Frédéric Legendre

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Frédéric Legendre is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Frédéric Legendre has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 40 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Frédéric Legendre's work include Plant and animal studies (48 papers), Fossil Insects in Amber (35 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (35 papers). Frédéric Legendre is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (48 papers), Fossil Insects in Amber (35 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (35 papers). Frédéric Legendre collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and China. Frédéric Legendre's co-authors include Philippe Grandcolas, Régine Vignes‐Lebbe, Amandine Blin, André Nel, Tony Robillard, Roseli Pellens, Laure Desutter‐Grandcolas, Michael F. Whiting, Fabien L. Condamine and Corentin Jouault and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Frédéric Legendre

68 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Taxonomic bias in biodiversity data and societal preferences

2017 503 citations Philippe Grandcolas, Amandine Blin et al. Scientific Reports profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Frédéric Legendre France	23	1.4k	888	359	355	265	71	2.1k
Emmanuel F. A. Toussaint United States	25	1.4k 1.0×	1.0k 1.2×	221 0.6×	407 1.1×	320 1.2×	81	2.1k
Mary Morgan‐Richards New Zealand	26	1.2k 0.8×	909 1.0×	362 1.0×	539 1.5×	656 2.5×	123	2.2k
Carlos Peña Finland	20	1.4k 1.0×	1.4k 1.5×	472 1.3×	243 0.7×	369 1.4×	33	2.0k
Lars Hendrich Germany	24	1.3k 0.9×	867 1.0×	303 0.8×	941 2.7×	170 0.6×	124	2.2k
Katrina McGuigan Australia	27	988 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	140 0.4×	423 1.2×	471 1.8×	60	2.0k
Hervé Jourdan France	25	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	132 0.4×	323 0.9×	225 0.8×	82	2.0k
Jorge Llorente-Bousquets Mexico	15	694 0.5×	407 0.5×	486 1.4×	506 1.4×	535 2.0×	42	1.5k
Tara A. Pelletier United States	12	446 0.3×	630 0.7×	370 1.0×	412 1.2×	264 1.0×	23	1.3k
Daegan Inward United Kingdom	17	981 0.7×	914 1.0×	117 0.3×	553 1.6×	187 0.7×	29	1.9k
James M. Sobel United States	11	1.2k 0.9×	694 0.8×	321 0.9×	551 1.6×	751 2.8×	15	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Frédéric Legendre

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frédéric Legendre

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Engel, Michael S., et al.. (2025). Descending from trees: a Cretaceous winged ice-crawler illuminates the ecological shift and origin of Grylloblattidae. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2049). 20250557–20250557. 1 indexed citations

Grandcolas, Philippe, et al.. (2025). In good form: Morphological adaptations to burrowing lifestyles in cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattodea). Functional Ecology. 39(10). 2860–2875. 1 indexed citations

Evangelista, Dominic A., Michael A. Gilchrist, Frédéric Legendre, & Brian C. O’Meara. (2025). Concatenation fails to describe the anomalous radiation of giant cockroaches (Blattodea: Blaberidae) despite moderate to low discordance. BMC Ecology and Evolution. 25(1). 72–72.

Bonillo, Céline, et al.. (2024). Early colonization of New Caledonia by ultrasonic crickets from New Guinea (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Eneopterinae): Historical biogeography and description of a new genus. Systematic Entomology. 50(2). 269–295.

Evangelista, Dominic A., et al.. (2024). Phylogenomic analyses of Blattodea combining traditional methods, incremental tree-building, and quality-aware support. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 200. 108177–108177. 1 indexed citations

Evangelista, Dominic A., et al.. (2023). Phylogenomics and deep convergence in cockroach hind-wing morphology. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 23(4). 929–940. 4 indexed citations

Legendre, Frédéric, et al.. (2022). Eusocial Transition in Blattodea: Transposable Elements and Shifts of Gene Expression. Genes. 13(11). 1948–1948. 5 indexed citations

Jouault, Corentin, et al.. (2022). A new mid-Cretaceous fossil genus of stonefly (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from the Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research. 133. 105138–105138. 3 indexed citations

Jouault, Corentin, Michael S. Engel, Frédéric Legendre, et al.. (2022). Incrementing and clarifying the diversity and early evolution of termites (Blattodea: Isoptera). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 196(2). 608–629. 2 indexed citations

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Evangelista, Dominic A., et al.. (2018). Topological support and data quality can only be assessed through multiple tests in reviewing Blattodea phylogeny. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 128. 112–122. 16 indexed citations

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Grandcolas, Philippe, et al.. (2017). Taxonomic bias in biodiversity data and societal preferences. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 9132–9132. 503 indexed citations breakdown →

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Costes, L M M, et al.. (2016). 246 Prebiotic stimulation of innate immune system, skin barrier and staphylococci homeostasis. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 136(9). S203–S203. 1 indexed citations

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Legendre, Frédéric, André Nel, Gavin J. Svenson, et al.. (2015). Phylogeny of Dictyoptera: Dating the Origin of Cockroaches, Praying Mantises and Termites with Molecular Data and Controlled Fossil Evidence. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0130127–e0130127. 152 indexed citations

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Roy, Roger, et al.. (2015). Catalogue of Dictyoptera from Syria and neighbouring countries (Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Jordan). Zootaxa. 3948(1). 71–92. 7 indexed citations

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Legendre, Frédéric, Michael F. Whiting, Christian Bordereau, et al.. (2008). The phylogeny of termites (Dictyoptera: Isoptera) based on mitochondrial and nuclear markers: Implications for the evolution of the worker and pseudergate castes, and foraging behaviors. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 48(2). 615–627. 128 indexed citations

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Dellacasagrande, Jérôme, et al.. (2007). Synthesis and evaluation of new phosphonolipid compounds for gene delivery. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 43(8). 1758–1766. 8 indexed citations

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Robillard, Tony, Frédéric Legendre, Laure Desutter‐Grandcolas, & Philippe Grandcolas. (2006). Phylogenetic analysis and alignment of behavioral sequences by direct optimization. Cladistics. 22(6). 602–633. 30 indexed citations

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Grandcolas, Philippe, Frédéric Legendre, Yung Chul Park, et al.. (2005). The genus Cryptocercus in East Asia: distribution and new species (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Blattaria, Polyphagidae). Zoosystema. 27(4). 725–732. 10 indexed citations

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Desutter‐Grandcolas, Laure, Frédéric Legendre, Philippe Grandcolas, Tony Robillard, & Jérôme Murienne. (2005). Convergence and parallelism: is a new life ahead of old concepts?. Cladistics. 21(1). 51–61. 27 indexed citations

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Legendre, Frédéric, et al.. (1995). Synthesis and Biological Activity of Derivatives of the Herbicidal Metabolite CL22T (Phthoxazolin).. The Journal of Antibiotics. 48(4). 341–343. 3 indexed citations

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