Hans Steenackers

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Hans Steenackers is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Hans Steenackers has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Genetics and 17 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Hans Steenackers's work include Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (37 papers), Antimicrobial agents and applications (13 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (12 papers). Hans Steenackers is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (37 papers), Antimicrobial agents and applications (13 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (12 papers). Hans Steenackers collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, France and Russia. Hans Steenackers's co-authors include Jos Vanderleyden, Sigrid C. J. De Keersmaecker, Kim Hermans, Erik V. Van der Eycken, Jozef Vanderleyden, Kevin R. Foster, Bram Lories, Ilse Parijs, Denis S. Ermolat’ev and Jitender Bariwal and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, Nucleic Acids Research and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Hans Steenackers

71 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Salmonella biofilms: An overview on occurrence, structure, regulation and eradication

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hans Steenackers Belgium	23	1.3k	466	450	387	293	76	2.3k
Arnaud Bridier France	21	1.4k 1.0×	434 0.9×	333 0.7×	302 0.8×	288 1.0×	41	2.2k
Gilles Brackman Belgium	29	2.1k 1.6×	395 0.8×	365 0.8×	426 1.1×	179 0.6×	47	3.1k
Richard K. Phipps Denmark	21	2.3k 1.8×	262 0.6×	333 0.7×	351 0.9×	222 0.8×	30	3.5k
Florence Dubois‐Brissonnet France	23	1.2k 0.9×	672 1.4×	455 1.0×	234 0.6×	190 0.6×	41	2.2k
Åshild Vik Norway	15	2.1k 1.6×	282 0.6×	172 0.4×	283 0.7×	344 1.2×	20	3.1k
Jorge H. Leitão Portugal	28	837 0.6×	305 0.7×	226 0.5×	439 1.1×	189 0.6×	109	2.4k
Irina Sadovskaya France	33	2.6k 2.0×	544 1.2×	356 0.8×	394 1.0×	762 2.6×	68	3.7k
Aixin Yan Hong Kong	28	1.3k 1.0×	186 0.4×	274 0.6×	256 0.7×	265 0.9×	58	2.8k
Eilidh Mowat United Kingdom	17	1.4k 1.1×	325 0.7×	237 0.5×	193 0.5×	150 0.5×	25	3.2k
Judith H. Merritt United States	17	2.0k 1.5×	183 0.4×	228 0.5×	519 1.3×	401 1.4×	17	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Hans Steenackers

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hans Steenackers

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lories, Bram, et al.. (2025). Evolutionary drivers of divergent collateral sensitivity responses during antibiotic therapy. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 10(3). 405–415.

Cuypers, Dieter, et al.. (2025). Sputtered Iridium Oxide Electrodes Optimization and Implementation for Impedimetric Identification of S. aureus and P. aeruginosa Biofilms. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 172(3). 35501–35501.

Lories, Bram, et al.. (2025). Salmonella stress response systems as targets for anti-virulence strategies. BMC Microbiology. 25(1). 378–378.

Zhou, Cheng, et al.. (2024). From sugars to aliphatic amines: as sweet as it sounds? Production and applications of bio-based aliphatic amines. Chemical Society Reviews. 53(24). 11804–11849. 10 indexed citations

Lories, Bram, et al.. (2024). Selective pressures for public antibiotic resistance. Critical Reviews in Microbiology. 51(3). 417–426. 2 indexed citations

Carolus, Hans, Siebe Pierson, Hans Steenackers, et al.. (2024). Collateral sensitivity counteracts the evolution of antifungal drug resistance in Candida auris. Nature Microbiology. 9(11). 2954–2969. 10 indexed citations

Mees, Maarten A., et al.. (2024). Antimicrobial Activity of Glycyrrhizinic Acid Is pH-Dependent. ACS Applied Bio Materials. 7(12). 8223–8235. 1 indexed citations

Kraigher, Barbara, et al.. (2024). Bacillus subtilis Intraspecies Interactions Shape Probiotic Activity Against Salmonella Typhimurium. Microbial Biotechnology. 17(12). e70065–e70065. 1 indexed citations

Samyn, Pieter, et al.. (2024). Fabrication of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate)/ZnO Nanocomposite Films for Active Packaging Applications: Impact of ZnO Type on Structure–Property Dynamics. Polymers. 16(13). 1861–1861. 5 indexed citations

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Braeken, Dries, et al.. (2023). Impedimetric biofilm characterization with microelectrode arrays using equivalent electrical circuit features and ensemble classifiers. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems. 244. 105048–105048. 1 indexed citations

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Sadiq, Faizan Ahmed, et al.. (2023). Dynamic social interactions and keystone species shape the diversity and stability of mixed-species biofilms – an example from dairy isolates. ISME Communications. 3(1). 118–118. 14 indexed citations

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Steenackers, Hans, et al.. (2023). Anomalous diffusion of nanoparticles in the spatially heterogeneous biofilm environment. iScience. 26(6). 106861–106861. 9 indexed citations

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Parijs, Ilse, et al.. (2023). Competitive interactions facilitate resistance development against antimicrobials. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 89(10). e0115523–e0115523. 5 indexed citations

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Lange, Heiko, et al.. (2023). Effect of chemical modifications of tannins on their antimicrobial and antibiofilm effect against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 987164–987164. 30 indexed citations

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Lories, Bram, et al.. (2022). Permissive aggregative group formation favors coexistence between cooperators and defectors in yeast. The ISME Journal. 16(10). 2305–2312. 4 indexed citations

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Coppola, Guglielmo A., et al.. (2022). Origanum vulgare ethanolic extracts as a promising source of compounds with antimicrobial, anti-biofilm, and anti-virulence activity against dental plaque bacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 999839–999839. 13 indexed citations

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Eynde, Jef Van den, Bart Meuris, Willem‐Jan Metsemakers, et al.. (2021). Pre-clinical in vivo Models of Vascular Graft Coating in the Prevention of Vascular Graft Infection: A Systematic Review. European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. 62(1). 99–118. 14 indexed citations

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Eynde, Jef Van den, et al.. (2021). A systematic review of preclinical data regarding commercial silver-coated vascular grafts. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 74(4). 1386–1393.e1. 8 indexed citations

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Parijs, Ilse & Hans Steenackers. (2018). Competitive inter-species interactions underlie the increased antimicrobial tolerance in multispecies brewery biofilms. The ISME Journal. 12(8). 2061–2075. 50 indexed citations

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Heyndrickx, Marc, Stéphanie Van Weyenberg, Hans Steenackers, et al.. (2017). Evaluation of Two Surface Sampling Methods for Microbiological and Chemical Analyses To Assess the Presence of Biofilms in Food Companies. Journal of Food Protection. 80(12). 2022–2028. 14 indexed citations

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