Florian Malard

8.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
98 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Florian Malard is a scholar working on Ecology, Paleontology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Florian Malard has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Ecology, 30 papers in Paleontology and 18 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Florian Malard's work include Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy (30 papers), Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (21 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (17 papers). Florian Malard is often cited by papers focused on Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy (30 papers), Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (21 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (17 papers). Florian Malard collaborates with scholars based in France, Switzerland and Slovenia. Florian Malard's co-authors include J. V. Ward, Klement Tockner, Janine Gibert, Urs Uehlinger, Cene Fišer, Christopher T. Robinson, Frédéric Hervant, Thibault Datry, Tristan Lefébure and Christophe J. Douady and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Ecology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Florian Malard

96 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

An extension of the flood pulse concept

2000 775 citations Klement Tockner, Florian Malard et al. Hydrological Processes profile →
Cryptic species as a window into the paradigm shift of the species concept

2018 397 citations Cene Fišer, Christopher T. Robinson et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Florian Malard	3.5k	1.5k	1.3k	1.1k	1.0k	98	5.5k
Pierre Marmonier	3.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	546 0.5×	2.1k 2.0×	128	4.8k
Janine Gibert	2.3k 0.7×	578 0.4×	545 0.4×	1.3k 1.2×	846 0.8×	78	4.0k
Mats Dynesius	4.1k 1.2×	3.4k 2.3×	1.7k 1.4×	241 0.2×	449 0.4×	47	7.2k
Paul J. Wood	5.2k 1.5×	3.2k 2.2×	2.2k 1.7×	161 0.2×	1.3k 1.2×	181	7.3k
R. S. Clymo	5.4k 1.6×	1.7k 1.2×	511 0.4×	176 0.2×	1.2k 1.1×	56	8.5k
Grant C. Hose	1.7k 0.5×	739 0.5×	438 0.3×	339 0.3×	333 0.3×	158	3.7k
Edgardo M. Latrubesse	1.9k 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	972 0.8×	343 0.3×	147 0.1×	85	4.1k
Ansgar Kahmen	2.2k 0.6×	1.6k 1.1×	355 0.3×	439 0.4×	357 0.3×	137	7.3k
Amy T. Austin	3.1k 0.9×	2.1k 1.4×	280 0.2×	453 0.4×	1.1k 1.0×	74	8.1k
Jonathan P. Benstead	3.1k 0.9×	2.2k 1.5×	501 0.4×	157 0.1×	1.2k 1.1×	87	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Florian Malard

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Fields of papers citing papers by Florian Malard

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Florian Malard

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Delić, Teo, Špela Borko, Roman Alther, et al.. (2025). Phylogenetic Origin of Morphologically Cryptic Species Shapes Co‐Occurrence and Sympatry Patterns. Freshwater Biology. 70(2). 1 indexed citations

Mori, Nataša, Traian Brad, Gergely Balázs, et al.. (2025). A Comprehensive Occurrence Dataset for European Ostracoda Inhabiting Groundwater and Groundwater‐Dependent Ecosystems. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(6).

Cerasoli, Francesco, Barbara Fiasca, Mattia Di Cicco, et al.. (2025). EGCop: An Expert‐Curated Occurrence Dataset of European Groundwater‐Dwelling Copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda). Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(1). 1 indexed citations

Jugovic, Jure, Lara Konecny‐Dupré, Matjaž Kuntner, et al.. (2024). A second species of Stenasellus Dollfus, 1897 (Isopoda, Stenasellidae) from sulfidic groundwater of Iran described using morphological and molecular methods. European Journal of Taxonomy. 968. 1 indexed citations

Malard, Florian, et al.. (2024). De novo transcriptomes of cave and surface isopod crustaceans: insights from 11 species across three suborders. Scientific Data. 11(1). 595–595. 2 indexed citations

Malard, Florian, Christian Griebler, & Sylvie Rétaux. (2023). Groundwater Ecology and Evolution. Elsevier eBooks. 18 indexed citations

Lefébure, Tristan, Claire Morvan, Florian Malard, et al.. (2017). Less effective selection leads to larger genomes. Genome Research. 27(6). 1016–1028. 63 indexed citations

François, Clémentine, Laurent Duret, Laurent Simon, et al.. (2016). No Evidence That Nitrogen Limitation Influences the Elemental Composition of Isopod Transcriptomes and Proteomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33(10). 2605–2620. 7 indexed citations

Griebler, Christian, Florian Malard, & Tristan Lefébure. (2014). Current developments in groundwater ecology — from biodiversity to ecosystem function and services. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 27. 159–167. 102 indexed citations

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Kaufmann, Bernard, Pauline Jean, Florian Malard, et al.. (2013). Microsatellite Development and First Population Size Estimates for the Groundwater Isopod Proasellus walteri. PLoS ONE. 8(9). e76213–e76213. 5 indexed citations

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Calvignac‐Spencer, Sébastien, Lara Konecny, Florian Malard, & Christophe J. Douady. (2010). Preventing the pollution of mitochondrial datasets with nuclear mitochondrial paralogs (numts). Mitochondrion. 11(2). 246–254. 83 indexed citations

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Malard, Florian, Urs Uehlinger, Rainer Zah, & Klement Tockner. (2006). FLOOD-PULSE AND RIVERSCAPE DYNAMICS IN A BRAIDED GLACIAL RIVER. Ecology. 87(3). 704–716. 106 indexed citations

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Lefébure, Tristan, Christophe J. Douady, Florian Malard, & Janine Gibert. (2006). Testing dispersal and cryptic diversity in a widely distributed groundwater amphipod (Niphargus rhenorhodanensis). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 42(3). 676–686. 120 indexed citations

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Malard, Florian, Thibault Datry, & Janine Gibert. (2005). Subsurface sediment contamination during borehole drilling with an air-actuated down-hole hammer. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 79(3-4). 156–164. 5 indexed citations

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Mermillod‐Blondin, Florian, Géraldine Nogaro, Thibault Datry, Florian Malard, & Janine Gibert. (2004). Do tubificid worms influence the fate of organic matter and pollutants in stormwater sediments?. Environmental Pollution. 134(1). 57–69. 78 indexed citations

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Datry, Thibault, Florian Malard, & Janine Gibert. (2004). Dynamics of solutes and dissolved oxygen in shallow urban groundwater below a stormwater infiltration basin. The Science of The Total Environment. 329(1-3). 215–229. 105 indexed citations

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Datry, Thibault, et al.. (2003). Video-logging for examining biogenic structures in deep heterogeneous subsurface sediments. Comptes Rendus Biologies. 326(6). 589–597. 12 indexed citations

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Malard, Florian, Klement Tockner, & J. V. Ward. (1999). Shifting Dominance of Subcatchment Water Sources and Flow Paths in a Glacial Floodplain, Val Roseg, Switzerland. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research. 31(2). 135–150. 104 indexed citations

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Ward, J. V., Florian Malard, Klement Tockner, & Urs Uehlinger. (1999). Influence of ground water on surface water conditions in a glacial flood plain of the Swiss Alps. Hydrological Processes. 13(3). 277–293. 95 indexed citations

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Ward, J. V., Peter Burgherr, Mark O. Gessner, et al.. (1998). The Val Roseg project: habitat heterogeneity and connectivity gradients in a glacial flood-plain system. DORA Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)). 425–432. 4 indexed citations

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