Gregory P. Fournier

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Gregory P. Fournier is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gregory P. Fournier has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Ecology and 11 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Gregory P. Fournier's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (30 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (16 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers). Gregory P. Fournier is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (30 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (16 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers). Gregory P. Fournier collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Switzerland. Gregory P. Fournier's co-authors include J. Peter Gogarten, Joanna M. Wolfe, Cheryl P. Andam, Eric J. Alm, Kelsey R. Moore, Kristen S. Swithers, Roger E. Summons, Tanja Bosak, Cara Magnabosco and Lily Momper and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Gregory P. Fournier

49 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Co‐evolution of early Earth environments and microbial life

2024 42 citations Timothy W. Lyons, Gregory P. Fournier et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gregory P. Fournier United States	23	901	465	274	162	158	51	1.6k
Radu Popa United States	23	435 0.5×	508 1.1×	155 0.6×	261 1.6×	104 0.7×	60	1.7k
Janet L. Siefert United States	19	769 0.9×	839 1.8×	274 1.0×	308 1.9×	104 0.7×	27	2.0k
Lewis M. Ward United States	19	679 0.8×	655 1.4×	399 1.5×	240 1.5×	51 0.3×	45	1.5k
James Hemp United States	22	1.5k 1.6×	870 1.9×	220 0.8×	318 2.0×	65 0.4×	50	2.6k
Jacob Waldbauer United States	20	774 0.9×	1.3k 2.9×	447 1.6×	290 1.8×	88 0.6×	38	2.6k
Carrine E. Blank United States	16	554 0.6×	455 1.0×	187 0.7×	219 1.4×	81 0.5×	20	1.0k
Sheri L. Simmons United States	13	1.1k 1.2×	691 1.5×	73 0.3×	171 1.1×	89 0.6×	26	1.6k
Weijia Zhang China	23	848 0.9×	284 0.6×	51 0.2×	136 0.8×	156 1.0×	81	1.6k
Patrick M. Shih United States	26	1.5k 1.7×	563 1.2×	227 0.8×	221 1.4×	121 0.8×	82	2.5k
Mayo Roettger Germany	12	1.3k 1.4×	597 1.3×	80 0.3×	159 1.0×	137 0.9×	15	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gregory P. Fournier

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fournier, Gregory P., et al.. (2025). Recent origin of iron oxidation in extant microbial groups and low clade fidelity of iron metabolisms. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 91(9). e0166224–e0166224.

Barge, Laura M. & Gregory P. Fournier. (2024). Considerations for Detecting Organic Indicators of Metabolism on Enceladus. Astrobiology. 24(3). 328–338. 1 indexed citations

Fournier, Gregory P.. (2024). Stem Life: A Framework for Understanding the Prebiotic-Biotic Transition. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 92(5). 539–549. 1 indexed citations

Lyons, Timothy W., Gregory P. Fournier, R. Anderson, et al.. (2024). Co‐evolution of early Earth environments and microbial life. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 22(9). 572–586. 42 indexed citations breakdown →

Goldman, Aaron D. & Gregory P. Fournier. (2024). The very early evolution of biological complexity. Trends in Genetics. 40(11). 912–913. 3 indexed citations

Capovilla, Giovanna, Rogier Braakman, Gregory P. Fournier, et al.. (2023). Chitin utilization by marine picocyanobacteria and the evolution of a planktonic lifestyle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(20). e2213271120–e2213271120. 9 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiaowen, et al.. (2023). Late acquisition of the rTCA carbon fixation pathway by Chlorobi. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(9). 1398–1407. 3 indexed citations

Fournier, Gregory P., et al.. (2023). Assessing the Influence of HGT on the Evolution of Stress Responses in Microbial Communities from Shark Bay, Western Australia. Genes. 14(12). 2168–2168. 2 indexed citations

Gülay, Arda, Gregory P. Fournier, Barth F. Smets, & Peter R. Girguis. (2023). Proterozoic Acquisition of Archaeal Genes for Extracellular Electron Transfer: A Metabolic Adaptation of Aerobic Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria to Oxygen Limitation. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(8). 5 indexed citations

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Fournier, Gregory P., et al.. (2021). The Archean origin of oxygenic photosynthesis and extant cyanobacterial lineages. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1959). 20210675–20210675. 79 indexed citations

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Daye, Mirna, Vanja Klepac‐Ceraj, Mihkel Pajusalu, et al.. (2019). Light-driven anaerobic microbial oxidation of manganese. Nature. 576(7786). 311–314. 101 indexed citations

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Moore, Kelsey R., Cara Magnabosco, Lily Momper, et al.. (2019). An Expanded Ribosomal Phylogeny of Cyanobacteria Supports a Deep Placement of Plastids. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 1612–1612. 48 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Joanna M. & Gregory P. Fournier. (2018). Horizontal gene transfer constrains the timing of methanogen evolution. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(5). 897–903. 93 indexed citations

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Gold, David A., et al.. (2017). Paleoproterozoic sterol biosynthesis and the rise of oxygen. Nature. 543(7645). 420–423. 75 indexed citations

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Cantine, Marjorie & Gregory P. Fournier. (2017). Environmental Adaptation from the Origin of Life to the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. 48(1). 35–54. 27 indexed citations

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Andam, Cheryl P., Gregory P. Fournier, & J. Peter Gogarten. (2011). Multilevel populations and the evolution of antibiotic resistance through horizontal gene transfer. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 35(5). 756–767. 73 indexed citations

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Swithers, Kristen S., Gregory P. Fournier, Anna G. Green, J. Peter Gogarten, & Pascal Lapierre. (2011). Reassessment of the Lineage Fusion Hypothesis for the Origin of Double Membrane Bacteria. PLoS ONE. 6(8). e23774–e23774. 5 indexed citations

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Williams, David, Gregory P. Fournier, Pascal Lapierre, et al.. (2011). A Rooted Net of Life. Biology Direct. 6(1). 45–45. 29 indexed citations

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Fournier, Gregory P., Jinling Huang, & J. Peter Gogarten. (2009). Horizontal gene transfer from extinct and extant lineages: biological innovation and the coral of life. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 364(1527). 2229–2239. 53 indexed citations

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Pogue, Brian W., Julia A. O’Hara, Isak Goodwin, et al.. (2002). Tumor Po2 changes during photodynamic therapy depend upon photosensitizer type and time after injection. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 132(1). 177–184. 37 indexed citations

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