Rien Aerts

205 papers and 20.1k indexed citations i.

About

Rien Aerts is a scholar working on Ecology, Plant Science and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Rien Aerts has authored 205 papers receiving a total of 20.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 123 papers in Ecology, 73 papers in Plant Science and 58 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Rien Aerts’s work include Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (85 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (53 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (36 papers). Rien Aerts is often cited by papers focused on Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (85 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (53 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (36 papers). Rien Aerts collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Sweden. Rien Aerts's co-authors include Johannes H. C. Cornelissen, Richard S. P. van Logtestijn, Peter M. van Bodegom, Frank Berendse, Hannie de Caluwe, Grégoire T. Freschet, Ellen Dorrepaal, Terry V. Callaghan, Sylvia Toet and Jan‐Philip M. Witte and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rien Aerts

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

Fields of papers citing papers by Rien Aerts

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Countries citing papers authored by Rien Aerts

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