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Researcher · Ghent University · Belgium

K. Kersters

K. Kersters publishes mostly in Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Ecology, on topics such as Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

World rank
#15,628
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#126
of 18,604
Works
60
Citations
832
Citations per work
13.9

What does K. Kersters research?

Plant Science: 28.0%Molecular Biology: 20.0%Ecology: 9.3%Food Science: 6.7%other fields: 36.0%28%top field
Plant Science28.0%Molecular Biology20.0%Ecology9.3%Food Science6.7%other fields36.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Plant Science28% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology20% of their works
  3. 3Ecology9% of their works
  4. 4Food Science7% of their works
  5. 5Biotechnology4% of their works
  6. 6Pollution3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe K. Kersters's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Host Specificity, Genomics, Phylogenetic Analysis, Plant Pathogenic Bacteria, Legumes, RNA-Seq, sequence alignment and Symbiosis.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Host Specificity102 topics
  2. Genomics81 topic
  3. Phylogenetic Analysis82 topics
  4. Plant Pathogenic Bacteria81 topic
  5. Legumes61 topic
  6. RNA-Seq61 topic
  7. Symbiosis61 topic
  8. sequence alignment61 topic
  9. Marine Microbes41 topic
  10. Microbial Biogeography41 topic
  11. Plant Immunity31 topic
  12. Prebiotics31 topic
  13. Probiotics31 topic
  14. Rhizosphere Interactions31 topic
  15. Biosynthesis21 topic
  16. Endophytic Fungi21 topic
  17. Fungal Pathogens21 topic
  18. Microbial Pigments21 topic

Where does K. Kersters work?

K. Kersters's main affiliation in the publication record is Ghent University, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does K. Kersters have?

Science Explorer counts 60 works and 832 citations for K. Kersters, ranking #15,628 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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