Isabelle Laforest‐Lapointe

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

About

Isabelle Laforest‐Lapointe is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Isabelle Laforest‐Lapointe has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Plant Science and 7 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Isabelle Laforest‐Lapointe's work include Gut microbiota and health (14 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (10 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (10 papers). Isabelle Laforest‐Lapointe is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (14 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (10 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (10 papers). Isabelle Laforest‐Lapointe collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Sweden and Spain. Isabelle Laforest‐Lapointe's co-authors include Steven W. Kembel, Christian Messier, Marie‐Claire Arrieta, Alain Paquette, Jordi Martínez‐Vilalta, Javier Retana, Briana K. Whitaker, Manijeh Mahdavi, Jessica G. Wallace and Éric Massé and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Isabelle Laforest‐Lapointe

36 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Leaf bacterial diversity mediates plant diversity and ecosystem function relationships

2017 265 citations Isabelle Laforest‐Lapointe, Alain Paquette et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Isabelle Laforest‐Lapointe Canada	19	651	617	285	229	221	40	1.6k
Karyn P. Ridgway United Kingdom	12	832 1.3×	537 0.9×	142 0.5×	142 0.6×	215 1.0×	12	1.5k
Julia K. Copeland Canada	16	833 1.3×	510 0.8×	257 0.9×	192 0.8×	102 0.5×	24	1.5k
Martin Kostovčík Czechia	22	236 0.4×	574 0.9×	454 1.6×	152 0.7×	150 0.7×	36	1.6k
James Meadow United States	15	287 0.4×	748 1.2×	186 0.7×	67 0.3×	101 0.5×	16	1.9k
Jarrad Hampton‐Marcell United States	17	724 1.1×	942 1.5×	503 1.8×	245 1.1×	116 0.5×	30	2.3k
Gavin M. Douglas Canada	15	434 0.7×	1.1k 1.8×	455 1.6×	98 0.4×	122 0.6×	31	2.0k
Elizabeth Bent United States	23	850 1.3×	439 0.7×	317 1.1×	165 0.7×	113 0.5×	38	1.5k
Massimo Pindo Italy	29	1.5k 2.3×	1.1k 1.8×	328 1.2×	394 1.7×	137 0.6×	88	2.7k
Maria Bernard France	16	366 0.6×	528 0.9×	274 1.0×	68 0.3×	80 0.4×	31	1.5k
Simon Lax United States	19	627 1.0×	1.1k 1.8×	410 1.4×	213 0.9×	88 0.4×	23	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Isabelle Laforest‐Lapointe

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Fraysse, Jeremy, et al.. (2026). Montreal Urban Observatory: research platform to monitor urban forest ecosystems for global change adaptation and health. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Mahdavi, Manijeh, Karine Prévost, Valérie Gagné‐Ouellet, et al.. (2025). Influence of CTG repeats from the human DM1 locus on murine gut microbiota. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 27. 733–743.

Laforest‐Lapointe, Isabelle, et al.. (2025). The temperate forest phyllosphere and rhizosphere microbiome: a case study of sugar maple. Frontiers in Microbiology. 15. 1504444–1504444. 3 indexed citations

Laforest‐Lapointe, Isabelle, et al.. (2025). Reproducing plant microbiome research reveals site and time as key drivers of apple tree phyllosphere bacterial communities. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 25620–25620.

Laforest‐Lapointe, Isabelle, et al.. (2024). Lactobacilli decrease the susceptibility of Salmonella Typhimurium to azithromycin. Microbiology Spectrum. 12(8). e0349723–e0349723. 1 indexed citations

Ramay, Hena R., Shirin Moossavi, Isabelle Laforest‐Lapointe, et al.. (2024). Divergent maturational patterns of the infant bacterial and fungal gut microbiome in the first year of life are associated with inter-kingdom community dynamics and infant nutrition. Microbiome. 12(1). 22–22. 12 indexed citations

Roy, Sébastien, et al.. (2024). Boreal moss-microbe interactions are revealed through metagenome assembly of novel bacterial species. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 22168–22168. 1 indexed citations

Blanchet, F. Guillaume, et al.. (2024). Interplay of biotic and abiotic factors shapes tree seedling growth and root-associated microbial communities. Communications Biology. 7(1). 360–360. 16 indexed citations

Mahdavi, Manijeh, Karine Prévost, Élise Duchesne, et al.. (2024). Disturbance of the human gut microbiota in patients with Myotonic Dystrophy type 1. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 23. 2097–2108. 6 indexed citations

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Gutierrez, Mackenzie W., Shirin Moossavi, Isabelle Laforest‐Lapointe, et al.. (2023). Maturational patterns of the infant gut mycobiome are associated with early-life body mass index. Cell Reports Medicine. 4(2). 100928–100928. 23 indexed citations

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Laforest‐Lapointe, Isabelle, et al.. (2023). Soil Metatranscriptomics: An Improved RNA Extraction Method Toward Functional Analysis Using Nanopore Direct RNA Sequencing. Phytobiomes Journal. 7(1). 42–54. 9 indexed citations

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Laforest‐Lapointe, Isabelle, et al.. (2023). Light prevents pathogen-induced aqueous microenvironments via potentiation of salicylic acid signaling. Nature Communications. 14(1). 713–713. 27 indexed citations

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Prévost, Karine, Mariano Avino, Mélina Arguin, et al.. (2023). Optimizing Fecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT) Colorectal Cancer Screening Using Gut Bacteriome as a Biomarker. Clinical Colorectal Cancer. 23(1). 22–34.e2. 2 indexed citations

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Laforest‐Lapointe, Isabelle, et al.. (2022). Unraveling global and diazotrophic bacteriomes of boreal forest floor feather mosses and their environmental drivers at the ecosystem and at the plant scale in North America. The Science of The Total Environment. 837. 155761–155761. 15 indexed citations

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Bernardes, Erik van Tilburg, Veronika Kuchařová Pettersen, Mackenzie W. Gutierrez, et al.. (2020). Intestinal fungi are causally implicated in microbiome assembly and immune development in mice. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2577–2577. 173 indexed citations

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Heirali, Alya, Christina S. Thornton, Nicole Acosta, et al.. (2020). Sputum microbiota in adults with CF associates with response to inhaled tobramycin. Thorax. 75(12). 1058–1064. 17 indexed citations

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Wallace, Jessica G., Isabelle Laforest‐Lapointe, & Steven W. Kembel. (2018). Variation in the leaf and root microbiome of sugar maple ( Acer saccharum ) at an elevational range limit. PeerJ. 6. e5293–e5293. 42 indexed citations

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Laforest‐Lapointe, Isabelle & Marie‐Claire Arrieta. (2017). Patterns of Early-Life Gut Microbial Colonization during Human Immune Development: An Ecological Perspective. Frontiers in Immunology. 8. 788–788. 114 indexed citations

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Laforest‐Lapointe, Isabelle, Alain Paquette, Christian Messier, & Steven W. Kembel. (2017). Leaf bacterial diversity mediates plant diversity and ecosystem function relationships. Nature. 546(7656). 145–147. 265 indexed citations breakdown →

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Laforest‐Lapointe, Isabelle, Christian Messier, & Steven W. Kembel. (2016). Tree phyllosphere bacterial communities: exploring the magnitude of intra- and inter-individual variation among host species. PeerJ. 4. e2367–e2367. 77 indexed citations

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