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Researcher · Ghent University · Belgium

Wout Boerjan

Wout Boerjan publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Plant Science, on topics such as Plant Gene Expression Analysis, Lignin and Wood Chemistry and Biofuel production and bioconversion.

ORCID 0000-0003-1495-510X OpenAlex
World rank
#49,692
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#226
of 67,186
Works
396
Citations
43k
Citations per work
109.2
h-index
94
i10-index 231Top 0.3% in Molecular Biology
Wout Boerjan

What does Wout Boerjan research?

Wout Boerjan's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (40%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (26%), Engineering (23%).

Life Sciences: 260 works · 65.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 158 works · 39.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 119 works · 30.0% of their workBiotechnology: 28 works · 7.1% of their workGenetics: 11 works · 2.7% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 102 works · 25.8% of their workPlant Science: 80 works · 20.3% of their workAgronomy and Crop Science: 22 works · 5.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 92 works · 23.3% of their workEngineering: 92 works · 23.3% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 92 works · 23.3% of their workEverything else: 44 works · 11.1% of their workTHEIR WORKWout Boerjan396works
Life Sciences66%Physical Sciences23%

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 Biology15839.8%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10225.8%
    1. Engineering9223.3%
  3. Everything else4411.1%
  1. 1Molecular Biology30% of their works
  2. 2Biomedical Engineering23% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science20% of their works
  4. 4Biotechnology7% of their works
  5. 5Agronomy and Crop Science6% of their works
  6. 6Genetics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wout Boerjan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Transcription Factors, Flavonoid Biosynthesis, MYB, Catalytic Transformation, Lignin Valorization, Enzymatic Hydrolysis, Pretreatment and Gene Expression.

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. Transcription Factors2172 topics
  2. Flavonoid Biosynthesis1691 topic
  3. MYB1691 topic
  4. Catalytic Transformation1211 topic
  5. Lignin Valorization1211 topic
  6. Enzymatic Hydrolysis1081 topic
  7. Pretreatment1081 topic
  8. Gene Expression762 topics
  9. Biotechnological Production641 topic
  10. Vanillin641 topic
  11. Bioenergy Crops541 topic
  12. Switchgrass541 topic
  13. Development481 topic
  14. Plant481 topic
  15. Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation281 topic
  16. Plant Secondary Metabolites281 topic
  17. Pollen Tube Growth221 topic
  18. Self-Incompatibility221 topic

Where does Wout Boerjan work?

Wout Boerjan's main affiliation in the publication record is Ghent University, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Wout Boerjan have?

OpenAlex counts 396 works and 43,258 citations for Wout Boerjan, an h-index of 94, ranking #49,692 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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