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Kathleen Marchal

Kathleen Marchal

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
62
Citations
28385
World Ranking
2940
National Ranking
44

Kathleen Marchal publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kathleen Marchal sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 305 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Kathleen Marchal D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kathleen Marchal sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Kathleen Marchal is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology with 104 publications. Their research spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Ecology, Food Science, Endocrinology, and Molecular Medicine.

Their recent publications include:

  • Integrative pathway enrichment analysis of multivariate omics data, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Cancer LncRNA Census reveals evidence for deep functional conservation of long noncoding RNAs in tumorigenesis, 2020, Communications Biology
  • Distinct Expression and Methylation Patterns for Genes with Different Fates following a Single Whole-Genome Duplication in Flowering Plants, 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Pathway and network analysis of more than 2500 whole cancer genomes, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Combining short and long read sequencing to characterize antimicrobial resistance genes on plasmids applied to an unauthorized genetically modified Bacillus, 2020, Scientific Reports

Kathleen Marchal's research covers a range of main topics including:

  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Escherichia coli research studies
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology

The scientist has published frequently in the following academic venues:

  • Frontiers in Microbiology (8 publications)
  • Nature Communications (7 publications)
  • Microbial Genomics (4 publications)
  • Research Square (4 publications)
  • Scientific Reports (3 publications)

Frequent co-authors associated with Kathleen Marchal's work include:

  • Sigrid C. J. De Keersmaecker (28 joint publications)
  • Nancy H. C. Roosens (27 joint publications)
  • Kevin Vanneste (26 joint publications)
  • Bert Bogaerts (12 joint publications)
  • Bavo Verhaegen (12 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • PlantCARE, a database of plant cis-acting regulatory elements and a portal to tools for in silico analysis of promoter sequences

    Magali Lescot;Patrice Déhais;Gert Thijs;Kathleen Marchal

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

    Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

  • The evolutionary significance of polyploidy

    Yves Van de Peer;Eshchar Mizrachi;Kathleen Marchal

  • Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes

    Yilong Li;Nicola D Roberts;Jeremiah A Wala;Jeremiah A Wala;Ofer Shapira;Ofer Shapira

  • Evaluation of time profile reconstruction from complex two-color microarray designs

    Ana Carolina Fierro;Raphael Thuret;Kristof Engelen;Gilles Bernot

  • Advantages and limitations of current network inference methods

    Riet De Smet;Kathleen Marchal

  • A higher-order background model improves the detection of promoter regulatory elements by Gibbs sampling.

    Gert Thijs;Magali Lescot;Kathleen Marchal;Stephane Rombauts

  • A Gibbs sampling method to detect overrepresented motifs in the upstream regions of coexpressed genes.

    Gert Thijs;Kathleen Marchal;Magali Lescot;Stephane Rombauts

  • A Gibbs sampling method to detect over-represented motifs in the upstream regions of co-expressed genes

    Gert Thijs;Kathleen Marchal;Magali Lescot;Stephane Rombauts

  • A network-based approach to identify substrate classes of bacterial glycosyltransferases

    Aminael Sánchez-Rodríguez;Aminael Sánchez-Rodríguez;Hanne L P Tytgat;Hanne L P Tytgat;Joris Winderickx;Jos Vanderleyden

  • Strong antimicrobial activity of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG against Salmonella typhimurium is due to accumulation of lactic acid

    Sigrid C.J. De Keersmaecker;Tine L.A. Verhoeven;Jos Desair;Kathleen Marchal

  • SynTReN: a generator of synthetic gene expression data for design and analysis of structure learning algorithms

    Tim Van den Bulcke;Koenraad Van Leemput;Bart Naudts;Piet van Remortel

  • Obg and Membrane Depolarization Are Part of a Microbial Bet-Hedging Strategy that Leads to Antibiotic Tolerance

    Natalie Verstraeten;Wouter Joris Knapen;Cyrielle Ines Kint;Veerle Liebens

  • Adaptive quality-based clustering of gene expression profiles

    Frank De Smet;Janick Mathys;Kathleen Marchal;Gert Thijs

  • Brominated furanones inhibit biofilm formation by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium.

    Joost C. A. Janssens;Hans Steenackers;Stijn Robijns;Edith Gellens

  • Vitamin D3 Induces Tolerance in Human Dendritic Cells by Activation of Intracellular Metabolic Pathways.

    Gabriela Bomfim Ferreira;An-Sofie Vanherwegen;Guy Eelen;Ana Carolina Fierro Gutiérrez

  • Computational approaches to identify promoters and cis-regulatory elements in plant genomes.

    Stephane Rombauts;Kobe Florquin;Magali Lescot;Kathleen Marchal

  • PKA and Sch9 control a molecular switch important for the proper adaptation to nutrient availability.

    Johnny Roosen;Kristof Engelen;Kathleen Marchal;Janick Mathys

  • Phenotypical and molecular responses of Arabidopsis thaliana roots as a result of inoculation with the auxin-producing bacterium Azospirillum brasilense

    Stijn Spaepen;Stijn Bossuyt;Kristof Engelen;Kathleen Marchal;Kathleen Marchal

  • Using ribosomal protein genes as reference: a tale of caution.

    Lieven Thorrez;Katrijn Van Deun;Léon-Charles Tranchevent;Leentje Van Lommel

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