Florent Mazel

7.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
45 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Florent Mazel is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Florent Mazel has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Ecology, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 15 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Florent Mazel's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (15 papers), Plant and animal studies (11 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (11 papers). Florent Mazel is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (15 papers), Plant and animal studies (11 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (11 papers). Florent Mazel collaborates with scholars based in Canada, France and Switzerland. Florent Mazel's co-authors include Wilfried Thuiller, Laura Wegener Parfrey, Mathieu Groussin, Stilianos Louca, Michael Doebeli, Sébastien Lavergne, Sean A. Crowe, Michaeline Albright, Julie A. Huber and Aria S Hahn and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Florent Mazel

44 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems 2016 2026 2019 2022 2018 2016 250 500 750 1000
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. Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems
    2018 1.2k citations Stilianos Louca, Martin F. Polz et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
  2. A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology
    2016 597 citations Caroline M. Tucker, Marc W. Cadotte et al. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Florent Mazel Canada 23 1.7k 1.3k 1.2k 1.0k 818 45 4.1k
Laure Gallien France 24 1.5k 0.9× 1.3k 1.0× 534 0.5× 1.0k 1.0× 978 1.2× 43 3.1k
Diego Fontaneto Italy 42 3.1k 1.8× 825 0.6× 1.2k 1.0× 1.3k 1.3× 407 0.5× 235 6.2k
Chun‐Huo Chiu Taiwan 18 975 0.6× 1.1k 0.8× 362 0.3× 747 0.7× 557 0.7× 30 2.5k
Peter D. Cowan United States 6 1.9k 1.1× 2.2k 1.7× 983 0.8× 2.0k 1.9× 815 1.0× 7 5.5k
T. C. Hsieh Taiwan 9 2.6k 1.5× 2.3k 1.7× 765 0.6× 2.0k 1.9× 975 1.2× 12 6.2k
K. H. Indonesia 18 2.4k 1.4× 2.2k 1.6× 714 0.6× 2.0k 1.9× 885 1.1× 25 6.2k
Brian L. Anacker United States 24 1.0k 0.6× 1.6k 1.2× 304 0.3× 1.3k 1.3× 1.1k 1.3× 30 3.2k
Yuji Isagi Japan 34 1.3k 0.8× 1.2k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 1.6k 1.6× 393 0.5× 238 4.2k
Elizabeth L. Sander United States 5 1.2k 0.7× 1.1k 0.8× 277 0.2× 984 1.0× 453 0.6× 6 2.9k
Karl Cottenie Canada 31 3.0k 1.7× 1.9k 1.4× 575 0.5× 711 0.7× 442 0.5× 91 4.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Florent Mazel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Florent Mazel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Florent Mazel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Florent Mazel 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 Florent Mazel. Florent Mazel 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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Mazel, Florent, et al.. (2025). Host specificity of gut microbiota associated with social bees: patterns and processes. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 89(2). e0008023–e0008023. 1 indexed citations
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Mazel, Florent, et al.. (2025). Evolution of gut microbiota across honeybee species revealed by comparative metagenomics. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9069–9069. 1 indexed citations
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Bonilla‐Rosso, Germán, et al.. (2025). Phage diversity mirrors bacterial strain diversity in the honey bee gut microbiota. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9738–9738.
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Schiettekatte, Nina M. D., Jordan M. Casey, Simon J. Brandl, et al.. (2024). Host diet drives gut microbiome convergence between coral reef fishes and mammals. Molecular Ecology. 33(19). e17520–e17520. 5 indexed citations
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Worsley, Sarah F., et al.. (2024). Probing the functional significance of wild animal microbiomes using omics data. Functional Ecology. 38(11). 2329–2349. 9 indexed citations
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Kothe, Caroline Isabel, et al.. (2024). Novel misos shape distinct microbial ecologies: opportunities for flavourful sustainable food innovation. Food Research International. 189. 114490–114490. 6 indexed citations
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Mazel, Florent, et al.. (2023). Kelp and sea urchin settlement mediated by biotic interactions with benthic coralline algal species. Journal of Phycology. 60(2). 363–379. 3 indexed citations
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Nunes-Silva, Carlos Gustavo, Florent Mazel, Vincent de Bakker, et al.. (2023). Deep Divergence and Genomic Diversification of Gut Symbionts of Neotropical Stingless Bees. mBio. 14(2). e0353822–e0353822. 21 indexed citations
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Mazel, Florent, Antoine Guisan, & Laura Wegener Parfrey. (2023). Transmission mode and dispersal traits correlate with host specificity in mammalian gut microbes. Molecular Ecology. 33(1). e16862–e16862. 15 indexed citations
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Dill‐McFarland, Kimberly A., et al.. (2021). An integrated, modular approach to data science education in microbiology. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(2). e1008661–e1008661. 14 indexed citations
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Groussin, Mathieu, Florent Mazel, & Eric J. Alm. (2020). Co-evolution and Co-speciation of Host-Gut Bacteria Systems. Cell Host & Microbe. 28(1). 12–22. 160 indexed citations
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Louca, Stilianos, Martin F. Polz, Florent Mazel, et al.. (2018). Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(6). 936–943. 1178 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mazel, Florent, Matthew W. Pennell, Marc W. Cadotte, et al.. (2018). Prioritizing phylogenetic diversity captures functional diversity unreliably. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2888–2888. 153 indexed citations
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Groussin, Mathieu, Florent Mazel, Jon G. Sanders, et al.. (2017). Unraveling the processes shaping mammalian gut microbiomes over evolutionary time. Nature. 3 indexed citations
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Groussin, Mathieu, Florent Mazel, Jon G. Sanders, et al.. (2017). Unraveling the processes shaping mammalian gut microbiomes over evolutionary time. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14319–14319. 313 indexed citations
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Groussin, Mathieu & Florent Mazel. (2017). Évolution des microbiotes intestinaux de mammifères et ses conséquences sur la santé humaine. médecine/sciences. 33(12). 1038–1042. 2 indexed citations
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Ficetola, Gentile Francesco, Florent Mazel, & Wilfried Thuiller. (2017). Global determinants of zoogeographical boundaries. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(4). 89–89. 140 indexed citations
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Mazel, Florent, Rafael O. Wüest, Maya Guéguen, et al.. (2017). The Geography of Ecological Niche Evolution in Mammals. Current Biology. 27(9). 1369–1374. 31 indexed citations
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Tucker, Caroline M., Marc W. Cadotte, Sílvia B. Carvalho, et al.. (2016). A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 92(2). 698–715. 597 indexed citations breakdown →
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Redding, David W., Florent Mazel, & Arne Ø. Mooers. (2014). Measuring Evolutionary Isolation for Conservation. PLoS ONE. 9(12). e113490–e113490. 49 indexed citations

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