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D-Index
64
Citations
19701
World Ranking
1839
National Ranking
25

Olivier J. Hardy publications per year

1993: 1 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 0 publications 1996: 2 publications 1997: 4 publications 1998: 4 publications 1999: 4 publications 2000: 6 publications 2001: 6 publications 2002: 2 publications 2003: 5 publications 2004: 9 publications 2005: 4 publications 2006: 2 publications 2007: 10 publications 2008: 11 publications 2009: 13 publications 2010: 15 publications 2011: 18 publications 2012: 17 publications 2013: 18 publications 2014: 22 publications 2015: 18 publications 2016: 19 publications 2017: 22 publications 2018: 28 publications 2019: 19 publications 2020: 16 publications 2021: 21 publications 2022: 14 publications 2023: 8 publications 2024: 19 publications 2025: 18 publications 2026: 5 publications
1993 2026

380 publications in total across all disciplines

Olivier J. Hardy publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2027

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2027. The highlighted bar marks where Olivier J. Hardy sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 313 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Olivier J. Hardy D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2027

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2027. The highlighted bar marks where Olivier J. Hardy sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 78th percentile

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

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Overview

Olivier J. Hardy is affiliated with the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Their research spans several interconnected fields within agricultural and biological sciences, environmental science, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The primary focus areas include ecology, evolution, behavior, systematics, nature and landscape conservation, genetics, molecular biology, and plant science.

Their scholarly work addresses various topics, notably:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Plant diversity and evolution
  • Plant and animal studies
  • African botany and ecology studies
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Forest ecology and management

Olivier J. Hardy has contributed research articles published in several journals with recurring appearances in the Journal of Biogeography and Tree Genetics & Genomes, each featuring five of their publications. Other frequent outlets include Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE, and Journal of Ecology.

Some recent papers associated with Olivier J. Hardy include:

  • "Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna" (2020), Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots" (2021), Biological Conservation
  • "The Origin of the Legumes is a Complex Paleopolyploid Phylogenomic Tangle Closely Associated with the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) Mass Extinction Event" (2020), Systematic Biology
  • "High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests" (2021), Nature
  • "Resistance of African tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly" (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The list of frequent co-authors indicates ongoing collaborative work with researchers such as Hans Beeckman, Nils Bourland, Jean-Louis Doucet, Bonaventure Sonké, and Gilles Dauby, reflecting joint efforts in related scientific inquiries.

Best Publications

  • spagedi: a versatile computer program to analyse spatial genetic structure at the individual or population levels

    Olivier J. Hardy;Xavier Vekemans

  • New insights from fine-scale spatial genetic structure analyses in plant populations.

    Xavier Vekemans;Olivier J. Hardy

  • Microsatellite Allele Sizes: A Simple Test to Assess Their Significance on Genetic Differentiation

    Olivier J Hardy;Nathalie Charbonnel;Hélène Fréville;Myriam Heuertz

  • Ecophylogenetics: advances and perspectives.

    Nicolas Mouquet;Vincent Devictor;Christine N. Meynard;Francois Munoz

  • Isolation by distance in a continuous population: reconciliation between spatial autocorrelation analysis and population genetics models

    Olivier J Hardy;Xavier Vekemans

  • Applications of landscape genetics in conservation biology: concepts and challenges

    Gernot Segelbacher;Samuel A. Cushman;Bryan K. Epperson;Marie Josée Fortin

  • Fine-scale genetic structure and gene dispersal inferences in 10 neotropical tree species.

    Olivier J. Hardy;Laurent Maggia;Eric Bandou;Peter Breyne

  • Spatial Scales of Pollen and Seed-Mediated Gene Flow in Tropical Rain Forest Trees

    Christopher W. Dick;Christopher W. Dick;Olivier J. Hardy;F. Andrew Jones;Rémy J. Petit

  • Estimation of pairwise relatedness between individuals and characterization of isolation-by-distance processes using dominant genetic markers.

    Olivier J. Hardy

  • Characterizing the phylogenetic structure of communities by an additive partitioning of phylogenetic diversity

    Olivier J. Hardy;Bruno Senterre

  • Testing the spatial phylogenetic structure of local communities: statistical performances of different null models and test statistics on a locally neutral community

    Olivier J. Hardy

  • Chloroplast DNA variation and postglacial recolonization of common ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) in Europe.

    Myriam Heuertz;S Fineschi;M Anzidei;R Pastorelli

  • Using functional traits and phylogenetic trees to examine the assembly of tropical tree communities

    Christopher Baraloto;Christopher Baraloto;Olivier J. Hardy;C. E. Timothy Paine;C. E. Timothy Paine;Kyle G. Dexter

  • Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna

    Thomas L.P. Couvreur;Gilles Dauby;Anne Blach‐Overgaard;Vincent Deblauwe

  • NUCLEAR MICROSATELLITES REVEAL CONTRASTING PATTERNS OF GENETIC STRUCTURE BETWEEN WESTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN EUROPEAN POPULATIONS OF THE COMMON ASH (FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR L.)

    Myriam Heuertz;Jean-Franclois Hausman;Olivier J. Hardy;Giovanni G. Vendramin

  • Estimating seed vs. pollen dispersal from spatial genetic structure in the common ash.

    Myriam Heuertz;Xavier Vekemans;Xavier Vekemans;JF Hausman;M Palada

  • Plant traits correlated with generation time directly affect inbreeding depression and mating system and indirectly genetic structure

    Jérôme Duminil;Jérôme Duminil;Olivier J Hardy;Rémy J Petit;Rémy J Petit

  • Exploring the floristic diversity of tropical Africa

    Marc S.M. Sosef;Gilles Dauby;Gilles Dauby;Anne Blach-Overgaard;Xander van der Burgt

  • Testing Darwin's naturalization hypothesis in the Azores.

    Hanno Schaefer;Hanno Schaefer;Olivier J. Hardy;Luís Silva;Timothy G. Barraclough

  • Thelytokous parthenogenesis and its consequences on inbreeding in an ant

    Morgan Pearcy;Olivier J. Hardy;Serge Aron

  • Large-scale genomic sequence data resolve the deepest divergences in the legume phylogeny and support a near-simultaneous evolutionary origin of all six subfamilies.

    Erik J. M. Koenen;Dario I. Ojeda;Royce Steeves;Royce Steeves;Jérémy Migliore

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Louis Doucet
Jean-Louis Doucet Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Myriam Heuertz
Myriam Heuertz University of Bordeaux
Xavier Vekemans
Xavier Vekemans University of Lille
Bonaventure Sonké
Bonaventure Sonké Université de Yaoundé I
Pierre Jacques Meerts
Pierre Jacques Meerts Université Libre de Bruxelles
Hans Beeckman
Hans Beeckman Royal Museum for Central Africa
Thomas L. P. Couvreur
Thomas L. P. Couvreur University of Montpellier
Grégory Mahy
Grégory Mahy Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Maxime Réjou-Méchain
Maxime Réjou-Méchain Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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