Sofie Goormachtig

8.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
120 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Sofie Goormachtig is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sofie Goormachtig has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 103 papers in Plant Science, 30 papers in Molecular Biology and 19 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Sofie Goormachtig's work include Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (63 papers), Plant Parasitism and Resistance (30 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (30 papers). Sofie Goormachtig is often cited by papers focused on Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (63 papers), Plant Parasitism and Resistance (30 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (30 papers). Sofie Goormachtig collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, France and United States. Sofie Goormachtig's co-authors include Marcelle Holsters, Alain Goossens, Nathan De Geyter, Azra Gholami, Virginie Mortier, Ward Capoen, Annick De Keyser, Willem Van de Velde, Stien Beirinckx and Riet De Rycke and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Plant Cell.

In The Last Decade

Sofie Goormachtig

114 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

Transcriptional machineries in jasmonate-elicited plant secondary metabolism

2012 426 citations Nathan De Geyter, Azra Gholami et al. Trends in Plant Science profile →
Plant flavones enrich rhizosphere Oxalobacteraceae to improve maize performance under nitrogen deprivation

2021 395 citations Peng Yu, Xiaoming He et al. Nature Plants profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sofie Goormachtig Belgium	44	4.8k	1.6k	964	827	358	120	5.7k
Jean‐Michel Ané United States	41	4.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	937 1.0×	382 0.5×	309 0.9×	106	5.8k
Douglas R. Cook United States	39	5.5k 1.1×	883 0.5×	1.0k 1.1×	425 0.5×	177 0.5×	82	6.0k
Ertao Wang China	41	6.3k 1.3×	1.2k 0.7×	573 0.6×	365 0.4×	283 0.8×	81	7.0k
Joe Tohmé Colombia	47	6.3k 1.3×	1.1k 0.7×	371 0.4×	459 0.6×	223 0.6×	141	7.2k
Katharina Pawlowski Sweden	35	3.3k 0.7×	783 0.5×	557 0.6×	217 0.3×	277 0.8×	125	3.7k
Zlatko Šatović Croatia	40	4.0k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	388 0.4×	797 1.0×	194 0.5×	245	5.4k
Martin Parniske Germany	60	11.8k 2.4×	2.6k 1.6×	1.9k 1.9×	655 0.8×	378 1.1×	115	12.7k
И. А. Тихонович Russia	36	3.8k 0.8×	730 0.4×	877 0.9×	177 0.2×	292 0.8×	200	4.3k
B. C. Y. Collard Philippines	29	5.2k 1.1×	1.0k 0.6×	299 0.3×	312 0.4×	124 0.3×	63	5.9k
Patrick J. Tranel United States	47	6.8k 1.4×	3.3k 2.0×	730 0.8×	520 0.6×	125 0.3×	154	7.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Sofie Goormachtig

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sofie Goormachtig

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sofie Goormachtig

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All Works

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Mertens, Stien, M Vermeersch, Judith Van Dingenen, et al.. (2025). Fast track to environmentally adapted rhizobia for growing soybean at northern latitudes using citizen science. The ISME Journal.

López‐Ráez, Juan A., Joanna Banasiak, Manuel Becana, et al.. (2025). Molecular mechanisms modulating beneficial plant root–microbe interactions: What’s common?. Plant Communications. 7(1). 101592–101592.

Willems, Anne, et al.. (2024). A novel Microbacterium strain SRS2 promotes the growth of Arabidopsis and MicroTom (S. lycopersicum) under normal and salt stress conditions. Planta. 260(4). 79–79. 2 indexed citations

Mertens, Stien, Judith Van Dingenen, Sofie Bekaert, et al.. (2023). Citizen science boosts fundamental and applied research for sustainable soybean cultivation in North‐Western Europe. Plants People Planet. 6(2). 490–504. 1 indexed citations

Damme, Petra Van, et al.. (2023). Seeking the interspecies crosswalk for filamentous microbe effectors. Trends in Plant Science. 28(9). 1045–1059. 12 indexed citations

Dingenen, Judith Van, Annick De Keyser, Serge Beullens, et al.. (2023). Strigolactones repress nodule development and senescence in pea. The Plant Journal. 116(1). 7–22. 9 indexed citations

Dingenen, Judith Van, et al.. (2023). Characterization of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Effector Proteins. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(11). 9125–9125. 14 indexed citations

Márquez‐García, Belén, Stephen Depuydt, Carolien De Cuyper, et al.. (2022). MAX2-dependent competence for callus formation and shoot regeneration from Arabidopsis thaliana root explants. Journal of Experimental Botany. 73(18). 6272–6291. 9 indexed citations

Si, Jiyeon, Tom Viaene, Jorge F. Vázquez‐Castellanos, et al.. (2021). Interactions between soil compositions and the wheat root microbiome under drought stress: From an in silico to in planta perspective. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 19. 4235–4247. 12 indexed citations

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Yu, Peng, Xiaoming He, Marcel Baer, et al.. (2021). Plant flavones enrich rhizosphere Oxalobacteraceae to improve maize performance under nitrogen deprivation. Nature Plants. 7(4). 481–499. 395 indexed citations breakdown →

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Goormachtig, Sofie, et al.. (2020). Keeping in Touch with Type-III Secretion System Effectors: Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics to Study Effector–Host Protein–Protein Interactions. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(18). 6891–6891. 6 indexed citations

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Willems, Patrick J., Thomas Van Parys, Sofie Goormachtig, et al.. (2019). The Plant PTM Viewer, a central resource for exploring plant protein modifications. The Plant Journal. 99(4). 752–762. 84 indexed citations

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Pollier, Jacob, Nathan De Geyter, Tessa Moses, et al.. (2019). The MYB transcription factor Emission of Methyl Anthranilate 1 stimulates emission of methyl anthranilate from Medicago truncatula hairy roots. The Plant Journal. 99(4). 637–654. 12 indexed citations

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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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Motte, Hans, Annelies Vercauteren, Stephen Depuydt, et al.. (2014). Combining linkage and association mapping identifies RECEPTOR-LIKE PROTEIN KINASE1 as an essential Arabidopsis shoot regeneration gene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(22). 8305–8310. 58 indexed citations

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Mortier, Virginie, et al.. (2011). Nodule numbers are governed by interaction between CLE peptides and cytokinin signaling. The Plant Journal. 70(3). 367–376. 101 indexed citations

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Bonaldi, Katia, Daniel Gargani, Yves Prin, et al.. (2011). Nodulation of Aeschynomene afraspera and A. indica by Photosynthetic Bradyrhizobium Sp. Strain ORS285: The Nod-Dependent Versus the Nod-Independent Symbiotic Interaction. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 24(11). 1359–1371. 100 indexed citations

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Goormachtig, Sofie, Márcio Alves‐Ferreira, Marc Van Montagu, Gilbert Engler, & Marcelle Holsters. (1997). Expression of Cell Cycle Genes During Sesbania rostrata Stem Nodule Development. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 10(3). 316–325. 43 indexed citations

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Goormachtig, Sofie, et al.. (1996). Nucleotide sequence of two histone H4 cDNAs of Sesbania rostrata (Accession numbers Z79637 and Z79638).. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 25 indexed citations

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Geremia, Roberto A., Danny Geelen, Barbara Leyman, et al.. (1994). Biosynthesis and secretion of Nod factors from Azorhizobium caulinodans. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 2 indexed citations

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