Éric Capo

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 850 citations indexed

About

Éric Capo is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Éric Capo has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 850 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Ecology, 17 papers in Molecular Biology and 10 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Éric Capo's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (25 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (19 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (11 papers). Éric Capo is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (25 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (19 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (11 papers). Éric Capo collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, France and China. Éric Capo's co-authors include Isabelle Domaizon, Didier Debroas, Fabien Arnaud, Irene Gregory‐Eaves, Amanda K. Winegardner, Joanna Gauthier, Göran Spong, Pär Byström, Ke Zhang and Qi Lin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Éric Capo

35 papers receiving 838 citations

Hit Papers

The global human impact on biodiversity 2025 2026 2025 5 10 15 20 25
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. The global human impact on biodiversity
    2025 28 citations François Keck, Tianna Peller et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Éric Capo Sweden 18 594 290 155 147 138 37 850
Carlos Rochera Spain 17 681 1.1× 180 0.6× 117 0.8× 50 0.3× 247 1.8× 48 857
Kálmán Tapolczai Hungary 20 867 1.5× 257 0.9× 288 1.9× 27 0.2× 217 1.6× 33 1.1k
Alicia Vinocur Argentina 21 603 1.0× 84 0.3× 348 2.2× 152 1.0× 328 2.4× 45 977
Jochen Schaumburg Germany 9 631 1.1× 231 0.8× 474 3.1× 46 0.3× 290 2.1× 11 877
Gianfranco Novarino United Kingdom 18 487 0.8× 370 1.3× 154 1.0× 30 0.2× 356 2.6× 39 816
Athena Economou‐Amilli Greece 19 392 0.7× 146 0.5× 331 2.1× 38 0.3× 350 2.5× 72 964
Benjamin Alric France 12 280 0.5× 72 0.2× 188 1.2× 38 0.3× 150 1.1× 26 429
Agnes M. L. Karlson Sweden 16 619 1.0× 59 0.2× 121 0.8× 81 0.6× 406 2.9× 43 840
M. V. Sakirko Russia 16 685 1.2× 179 0.6× 265 1.7× 23 0.2× 136 1.0× 71 931
Helen Agasild Estonia 16 432 0.7× 76 0.3× 387 2.5× 37 0.3× 399 2.9× 40 729

Countries citing papers authored by Éric Capo

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Fields of papers citing papers by Éric Capo

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Éric Capo

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Capo, Éric, Ziming Yang, Zhicheng Hu, et al.. (2025). Distribution and Environmental Preference of Potential Mercury Methylators in Paddy Soils across China. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(4). 2059–2069. 3 indexed citations
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Keck, François, Tianna Peller, Roman Alther, et al.. (2025). The global human impact on biodiversity. Nature. 641(8062). 395–400. 28 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sanz-Sáez, Isabel, Dongna Yan, Stefan Bertilsson, et al.. (2025). Low-oxygen freshwaters as ecological niches for mercury methylators. Water Research. 290. 125014–125014.
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Angeles, Inès Barrenechea, Kuldeep D. More, Stefan Bertilsson, et al.. (2025). Climate-driven deoxygenation promoted potential mercury methylators in the past Black Sea water column. Nature Water. 3(12). 1389–1396.
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Lin, Qi, Ke Zhang, Charline Giguet‐Covex, et al.. (2024). Transient social–ecological dynamics reveal signals of decoupling in a highly disturbed Anthropocene landscape. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(17). e2321303121–e2321303121. 18 indexed citations
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Yan, Dongna, Yongming Han, Zhisheng An, et al.. (2024). Anthropogenic drivers accelerate the changes of lake microbial eukaryotic communities over the past 160 years. Quaternary Science Reviews. 327. 108535–108535. 3 indexed citations
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Yan, Dongna, Zhisheng An, & Éric Capo. (2024). Organic matter content and source is associated with the depth‐dependent distribution of prokaryotes in lake sediments. Freshwater Biology. 69(4). 496–508. 5 indexed citations
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Lin, Qi, Ke Zhang, Suzanne McGowan, et al.. (2023). Characterization of lacustrine harmful algal blooms using multiple biomarkers: Historical processes, driving synergy, and ecological shifts. Water Research. 235. 119916–119916. 23 indexed citations
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Lanzén, Anders, Pablo Sánchez, Isabel Sanz-Sáez, et al.. (2023). Revisiting the mercury cycle in marine sediments: A potential multifaceted role for Desulfobacterota. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 465. 133120–133120. 26 indexed citations
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Capo, Éric, et al.. (2023). Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments. 7 indexed citations
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Monchamp, Marie‐Ève, Stefan Bertilsson, Isabelle Domaizon, et al.. (2022). Investigating the effects of anthropogenic stressors on lake biota using sedimentary DNA. Freshwater Biology. 68(11). 1799–1817. 13 indexed citations
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Capo, Éric, Huayong Zhang, Haiyan Hu, et al.. (2022). Homogenisation of water and sediment bacterial communities in a shallow lake (lake Balihe, China). Freshwater Biology. 68(1). 155–171. 6 indexed citations
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Capo, Éric, Caiyan Feng, Andrea G. Bravo, et al.. (2022). Expression Levels of hgcAB Genes and Mercury Availability Jointly Explain Methylmercury Formation in Stratified Brackish Waters. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(18). 13119–13130. 34 indexed citations
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Capo, Éric, Claudia Cosio, Elena Gascón Díez, et al.. (2022). Anaerobic mercury methylators inhabit sinking particles of oxic water columns. Water Research. 229. 119368–119368. 20 indexed citations
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Capo, Éric, Hanna Farnelid, Martin Olofsson, et al.. (2021). Functional Diversity Facilitates Stability Under Environmental Changes in an Outdoor Microalgal Cultivation System. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 9. 651895–651895. 17 indexed citations
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Capo, Éric, Elias Broman, Stefano Bonaglia, et al.. (2021). Oxygen‐deficient water zones in the Baltic Sea promote uncharacterized Hg methylating microorganisms in underlying sediments. Limnology and Oceanography. 67(1). 135–146. 22 indexed citations
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Ibrahim, Anan, Éric Capo, M. Wessels, et al.. (2020). Anthropogenic impact on the historical phytoplankton community of Lake Constance reconstructed by multimarker analysis of sediment‐core environmental DNA. Molecular Ecology. 30(13). 3040–3056. 35 indexed citations
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Capo, Éric, Andrea G. Bravo, Anne L. Soerensen, et al.. (2020). Deltaproteobacteria and Spirochaetes-Like Bacteria Are Abundant Putative Mercury Methylators in Oxygen-Deficient Water and Marine Particles in the Baltic Sea. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 574080–574080. 46 indexed citations
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