Michiel Van Bel

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Michiel Van Bel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michiel Van Bel has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Plant Science and 9 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Michiel Van Bel's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (8 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (8 papers). Michiel Van Bel is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (8 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (8 papers). Michiel Van Bel collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, France and South Africa. Michiel Van Bel's co-authors include Klaas Vandepoele, Yves Van de Peer, Frederik Coppens, Sebastian Proost, Alexander Botzki, Łukasz Kreft, Dries Vaneechoutte, Dirk Inzé, Sara Movahedi and Tim Diels and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Michiel Van Bel

36 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

PLAZA 4.0: an integrative resource for functional, evolutionary and comparative plant genomics

2017 324 citations Michiel Van Bel, Tim Diels et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

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Michiel Van Bel

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Oliver Rupp Germany

Lieven Sterck Belgium

Stefan Schulze United States

Richard D. Hayes United States

Nan Yu China

David Swarbreck United Kingdom

Travis J. Wheeler United States

Chris Boursnell United Kingdom

Tamar Lotan Israel

Valentin Antonescu United States

Oliver Rupp Germany

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michiel Van Bel

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20 of 20 papers shown

Seurinck, Ruth, Thomas Eekhout, Michiel Van Bel, et al.. (2025). A single-cell and spatial wheat root atlas with cross-species annotations delineates conserved tissue-specific marker genes and regulators. Cell Reports. 44(2). 115240–115240. 9 indexed citations

Bel, Michiel Van, Lieven Sterck, Rossella Annunziata, et al.. (2024). Transcriptional chronology reveals conserved genes involved in pennate diatom sexual reproduction. Molecular Ecology. 33(8). e17320–e17320. 4 indexed citations

Vandepoele, Klaas, et al.. (2024). Northern light reviews – Application of orthology and network biology to infer gene functions in non‐model plants. Physiologia Plantarum. 176(4). e14441–e14441. 2 indexed citations

Lakehal, Abdellah, Michiel Van Bel, Maria Njo, et al.. (2023). Spatial transcriptomics of a lycophyte root sheds light on root evolution. Current Biology. 33(19). 4069–4084.e8. 13 indexed citations

Bel, Michiel Van, et al.. (2023). Leaf growth – complex regulation of a seemingly simple process. The Plant Journal. 117(4). 1018–1051. 8 indexed citations

Cortona, Andrea Del, et al.. (2021). TRAPID 2.0: a web application for taxonomic and functional analysis of de novo transcriptomes. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(17). e101–e101. 27 indexed citations

Grasser, Klaus D., Étienne Kornobis, Michiel Van Bel, et al.. (2021). The Arabidopsis condensin CAP‐D subunits arrange interphase chromatin. New Phytologist. 230(3). 972–987. 12 indexed citations

Clercq, Inge De, Jan Van de Velde, Xiaopeng Luo, et al.. (2021). Integrative inference of transcriptional networks in Arabidopsis yields novel ROS signalling regulators. Nature Plants. 7(4). 500–513. 56 indexed citations

Leene, Jelle Van, Chao Han, Astrid Gadeyne, et al.. (2019). Capturing the phosphorylation and protein interaction landscape of the plant TOR kinase. Nature Plants. 5(3). 316–327. 189 indexed citations

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Bel, Michiel Van, et al.. (2019). Gene space completeness in complex plant genomes. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 48. 9–17. 10 indexed citations

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Kreft, Łukasz, Alexander Botzki, Frederik Coppens, Klaas Vandepoele, & Michiel Van Bel. (2017). PhyD3: a phylogenetic tree viewer with extended phyloXML support for functional genomics data visualization. Bioinformatics. 33(18). 2946–2947. 196 indexed citations

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Bel, Michiel Van, et al.. (2017). Reciprocally Retained Genes in the Angiosperm Lineage Show the Hallmarks of Dosage Balance Sensitivity. The Plant Cell. 29(11). 2766–2785. 59 indexed citations

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Bel, Michiel Van, Tim Diels, Emmelien Vancaester, et al.. (2017). PLAZA 4.0: an integrative resource for functional, evolutionary and comparative plant genomics. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(D1). D1190–D1196. 324 indexed citations breakdown →

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Walton, Alan, Elisabeth Stes, Michiel Van Bel, et al.. (2016). It’s Time for Some “Site”-Seeing: Novel Tools to Monitor the Ubiquitin Landscape in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Cell. 28(1). 6–16. 64 indexed citations

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Velde, Jan Van de, Michiel Van Bel, Dries Vaneechoutte, & Klaas Vandepoele. (2016). A Collection of Conserved Noncoding Sequences to Study Gene Regulation in Flowering Plants. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 171(4). 2586–2598. 35 indexed citations

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Olvera-Carrillo, Yadira, Michiel Van Bel, Tom Van Hautegem, et al.. (2015). A conserved core of PCD indicator genes discriminates developmentally and environmentally induced programmed cell death in plants. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 169(4). pp.00769.2015–pp.00769.2015. 124 indexed citations

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Vargas, Lívia, Cristian Antonio Rojas, Dries Vaneechoutte, et al.. (2014). Drought Tolerance Conferred to Sugarcane by Association with Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus: A Transcriptomic View of Hormone Pathways. PLoS ONE. 9(12). e114744–e114744. 136 indexed citations

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Proost, Sebastian, Michiel Van Bel, Dries Vaneechoutte, et al.. (2014). PLAZA 3.0: an access point for plant comparative genomics. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(D1). D974–D981. 243 indexed citations

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Vandepoele, Klaas, Michiel Van Bel, Guilhem Richard, et al.. (2013). pico‐ PLAZA , a genome database of microbial photosynthetic eukaryotes. Environmental Microbiology. 15(8). 2147–2153. 57 indexed citations

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Proost, Sebastian, Michiel Van Bel, Lieven Sterck, et al.. (2009). PLAZA: A Comparative Genomics Resource to Study Gene and Genome Evolution in Plants. The Plant Cell. 21(12). 3718–3731. 210 indexed citations

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