Kjell Sergeant

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
104 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Kjell Sergeant is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Kjell Sergeant has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Plant Science, 56 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Kjell Sergeant's work include Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (29 papers), Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications (11 papers) and Plant responses to elevated CO2 (11 papers). Kjell Sergeant is often cited by papers focused on Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (29 papers), Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications (11 papers) and Plant responses to elevated CO2 (11 papers). Kjell Sergeant collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Luxembourg and France. Kjell Sergeant's co-authors include Jenny Renaut, Jean-François Hausman, Gea Guerriero, Stanley Lutts, Bruno Printz, Bart Samyn, Sylvain Legay, Bart Devreese, Xuan Xu and Jozef Van Beeumen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Kjell Sergeant

99 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Reactive oxygen species and heavy metal stress in plants: Impact on the cell wall and secondary metabolism

2018 389 citations Roberto Berni, Xuan Xu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kjell Sergeant Belgium	34	2.0k	1.3k	332	260	190	104	3.3k
Dong‐Gi Lee South Korea	22	1.6k 0.8×	845 0.7×	268 0.8×	94 0.4×	84 0.4×	88	2.5k
Sébastien Planchon Luxembourg	25	983 0.5×	726 0.6×	191 0.6×	97 0.4×	118 0.6×	73	1.9k
Sophie Alvarez United States	32	1.7k 0.9×	2.0k 1.6×	61 0.2×	203 0.8×	134 0.7×	87	3.5k
Julia Kehr Germany	34	3.8k 1.9×	2.2k 1.8×	139 0.4×	99 0.4×	82 0.4×	65	4.7k
Jenny Renaut Luxembourg	46	4.6k 2.3×	3.1k 2.4×	548 1.7×	418 1.6×	482 2.5×	214	7.6k
Katherine Louie United States	20	1.3k 0.6×	861 0.7×	123 0.4×	175 0.7×	68 0.4×	41	2.4k
Mo‐Xian Chen China	35	2.7k 1.4×	1.6k 1.3×	154 0.5×	44 0.2×	98 0.5×	173	3.9k
Xiaojing Liu China	23	745 0.4×	1.4k 1.1×	143 0.4×	89 0.3×	108 0.6×	155	2.7k
Nicholas J. Kruger United Kingdom	34	2.5k 1.3×	2.8k 2.2×	83 0.3×	138 0.5×	382 2.0×	93	5.1k
Xiaojuan Li China	37	2.8k 1.4×	2.2k 1.7×	52 0.2×	102 0.4×	340 1.8×	194	4.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Kjell Sergeant

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kjell Sergeant

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20 of 20 papers shown

Guerriero, Gea, Roberto Berni, Sylvain Legay, et al.. (2025). Root‐Applied Phyto‐Courier Loaded With Rutin Translocates to Aerial Tissues Inducing Molecular and Anatomical Changes in Cannabis sativa Under Salinity. Nano Select. 6(12).

Xu, Xuan, Emmanuelle Cocco, Gea Guerriero, et al.. (2025). Harnessing Apple Cell Suspension Cultures in Bioreactors for Triterpene Production: Transcriptomic Insights into Biomass and Triterpene Biosynthesis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(7). 3188–3188.

Renaut, Jenny, et al.. (2025). Comparative metabolomic profiling of Lupinus albus and L. angustifolius harvest residues: exploring chemical diversity and valorization potential. Frontiers in Plant Science. 16. 1617634–1617634. 1 indexed citations

Terry, Randall G., et al.. (2024). Drought resistance strategies in minor millets: a review. Planta. 260(1). 29–29. 5 indexed citations

Ribeiro, David M., Céline C. Leclercq, Sophie Charton, et al.. (2023). Enhanced ileum function in weaned piglets via Laminaria digitata and alginate lyase dietary inclusion: A combined proteomics and metabolomics analysis. Journal of Proteomics. 289. 105013–105013. 6 indexed citations

Pollastri, Susanna, Violeta Velikova, M. Castaldini, et al.. (2023). Isoprene-Emitting Tobacco Plants Are Less Affected by Moderate Water Deficit under Future Climate Change Scenario and Show Adjustments of Stress-Related Proteins in Actual Climate. Plants. 12(2). 333–333. 8 indexed citations

Reddy, Maddi Sridhar, et al.. (2023). Principal component analysis-assisted screening and selection of salt-tolerant tomato genotypes. Plant Physiology Reports. 28(2). 272–288. 8 indexed citations

Xu, Xuan, Sylvain Legay, Kjell Sergeant, et al.. (2021). Molecular insights into plant desiccation tolerance: transcriptomics, proteomics and targeted metabolite profiling in Craterostigma plantagineum. The Plant Journal. 107(2). 377–398. 49 indexed citations

Printz, Bruno, Gea Guerriero, Kjell Sergeant, et al.. (2016). Combining -Omics to Unravel the Impact of Copper Nutrition on Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) Stem Metabolism. Plant and Cell Physiology. 57(2). 407–422. 21 indexed citations

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Sergeant, Kjell, et al.. (2014). Automation of C-terminal sequence analysis of 2D-PAGE separated proteins. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 250–261. 2 indexed citations

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Sheridan, Áine, Orla Condell, Kjell Sergeant, et al.. (2013). Proteomic and phenotypic analysis of triclosan tolerant verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli O157:H19. Journal of Proteomics. 80. 78–90. 22 indexed citations

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Behr, Marc, Tommaso Serchi, Emmanuelle Cocco, et al.. (2013). Description of the mechanisms underlying geosmin production in Penicillium expansum using proteomics. Journal of Proteomics. 96. 13–28. 9 indexed citations

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Sergeant, Kjell, et al.. (2012). Screening for changes in leaf and cambial proteome of Populus tremula×P. alba under different heat constraints. Journal of Plant Physiology. 169(17). 1698–1718. 8 indexed citations

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Leprince, Pierre, Kjell Sergeant, Jenny Renaut, et al.. (2011). Human Muscle Proteome Modifications after Acute or Repeated Eccentric Exercises. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 43(12). 2281–2296. 52 indexed citations

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Bohler, Sacha, Kjell Sergeant, Isabelle S. Lefèvre, et al.. (2010). Differential impact of chronic ozone exposure on expanding and fully expanded poplar leaves. Tree Physiology. 30(11). 1415–1432. 20 indexed citations

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Sergeant, Kjell, et al.. (2010). A new chemical approach to differentiate carboxy terminal peptide fragments in cyanogen bromide digests of proteins. Journal of Proteomics. 73(8). 1454–1460. 11 indexed citations

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Delaplace, Pierre, Marie‐Laure Fauconnier, Kjell Sergeant, et al.. (2009). Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) tuber ageing induces changes in the proteome and antioxidants associated with the sprouting pattern. Journal of Experimental Botany. 60(4). 1273–1288. 47 indexed citations

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Brandt, Inger, Melanie Gérard, Kjell Sergeant, et al.. (2008). Prolyl oligopeptidase stimulates the aggregation of α-synuclein. Peptides. 29(9). 1472–1478. 76 indexed citations

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Magagnin, Michaël G., Kjell Sergeant, Twan van den Beucken, et al.. (2007). Proteomic analysis of gene expression following hypoxia and reoxygenation reveals proteins involved in the recovery from endoplasmic reticulum and oxidative stress. Radiotherapy and Oncology. 83(3). 340–345. 16 indexed citations

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Samyn, Bart, Kjell Sergeant, & Jozef Van Beeumen. (2006). A method for C-terminal sequence analysis in the proteomic era (proteins cleaved with cyanogen bromide). Nature Protocols. 1(1). 318–323. 15 indexed citations

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