Frédéric Mahé

21.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
59 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Frédéric Mahé is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Frédéric Mahé has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Ecology, 36 papers in Molecular Biology and 14 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Frédéric Mahé's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (31 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (29 papers) and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (16 papers). Frédéric Mahé is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (31 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (29 papers) and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (16 papers). Frédéric Mahé collaborates with scholars based in France, Germany and United Kingdom. Frédéric Mahé's co-authors include Torbjørn Rognes, Christopher Quince, Tomáš Flouri, Ben Nichols, Micah Dunthorn, Colomban de Vargas, David Bass, Sarah Romac, Thorsten Stoeck and Johan Decelle and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioinformatics, PLoS ONE and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Frédéric Mahé

57 papers receiving 9.9k 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.

VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics

2016 7.2k citations Torbjørn Rognes, Tomáš Flouri et al. PeerJ profile →
Swarm: robust and fast clustering method for amplicon-based studies

2014 653 citations Frédéric Mahé, Torbjørn Rognes et al. PeerJ profile →
Swarm v2: highly-scalable and high-resolution amplicon clustering

2015 403 citations Frédéric Mahé, Torbjørn Rognes et al. PeerJ profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Frédéric Mahé France	25	5.0k	4.7k	1.8k	746	739	59	10.0k
Sarah M. Owens United States	21	4.6k 0.9×	3.9k 0.8×	2.0k 1.1×	603 0.8×	599 0.8×	33	10.7k
Benjamin Buchfink Germany	4	5.6k 1.1×	3.4k 0.7×	2.5k 1.4×	626 0.8×	662 0.9×	5	10.7k
Laura Wegener Parfrey Canada	39	8.4k 1.7×	5.2k 1.1×	1.8k 1.0×	727 1.0×	951 1.3×	80	15.8k
Tanja Magoč United States	5	5.7k 1.1×	3.8k 0.8×	2.4k 1.3×	699 0.9×	822 1.1×	7	12.1k
William A. Walters United States	14	4.6k 0.9×	4.0k 0.8×	1.9k 1.1×	519 0.7×	554 0.7×	18	10.9k
Ben Nichols United Kingdom	12	3.6k 0.7×	3.0k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	592 0.8×	628 0.8×	40	7.8k
Matthias Horn Austria	57	7.7k 1.5×	4.9k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	520 0.7×	1.2k 1.7×	157	16.7k
Torbjørn Rognes Norway	29	9.3k 1.9×	5.6k 1.2×	2.8k 1.5×	819 1.1×	945 1.3×	64	15.5k
Ashley Shade United States	39	2.9k 0.6×	3.8k 0.8×	2.0k 1.1×	627 0.8×	331 0.4×	87	7.6k
Chao Xie Singapore	15	5.4k 1.1×	3.1k 0.6×	2.1k 1.2×	504 0.7×	499 0.7×	18	10.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frédéric Mahé

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All Works

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Obiol, Aleix, Javier del Campo, Colomban de Vargas, Frédéric Mahé, & Ramón Massana. (2024). How marine are Marine Stramenopiles (MAST)? A cross-system evaluation. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 100(11). 2 indexed citations

Czech, Lucas, et al.. (2023). Interpreting phylogenetic placements for taxonomic assignment of environmental DNA. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 70(5). e12990–e12990. 2 indexed citations

Ravigné, Virginie, Nathalie Becker, François Massol, et al.. (2022). Fruit fly phylogeny imprints bacterial gut microbiota. Evolutionary Applications. 15(10). 1621–1638. 11 indexed citations

Schoenle, Alexandra, et al.. (2021). High and specific diversity of protists in the deep-sea basins dominated by diplonemids, kinetoplastids, ciliates and foraminiferans. Communications Biology. 4(1). 501–501. 39 indexed citations

Mahé, Frédéric, Lucas Czech, Alexandros Stamatakis, et al.. (2021). Swarm v3: towards tera-scale amplicon clustering. Bioinformatics. 38(1). 267–269. 72 indexed citations

Vaulot, Daniel, Stefan Geisen, Frédéric Mahé, & David Bass. (2021). pr2‐primers: An 18S rRNA primer database for protists. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22(1). 168–179. 82 indexed citations

Belstrøm, Daniel, Florentin Constancias, Daniela I. Drautz‐Moses, et al.. (2021). Periodontitis associates with species-specific gene expression of the oral microbiota. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 7(1). 30 indexed citations

Boivin, Stéphane, Frédéric Mahé, Frederic Debellé, et al.. (2021). Genetic Variation in Host-Specific Competitiveness of the Symbiont Rhizobium leguminosarum Symbiovar viciae. Frontiers in Plant Science. 12. 719987–719987. 9 indexed citations

Baumel, Alex, Frédéric Mahé, Pierre Tisseyre, et al.. (2020). The belowground bacterial and fungal communities differed in their significance as microbial indicator of Moroccan carob habitats. Ecological Indicators. 114. 106341–106341. 5 indexed citations

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Gottschling, Marc, Lucas Czech, Frédéric Mahé, Sina M. Adl, & Micah Dunthorn. (2020). The Windblown: Possible Explanations for Dinophyte DNA in Forest Soils. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 68(1). e12833–e12833. 10 indexed citations

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Decelle, Johan, Quentin Carradec, Xavier Pochon, et al.. (2018). Worldwide Occurrence and Activity of the Reef-Building Coral Symbiont Symbiodinium in the Open Ocean. Current Biology. 28(22). 3625–3633.e3. 44 indexed citations

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Lentendu, Guillaume, Frédéric Mahé, David Bass, et al.. (2018). Consistent patterns of high alpha and low beta diversity in tropical parasitic and free‐living protists. Molecular Ecology. 27(13). 2846–2857. 36 indexed citations

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Forster, Dominik, Micah Dunthorn, Thorsten Stoeck, & Frédéric Mahé. (2016). Comparison of three clustering approaches for detecting novel environmental microbial diversity. PeerJ. 4. e1692–e1692. 24 indexed citations

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Rognes, Torbjørn, Tomáš Flouri, Ben Nichols, Christopher Quince, & Frédéric Mahé. (2016). VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics. PeerJ. 4. e2584–e2584. 7207 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mahé, Frédéric, Torbjørn Rognes, Christopher Quince, Colomban de Vargas, & Micah Dunthorn. (2015). Swarm v2: highly-scalable and high-resolution amplicon clustering. PeerJ. 3. e1420–e1420. 403 indexed citations breakdown →

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Morard, Raphaël, Kate F. Darling, Frédéric Mahé, et al.. (2015). PFR²: a curated database of planktonic foraminifera 18S ribosomal DNA as a resource for studies of plankton ecology, biogeography and evolution. Molecular Ecology Resources. 15(6). 1472–1485. 58 indexed citations

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Dunthorn, Micah, Simon Berger, Alexandros Stamatakis, et al.. (2014). Placing Environmental Next-Generation Sequencing Amplicons from Microbial Eukaryotes into a Phylogenetic Context. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31(4). 993–1009. 78 indexed citations

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Decelle, Johan, Sarah Romac, Eriko Sasaki, Fabrice Not, & Frédéric Mahé. (2014). Intracellular Diversity of the V4 and V9 Regions of the 18S rRNA in Marine Protists (Radiolarians) Assessed by High-Throughput Sequencing. PLoS ONE. 9(8). e104297–e104297. 60 indexed citations

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Mahé, Frédéric, et al.. (2013). Meiosis Gene Inventory of Four Ciliates Reveals the Prevalence of a Synaptonemal Complex-Independent Crossover Pathway. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31(3). 660–672. 30 indexed citations

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Némery, Julien, Nicolas Gratiot, Clément Duvert, et al.. (2009). Biogeochemical characterization of the Cointzio reservoir (Morelia, Mexico) and identification of a watershed-dependent cycling of nutrients. AGUFM. 2009. 1 indexed citations

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