Aurélien Saghaï

1.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
27 papers, 834 citations indexed

About

Aurélien Saghaï is a scholar working on Ecology, Plant Science and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Aurélien Saghaï has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 834 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Ecology, 10 papers in Plant Science and 8 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Aurélien Saghaï's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (15 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (8 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (7 papers). Aurélien Saghaï is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (15 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (8 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (7 papers). Aurélien Saghaï collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, France and Spain. Aurélien Saghaï's co-authors include Sara Hallin, Laurent Philippot, Purificación López‐García, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, Sana Romdhane, Samiran Banerjee, Aymé Spor, Florine Degrune, Chantal Herzog and Gina Garland and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

Aurélien Saghaï

24 papers receiving 828 citations

Hit Papers

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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. Crop cover is more important than rotational diversity for soil multifunctionality and cereal yields in European cropping systems
    2021 183 citations Gina Garland, Anna Edlinger et al. Nature Food profile →
  2. Agricultural management and pesticide use reduce the functioning of beneficial plant symbionts
    2022 110 citations Anna Edlinger, Gina Garland et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Aurélien Saghaï Sweden 15 375 286 267 191 96 27 834
Catherine Preece Spain 19 451 1.2× 879 3.1× 572 2.1× 157 0.8× 149 1.6× 40 1.6k
Beth Brockett United Kingdom 5 455 1.2× 264 0.9× 545 2.0× 136 0.7× 47 0.5× 11 913
Silvia Pajares Mexico 12 382 1.0× 107 0.4× 216 0.8× 149 0.8× 22 0.2× 32 677
Lizhe An China 21 347 0.9× 439 1.5× 148 0.6× 225 1.2× 70 0.7× 57 1.1k
Christopher Steenbock United States 6 751 2.0× 526 1.8× 685 2.6× 343 1.8× 64 0.7× 7 1.4k
Spencer J. Debenport United States 9 502 1.3× 228 0.8× 430 1.6× 210 1.1× 48 0.5× 14 853
Felicity Crotty United Kingdom 16 314 0.8× 276 1.0× 421 1.6× 70 0.4× 120 1.3× 32 794
Felix Heitkamp Germany 15 340 0.9× 219 0.8× 682 2.6× 40 0.2× 100 1.0× 25 1.0k
Emily E. Austin United States 4 423 1.1× 266 0.9× 450 1.7× 124 0.6× 86 0.9× 6 811
E. Ashley Shaw United States 14 513 1.4× 342 1.2× 500 1.9× 146 0.8× 30 0.3× 18 1.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aurélien Saghaï

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pold, Grace, Aurélien Saghaï, Christopher M. Jones, & Sara Hallin. (2025). Denitrification is a community trait with partial pathways dominating across microbial genomes and biomes. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9495–9495.
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Müller, Leopold, Sana Romdhane, Grace Pold, et al.. (2025). Resistance and resilience of co-occurring nitrifying microbial guilds to drying-rewetting stress in soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 208. 109846–109846. 3 indexed citations
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Saghaï, Aurélien, et al.. (2025). Microbial controls of nitrogen retention and N2O production in cropping systems supporting soil carbon accrual. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 208. 109858–109858. 1 indexed citations
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Valencia, Enrique, César Plaza, Gina Garland, et al.. (2024). The Positive Effects of Soil Organic Carbon on European Cereal Yields Level Off at 1.4%. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(4).
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Pold, Grace, Germán Bonilla‐Rosso, Aurélien Saghaï, et al.. (2024). Phylogenetics and environmental distribution of nitric oxide-forming nitrite reductases reveal their distinct functional and ecological roles. ISME Communications. 4(1). ycae020–ycae020. 13 indexed citations
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Saghaï, Aurélien & Sara Hallin. (2024). Diversity and ecology of NrfA-dependent ammonifying microorganisms. Trends in Microbiology. 32(6). 602–613. 12 indexed citations
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Degrune, Florine, Kenneth Dumack, Masahiro Ryo, et al.. (2024). The impact of fungi on soil protist communities in European cereal croplands. Environmental Microbiology. 26(7). e16673–e16673. 2 indexed citations
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Hallin, Sara & Aurélien Saghaï. (2023). Can nitrate‐reducing ammonifiers increase nitrogen retention in soil and support ammonium‐based cropping systems?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(4). 541–545. 3 indexed citations
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Saghaï, Aurélien, Grace Pold, Christopher M. Jones, & Sara Hallin. (2023). Phyloecology of nitrate ammonifiers and their importance relative to denitrifiers in global terrestrial biomes. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8249–8249. 24 indexed citations
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Pold, Grace, et al.. (2023). Distribution and Environmental Drivers of Fungal Denitrifiers in Global Soils. Microbiology Spectrum. 11(3). e0006123–e0006123. 10 indexed citations
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Edlinger, Anna, Gina Garland, Samiran Banerjee, et al.. (2023). The impact of agricultural management on soil aggregation and carbon storage is regulated by climatic thresholds across a 3000 km European gradient. Global Change Biology. 29(11). 3177–3192. 32 indexed citations
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Saghaï, Aurélien, et al.. (2023). Seed treatment with plant-defense elicitors decreases the abundance of ammonia oxidizers associated with winter wheat roots. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 180. 109016–109016.
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Edlinger, Anna, Gina Garland, Kyle Hartman, et al.. (2022). Agricultural management and pesticide use reduce the functioning of beneficial plant symbionts. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(8). 1145–1154. 110 indexed citations breakdown →
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Garland, Gina, Anna Edlinger, Samiran Banerjee, et al.. (2021). Crop cover is more important than rotational diversity for soil multifunctionality and cereal yields in European cropping systems. Nature Food. 2(1). 28–37. 183 indexed citations breakdown →
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Saghaï, Aurélien, Florine Degrune, Anna Edlinger, et al.. (2021). Diversity of archaea and niche preferences among putative ammonia‐oxidizing Nitrososphaeria dominating across European arable soils. Environmental Microbiology. 24(1). 341–356. 27 indexed citations
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Saghaï, Aurélien, Yvan Zivanovic, David Moreira, Rosaluz Tavera, & Purificación López‐García. (2020). A Novel Microbialite-Associated Phototrophic Chloroflexi Lineage Exhibiting a Quasi-Clonal Pattern along Depth. Genome Biology and Evolution. 12(7). 1207–1216. 4 indexed citations
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Graf, Daniel R.H., Aurélien Saghaï, Ming Zhao, et al.. (2019). Lucerne (Medicago sativa) alters N2O-reducing communities associated with cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata) roots and promotes N2O production in intercropping in a greenhouse experiment. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 137. 107547–107547. 34 indexed citations
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Gutiérrez‐Preciado, Ana, Aurélien Saghaï, David Moreira, et al.. (2018). Functional shifts in microbial mats recapitulate early Earth metabolic transitions. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(11). 1700–1708. 34 indexed citations
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Saghaï, Aurélien, Ana Gutiérrez‐Preciado, Philippe Deschamps, et al.. (2017). Unveiling microbial interactions in stratified mat communities from a warm saline shallow pond. Environmental Microbiology. 19(6). 2405–2421. 31 indexed citations
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Saghaï, Aurélien, Yvan Zivanovic, Nina Zeyen, et al.. (2015). Metagenome-based diversity analyses suggest a significant contribution of non-cyanobacterial lineages to carbonate precipitation in modern microbialites. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 797–797. 48 indexed citations

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