Daniel Vaulot

26.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
174 papers, 16.9k citations indexed

About

Daniel Vaulot is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Vaulot has authored 174 papers receiving a total of 16.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 144 papers in Ecology, 111 papers in Molecular Biology and 103 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Daniel Vaulot's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (141 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (102 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (97 papers). Daniel Vaulot is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (141 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (102 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (97 papers). Daniel Vaulot collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and United Kingdom. Daniel Vaulot's co-authors include Frédéric Partensky, Dominique Marie, Lisa Campbell, Wolfgang R. Hess, Stéphan Jacquet, Seung Yeo Moon‐van der Staay, Rupert De Wächter, Laure Guillou, Sallie W. Chisholm and Ramón Massana and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Vaulot

171 papers receiving 16.3k 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.

Prochlorococcus , a Marine Photosynthetic Prokaryote of Global Significance

1999 1.1k citations Frédéric Partensky, Daniel Vaulot et al. profile →
Enumeration and Cell Cycle Analysis of Natural Populations of Marine Picoplankton by Flow Cytometry Using the Nucleic Acid Stain SYBR Green I

1997 889 citations Dominique Marie, Frédéric Partensky et al. profile →
Oceanic 18S rDNA sequences from picoplankton reveal unsuspected eukaryotic diversity

2001 733 citations Daniel Vaulot et al. profile →
Enumeration of Marine Viruses in Culture and Natural Samples by Flow Cytometry

1999 508 citations Dominique Marie, Daniel Vaulot et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel Vaulot France	69	12.8k	9.7k	7.9k	2.0k	1.0k	174	16.9k
E. Virginia Armbrust United States	51	6.8k 0.5×	5.3k 0.5×	4.4k 0.6×	1.7k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	120	11.3k
Jonathan P. Zehr United States	70	12.8k 1.0×	11.1k 1.1×	5.1k 0.6×	2.5k 1.2×	1.4k 1.3×	242	17.6k
Meinhard Simon Germany	62	9.3k 0.7×	6.4k 0.7×	3.8k 0.5×	2.8k 1.4×	385 0.4×	195	13.1k
Mary Ann Moran United States	74	11.1k 0.9×	7.5k 0.8×	5.8k 0.7×	2.6k 1.3×	552 0.5×	189	16.7k
Ramón Massana Spain	68	12.3k 1.0×	5.7k 0.6×	8.5k 1.1×	2.4k 1.2×	276 0.3×	178	14.7k
Frédéric Partensky France	53	7.5k 0.6×	5.3k 0.5×	6.0k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	1.6k 1.5×	126	11.2k
Dominique Marie France	52	6.1k 0.5×	4.7k 0.5×	3.7k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	458 0.4×	116	9.5k
Carlos Pedrós‐Alió Spain	62	11.0k 0.9×	5.5k 0.6×	6.6k 0.8×	2.9k 1.4×	265 0.3×	173	14.3k
Sallie W. Chisholm United States	89	19.3k 1.5×	10.9k 1.1×	13.7k 1.7×	3.9k 1.9×	2.1k 2.1×	209	29.0k
Senjie Lin United States	48	4.8k 0.4×	3.7k 0.4×	4.1k 0.5×	2.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	252	9.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel Vaulot

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

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Jamy, Mahwash, Pierre Ramond, David Bass, et al.. (2025). Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution. Trends in Microbiology. 34(3). 242–251. 1 indexed citations

Vaulot, Daniel, et al.. (2022). metaPR ² : A database of eukaryotic 18S rRNA metabarcodes with an emphasis on protists. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22(8). 3188–3201. 61 indexed citations

Vaulot, Daniel, Stefan Geisen, Frédéric Mahé, & David Bass. (2021). pr2‐primers: An 18S rRNA primer database for protists. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22(1). 168–179. 82 indexed citations

Ribeiro, Catherine Gérikas, Adriana Lopes dos Santos, Ian Probert, Daniel Vaulot, & Bente Edvardsen. (2020). Taxonomic reassignment of Pseudohaptolina birgeri comb. nov . (Haptophyta). Phycologia. 59(6). 606–615. 1 indexed citations

Yau, Sheree, Adriana Lopes dos Santos, Wenche Eikrem, et al.. (2019). Mantoniella beaufortii and Mantoniella baffinensis sp. nov. (Mamiellales, Mamiellophyceae), two new green algal species from the high arctic ¹. Journal of Phycology. 56(1). 37–51. 14 indexed citations

Tragin, Margot & Daniel Vaulot. (2019). Novel diversity within marine Mamiellophyceae (Chlorophyta) unveiled by metabarcoding. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 5190–5190. 50 indexed citations

Gutiérrez‐Rodríguez, Andres, Michael R. Stukel, Adriana Lopes dos Santos, et al.. (2018). High contribution of Rhizaria (Radiolaria) to vertical export in the California Current Ecosystem revealed by DNA metabarcoding. The ISME Journal. 13(4). 964–976. 42 indexed citations

Kuwata, Akira, Mutsuo Ichinomiya, Shinya Yoshikawa, et al.. (2018). Bolidophyceae, a Sister Picoplanktonic Group of Diatoms – A Review. Frontiers in Marine Science. 5. 26 indexed citations

Partensky, Frédéric, Christophe Six, Morgane Ratin, et al.. (2018). A novel species of the marine cyanobacterium Acaryochloris with a unique pigment content and lifestyle. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 9142–9142. 27 indexed citations

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Vannier, Thomas, Jade Leconte, Yoann Seeleuthner, et al.. (2016). Survey of the green picoalga Bathycoccus genomes in the global ocean. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 37900–37900. 42 indexed citations

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Roux, Simon, François Enault, Gisèle Bronner, et al.. (2013). Chimeric viruses blur the borders between the major groups of eukaryotic single-stranded DNA viruses. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2700–2700. 83 indexed citations

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Thompson, Anne, Rachel A. Foster, Andreas Krupke, et al.. (2012). Unicellular Cyanobacterium Symbiotic with a Single-Celled Eukaryotic Alga. Science. 337(6101). 1546–1550. 370 indexed citations

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Vaulot, Daniel, et al.. (2011). Structure and seasonal dynamics of the eukaryotic picophytoplankton community in a wind‐driven coastal upwelling ecosystem. Limnology and Oceanography. 56(6). 2334–2346. 62 indexed citations

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Bhaya, Devaki, Alexis Dufresne, Daniel Vaulot, & Arthur Grossman. (2002). Analysis of thehligene family in marine and freshwater cyanobacteria. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 215(2). 209–219. 66 indexed citations

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Guillou, Laure, et al.. (2001). Grazing impact of two small heterotrophic flagellates on Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus. Aquatic Microbial Ecology. 26. 201–207. 69 indexed citations

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Campbell, Lisa, et al.. (1997). Annual variability of picoplankton in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean at Station ALOHA. Deep Sea Research. 44. 167. 23 indexed citations

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Vaulot, Daniel, et al.. (1992). Estimate of phytoplankton division rates by the mitotic index method: The fmax approach revisited. Limnology and Oceanography. 37(3). 644–649. 25 indexed citations

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Vaulot, Daniel, et al.. (1991). Analysis of larval oyster grazing by flow cytometry. Institutional Archive of Ifremer (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea). 4 indexed citations

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Neveux, Jacques, et al.. (1989). Green photosynthetic bacteria associated with the deep chlorophyll maximum of the Sargasso Sea. Institutional Archive of Ifremer (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea). 22 indexed citations

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Vaulot, Daniel, et al.. (1986). Phytoplanktonic productivity and nutrients in 5 mediterranean lagoons. Institutional Archive of Ifremer (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea). 1 indexed citations

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