Christophe Merlin

9.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
60 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Christophe Merlin is a scholar working on Pollution, Molecular Biology and Molecular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Christophe Merlin has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Pollution, 18 papers in Molecular Biology and 17 papers in Molecular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Christophe Merlin's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (18 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (17 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (10 papers). Christophe Merlin is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (18 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (17 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (10 papers). Christophe Merlin collaborates with scholars based in France, Germany and Belgium. Christophe Merlin's co-authors include Célia M. Manaia, Despo Fatta‐Kassinos, Thomas Schwartz, Luigi Rizzo, Christophe Dagot, Omolayo M. Ikumapayi, Marie-Cécile Ploy, Christa S. McArdell, Marie‐Noëlle Pons and Thomas U. Berendonk and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, PLoS ONE and Chemistry of Materials.

In The Last Decade

Christophe Merlin

58 papers receiving 7.5k citations

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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.

Urban wastewater treatment plants as hotspots for antibiotic resistant bacteria and genes spread into the environment: A review

2013 1.8k citations Luigi Rizzo, Célia M. Manaia et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →
Tackling antibiotic resistance: the environmental framework

2015 1.7k citations Thomas U. Berendonk, Célia M. Manaia et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
Urban wastewater treatment plants as hotspots for the release of antibiotics in the environment: A review

2012 1.6k citations Omolayo M. Ikumapayi, Luigi Rizzo et al. Water Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christophe Merlin France	31	4.7k	2.2k	1.5k	1.2k	1.0k	60	7.6k
Yi Luo China	45	6.9k 1.5×	2.6k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	154	9.9k
Olga C. Nunes Portugal	47	4.3k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	1.7k 1.1×	2.0k 1.6×	1.7k 1.6×	146	8.7k
Thomas Schwartz Germany	44	7.2k 1.5×	3.2k 1.5×	1.9k 1.3×	2.0k 1.6×	1.5k 1.4×	90	11.0k
Daqing Mao China	36	4.2k 0.9×	2.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	600 0.5×	659 0.6×	82	5.8k
Min Qiao China	39	5.9k 1.2×	2.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	616 0.5×	627 0.6×	87	8.3k
Christophe Dagot France	27	3.9k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	592 0.4×	1.4k 1.2×	815 0.8×	75	5.6k
José Luís Balcázar Spain	54	4.4k 0.9×	2.2k 1.0×	2.6k 1.8×	816 0.7×	560 0.5×	192	12.4k
Qian-Qian Zhang China	33	4.4k 0.9×	814 0.4×	674 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	66	6.8k
Chang‐Gui Pan China	31	4.0k 0.8×	818 0.4×	681 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	64	6.8k
Carles Borrego Spain	42	2.8k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	1.6k 1.1×	546 0.4×	633 0.6×	115	5.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Aboulaich, Abdelhay, Christophe Merlin, & Raphaël Schneider. (2021). A Comparative Study of Water Dispersible Orange-Emitting Mn-Doped ZnSe/ZnS and CdTe/CdS Core/Shell Quantum Dots. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 7. 1–9.

Merlin, Christophe, Sandrine Baron, Emeline Larvor, et al.. (2021). Abundance and environmental host range of the SXT/R391 ICEs in aquatic environmental communities. Environmental Pollution. 288. 117673–117673. 10 indexed citations

Bellanger, Xavier, et al.. (2020). Zn2+ leakage and photo-induced reactive oxidative species do not explain the full toxicity of ZnO core Quantum Dots. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 396. 122616–122616. 25 indexed citations

Merlin, Christophe. (2020). Reducing the Consumption of Antibiotics: Would That Be Enough to Slow Down the Dissemination of Resistances in the Downstream Environment?. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 33–33. 29 indexed citations

Woegerbauer, Markus, Xavier Bellanger, & Christophe Merlin. (2020). Cell-Free DNA: An Underestimated Source of Antibiotic Resistance Gene Dissemination at the Interface Between Human Activities and Downstream Environments in the Context of Wastewater Reuse. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 671–671. 49 indexed citations

Merlin, Christophe, et al.. (2018). Suspended Materials in River Waters Differentially Enrich Class 1 Integron- and IncP-1 Plasmid-Carrying Bacteria in Sediments. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 1443–1443. 18 indexed citations

Fiorentino, Antonino, Luigi Rizzo, Hélène Guilloteau, Xavier Bellanger, & Christophe Merlin. (2016). Comparing TiO2 photocatalysis and UV-C radiation for inactivation and mutant formation of Salmonella typhimurium TA102. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 24(2). 1871–1879. 24 indexed citations

Katipoglu‐Yazan, Tugce, Christophe Merlin, Marie‐Noëlle Pons, Emine Ubay Çokgör, & Derin Orhon. (2016). Chronic impact of sulfamethoxazole on the metabolic activity and composition of enriched nitrifying microbial culture. Water Research. 100. 546–555. 50 indexed citations

Berendonk, Thomas U., Célia M. Manaia, Christophe Merlin, et al.. (2015). Tackling antibiotic resistance: the environmental framework. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 13(5). 310–317. 1658 indexed citations breakdown →

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Legrand-Frossi, Christine, et al.. (2014). Comparison of seven methods for extraction of bacterial DNA from fecal and cecal samples of mice. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 105. 180–185. 42 indexed citations

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Bellanger, Xavier, et al.. (2014). Demonstrating plasmid-based horizontal gene transfer in complex environmental matrices: A practical approach for a critical review. The Science of The Total Environment. 493. 872–882. 68 indexed citations

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Bellanger, Xavier, Patrick Billard, Raphaël Schneider, Lavinia Balan, & Christophe Merlin. (2014). Stability and toxicity of ZnO quantum dots: Interplay between nanoparticles and bacteria. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 283. 110–116. 50 indexed citations

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Rizzo, Luigi, Célia M. Manaia, Christophe Merlin, et al.. (2013). Urban wastewater treatment plants as hotspots for antibiotic resistant bacteria and genes spread into the environment: A review. The Science of The Total Environment. 447. 345–360. 1824 indexed citations breakdown →

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Aboulaich, Abdelhay, et al.. (2012). Physicochemical properties and cellular toxicity of (poly)aminoalkoxysilanes-functionalized ZnO quantum dots. Nanotechnology. 23(33). 335101–335101. 79 indexed citations

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Courtois, Sophie, et al.. (2010). Improving the recovery of qPCR-grade DNA from sludge and sediment. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 87(6). 2303–2311. 11 indexed citations

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Toussaint, Ariane, Christophe Merlin, Sébastien Monchy, et al.. (2003). The Biphenyl- and 4-Chlorobiphenyl-Catabolic Transposon Tn 4371 , a Member of a New Family of Genomic Islands Related to IncP and Ti Plasmids. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 69(8). 4837–4845. 74 indexed citations

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Toussaint, Ariane & Christophe Merlin. (2002). Mobile Elements as a Combination of Functional Modules. Plasmid. 47(1). 26–35. 106 indexed citations

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Merlin, Christophe, Dirk Springael, & Ariane Toussaint. (1999). Tn4371:A Modular Structure Encoding a Phage-like Integrase, aPseudomonas-like Catabolic Pathway, and RP4/Ti-like Transfer Functions. Plasmid. 41(1). 40–54. 36 indexed citations

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Merlin, Christophe, et al.. (1999). A GntR-like negative regulator of the biphenyl degradation genes of the transposon Tn4371. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 262(4-5). 790–799. 38 indexed citations

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Крылов, В. Н., Christophe Merlin, & Ariane Toussaint. (1995). Introduction of Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutator phage D3112 into Alcaligenes eutrophus strain CH34. Research in Microbiology. 146(3). 245–250. 5 indexed citations

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