Wim Z. Hoek

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
85 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Wim Z. Hoek is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wim Z. Hoek has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Atmospheric Science, 40 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 32 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Wim Z. Hoek's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (84 papers), Geological formations and processes (38 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (32 papers). Wim Z. Hoek is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (84 papers), Geological formations and processes (38 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (32 papers). Wim Z. Hoek collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States. Wim Z. Hoek's co-authors include J. John Lowe, S.J.P. Bohncke, Mike Walker, Sune Olander Rasmussen, Svante Björck, J. P. Steffensen, Zicheng Yu, Johanna A.A. Bos, David J. Lowe and K.M. Cohen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Wim Z. Hoek

83 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Synchronisation of palaeoenvironmental events in the North Atlantic region during the Last Termination: a revised protocol recommended by the INTIMATE group

2008 562 citations J. John Lowe, Wim Z. Hoek et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wim Z. Hoek Netherlands	30	2.7k	1.2k	1000	844	818	85	3.1k
S.J.P. Bohncke Netherlands	36	2.9k 1.1×	973 0.8×	1.3k 1.3×	697 0.8×	994 1.2×	79	3.3k
Jens Mingram Germany	28	3.1k 1.1×	810 0.7×	960 1.0×	887 1.1×	911 1.1×	53	3.6k
Judy R M Allen United Kingdom	26	2.7k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	638 0.6×	1.1k 1.3×	728 0.9×	47	3.5k
Gayatri Kathayat China	23	3.1k 1.2×	719 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	699 0.8×	734 0.9×	38	3.4k
Youfeng Ning China	28	3.8k 1.4×	920 0.8×	1.3k 1.3×	985 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	75	4.3k
Bruno Malaizé France	30	2.5k 0.9×	759 0.7×	857 0.9×	591 0.7×	787 1.0×	64	2.8k
Jule Xiao China	29	3.9k 1.4×	982 0.9×	1.7k 1.7×	871 1.0×	990 1.2×	74	4.3k
M. J. C. Walker United Kingdom	27	3.1k 1.1×	1.4k 1.2×	993 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	874 1.1×	48	3.8k
Frank Schäbitz Germany	33	2.1k 0.8×	743 0.6×	656 0.7×	734 0.9×	656 0.8×	80	2.7k
Kathleen R. Johnson United States	26	3.6k 1.3×	500 0.4×	1.3k 1.3×	797 0.9×	878 1.1×	69	4.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Wim Z. Hoek

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Matthews, Ian, Adrian Palmer, Ian Candy, et al.. (2025). Summer warmth between 15,500 and 15,000 years ago enabled human repopulation of the northwest European margin. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(7). 1179–1192. 1 indexed citations

Verbruggen, Frederike, et al.. (2022). Vegetation changes in the Grote Nete valley (Campine region, Belgium) during the Boreal: a response to the 9.3 ka event?. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 32(2). 171–185. 6 indexed citations

Pierik, H.J., et al.. (2022). Vegetation and peat accumulation steer Holocene tidal–fluvial basin filling and overbank sedimentation along the Old Rhine River, The Netherlands. Sedimentology. 70(1). 179–213. 8 indexed citations

Kasse, C., et al.. (2020). Source-bordering aeolian dune formation along the Scheldt River (southern Netherlands – northern Belgium) was caused by Younger Dryas cooling, high river gradient and southwesterly summer winds. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences – Geologie en Mijnbouw. 99. 7 indexed citations

Hooghiemstra, H. & Wim Z. Hoek. (2019). Waldo Heliodoor Zagwijn (1928–2018): the instigator and architect of European chronostratigraphy. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences – Geologie en Mijnbouw. 98. 3 indexed citations

Kleinhans, Maarten G., et al.. (2018). Late Holocene channel pattern change from laterally stable to meandering – a palaeohydrological reconstruction. Earth Surface Dynamics. 6(3). 723–741. 15 indexed citations

Kleinhans, Maarten G., et al.. (2018). Late Holocene channel pattern change from laterally stable to meandering caused by climate and land use changes. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 5 indexed citations

Hoek, Wim Z., et al.. (2018). Climate impact on the development of Pre-Classic Maya civilisation. Climate of the past. 14(8). 1253–1273. 10 indexed citations

Hoek, Wim Z., J. van der Plicht, Remke L. Van Dam, et al.. (2017). The Usumacinta–Grijalva beach-ridge plain in southern Mexico: a high-resolution archive of river discharge and precipitation. Earth Surface Dynamics. 5(3). 529–556. 41 indexed citations

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Bos, Johanna A.A., Philippe De Smedt, Wim Z. Hoek, et al.. (2017). Weichselian Lateglacial environmental and vegetation development in the Moervaart palaeolake area (NW Belgium); implications for former human occupation patterns. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 248. 1–14. 20 indexed citations

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Pierik, H.J., et al.. (2017). Controls on late Holocene drift-sand dynamics: the role of people and climate on inland aeolian activity in the Netherlands. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 15070. 1 indexed citations

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Lane, Christine, Achim Brauer, Siwan M. Davies, et al.. (2017). The Lateglacial to early Holocene tephrochronological record from Lake Hämelsee, Germany: a key site within the European tephra framework. Boreas. 47(1). 28–40. 24 indexed citations

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Kolfschoten, Thijs van, et al.. (2015). The effects of the 8.2 ka event on the natural environment of Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria: Implications for ecosystem resilience studies. Quaternary International. 378. 111–118. 7 indexed citations

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Middelkoop, H., Marcel van der Perk, K.M. Cohen, et al.. (2014). Tracing the Anthropocene in the Rhine-Meuse delta. Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University). 1 indexed citations

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Cohen, K.M., Wim Z. Hoek, Esther Stouthamer, et al.. (2013). Valley evolution of the Lower Rhine in LGM, Lateglacial and Early Holocene.. Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University).

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Asch, Nelleke Van, et al.. (2011). Rapid climate change during the Weichselian Lateglacial in Ireland: Chironomid-inferred summer temperatures from Fiddaun, Co. Galway. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 315-316. 1–11. 49 indexed citations

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Makaske, B. & Wim Z. Hoek. (2011). Reply to the comment by M.P. Hijma & K.M. Cohen on the paper by Van de Plassche et al. (2010). Netherlands Journal of Geosciences – Geologie en Mijnbouw. 90(1). 55–57. 1 indexed citations

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Asch, Nelleke Van, et al.. (2010). Rapid climate change during the Weichselian Lateglacial in Ireland. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 4767. 1 indexed citations

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Erkens, Gilles, K.M. Cohen, M.J.P. Gouw, H. Middelkoop, & Wim Z. Hoek. (2006). Holocene sediment budgets of the Rhine Delta (The Netherlands): a record of changing sediment delivery. Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University). 306. 406–415. 33 indexed citations

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Davies, Siwan M., Wim Z. Hoek, S.J.P. Bohncke, et al.. (2005). Detection of Lateglacial distal tephra layers in the Netherlands. Boreas. 34(2). 123–135. 56 indexed citations

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