Annelien Verfaillie

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Annelien Verfaillie is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Annelien Verfaillie has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Annelien Verfaillie's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (3 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (2 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (2 papers). Annelien Verfaillie is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (3 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (2 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (2 papers). Annelien Verfaillie collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and United Kingdom. Annelien Verfaillie's co-authors include Stein Aerts, Hana Imrichová, Gert Hulselmans, Valerie Christiaens, Mark Fiers, Zeynep Kalender Atak, Dmitry Svetlichnyy, Jean‐Christophe Marine, Rekin’s Janky and Laura Standaert and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Biotechnology and Molecular and Cellular Biology.

In The Last Decade

Annelien Verfaillie

9 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

iRegulon: From a Gene Lis... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 200 400 600
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. iRegulon: From a Gene List to a Gene Regulatory Network Using Large Motif and Track Collections
    2014 610 citations Rekin’s Janky, Annelien Verfaillie et al. PLoS Computational Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Annelien Verfaillie Belgium 6 746 215 173 168 130 9 1.1k
Yi Jin United States 21 1.2k 1.6× 266 1.2× 140 0.8× 206 1.2× 162 1.2× 40 1.8k
Wojciech Michowski United States 16 817 1.1× 271 1.3× 86 0.5× 150 0.9× 165 1.3× 20 1.1k
Ezequiel Lacunza Argentina 20 656 0.9× 177 0.8× 121 0.7× 278 1.7× 63 0.5× 64 1.0k
Laura Asnaghi United States 20 924 1.2× 230 1.1× 142 0.8× 225 1.3× 218 1.7× 38 1.4k
Alona Zilberberg Israel 15 637 0.9× 159 0.7× 96 0.6× 145 0.9× 98 0.8× 27 838
Tad Guszczynski United States 12 991 1.3× 210 1.0× 175 1.0× 98 0.6× 82 0.6× 15 1.3k
Elizaveta V. Benevolenskaya United States 21 1.1k 1.4× 269 1.3× 90 0.5× 211 1.3× 141 1.1× 35 1.3k
Caitlin B. Conboy United States 11 811 1.1× 264 1.2× 215 1.2× 140 0.8× 51 0.4× 23 1.3k
Kaiwei Liang China 18 1.3k 1.8× 178 0.8× 90 0.5× 139 0.8× 86 0.7× 44 1.6k
Concepción Jiménez Spain 11 788 1.1× 196 0.9× 208 1.2× 173 1.0× 152 1.2× 12 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Annelien Verfaillie

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Fields of papers citing papers by Annelien Verfaillie

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Annelien Verfaillie

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Annelien Verfaillie. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Annelien Verfaillie based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Annelien Verfaillie. Annelien Verfaillie is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

9 of 9 papers shown
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Bowes, Amy L., Sara Waise, Tom Lesluyes, et al.. (2025). Profiling the genomic landscape and evolutionary history of polyploid giant cancer cells in undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcomas. Cancer Letters. 639. 218173–218173. 1 indexed citations
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Baker, Toby M., Tom Lesluyes, Haixi Yan, et al.. (2024). The History of Chromosomal Instability in Genome-Doubled Tumors. Cancer Discovery. 14(10). 1810–1822. 1 indexed citations
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Poovathingal, Suresh, Kristofer Davie, Lars E. Borm, et al.. (2024). Nova-ST: Nano-patterned ultra-dense platform for spatial transcriptomics. Cell Reports Methods. 4(8). 100831–100831. 15 indexed citations
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Tarabichi, Maxime, Jonas Demeulemeester, Annelien Verfaillie, et al.. (2021). A pan-cancer landscape of somatic mutations in non-unique regions of the human genome. Nature Biotechnology. 39(12). 1589–1596. 5 indexed citations
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Verfaillie, Annelien, Dmitry Svetlichnyy, Hana Imrichová, et al.. (2016). Multiplex enhancer-reporter assays uncover unsophisticated TP53 enhancer logic. Genome Research. 26(7). 882–895. 62 indexed citations
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Verfaillie, Annelien, Hana Imrichová, Zeynep Kalender Atak, et al.. (2015). Decoding the regulatory landscape of melanoma reveals TEADS as regulators of the invasive cell state. Nature Communications. 6(1). 6683–6683. 280 indexed citations
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Verfaillie, Annelien, Hana Imrichová, Rekin’s Janky, & Stein Aerts. (2015). iRegulon and i‐cisTarget: Reconstructing Regulatory Networks Using Motif and Track Enrichment. Current Protocols in Bioinformatics. 52(1). 2.16.1–2.16.39. 37 indexed citations
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Janky, Rekin’s, Annelien Verfaillie, Hana Imrichová, et al.. (2014). iRegulon: From a Gene List to a Gene Regulatory Network Using Large Motif and Track Collections. PLoS Computational Biology. 10(7). e1003731–e1003731. 610 indexed citations breakdown →
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Helsen, Christine, Vanessa Dubois, Annelien Verfaillie, et al.. (2012). Evidence for DNA-Binding Domain–Ligand-Binding Domain Communications in the Androgen Receptor. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 32(15). 3033–3043. 43 indexed citations

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