Franck Poly

8.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Franck Poly is a scholar working on Ecology, Soil Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Franck Poly has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Ecology, 31 papers in Soil Science and 21 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Franck Poly's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (30 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (28 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (13 papers). Franck Poly is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (30 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (28 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (13 papers). Franck Poly collaborates with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and Germany. Franck Poly's co-authors include Xavier Le Roux, Sylvie Nazaret, Lionel Ranjard, René Bally, Nadine Guillaumaud, Sophie Wertz, Thomas Pommier, Joana Falcão Salles, James I. Prosser and Claire Commeaux and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Franck Poly

71 papers receiving 6.4k 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.

Improvement in the RFLP procedure for studying the diversity of nifH genes in communities of nitrogen fixers in soil

2001 673 citations Franck Poly, René Bally et al. Research in Microbiology profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Franck Poly	3.0k	2.5k	2.3k	1.4k	1.3k	72	6.6k
Anders Tunlid	2.6k 0.9×	2.7k 1.1×	3.1k 1.3×	985 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	89	8.0k
Felipe Bastida	2.0k 0.7×	3.3k 1.4×	1.7k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	858 0.7×	123	6.2k
Andrew S. Whiteley	3.9k 1.3×	1.8k 0.7×	1.8k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	2.6k 2.0×	109	8.3k
Kai Xue	3.7k 1.2×	2.3k 1.0×	1.5k 0.6×	836 0.6×	1.7k 1.3×	110	6.5k
Franco Widmer	3.2k 1.1×	2.6k 1.1×	4.1k 1.8×	901 0.6×	2.5k 1.9×	133	9.1k
Jaap Bloem	3.0k 1.0×	3.8k 1.5×	2.4k 1.0×	817 0.6×	803 0.6×	112	7.3k
William E. Holben	2.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	1.7k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	1.7k 1.3×	78	6.2k
Giacomo Pietramellara	2.1k 0.7×	2.4k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	95	5.8k
Beat Frey	3.1k 1.0×	2.3k 0.9×	3.7k 1.6×	1.4k 1.0×	1.5k 1.2×	181	9.0k
Albert Barberán	4.2k 1.4×	2.1k 0.9×	2.0k 0.9×	756 0.5×	2.6k 2.0×	76	7.7k

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Hafeez, Farhan, et al.. (2023). Early spring snowmelt and summer droughts strongly impair the resilience of bacterial community and N cycling functions in a subalpine grassland ecosystem. Oikos. 2023(7). 2 indexed citations

Roux, Xavier Le, et al.. (2017). Effect of plant diversity on the diversity of soil organic compounds. PLoS ONE. 12(2). e0170494–e0170494. 40 indexed citations

Niklaus, Pascal A., Xavier Le Roux, Franck Poly, et al.. (2016). Plant species diversity affects soil–atmosphere fluxes of methane and nitrous oxide. Oecologia. 181(3). 919–930. 56 indexed citations

Simonin, Marie, Xavier Le Roux, Franck Poly, et al.. (2015). Coupling Between and Among Ammonia Oxidizers and Nitrite Oxidizers in Grassland Mesocosms Submitted to Elevated CO2 and Nitrogen Supply. Microbial Ecology. 70(3). 809–818. 58 indexed citations

Crouzet, Olivier, Franck Poly, Frédérique Bonnemoy, et al.. (2015). Functional and structural responses of soil N-cycling microbial communities to the herbicide mesotrione: a dose-effect microcosm approach. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 23(5). 4207–4217. 38 indexed citations

Baxendale, Catherine, Kate H. Orwin, Franck Poly, Thomas Pommier, & Richard D. Bardgett. (2014). Are plant–soil feedback responses explained by plant traits?. New Phytologist. 204(2). 408–423. 139 indexed citations

Roux, Xavier Le, Bernhard Schmid, Franck Poly, et al.. (2013). Soil Environmental Conditions and Microbial Build-Up Mediate the Effect of Plant Diversity on Soil Nitrifying and Denitrifying Enzyme Activities in Temperate Grasslands. PLoS ONE. 8(4). e61069–e61069. 78 indexed citations

Salles, Joana Falcão, Xavier Le Roux, & Franck Poly. (2012). Relating Phylogenetic and Functional Diversity among Denitrifiers and Quantifying their Capacity to Predict Community Functioning. Frontiers in Microbiology. 3. 209–209. 48 indexed citations

Cabrol, Léa, Luc Malhautier, Franck Poly, et al.. (2012). Resistance and resilience of removal efficiency and bacterial community structure of gas biofilters exposed to repeated shock loads. Bioresource Technology. 123. 548–557. 18 indexed citations

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Cabrol, Léa, Luc Malhautier, Franck Poly, Anne-Sophie Lepeuple, & Jean‐Louis Fanlo. (2011). Bacterial dynamics in steady-state biofilters: beyond functional stability. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 79(1). 260–271. 54 indexed citations

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Kelly, Laura, Charles S. Cockell, Yvette M. Piceno, et al.. (2011). Bacterial Diversity of Terrestrial Crystalline Volcanic Rocks, Iceland. Microbial Ecology. 62(1). 69–79. 39 indexed citations

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Attard, Eléonore, Franck Poly, Claire Commeaux, et al.. (2009). Shifts between Nitrospira ‐ and Nitrobacter ‐like nitrite oxidizers underlie the response of soil potential nitrite oxidation to changes in tillage practices. Environmental Microbiology. 12(2). 315–326. 199 indexed citations

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Wertz, Sophie, et al.. (2008). Development and application of a PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis tool to study the diversity of Nitrobacter-like nxrA sequences in soil. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 63(2). 261–271. 82 indexed citations

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Harper, Willie F., et al.. (2008). The effect of hydroxylamine on the activity and aggregate structure of autotrophic nitrifying bioreactor cultures. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 102(3). 714–724. 46 indexed citations

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Roux, Xavier Le, Franck Poly, Claire Commeaux, et al.. (2007). Effects of aboveground grazing on coupling among nitrifier activity, abundance and community structure. The ISME Journal. 2(2). 221–232. 124 indexed citations

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Poly, Franck, et al.. (2007). First exploration of Nitrobacter diversity in soils by a PCR cloning-sequencing approach targeting functional gene nxrA. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 63(1). 132–140. 166 indexed citations

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Wertz, Sophie, Valérie Degrange, James I. Prosser, et al.. (2006). Maintenance of soil functioning following erosion of microbial diversity. Environmental Microbiology. 8(12). 2162–2169. 218 indexed citations

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Patra, A. K., Luc Abbadie, A. Clays‐Josserand, et al.. (2006). Effects of management regime and plant species on the enzyme activity and genetic structure of N‐fixing, denitrifying and nitrifying bacterial communities in grassland soils. Environmental Microbiology. 8(6). 1005–1016. 201 indexed citations

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Gros, Raphaël, et al.. (2003). Plant and soil microbial community responses to solid waste leachates diffusion on grassland. Plant and Soil. 255(2). 445–455. 24 indexed citations

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Poly, Franck, et al.. (2001). Improvement in the RFLP procedure for studying the diversity of nifH genes in communities of nitrogen fixers in soil. Research in Microbiology. 152(1). 95–103. 673 indexed citations breakdown →

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