Willem van Leeuwen

13.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
134 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Willem van Leeuwen is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Willem van Leeuwen has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Ecology, 46 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 35 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Willem van Leeuwen's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (52 papers), Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (29 papers) and Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (23 papers). Willem van Leeuwen is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (52 papers), Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (29 papers) and Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (23 papers). Willem van Leeuwen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and France. Willem van Leeuwen's co-authors include Alex van Belkum, Henri A. Verbrugh, Jan Nouwen, Heiman Wertheim, Martine De Vos, Damian C. Melles∗, Alfredo Huete, Stuart E. Marsh, Barron J. Orr and Jahan Kariyeva and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Willem van Leeuwen

132 papers receiving 6.6k 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 role of nasal carriage in Staphylococcus aureus infections

2005 2.0k citations Heiman Wertheim, Damian C. Melles∗ et al. The Lancet Infectious Diseases profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Willem van Leeuwen United States	42	2.7k	2.1k	1.7k	1.5k	1.1k	134	7.0k
Matthias Horn Austria	57	941 0.3×	4.9k 2.4×	7.7k 4.6×	339 0.2×	294 0.3×	157	16.7k
Ulrich Nübel Germany	36	2.3k 0.8×	2.8k 1.4×	3.1k 1.9×	93 0.1×	865 0.8×	88	7.8k
Fabiano L. Thompson Brazil	65	766 0.3×	6.2k 3.0×	5.6k 3.4×	1.5k 1.0×	168 0.2×	319	15.4k
Susan M. Huse United States	38	963 0.4×	7.6k 3.7×	8.2k 4.9×	446 0.3×	124 0.1×	50	14.9k
Timothy J. Barrett United States	58	3.5k 1.3×	1.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	141 0.1×	318 0.3×	201	13.1k
Rachel T. Noble United States	50	1.2k 0.5×	3.5k 1.7×	1.1k 0.6×	409 0.3×	47 0.0×	127	8.0k
Sergey Nurk United States	11	2.6k 1.0×	6.9k 3.3×	12.2k 7.3×	292 0.2×	1.0k 1.0×	13	22.6k
Torbjørn Rognes Norway	29	695 0.3×	5.6k 2.7×	9.3k 5.6×	367 0.2×	217 0.2×	64	15.5k
Michael Imelfort Australia	17	402 0.1×	4.6k 2.2×	5.7k 3.4×	417 0.3×	185 0.2×	20	9.8k
Max A. Alekseyev United States	14	2.3k 0.9×	5.7k 2.7×	10.6k 6.3×	245 0.2×	1.0k 1.0×	35	19.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Willem van Leeuwen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Willem van Leeuwen

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Collins, Chandra Holifield, S. M. Skirvin, Mark A. Kautz, et al.. (2023). Rangeland Brush Estimation Tool (RaBET): An Operational Remote Sensing-Based Application for Quantifying Woody Cover on Western Rangelands. Remote Sensing. 15(21). 5102–5102. 3 indexed citations

Dwivedi, Ravindra, et al.. (2023). Forest density and snowpack stability regulate root zone water stress and percolation differently at two sites with contrasting ephemeral vs. stable seasonal snowpacks. Journal of Hydrology. 624. 129915–129915. 10 indexed citations

Farella, Martha M., Mallory L. Barnes, David D. Breshears, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of vegetation indices and imaging spectroscopy to estimate foliar nitrogen across disparate biomes. Ecosphere. 13(3). 7 indexed citations

Hartfield, Kyle, et al.. (2020). Landscape Dynamics in an Iconic Watershed of Northwestern Mexico: Vegetation Condition Insights Using Landsat and PlanetScope Data. Remote Sensing. 12(16). 2519–2519. 9 indexed citations

Broxton, P. D., Willem van Leeuwen, & Joel A. Biederman. (2020). Forest cover and topography regulate the thin, ephemeral snowpacks of the semiarid Southwest United States. Ecohydrology. 13(4). 24 indexed citations

Weger, Letty A. de, et al.. (2020). A new portable sampler to monitor pollen at street level in the environment of patients. The Science of The Total Environment. 741. 140404–140404. 17 indexed citations

Broxton, P. D., Willem van Leeuwen, & Joel A. Biederman. (2019). Improving Snow Water Equivalent Maps With Machine Learning of Snow Survey and Lidar Measurements. Water Resources Research. 55(5). 3739–3757. 81 indexed citations

Leeuwen, Willem van, P. D. Broxton, & Joel A. Biederman. (2017). Evaluating UAV and LiDAR Retrieval of Snow Depth in a Coniferous Forest in Arizona. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations

Leeuwen, Willem van, et al.. (2014). Fractional snow cover estimation in complex alpine-forested environments using an artificial neural network. Remote Sensing of Environment. 156. 403–417. 75 indexed citations

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Neary, Daniel G., et al.. (2005). A Multi-Country Assessment of Vegetation Dynamics, Soil Erosion, and Watershed Degradation After Wildfires. UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona). 1 indexed citations

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Adesida, Solayide A., Hélène Boelens, Susan V. Snijders, et al.. (2005). Major Epidemic Clones of Staphylococcus aureus in Nigeria. Microbial Drug Resistance. 11(2). 115–121. 33 indexed citations

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François, Patrice, Antoine Huyghe, Yvan Charbonnier, et al.. (2005). Use of an Automated Multiple-Locus, Variable-Number Tandem Repeat-Based Method for Rapid and High-Throughput Genotyping of Staphylococcus aureus Isolates. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 43(7). 3346–3355. 85 indexed citations

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Wertheim, Heiman, Damian C. Melles∗, Martine De Vos, et al.. (2005). The role of nasal carriage in Staphylococcus aureus infections. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 5(12). 751–762. 1983 indexed citations breakdown →

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Leeuwen, Willem van. (2002). Binary typing of staphylococcus aureus. 1 indexed citations

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Man, Peter de, Willem van Leeuwen, Martine De Vos, et al.. (2001). EnterobacterSpecies in a Pediatric Hospital: Horizontal Transfer or Selection in Individual Patients?. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 184(2). 211–214. 22 indexed citations

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Huete, Alfredo, Kamel Didan, Willem van Leeuwen, & Éric Vermote. (1999). Global-scale analysis of vegetation indices for moderate resolution monitoring of terrestrial vegetation. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 10 indexed citations

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Belkum, Alex van, Peter W. M. Hermans, Stefania Stefani, et al.. (1998). Polymerase chain reaction‐mediated typing of microorganisms: Tracking dissemination of genes and genomes (minireview). Electrophoresis. 19(4). 602–607. 14 indexed citations

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Martirosian, Gayane, Alex van Belkum, Willem van Leeuwen, F Meisel-Mikołajczyk, & Henri A. Verbrugh. (1997). PCR ribotyping and arbitrarily primed PCR for the comparison of enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis strains from two Polish university hospitals. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 3(1). 102–108. 9 indexed citations

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Belkum, Alex van, Willem van Leeuwen, Jan Kluytmans, & Henri A. Verbrugh. (1995). Molecular Nosocomial Epidemiology: High Speed Typing of Microbial Pathogens by Arbitrary Primed Polymerase Chain Reaction Assays. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 16(11). 658–666. 9 indexed citations

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Belkum, Alex van, et al.. (1995). Investigation into the repeated recovery of coagulase-negative staphylococci from blood taken at the end of cardiopulmonary by-pass. Journal of Hospital Infection. 31(4). 285–293. 12 indexed citations

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