Jean Cury

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
26 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Jean Cury is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jean Cury has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Ecology and 9 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Jean Cury's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (7 papers) and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (6 papers). Jean Cury is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (7 papers) and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (6 papers). Jean Cury collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Austria. Jean Cury's co-authors include Marie Touchon, Eduardo P. C. Rocha, Bertrand Néron, Aude Bernheim, Florian Tesson, Sophie S. Abby, Ernest Mordret, Hervé Alexandre, Pedro H. Oliveira and Julien Guglielmini and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Jean Cury

26 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Systematic and quantitative view of the antiviral arsenal of prokaryotes

2022 371 citations Florian Tesson, Hervé Alexandre et al. Nature Communications profile →
IntegronFinder 2.0: Identification and Analysis of Integrons across Bacteria, with a Focus on Antibiotic Resistance in Klebsiella

2022 155 citations Bertrand Néron, Matthieu Haudiquet et al. Microorganisms profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jean Cury France	16	967	746	569	429	321	26	1.8k
James P. J. Hall United Kingdom	22	734 0.8×	505 0.7×	517 0.9×	233 0.5×	455 1.4×	39	1.6k
Ellie Harrison United Kingdom	26	922 1.0×	862 1.2×	727 1.3×	337 0.8×	753 2.3×	47	2.2k
Rachel A. F. Wozniak United States	11	480 0.5×	378 0.5×	422 0.7×	314 0.7×	255 0.8×	28	1.2k
José Antonio Escudero Spain	23	492 0.5×	308 0.4×	657 1.2×	335 0.8×	265 0.8×	56	1.4k
Sanna Koskiniemi Sweden	15	637 0.7×	280 0.4×	349 0.6×	451 1.1×	492 1.5×	26	1.4k
Julien Guglielmini France	21	887 0.9×	703 0.9×	417 0.7×	459 1.1×	591 1.8×	32	2.2k
Dean A. Rowe‐Magnus Canada	22	884 0.9×	475 0.6×	726 1.3×	960 2.2×	460 1.4×	36	2.1k
Gérard Guédon France	23	1.0k 1.0×	564 0.8×	374 0.7×	240 0.6×	412 1.3×	47	1.9k
M. J. Rosovitz United States	11	933 1.0×	423 0.6×	318 0.6×	535 1.2×	503 1.6×	16	1.8k
Anne-Marie Guérout France	13	668 0.7×	479 0.6×	776 1.4×	829 1.9×	511 1.6×	14	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Jean Cury

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jean Cury

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jean Cury. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jean Cury based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jean Cury. Jean Cury is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Bonhomme, Delphine, Vasco Rodrigues, Jean Cury, et al.. (2025). A human homolog of SIR2 antiphage proteins mediates immunity via the Toll-like receptor pathway. Science. 389(6758). eadr8536–eadr8536. 3 indexed citations

Cury, Jean, et al.. (2025). Evolutionary origins of archaeal and eukaryotic RNA-guided RNA modification in bacterial IS110 transposons. Nature Microbiology. 10(1). 20–27. 5 indexed citations

Loot, Céline, Gaël A. Millot, Frédéric Lemoine, et al.. (2024). Integron cassettes integrate into bacterial genomes via widespread non-classical attG sites. Nature Microbiology. 9(1). 228–240. 12 indexed citations

Shomar, Helena, Héloïse Georjon, Florian Tesson, et al.. (2024). Viperin immunity evolved across the tree of life through serial innovations on a conserved scaffold. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(9). 1667–1679. 10 indexed citations

Tesson, Florian, Rémi Planel, Artyom A. Egorov, et al.. (2024). A Comprehensive Resource for Exploring Antiphage Defense: DefenseFinder Webservice,Wiki and Databases. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 27 indexed citations

Campos, Manuel, Jean Cury, C. Pagès, et al.. (2024). The pathway to resolve dimeric forms distinguishes plasmids from megaplasmids in Enterobacteriaceae. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(2). 1 indexed citations

Achaz, Guillaume, Jean Cury, Bruno Toupance, et al.. (2023). Cultural transmission of reproductive success impacts genomic diversity, coalescent tree topologies, and demographic inferences. Genetics. 223(4). 4 indexed citations

Néron, Bertrand, et al.. (2022). IntegronFinder 2.0: Identification and Analysis of Integrons across Bacteria, with a Focus on Antibiotic Resistance in Klebsiella. Microorganisms. 10(4). 700–700. 155 indexed citations breakdown →

Tesson, Florian, Hervé Alexandre, Ernest Mordret, et al.. (2022). Systematic and quantitative view of the antiviral arsenal of prokaryotes. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2561–2561. 371 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cury, Jean, et al.. (2020). Deep learning for population size history inference: Design, comparison and combination with approximate Bayesian computation. Molecular Ecology Resources. 21(8). 2645–2660. 44 indexed citations

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Nivina, Aleksandra, Céline Loot, David Bikard, et al.. (2020). Structure-specific DNA recombination sites: Design, validation, and machine learning–based refinement. Science Advances. 6(30). eaay2922–eaay2922. 16 indexed citations

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Pons�, M., Patricia Siguier, Catherine Guynet, et al.. (2020). Intracellular Positioning Systems Limit the Entropic Eviction of Secondary Replicons Toward the Nucleoid Edges in Bacterial Cells. Journal of Molecular Biology. 432(3). 745–761. 17 indexed citations

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Oliveira, Pedro H., Marie Touchon, Jean Cury, & Eduardo P. C. Rocha. (2020). Author Correction: The chromosomal organization of horizontal gene transfer in bacteria. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1155–1155. 3 indexed citations

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Touchon, Marie, Sara Dion, Jean Cury, et al.. (2019). A simple, reproducible and cost-effective procedure to analyse gut phageome: from phage isolation to bioinformatic approach. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 11331–11331. 31 indexed citations

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Cury, Jean, Pedro H. Oliveira, Fernando de la Cruz, & Eduardo P. C. Rocha. (2018). Host Range and Genetic Plasticity Explain the Coexistence of Integrative and Extrachromosomal Mobile Genetic Elements. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 35(9). 2230–2239. 46 indexed citations

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Cury, Jean, Marie Touchon, & Eduardo P. C. Rocha. (2017). Integrative and conjugative elements and their hosts: composition, distribution and organization. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(15). 8943–8956. 90 indexed citations

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Oliveira, Pedro H., Marie Touchon, Jean Cury, & Eduardo P. C. Rocha. (2017). The chromosomal organization of horizontal gene transfer in bacteria. Nature Communications. 8(1). 841–841. 153 indexed citations

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Cury, Jean, et al.. (2016). Identification and analysis of integrons and cassette arrays in bacterial genomes. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(10). 4539–4550. 215 indexed citations

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Touchon, Marie, Jean Cury, Eun-Jeong Yoon, et al.. (2014). The Genomic Diversification of the Whole Acinetobacter Genus: Origins, Mechanisms, and Consequences. Genome Biology and Evolution. 6(10). 2866–2882. 212 indexed citations

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Cury, Jean, et al.. (1989). [Identification of patients with cariogenic potential. Preliminary evaluation of salivary flow and buffering capacity in Brazilians].. PubMed. 36(2). 106–8. 1 indexed citations

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