72(4). 2637–2643. 243 indexed citations

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Wittebolle, Lieven, Nico Boon, Bram Vanparys, et al.. (2005). Failure of the ammonia oxidation process in two pharmaceutical wastewater treatment plants is linked to shifts in the bacterial communities. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 99(5). 997–1006. 64 indexed citations

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Wittebolle, Lieven, et al.. (2005). Optimisation of the amino–carboxy coupling of oligonucleotides to beads used in liquid arrays. Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology. 81(3). 476–480. 6 indexed citations

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Seghers, Dave, Lieven Wittebolle, Eva M. Top, Willy Verstraete, & Steven D. Siciliano. (2004). Impact of Agricultural Practices on the Zea mays L. Endophytic Community. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 70(3). 1475–1482. 146 indexed citations

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