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Ivan A. Janssens

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Ecology and Evolution
Belgium
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
124
Citations
76480
World Ranking
81
National Ranking
1

Ivan A. Janssens 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 Ivan A. Janssens sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 507 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Ivan A. Janssens 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 Ivan A. Janssens sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 124 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Ivan A. Janssens is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences with significant contributions to the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Soil Science, Plant Science, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's work covers various main topics, including Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics.

Frequent coauthors that Ivan A. Janssens collaborates with include Josep Peñuelas, Jordi Sardans, Sara Vicca, Philippe Ciais, and Bjarni D. Sigurðsson.

Janssens publishes regularly in several scientific venues. These frequent publication venues include Global Change Biology, SSRN Electronic Journal, Biogeosciences, The Science of The Total Environment, and New Phytologist.

Their recent papers reflect the diversity and depth of their research topics:

  • Recent global decline of CO 2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis, 2020, Science
  • Potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands, 2020, Nature
  • Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation, 2020, Science Advances
  • Standards and Open Access are the ICOS Pillars Reply to "Comments on 'The Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe'", 2023, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Anthropogenic global shifts in biospheric N and P concentrations and ratios and their impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem productivity, food security, and human health, 2020, Global Change Biology

Best Publications

  • Temperature sensitivity of soil carbon decomposition and feedbacks to climate change

    Eric A. Davidson;Ivan A. Janssens

  • Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

    Michael W. I. Schmidt;Margaret S. Torn;Margaret S. Torn;Samuel Abiven;Thorsten Dittmar;Thorsten Dittmar

  • Temperature increase reduces global yields of major crops in four independent estimates

    Chuang Zhao;Bing Liu;Shilong Piao;Xuhui Wang

  • The carbon cycle and atmospheric CO2

    IC Prentice;GD Farquhar;Mjr Fasham;ML Goulden

  • Plant phenology and global climate change: Current progresses and challenges

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Qiang Liu;Anping Chen;Ivan A. Janssens

  • Reduction of forest soil respiration in response to nitrogen deposition

    I.A. Janssens;W. Dieleman;S. Luyssaert;J.-A. Subke

  • On the variability of respiration in terrestrial ecosystems: moving beyond Q10

    Eric A. Davidson;Ivan A. Janssens;Yiqi Luo

  • Environmental controls over carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange of terrestrial vegetation

    B.E Law;E Falge;L Gu;D.D Baldocchi

  • Human-induced nitrogen–phosphorus imbalances alter natural and managed ecosystems across the globe

    Josep Peñuelas;Benjamin Poulter;Jordi Sardans;Philippe Ciais

  • Anthropogenic perturbation of the carbon fluxes from land to ocean

    Pierre Regnier;Pierre Friedlingstein;Philippe Ciais;Fred T. Mackenzie

  • Productivity overshadows temperature in determining soil and ecosystem respiration across European forests

    I. A. Janssens;H. Lankreijer;G. Matteucci;A. S. Kowalski

  • CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;I. Inglima;M. Jung;A. D. Richardson

  • Declining global warming effects on the phenology of spring leaf unfolding.

    Yongshuo H. Fu;Hongfang Zhao;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Marc Peaucelle

  • Europe's terrestrial biosphere absorbs 7 to 12% of European anthropogenic CO2 emissions

    I.A. Janssens;A. Freibauer;P. Ciais;Phillip Smith

  • Evidence for Soil Water Control on Carbon and Water Dynamics in European Forests during the Extremely Dry Year: 2003

    A. Granier;M. Reichstein;N. Bréda;I.A. Janssens

  • Comparison of different chamber techniques for measuring soil CO2 efflux

    Jukka Pumpanen;Pasi Kolari;Hannu Ilvesniemi;Kari Minkkinen

  • The likely impact of elevated [CO2], nitrogen deposition, increased temperature and management on carbon sequestration in temperate and boreal forest ecosystems: a literature review.

    Ritta Hyvönen;Goran I. Agren;Sune Linder;Tryggve Persson

  • Asymmetric effects of daytime and night-time warming on Northern Hemisphere vegetation

    Shushi Peng;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Ranga B. Myneni

  • The human-induced imbalance between C, N and P in Earth's life system

    Josep Peñuelas;Jordi Sardans;Albert Rivas-ubach;Ivan A. Janssens

  • Temporal and among-site variability of inherent water-use efficiency at the ecosystem level

    C. Beer;P. Ciais;M. Reichstein;D. Baldocchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Reinhart Ceulemans
Reinhart Ceulemans University of Antwerp
Sara Vicca
Sara Vicca University of Antwerp
Yongshuo H. Fu
Yongshuo H. Fu Beijing Normal University
Sebastiaan Luyssaert
Sebastiaan Luyssaert Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jordi Sardans
Jordi Sardans Spanish National Research Council
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Michael Obersteiner
Michael Obersteiner University of Oxford
Shushi Peng
Shushi Peng Peking University

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