Werend Boesmans

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Werend Boesmans is a scholar working on Gastroenterology, Surgery and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Werend Boesmans has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Gastroenterology, 28 papers in Surgery and 13 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Werend Boesmans's work include Gastrointestinal motility and disorders (29 papers), Congenital gastrointestinal and neural anomalies (25 papers) and Infant Health and Development (11 papers). Werend Boesmans is often cited by papers focused on Gastrointestinal motility and disorders (29 papers), Congenital gastrointestinal and neural anomalies (25 papers) and Infant Health and Development (11 papers). Werend Boesmans collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and Australia. Werend Boesmans's co-authors include Pieter Vanden Berghe, Jan Tack, Vassilis Pachnis, Marlene M. Hao, Reena Lasrado, Ana Carina Bon‐Frauches, Veerle Melotte, Klaus Michel, Andrea Némethova and Pedro J. Gomez‐Pinilla and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Werend Boesmans

63 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Neuronal programming by microbiota regulates intestinal physiology

2020 250 citations Yuuki Obata, Stefan Boeing et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Werend Boesmans Belgium	28	1.1k	960	698	362	346	64	2.5k
Brian D. Gulbransen United States	28	1.4k 1.3×	1.0k 1.1×	859 1.2×	503 1.4×	288 0.8×	77	3.4k
Klaus Michel Germany	25	1.1k 1.0×	573 0.6×	396 0.6×	422 1.2×	275 0.8×	51	2.1k
Fievos L. Christofi United States	29	758 0.7×	538 0.6×	610 0.9×	444 1.2×	127 0.4×	70	2.4k
Pedro J. Gomez‐Pinilla Belgium	28	644 0.6×	661 0.7×	752 1.1×	398 1.1×	158 0.5×	52	2.5k
Pieter Vanden Berghe Belgium	42	2.3k 2.2×	1.9k 2.0×	1.8k 2.5×	1.1k 3.0×	566 1.6×	172	6.1k
M. Jill Saffrey United Kingdom	29	622 0.6×	611 0.6×	792 1.1×	974 2.7×	63 0.2×	69	2.8k
Sang Don Koh United States	41	2.3k 2.2×	917 1.0×	2.6k 3.8×	1.0k 2.8×	422 1.2×	108	5.6k
Helen J. Cooke United States	22	663 0.6×	315 0.3×	450 0.6×	299 0.8×	131 0.4×	50	1.7k
Vladimir Grubišić United States	17	374 0.4×	291 0.3×	367 0.5×	154 0.4×	92 0.3×	27	1.1k
David C. Bulmer United Kingdom	28	468 0.4×	234 0.2×	525 0.8×	632 1.7×	85 0.2×	113	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Werend Boesmans

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gijbels, Marion J., et al.. (2025). Gastrointestinal Dysfunction and Low‐Grade Inflammation Associate With Enteric Neuronal Amyloid‐β in a Model for Amyloid Pathology. Neurogastroenterology & Motility. 37(5). e15016–e15016. 1 indexed citations

Wouters, Kristien, Iryna Samarska, Matty P. Weijenberg, et al.. (2024). Neuronal Distribution in Colorectal Cancer: Associations With Clinicopathological Parameters and Survival. Modern Pathology. 37(10). 100565–100565. 6 indexed citations

Boesmans, Werend, et al.. (2024). Genomic stress in diseases stemming from defects in the second brain. Neurogastroenterology & Motility. 37(8). e14860–e14860. 1 indexed citations

Boesmans, Werend, et al.. (2023). An optimization and refinement of the whole‐gut transit assay in mice. Neurogastroenterology & Motility. 35(8). e14586–e14586. 2 indexed citations

Vaes, Nathalie, et al.. (2022). Nerves in gastrointestinal cancer: from mechanism to modulations. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 19(12). 768–784. 35 indexed citations

Bon‐Frauches, Ana Carina, et al.. (2021). The gut brain in a dish: Murine primary enteric nervous system cell cultures. Neurogastroenterology & Motility. 34(2). e14215–e14215. 9 indexed citations

Bon‐Frauches, Ana Carina, et al.. (2021). The enteric nervous system in gastrointestinal disease etiology. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 78(10). 4713–4733. 87 indexed citations

Obata, Yuuki, Stefan Boeing, Ana Carina Bon‐Frauches, et al.. (2020). Neuronal programming by microbiota regulates intestinal physiology. Nature. 578(7794). 284–289. 250 indexed citations breakdown →

Boesmans, Werend, Marlene M. Hao, Candice Fung, et al.. (2019). Structurally defined signaling in neuro‐glia units in the enteric nervous system. Glia. 67(6). 1167–1178. 45 indexed citations

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Li, Zhiling, Marlene M. Hao, Chris Van den Haute, et al.. (2019). Regional complexity in enteric neuron wiring reflects diversity of motility patterns in the mouse large intestine. eLife. 8. 69 indexed citations

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Vanheel, Hanne, María Vicario, Werend Boesmans, et al.. (2018). Activation of Eosinophils and Mast Cells in Functional Dyspepsia: an Ultrastructural Evaluation. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 5383–5383. 56 indexed citations

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Lasrado, Reena, Werend Boesmans, Jens Kleinjung, et al.. (2017). Lineage-dependent spatial and functional organization of the mammalian enteric nervous system. Science. 356(6339). 722–726. 123 indexed citations

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Vaes, Nathalie, Marjolein H.F.M. Lentjes, Marion J. Gijbels, et al.. (2017). NDRG 4, an early detection marker for colorectal cancer, is specifically expressed in enteric neurons. Neurogastroenterology & Motility. 29(9). 9 indexed citations

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Hao, Marlene M., Annette J. Bergner, Caroline S. Hirst, et al.. (2017). Spontaneous calcium waves in the developing enteric nervous system. Developmental Biology. 428(1). 74–87. 17 indexed citations

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Cooper, Julie, Conor J. McCann, Dipa Natarajan, et al.. (2016). In Vivo Transplantation of Enteric Neural Crest Cells into Mouse Gut; Engraftment, Functional Integration and Long-Term Safety. PLoS ONE. 11(1). e0147989–e0147989. 54 indexed citations

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Berghe, Pieter Vanden, Florencia Cano, Werend Boesmans, et al.. (2012). Enteric neuronal function and colonic motility in PINK1-/- mice: A model for Parkinson's Disease. Neurogastroenterology & Motility. 24. 49–49. 2 indexed citations

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Boesmans, Werend, et al.. (2012). Specific hunger- and satiety-mediated tuning of guinea pig enteric nerve activity. Acta gastro-enterologica belgica. 75(1). 1 indexed citations

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Boesmans, Werend, Pieter Vanden Berghe, Ricard Farré, & Daniel Sifrim. (2010). Oesophageal shortening: in vivo validation of high-frequency ultrasound measurements of oesophageal muscle wall thickness. Gut. 59(4). 433–440. 7 indexed citations

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Masaoka, Tatsuhiro, Sébastien Kindt, Werend Boesmans, et al.. (2009). Inducible nitric oxide synthase inhibition improves nitrergic dysfunction in normoglycemic diabetes-prone biobreeding rats. Neurogastroenterology & Motility. 21. 1–98. 2 indexed citations

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Gomes, Priya Martina, et al.. (2007). Cannabinoid 1 receptors modulate mitochondrial transport in processes of guinea-pig myenteric neurons. Neurogastroenterology & Motility. 19. 43–43. 2 indexed citations

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