Julien Roy

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Julien Roy is a scholar working on Plant Science, Ecology and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Julien Roy has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Plant Science, 13 papers in Ecology and 9 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Julien Roy's work include Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (19 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (10 papers) and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (9 papers). Julien Roy is often cited by papers focused on Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (19 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (10 papers) and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (9 papers). Julien Roy collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and Switzerland. Julien Roy's co-authors include Matthias C. Rillig, Masahiro Ryo, Gaowen Yang, Anika Lehmann, Carlos A. Aguilar‐Trigueros, Anja Wulf, Aiko Iwasaki, Stefan Hempel, Jean‐Christophe Clément and Philippe Choler and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Julien Roy

32 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

The role of multiple global change factors in driving soil functions and microbial biodiversity

2019 566 citations Matthias C. Rillig, Masahiro Ryo et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Julien Roy Germany	17	700	647	502	328	259	33	1.7k
Heidy Schimann France	18	461 0.7×	496 0.8×	426 0.8×	172 0.5×	202 0.8×	38	1.2k
Carlos A. Aguilar‐Trigueros Germany	17	950 1.4×	411 0.6×	467 0.9×	150 0.5×	314 1.2×	34	1.9k
Johan van den Hoogen Switzerland	12	423 0.6×	719 1.1×	757 1.5×	220 0.7×	150 0.6×	22	1.7k
Katja Steinauer Germany	15	799 1.1×	496 0.8×	708 1.4×	150 0.5×	198 0.8×	29	1.6k
Aaron S. David United States	14	614 0.9×	624 1.0×	237 0.5×	354 1.1×	257 1.0×	43	1.5k
Ashley D. Keiser United States	15	461 0.7×	859 1.3×	1.0k 2.0×	179 0.5×	189 0.7×	26	1.8k
Rebecca Mueller United States	22	994 1.4×	902 1.4×	600 1.2×	414 1.3×	375 1.4×	44	2.3k
Nan Yang China	21	366 0.5×	631 1.0×	251 0.5×	153 0.5×	132 0.5×	93	1.3k
Elly Morriën Netherlands	22	764 1.1×	556 0.9×	484 1.0×	138 0.4×	522 2.0×	37	1.7k
Philip W. Ramsey United States	24	1.1k 1.6×	695 1.1×	495 1.0×	188 0.6×	454 1.8×	68	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Julien Roy

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Roy, Julien, et al.. (2025). Historical Land Use Drives Present Microbial Community Assembly in an Extreme Environment. Environmental Microbiology. 27(10). e70189–e70189. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Gaowen, Masahiro Ryo, Julien Roy, et al.. (2022). Multiple anthropogenic pressures eliminate the effects of soil microbial diversity on ecosystem functions in experimental microcosms. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4260–4260. 108 indexed citations

Whitehead, James, Julien Roy, Stefan Hempel, & Matthias C. Rillig. (2022). Soil microbial communities shift along an urban gradient in Berlin, Germany. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 972052–972052. 12 indexed citations

Roy, Julien, et al.. (2022). Precipitation and temperature shape the biogeography of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi across the Brazilian Caatinga. Journal of Biogeography. 49(6). 1137–1150. 5 indexed citations

Roy, Julien, Rüdiger Reichel, Nicolas Brüggemann, & Matthias C. Rillig. (2022). Functional, not Taxonomic, Composition of Soil Fungi Reestablishes to Pre-mining Initial State After 52 Years of Recultivation. Microbial Ecology. 86(1). 213–223. 9 indexed citations

Yang, Gaowen, Masahiro Ryo, Julien Roy, Stefan Hempel, & Matthias C. Rillig. (2021). Plant and soil biodiversity have non‐substitutable stabilising effects on biomass production. Ecology Letters. 24(8). 1582–1593. 66 indexed citations

Yang, Gaowen, Julien Roy, Stavros D. Veresoglou, & Matthias C. Rillig. (2020). Soil biodiversity enhances the persistence of legumes under climate change. New Phytologist. 229(5). 2945–2956. 42 indexed citations

Ryo, Masahiro, et al.. (2020). Diversity of Growth Responses of Soil Saprobic Fungi to Recurring Heat Events. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 1326–1326. 8 indexed citations

Lehmann, Anika, Weishuang Zheng, Masahiro Ryo, et al.. (2020). Fungal Traits Important for Soil Aggregation. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 2904–2904. 96 indexed citations

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Camenzind, Tessa, Julien Roy, Stefan Hempel, et al.. (2020). Moderate phosphorus additions consistently affect community composition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in tropical montane forests in southern Ecuador. New Phytologist. 227(5). 1505–1518. 39 indexed citations

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Rillig, Matthias C., Masahiro Ryo, Anika Lehmann, et al.. (2019). The role of multiple global change factors in driving soil functions and microbial biodiversity. Science. 366(6467). 886–890. 566 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lehmann, Anika, et al.. (2019). Tradeoffs in hyphal traits determine mycelium architecture in saprobic fungi. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 14152–14152. 22 indexed citations

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Roy, Julien, et al.. (2018). Precrop Functional Group Identity Affects Yield of Winter Barley but Less so High Carbon Amendments in a Mesocosm Experiment. Frontiers in Plant Science. 9. 912–912. 6 indexed citations

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Roy, Julien, Jean‐Marc Bonneville, Patrick Saccone, et al.. (2018). Differences in the fungal communities nursed by two genetic groups of the alpine cushion plant,Silene acaulis. Ecology and Evolution. 8(23). 11568–11581. 16 indexed citations

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Roy, Julien, Rüdiger Reichel, Nicolas Brüggemann, Stefan Hempel, & Matthias C. Rillig. (2017). Succession of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi along a 52-years agricultural recultivation chronosequence. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 93(9). 31 indexed citations

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Rillig, Matthias C., Moisés A. Sosa‐Hernández, Julien Roy, et al.. (2016). Towards an Integrated Mycorrhizal Technology: Harnessing Mycorrhiza for Sustainable Intensification in Agriculture. Frontiers in Plant Science. 7. 1625–1625. 76 indexed citations

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Rillig, Matthias C., et al.. (2016). Microbial Community Coalescence for Microbiome Engineering. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1967–1967. 37 indexed citations

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Roy, Julien, Jérôme Gury, Éric Coissac, et al.. (2014). Effects of organochlorines on microbial diversity and community structure in Phragmites australis rhizosphere. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 98(9). 4257–4266. 14 indexed citations

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Taberlet, Pierre, Sophie Martine Prud’homme, Julien Roy, et al.. (2012). Soil sampling and isolation of extracellular DNA from large amount of starting material suitable for metabarcoding studies. Molecular Ecology. 21(8). 1816–1820. 234 indexed citations

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Roy, Julien, et al.. (1979). Recent developments in locust control. Decisive steps towards control of the Desert Locust 1952-62. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 287(1022). 301–304. 1 indexed citations

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