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Dirk Verschuren

Dirk Verschuren

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
56
Citations
12919
World Ranking
2812
National Ranking
35

Dirk Verschuren publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dirk Verschuren sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 230 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Dirk Verschuren D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dirk Verschuren sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Dirk Verschuren is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and specializes in research within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans key subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Anthropology.

The scientist's research primarily focuses on Geology and Paleoclimatology, with additional attention to Geological formations and processes, Pleistocene-Era hominins and archaeology, Metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, isotope analysis in ecology, and aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity with particular interest in phytoplankton dynamics.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Verschuren illustrate a diverse range of topics and publication venues:

  • Population collapse in Congo rainforest from 400 CE urges reassessment of the Bantu Expansion, 2021, Science Advances
  • Seasonal variability and sources of in situ brGDGT production in a permanently stratified African crater lake, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Reversed Holocene temperature-moisture relationship in the Horn of Africa, 2023, Nature
  • Seasonal and multi-annual variation in the abundance of isoprenoid GDGT membrane lipids and their producers in the water column of a meromictic equatorial crater lake (Lake Chala, East Africa), 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Simultaneous genotyping of snails and infecting trematode parasites using high-throughput amplicon sequencing, 2021, Molecular Ecology Resources

Dirk Verschuren frequently collaborates with several co-authors including Francien Peterse, A.J. Baxter, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Maarten Van Daele, and Thijs Van der Meeren, each of whom has co-authored numerous papers alongside Verschuren.

The scientist has published extensively in specific venues, indicating preferred platforms for their research outputs. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Science Advances
  • Biogeosciences

Best Publications

  • Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

    Moinuddin Ahmed;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Asfawossen Asrat;Hemant P. Borgaonkar

  • Rainfall and drought in equatorial east Africa during the past 1,100 years

    Dirk Verschuren;Dirk Verschuren;Kathleen R. Laird;Brian F. Cumming

  • Climate-Driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara: The Past 6000 Years

    S. Kröpelin;D. Verschuren;A.-M. Lézine;H. Eggermont

  • History and timing of human impact on Lake Victoria, East Africa.

    Dirk Verschuren;Thomas C. Johnson;Hedy J. Kling;David N. Edgington

  • Rapid, local adaptation of zooplankton behavior to changes in predation pressure in the absence of neutral genetic changes

    C Cousyn;L De Meester;JK Colbourne;L Brendonck

  • Fluxes and distribution of tetraether lipids in an equatorial African lake: Constraints on the application of the TEX86 palaeothermometer and BIT index in lacustrine settings

    Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;Jort Ossebaar;Ben Abbas;Stefan Schouten

  • Environmental controls on branched tetraether lipid distributions in tropical East African lake sediments

    J.E. Tierney;J.E. Tierney;J.M. Russell;H. Eggermont;H. Eggermont;E.C. Hopmans

  • Half-precessional dynamics of monsoon rainfall near the East African Equator.

    Dirk Verschuren;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;Jasper Moernaut;Iris Kristen

  • Late Quaternary behavior of the East African monsoon and the importance of the Congo Air Boundary

    Jessica E. Tierney;James M. Russell;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;Yongsong Huang

  • Distribution of tetraether lipids in the 25-ka sedimentary record of Lake Challa: extracting reliable TEX86 and MBT/CBT palaeotemperatures from an equatorial African lake

    Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;Jort Ossebaar;Stefan Schouten;Dirk Verschuren

  • Reduced interannual rainfall variability in East Africa during the last ice age.

    Christian Wolff;Gerald H. Haug;Gerald H. Haug;Axel Timmermann;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Diversity and ecology of tropical African fungal spores from a 25,000-year palaeoenvironmental record in southeastern Kenya

    B. van Geel;V. Gelorini;A. Lyaruu;A. Aptroot

  • Modern non-pollen palynomorphs from East African Lake sediments

    Vanessa Gelorini;Annemieke Verbeken;Bas van Geel;Christine Cocquyt

  • Invasion of an asexual American water flea clone throughout Africa and rapid displacement of a native sibling species

    Joachim Mergeay;Dirk Verschuren;Luc De Meester

  • Sources of core and intact branched tetraether membrane lipids in the lacustrine environment: Anatomy of Lake Challa and its catchment, equatorial East Africa

    Laura K. Buckles;Johan W.H. Weijers;Dirk Verschuren;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Altitudinal shifts in the branched tetraether lipid distribution in soil from Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania): Implications for the MBT/CBT continental palaeothermometer

    Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;Jort Ossebaar;Stefan Schouten;Dirk Verschuren

  • A 25,000-year record of climate-induced changes in lowland vegetation of eastern equatorial Africa revealed by the stable carbon-isotopic composition of fossil plant leaf waxes

    Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;Dirk Verschuren;Jort Ossebaar;Jord Blokker

  • EFFECTS OF DEPTH, SALINITY, AND SUBSTRATE ON THE INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY OF A FLUCTUATING TROPICAL LAKE

    Dirk Verschuren;John Tibby;Koen Sabbe;Neil Roberts

  • Reconstructing fluctuations of a shallow East African lake during the past 1800 yrs from sediment stratigraphy in a submerged crater basin

    Dirk Verschuren;Dirk Verschuren

  • The seismic-stratigraphic record of lake-level fluctuations in Lake Challa: Hydrological stability and change in equatorial East Africa over the last 140 kyr

    J. Moernaut;D. Verschuren;F. Charlet;I. Kristen

  • The tropical lapse rate steepened during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Shannon E. Loomis;James M. Russell;Dirk Verschuren;Carrie Morrill;Carrie Morrill

  • Seasonality in equatorial climate over the past 25 k.y. revealed by oxygen isotope records from Mount Kilimanjaro

    Phillip A. Barker;Elizabeth R. Hurrell;Melanie J. Leng;Christian Wolff

  • Palaeolimnological evidence for widespread late 18th century drought across equatorial East Africa

    Ilse Bessems;Dirk Verschuren;James M. Russell;Jozef Hus

  • Vegetation response to rainfall variation and human impact in central Kenya during the past 1100 years

    Henry Lamb;Iain Darbyshire;Dirk Verschuren

Frequent Co-Authors

James M. Russell
James M. Russell Brown University
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
J.S. Sinninghe Damsté
J.S. Sinninghe Damsté Utrecht University
Joachim Mergeay
Joachim Mergeay Research Institute for Nature and Forest
Gerald H. Haug
Gerald H. Haug Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Luc De Meester
Luc De Meester Freie Universität Berlin
Francien Peterse
Francien Peterse Utrecht University
Maarten Blaauw
Maarten Blaauw Queen's University Belfast
Brian F. Cumming
Brian F. Cumming Queen's University
Philip A. Barker
Philip A. Barker University of British Columbia

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