Florian Tesson

1.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
12 papers, 529 citations indexed

About

Florian Tesson is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Florian Tesson has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 529 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Ecology, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Florian Tesson's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (10 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers). Florian Tesson is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (10 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers). Florian Tesson collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and China. Florian Tesson's co-authors include Aude Bernheim, Jean Cury, Ernest Mordret, Marie Touchon, Hervé Alexandre, Héloïse Georjon, Olivier Clermont, Helena Shomar, Rémi Planel and Pascal Hersen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Florian Tesson

11 papers receiving 527 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.

Systematic and quantitative view of the antiviral arsenal of prokaryotes

2022 371 citations Florian Tesson, Hervé Alexandre et al. Nature Communications profile →
Prediction of strain level phage–host interactions across the Escherichia genus using only genomic information

2024 46 citations Baptiste Gaborieau, Florian Tesson et al. Nature Microbiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Florian Tesson France	8	376	306	100	77	75	12	529
Cristian Aparicio-Maldonado Netherlands	6	270 0.7×	233 0.8×	59 0.6×	62 0.8×	60 0.8×	6	416
Hannah G. Hampton New Zealand	9	511 1.4×	437 1.4×	104 1.0×	138 1.8×	117 1.6×	13	742
Erica Lieberman France	4	313 0.8×	227 0.7×	70 0.7×	79 1.0×	50 0.7×	4	400
Nathan Brown United Kingdom	12	520 1.4×	321 1.0×	56 0.6×	60 0.8×	99 1.3×	12	612
Kommireddy Vasu India	7	210 0.6×	381 1.2×	71 0.7×	149 1.9×	65 0.9×	10	561
David Mayo-Muñoz Denmark	9	280 0.7×	473 1.5×	88 0.9×	91 1.2×	59 0.8×	12	614
Guangmou Yan China	11	312 0.8×	173 0.6×	40 0.4×	64 0.8×	49 0.7×	17	413
Emily V. Davies United Kingdom	5	255 0.7×	172 0.6×	68 0.7×	76 1.0×	77 1.0×	5	355
Yunxiu He United States	9	274 0.7×	141 0.5×	58 0.6×	102 1.3×	60 0.8×	14	361
Huiying Ren China	14	377 1.0×	191 0.6×	94 0.9×	40 0.5×	43 0.6×	39	480

Countries citing papers authored by Florian Tesson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Florian Tesson

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

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12 of 12 papers shown

Tesson, Florian, et al.. (2025). Why do bacteria accumulate antiphage defence systems?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1934). 20240082–20240082.

Gaborieau, Baptiste, Florian Tesson, Héloïse Georjon, et al.. (2024). Prediction of strain level phage–host interactions across the Escherichia genus using only genomic information. Nature Microbiology. 9(11). 2847–2861. 46 indexed citations breakdown →

Shomar, Helena, Héloïse Georjon, Florian Tesson, et al.. (2024). Viperin immunity evolved across the tree of life through serial innovations on a conserved scaffold. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(9). 1667–1679. 10 indexed citations

Tesson, Florian, Rémi Planel, Artyom A. Egorov, et al.. (2024). A Comprehensive Resource for Exploring Antiphage Defense: DefenseFinder Webservice,Wiki and Databases. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 27 indexed citations

Haudiquet, Matthieu, Ernest Mordret, Maxime Rotival, et al.. (2024). Conservation of antiviral systems across domains of life reveals immune genes in humans. Cell Host & Microbe. 32(9). 1594–1607.e5. 9 indexed citations

Tesson, Florian, Erin Huiting, Linlin Wei, et al.. (2024). Exploring the diversity of anti-defense systems across prokaryotes, phages and mobile genetic elements. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(1). 19 indexed citations

Condamine, Bénédicte, Thibaut Morel‐Journel, Florian Tesson, et al.. (2024). Strain phylogroup and environmental constraints shape Escherichia coli dynamics and diversity over a 20-year human gut time series. The ISME Journal. 19(1). 3 indexed citations

Georjon, Héloïse, Florian Tesson, Helena Shomar, & Aude Bernheim. (2023). Genomic characterization of the antiviral arsenal of Actinobacteria. Microbiology. 169(8). 10 indexed citations

Shomar, Helena, et al.. (2023). Genome sequence and characterization of Streptomyces phages Vanseggelen and Verabelle, representing two new species within the genus Camvirus. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 20153–20153. 3 indexed citations

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Tesson, Florian, Hervé Alexandre, Ernest Mordret, et al.. (2022). Systematic and quantitative view of the antiviral arsenal of prokaryotes. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2561–2561. 371 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tesson, Florian & Aude Bernheim. (2022). Synergy and regulation of antiphage systems: toward the existence of a bacterial immune system?. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 71. 102238–102238. 28 indexed citations

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Taillé, Camille, Nicolás Roche, Florian Tesson, et al.. (2021). Belief and adherence to COVID 19-lockdown restrictions in patients with asthma versus other chronic diseases: results from a cross-sectional survey nested in the ComPaRe e-cohort, in France. Journal of Asthma. 59(8). 1491–1500. 3 indexed citations

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