Benoît Richard

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 760 citations indexed

About

Benoît Richard is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Benoît Richard has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 760 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 5 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Benoît Richard's work include Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology (9 papers), Study of Mite Species (5 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (3 papers). Benoît Richard is often cited by papers focused on Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology (9 papers), Study of Mite Species (5 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (3 papers). Benoît Richard collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Sweden. Benoît Richard's co-authors include Thibaud Decaëns, David Porco, Rodolphe Rougerie, Samuel W. James, Christer Erséus, Paul D. N. Hebert, Jonathan Lenoir, David A. Nipperess, Manuel Esperón‐Rodríguez and John B. Baumgartner and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Nature Climate Change and Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Benoît Richard

16 papers receiving 737 citations

Hit Papers

Climate change increases global risk to urban forests 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 50 100 150
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. Climate change increases global risk to urban forests
    2022 166 citations Manuel Esperón‐Rodríguez, Mark G. Tjoelker et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Benoît Richard France 13 457 298 128 119 103 16 760
Ulfert Graefe Germany 12 194 0.4× 248 0.8× 73 0.6× 19 0.2× 57 0.6× 29 595
Darío J. Díaz Cosín Spain 20 998 2.2× 592 2.0× 29 0.2× 222 1.9× 57 0.6× 82 1.2k
Fabio Francesconi Italy 11 79 0.2× 122 0.4× 191 1.5× 45 0.4× 36 0.3× 17 508
Rüdiger M. Schmelz Spain 17 485 1.1× 431 1.4× 57 0.4× 105 0.9× 96 0.9× 69 907
Shishir Paudel United States 14 112 0.2× 180 0.6× 179 1.4× 9 0.1× 71 0.7× 26 571
Jinniu Wang China 15 107 0.2× 223 0.7× 284 2.2× 33 0.3× 20 0.2× 40 853
Outi‐Maaria Sietiö Finland 13 77 0.2× 184 0.6× 100 0.8× 35 0.3× 30 0.3× 28 676
Bradley Matthews Austria 13 99 0.2× 329 1.1× 295 2.3× 17 0.1× 31 0.3× 18 739
Philippe Mora France 15 218 0.5× 104 0.3× 32 0.3× 9 0.1× 74 0.7× 23 536
Miklós Dombos Hungary 13 136 0.3× 159 0.5× 122 1.0× 6 0.1× 48 0.5× 29 490

Countries citing papers authored by Benoît Richard

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Fields of papers citing papers by Benoît Richard

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Benoît Richard. 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 Benoît Richard. The network helps show where Benoît Richard may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benoît Richard

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

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Irz, Pascal, Thibault Vigneron, Nicolas Poulet, Benoît Richard, & Thierry Oberdorff. (2024). The biological condition of French rivers has not improved over the last seventeen years according to the national Fish-Based-Index (FBI). Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems. 11–11. 2 indexed citations
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Gril, Eva, Fabien Spicher, Caroline Greiser, et al.. (2023). Slope and equilibrium: A parsimonious and flexible approach to model microclimate. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(3). 885–897. 30 indexed citations
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Esperón‐Rodríguez, Manuel, Mark G. Tjoelker, Jonathan Lenoir, et al.. (2022). Climate change increases global risk to urban forests. Nature Climate Change. 12(10). 950–955. 166 indexed citations breakdown →
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Amghar, Fateh, Estelle Forey, Benoît Richard, et al.. (2016). Old nurses always die: impacts of nurse age on local plant richness. Plant Ecology. 217(4). 407–419. 13 indexed citations
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Dupont, Lise, et al.. (2015). Dispersal constraints and fine-scale spatial genetic structure in two earthworm species. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 114(2). 335–347. 26 indexed citations
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Barot, Sébastien, et al.. (2014). The interactions between soil type and earthworm species determine the properties of earthworm casts. Applied Soil Ecology. 83. 149–158. 46 indexed citations
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Asiimwe, Caroline & Benoît Richard. (2013). Leaf out phenology in temperate forests. Biodiversity Science. 21(1). 111–116. 13 indexed citations
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Richard, Benoît, Marc Legras, Pierre Margerie, et al.. (2012). Spatial organization of earthworm assemblages in pastures of northwestern France. European Journal of Soil Biology. 53. 62–69. 21 indexed citations
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Porco, David, Thibaud Decaëns, Louis Deharveng, et al.. (2012). Biological invasions in soil: DNA barcoding as a monitoring tool in a multiple taxa survey targeting European earthworms and springtails in North America. Biological Invasions. 15(4). 899–910. 84 indexed citations
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Dupont, Lise, David Porco, R. Andrew King, et al.. (2011). New insight into the genetic structure of the Allolobophora chlorotica aggregate in Europe using microsatellite and mitochondrial data. Pedobiologia. 54(4). 217–224. 57 indexed citations
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Richard, Benoît, et al.. (2010). Gestion des connaissances et systèmes d'organisation de connaissances. Premier modèle et retours d'expérience industriels. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 13(2). 57–73. 1 indexed citations
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James, Samuel W., David Porco, Thibaud Decaëns, et al.. (2010). DNA Barcoding Reveals Cryptic Diversity in Lumbricus terrestris L., 1758 (Clitellata): Resurrection of L. herculeus (Savigny, 1826). PLoS ONE. 5(12). e15629–e15629. 139 indexed citations
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Richard, Benoît, Thibaud Decaëns, Rodolphe Rougerie, et al.. (2009). Re‐integrating earthworm juveniles into soil biodiversity studies: species identification through DNA barcoding. Molecular Ecology Resources. 10(4). 606–614. 60 indexed citations
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Rougerie, Rodolphe, Thibaud Decaëns, Louis Deharveng, et al.. (2009). DNA barcodes for soil animal taxonomy. Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira. 44(8). 789–802. 77 indexed citations
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Richard, Benoît. (1960). UN PARC A CASTORS DANS LA REGION DE PARIS. Mammalia. 24(4). 1 indexed citations

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