Bernard La Scola

42.2k total citations · 7 hit papers
481 papers, 23.8k citations indexed

About

Bernard La Scola is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernard La Scola has authored 481 papers receiving a total of 23.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 166 papers in Infectious Diseases, 160 papers in Ecology and 135 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Bernard La Scola's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (148 papers), Legionella and Acanthamoeba research (78 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (64 papers). Bernard La Scola is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (148 papers), Legionella and Acanthamoeba research (78 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (64 papers). Bernard La Scola collaborates with scholars based in France, Brazil and United States. Bernard La Scola's co-authors include Didier Raoult, Philippe Colson, Pierre‐Edouard Fournier, Michel Drancourt, Jean‐Marc Rolain, Isabelle Pagnier, Catherine Robert, Atieh Khamis, Piseth Seng and Jean‐Christophe Lagier and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Bernard La Scola

474 papers receiving 23.3k citations

Hit Papers

Ongoing Revolution in Bacteriology: Routine Identificatio... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2009 2012 2004 2003 2015 400 800 1.2k
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. Ongoing Revolution in Bacteriology: Routine Identification of Bacteria by Matrix‐Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time‐of‐Flight Mass Spectrometry
    2009 1.4k citations Michel Drancourt, Bernard La Scola et al. profile →
  2. Microbial culturomics: paradigm shift in the human gut microbiome study
    2012 819 citations Jean‐Christophe Lagier, Matthieu Million et al. profile →
  3. The 1.2-Megabase Genome Sequence of Mimivirus
    2004 774 citations Didier Raoult, Stéphane Audic et al. Science profile →
  4. A Giant Virus in Amoebae
    2003 615 citations Bernard La Scola, Stéphane Audic et al. Science profile →
  5. The Rebirth of Culture in Microbiology through the Example of Culturomics To Study Human Gut Microbiota
    2015 553 citations Jean‐Christophe Lagier, Pierre‐Edouard Fournier et al. profile →
  6. Viral RNA load as determined by cell culture as a management tool for discharge of SARS-CoV-2 patients from infectious disease wards
    2020 533 citations Bernard La Scola, Marion Le Bideau et al. profile →
  7. Challenges in exploring and manipulating the human skin microbiome
    2021 154 citations Nadim Cassir, Bernard La Scola et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bernard La Scola France 76 6.9k 6.8k 6.7k 4.6k 4.3k 481 23.8k
Edward J. Feil United Kingdom 61 2.5k 0.4× 6.4k 0.9× 7.6k 1.1× 2.3k 0.5× 1.4k 0.3× 175 19.9k
Michel Drancourt France 77 2.2k 0.3× 6.8k 1.0× 6.7k 1.0× 2.2k 0.5× 3.7k 0.9× 562 22.5k
Patrick A. D. Grimont France 70 6.1k 0.9× 3.2k 0.5× 11.6k 1.7× 5.5k 1.2× 1.8k 0.4× 290 25.4k
Martin Maiden United Kingdom 89 3.7k 0.5× 7.5k 1.1× 8.0k 1.2× 4.3k 0.9× 916 0.2× 418 31.3k
Freddy Haesebrouck Belgium 87 3.2k 0.5× 8.8k 1.3× 7.0k 1.0× 2.9k 0.6× 782 0.2× 925 33.3k
Torsten Seemann Australia 48 4.5k 0.7× 4.9k 0.7× 8.8k 1.3× 3.0k 0.7× 704 0.2× 172 20.4k
Pierre‐Edouard Fournier France 87 2.4k 0.3× 11.2k 1.6× 8.7k 1.3× 2.7k 0.6× 11.5k 2.7× 881 31.2k
Ole Lund Denmark 83 4.3k 0.6× 5.8k 0.9× 18.3k 2.7× 5.4k 1.2× 590 0.1× 324 36.2k
Jean‐Marc Rolain France 67 1.3k 0.2× 7.7k 1.1× 5.3k 0.8× 3.3k 0.7× 4.9k 1.1× 539 23.8k
Paul Keim United States 86 4.7k 0.7× 2.5k 0.4× 9.0k 1.3× 2.1k 0.4× 1.2k 0.3× 415 22.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Boschi, Céline, Aurélie Morand, Jean‐Christophe Lagier, et al.. (2025). Five‐Year (2017–2022) Evolutionary Dynamics of Human Coronavirus HKU1 in Southern France With Emergence of Viruses Harboring Spike H512R Substitution. Journal of Medical Virology. 97(2). e70217–e70217. 1 indexed citations
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Boschi, Céline, Marielle Bedotto, Aurélie Morand, et al.. (2024). Sequencing and characterization of human bocavirus genomes from patients diagnosed in Southern France between 2017 and 2022. Journal of Medical Virology. 96(6). e29706–e29706. 3 indexed citations
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Edouard, Sophie, Céline Boschi, Philippe Colson, et al.. (2024). Incidental diagnosis of mpox virus infection in patients undergoing sexually transmitted infection screening—findings from a study in France. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 143. 107009–107009. 2 indexed citations
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Tissot‐Dupont, Hervé, Céline Boschi, Philippe Parola, et al.. (2023). How to distinguish mpox from its mimickers: An observational retrospective cohort study. Journal of Medical Virology. 95(10). e29147–e29147. 3 indexed citations
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Colson, Philippe, Pierre‐Edouard Fournier, Jérémy Delerce, et al.. (2022). EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Culture and identification of a “Deltamicron” SARS‐CoV‐2 in a three cases cluster in southern France. Journal of Medical Virology. 94(8). 3739–3749. 49 indexed citations
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Cassir, Nadim, Hervé Tissot‐Dupont, Barbara Doudier, et al.. (2022). Observational Cohort Study of Evolving Epidemiologic, Clinical, and Virologic Features of Monkeypox in Southern France. Emerging infectious diseases. 28(12). 2409–2415. 28 indexed citations
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Aherfi, Sarah, Lucile Pinault, Jean‐Pierre Baudoin, et al.. (2021). Incomplete tricarboxylic acid cycle and proton gradient in Pandoravirus massiliensis : is it still a virus?. The ISME Journal. 16(3). 695–704. 17 indexed citations
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Boumaza, Asma, Laëtitia Gay, Soraya Mezouar, et al.. (2021). Monocytes and Macrophages, Targets of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2: The Clue for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Immunoparalysis. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 224(3). 395–406. 117 indexed citations
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Boratto, Paulo Victor de Miranda, Graziele Pereira Oliveira, Jean‐Pierre Baudoin, et al.. (2020). Yaravirus: A novel 80-nm virus infecting Acanthamoeba castellanii. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(28). 16579–16586. 35 indexed citations
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Andréani, Julien, Jacques Bou Khalil, Marion Le Bideau, et al.. (2019). Human Infection with Orf Virus and Description of Its Whole Genome, France, 2017. Emerging infectious diseases. 25(12). 2197–2204. 27 indexed citations
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Colson, Philippe, Bernard La Scola, & Didier Raoult. (2017). Giant Viruses of Amoebae: A Journey Through Innovative Research and Paradigm Changes. Annual Review of Virology. 4(1). 61–85. 48 indexed citations
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Andréani, Julien, Jacques Bou Khalil, Madhumati Sevvana, et al.. (2017). Pacmanvirus, a New Giant Icosahedral Virus at the Crossroads between Asfarviridae and Faustoviruses. Journal of Virology. 91(14). 90 indexed citations
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Bajrai, Leena H., Samia Benamar, Esam I. Azhar, et al.. (2016). Kaumoebavirus, a New Virus That Clusters with Faustoviruses and Asfarviridae. Viruses. 8(11). 278–278. 69 indexed citations
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Desnues, Christelle, Bernard La Scola, Natalya Yutin, et al.. (2012). Provirophages and transpovirons as the diverse mobilome of giant viruses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(44). 18078–18083. 159 indexed citations
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Boyer, Mickaël, Saı̈d Azza, Lina Barrassi, et al.. (2011). Mimivirus shows dramatic genome reduction after intraamoebal culture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(25). 10296–10301. 113 indexed citations
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Boyer, Mickaël, Natalya Yutin, Isabelle Pagnier, et al.. (2009). Giant Marseillevirus highlights the role of amoebae as a melting pot in emergence of chimeric microorganisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(51). 21848–21853. 304 indexed citations
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Adékambi, Toïdi, Martine Reynaud‐Gaubert, Gilbert Greub, et al.. (2004). Amoebal Coculture of “ Mycobacterium massiliense ” sp. nov. from the Sputum of a Patient with Hemoptoic Pneumonia. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 42(12). 5493–5501. 228 indexed citations
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Alsmark, Cecilia, A. Carolin Frank, E. Olof Karlberg, et al.. (2004). The louse-borne human pathogen Bartonella quintana is a genomic derivative of the zoonotic agent Bartonella henselae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(26). 9716–9721. 189 indexed citations
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Raoult, Didier, Stéphane Audic, Catherine Robert, et al.. (2004). The 1.2-Megabase Genome Sequence of Mimivirus. Science. 306(5700). 1344–1350. 774 indexed citations breakdown →

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