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D-Index
54
Citations
13574
World Ranking
3086
National Ranking
42

Koen Martens 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 Koen Martens sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 350 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Koen Martens 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 Koen Martens sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Koen Martens is affiliated with the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Belgium. Their research spans mainly Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable contributions in related subfields such as Ecology, Paleontology, Oceanography, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their work addresses a range of topics within biological and environmental sciences. These include:

  • Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Collembola Taxonomy and Ecology Studies

Koen Martens has contributed to several recent scientific papers, including the following:

  • Safeguarding freshwater life beyond 2020: Recommendations for the new global biodiversity framework from the European experience, 2020, Conservation Letters
  • A database of freshwater fish species of the Amazon Basin, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Freshwater fish diversity hotspots for conservation priorities in the Amazon Basin, 2020, Conservation Biology
  • A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Scale-dependent patterns of metacommunity structuring in aquatic organisms across floodplain systems, 2020, Journal of Biogeography

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Janet Higuti
  • Isa Schön
  • Vitor Góis Ferreira
  • Tadeusz Namiotko
  • Nadiny Martins de Almeida

Koen Martens publishes regularly in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Hydrobiologia
  • Zootaxa
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Belgian journal of zoology
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Best Publications

  • Body size and dispersal mode as key traits determining metacommunity structure of aquatic organisms

    T. De Bie;L. De Meester;Luc Brendonck;K. Martens;K. Martens

  • The Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment: an overview of the results

    E. V. Balian;H. Segers;Christian Lévêque;K. Martens;K. Martens

  • Taxonomy, Morphology and Biology of Quaternary and Living Ostracoda

    David J. Horne;Anne Cohen;Koen Martens

  • Speciation in ancient lakes

    Koen Martens

  • Urbanization drives cross-taxon declines in abundance and diversity at multiple spatial scales.

    Elena Piano;Elena Piano;Caroline Souffreau;Thomas Merckx;Thomas Merckx;Lisa F. Baardsen

  • Ecological characteristics of small farmland ponds: Associations with land use practices at multiple spatial scales

    Steven Declerck;Thomas De Bie;Dirk Ercken;Henrietta Hampel

  • Body-size shifts in aquatic and terrestrial urban communities.

    Thomas Merckx;Caroline Souffreau;Aurelien Kaiser;Lisa F Baardsen

  • Global diversity of ostracods (Ostracoda, Crustacea) in freshwater

    Koenraad Martens;Koenraad Martens;Isa Schon;Claude Meisch;David J. Horne

  • Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment

    E.V. Balian;C. Lévêque;H. Segers;K. Martens

  • Lost sex : the evolutionary biology of parthenogenesis

    Isa Schön;K. Martens;Peter van Dijk

  • The ecological role of ponds in a changing world

    Régis Céréghino;Régis Céréghino;Dani Boix;Henry-Michel Cauchie;Koenraad Martens

  • Linkages between Aquatic Sediment Biota and Life Above Sediments as Potential Drivers of Biodiversity and Ecological Processes

    Margaret A. Palmer;Alan P. Covich;Sam Lake;Peter Biro

  • Global Change and the Biodiversity of Freshwater Ecosystems: Impacts on Linkages between Above-Sediment and Sediment Biota

    Phillip S Lake;Margaret A Palmer;Peter Biro;Jonathan Cole

  • Homology and functional morphology of the sexual dimorphism in the antenna of Sclerocypris Sars, 1924 (Crustacea, Ostracoda, Megalocypridinae)

    Koen Martens

  • The Ziway–Shala lake basin system, Main Ethiopian Rift: Influence of volcanism, tectonics, and climatic forcing on basin formation and sedimentation

    Caroline Le Turdu;Jean-Jacques Tiercelin;Elisabeth Gibert;Yves Travi

  • How ancient are ancient asexuals

    Koen Martens;Koen Martens;Giampaolo Rossetti;David J. Horne;David J. Horne

  • A subjective checklist of the Recent, free-living, non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea)

    Koen Martens;Sukonthip Savatenalinton

  • Taxonomic revision of the recent and holocene representatives of the Family Darwinulidae (Crustacea, Ostracoda), with a description of three new genera

    G. Rossetti;K. Martens

  • Safeguarding freshwater life beyond 2020 : recommendations for the new global biodiversity framework from the European experience

    Charles B. van Rees;Kerry A. Waylen;Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber;Stephen J. Thackeray

  • Sex and Parthenogenesis - Evolutionary Ecology of Reproductive: Modes in Non-Marine Ostracods

    Koen Martens

  • A database of freshwater fish species of the Amazon Basin

    Céline Jézéquel;Pablo A. Tedesco;Rémy Bigorne;Javier A. Maldonado-Ocampo

  • Linkages between aquatic sediment biota and life above sediments as potential drivers of biodiversity

    Palmer;A. P. Covich;S. Lake;P. Biro

Frequent Co-Authors

Luc De Meester
Luc De Meester Freie Universität Berlin
Luc Brendonck
Luc Brendonck KU Leuven
Fábio Amodêo Lansac-Tôha
Fábio Amodêo Lansac-Tôha State University of Maringa
Patrick Meire
Patrick Meire University of Antwerp
Sonja C. Jähnig
Sonja C. Jähnig Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Wim Vyverman
Wim Vyverman Ghent University
Luiz Felipe Machado Velho
Luiz Felipe Machado Velho State University of Maringa
Hendrik Segers
Hendrik Segers Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Roger K. Butlin
Roger K. Butlin University of Sheffield

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