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Personal profile
Biography
Maurice P. Zeegers is Professor of Complex Genetics & Epidemiology at Maastricht University, affiliated with NUTRIM and CAPHRI.
He has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed publications and four academic books, including the *Textbook of Epidemiology*. His work has received over 25,000 citations with an h-index of 80, and it has been cited by more than 9,500 distinct citing publications, reflecting an exceptionally broad influence across international research communities. He is recurrently included in the Stanford/Elsevier global citation database, which places him in the highest-impact tier -top 2%- of researchers worldwide
His bibliometric indicators include:
- >400 peer-reviewed publications
- >25,000 citations
- h-index: 80
- hm-index: 97
- composite citation score (c-score): 10.766
- recurrent inclusion in the Stanford/Elsevier author-impact rankings
Research areas: epidemiological methods, evidence synthesis, meta-research, research integrity, systematic reviews, oncology, urological cancers, reproducibility, and methodological innovation.
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Research output
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Age-(in)dependent altered molecular mechanisms in Parkinson's disease through extracellular vesicle proteome and lipidome
Zhang, Y.-T., Zhang, H., Su, W., Liu, W., Chen, Y.-T., Ren, H.-Y., He, M., Zhang, Y.-X., Fan, Y.-P., Liu, W., Li, M.-H., Shi, Y.-X., Tang, Q.-Y., Liu, Y., Zong, S.-H., Wesselius, A., Zeegers, M. P., Xu, Y., Ma, C.-X. & Zhang, Y. & 1 others, , 18 Nov 2025, In: Cell Reports Medicine. 6, 11, 102432.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Athletes' perceptions towards genetic testing - an explorative qualitative study among endurance athletes and their coaches
Konopka, M. J., Leerschool, A. R., Gopalakrishna, G., Wesselius, A., Rietjens, G. & Zeegers, M. P., Apr 2025, In: International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching. 20, 2, p. 478-490 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Changes in acceptability, consideration, intention, and uptake of direct-to-consumer genetic tests in the Netherlands from 2017 to 2022
Leerschool, A. R., Wesselius, A., Kokole, D. & Zeegers, M. P., Feb 2025, In: Journal of Genetic Counseling. 34, 1, 13 p., e1919.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Detection of genome-wide methylation changes in bladder cancer by long-read sequencing of urinary DNA
Goel, A., Tura, B. J., Stockton, J. D., Tovey, N., Ames, L., Beggs, A. D., Zeegers, M. P., James, N. D., Cheng, K. K., Bryan, R. T., Ward, D. G. & Arnold, R., 11 Aug 2025, In: Clinical epigenetics. 17, 1, 10 p., 141.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Improving peer review of systematic reviews and related review types by involving librarians and information specialists as methodological peer reviewers: a randomised controlled trial
Rethlefsen, M. L., Schroter, S., Bouter, L. M., Kirkham, J. J., Moher, D., Ayala, A. P., Blanco, D., Brigham, T. J., Grossetta Nardini, H. K., Kirtley, S., Nyhan, K., Townsend, W. & Zeegers, M., 1 Aug 2025, In: BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine: expertise, values, evidence. 30, 4, p. 241-249 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
Datasets
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Systematic Review of Citation Bias
Duyx, B. (Contributor), Urlings, M. (Contributor), Swaen, G. (Contributor), Bouter, L. M. (Contributor) & Zeegers, M. (Contributor), DataverseNL, 8 Mar 2016
DOI: 10.34894/0tni44
Dataset/Software: Dataset
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Limburg Twin Study
Zeegers, M. (Creator), DataverseNL, 7 Aug 2015
DOI: 10.34894/bysuau, https://dataverse.nl/citation?persistentId=doi:10.34894/BYSUAU
Dataset/Software: Dataset
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Citation analysis of the published literature on the hygiene hypothesis
Duyx, B. (Contributor), Urlings, M. (Contributor), Swaen, G. (Contributor), Bouter, L. (Contributor) & Zeegers, M. (Contributor), DataverseNL, 5 Jul 2017
DOI: 10.34894/g0x6cs
Dataset/Software: Dataset
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PRISMA checklist for : Temporal trends of sex differences for COVID-19 infection, hospitalisation, severe disease, intensive care unit (ICU) admission and death: Aa meta-analysis of 229 studies covering over 10M patients
Pijls, B. (Creator), Jolani, S. (Contributor), Atherley, A. (Contributor), Dijkstra, J. (Contributor), Franssen, G. (Contributor), Hendriks, S. (Contributor), Richters, A. (Contributor), Yu, E. (Contributor), Zalpuri, S. (Contributor) & Zeegers, M. (Contributor), Harvard Dataverse, 16 Dec 2021
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/trizjx
Dataset/Software: Dataset
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Citation analysis of the published literature on the association between swimming in chlorinated water and childhood asthma
Duyx, B. (Creator), Urlings, M. (Creator), Swaen, G. (Creator), Bouter, L. (Creator) & Zeegers, M. (Creator), DataverseNL, 6 Jul 2016
DOI: 10.34894/eczhzq, https://doi.org/10.34894%2Feczhzq
Dataset/Software: Dataset
Activities
- 1 Membership of network
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Maastricht Science in Court (External organisation)
Kaesler, N. (Member), Horselenberg, R. (Member), Otgaar, H. (Member), Jelicic, M. (Member), de Ruiter, C. (Member), Zeegers, M. (Member), Vanderhallen, M. (Member) & de Vocht, D. (Member)
Oct 2022 → …Activity: Membership (due to research expertise) › Membership of network › Academic