Veerle Vanacker

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
132 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Veerle Vanacker is a scholar working on Ecology, Soil Science and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Veerle Vanacker has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Ecology, 48 papers in Soil Science and 42 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Veerle Vanacker's work include Soil erosion and sediment transport (48 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (33 papers) and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (29 papers). Veerle Vanacker is often cited by papers focused on Soil erosion and sediment transport (48 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (33 papers) and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (29 papers). Veerle Vanacker collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Ecuador and Switzerland. Veerle Vanacker's co-authors include Gérard Govers, Armando Molina, Jean Poesen, Kristof Van Oost, François Clapuyt, Éric F. Lambin, Vincent Balthazar, Peter W. Kubik, Nicolas Bellin and Bas van Wesemael and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

Veerle Vanacker

126 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Reproducibility of UAV-based earth topography reconstructions based on Structure-from-Motion algorithms

2015 237 citations François Clapuyt, Veerle Vanacker et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Veerle Vanacker Belgium	38	1.7k	1.5k	1.4k	1.1k	938	132	4.5k
Amaury Frankl Belgium	31	1.6k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	814 0.7×	907 1.0×	129	3.2k
Victor Jetten Netherlands	41	2.5k 1.5×	1.8k 1.2×	2.3k 1.6×	2.1k 1.9×	1.8k 1.9×	143	6.0k
G. R. Hancock Australia	37	2.3k 1.4×	1.8k 1.2×	799 0.6×	628 0.6×	1.2k 1.3×	145	4.1k
Edward A. Keller United States	31	1.2k 0.7×	1.7k 1.1×	628 0.4×	799 0.7×	685 0.7×	83	4.6k
Simon Dadson United Kingdom	39	829 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	2.8k 2.0×	1.1k 1.0×	2.1k 2.3×	120	6.2k
Estela Nadal‐Romero Spain	35	2.8k 1.7×	1.8k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	503 0.5×	1.3k 1.4×	137	4.2k
Paolo Tarolli Italy	53	3.4k 2.0×	2.6k 1.7×	2.8k 2.0×	2.1k 1.9×	1.6k 1.7×	242	8.7k
Vincent Chaplot France	49	3.8k 2.3×	1.9k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	569 0.5×	1.8k 2.0×	125	6.3k
Jan Moeyersons Belgium	43	3.4k 2.0×	1.4k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	2.0k 1.8×	1.4k 1.5×	109	5.5k
Timothy A. Quine United Kingdom	42	3.6k 2.2×	2.4k 1.5×	1.2k 0.8×	606 0.6×	882 0.9×	114	5.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Veerle Vanacker

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Vanacker, Veerle, et al.. (2025). Constraining the timing and processes of pediment formation and dissection: implications for long-term evolution in the Western Cape, South Africa. Earth Surface Dynamics. 13(2). 315–339.

Moore, A.W., Sébastien Lambot, Sophie Opfergelt, et al.. (2025). Hot spots, hot moments, and spatiotemporal drivers of soil CO ₂ flux in temperate peatlands using UAV remote sensing. Biogeosciences. 22(21). 6369–6392.

Jonard, François, et al.. (2025). Drone-borne ground-penetrating radar reveals spatiotemporal moisture dynamics in peatland root zones. Science of Remote Sensing. 12. 100311–100311. 2 indexed citations

Moore, A.W., Sébastien Lambot, Sophie Opfergelt, et al.. (2024). Factors controlling peat soil thickness and carbon storage in temperate peatlands based on UAV high-resolution remote sensing. Geoderma. 449. 117009–117009. 6 indexed citations

Molina, Armando, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of nature-based climate solutions for agricultural landscapes in the Galápagos Islands. Global and Planetary Change. 243. 104598–104598. 2 indexed citations

Villacís, Marcos, et al.. (2024). Soil Moisture Forecast Using Transfer Learning: An Application in the High Tropical Andes. Water. 16(6). 832–832. 1 indexed citations

Molina, Armando, et al.. (2024). Vegetation patterns associated with nutrient availability and supply in high-elevation tropical Andean ecosystems. Biogeosciences. 21(12). 3075–3091. 3 indexed citations

Molina, Armando, et al.. (2023). Soil–vegetation–water interactions controlling solute flow and chemical weathering in volcanic ash soils of the high Andes. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 27(7). 1507–1529. 4 indexed citations

Vanacker, Veerle, et al.. (2021). Soil organic carbon stocks under different páramo vegetation covers in Ecuador’s northern Andes. 3 indexed citations

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Vanacker, Veerle, et al.. (2021). Linking soil water and solutes fluxes to soil properties and vegetation types: insights from a case-study in the high tropical Andes of Ecuador. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 1 indexed citations

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Campforts, Benjamin, Veerle Vanacker, Frédéric Herman, et al.. (2020). Parameterization of river incision models requires accounting for environmental heterogeneity: insights from the tropical Andes. Earth Surface Dynamics. 8(2). 447–470. 37 indexed citations

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Clapuyt, François, Veerle Vanacker, Marcus Christl, Kristof Van Oost, & Fritz Schlunegger. (2019). Spatio-temporal dynamics of sediment transfer systems in landslide-prone Alpine catchments. Solid Earth. 10(5). 1489–1503. 20 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhengang, et al.. (2018). Evaluating the interaction between sediment fluxes, carbon dynamics and biomass production using an integrated model. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 1 indexed citations

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Laloy, Eric, Koen Beerten, Veerle Vanacker, et al.. (2017). Bayesian inversion of a CRN depth profile to infer Quaternary erosion of the northwestern Campine Plateau (NE Belgium). Earth Surface Dynamics. 5(3). 331–345. 12 indexed citations

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Opfergelt, Sophie, et al.. (2015). Tectonic uplift and denudation rate influence soil chemical weathering intensity in a semi-arid environment, southeast Spain: physico-chemical and mineralogical evidence. The EGU General Assembly. 17. 8320. 2 indexed citations

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Bellin, Nicolas, Veerle Vanacker, & Sarah De Baets. (2013). Anthropogenic and climatic impact on Holocene sediment sediment fluxes in SE Spain. Quaternary International. 308. 112–129. 3 indexed citations

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Vanacker, Veerle, et al.. (2010). Spatial variability in channel and slope morphology within the Ardennes Massif, and its link with tectonics. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 1 indexed citations

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Molina, Armando, Gérard Govers, An Van den Putte, & Veerle Vanacker. (2009). Reducing the hydrological connectivity of gully systems through vegetation restoration: combined field experiment and numerical modelling approach. 1 indexed citations

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Vanacker, Veerle, Friedhelm von Blanckenburg, Gérard Govers, & Peter W. Kubik. (2007). Transient landscape evolution following uplift in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 71(15). 2 indexed citations

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Vanacker, Veerle, et al.. (2000). Using sequential aerial photographs to detect land-use changes in the Austro Ecuatoriano. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 3(88). 65–75. 6 indexed citations

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