Ferrán García‐Pichel

17.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
160 papers, 12.7k citations indexed

About

Ferrán García‐Pichel is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Environmental Chemistry and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ferrán García‐Pichel has authored 160 papers receiving a total of 12.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 74 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 66 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Ferrán García‐Pichel's work include Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology (109 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (71 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (57 papers). Ferrán García‐Pichel is often cited by papers focused on Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology (109 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (71 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (57 papers). Ferrán García‐Pichel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Ferrán García‐Pichel's co-authors include Richard W. Castenholz, Ulrich Nübel, Gerard Muyzer, Jayne Belnap, Qunjie Gao, Ana Giraldo‐Silva, Scott T. Bates, Shannon L. Johnson, Ulf Karsten and Olivier Pringault and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ferrán García‐Pichel

158 papers receiving 12.2k 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.

PCR primers to amplify 16S rRNA genes from cyanobacteria

1997 1.3k citations Ferrán García‐Pichel et al. profile →
CHARACTERIZATION AND BIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF SCYTONEMIN, A CYANOBACTERIAL SHEATH PIGMENT¹

1991 536 citations Ferrán García‐Pichel, Richard W. Castenholz profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ferrán García‐Pichel United States	65	6.9k	5.0k	4.7k	3.1k	2.1k	160	12.7k
Richard W. Castenholz United States	50	2.8k 0.4×	2.7k 0.5×	3.6k 0.8×	2.3k 0.7×	2.7k 1.3×	120	8.9k
Ulf Karsten Germany	60	4.2k 0.6×	2.5k 0.5×	3.7k 0.8×	3.8k 1.2×	1.4k 0.7×	356	11.9k
Donat‐P. Häder Germany	47	3.8k 0.6×	2.5k 0.5×	1.8k 0.4×	3.4k 1.1×	2.0k 0.9×	223	9.7k
John Beardall Australia	68	1.5k 0.2×	3.4k 0.7×	5.2k 1.1×	5.3k 1.7×	3.0k 1.4×	305	17.3k
Brian A. Whitton United Kingdom	47	2.0k 0.3×	3.7k 0.7×	3.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	179	8.9k
Jiří Komárek Czechia	48	2.4k 0.4×	5.1k 1.0×	4.7k 1.0×	1.3k 0.4×	1.4k 0.7×	184	9.0k
Aaron Kaplan Israel	54	2.0k 0.3×	2.5k 0.5×	2.1k 0.4×	4.1k 1.3×	5.4k 2.5×	164	9.9k
Lucas J. Stal Netherlands	55	1.0k 0.1×	2.9k 0.6×	5.3k 1.1×	1.7k 0.5×	2.3k 1.1×	167	10.2k
Wim Vyverman Belgium	59	884 0.1×	3.1k 0.6×	6.8k 1.4×	1.4k 0.4×	2.9k 1.3×	333	12.3k
Makoto M. Watanabe Japan	44	1.3k 0.2×	2.8k 0.6×	2.0k 0.4×	2.0k 0.6×	1.9k 0.9×	270	6.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ferrán García‐Pichel

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20 of 20 papers shown

Haft, Daniel H., et al.. (2025). Cyanoexosortase B is essential for motility, biofilm formation, and scytonemin production in a filamentous cyanobacterium. mSphere. 10(6). e0100624–e0100624.

Nelson, Corey, et al.. (2024). Spatial organization of a soil cyanobacterium and its cyanosphere through GABA/Glu signaling to optimize mutualistic nitrogen fixation. The ISME Journal. 18(1). 7 indexed citations

García‐Pichel, Ferrán, et al.. (2023). Contributions of hypolithic communities to surface soil organic carbon across a hyperarid-to-arid climate gradient. Geoderma. 433. 116428–116428. 7 indexed citations

García‐Pichel, Ferrán & Osvaldo E. Sala. (2022). Expanding the Pulse–Reserve Paradigm to Microorganisms on the Basis of Differential Reserve Management Strategies. BioScience. 72(7). 638–650. 9 indexed citations

Thomazo, Christophe, Estelle Couradeau, Ana Giraldo‐Silva, et al.. (2020). Biological Soil Crusts as Modern Analogs for the Archean Continental Biosphere: Insights from Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes. Astrobiology. 20(7). 815–819. 7 indexed citations

Cao, Huansheng, Morgan M. Steffen, Jingrang Lu, et al.. (2020). The Trait Repertoire Enabling Cyanobacteria to Bloom Assessed through Comparative Genomic Complexity and Metatranscriptomics. mBio. 11(3). 17 indexed citations

Muñoz‐Martín, M. Ángeles, et al.. (2018). Cyanobacterial biocrust diversity in Mediterranean ecosystems along a latitudinal and climatic gradient. New Phytologist. 221(1). 123–141. 82 indexed citations

Lau, Rebecca, Tami L. Swenson, Niels Klitgord, et al.. (2018). Flux balance modeling to predict bacterial survival during pulsed-activity events. Biogeosciences. 15(7). 2219–2229. 7 indexed citations

Karaöz, Ulaş, Estelle Couradeau, Ulisses Nunes da Rocha, et al.. (2018). Large Blooms of Bacillales ( Firmicutes ) Underlie the Response to Wetting of Cyanobacterial Biocrusts at Various Stages of Maturity. mBio. 9(2). 23 indexed citations

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Couradeau, Estelle, Daniel Roush, Brandon S. Guida, & Ferrán García‐Pichel. (2017). Diversity and mineral substrate preference in endolithic microbial communities from marine intertidal outcrops (Isla de Mona, Puerto Rico). Biogeosciences. 14(2). 311–324. 27 indexed citations

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Guida, Brandon S., Maitrayee Bose, & Ferrán García‐Pichel. (2017). Carbon fixation from mineral carbonates. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1025–1025. 13 indexed citations

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Pepe‐Ranney, Charles, Chantal Koechli, Ruth M. Potrafka, et al.. (2015). Non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs mediate dinitrogen fixation in biological soil crusts during early crust formation. The ISME Journal. 10(2). 287–298. 95 indexed citations

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García‐Pichel, Ferrán, Virginia Loza, Yevgeniy Marusenko, Pilar Mateo, & Ruth M. Potrafka. (2013). Temperature Drives the Continental-Scale Distribution of Key Microbes in Topsoil Communities. Science. 340(6140). 1574–1577. 231 indexed citations

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Potrafka, Ruth M., et al.. (2012). Diversity in hydrogen evolution from bidirectional hydrogenases in cyanobacteria from terrestrial, freshwater and marine intertidal environments. Journal of Biotechnology. 162(1). 105–114. 17 indexed citations

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Noonan, Kenneth D., Ariel D. Anbar, Ferrán García‐Pichel, Amisha T. Poret‐Peterson, & Hilairy E. Hartnett. (2011). Six Siderophore-Producing Microorganisms Identified in Biological Soil Crusts. AGUFM. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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García‐Pichel, Ferrán, et al.. (2010). Response of Biological Soil Crusts to Porewater Metal Additions. 1538. 5462. 1 indexed citations

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Pringault, Olivier & Ferrán García‐Pichel. (2000). Monitoring of oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesis in a unicyanobacterial biofilm, grown in benthic gradient chamber. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 33(3). 251–258. 18 indexed citations

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García‐Pichel, Ferrán. (1996). The absorption of ultraviolet radiation by microalgae: Simple optics and photobiological implications. Scientia Marina. 60(1). 73–79. 18 indexed citations

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Camacho, Antonio, Ferrán García‐Pichel, Eduardo Vicente, & Richard W. Castenholz. (1996). Adaptation to sulfide and to the underwater light field in three cyanobacterial isolates from Lake Arcas (Spain). FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 21(4). 293–301. 21 indexed citations

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Björn, Lars Olof, Alex Cunningham, Marta Estrada, et al.. (1996). Technical discussion I - Underwater light measurement and light absorption by algae. Scientia Marina. 60(1). 293–297. 5 indexed citations

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