Wim Hordijk

23.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
70 papers, 16.7k citations indexed

About

Wim Hordijk is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Wim Hordijk has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 16.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Molecular Biology, 36 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 17 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Wim Hordijk's work include Origins and Evolution of Life (36 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (21 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (16 papers). Wim Hordijk is often cited by papers focused on Origins and Evolution of Life (36 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (21 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (16 papers). Wim Hordijk collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and Austria. Wim Hordijk's co-authors include Olivier Gascuel, Stéphane Guindon, Jean-François Dufayard, Vincent Lefort, Maria Anisimova, Mike Steel, Stuart Kauffman, Antoine Guisan, Robin Engler and Loïc Pellissier and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Bioinformatics and Ecology Letters.

In The Last Decade

Wim Hordijk

68 papers receiving 16.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

2010 13.7k citations Wim Hordijk, Olivier Gascuel et al. profile →
ecospat: an R package to support spatial analyses and modeling of species niches and distributions

2016 866 citations Robin Engler, Loïc Pellissier et al. Ecography profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wim Hordijk United States	28	6.7k	3.8k	3.5k	3.1k	2.6k	70	16.7k
Wayne Pfeiffer United States	17	3.5k 0.5×	2.5k 0.7×	3.0k 0.8×	2.0k 0.6×	4.0k 1.6×	38	12.2k
Hervé Philippe France	73	13.4k 2.0×	5.1k 1.3×	3.5k 1.0×	5.3k 1.7×	3.0k 1.2×	159	20.8k
Richard E. Lenski United States	95	14.1k 2.1×	6.6k 1.7×	3.6k 1.0×	20.7k 6.6×	3.6k 1.4×	265	30.9k
Francisco J. Ayala United States	61	4.1k 0.6×	2.4k 0.6×	1.9k 0.5×	5.5k 1.7×	2.9k 1.1×	404	15.6k
David Bryant New Zealand	41	7.7k 1.1×	3.6k 0.9×	3.9k 1.1×	6.7k 2.1×	3.5k 1.4×	171	21.6k
José Castresana Spain	36	8.5k 1.3×	4.7k 1.2×	3.5k 1.0×	3.1k 1.0×	2.9k 1.1×	89	16.6k
David Penny New Zealand	66	8.8k 1.3×	2.3k 0.6×	2.3k 0.7×	5.1k 1.6×	2.5k 1.0×	238	14.4k
Robert Lanfear Australia	45	8.6k 1.3×	5.2k 1.4×	4.0k 1.1×	6.5k 2.1×	6.7k 2.6×	92	23.2k
Mark Blaxter United Kingdom	78	8.3k 1.2×	7.5k 2.0×	6.1k 1.7×	5.4k 1.7×	2.7k 1.1×	296	23.5k
Masami Hasegawa Japan	61	12.2k 1.8×	6.0k 1.6×	3.9k 1.1×	8.0k 2.5×	4.8k 1.9×	232	23.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wim Hordijk

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Koppl, Roger, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Brian D. Fath, et al.. (2023). Explaining Technology. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 21 indexed citations

Hordijk, Wim. (2017). Autocatalytic confusion clarified. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 435. 22–28. 18 indexed citations

Hordijk, Wim. (2017). Autocatalytic Sets and RNA Secondary Structure. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 84(4). 153–158. 2 indexed citations

Hordijk, Wim & Mike Steel. (2016). Chasing the tail: The emergence of autocatalytic networks. Biosystems. 152. 1–10. 57 indexed citations

Nghe, Philippe, Wim Hordijk, Stuart Kauffman, et al.. (2015). Prebiotic network evolution: six key parameters. Molecular BioSystems. 11(12). 3206–3217. 80 indexed citations

Hordijk, Wim & Mike Steel. (2015). Autocatalytic sets and boundaries. Europe PMC (PubMed Central). 6(1). 23 indexed citations

Sousa, Filipa L., Wim Hordijk, Mike Steel, & William Martin. (2015). Autocatalytic sets in E. coli metabolism. PubMed. 6(1). 4–4. 53 indexed citations

Hordijk, Wim, Nilesh Vaidya, & Niles Lehman. (2014). Serial transfer can aid the evolution of autocatalytic sets. PubMed. 5(1). 4–4. 12 indexed citations

Steel, Mike, et al.. (2014). Autocatalytic sets in a partitioned biochemical network. PubMed. 5(1). 2–2. 30 indexed citations

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McShea, Daniel W. & Wim Hordijk. (2013). Complexity by Subtraction. Evolutionary Biology. 40(4). 504–520. 25 indexed citations

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Espíndola, Anahí, Loïc Pellissier, Luigi Maiorano, et al.. (2012). Predicting present and future intra‐specific genetic structure through niche hindcasting across 24 millennia. Ecology Letters. 15(7). 649–657. 78 indexed citations

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Engler, Robin, Wim Hordijk, & Antoine Guisan. (2012). The MIGCLIM R package – seamless integration of dispersal constraints into projections of species distribution models. Ecography. 35(10). 872–878. 146 indexed citations

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Hordijk, Wim & Mike Steel. (2011). Predicting template-based catalysis rates in a simple catalytic reaction model. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 295. 132–138. 22 indexed citations

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Hordijk, Wim, Jotun Hein, & Mike Steel. (2010). Autocatalytic Sets and the Origin of Life. Entropy. 12(7). 1733–1742. 104 indexed citations

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Hordijk, Wim, et al.. (2009). Cellular automata for image noise filtering. 193–197. 31 indexed citations

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Hordijk, Wim & Olivier Gascuel. (2005). Improving the efficiency of SPR moves in phylogenetic tree search methods based on maximum likelihood. Bioinformatics. 21(24). 4338–4347. 142 indexed citations

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Bı́yı́koğlu, Türker, Wim Hordijk, Josef Leydold, Tomaž Pisanski, & Peter F. Stadler. (2004). Graph Laplacians, nodal domains, and hyperplane arrangements. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 390. 155–174. 13 indexed citations

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Stadler, Peter F., Wim Hordijk, & José F. Fontanari. (2003). Phase transition and landscape statistics of the number partitioning problem. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 67(5). 56701–56701. 10 indexed citations

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Hordijk, Wim & Mike Steel. (2003). Detecting autocatalytic, self-sustaining sets in chemical reaction systems. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 227(4). 451–461. 149 indexed citations

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Hordijk, Wim, James P. Crutchfield, & Melanie Mitchell. (1996). Embedded particle computation in evolved cellular automata. PDXScholar (Portland State University). 6 indexed citations

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