Sjef Smeekens

17.7k citations
130 papers · 13.6k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 60
  • Plant Science top 0.05%
    • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism 64
    • Plant Molecular Biology Research 53
    • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance 17
    • Light effects on plants 11
    • Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology 25
    • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms 39
    • Plant Gene Expression Analysis 15
    • Plant Reproductive Biology 9
  • Biotechnology top 0.5%

Sjef Smeekens

128 papers receiving 13.1k citations

Hit Papers

Sugar signals and the control of pla...4861998202620072016200400600

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Sjef Smeekens
Comparison fields: 5 of 124
  • Plant Science 10.3k
  • Nutrition and Dietetics 1.7k
  • Molecular Biology 6.9k
  • Biotechnology 547
  • Biochemistry 315
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All Works

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1 202110
2 201940
3 201826
4 20130
5 201297
6 201220
7 20107
8 2009136
9 200759
10 2004276
11 2004105
12 200420
13 2003383
14 2001130
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Sugar-induced signal transduction in plantsbreakdown →
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16 200070
17 199875
18 199737
19 199653
20 199619

About Sjef Smeekens

Sjef Smeekens is a scholar working on Plant Science, Nutrition and Dietetics and Molecular Biology, having authored 130 papers that have together received 13.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (64 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (53 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (39 papers), Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology (25 papers), Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (17 papers), Plant Gene Expression Analysis (15 papers), Light effects on plants (11 papers) and Plant Reproductive Biology (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Plant Science (10.3k citations), Nutrition and Dietetics (1.7k citations) and Molecular Biology (6.9k citations). Sjef Smeekens has collaborated with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Johannes Hanson, Peter Weisbeek, Henriette Schluepmann, Irma Vijn, Tita Ritsema, Matthew J. Paul, Fred Rook, Jeroen Lastdrager, Leónie Bentsink and Sheng Teng. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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