Jordi van Gestel

1.8k total citations
26 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Jordi van Gestel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jordi van Gestel has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Genetics and 10 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Jordi van Gestel's work include Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (10 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (8 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (7 papers). Jordi van Gestel is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (10 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (8 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (7 papers). Jordi van Gestel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Netherlands. Jordi van Gestel's co-authors include Roberto Kolter, Hera Vlamakis, Franz J. Weissing, Oscar P. Kuipers, Ákos T. Kovács, Corina E. Tarnita, Ana Solopova, Bas Teusink, Herwig Bachmann and Jan Kok and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Jordi van Gestel

25 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jordi van Gestel United States 15 717 473 264 224 110 26 1.1k
R. Fredrik Inglis Switzerland 15 304 0.4× 294 0.6× 167 0.6× 183 0.8× 58 0.5× 22 743
Jenna Gallie Germany 10 484 0.7× 521 1.1× 189 0.7× 173 0.8× 35 0.3× 17 959
Alicia Sánchez-Gorostiaga Spain 13 745 1.0× 310 0.7× 427 1.6× 187 0.8× 74 0.7× 16 1.3k
Nuno M. Oliveira United Kingdom 8 352 0.5× 212 0.4× 171 0.6× 131 0.6× 59 0.5× 10 669
James E. Berleman United States 19 913 1.3× 398 0.8× 402 1.5× 61 0.3× 132 1.2× 22 1.4k
Gayle C. Ferguson New Zealand 11 440 0.6× 394 0.8× 142 0.5× 129 0.6× 31 0.3× 17 936
Frank Rosenzweig United States 15 866 1.2× 497 1.1× 122 0.5× 186 0.8× 92 0.8× 34 1.3k
William B. Ludington United States 18 805 1.1× 451 1.0× 198 0.8× 65 0.3× 26 0.2× 42 1.7k
Julia Schwartzman United States 20 577 0.8× 180 0.4× 460 1.7× 83 0.4× 50 0.5× 33 1.3k
Gerda Saxer United States 16 375 0.5× 432 0.9× 154 0.6× 202 0.9× 32 0.3× 21 927

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jordi van Gestel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jordi van Gestel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jordi van Gestel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jordi van Gestel 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 Jordi van Gestel. Jordi van Gestel is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Garriga-Canut, Mireia, et al.. (2026). Unlocking CRISPR-Cas9 editing for widely diverse Dictyostelid species. Molecular Systems Biology.
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Gestel, Jordi van, et al.. (2025). Bacillus subtilis in defense mode: Switch-like adaptations to protistan predation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(39). e2518989122–e2518989122. 2 indexed citations
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Gestel, Jordi van, et al.. (2024). Exploring the microbial savanna: predator-prey interactions in the soil. Molecular Systems Biology. 20(5). 477–480. 1 indexed citations
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Gerhardt, Louisa M.S., Kari Koppitch, Jordi van Gestel, et al.. (2023). Lineage Tracing and Single-Nucleus Multiomics Reveal Novel Features of Adaptive and Maladaptive Repair after Acute Kidney Injury. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 34(4). 554–571. 54 indexed citations
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Gestel, Jordi van, Andreas Wagner, & Martin Ackermann. (2023). Pleiotropic hubs drive bacterial surface competition through parallel changes in colony composition and expansion. PLoS Biology. 21(10). e3002338–e3002338. 1 indexed citations
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Gestel, Jordi van, et al.. (2021). Short-range quorum sensing controls horizontal gene transfer at micron scale in bacterial communities. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2324–2324. 78 indexed citations
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Gestel, Jordi van, John S. Hawkins, Horia Todor, & Carol A. Gross. (2021). Computational pipeline for designing guide RNAs for mismatch-CRISPRi. STAR Protocols. 2(2). 100521–100521. 9 indexed citations
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Gestel, Jordi van, et al.. (2020). A riboswitch gives rise to multi-generational phenotypic heterogeneity in an auxotrophic bacterium. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1203–1203. 17 indexed citations
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Rocha, Jorge, Jordi van Gestel, Hera Vlamakis, et al.. (2019). PolyGlcNAc-containing exopolymers enable surface penetration by non-motile Enterococcus faecalis. PLoS Pathogens. 15(2). e1007571–e1007571. 29 indexed citations
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Gestel, Jordi van, Martin Ackermann, & Andreas Wagner. (2019). Microbial life cycles link global modularity in regulation to mosaic evolution. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(8). 1184–1196. 14 indexed citations
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Gestel, Jordi van & Roberto Kolter. (2019). When We Stop Thinking about Microbes as Cells. Journal of Molecular Biology. 431(14). 2487–2492. 6 indexed citations
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Gestel, Jordi van, et al.. (2019). Emergence of diverse life cycles and life histories at the origin of multicellularity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(8). 1197–1205. 44 indexed citations
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Gestel, Jordi van & Franz J. Weissing. (2018). Is plasticity caused by single genes?. Nature. 555(7698). E19–E20. 21 indexed citations
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Gestel, Jordi van & Franz J. Weissing. (2016). Regulatory mechanisms link phenotypic plasticity to evolvability. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 24524–24524. 31 indexed citations
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Gestel, Jordi van & Martin A. Nowak. (2016). Phenotypic Heterogeneity and the Evolution of Bacterial Life Cycles. PLoS Computational Biology. 12(2). e1004764–e1004764. 25 indexed citations
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Gestel, Jordi van, Hera Vlamakis, & Roberto Kolter. (2015). Division of Labor in Biofilms: the Ecology of Cell Differentiation. Microbiology Spectrum. 3(2). 144 indexed citations
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Gestel, Jordi van, Hera Vlamakis, & Roberto Kolter. (2015). From Cell Differentiation to Cell Collectives: Bacillus subtilis Uses Division of Labor to Migrate. PLoS Biology. 13(4). e1002141–e1002141. 166 indexed citations
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Solopova, Ana, Jordi van Gestel, Franz J. Weissing, et al.. (2014). Bet-hedging during bacterial diauxic shift. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(20). 7427–7432. 183 indexed citations
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Gestel, Jordi van, Franz J. Weissing, Oscar P. Kuipers, & Ákos T. Kovács. (2014). Density of founder cells affects spatial pattern formation and cooperation in Bacillus subtilis biofilms. The ISME Journal. 8(10). 2069–2079. 179 indexed citations
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Gestel, Jordi van, Martin A. Nowak, & Corina E. Tarnita. (2012). The Evolution of Cell-to-Cell Communication in a Sporulating Bacterium. PLoS Computational Biology. 8(12). e1002818–e1002818. 23 indexed citations

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