Pascal Boeckx

30.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
428 papers, 16.5k citations indexed

About

Pascal Boeckx is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Pascal Boeckx has authored 428 papers receiving a total of 16.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 149 papers in Soil Science, 130 papers in Ecology and 95 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Pascal Boeckx's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (128 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (67 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (45 papers). Pascal Boeckx is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (128 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (67 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (45 papers). Pascal Boeckx collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Switzerland and Germany. Pascal Boeckx's co-authors include Oswald Van Cleemput, Dries Huygens, Willy Verstraete, Samuel Bodé, Tobias Rütting, Nico Boon, Christoph Müller, Dongmei Xue, Bernard De Baets and Michael Berglund and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Pascal Boeckx

418 papers receiving 16.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Present limitations and future prospects of stable isotope methods for nitrate source identification in surface- and groundwater

2009 769 citations Bernard De Baets, Pascal Boeckx et al. profile →
Biological Denitrification in Microbial Fuel Cells

2007 652 citations Pascal Boeckx, Nico Boon et al. profile →
Soil carbon storage controlled by interactions between geochemistry and climate

2015 606 citations Sebastian Döetterl, Johan Six et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
Factors influencing quality variation in cocoa (Theobroma cacao) bean flavour profile — A review

2016 345 citations Pascal Boeckx et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Pascal Boeckx	5.7k	4.5k	3.0k	3.0k	2.7k	428	16.5k
Genxing Pan	10.4k 1.8×	4.4k 1.0×	2.4k 0.8×	4.6k 1.6×	2.0k 0.7×	353	20.0k
Randy A. Dahlgren	3.5k 0.6×	3.8k 0.8×	4.2k 1.4×	1.9k 0.6×	1.7k 0.6×	388	17.6k
Luiz Antônio Martinelli	5.6k 1.0×	6.8k 1.5×	3.6k 1.2×	3.2k 1.1×	1.5k 0.5×	293	19.8k
Xiaoyuan Yan	6.4k 1.1×	2.5k 0.6×	3.8k 1.2×	3.3k 1.1×	1.4k 0.5×	189	13.6k
Roland Bol	8.4k 1.5×	4.9k 1.1×	4.1k 1.4×	3.1k 1.0×	977 0.4×	413	15.7k
K. W. T. Goulding	9.8k 1.7×	4.4k 1.0×	5.7k 1.9×	5.1k 1.7×	1.6k 0.6×	250	18.8k
Scott X. Chang	10.5k 1.8×	5.5k 1.2×	3.1k 1.0×	5.0k 1.7×	1.1k 0.4×	532	23.3k
Karsten Kalbitz	7.8k 1.4×	6.1k 1.4×	5.3k 1.7×	1.9k 0.6×	1.0k 0.4×	187	16.7k
Xuejun Liu	7.8k 1.4×	3.9k 0.9×	4.0k 1.3×	5.4k 1.8×	2.2k 0.8×	418	20.9k
Wulf Amelung	10.1k 1.8×	5.4k 1.2×	4.1k 1.3×	3.5k 1.2×	1.5k 0.6×	352	22.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pascal Boeckx

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Bauters, Marijn, Matti Barthel, Johan Six, et al.. (2025). Spatiotemporal variability of CO ₂ , N ₂ O and CH ₄ fluxes from a semi-deciduous tropical forest soil in the Congo Basin. Biogeosciences. 22(6). 1529–1542.

Nabahungu, Nsharwasi Léon, et al.. (2024). Weeding force saving to improve profitability of cassava-legumes cropping systems in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Crop Protection. 187. 106958–106958. 1 indexed citations

Li, Haichao, Samuel Bodé, Pascal Boeckx, et al.. (2024). Control of landscape position on organic matter decomposition via soil moisture during a wet summer. Soil and Tillage Research. 244. 106277–106277. 1 indexed citations

Ho, Long, Matti Barthel, Stephen J. Harris, et al.. (2024). Unravelling CH4 and N2O dynamics in tidal wetlands using natural abundance isotopes and functional genes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 196. 109497–109497. 5 indexed citations

Han, Xingguo, et al.. (2024). Environment and microbiome drive different microbial traits and functions in the macroscale soil organic carbon cycle. Global Change Biology. 30(8). e17465–e17465. 14 indexed citations

Drake, Travis W., S. Baumgartner, Matti Barthel, et al.. (2024). Agricultural Land‐Use Increases Carbon Yields in Lowland Streams of the Congo Basin. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(3). 2 indexed citations

Parmentier, Thomas, Pascal Boeckx, Dries Bonte, & Frederik De Laender. (2023). You are what your host eats: The trophic structure and food chain length of a symbiont community are coupled with the plastic diet of the host ant. Journal of Animal Ecology. 92(10). 2028–2038. 5 indexed citations

Bauters, Marijn, Isaac Ahanamungu Makelele, Félicien Meunier, et al.. (2022). Lianas rapidly colonize early stages of tropical forests, presumably through leaf trait diversification. Journal of Vegetation Science. 33(6). 5 indexed citations

Bauters, Marijn, Ivan A. Janssens, Sebastian Döetterl, et al.. (2022). Increasing calcium scarcity along Afrotropical forest succession. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(8). 1122–1131. 36 indexed citations

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Baumgartner, S., Marijn Bauters, Matti Barthel, et al.. (2021). Stable isotope signatures of soil nitrogen on an environmental–geomorphic gradient within the Congo Basin. SOIL. 7(1). 83–94. 12 indexed citations

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Bauters, Marijn, Travis W. Drake, Hans Verbeeck, et al.. (2018). High fire-derived nitrogen deposition on central African forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(3). 549–554. 50 indexed citations

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Döetterl, Sebastian, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Chelsea Arnold, et al.. (2018). Links among warming, carbon and microbial dynamics mediated by soil mineral weathering. Nature Geoscience. 11(8). 589–593. 153 indexed citations

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Andresen, Louise C., María Teresa Domínguez, Sabine Reinsch, et al.. (2018). Isotopic methods for non‐destructive assessment of carbon dynamics in shrublands under long‐term climate change manipulation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(4). 866–880. 6 indexed citations

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Andresen, Louise C., et al.. (2016). Depolymerization and mineralization – investigating N availability by a novel ¹⁵ N tracing model. 1 indexed citations

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Andresen, Louise C., Samuel Bodé, Albert Tietema, Pascal Boeckx, & Tobias Rütting. (2015). Amino acid and N mineralization dynamics in heathland soil after long-term warming and repetitive drought. SOIL. 1(1). 341–349. 22 indexed citations

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Clippeleir, Haydée De, et al.. (2013). Mainstream sewage treatment with partial nitritation–anammox: potential role of NO production. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

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Oyarzún, Carlos, Niko E. C. Verhoest, Pascal Boeckx, & Roberto Godoy. (2009). Ecological advances on Chilean temperate rainforests. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 19 indexed citations

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Paulino, Leandro, Roberto Godoy, & Pascal Boeckx. (2009). Ecosystem responses of Andean Araucaria-Nothofagus communities after a wildfire. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

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Verhoest, Niko E. C., et al.. (2005). Random forests as a tool for predictive ecohydrological modelling. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 5 indexed citations

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Godoy, Roberto, Leandro Paulino, Carlos Oyarzún, & Pascal Boeckx. (2003). ATMOSPHERIC N DEPOSITION IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN CHILE: AN OVERVIEW DEPOSITACION ATMOSFERICA DE NITROGENO EN EL CENTRO Y SUR DE CHILE: UN RESUMEN. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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