Geert‐Jan Boons

26.1k citations

446 papers · 20.0k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 71

Impact in

Organic Chemistry top 0.05%
- Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis
- Click Chemistry and Applications
Molecular Biology top 0.1%
- Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research
- Chemical Synthesis and Analysis

Papers in

Organic Chemistry 276
- Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis 243
- Click Chemistry and Applications 28
Molecular Biology 331
- Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research 264
- Chemical Synthesis and Analysis 55

Co-authors: Margreet A. Wolfert Therese Buskas Alexei V. Demchenko Jun Guo Thomas J. Boltje Xinghai Ning Sampat Ingale Tong Zhu
Journals: Journal of the American Chemical Society (38 papers)Chemistry - A European Journal (27 papers)Tetrahedron Letters (23 papers)Angewandte Chemie International Edition (22 papers)ChemBioChem (17 papers)
Partner nations: United States Netherlands United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Geert‐Jan Boons

438 papers receiving 19.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Human coronaviruses OC43 and HKU1 bind to 9- O -acetylated sialic acids via a conserved receptor-binding site in spike protein domain A 2019 · 276 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2019 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2019 Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
2009 Nature Chemistry
2008 Angewandte Chemie International Edition

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1	Characterization of the glycoproteins of fish and amphibian influenza B–like viruses Science Advances ·Gagandeep Singh, Jiachen Huang, Disha Bhavsar, Kirill Vasilev, James A. Ferguson, Geert‐Jan Boons, Viviana Simon, Robert P. de Vries, Julianna Han, (unknown), Florian Krammer	2025	0
2	Long-term evolution of human seasonal influenza virus A(H3N2) is associated with an increase in polymerase complex activity Virus Evolution ·René M. Vigeveno, Alvin X. Han, Robert P. de Vries, Edyth Parker, Karen de Haan, Sarah van Leeuwen, Katina D. Hulme, Adam S. Lauring, Aartjan J.W. te Velthuis, Geert‐Jan Boons, Ron A. M. Fouchier, Colin A. Russell, Menno D. de Jong, Dirk Eggink	2024	3
3	Neuritogenic glycosaminoglycan hydrogels promote functional recovery after severe traumatic brain injury Journal of Neural Engineering ·Nathan Gonsalves, Min Sun, Pradeep Chopra, Charles-Francois V. Latchoumane, Simar Bajwa, Ruiping Tang, Bianca Patel, Geert‐Jan Boons, Lohitash Karumbaiah	2024	2
4	Synthesis and biological evaluation of lipid A derived from commensal Bacteroides Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry ·Enrico C. J. M. Verpalen, Anna M. Ehlers, Aldo C.A. van Wingaarden, Arwin J. Brouwer, Geert‐Jan Boons	2024	3
5	Exploiting Substrate Specificities of 6- O -Sulfotransferases to Enzymatically Synthesize Keratan Sulfate Oligosaccharides SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Yunfei Wu, Gaël M. Vos, Chin Pao Huang, Digantkumar Chapla, Anne L. M. Kimpel, Kelley W. Moremen, Robert P. de Vries, Geert‐Jan Boons	2023	18
6	A Bioactive Synthetic Outer‐Core Oligosaccharide Derived from a Klebsiella pneumonia Lipopolysaccharide for Bacteria Recognition Chemistry - A European Journal ·Dushen Chen, Akhilesh Kumar Srivastava, Justyna Dubrochowska, Lin Liu, Tiehai Li, Joseph P. Hoffmann, Jay K. Kolls, Geert‐Jan Boons	2023	5
7	Structural conservation of Lassa virus glycoproteins and recognition by neutralizing antibodies Cell Reports ·Hailee R. Perrett, Philip J. M. Brouwer, Jonathan Hurtado, Maddy L. Newby, Lin Liu, Helena Müller-Kräuter, Sarah Müller Aguirre, Judith A. Burger, Joey H. Bouhuijs, Grace Gibson, Terrence Messmer, John S. Schieffelin, Aleksandar Antanasijevic, Geert‐Jan Boons, Thomas Strecker, Max Crispin, Rogier W. Sanders, Bryan Briney, Andrew B. Ward	2023	14
8	Well-Defined Heparin Mimetics Can Inhibit Binding of the Trimeric Spike of SARS-CoV-2 in a Length-Dependent Manner JACS Au ·Lifeng Sun, Pradeep Chopra, Ilhan Tomris, Roosmarijn van der Woude, Lin Liu, Robert P. de Vries, Geert‐Jan Boons	2023	8
9	N -Glycolylneuraminic Acid Binding of Avian and Equine H7 Influenza A Viruses Journal of Virology ·Cindy M. Spruit, Xueyong Zhu, Ilhan Tomris, María Ríos Carrasco, Alvin X. Han, Frederik Broszeit, Roosmarijn van der Woude, Kim M. Bouwman, Michel M. T. Luu, Keita Matsuno, Yoshihiro Sakoda, Colin A. Russell, Ian A. Wilson, Geert‐Jan Boons, Robert P. de Vries	2022	13
10	Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Complex N‐Glycans of the Parasite S. mansoni to Examine the Importance of Epitope Presentation on DC‐SIGN recognition Angewandte Chemie ·Apoorva D. Srivastava, Luca Unione, Mehman Bunyatov, Ivan A. Gagarinov, Sandra Delgado, Nicola G. A. Abrescia, Ana Ardá, Geert‐Jan Boons	2021	1
11	Dissecting structure-function of 3-O-sulfated heparin and engineered heparan sulfates Science Advances ·Richard Karlsson, Pradeep Chopra, Apoorva Joshi, Zhang Yang, Sergey Y. Vakhrushev, Thomas Mandel Clausen, Chelsea D. Painter, Gergő Péter Szekeres, Yen‐Hsi Chen, Daniel R. Sandoval, Lars Hestbjerg Hansen, Jeffrey D. Esko, Kevin Pagel, Douglas P. Dyer, Jeremy E. Turnbull, Henrik Clausen, Geert‐Jan Boons, Rebecca L. Miller	2021	40
12	Shotgun ion mobility mass spectrometry sequencing of heparan sulfate saccharides Nature Communications ·Rebecca L. Miller, Scott E. Guimond, Ralf Schwörer, Olga V. Zubkova, Peter C. Tyler, Yongmei Xu, Jian Liu, Pradeep Chopra, Geert‐Jan Boons, Márkó Grabarics, Christian Manz, Johanna Hofmann, Niclas G. Karlsson, Jeremy E. Turnbull, Weston B. Struwe, Kevin Pagel	2020	49
13	Hierarchical Multivalent Effects Control Influenza Host Specificity ACS Central Science ·Nico J. Overeem, P. H. Erik Hamming, Oliver C. Grant, Daniele Di Iorio, Malte Tieke, M. Candelaria Bertolino, Zeshi Li, Gaël M. Vos, Robert P. de Vries, Robert J. Woods, Nicholas B. Tito, Geert‐Jan Boons, Erhard van der Vries, Jurriaan Huskens	2020	24
14	Streptococcal dTDP‐L‐rhamnose biosynthesis enzymes: functional characterization and lead compound identification Molecular Microbiology ·Samantha L. van der Beek, Azul Zorzoli, Ebru Çanak, Robert N. Chapman, Kieron Lucas, Benjamin H. Meyer, Dimitrios Evangelopoulos, Luiz Pedro S. de Carvalho, Geert‐Jan Boons, Helge C. Dorfmueller, Nina M. van Sorge	2019	46
15	Role of glycosylation on the ensemble of conformations in the MUC1 immunodominant epitope Journal of Peptide Science ·Jaideep Singh, Cheenou Her, Nitin T. Supekar, Geert‐Jan Boons, V. V. Krishnan, Cory L. Brooks	2019	3
16	Fully Synthetic Heparan Sulfate-Based Neural Tissue Construct That Maintains the Undifferentiated State of Neural Stem Cells ACS Chemical Biology ·Pradeep Chopra, Meghan Logun, Evan M. White, Weigang Lü, Jason Locklin, Lohitash Karumbaiah, Geert‐Jan Boons	2019	12
17	Synthetic Receptors for the High‐Affinity Recognition of O‐GlcNAc Derivatives Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Pablo Ríos, Tom S. Carter, Tiddo J. Mooibroek, Matthew P. Crump, Micke Lisbjerg, Michael Pittelkow, Nitin T. Supekar, Geert‐Jan Boons, Anthony P. Davis	2016	88
18	A General Strategy for the Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Asymmetrically Branched N -Glycans Science ·Zhen Wang, Zoeisha S. Chinoy, Shailesh Ambre, Wenjie Peng, Ryan McBride, Robert P. de Vries, John Glushka, James C. Paulson, Geert‐Jan Boons	2013	258
19	A synthetic heparan sulfate oligosaccharide library reveals the novel enzymatic action of d -glucosaminyl 3- O -sulfotransferase-3a Molecular BioSystems ·Thao Kim Nu Nguyen, Sailaja Arungundram, Vy M. Tran, Karthik Raman, Kanar Al-Mafraji, André Venot, Geert‐Jan Boons, Balagurunathan Kuberan	2011	15
20	Dual strategies for peptidoglycan discrimination by peptidoglycan recognition proteins (PGRPs) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Chittoor P. Swaminathan, Patrick H. Brown, Abhijit Roychowdhury, Qian Wang, Rongjin Guan, Neal Silverman, William E. Goldman, Geert‐Jan Boons, Roy A. Mariuzza	2006	82

About Geert‐Jan Boons

Geert‐Jan Boons is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Microbiology and Biotechnology, having authored 446 papers that have together received 20.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (264 papers), Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (243 papers), Proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research (56 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (55 papers), Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (53 papers), Influenza Virus Research Studies (32 papers), Click Chemistry and Applications (28 papers) and Enzyme Production and Characterization (25 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Organic Chemistry (11.5k citations), Molecular Biology (14.1k citations), Biotechnology (1.2k citations), Immunology (2.7k citations) and Cell Biology (1.8k citations). Geert‐Jan Boons has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Margreet A. Wolfert, Therese Buskas, Alexei V. Demchenko, Jun Guo, Thomas J. Boltje, Xinghai Ning, Sampat Ingale, Tong Zhu, Jin Hwan Kim and Ngalle Eric Mbua. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemistry - A European Journal, Tetrahedron Letters, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and ChemBioChem.

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