Alexandre Jousset

14.5k total citations · 9 hit papers
127 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Alexandre Jousset is a scholar working on Plant Science, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexandre Jousset has authored 127 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Plant Science, 33 papers in Ecology and 29 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Alexandre Jousset's work include Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (66 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (48 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (27 papers). Alexandre Jousset is often cited by papers focused on Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (66 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (48 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (27 papers). Alexandre Jousset collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, China and Germany. Alexandre Jousset's co-authors include Zhong Wei, Ville‐Petri Friman, Qirong Shen, George A. Kowalchuk, Yangchun Xu, Stefan Scheu, Nico Eisenhauer, Jie Hu, Stefan Geisen and Michael Bonkowski and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Alexandre Jousset

122 papers receiving 9.4k citations

Hit Papers

Where less may be more: h... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2017 2018 2015 2019 2020 250 500 750
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.

  1. Where less may be more: how the rare biosphere pulls ecosystems strings
    2017 905 citations Alexandre Jousset, Zhong Wei et al. The ISME Journal profile →
  2. Soil protists: a fertile frontier in soil biology research
    2018 445 citations Stefan Geisen, Edward A. D. Mitchell et al. FEMS Microbiology Reviews profile →
  3. Trophic network architecture of root-associated bacterial communities determines pathogen invasion and plant health
    2015 429 citations Zhong Wei, Tianjie Yang et al. Nature Communications profile →
  4. Initial soil microbiome composition and functioning predetermine future plant health
    2019 414 citations Zhong Wei, Yian Gu et al. profile →
  5. Competition for iron drives phytopathogen control by natural rhizosphere microbiomes
    2020 328 citations Zhong Wei, Ville‐Petri Friman et al. profile →
  6. More Than the Sum of Its Parts: Microbiome Biodiversity as a Driver of Plant Growth and Soil Health
    2019 310 citations Jie Hu, Alexandre Jousset et al. profile →
  7. Probiotic Diversity Enhances Rhizosphere Microbiome Function and Plant Disease Suppression
    2016 279 citations Jie Hu, Zhong Wei et al. mBio profile →
  8. Rhizosphere protists are key determinants of plant health
    2020 233 citations Wu Xiong, Keming Yang et al. Microbiome profile →
  9. Trophic interactions between predatory protists and pathogen-suppressive bacteria impact plant health
    2022 125 citations Sai Guo, Chengyuan Tao et al. The ISME Journal profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Alexandre Jousset 5.9k 3.0k 2.6k 1.3k 836 127 9.5k
Joana Falcão Salles 3.6k 0.6× 4.1k 1.3× 3.0k 1.2× 1.4k 1.1× 543 0.6× 144 9.0k
Ruifu Zhang 6.6k 1.1× 2.2k 0.7× 2.9k 1.1× 2.2k 1.7× 763 0.9× 178 10.4k
Philippe Lemanceau 5.7k 1.0× 3.0k 1.0× 2.0k 0.8× 2.3k 1.8× 1.0k 1.2× 74 9.4k
Anton Hartmann 6.3k 1.1× 1.8k 0.6× 2.4k 0.9× 1.1k 0.8× 743 0.9× 122 9.4k
Stefan Geisen 3.9k 0.7× 3.9k 1.3× 2.7k 1.1× 2.1k 1.7× 353 0.4× 153 8.6k
Pankaj Trivedi 6.6k 1.1× 2.6k 0.9× 2.0k 0.8× 2.3k 1.8× 1.1k 1.3× 111 10.3k
Klaus Schlaeppi 8.3k 1.4× 3.4k 1.1× 3.0k 1.2× 2.1k 1.6× 1.2k 1.4× 55 12.1k
Ville‐Petri Friman 3.2k 0.5× 2.1k 0.7× 1.5k 0.6× 1.0k 0.8× 395 0.5× 114 6.6k
Ashley Shade 2.0k 0.3× 3.8k 1.3× 2.9k 1.1× 857 0.7× 468 0.6× 87 7.6k
Michael Bonkowski 4.8k 0.8× 4.1k 1.4× 2.7k 1.0× 3.1k 2.4× 345 0.4× 216 10.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Alexandre Jousset

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Alexandre Jousset's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Alexandre Jousset with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Alexandre Jousset more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Alexandre Jousset

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Alexandre Jousset. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Alexandre Jousset. The network helps show where Alexandre Jousset may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexandre Jousset

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Yang, Tianjie, Xinlan Mei, Ningqi Wang, et al.. (2025). Substrate utilization and cross-feeding synergistically determine microbiome resistance to pathogen invasion. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 10(2). 211–220.
2.
Liu, Chen, Yijin Wang, Shimei Wang, et al.. (2024). Protist predation promotes antimicrobial resistance spread through antagonistic microbiome interactions. The ISME Journal. 18(1). 9 indexed citations
3.
Liu, Chen, Yue Yang, Ying Yuan, et al.. (2024). Co-inoculation of protist and Bacillus enhances plant growth via reshaping rhizosphere bacterial community composition and function. Pedosphere. 35(5). 893–900. 5 indexed citations
4.
Jousset, Alexandre, Stefan Geisen, Enrique Lara, et al.. (2024). Protist communities as indicators of fertilization-induced changes in a species-rich grassland ecosystem. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 372. 109101–109101. 5 indexed citations
5.
Jiang, Gaofei, Yuling Zhang, Min Chen, et al.. (2024). Effects of plant tissue permeability on invasion and population bottlenecks of a phytopathogen. Nature Communications. 15(1). 62–62. 6 indexed citations
6.
Wang, Ningqi, Thomas Pommier, Alexandre Jousset, et al.. (2024). High microbiome diversity constricts the prevalence of human and animal pathogens in the plant rhizosphere worldwide. One Earth. 7(7). 1301–1312. 13 indexed citations
7.
Shen, Zongzhuan, Beibei Wang, Alexandre Jousset, et al.. (2023). Intercropping with Trifolium repens contributes disease suppression of banana Fusarium wilt by reshaping soil protistan communities. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 361. 108797–108797. 12 indexed citations
8.
Li, Jingxuan, Chunlan Yang, Alexandre Jousset, et al.. (2023). Engineering multifunctional rhizosphere probiotics using consortia of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens transposon insertion mutants. eLife. 12. 3 indexed citations
9.
Wang, Jianing, Waseem Raza, Gaofei Jiang, et al.. (2023). Bacterial volatile organic compounds attenuate pathogen virulence via evolutionary trade-offs. The ISME Journal. 17(3). 443–452. 26 indexed citations
10.
Gu, Yian, Samiran Banerjee, Francisco Dini‐Andreote, et al.. (2022). Small changes in rhizosphere microbiome composition predict disease outcomes earlier than pathogen density variations. The ISME Journal. 16(10). 2448–2456. 93 indexed citations
11.
Yang, Tianjie, Xinlan Mei, Ningqi Wang, et al.. (2022). Bio-Organic Fertilizer Promotes Pear Yield by Shaping the Rhizosphere Microbiome Composition and Functions. Microbiology Spectrum. 10(6). e0357222–e0357222. 29 indexed citations
12.
Guo, Sai, Chengyuan Tao, Alexandre Jousset, et al.. (2022). Trophic interactions between predatory protists and pathogen-suppressive bacteria impact plant health. The ISME Journal. 16(8). 1932–1943. 125 indexed citations breakdown →
13.
Li, Erqin, Hao Zhang, Corné M. J. Pieterse, et al.. (2021). Experimental-Evolution-Driven Identification of Arabidopsis Rhizosphere Competence Genes in Pseudomonas protegens. mBio. 12(3). e0092721–e0092721. 22 indexed citations
14.
Xiong, Wu, Alexandre Jousset, Rong Li, et al.. (2021). A global overview of the trophic structure within microbiomes across ecosystems. Environment International. 151. 106438–106438. 63 indexed citations
15.
Xiong, Wu, Keming Yang, Yian Gu, et al.. (2020). Rhizosphere protists are key determinants of plant health. Microbiome. 8(1). 27–27. 233 indexed citations breakdown →
16.
Raza, Waseem, Jianing Wang, Alexandre Jousset, et al.. (2020). Bacterial community richness shifts the balance between volatile organic compound-mediated microbe–pathogen and microbe–plant interactions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1925). 20200403–20200403. 36 indexed citations
17.
Geisen, Stefan, Edward A. D. Mitchell, Sina M. Adl, et al.. (2018). Soil protists: a fertile frontier in soil biology research. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 42(3). 293–323. 445 indexed citations breakdown →
18.
Hu, Jie, et al.. (2017). Probiotic Pseudomonas communities enhance plant growth and nutrient assimilation via diversity-mediated ecosystem functioning. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 113. 122–129. 86 indexed citations
19.
Eisenhauer, Nico, et al.. (2012). Niche dimensionality links biodiversity and invasibility of microbial communities. Functional Ecology. 27(1). 282–288. 127 indexed citations
20.
Jousset, Alexandre, Laurène Rochat, Stefan Scheu, Michael Bonkowski, & Christoph Keel. (2010). Predator-Prey Chemical Warfare Determines the Expression of Biocontrol Genes by Rhizosphere-Associated Pseudomonas fluorescens. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 76(15). 5263–5268. 62 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Joana Falcão Salles Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Ruifu Zhang Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Philippe Lemanceau Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Anton Hartmann Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Stefan Geisen Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Pankaj Trivedi Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Klaus Schlaeppi Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Ville‐Petri Friman Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Ashley Shade Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Michael Bonkowski
Rankless by CCL
2026