Pim Bongaerts

6.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
65 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Pim Bongaerts is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Pim Bongaerts has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Ecology, 43 papers in Oceanography and 27 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Pim Bongaerts's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (62 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (41 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (27 papers). Pim Bongaerts is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (62 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (41 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (27 papers). Pim Bongaerts collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Curacao. Pim Bongaerts's co-authors include Ove Hoegh‐Guldberg, Eugenia M. Sampayo, Tyrone Ridgway, Norbert Englebert, Tom C. L. Bridge, Tracy D. Ainsworth, William Leggat, Madeleine J. H. van Oppen, Cynthia Riginos and Pedro R. Frade and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Pim Bongaerts

62 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Assessing the ‘deep reef refugia’ hypothesis: focus on Caribbean reefs

2010 441 citations Pim Bongaerts, Tyrone Ridgway et al. Coral Reefs profile →
The coral core microbiome identifies rare bacterial taxa as ubiquitous endosymbionts

2015 416 citations Tracy D. Ainsworth, Lutz Krause et al. The ISME Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pim Bongaerts Australia	31	3.7k	2.3k	1.6k	618	333	65	4.1k
Line K. Bay Australia	40	4.0k 1.1×	2.3k 1.0×	1.8k 1.1×	506 0.8×	475 1.4×	105	4.7k
Iliana B. Baums United States	39	3.8k 1.0×	2.2k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	740 1.2×	378 1.1×	96	4.4k
Daniel J. Barshis United States	25	3.1k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	252 0.4×	438 1.3×	43	3.5k
Hollie M. Putnam United States	35	3.6k 1.0×	2.5k 1.1×	1.5k 1.0×	183 0.3×	404 1.2×	100	4.0k
Mary Alice Coffroth United States	37	3.9k 1.0×	2.5k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	308 0.5×	493 1.5×	69	4.4k
Mehdi Adjeroud France	34	2.9k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	1.7k 1.1×	307 0.5×	217 0.7×	98	3.1k
Chaolun Allen Chen Taiwan	27	2.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	794 0.5×	561 0.9×	274 0.8×	119	2.7k
Eugenia M. Sampayo Australia	25	2.7k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	903 0.6×	269 0.4×	222 0.7×	39	2.9k
Danwei Huang Singapore	32	2.7k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	783 1.3×	194 0.6×	159	3.4k
Gergely Torda Australia	22	2.7k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	234 0.4×	241 0.7×	32	3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Pim Bongaerts

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Fields of papers citing papers by Pim Bongaerts

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pim Bongaerts

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chamberland, Valérie F., Kristen L. Marhaver, Pim Bongaerts, et al.. (2025). Discovery of Genetically Distinct, Sympatric Coral Lineages With Temporal but Not Gametic Reproductive Isolation. Molecular Ecology. 34(22). e70138–e70138.

Capel, Kátia Cristina Cruz, Noa Simon‐Blecher, Gal Eyal, et al.. (2025). Depth-structured lineages in the coral Stylophora pistillata of the Northern Red Sea. PubMed. 4(1). 13–13.

Pichon, Michel, et al.. (2024). Differential strategies developed by two light-dependent scleractinian corals to extend their vertical range to mesophotic depths. Coral Reefs. 43(5). 1375–1391. 1 indexed citations

Hernández‐Agreda, Alejandra, et al.. (2024). Hybridization and inbreeding affect the survival of a critically endangered coral. Current Biology. 34(21). 5120–5129.e4. 3 indexed citations

Englebert, Norbert, Michel Pichon, Gal Eyal, et al.. (2023). Global phylogenomic assessment of Leptoseris and Agaricia reveals substantial undescribed diversity at mesophotic depths. BMC Biology. 21(1). 147–147. 6 indexed citations

Jakubowicz, Michał, et al.. (2023). Different times, similar mechanism? Convergent patterns in light-induced phenotypic plasticity in Devonian and modern corals. Coral Reefs. 42(4). 893–903. 6 indexed citations

Hernández‐Agreda, Alejandra, Pim Bongaerts, Héloïse Rouzé, et al.. (2022). Mesophotic depths hide high coral cover communities in French Polynesia. The Science of The Total Environment. 844. 157049–157049. 6 indexed citations

Bongaerts, Pim. (2022). Mesophotic coral ecosystems. Current Biology. 32(8). R345–R346. 16 indexed citations

Cooke, Ira, Hua Ying, Sylvain Forêt, et al.. (2020). Genomic signatures in the coral holobiont reveal host adaptations driven by Holocene climate change and reef specific symbionts. Science Advances. 6(48). 54 indexed citations

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Frade, Pedro R., Pim Bongaerts, Norbert Englebert, et al.. (2018). Deep reefs of the Great Barrier Reef offer limited thermal refuge during mass coral bleaching. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3447–3447. 110 indexed citations

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Liu, Huanle, Timothy G. Stephens, Raúl A. González‐Pech, et al.. (2018). Symbiodinium genomes reveal adaptive evolution of functions related to coral-dinoflagellate symbiosis. Communications Biology. 1(1). 95–95. 144 indexed citations

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Laverick, Jack H., Dominic A. Andradi‐Brown, Dan A. Exton, et al.. (2018). To what extent do mesophotic coral ecosystems and shallow reefs share species of conservation interest? A systematic review. Environmental Evidence. 7(1). 44 indexed citations

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Englebert, Norbert, Pim Bongaerts, Paul Muir, et al.. (2017). Lower Mesophotic Coral Communities (60-125 m Depth) of the Northern Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. PLoS ONE. 12(2). e0170336–e0170336. 30 indexed citations

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Glasl, Bettina, Pim Bongaerts, Nathalie H. Elisabeth, et al.. (2017). Microbiome variation in corals with distinct depth distribution ranges across a shallow–mesophotic gradient (15–85 m). Coral Reefs. 36(2). 447–452. 28 indexed citations

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Riginos, Cynthia, Eric D. Crandall, Libby Liggins, Pim Bongaerts, & Eric A. Treml. (2016). Navigating the currents of seascape genomics: how spatial analyses can augment population genomic studies. Current Zoology. 62(6). 581–601. 93 indexed citations

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Ainsworth, Tracy D., Lutz Krause, Tom C. L. Bridge, et al.. (2015). The coral core microbiome identifies rare bacterial taxa as ubiquitous endosymbionts. The ISME Journal. 9(10). 2261–2274. 416 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bongaerts, Pim, Pedro R. Frade, Kyra B. Hay, et al.. (2015). Deep down on a Caribbean reef: lower mesophotic depths harbor a specialized coral-endosymbiont community. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 7652–7652. 88 indexed citations

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Tonk, Linda, Pim Bongaerts, Eugenia M. Sampayo, & Ove Hoegh‐Guldberg. (2013). SymbioGBR: a web-based database of Symbiodinium associated with cnidarian hosts on the Great Barrier Reef. BMC Ecology. 13(1). 7–7. 43 indexed citations

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Bongaerts, Pim, Cynthia Riginos, Tyrone Ridgway, et al.. (2010). Genetic Divergence across Habitats in the Widespread Coral Seriatopora hystrix and Its Associated Symbiodinium. PLoS ONE. 5(5). e10871–e10871. 143 indexed citations

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Bongaerts, Pim. (2010). Bathymetric patterns of genetic variation in the coral-algal symbiosis. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland).

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