Tom Moens

9.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
187 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Tom Moens is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Moens has authored 187 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 130 papers in Oceanography, 126 papers in Ecology and 57 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Tom Moens's work include Marine Biology and Ecology Research (121 papers), Nematode management and characterization studies (55 papers) and Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (53 papers). Tom Moens is often cited by papers focused on Marine Biology and Ecology Research (121 papers), Nematode management and characterization studies (55 papers) and Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (53 papers). Tom Moens collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and Brazil. Tom Moens's co-authors include Magda Vincx, Sofie Derycke, Thierry Backeljau, P.M.J. Herman, Jack J. Middelburg, Annelien Rigaux, C.H.R. Heip, Andy Vierstraete, Jacques R. Vanfleteren and Christiane Barranguet and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Tom Moens

184 papers receiving 6.4k 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.

The fate of intertidal microphytobenthos carbon: An in situ ¹³C‐labeling study

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Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Tom Moens	4.5k	4.0k	1.6k	1.3k	389	187	6.6k
Magda Vincx	7.6k 1.7×	8.2k 2.1×	1.5k 0.9×	3.7k 2.9×	291 0.7×	366	11.4k
P.J.D. Lambshead	2.7k 0.6×	2.0k 0.5×	799 0.5×	777 0.6×	567 1.5×	48	3.8k
Cascade J. B. Sorte	3.5k 0.8×	2.2k 0.6×	520 0.3×	2.5k 1.9×	237 0.6×	57	6.2k
Oscar Iribarne	5.0k 1.1×	3.3k 0.8×	336 0.2×	2.9k 2.2×	107 0.3×	219	7.2k
Edwin D. Grosholz	4.9k 1.1×	2.6k 0.6×	762 0.5×	3.8k 3.0×	374 1.0×	97	8.0k
A. Randall Hughes	8.5k 1.9×	7.8k 2.0×	681 0.4×	3.7k 2.8×	355 0.9×	102	12.6k
Maarten Boersma	3.5k 0.8×	3.0k 0.8×	198 0.1×	1.5k 1.1×	391 1.0×	202	6.9k
David J. Marshall	2.3k 0.5×	1.2k 0.3×	380 0.2×	1.1k 0.8×	118 0.3×	150	4.0k
Ester Á. Serrão	6.7k 1.5×	8.1k 2.0×	726 0.4×	2.7k 2.1×	951 2.4×	324	11.8k
Luc Brendonck	6.3k 1.4×	1.8k 0.5×	398 0.2×	965 0.7×	341 0.9×	252	9.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Tom Moens

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Moens

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Moens

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

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Verhelst, Pieterjan, Óscar Monroig, Annelien Rigaux, et al.. (2025). Abundance of long‐chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in European eel ( Anguilla anguilla L.) is determined by diet rather than biosynthesis. Journal of Fish Biology. 106(6). 1752–1765.

Ho, Long, Samuel Bodé, Carl Van Colen, et al.. (2024). Regulating greenhouse gas dynamics in tidal wetlands: Impacts of salinity gradients and water pollution. Journal of Environmental Management. 364. 121427–121427. 2 indexed citations

Derycke, Sofie, et al.. (2024). Resource diversity mitigates the effects of intraspecific competition in co-occurring cryptic nematode species. Frontiers in Marine Science. 11.

Goossens, Jolien, Mathieu Woillez, Arnault Le Bris, et al.. (2023). Acoustic and archival technologies join forces: A combination tag. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(3). 860–866. 9 indexed citations

Braeckman, Ulrike, et al.. (2023). A wind of change for soft-sediment infauna within operational offshore windfarms. Marine Environmental Research. 188. 106009–106009. 11 indexed citations

Slabbekoorn, Hans, et al.. (2021). Evaluating receiver contributions to acoustic positional telemetry: a case study on Atlantic cod around wind turbines in the North Sea. Animal Biotelemetry. 9(1). 12 indexed citations

Moens, Tom, et al.. (2020). Effects of temperature and interspecific competition on population fitness of free-living marine nematodes. Ecological Indicators. 120. 106958–106958. 13 indexed citations

Cariani, Alessia, Elisabetta Cilli, Francesco Massari, et al.. (2019). Comparison and optimization of genetic tools used for the identification of ancient fish remains recovered from archaeological excavations and museum collections in the Mediterranean region. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 29(3). 365–376. 5 indexed citations

Verhelst, Pieterjan, Jan Reubens, Johan Coeck, et al.. (2018). European silver eel (<i>Anguilla anguilla</i> L.) migration behaviour in a highly regulated shipping canal. 23 indexed citations

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Braeckman, Ulrike, et al.. (2018). Effects of wind turbine foundations on surrounding macrobenthic communities. Flanders Marine Institute (Flanders Marine Institute). 1 indexed citations

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Meester, Nele De, et al.. (2018). Living apart-together: Microhabitat differentiation of cryptic nematode species in a saltmarsh habitat. PLoS ONE. 13(9). e0204750–e0204750. 12 indexed citations

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Colen, Carl Van, et al.. (2018). Global warming-induced temperature effects to intertidal tropical and temperate meiobenthic communities. Marine Environmental Research. 142. 163–177. 18 indexed citations

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Chintiroglou, Chariton, et al.. (2017). Effects of an increased temperature regime on the population dynamics and species interactions of marine nematodes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 502. 142–152. 16 indexed citations

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Verhelst, Pieterjan, David Buysse, Jan Reubens, et al.. (2017). Downstream migration of European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.) in an anthropogenically regulated freshwater system: Implications for management. Fisheries Research. 199. 252–262. 37 indexed citations

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Verhelst, Pieterjan, Klaas Deneudt, Peter Goethals, et al.. (2016). Heading south or north: novel insights on European silver eel Anguilla anguilla migration in the North Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 554. 257–262. 19 indexed citations

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Materatski, Patrick, et al.. (2015). A comparative analysis of benthic nematode assemblages from Zostera noltii beds before and after a major vegetation collapse. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 167. 256–268. 14 indexed citations

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Materatski, Patrick, et al.. (2014). Resource utilization and trophic position of nematodes and harpacticoid copepods in and adjacent to Zostera noltii beds. Biogeosciences. 11(14). 4001–4014. 40 indexed citations

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Derycke, Sofie, et al.. (2014). Biodiversity and connectivity of marine nematodes associated with algae from two tropical beaches. Journal of Nematology. 46(2). 1 indexed citations

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Materatski, Patrick, et al.. (2013). Benthic Nematode assemblages response to seagrass beds spatial heterogeneity in natural recovery process of Zostera Noltii after major colapse. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

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Moens, Tom, A. Coomans, & Dirk De Waele. (1996). Effect of temperature on the in vitro reproduction of Aphelenchoides rutgersi. Fundamental & applied nematology. 19(1). 47–52. 5 indexed citations

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