Mark van Kleunen教授多年來從事植物入侵成因及後果的相關研究，作為項目負責人承擔了大量的科研項目，在入侵生态學領域具有國際領先地位，在《Nature》、《PNAS》、《Ecology Letters》、《Ecology》等國際頂級期刊上發表100餘篇文章，高被引文章4篇，單篇文章引用高達514次，其原創性的研究成果深入闡明入侵植物的全球擴散機制并有利于成功實施入侵防治，具有重要的社會效益、生态效益及潛在的經濟效益。 中國是生物入侵的重災區，尤其是中國東部沿海，經濟發展伴随着生物安全性的急劇下降，因此急需生物安全領域的專家及技術。
代表性論文如下：
1. van Kleunen M, Xu X, Yang Q, Maurel N, Zhang Z, Dawson W, Essl F, Kreft H, Pergl J, Pyšek P, Weigelt P, Moser D, Lenzner B & Fristoe TS (2020) Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success. Nature Communications 11:3201. (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16982-3)(1區，top)
2. Yuan YG, van Kleunen M & Li JM * (2021) A parasite indirectly affects nutrient distribution by common mycorrhizal networks between host and neighboring plants. Ecology, e03339. (DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3339) （1區，top）
3. Pouteau R, Brunel C, Dawson W, Essl F, Kreft H, Lenzner B, Meyer C, Pergl J, Pyšek P, Seebens H, Weigelt P, Winter M & van Kleunen M (2021) Environmental and socioeconomic correlates of extinction risk in endemic species. Diversity and Distributions early view. (DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13438)(1區，top)
4. Pouteau R, Biurrun I, Brunel C, Chytrý M, Dawson W, Essl R, Fristoe TS, Haveman R, Hobohm C, Jansen F, Kreft H, Lenoir J, Lenzner B, Meyer C, moeslund JE, Pergl J, Pyšek P, Svenning J-C, Thuiller W, Weigelt P, Wohlgemuth T, Yang Q & van Kleunen M (2021) Potential alien ranges of European plants will shrink in the future, but less so for already naturalized than for not yet naturalized species. Diversity and Distributions 27,11:2063-2076. (DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13378)(1區，top)
5. Fristoe TS, Chytry M, Dawson W, Essl F, Heleno R, Kreft H, Maurel N, Pergl J, Pyšek P, Seebens H, Weigelt P, Vargas P, Yang Q, Attorre F, Bergmeier E, Bernhardt-Römermann M, Biurrun I, Boch S, Bonari G, Botta-Dukát Z, Bruun HH, Byun C, Carni A, Carranza ML, Catford JA, Cerabolini BEL, Chacón-Madrigal E, Ciccarelli D, Cušterevska R, de Ronde I, Dengler J, Golub V, Haveman R, Hough-Snee N, Jandt U, Jansen F, Kuzemko A, Küzmic F, Lenoir J, Macanovic A, Marcenò C, Martin AR, Michaletz ST, Mori AS, Niinemets Ü, Peterka T, Pielech R, Rašomavicius V, Rüsina S, Dias AS, Sibíková M, Silc U, Stanisci A, Jansen S, Svenning JC, Swacha G, van der Plas F, Vassilev K & van Kleunen M (2021) Dimensions of invasiveness: links between local abundance, geographic range size, and habitat breadth in Europe's alien and native floras. PNAS 118 (22): e2021173118. (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2021173118).
高端論文：
Mark van Kleunen教授在國際頂級學術期刊《Nature Communications》在線發表了有關全球經濟植物在原生地以外其它地區的歸化情況的研究論文“Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success”。Mark van Kleunen教授為論文的第一作者和通訊作者，伟徳国际官网登录入口為論文的第一署名單位。《Nature Communications》是國際生物學領域最有影響力的權威學術期刊之一，最新影響因子為12.118。
高被引論文：
Mark van Kleunen教授發表伟徳国际官网登录入口為第一署名單位的高被引論文2篇。單篇文章引用高達514次，其原創性的研究成果深入闡明入侵植物的全球擴散機制并有利于成功實施入侵防治，具有重要的社會效益、生态效益及潛在的經濟效益。論文如下：
1.van Kleunen M, Essl F, Perg J, Brundu G, Carboni M, Dullinger S, Early R, González-Moreno P, Groom QJ, Hulme PE, Kueffer C, Kühn I, Máguas C, Maurel N, Novoa A, Parepa M, Pyšek P, Seebens H, Tanner R, Touza J, Verbrugge L, Weber E, Dawson W, Kreft H, Weigelt P, Winter M, Klonner G, Talluto MV & Dehnen-Schmutz K (2018) The changing role of ornamental horticulture in alien plant invasions. Biological Reviews 93:1421-1437.(2). (2022. 01高被引)
2.van Kleunen M et al (2019) The global naturalized alien flora (GlOLNAF) database. Ecology 100(1): e02542. (2022. 01高被引)
