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D-Index
65
Citations
15552
World Ranking
1797
National Ranking
55

Stefan Geisen 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 Stefan Geisen sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 164 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stefan Geisen 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 Stefan Geisen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Stefan Geisen is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a notable emphasis on subfields including Plant Science, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Soil Science, and the intersection of Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics.

The scientist's work is concentrated around several key topics, including:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Nematode management and characterization studies
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity

Stefan Geisen has published extensively in various scientific journals. Frequent venues for publication include:

  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Microbiome
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Applied Soil Ecology

Among their recent papers are:

  • The global-scale distributions of soil protists and their contributions to belowground systems, 2020, Science Advances
  • Bio-organic fertilizers stimulate indigenous soil Pseudomonas populations to enhance plant disease suppression, 2020, Microbiome
  • Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil-associated consumers from protists to vertebrates, 2022, Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Rhizosphere protists are key determinants of plant health, 2020, Microbiome
  • Organism body size structures the soil microbial and nematode community assembly at a continental and global scale, 2020, Nature Communications

Their work often involves collaboration with a consistent group of co-authors, which include:

  • Qirong Shen
  • George A. Kowalchuk
  • Rutger A. Wilschut
  • Rong Li
  • Wu Xiong

Best Publications

  • Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale

    Johan van den Hoogen;Stefan Geisen;Devin Routh;Howard Ferris

  • Soil networks become more connected and take up more carbon as nature restoration progresses

    Elly Morriën;S. Emilia Hannula;L. Basten Snoek;Nico R. Helmsing

  • Soil protists: a fertile frontier in soil biology research.

    Stefan Geisen;Edward A D Mitchell;Sina Adl;Michael Bonkowski

  • The global-scale distributions of soil protists and their contributions to belowground systems

    Angela M. Oliverio;Angela M. Oliverio;Stefan Geisen;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Fernando T. Maestre;Fernando T. Maestre

  • Hyperthermophilic Composting Accelerates the Removal of Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Mobile Genetic Elements in Sewage Sludge

    Hanpeng Liao;Xiaomei Lu;Christopher Rensing;Ville Petri Friman

  • Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates

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  • Protist communities are more sensitive to nitrogen fertilization than other microorganisms in diverse agricultural soils

    Zhi Bo Zhao;Ji Zheng He;Ji Zheng He;Stefan Geisen;Li Li Han

  • Trophic regulations of the soil microbiome

    Madhav P. Thakur;Stefan Geisen

  • Bio-organic fertilizers stimulate indigenous soil Pseudomonas populations to enhance plant disease suppression

    Chengyuan Tao;Rong Li;Wu Xiong;Zongzhuan Shen

  • Protists: Puppet Masters of the Rhizosphere Microbiome.

    Zhilei Gao;Ida Karlsson;Stefan Geisen;George Kowalchuk

  • Metatranscriptomic census of active protists in soils.

    Stefan Geisen;Alexander T Tveit;Ian M Clark;Andreas Richter

  • Rhizosphere protists are key determinants of plant health

    Wu Xiong;Wu Xiong;Yuqi Song;Keming Yang;Yian Gu

  • Organism body size structures the soil microbial and nematode community assembly at a continental and global scale.

    Lu Luan;Yuji Jiang;Menghua Cheng;Francisco Dini-Andreote

  • Soil protist communities form a dynamic hub in the soil microbiome

    Wu Xiong;Alexandre Jousset;Alexandre Jousset;Sai Guo;Ida Karlsson

  • Challenges and Opportunities for Soil Biodiversity in the Anthropocene.

    Stefan Geisen;Diana H. Wall;Wim H. van der Putten

  • Protist taxonomic and functional diversity in soil, freshwater and marine ecosystems.

    David Singer;Christophe V.W. Seppey;Guillaume Lentendu;Micah Dunthorn

  • Nematode-based indices in soil ecology: Application, utility, and future directions

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  • The soil food web revisited: Diverse and widespread mycophagous soil protists

    Stefan Geisen;Robert Koller;Maike Hünninghaus;Kenneth Dumack

  • Nematodes as Drivers of Plant Performance in Natural Systems.

    Rutger A. Wilschut;Stefan Geisen

  • Soil protistology rebooted: 30 fundamental questions to start with

    Stefan Geisen;Edward A. D. Mitchell;David M. Wilkinson;Sina Adl

  • The prey’s scent – Volatile organic compound mediated interactions between soil bacteria and their protist predators

    Kristin Schulz-Bohm;Stefan Geisen;E R Jasper Wubs;Chunxu Song

  • Efficient reduction of antibiotic residues and associated resistance genes in tylosin antibiotic fermentation waste using hyperthermophilic composting.

    Hanpeng Liao;Qian Zhao;Peng Cui;Zhi Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Bonkowski
Michael Bonkowski University of Cologne
Wim H. van der Putten
Wim H. van der Putten Netherlands Institute of Ecology
Alexandre Jousset
Alexandre Jousset Blossom Microbial Technologies B.V.
Qirong Shen
Qirong Shen Nanjing Agricultural University
David Bass
David Bass Natural History Museum
George A. Kowalchuk
George A. Kowalchuk Utrecht University
W.H. van der Putten
W.H. van der Putten Wageningen University & Research
Bryan S. Griffiths
Bryan S. Griffiths Scotland's Rural College
Anne Winding
Anne Winding Aarhus University
Madhav P. Thakur
Madhav P. Thakur University of Bern

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