François Thomas

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

François Thomas is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, François Thomas has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Ecology, 19 papers in Oceanography and 18 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in François Thomas's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (25 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (15 papers) and Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds (9 papers). François Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (25 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (15 papers) and Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds (9 papers). François Thomas collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Germany. François Thomas's co-authors include Gurvan Michel, Mirjam Czjzek, Jan‐Hendrik Hehemann, E. Rebuffet, Tristan Barbeyron, Aurélie Cébron, Andrea C. Alfaro, Mark Duxbury, Stefan M. Sievert and Murielle Jam and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

François Thomas

47 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Environmental and Gut Bacteroidetes: The Food Connection

2011 983 citations François Thomas, Jan‐Hendrik Hehemann et al. Frontiers in Microbiology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
François Thomas France	24	1.2k	971	607	471	393	49	2.7k
David H. Green United Kingdom	36	1.7k 1.4×	1.2k 1.3×	1.3k 2.2×	344 0.7×	427 1.1×	66	3.9k
Miyuki Nishijima Japan	24	1.3k 1.1×	1.4k 1.5×	398 0.7×	127 0.3×	314 0.8×	72	3.4k
Tomoo Sawabe Japan	38	1.8k 1.5×	2.1k 2.1×	509 0.8×	875 1.9×	281 0.7×	147	4.6k
Teresa L. Maugeri Italy	31	857 0.7×	805 0.8×	269 0.4×	204 0.4×	192 0.5×	65	2.3k
Bernd Wemheuer Germany	32	1.9k 1.6×	1.9k 1.9×	490 0.8×	187 0.4×	472 1.2×	69	4.4k
Rodrigo Costa Portugal	38	1.4k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	391 0.6×	246 0.5×	330 0.8×	97	4.0k
Jan‐Hendrik Hehemann Germany	34	1.7k 1.5×	2.4k 2.5×	921 1.5×	967 2.1×	281 0.7×	71	5.1k
Angelina Lo Giudice Italy	32	1.4k 1.2×	835 0.9×	214 0.4×	145 0.3×	789 2.0×	123	2.8k
Luigi Vezzulli Italy	39	1.6k 1.4×	705 0.7×	972 1.6×	241 0.5×	552 1.4×	99	4.5k
Demin Zhang China	32	1.4k 1.2×	923 1.0×	343 0.6×	547 1.2×	382 1.0×	130	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by François Thomas

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Fields of papers citing papers by François Thomas

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of François Thomas

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pfister, Catherine A., Ulisse Cardini, Angélique Gobet, et al.. (2025). Evolutionary history and association with seaweeds shape the genomes and metabolisms of marine bacteria. mSphere. 10(6). e0099624–e0099624.

Ficko‐Blean, Elizabeth, Daniel Bartosik, Nicolas Terrapon, et al.. (2024). Unveiling the role of novel carbohydrate‐binding modules in laminarin interaction of multimodular proteins from marine Bacteroidota during phytoplankton blooms. Environmental Microbiology. 26(5). e16624–e16624. 2 indexed citations

Rousvoal, Sylvie, Delphine Champeval, Gurvan Michel, et al.. (2024). A review on the chemical ecology of the Fucaceae holobionts: from fundamental knowledge to applications. Comptes Rendus Chimie. 26(S2). 23–47. 3 indexed citations

Rigaut‐Jalabert, Fabienne, et al.. (2023). Seasonal dynamics of a glycan‐degrading flavobacterial genus in a tidally mixed coastal temperate habitat. Environmental Microbiology. 25(12). 3192–3206. 1 indexed citations

Nam, Ki Hyun, François Thomas, Lukas Reisky, et al.. (2023). Unique alcohol dehydrogenases involved in algal sugar utilization by marine bacteria. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 107(7-8). 2363–2384. 2 indexed citations

Barbeyron, Tristan, et al.. (2022). Consuming fresh macroalgae induces specific catabolic pathways, stress reactions and Type IX secretion in marine flavobacterial pioneer degraders. The ISME Journal. 16(8). 2027–2039. 12 indexed citations

Thomas, François, Karen Methling, Daniel Bartosik, et al.. (2022). Connecting Algal Polysaccharide Degradation to Formaldehyde Detoxification. ChemBioChem. 23(14). e202200269–e202200269. 4 indexed citations

Fuchs, Bernhard M., et al.. (2021). Specific detection and quantification of the marine flavobacterial genus Zobellia on macroalgae using novel qPCR and CARD-FISH assays. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 44(6). 126269–126269. 5 indexed citations

Thomas, François, James T. Morris, Cathleen Wigand, & Stefan M. Sievert. (2019). Short-term effect of simulated salt marsh restoration by sand-amendment on sediment bacterial communities. PLoS ONE. 14(4). e0215767–e0215767. 10 indexed citations

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Bourceret, Amélia, Corinne Leyval, François Thomas, & Aurélie Cébron. (2017). Rhizosphere effect is stronger than PAH concentration on shaping spatial bacterial assemblages along centimetre-scale depth gradients. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 63(11). 881–893. 7 indexed citations

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Thomas, François, et al.. (2017). Gene Expression Analysis of Zobellia galactanivorans during the Degradation of Algal Polysaccharides Reveals both Substrate-Specific and Shared Transcriptome-Wide Responses. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 1808–1808. 39 indexed citations

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Signori, Camila Negrão, François Thomas, Alex Enrich‐Prast, Ricardo César Gonçalves Pollery, & Stefan M. Sievert. (2014). Microbial diversity and community structure across environmental gradients in Bransfield Strait, Western Antarctic Peninsula. Frontiers in Microbiology. 5. 647–647. 60 indexed citations

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Thomas, François, Anne E. Giblin, Zoë G. Cardon, & Stefan M. Sievert. (2014). Rhizosphere heterogeneity shapes abundance and activity of sulfur-oxidizing bacteria in vegetated salt marsh sediments. Frontiers in Microbiology. 5. 309–309. 67 indexed citations

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Thomas, François, Murielle Jam, Alexandra Jeudy, et al.. (2013). Comparative Characterization of Two Marine Alginate Lyases from Zobellia galactanivorans Reveals Distinct Modes of Action and Exquisite Adaptation to Their Natural Substrate. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(32). 23021–23037. 169 indexed citations

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Thomas, François, Tristan Barbeyron, Thierry Tonon, et al.. (2012). Characterization of the first alginolytic operons in a marine bacterium: from their emergence in marine Flavobacteriia to their independent transfers to marine Proteobacteria and human gut Bacteroides. Environmental Microbiology. 14(9). 2379–2394. 156 indexed citations

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Hehemann, Jan‐Hendrik, Gaëlle Correc, François Thomas, et al.. (2012). Biochemical and Structural Characterization of the Complex Agarolytic Enzyme System from the Marine Bacterium Zobellia galactanivorans. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(36). 30571–30584. 112 indexed citations

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Thomas, François, Audrey Cosse, Sophie Goulitquer, et al.. (2011). Waterborne Signaling Primes the Expression of Elicitor-Induced Genes and Buffers the Oxidative Responses in the Brown Alga Laminaria digitata. PLoS ONE. 6(6). e21475–e21475. 26 indexed citations

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Thomas, François, Jan‐Hendrik Hehemann, E. Rebuffet, Mirjam Czjzek, & Gurvan Michel. (2011). Environmental and Gut Bacteroidetes: The Food Connection. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2. 93–93. 983 indexed citations breakdown →

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Goulitquer, Sophie, et al.. (2009). Release of Volatile Aldehydes by the Brown Algal Kelp Laminaria digitata in Response to Both Biotic and Abiotic Stress. ChemBioChem. 10(6). 977–982. 30 indexed citations

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Minna, John D., J. Schütte, Jean Viallet, et al.. (1989). Transcription factors and recessive oncogenes in the pathogenesis of human lung cancer. International Journal of Cancer. 44(S1). 32–34. 10 indexed citations

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