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Wiebe H. C. F. Kooistra

Wiebe H. C. F. Kooistra

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
52
Citations
11135
World Ranking
3443
National Ranking
61

Wiebe H. C. F. Kooistra 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 Wiebe H. C. F. Kooistra sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 116 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Wiebe H. C. F. Kooistra D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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This scientist: 52 D-Index — 60th percentile

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

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Overview

Wiebe H. C. F. Kooistra is affiliated with the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Italy, where their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with particular expertise in ecology. Their work intersects several subfields including molecular biology, biomaterials, oceanography, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The scientist's research addresses multiple topics related to microbial community ecology and physiology, diatoms and algae research, and environmental DNA applications in biodiversity studies. Additional focal areas include protist diversity and phylogeny, genomics and phylogenetic studies, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, and marine biology and ecology research.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Wiebe H. C. F. Kooistra include:

  • Priorities for ocean microbiome research (2022), published in Nature Microbiology
  • Resolving cryptic species complexes in marine protists: phylogenetic haplotype networks meet global DNA metabarcoding datasets (2021), The ISME Journal
  • Temporal changes of genetic structure and diversity in a marine diatom genus discovered via metabarcoding (2022), Environmental DNA
  • Species detection and delineation in the marine planktonic diatoms Chaetoceros and Bacteriastrum through metabarcoding: making biological sense of haplotype diversity (2020), Environmental Microbiology
  • Diatom Genus Hyalosira (Rhabdonematales emend.) and Resolution of its Polyphyly in Grammatophoraceae and Rhabdonemataceae with a New Genus, Placosira, and Five New Hyalosira Species (2021), Protist

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Kooistra include:

  • Diana Sarno
  • Roberta Piredda
  • Marina Montresor
  • Daniele De Luca
  • Adriana Zingone

Publication venues where Kooistra's work often appears include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Microbiology, The ISME Journal, Environmental DNA, and Environmental Microbiology.

Best Publications

  • The Protist Ribosomal Reference database (PR2): a catalog of unicellular eukaryote Small Sub-Unit rRNA sequences with curated taxonomy

    Laure Guillou;Dipankar Bachar;Stéphane Audic;David Bass

  • Reproductive isolation among sympatric cryptic species in marine diatoms.

    Alberto Amato;Wiebe H.C.F. Kooistra;Jung Hee Levialdi Ghiron;David G. Mann

  • Patterns of Rare and Abundant Marine Microbial Eukaryotes

    Ramiro Logares;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;David Bass;Lucie Bittner;Lucie Bittner;Lucie Bittner

  • Marine protist diversity in European coastal waters and sediments as revealed by high-throughput sequencing

    Ramon Massana;Angélique Gobet;Angélique Gobet;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;David Bass;David Bass

  • DIVERSITY IN THE GENUS SKELETONEMA (BACILLARIOPHYCEAE). II. AN ASSESSMENT OF THE TAXONOMY OF S. COSTATUM-LIKE SPECIES WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF FOUR NEW SPECIES†

    Diana Sarno;Wiebe H. C. F. Kooistra;Linda K. Medlin;Isabella Percopo

  • Global diversity and biogeography of Skeletonema species (bacillariophyta).

    Wiebe H.C.F. Kooistra;Diana Sarno;Sergio Balzano;Haifeng Gu

  • The origin and evolution of the diatoms: their adaptation to a planktonic existence

    Wiebe H.C.F. Kooistra;Rainer Gersonde;Linda K. Medlin;David G. Mann

  • MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF THE GENUS CAULERPA (CAULERPALES, CHLOROPHYTA) INFERRED FROM CHLOROPLAST tufA GENE1

    Patrizia Famà;Brian Wysor;Wiebe H. C. F. Kooistra;Giuseppe C. Zuccarello

  • Diversity and temporal patterns of planktonic protist assemblages at a Mediterranean Long Term Ecological Research site

    R Piredda;M. P Tomasino;M. P Tomasino;Anna Maria D'Erchia;Anna Maria D'Erchia;C Manzari

  • Evolution of the Diatoms (Bacillariophyta): IV. A Reconstruction of Their Age from Small Subunit rRNA Coding Regions and the Fossil Record

    Wiebe H.C.F. Kooistra;Linda K. Medlin

  • Intraspecific diversity in Scrippsiella trochoidea (Dinopbyceae): evidence for cryptic species

    Marina Montresor;Silvia Sgrosso;Gabriele Procaccini;Wiebe H. C. F. Kooistra

  • Phylogenetic relationships of the 'golden algae' (haptophytes, heterokont chromophytes) and their plastids

    Linda K. Medlin;Wiebe H. C. F. Kooistra;Daniel Potter;Gary W. Saunders

  • Effects of salinity on the growth rate and morphology of ten Skeletonema strains

    Sergio Balzano;Diana Sarno;Wiebe H. C. F. Kooistra

  • Diversity in the Genus Skeletonema (Bacillariophyceae): III. Phylogenetic Position and Morphological Variability of Skeletonema Costatum and Skeletonema Grevillei, with the Description of Skeletonema Ardens Sp. Nov

    Diana Sarno;Wiebe H. C. F. Kooistra;Sergio Balzano;Paul E. Hargraves

  • Ribosomal RNA Analysis Indicates a Benthic Pennate Diatom Ancestry for the Endosymbionts of the Dinoflagellates Peridinium foliaceum and Peridinium balticum (Pyrrhophyta)

    Joby M. Chesnick;Wiebe H. C. F. Kooistra;Ursula Wellbrock;Linda K. Medlin

  • Evolution of the diatoms (Bacillariophyta). II. Nuclear-encoded small-subunit rRNA sequence comparisons confirm a paraphyletic origin for the centric diatoms.

    L. K. Medlin;W. H. C. F. Kooistra;R. Gersonde;U. Wellbrock

  • Diversity and Ecology of Eukaryotic Marine Phytoplankton

    Fabrice Not;Raffaele Siano;Wiebe H.C.F. Kooistra;Nathalie Simon

  • Phylogeography of the invasive seaweed Asparagopsis (Bonnemaisoniales, Rhodophyta) reveals cryptic diversity

    Nikos Andreakis;Gabriele Procaccini;Christine Maggs;Wiebe H. C. F. Kooistra

  • Macroecology meets macroevolution: evolutionary niche dynamics in the seaweed Halimeda

    Heroen Verbruggen;Lennert Tyberghein;Klaas Pauly;Caroline Vlaeminck

  • BIOGEOGRAPHY OF CLADOPHOROPSIS-MEMBRANACEA (CHLOROPHYTA) BASED ON COMPARISONS OF NUCLEAR RDNA ITS SEQUENCES

    Whcf Kooistra;Wytze Stam;Jl Olsen;C Vandenhoek

Frequent Co-Authors

Marina Montresor
Marina Montresor Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Linda K. Medlin
Linda K. Medlin Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Adriana Zingone
Adriana Zingone Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Gabriele Procaccini
Gabriele Procaccini Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Fabrice Not
Fabrice Not Roscoff Marine Station
Lucie Bittner
Lucie Bittner Université Paris Cité
David G. Mann
David G. Mann Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Daniel Vaulot
Daniel Vaulot Station Biologique De Roscoff
Hiroyuki Ogata
Hiroyuki Ogata Kyoto University
David Bass
David Bass Natural History Museum

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