Yves Van de Peer

84.4k total citations · 15 hit papers
437 papers, 36.2k citations indexed

About

Yves Van de Peer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yves Van de Peer has authored 437 papers receiving a total of 36.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 326 papers in Molecular Biology, 184 papers in Plant Science and 69 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Yves Van de Peer's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (161 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (101 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (61 papers). Yves Van de Peer is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (161 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (101 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (61 papers). Yves Van de Peer collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, South Africa and China. Yves Van de Peer's co-authors include Rupert De Wächter, Axel Meyer, Steven Maere, Klaas Vandepoele, Éric Bonnet, Jean‐Marc Neefs, Pierre Rouzé, Peter De Rijk, John S. Taylor and Kathleen Marchal and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yves Van de Peer

433 papers receiving 35.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

TREECON for Windows: a software package for the construction and drawing of evolutionary trees for the Microsoft Windows environment

1994 2.1k citations Yves Van de Peer et al. profile →
The evolutionary significance of polyploidy

2017 1.1k citations Yves Van de Peer, Eshchar Mizrachi et al. profile →
From 2R to 3R: evidence for a fish‐specific genome duplication (FSGD)

2005 816 citations Yves Van de Peer et al. profile →
The evolutionary significance of ancient genome duplications

2009 813 citations Yves Van de Peer, Steven Maere et al. profile →
Re-evaluating prokaryotic species

2005 774 citations Yves Van de Peer et al. profile →
Compilation of small ribosomal subunit RNA sequences

1992 756 citations Yves Van de Peer et al. profile →
Genome Duplication, a Trait Shared by 22,000 Species of Ray-Finned Fish

2003 716 citations Yves Van de Peer et al. profile →
Modeling gene and genome duplications in eukaryotes

2005 700 citations Steven Maere, Stefanie De Bodt et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
zt: A Software Tool for Simple and Partial Mantel Tests

2002 641 citations Éric Bonnet, Yves Van de Peer profile →
Genome-Wide Characterization of the Lignification Toolbox in Arabidopsis

2003 634 citations Jeroen Raes, Yves Van de Peer et al. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY profile →
Polyploidy and genome evolution in plants

2015 493 citations Yves Van de Peer et al. profile →
Plants with double genomes might have had a better chance to survive the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event

2009 466 citations Jeffrey A. Fawcett, Steven Maere et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Polyploidy: an evolutionary and ecological force in stressful times

2020 421 citations Yves Van de Peer et al. profile →
Genome dynamics of the human embryonic kidney 293 lineage in response to cell biology manipulations

2014 388 citations Yao‐Cheng Lin, Yves Van de Peer et al. profile →
PLAZA 4.0: an integrative resource for functional, evolutionary and comparative plant genomics

2017 324 citations Yves Van de Peer, Klaas Vandepoele et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yves Van de Peer Belgium	94	23.2k	15.5k	5.7k	5.3k	3.3k	437	36.2k
Andreas Wilm Singapore	21	21.0k 0.9×	8.3k 0.5×	5.0k 0.9×	5.4k 1.0×	2.2k 0.7×	29	37.5k
Joel T. Dudley United States	54	16.8k 0.7×	8.4k 0.5×	5.9k 1.0×	5.7k 1.1×	2.9k 0.9×	196	43.0k
Daron M. Standley Japan	36	17.9k 0.8×	9.0k 0.6×	5.4k 0.9×	7.0k 1.3×	6.6k 2.0×	113	35.8k
Hamish McWilliam United Kingdom	15	25.5k 1.1×	10.7k 0.7×	6.1k 1.1×	6.7k 1.3×	2.8k 0.8×	18	46.3k
Daniel H. Huson Germany	59	16.4k 0.7×	7.7k 0.5×	5.8k 1.0×	8.4k 1.6×	3.4k 1.0×	152	32.7k
Olivier Gascuel France	35	21.0k 0.9×	10.8k 0.7×	8.7k 1.5×	11.1k 2.1×	6.5k 1.9×	136	46.4k
Chenna Ramu Germany	8	15.1k 0.7×	7.1k 0.5×	3.9k 0.7×	4.2k 0.8×	2.0k 0.6×	11	28.1k
ROBERT FINN United Kingdom	57	33.4k 1.4×	12.7k 0.8×	5.3k 0.9×	7.4k 1.4×	1.5k 0.4×	151	48.5k
Rodrigo López United Kingdom	32	32.5k 1.4×	13.2k 0.9×	7.3k 1.3×	7.9k 1.5×	3.1k 0.9×	68	57.4k
Pavel A. Pevzner United States	78	29.3k 1.3×	9.2k 0.6×	6.1k 1.1×	9.9k 1.9×	2.1k 0.6×	255	45.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yves Van de Peer

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Casteleyn, Griet, et al.. (2025). Expanding the toolkit for ploidy manipulation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. New Phytologist. 246(3). 1403–1412.

Montagu, Marc Van, et al.. (2024). Interspecific transfer of genetic information through polyploid bridges. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(21). e2400018121–e2400018121. 5 indexed citations

Kersten, Sonja, Christian D. Huber, Yoav Voichek, et al.. (2023). Standing genetic variation fuels rapid evolution of herbicide resistance in blackgrass. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(16). e2206808120–e2206808120. 22 indexed citations

Almeida‐Silva, Fabricio, Tao Zhao, Kristian K Ullrich, M. Eric Schranz, & Yves Van de Peer. (2022). syntenet: an R/Bioconductor package for the inference and analysis of synteny networks. Bioinformatics. 39(1). 11 indexed citations

Fang, Yuhan, et al.. (2022). Revisiting ancient polyploidy in leptosporangiate ferns. New Phytologist. 237(4). 1405–1417. 11 indexed citations

Duong, Tuan A., Xiao Ma, Nigel P. Barker, et al.. (2022). The genome of the king protea, Protea cynaroides. The Plant Journal. 113(2). 262–276. 6 indexed citations

Greenhalgh, Robert, Wannes Dermauw, Joris J. Glas, et al.. (2020). Genome streamlining in a minute herbivore that manipulates its host plant. eLife. 9. 34 indexed citations

Zwaenepoel, Arthur & Yves Van de Peer. (2019). Inference of Ancient Whole-Genome Duplications and the Evolution of Gene Duplication and Loss Rates. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36(7). 1384–1404. 55 indexed citations

Jonge, Ronnie de, Malaika K. Ebert, Jeffrey C. Suttle, et al.. (2018). Gene cluster conservation provides insight into cercosporin biosynthesis and extends production to the genus Colletotrichum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(24). E5459–E5466. 67 indexed citations

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Lin, Yao‐Cheng, Boris Parizot, Ana Fernandez, et al.. (2015). Expanding the repertoire of secretory peptides controlling root development with comparative genome analysis and functional assays. Journal of Experimental Botany. 66(17). 5257–5269. 70 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Sophia, J. Mark Cock, R. Luthringer, et al.. (2014). A Haploid System of Sex Determination in the Brown Alga Ectocarpus sp.. Current Biology. 24(17). 1945–1957. 117 indexed citations

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Brown, Jennifer R., Megan Hanna, Bethany Tesar, et al.. (2012). Integrative Genomic Analysis Implicates Gain of PIK3CA at 3q26 and MYC at 8q24 in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. Clinical Cancer Research. 18(14). 3791–3802. 59 indexed citations

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Fawcett, Jeffrey A., Steven Maere, & Yves Van de Peer. (2009). Plants with double genomes might have had a better chance to survive the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(14). 5737–5742. 466 indexed citations breakdown →

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Joshi, Anagha, Riet De Smet, Kathleen Marchal, Yves Van de Peer, & Tom Michoel. (2009). Module networks revisited: computational assessment and prioritization of model predictions. Bioinformatics. 25(4). 490–496. 64 indexed citations

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Amoutzias, Grigoris D., David L. Robertson, Yves Van de Peer, & Stephen G. Oliver. (2008). Choose your partners: dimerization in eukaryotic transcription factors. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 33(5). 220–229. 208 indexed citations

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Maere, Steven, Stefanie De Bodt, Jeroen Raes, et al.. (2005). Modeling gene and genome duplications in eukaryotes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(15). 5454–5459. 700 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bonnet, Éric, J. Wuyts, Pierre Rouzé, & Yves Van de Peer. (2004). Detection of 91 potential conserved plant microRNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa identifies important target genes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(31). 11511–11516. 368 indexed citations

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Rombauts, Stéphane, et al.. (2003). Computational Approaches to Identify Promoters and cis-Regulatory Elements in Plant Genomes. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 132(3). 1162–1176. 133 indexed citations

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Simillion, Cédric, Klaas Vandepoele, Marc C. E. Van Montagu, Marc Zabeau, & Yves Van de Peer. (2002). The hidden duplication past of Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(21). 13627–13632. 404 indexed citations

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Winnepenninckx, Birgitta, Yves Van de Peer, Koen Peeters, Ivo De Baere, & Luc Moëns. (1992). Study of invertebrate and plant globins : templates and evolutionary trees. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

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