Éric Pelletier

65.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
80 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Éric Pelletier is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Éric Pelletier has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Ecology, 33 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Éric Pelletier's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (33 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (18 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (11 papers). Éric Pelletier is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (33 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (18 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (11 papers). Éric Pelletier collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Germany. Éric Pelletier's co-authors include Denis Le Paslier, Abdelghani Sghir, Delphine Rivière, Sébastien Chaussonnerie, Sonda Guermazi, Holger Daims, Michael Wagner, Jean Weissenbach, Virginie Desvignes and Tianlun Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Éric Pelletier

74 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Towards the definition of a core of microorganisms involved in anaerobic digestion of sludge

2009 706 citations Éric Pelletier, Sébastien Chaussonnerie et al. The ISME Journal profile →
Towards the human intestinal microbiota phylogenetic core

2009 679 citations Julien Tap, Stanislas Mondot et al. Environmental Microbiology profile →
A Nitrospira metagenome illuminates the physiology and evolution of globally important nitrite-oxidizing bacteria

2010 629 citations Michael Wagner, Éric Pelletier et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Mirusviruses link herpesviruses to giant viruses

2023 62 citations Morgan Gaïa, Lingjie Meng et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Éric Pelletier France	32	2.0k	1.8k	1.1k	719	464	80	5.0k
William T. Sloan United Kingdom	37	3.2k 1.6×	3.7k 2.1×	1.1k 1.0×	256 0.4×	484 1.0×	115	7.8k
Ruth A. Schmitz Germany	47	3.9k 1.9×	2.4k 1.4×	693 0.6×	401 0.6×	1.3k 2.7×	180	7.4k
Jan C. Gottschal Netherlands	37	1.6k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	303 0.4×	373 0.8×	106	5.1k
Richard Devereux United States	27	2.0k 1.0×	3.1k 1.8×	2.1k 1.9×	455 0.6×	857 1.8×	56	6.4k
Malte Hermansson Sweden	46	1.7k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	2.0k 1.7×	238 0.3×	302 0.7×	98	5.9k
Alexandre Soares Rosado Brazil	50	2.0k 1.0×	2.9k 1.6×	1.6k 1.4×	154 0.2×	509 1.1×	194	7.4k
Matthew W. Fields United States	39	2.1k 1.1×	1.8k 1.0×	710 0.6×	203 0.3×	279 0.6×	124	5.3k
Erick Cardenas United States	18	3.1k 1.5×	2.4k 1.4×	901 0.8×	176 0.2×	162 0.3×	28	6.4k
Dinghua Li China	18	3.3k 1.6×	2.8k 1.6×	1.1k 1.0×	186 0.3×	237 0.5×	42	7.6k
Mike Manefield Australia	35	2.2k 1.1×	1.7k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	276 0.4×	97 0.2×	97	5.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Éric Pelletier

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Medvedeva, Sofia, Éric Pelletier, Hans‐Joachim Ruscheweyh, et al.. (2025). Widespread and intron-rich mirusviruses are predicted to reproduce in nuclei of unicellular eukaryotes. Nature Microbiology. 11(1). 228–239.

Pelletier, Éric, et al.. (2025). Safety and recovery profile of patients after inhalational anaesthesia versus target-controlled or manual total intravenous anaesthesia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 134(5). 1474–1485. 4 indexed citations

Jamy, Mahwash, Thomas M. Huber, Hans‐Joachim Ruscheweyh, et al.. (2025). Identification of a deep-branching lineage of algae using environmental plastid genomes. Nature Communications. 17(1). 662–662.

Méheust, Raphaël, Karine Bastard, Gideon Grogan, et al.. (2024). A refined picture of the native amine dehydrogenase family revealed by extensive biodiversity screening. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4933–4933. 7 indexed citations

Adam, Benjamin, et al.. (2024). Severe Allergic Contact Dermatitis From Octylisothiazolinone in Over‐Ear Headphones: A Case Series. Contact Dermatitis. 92(4). 291–298. 1 indexed citations

Meng, Lingjie, Tom O. Delmont, Morgan Gaïa, et al.. (2023). Genomic adaptation of giant viruses in polar oceans. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6233–6233. 11 indexed citations

Gaïa, Morgan, Lingjie Meng, Éric Pelletier, et al.. (2023). Mirusviruses link herpesviruses to giant viruses. Nature. 616(7958). 783–789. 62 indexed citations breakdown →

Vader, Anna, et al.. (2023). Linking extreme seasonality and gene expression in Arctic marine protists. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 14627–14627. 3 indexed citations

Nef, Charlotte, Mohammed‐Amin Madoui, Éric Pelletier, & Chris Bowler. (2022). Whole-genome scanning reveals environmental selection mechanisms that shape diversity in populations of the epipelagic diatom Chaetoceros. PLoS Biology. 20(11). e3001893–e3001893. 10 indexed citations

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Frémont, Paul, Sophie Mangenot, Benjamin Istace, et al.. (2022). Genomic adaptation of the picoeukaryote Pelagomonas calceolata to iron-poor oceans revealed by a chromosome-scale genome sequence. Communications Biology. 5(1). 983–983. 17 indexed citations

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Delmont, Tom O., Juan José Pierella Karlusich, Iva Veseli, et al.. (2021). Heterotrophic bacterial diazotrophs are more abundant than their cyanobacterial counterparts in metagenomes covering most of the sunlit ocean. The ISME Journal. 16(4). 927–936. 59 indexed citations

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Deutschmann, Ina Maria, Aleix Obiol, Anders K. Krabberød, et al.. (2021). Niche adaptation promoted the evolutionary diversification of tiny ocean predators. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(25). 12 indexed citations

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Vieira, Fabio Rocha Jimenez, Alberto Amato, Éric Pelletier, et al.. (2019). Meta-Omics Reveals Genetic Flexibility of Diatom Nitrogen Transporters in Response to Environmental Changes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36(11). 2522–2535. 27 indexed citations

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Marchet, Camille, Erwan Corre, Pierre Peterlongo, et al.. (2018). A de novo approach to disentangle partner identity and function in holobiont systems. Microbiome. 6(1). 105–105. 36 indexed citations

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Hoopen, Petra ten, ROBERT FINN, Lars Ailo Bongo, et al.. (2017). The metagenomic data life-cycle: standards and best practices. GigaScience. 6(8). 1–11. 43 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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Lebedeva, E. V., Roland Hatzenpichler, Éric Pelletier, et al.. (2013). Enrichment and Genome Sequence of the Group I.1a Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaeon “Ca. Nitrosotenuis uzonensis” Representing a Clade Globally Distributed in Thermal Habitats. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e80835–e80835. 75 indexed citations

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Fonknechten, Núria, Sébastien Chaussonnerie, Sabine Tricot, et al.. (2010). Clostridium sticklandii, a specialist in amino acid degradation:revisiting its metabolism through its genome sequence. BMC Genomics. 11(1). 555–555. 134 indexed citations

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Tap, Julien, Stanislas Mondot, Florence Levenez, et al.. (2009). Towards the human intestinal microbiota phylogenetic core. Environmental Microbiology. 11(10). 2574–2584. 679 indexed citations breakdown →

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Baud, Olivier, Dominique Émilie, Éric Pelletier, et al.. (1999). Amniotic fluid concentrations of Interleukin‐1β, Interleukin‐6 and TNF‐α in chorioamnionitis before 32 weeks of gestation: histological associations and neonatal outcome. BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 106(1). 72–77. 123 indexed citations

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