Jean C. C. Vila

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 741 citations indexed

About

Jean C. C. Vila is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jean C. C. Vila has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 741 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Jean C. C. Vila's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (10 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (7 papers) and Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (6 papers). Jean C. C. Vila is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (10 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (7 papers) and Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (6 papers). Jean C. C. Vila collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Netherlands. Jean C. C. Vila's co-authors include Álvaro Sánchez, Djordje Bajić, Sylvie Estrela, Chang‐Yu Chang, Juan Díaz‐Colunga, María Rebolleda‐Gómez, Alicia Sánchez-Gorostiaga, Felipe Senne De Oliveira Lino, Morten Otto Alexander Sommer and Thomas Bell and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jean C. C. Vila

20 papers receiving 735 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.

Emergent coexistence in multispecies microbial communities

2023 75 citations Chang‐Yu Chang, Djordje Bajić et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jean C. C. Vila United States	13	442	180	170	130	102	20	741
Shraddha Shitut Netherlands	9	437 1.0×	225 1.3×	168 1.0×	91 0.7×	78 0.8×	13	734
Glen G D’Souza Switzerland	9	490 1.1×	266 1.5×	234 1.4×	130 1.0×	91 0.9×	13	828
Alex V. Carr United States	5	365 0.8×	226 1.3×	75 0.4×	53 0.4×	62 0.6×	9	633
Samir Giri Germany	7	182 0.4×	115 0.6×	81 0.5×	64 0.5×	50 0.5×	9	342
Robin A. Herbert United States	9	349 0.8×	115 0.6×	70 0.4×	18 0.1×	109 1.1×	12	603
Javier A. Ceja-Navarro United States	16	314 0.7×	289 1.6×	131 0.8×	20 0.2×	287 2.8×	21	1.2k
Kevin Panke-Buisse United States	11	283 0.6×	191 1.1×	38 0.2×	18 0.1×	526 5.2×	18	835
Mitsunori Tokura Japan	13	236 0.5×	133 0.7×	139 0.8×	11 0.1×	79 0.8×	21	602
John J. Dooley United Kingdom	9	291 0.7×	132 0.7×	168 1.0×	7 0.1×	101 1.0×	11	570
Corinne Rouland-Lefèvre France	17	105 0.2×	94 0.5×	450 2.6×	35 0.3×	263 2.6×	31	916

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20 of 20 papers shown

Belda, Ignacio, et al.. (2025). Ecology and Evolutionary Biology as Frameworks to Study Wine Fermentations. Microbial Biotechnology. 18(3). e70078–e70078. 3 indexed citations

Xue, Katherine S., Jamie Lopez Bernal, Jean C. C. Vila, et al.. (2025). Competition for shared resources increases dependence on initial population size during coalescence of gut microbial communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(11). e2322440122–e2322440122. 1 indexed citations

Aranda-Díaz, Andrés, Lisa Willis, Taylor H. Nguyen, et al.. (2025). Assembly of stool-derived bacterial communities follows “early-bird” resource utilization dynamics. Cell Systems. 16(4). 101240–101240. 3 indexed citations

Belda, Ignacio, et al.. (2025). Wine Fermentation as a Model System for Microbial Ecology and Evolution. Environmental Microbiology. 27(4). e70092–e70092. 4 indexed citations

Díaz‐Colunga, Juan, et al.. (2024). Global epistasis and the emergence of function in microbial consortia. Cell. 187(12). 3108–3119.e30. 22 indexed citations

Ruíz, Javier, Miguel de Celis, Juan Díaz‐Colunga, et al.. (2023). Predictability of the community‐function landscape in wine yeast ecosystems. Molecular Systems Biology. 19(9). e11613–e11613. 16 indexed citations

Chang, Chang‐Yu, Djordje Bajić, Jean C. C. Vila, Sylvie Estrela, & Álvaro Sánchez. (2023). Emergent coexistence in multispecies microbial communities. Science. 381(6655). 343–348. 75 indexed citations breakdown →

Sánchez, Álvaro, et al.. (2023). The community-function landscape of microbial consortia. Cell Systems. 14(2). 122–134. 44 indexed citations

Vila, Jean C. C., et al.. (2023). The Architecture of Metabolic Networks Constrains the Evolution of Microbial Resource Hierarchies. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(9). 4 indexed citations

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Chang, Chang‐Yu, Jean C. C. Vila, Richard Li, et al.. (2021). Engineering complex communities by directed evolution. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(7). 1011–1023. 68 indexed citations

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Dukovski, Ilija, Djordje Bajić, Jeremy M. Chacón, et al.. (2021). A metabolic modeling platform for the computation of microbial ecosystems in time and space (COMETS). Nature Protocols. 16(11). 5030–5082. 106 indexed citations

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Estrela, Sylvie, Jean C. C. Vila, Nanxi Lu, et al.. (2021). Functional attractors in microbial community assembly. Cell Systems. 13(1). 29–42.e7. 69 indexed citations

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Lino, Felipe Senne De Oliveira, Djordje Bajić, Jean C. C. Vila, Álvaro Sánchez, & Morten Otto Alexander Sommer. (2021). Complex yeast–bacteria interactions affect the yield of industrial ethanol fermentation. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1498–1498. 91 indexed citations

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Estrela, Sylvie, Alicia Sánchez-Gorostiaga, Jean C. C. Vila, & Álvaro Sánchez. (2021). Nutrient dominance governs the assembly of microbial communities in mixed nutrient environments. eLife. 10. 55 indexed citations

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Sánchez, Álvaro, Jean C. C. Vila, Chang‐Yu Chang, et al.. (2021). Directed Evolution of Microbial Communities. Annual Review of Biophysics. 50(1). 323–341. 62 indexed citations

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Vila, Jean C. C., Yang‐Yu Liu, & Álvaro Sánchez. (2020). Dissimilarity–Overlap analysis of replicate enrichment communities. The ISME Journal. 14(10). 2505–2513. 16 indexed citations

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Vila, Jean C. C., et al.. (2019). Uncovering the rules of microbial community invasions. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(8). 1162–1171. 53 indexed citations

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Bajić, Djordje, Jean C. C. Vila, Zachary D. Blount, & Álvaro Sánchez. (2018). On the deformability of an empirical fitness landscape by microbial evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(44). 11286–11291. 40 indexed citations

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Chang, Chang‐Yu, et al.. (2018). Ecological effects of cellular computing in microbial populations. Natural Computing. 17(4). 811–822. 4 indexed citations

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Vila, Jean C. C., et al.. (2007). Notes on four mediterranean Cortinarius fruiting in Sclerophilous and heliophilous plant ecosystems.. Mycotaxon. 101. 137–147. 5 indexed citations

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