Yvan Saeys

38.3k citations

196 papers · 16.4k indexed · 11 hit papers · h-index 49

Impact in

Immunology top 0.5%
- Immune cells in cancer
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction
Biophysics top 0.1%
- Cell Image Analysis Techniques

Papers in

Biophysics 23
- Cell Image Analysis Techniques 23
Structural Biology 3

Co-authors: Iñaki Inza Pedro Larrañaga Wouter Saelens Bart N. Lambrecht Robrecht Cannoodt Yves Van de Peer Robin Browaeys Sofie Van Gassen
Journals: Bioinformatics (15 papers)Nature Communications (10 papers)Cytometry Part A (9 papers)Cell Reports (5 papers)Frontiers in Immunology (5 papers)
Partner nations: Belgium Netherlands Spain

In The Last Decade

Yvan Saeys

191 papers receiving 16.1k citations

Hit Papers

11 papers align trajectories log scale

A scalable SCENIC workflow for single-cell gene regulatory network analysis 2020 · 723 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2020 Nature Protocols
2020 Nature Communications
2020 Science
2019 Nature Methods
2019 Nature Neuroscience
2019 Nature Biotechnology
2016 Immunity
2016 Nature Communications
2015 Cytometry Part A
2014 Nature reviews. Immunology
2007 Bioinformatics

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1	Evaluation of out-of-distribution detection methods for data shifts in single-cell transcriptomics Briefings in Bioinformatics ·Castilla Lucio Hernan, マシュー・S ザバレラ, Yvan Saeys, Willem Waegeman	2025	1
2	Potential of biomarker-based enrichment strategies to identify critically ill patients for emerging cell death interventions Cell Death and Differentiation ·Syromiatnikova Ed, Ruth Seurinck, Sonecha Tn, Samya Van Coillie, میرهاشمی محمد, Sze Men Choi, Ria Roelandt, Mohan Rajapurkar, Symen Ligthart, Philippe G. Jorens, Dominique Benoît, Yvan Saeys, Evelyne Meyer, Eric A. J. Hoste, Tom Vanden Berghe	2025	2
3	Recommendations for Design, Execution, and Reporting of Studies on Experimental Thoracic Aortopathy in Preclinical Models Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology ·Alan Daugherty, Dianna M. Milewicz, David A. Dichek, Ketan B. Ghaghada, Jay D. Humphrey, Scott A. LeMaire, Yanming Li, Ziad Mallat, Yvan Saeys, Hisashi Sawada, Ying H. Shen, Toru Suzuki, Zhen Zhou, (unknown)	2025	0
4	Identification and Characterization of Multiple Paneth Cell Types in the Mouse Small Intestine Cells ·Steven Timmermans, Dushyant Chaudhary, Natalia García-González, Jean Pierre Heyndrickx, Yvan Saeys, Claude Libert	2024	3
5	Myelodysplastic neoplasms dissected into indolent, leukaemic and unfavourable subtypes by computational clustering of haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells Leukemia ·Rongrong Liu, Sofie Van Gassen, Carolien Duetz, Theresia M. Westers, Yvan Saeys, Arjan A. van de Loosdrecht	2024	3
6	QT–GWAS: A novel method for unveiling biosynthetic loci affecting qualitative metabolic traits Molecular Plant ·Howard J. Rotblat, Peng Meng, René Höfer, Alexandr A. Petrenko, A. Hjelmsted, Véronique Storme, Yvan Saeys, Ruben Vanholme, Geert Goeminne, Vitaliy I. Timokhin, John Ralph, Kris Morreel, Wout Boerjan	2023	5
7	Distinct Transcriptional Programs in Ascitic and Solid Cancer Cells Induce Different Responses to Chemotherapy in High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer Molecular Cancer Research ·H Barth, Niels Vandamme, Robba Lasheen, Joachim Taminau, 张虎林, Gillian Blancke, Guy Richard Kibouka, Steven Goossens, Kelly Lemeire, Sofie De Prijck, Kevin Verstaen, Ruth Seurinck, Jo Van Dorpe, Steven Weyers, Hannelore Denys, Koen Van de Vijver, Bart N. Lambrecht, Philippe Tummers, Yvan Saeys, Geert Berx	2022	13
8	CARD14 Signalling Ensures Cell Survival and Cancer Associated Gene Expression in Prostate Cancer Cells Biomedicines ·Colonel Theodore G. Hess, Jens Staal, Mira Haegman, Yasmine Driege, J. Klijn, Slavica Beric, Pieter De Bleser, Yvan Saeys, Rudi Beyaert, Inna S. Afonina	2022	5
9	OTULIN maintains skin homeostasis by controlling keratinocyte death and stem cell identity Nature Communications ·Esther Hoste, 郭一帆, Karl Annusver, Niels Vandamme, JeSeopPark, Sophia Maschalidi, J Smith, Hanna‐Kaisa Vikkula, Mozes Sze, Kaiyuan Luo, Kevin Verstaen, Arne Martens, Tino Hochepied, Yvan Saeys, Kodi S. Ravichandran, Maria Kasper, Geert Loo	2021	29
10	The boundary coefficient : a vertex measure for visualizing and finding structure in weighted graphs Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) ·Nasmil Valera, Yvan Saeys, Tijl De Bie	2019	1
11	Nlrp3 inflammasome activation and Gasdermin D-driven pyroptosis are immunopathogenic upon gastrointestinal norovirus infection PLoS Pathogens ·Axel Landertinger, Frédéric Sorgeloos, Soroush T. Sarvestani, Liesbet Martens, Yvan Saeys, Jason M. Mackenzie, Mohamed Lamkanfi, Geert Loo, Ian Goodfellow, Andy Wullaert	2019	75
12	Classification of Human White Blood Cells Using Machine Learning for Stain‐Free Imaging Flow Cytometry Cytometry Part A ·谭春萍, D. D. Skeil, S Ngcezu, Andrew Fuller, Louise J. Michaelis, Yvan Saeys, Andrew Filby, Daniel Peralta	2019	89
13	A comprehensive evaluation of module detection methods for gene expression data Nature Communications ·Wouter Saelens, Robrecht Cannoodt, Yvan Saeys	2018	171
14	Mining the Enriched Subgraphs for Specific Vertices in a Biological Graph IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics ·Pieter Meysman, Yvan Saeys, ZI JianWei, Wout Bittremieux, Yves Van de Peer, Bart Goethals, Kris Laukens	2016	3
15	Automated Membrane Detection in Electron Microscopy using Convolutional Neural Networks Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) ·Joris Roels, Jonas De Vylder, Jan Aelterman, Yvan Saeys, Wilfried Philips	2016	2
16	Inferring gene regulatory networks from expression data using tree-based methods Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège) ·Vân Anh Huynh‐Thu, Alexandre Irrthum, Louis Wehenkel, Yvan Saeys, Pierre Geurts	2011	3
17	Regulatory network inference with GENIE3: application to the DREAM5 challenge Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège) ·Vân Anh Huynh‐Thu, Alexandre Irrthum, Louis Wehenkel, Yvan Saeys, Pierre Geurts	2010	2
18	New challenges for feature selection in data mining and knowledge discovery Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège) ·Yvan Saeys, Huan Liu, Iñaki Inza, Louis Wehenkel	2008	20
19	Annual Machine Learning Conference of Belgium and The Netherlands Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) ·Yvan Saeys, Elena Tsiporkova, Bernard De Baets, Yves Van de Peer	2006	2
20	Selecting Relevant Features for Splice Site Prediction by Estimation of Distribution Algorithms. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) ·Yvan Saeys, Sven Degroeve, Dirk Aeyels, Yves Van de Peer, Pierre Rouzé	2002	1

About Yvan Saeys

Yvan Saeys is a scholar working on Biophysics, Structural Biology, Immunology, Molecular Biology and Computational Theory and Mathematics, having authored 196 papers that have together received 16.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (42 papers), Cell Image Analysis Techniques (23 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (21 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (17 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (16 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (16 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Immunology (4.2k citations), Biophysics (1.0k citations), Molecular Biology (8.5k citations), Neurology (993 citations) and Cancer Research (1.1k citations). Yvan Saeys has collaborated with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and Spain. Frequent co-authors include Iñaki Inza, Pedro Larrañaga, Wouter Saelens, Bart N. Lambrecht, Robrecht Cannoodt, Yves Van de Peer, Robin Browaeys, Sofie Van Gassen, Helena Todorov and Martin Guilliams. Their work appears in journals such as Bioinformatics, Nature Communications, Cytometry Part A, Cell Reports and Frontiers in Immunology.

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