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D-Index
49
Citations
7943
World Ranking
4072
National Ranking
56

Erik Verheyen 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 Erik Verheyen sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 215 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Erik Verheyen 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 Erik Verheyen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Erik Verheyen is affiliated with the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Belgium. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily Medicine and Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Infectious Diseases, Ecology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Poxvirus research and outbreaks
  • Bat biology and ecology studies
  • Wildlife ecology and conservation
  • Viral infections and outbreaks research
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Identification and quantification in food

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Role of Wildlife in Emergence of Ebola Virus in Kaigbono (Likati), Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2017," 2020, Emerging infectious diseases
  • "Need for harmonized long-term multi-lake monitoring of African Great Lakes," 2022, Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • "Enhanced surveillance of monkeypox in Bas-Uélé, Democratic Republic of Congo: the limitations of symptom-based case definitions," 2022, International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • "Using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry to identify ticks collected on domestic and wild animals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo," 2021, Experimental and Applied Acarology
  • "Nuclear phylogenomics, but not mitogenomics, resolves the most successful Late Miocene radiation of African mammals (Rodentia: Muridae: Arvicanthini)," 2021, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Herwig Leirs
  • Anne Laudisoit
  • Sophie Gryseels
  • Guy-Crispin Gembu
  • Pascal Baelo

The most common publication venues for their work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Best Publications

  • Origin of the superflock of cichlid fishes from Lake Victoria, East Africa.

    Erik Verheyen;Walter Salzburger;Jos Snoeks;Axel Meyer

  • Out of Tanganyika: Genesis, explosive speciation, key-innovations and phylogeography of the haplochromine cichlid fishes

    Walter Salzburger;Tanja Mack;Erik Verheyen;Axel Meyer

  • Specimen collection: An essential tool

    L. A. Rocha;A. Aleixo;G. Allen;F. Almeda

  • Phylogeny of the Lake Tanganyika Cichlid Species Flock and Its Relationship to the Central and East African Haplochromine Cichlid Fish Faunas

    Walter Salzburger;Axel Meyer;Sanja Baric;Erik Verheyen

  • Lake Level Fluctuations Synchronize Genetic Divergences of Cichlid Fishes in African Lakes

    Christian Sturmbauer;Sanja Baric;Walter Salzburger;Lukas Rüber

  • Replicated evolution of trophic specializations in an endemic cichlid fish lineage from Lake Tanganyika

    Lukas Rüber;Erik Verheyen;Axel Meyer

  • Evaluation of microwave heating digestion and graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry with continuum source background correction for the determination of iron, copper and cadmium in brine shrimp

    Ronny Blust;Annemie van der Linden;Erik Verheyen;Walter Decleir

  • Phylogeographical patterns of genetic divergence and speciation in African mole-rats (Family: Bathyergidae).

    C. G. Faulkes;E. Verheyen;W. Verheyen;J. U. M. Jarvis

  • Mitochondrial phylogeny of the Lamprologini, the major substrate spawning lineage of cichild fishes from Lake Tanganyika in eastern Africa.

    Christian Sturmbauer;Erik Verheyen;Axel Meyer

  • Population structure in two sympatric species of the Lake Tanganyika cichlid tribe Eretmodini: evidence for introgression.

    Lukas Rüber;Axel Meyer;Christian Sturmbauer;Erik Verheyen

  • Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

    Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Alain Dubois;Cristian Simón Abdala

  • MITOCHONDRIAL PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF ROCK-DWELLING CICHLID FISHES REVEALS EVOLUTIONARY INFLUENCE OF HISTORICAL LAKE LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS OF LAKE TANGANYIKA, AFRICA

    Erik Verheyen;Lukas Rüber;Jos Snoeks;Axel Meyer

  • Complete mitochondrial DNA replacement in a Lake Tanganyika cichlid fish.

    B. Nevado;B. Nevado;S. Koblmüller;C. Sturmbauer;J. Snoeks;J. Snoeks

  • Baseline levels and trophic transfer of persistent organic pollutants in sediments and biota from the Congo River Basin (DR Congo).

    Vera Verhaert;Adrian Covaci;Steven Bouillon;Katya Abrantes

  • Phylogeny and evolution of African shrews (Mammalia: Soricidae) inferred from 16s rRNA sequences.

    Sophie Quérouil;Rainer Hutterer;Patrick Barrière;Marc Colyn

  • DNA Barcoding Amphibians and Reptiles

    Miguel Vences;Zoltán T. Nagy;Gontran Sonet;Erik Verheyen

  • Taxonomic challenges in freshwater fishes: a mismatch between morphology and DNA barcoding in fish of the north‐eastern part of the Congo basin

    Eva Decru;Eva Decru;Tuur Moelants;Tuur Moelants;Koen De Gelas;Emmanuel Vreven;Emmanuel Vreven

  • Metallothionein gene and protein expression as a biomarker for metal pollution in natural gudgeon populations.

    Dries Knapen;Hans Reynders;Lieven Bervoets;Erik Verheyen

  • Pleistocene desiccation in East Africa bottlenecked but did not extirpate the adaptive radiation of Lake Victoria haplochromine cichlid fishes

    Kathryn R. Elmer;Chiara Reggio;Thierry Wirth;Erik Verheyen

  • The Complete Phylogeny of Pangolins: Scaling Up Resources for the Molecular Tracing of the Most Trafficked Mammals on Earth.

    Philippe Gaubert;Philippe Gaubert;Agostinho Antunes;Hao Meng;Lin Miao

  • Origin of the Superflock of Cichlid Fishes from Lake Victoria

    East Africa;Erik Verheyen;Walter Salzburger;Jos Snoeks

Frequent Co-Authors

Herwig Leirs
Herwig Leirs University of Antwerp
Josef Bryja
Josef Bryja Czech Academy of Sciences
Marc Colyn
Marc Colyn University of Rennes
Ronny Blust
Ronny Blust University of Antwerp
Christian Sturmbauer
Christian Sturmbauer University of Graz
Walter Salzburger
Walter Salzburger University of Basel
Radim Šumbera
Radim Šumbera University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
Lieven Bervoets
Lieven Bervoets University of Antwerp
Jan Bogaert
Jan Bogaert KU Leuven
Nigel C. Bennett
Nigel C. Bennett University of Pretoria

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