Erik Smets

489 total papers · 13.4k total citations
332 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Erik Smets is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Erik Smets has authored 332 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 255 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 153 papers in Molecular Biology and 152 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Erik Smets’s work include Plant Diversity and Evolution (209 papers), Plant and animal studies (137 papers) and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (116 papers). Erik Smets is often cited by papers focused on Plant Diversity and Evolution (209 papers), Plant and animal studies (137 papers) and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (116 papers). Erik Smets collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and United States. Erik Smets's co-authors include L. P. Ronse Decraene, Suzy Huysmans, Steven Jansen, Elmar Robbrecht, Frederic Lens, Steven Dessein, Stefan Vinckier, Vincent S. F. T. Merckx, Steven B. Janssens and Theodora Petanidou and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erik Smets

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Erik Smets. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Erik Smets based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Erik Smets. Erik Smets is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Erik Smets

330 papers receiving 9.0k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Erik Smets

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Erik Smets. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Erik Smets. The network helps show where Erik Smets may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Erik Smets

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