Wim Gorssen

845 total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 415 citations indexed

About

Wim Gorssen is a scholar working on Genetics, Small Animals and Animal Science and Zoology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wim Gorssen has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 415 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Genetics, 9 papers in Small Animals and 5 papers in Animal Science and Zoology. Recurrent topics in Wim Gorssen's work include Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (14 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (7 papers) and Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies (6 papers). Wim Gorssen is often cited by papers focused on Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (14 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (7 papers) and Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies (6 papers). Wim Gorssen collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and Switzerland. Wim Gorssen's co-authors include Nadine Buys, Roel Meyermans, Steven Janssens, Rudi D’Hooge, Simon Nilsson, Sam A. Golden, Rudi D’Hooge, H.A. Mulder, Katrijn Peeters and Abe Huisman and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, BMC Genomics and animal.

In The Last Decade

Wim Gorssen

19 papers receiving 414 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.

How to study runs of homozygosity using PLINK? A guide for analyzing medium density SNP data in livestock and pet species

2020 198 citations Roel Meyermans, Wim Gorssen et al. BMC Genomics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wim Gorssen Belgium	8	356	78	69	54	37	22	415
Fábio Pértille Brazil	14	317 0.9×	131 1.7×	51 0.7×	41 0.8×	28 0.8×	27	490
Eugenio López‐Cortegano United Kingdom	12	214 0.6×	38 0.5×	14 0.2×	9 0.2×	8 0.2×	20	292
Agathe Vieaud France	7	265 0.7×	119 1.5×	19 0.3×	14 0.3×	6 0.2×	9	430
Mei Matsuzaki Japan	11	150 0.4×	49 0.6×	7 0.1×	17 0.3×	2 0.1×	34	359
Michael W Guernsey United States	7	133 0.4×	35 0.4×	7 0.1×	6 0.1×	4 0.1×	7	283
Joel Armstrong United States	11	208 0.6×	6 0.1×	23 0.3×	3 0.1×	4 0.1×	12	583
Lei Shan China	7	104 0.3×	5 0.1×	22 0.3×	3 0.1×	2 0.1×	13	274
K. Marshall United States	7	278 0.8×	6 0.1×	7 0.1×	4 0.1×	4 0.1×	10	430
D Scheib France	14	382 1.1×	93 1.2×	1 0.0×	23 0.4×	7 0.2×	35	527
Yulia Mostovoy United States	11	170 0.5×	3 0.0×	30 0.4×	2 0.0×	19 0.5×	13	505

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wim Gorssen

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Meyermans, Roel, et al.. (2025). Exploring the potential of crossbreeding to enhance black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) production. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed. 11(10). 1703–1715. 1 indexed citations

Mey, Albert De, Wim Gorssen, Roel Meyermans, et al.. (2025). The impact of post-weaning feeding strategies on feed consumption and body weight variation in pigs. Livestock Science. 296. 105703–105703.

Goethals, Sofie, Wim Gorssen, Roel Meyermans, et al.. (2025). How to assess litter uniformity in pigs: comparing metrics and investigating associations with sow and litter factors. animal. 19(3). 101454–101454.

Meyermans, Roel, et al.. (2024). Genomic characterisation and diversity assessment of eight endangered Belgian sheep breeds. animal. 18(10). 101315–101315. 3 indexed citations

Gorssen, Wim, et al.. (2024). Breeding for resilience in finishing pigs can decrease tail biting, lameness and mortality. Genetics Selection Evolution. 56(1). 48–48. 4 indexed citations

Meyermans, Roel, Steven Janssens, Wim Gorssen, et al.. (2024). Genetic and genomic analysis of Belgian Blue’s susceptibility for psoroptic mange. Genetics Selection Evolution. 56(1). 52–52.

Meyermans, Roel, et al.. (2023). Early life jumping traits: Are they good proxies for success in show jumping competitions in Belgian warmblood horses?. Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics. 141(2). 138–152. 1 indexed citations

Gorssen, Wim, et al.. (2023). BAMBI: A new method for automated assessment of bidirectional early-life interaction between maternal behavior and pup vocalization in mouse dam-pup dyads. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 17. 1139254–1139254. 5 indexed citations

Meyermans, Roel, et al.. (2023). Adjusted fence height: an improved phenotype for the genetic evaluation of show jumping performance in Warmblood horses. Genetics Selection Evolution. 55(1). 12–12. 3 indexed citations

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Meyermans, Roel, et al.. (2023). A Comparative Study on the Effect of Euthanasia Methods and Sample Storage Conditions on RNA Yield and Quality in Porcine Tissues. Animals. 13(4). 698–698. 1 indexed citations

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Meyermans, Roel, Wim Gorssen, Gregory E. Maes, et al.. (2023). The forgotten variable? Does the euthanasia method and sample storage condition influence an organisms transcriptome – a gene expression analysis on multiple tissues in pigs. BMC Genomics. 24(1). 769–769. 1 indexed citations

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Gorssen, Wim, Roel Meyermans, Steven Janssens, et al.. (2023). A promising resilience parameter for breeding: the use of weight and feed trajectories in growing pigs. Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology. 14(1). 101–101. 22 indexed citations

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Gorssen, Wim, et al.. (2022). Automated procedure to assess pup retrieval in laboratory mice. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 1663–1663. 19 indexed citations

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Gorssen, Wim, Roel Meyermans, Steven Janssens, & Nadine Buys. (2022). 107. Pigs’ weighing order stability is favourably linked with tail biting and production: a new proxy for social structure?. 478–481. 1 indexed citations

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Gorssen, Wim, et al.. (2022). Estimating genetics of body dimensions and activity levels in pigs using automated pose estimation. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 15384–15384. 10 indexed citations

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Meyermans, Roel, Steven Janssens, Wim Gorssen, et al.. (2022). Myostatin mutation causing double muscling could affect increased psoroptic mange sensitivity in dual purpose Belgian Blue cattle. animal. 16(3). 100460–100460. 6 indexed citations

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Gorssen, Wim, Roel Meyermans, Steven Janssens, & Nadine Buys. (2021). A publicly available repository of ROH islands reveals signatures of selection in different livestock and pet species. Genetics Selection Evolution. 53(1). 2–2. 82 indexed citations

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Meyermans, Roel, Wim Gorssen, Nadine Buys, & Steven Janssens. (2020). How to study runs of homozygosity using PLINK? A guide for analyzing medium density SNP data in livestock and pet species. BMC Genomics. 21(1). 94–94. 198 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gorssen, Wim, Roel Meyermans, Nadine Buys, & Steven Janssens. (2019). SNP genotypes reveal breed substructure, selection signatures and highly inbred regions in Piétrain pigs. Animal Genetics. 51(1). 32–42. 32 indexed citations

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Meyermans, Roel, Wim Gorssen, Johannes A. Lenstra, et al.. (2019). Unraveling the genetic diversity of Belgian Milk Sheep using medium‐density SNP genotypes. Animal Genetics. 51(2). 258–265. 14 indexed citations

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