2026 Stein Aerts: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	65	2655	2515	41	38	189	28070

Stein Aerts 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 Stein Aerts sits on this spectrum.

45 publications 703+

This scientist: 189 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stein Aerts 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 Stein Aerts sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Stein Aerts is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has a body of work primarily focused on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans several subfields including molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, biophysics, cancer research, and immunology. The main topics in their work involve single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, genomics and chromatin dynamics, CRISPR and genetic engineering, neurobiology and insect physiology research, cancer genomics and diagnostics, cell image analysis techniques, and RNA research and splicing.

Recent publications by Stein Aerts include notable papers such as:

"A scalable SCENIC workflow for single-cell gene regulatory network analysis," 2020, Nature Protocols
"Fly Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult fruit fly," 2022, Science
"SCENIC+: single-cell multiomic inference of enhancers and gene regulatory networks," 2023, Nature Methods
"Robust gene expression programs underlie recurrent cell states and phenotype switching in melanoma," 2020, Nature Cell Biology
"Mitochondria metabolism sets the species-specific tempo of neuronal development," 2023, Science

Stein Aerts commonly publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), with 27 publications, followed by eLife (6 publications), Nature (5 publications), Science (4 publications), and Nature Communications (4 publications).

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Regular co-authors include:

Gert Hulselmans (37 co-publications)
Suresh Poovathingal (31 co-publications)
Valerie Christiaens (24 co-publications)
Kristofer Davie (19 co-publications)
Carmen Bravo González-Blas (19 co-publications)

Best Publications

SCENIC: single-cell regulatory network inference and clustering.

Sara Aibar;Carmen Bravo González-Blas;Thomas Moerman;Vân Anh Huynh-Thu

6357
Citations
Phenotype molding of stromal cells in the lung tumor microenvironment.

Diether Lambrechts;Els Wauters;Bram Boeckx;Sara Aibar

1678
Citations
Gene prioritization through genomic data fusion.

Stein Aerts;Diether Lambrechts;Sunit Maity;Peter Van Loo

1129
Citations
A Single-Cell Transcriptome Atlas of the Aging Drosophila Brain

Kristofer Davie;Jasper Janssens;Duygu Koldere;Maxime De Waegeneer

890
Citations
A scalable SCENIC workflow for single-cell gene regulatory network analysis.

Bram Van de Sande;Christopher Flerin;Kristofer Davie;Maxime De Waegeneer

840
Citations
iRegulon: from a gene list to a gene regulatory network using large motif and track collections.

Rekin's Janky;Annelien Verfaillie;Hana Imrichová;Bram Van de Sande

831
Citations
Discovery of functional elements in 12 Drosophila genomes using evolutionary signatures

Alexander Stark;Michael F Lin;Pouya Kheradpour;Jakob Skou Pedersen;Jakob Skou Pedersen

732
Citations
Toward Minimal Residual Disease-Directed Therapy in Melanoma.

Florian Rambow;Aljosja Rogiers;Oskar Marin-Bejar;Sara Aibar

610
Citations
GRNBoost2 and Arboreto: efficient and scalable inference of gene regulatory networks.

Thomas Moerman;Thomas Moerman;Sara Aibar Santos;Carmen Bravo González-Blas;Jaak Simm;Jaak Simm

575
Citations
Melanoma addiction to the long non-coding RNA SAMMSON.

Eleonora Leucci;Roberto Vendramin;Marco Spinazzi;Patrick Laurette

528
Citations
Alteration of the microRNA network during the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

Pierre Lau;Koen Bossers;Rekin's Janky;Evgenia Salta

524
Citations
Exome sequencing identifies mutation in CNOT3 and ribosomal genes RPL5 and RPL10 in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Kim De Keersmaecker;Zeynep Kalender Atak;Ning Li;Carmen Vicente

457
Citations
p53 induces formation of NEAT1 lncRNA-containing paraspeckles that modulate replication stress response and chemosensitivity

Carmen Adriaens;Laura Standaert;Jasmine Barra;Mathilde Latil

429
Citations
Decoding the regulatory landscape of melanoma reveals TEADS as regulators of the invasive cell state

Annelien Verfaillie;Hana Imrichova;Zeynep Kalender Atak;Michael Dewaele

424
Citations
cisTopic: cis-regulatory topic modeling on single-cell ATAC-seq data

Carmen Bravo González-Blas;Liesbeth Minnoye;Dafni Papasokrati;Sara Aibar

378
Citations
ORegAnno: an open-access community-driven resource for regulatory annotation.

Obi L. Griffith;Stephen B. Montgomery;Bridget Bernier;Bryan Chu

322
Citations
Endeavour update: a web resource for gene prioritization in multiple species

Léon-Charles Tranchevent;Roland Barriot;Shi Yu;Steven Van Vooren

279
Citations
Toucan: deciphering the cis‐regulatory logic of coregulated genes

Stein Aerts;Gert Thijs;Bert Coessens;Mik Staes

249
Citations
Comparison and meta-analysis of microarray data: from the bench to the computer desk.

Yves Moreau;Stein Aerts;Bart De Moor;Bart De Strooper

232
Citations
Mapping gene regulatory networks from single-cell omics data.

Mark W E J Fiers;Liesbeth Minnoye;Sara Aibar;Carmen Bravo González-Blas

206
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Cools KU Leuven

Yves Moreau KU Leuven

Jean-Christophe Marine KU Leuven

Bart De Moor KU Leuven

Peter Vandenberghe KU Leuven

Bernard Thienpont KU Leuven

Peter Van Loo The Francis Crick Institute

Diether Lambrechts KU Leuven

Bart De Strooper KU Leuven

Iwona Wlodarska KU Leuven

External Links

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