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Researcher · KU Leuven · Belgium

Stein Aerts

Stein Aerts publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cancer Research, on topics such as Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-8006-0315 OpenAlex
World rank
#62,789
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#323
of 67,186
Works
307
Citations
29k
Citations per work
95.4
h-index
64
i10-index 124Top 1.6% in Molecular Biology
Stein Aerts

What does Stein Aerts research?

Stein Aerts's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (65%), Neuroscience (5%), Medicine (3%).

Life Sciences: 216 works · 70.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 200 works · 65.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 169 works · 55.1% of their workCancer Research: 12 works · 3.9% of their workGenetics: 11 works · 3.6% of their workBiophysics: 8 works · 2.6% of their workNeuroscience: 16 works · 5.1% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 16 works · 5.1% of their workEverything else: 83 works · 27.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 8 works · 2.6% of their workMedicine: 8 works · 2.6% of their workOncology: 8 works · 2.6% of their workTHEIR WORKStein Aerts307works
Life Sciences70%Health Sciences3%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology20065.2%
    2. Neuroscience165.1%
  2. Everything else8327.1%
    1. Medicine82.6%
  1. 1Molecular Biology55% of their works
  2. 2Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience5% of their works
  3. 3Cancer Research4% of their works
  4. 4Genetics4% of their works
  5. 5Oncology3% of their works
  6. 6Biophysics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Stein Aerts's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gene Regulation, Gene Expression, Chromatin, Transcription, Single-Cell, Transcriptomics, Drosophila and Neuroscience.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Gene Regulation922 topics
  2. Gene Expression742 topics
  3. Chromatin731 topic
  4. Transcription731 topic
  5. Single-Cell551 topic
  6. Transcriptomics551 topic
  7. Drosophila261 topic
  8. Neuroscience261 topic
  9. Alternative Splicing211 topic
  10. RNA-Binding Proteins211 topic
  11. Cancer Genomics201 topic
  12. Mutational Signatures201 topic
  13. Data Analysis191 topic
  14. Development191 topic
  15. Microarray191 topic
  16. Notch Signaling191 topic
  17. Ribosome171 topic
  18. Translation171 topic

Where does Stein Aerts work?

Stein Aerts's main affiliation in the publication record is KU Leuven, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Stein Aerts have?

OpenAlex counts 307 works and 29,285 citations for Stein Aerts, an h-index of 64, ranking #62,789 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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