Barbara De Meester

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
16 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Barbara De Meester is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Barbara De Meester has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 2 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Barbara De Meester's work include Plant Gene Expression Analysis (13 papers), Lignin and Wood Chemistry (11 papers) and Biofuel production and bioconversion (10 papers). Barbara De Meester is often cited by papers focused on Plant Gene Expression Analysis (13 papers), Lignin and Wood Chemistry (11 papers) and Biofuel production and bioconversion (10 papers). Barbara De Meester collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and Switzerland. Barbara De Meester's co-authors include Wout Boerjan, Ruben Vanholme, John Ralph, Sander Van den Bosch, Bert F. Sels, W.J.J. Huijgen, Bert Lagrain, Wim Dehaen, Christophe M. Courtin and Tom Renders and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Barbara De Meester

16 papers receiving 2.1k citations

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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.

Reductive lignocellulose fractionation into soluble lignin-derived phenolic monomers and dimers and processable carbohydrate pulps

2015 735 citations Sander Van den Bosch, Wouter Schutyser et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
Lignin biosynthesis and its integration into metabolism

2019 565 citations Ruben Vanholme, Barbara De Meester et al. Current Opinion in Biotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Barbara De Meester Belgium	14	1.2k	713	693	283	250	16	2.1k
Marina O.S. Dias Brazil	20	1.8k 1.5×	808 1.1×	386 0.6×	151 0.5×	86 0.3×	33	2.2k
Carlos Eduardo Vaz Rossell Brazil	26	2.2k 1.9×	1.2k 1.7×	457 0.7×	167 0.6×	216 0.9×	47	2.9k
Óscar J. Sánchez Colombia	16	2.4k 2.1×	1.5k 2.1×	395 0.6×	188 0.7×	357 1.4×	70	3.3k
Tassia L. Junqueira Brazil	27	1.6k 1.4×	661 0.9×	328 0.5×	133 0.5×	86 0.3×	51	2.1k
Venkatesh Chaturvedi India	17	864 0.7×	610 0.9×	407 0.6×	52 0.2×	431 1.7×	41	1.8k
Viridiana Santana Ferreira-Leitão Brazil	24	1.3k 1.1×	791 1.1×	429 0.6×	82 0.3×	255 1.0×	62	2.2k
Amru Nasrulhaq Boyce Malaysia	21	1.5k 1.3×	998 1.4×	1.3k 1.9×	165 0.6×	151 0.6×	64	3.4k
Lew P. Christopher United States	19	1.1k 1.0×	840 1.2×	305 0.4×	156 0.6×	440 1.8×	36	1.6k
Božidar Šantek Croatia	18	994 0.9×	717 1.0×	414 0.6×	72 0.3×	276 1.1×	83	1.8k
Madan Kumar India	23	691 0.6×	309 0.4×	320 0.5×	208 0.7×	206 0.8×	53	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Barbara De Meester

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Barbara De Meester

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16 of 16 papers shown

Meester, Barbara De, Rebecca Van Acker, Marijke Steenackers, et al.. (2022). Field and saccharification performances of poplars severely downregulated in CAD1. New Phytologist. 236(6). 2075–2090. 13 indexed citations

Meester, Barbara De, Ruben Vanholme, Thatiane Rodrigues Mota, & Wout Boerjan. (2022). Lignin engineering in forest trees: From gene discovery to field trials. Plant Communications. 3(6). 100465–100465. 37 indexed citations

Kim, Hoon, Barbara De Meester, Kris Morreel, et al.. (2022). Overexpression of the scopoletin biosynthetic pathway enhances lignocellulosic biomass processing. Science Advances. 8(28). eabo5738–eabo5738. 25 indexed citations

Meester, Barbara De, Ruben Vanholme, Rebecca Van Acker, et al.. (2022). Engineering Curcumin Biosynthesis in Poplar Affects Lignification and Biomass Yield. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13. 943349–943349. 10 indexed citations

Vries, Lisanne de, Alexandra Chanoca, Hoon Kim, et al.. (2021). CRISPR‐Cas9 editing of CAFFEOYL SHIKIMATE ESTERASE 1 and 2 shows their importance and partial redundancy in lignification in Populus tremula × P. alba. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 19(11). 2221–2234. 32 indexed citations

Meester, Barbara De, et al.. (2021). Vessel‐ and ray‐specific monolignol biosynthesis as an approach to engineer fiber‐hypolignification and enhanced saccharification in poplar. The Plant Journal. 108(3). 752–765. 18 indexed citations

Meester, Barbara De, Lisanne de Vries, Jacob Pollier, et al.. (2020). Tailoring poplar lignin without yield penalty by combining a null and haploinsufficient CINNAMOYL-CoA REDUCTASE2 allele. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5020–5020. 55 indexed citations

Gallego‐Giraldo, Lina, Chang Liu, Sara Posé, et al.. (2020). ARABIDOPSIS DEHISCENCE ZONE POLYGALACTURONASE 1 (ADPG1) releases latent defense signals in stems with reduced lignin content. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(6). 3281–3290. 70 indexed citations

Vanholme, Ruben, Lisa Sundin, Hoon Kim, et al.. (2019). COSY catalyses trans–cis isomerization and lactonization in the biosynthesis of coumarins. Nature Plants. 5(10). 1066–1075. 76 indexed citations

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Meester, Barbara De, Fernando Fonseca, Lisanne de Vries, et al.. (2019). Introducing curcumin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis enhances lignocellulosic biomass processing. Nature Plants. 5(2). 225–237. 53 indexed citations

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Vanholme, Ruben, Barbara De Meester, John Ralph, & Wout Boerjan. (2019). Lignin biosynthesis and its integration into metabolism. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 56. 230–239. 565 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vries, Lisanne de, Ruben Vanholme, Rebecca Van Acker, et al.. (2018). Stacking of a low-lignin trait with an increased guaiacyl and 5-hydroxyguaiacyl unit trait leads to additive and synergistic effects on saccharification efficiency in Arabidopsis thaliana. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 11(1). 257–257. 22 indexed citations

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Meester, Barbara De, Lisanne de Vries, Merve Özparpucu, et al.. (2017). Vessel-Specific Reintroduction of CINNAMOYL-COA REDUCTASE1 (CCR1) in Dwarfed ccr1 Mutants Restores Vessel and Xylary Fiber Integrity and Increases Biomass. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 176(1). 611–633. 76 indexed citations

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Bosch, Sander Van den, Wouter Schutyser, Ruben Vanholme, et al.. (2015). Reductive lignocellulose fractionation into soluble lignin-derived phenolic monomers and dimers and processable carbohydrate pulps. Energy & Environmental Science. 8(6). 1748–1763. 735 indexed citations breakdown →

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Meester, Barbara De, Jo Dewulf, Stijn Verbeke, Arnold Janssens, & Herman Van Langenhove. (2008). Exergetic life-cycle assessment (ELCA) for resource consumption evaluation in the built environment. Building and Environment. 44(1). 11–17. 62 indexed citations

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Dewulf, Jo, Barbara De Meester, Geert Van der Vorst, et al.. (2007). Cumulative Exergy Extraction from the Natural Environment (CEENE): a comprehensive Life Cycle Impact Assessment method for resource accounting. Environmental Science & Technology. 41(24). 8477–8483. 275 indexed citations

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