Frédéric Boyer

14.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
178 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Frédéric Boyer is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Frédéric Boyer has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 43 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 42 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Frédéric Boyer's work include Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems (25 papers), Soft Robotics and Applications (24 papers) and Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms (21 papers). Frédéric Boyer is often cited by papers focused on Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems (25 papers), Soft Robotics and Applications (24 papers) and Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms (21 papers). Frédéric Boyer collaborates with scholars based in France, Switzerland and United States. Frédéric Boyer's co-authors include Pierre Taberlet, Éric Coissac, Federico Renda, Céline Mercier, Aurélie Bonin, Mathieu Porez, Yvan Le Bras, Vincent Lebastard, Marta De Barba and Wisama Khalil and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Frédéric Boyer

171 papers receiving 7.6k citations

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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.

obitools: a unix‐inspired software package for DNA metabarcoding

2015 817 citations Frédéric Boyer, Céline Mercier et al. profile →
Replication levels, false presences and the estimation of the presence/absence from eDNA metabarcoding data

2014 513 citations Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Johan Pansu et al. profile →
DNA metabarcoding multiplexing and validation of data accuracy for diet assessment: application to omnivorous diet

2013 427 citations Marta De Barba, Frédéric Boyer et al. profile →
Soft Robots Modeling: A Structured Overview

2023 169 citations Frédéric Boyer, Anup Teejo Mathew et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Frédéric Boyer France	45	2.6k	2.4k	1.5k	992	772	178	7.8k
Thomas Kunz Canada	71	670 0.3×	9.8k 4.1×	228 0.2×	298 0.3×	121 0.2×	561	21.7k
Roger T. Hanlon United States	56	318 0.1×	2.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	158 0.2×	691 0.9×	243	10.3k
Christian R. Landry Canada	45	4.6k 1.8×	763 0.3×	129 0.1×	39 0.0×	519 0.7×	194	8.2k
Avis H. Cohen United States	29	363 0.1×	312 0.1×	1.7k 1.2×	412 0.4×	309 0.4×	71	4.8k
Jianzhi Zhang United States	71	10.4k 4.0×	998 0.4×	414 0.3×	12 0.0×	119 0.2×	303	17.4k
Alan M. Wilson United Kingdom	59	392 0.1×	1.3k 0.6×	2.6k 1.8×	144 0.1×	243 0.3×	215	9.8k
Michael H. Dickinson United States	75	1.3k 0.5×	2.0k 0.8×	2.1k 1.4×	294 0.3×	509 0.7×	187	20.8k
John D. Buck United States	29	1.4k 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	300 0.2×	23 0.0×	28 0.0×	97	3.8k
J. William O. Ballard Australia	42	3.1k 1.2×	2.1k 0.9×	60 0.0×	91 0.1×	35 0.0×	167	9.6k
Peter Aerts Belgium	54	288 0.1×	1.5k 0.6×	2.5k 1.7×	88 0.1×	127 0.2×	292	9.4k

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Doerner, Jessica, et al.. (2025). Dendritic cells activate pyroptosis and effector-triggered apoptosis to restrict Legionella infection. mBio. 16(7). e0125725–e0125725.

Mathew, Anup Teejo, Frédéric Boyer, Vincent Lebastard, & Federico Renda. (2025). Analytical derivatives of strain-based dynamic model for hybrid soft-rigid robots. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 45(1). 128–158.

Coissac, Éric, et al.. (2024). Deciphering microbial communities of three Savoyard raw milk cheeses along ripening and regarding the cheese process. International Journal of Food Microbiology. 418. 110712–110712. 1 indexed citations

Cattel, Julien, Jonathan Filée, Frédéric Boyer, et al.. (2024). A genomic duplication spanning multiple P450s contributes to insecticide resistance in the dengue mosquito Aedes aegypti. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 1 indexed citations

Pansu, Johan, Adam Stow, Michael St. J. Warne, et al.. (2024). Environmental DNA highlights the influence of salinity and agricultural run-off on coastal fish assemblages in the Great Barrier Reef region. Environmental Pollution. 349. 123954–123954. 1 indexed citations

Wan, Qiuchi, Kangyou Huang, Sufang Chen, et al.. (2023). Fagus diversification in China in relation to East Asian monsoon evolution. Quaternary Science Reviews. 320. 108350–108350. 8 indexed citations

Boyer, Frédéric, et al.. (2023). Modelling, control and simulation of a single rotor UAV with swashplateless torque modulation. Aerospace Science and Technology. 140. 108433–108433. 5 indexed citations

Zinger, Lucie, et al.. (2021). metabaR: An r package for the evaluation and improvement of DNA metabarcoding data quality. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(4). 586–592. 54 indexed citations

Thandiackal, Robin, Kamilo Melo, Laura Paez, et al.. (2021). Emergence of robust self-organized undulatory swimming based on local hydrodynamic force sensing. Science Robotics. 6(57). 96 indexed citations

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Yannic, Glenn, et al.. (2020). Adult survival in migratory caribou is negatively associated with MHC functional diversity. Heredity. 125(5). 290–303. 8 indexed citations

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Ficetola, Gentile Francesco, Frédéric Boyer, Alice Valentini, et al.. (2020). Comparison of markers for the monitoring of freshwater benthic biodiversity through DNA metabarcoding. Molecular Ecology. 30(13). 3189–3202. 45 indexed citations

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Couzigou, Jean‐Malo, Katharina Schiessl, Shengbin Liu, et al.. (2018). MtNODULE ROOT1 and MtNODULE ROOT2 Are Essential for Indeterminate Nodule Identity. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 178(1). 295–316. 33 indexed citations

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Zinger, Lucie, Pierre Taberlet, Heidy Schimann, et al.. (2018). Body size determines soil community assembly in a tropical forest. Molecular Ecology. 28(3). 528–543. 136 indexed citations

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Boyer, Frédéric, et al.. (2017). Model based estimation of ellipsoidal object using artificial electric sense. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 36(9). 1022–1041. 12 indexed citations

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Boyer, Frédéric. (2015). Quelle terreur en nous ne veut pas finir. 2 indexed citations

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Boyer, Frédéric & Mathieu Porez. (2015). Multibody system dynamics for bio-inspired locomotion: from geometric structures to computational aspects. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 10(2). 25007–25007. 35 indexed citations

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Bahí, Amine, Frédéric Boyer, Tal Kafri, & Jean‐Luc Dreyer. (2004). CD81‐induced behavioural changes during chronic cocaine administration: in vivo gene delivery with regulatable lentivirus. European Journal of Neuroscience. 19(6). 1621–1633. 46 indexed citations

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Bizat, Nicolas, Jean‐Michel Hermel, Frédéric Boyer, et al.. (2003). Calpain Is a Major Cell Death Effector in Selective Striatal Degeneration InducedIn Vivoby 3-Nitropropionate: Implications for Huntington's Disease. Journal of Neuroscience. 23(12). 5020–5030. 145 indexed citations

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Boyer, Frédéric, et al.. (1992). Figures du démoniaque, hier et aujourd’hui. OpenEdition (OpenEdition).

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Boyer, Frédéric & Richard Kronland-Martinet. (1989). Granular Resynthesis and Transformation of Sounds through Wavelet Transform Analysis.. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association.

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