Laurent Falquet

7.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
79 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Laurent Falquet is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Microbiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Laurent Falquet has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Molecular Biology, 22 papers in Plant Science and 10 papers in Microbiology. Recurrent topics in Laurent Falquet's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers), Microbial infections and disease research (10 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers). Laurent Falquet is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers), Microbial infections and disease research (10 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers). Laurent Falquet collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and France. Laurent Falquet's co-authors include Kay Hofmann, Philip Bucher, Amos Bairoch, Vassilios Ioannidis, Marco Pagni, Lorenzo Cerutti, Joachim Frey, Floriane L’Haridon, Antoine Berger and Jean‐Pierre Métraux and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Laurent Falquet

75 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

The PROSITE database, its... 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 2002 250 500 750
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.

  1. The PROSITE database, its status in 1999
    1999 936 citations Laurent Falquet et al. profile →
  2. The PROSITE database, its status in 2002
    2002 838 citations Laurent Falquet profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Laurent Falquet Switzerland 27 2.7k 1.2k 440 430 364 79 4.6k
Edouard de Castro Switzerland 21 3.4k 1.2× 996 0.8× 335 0.8× 455 1.1× 362 1.0× 32 5.3k
Christian J A Sigrist Switzerland 12 3.3k 1.2× 977 0.8× 280 0.6× 408 0.9× 390 1.1× 15 4.8k
Thomas Nordahl Petersen Denmark 20 3.0k 1.1× 1.1k 0.9× 365 0.8× 490 1.1× 355 1.0× 34 5.3k
Jean‐Charles Sanchez Switzerland 5 3.6k 1.3× 1.1k 0.9× 288 0.7× 433 1.0× 616 1.7× 6 5.4k
Yoshitaka Moriwaki Japan 13 3.7k 1.4× 649 0.5× 531 1.2× 615 1.4× 402 1.1× 32 5.5k
Nicola Buso United Kingdom 5 3.1k 1.1× 944 0.8× 355 0.8× 594 1.4× 421 1.2× 5 5.2k
Fábio Madeira United Kingdom 9 3.2k 1.2× 916 0.8× 395 0.9× 600 1.4× 430 1.2× 14 5.4k
Nandana Madhusoodanan United Kingdom 5 3.0k 1.1× 898 0.7× 367 0.8× 583 1.4× 412 1.1× 5 5.0k
Tamer Gür United Kingdom 5 2.3k 0.9× 743 0.6× 264 0.6× 419 1.0× 322 0.9× 6 3.9k
Lu Yu United Kingdom 36 3.1k 1.2× 956 0.8× 512 1.2× 387 0.9× 378 1.0× 127 4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Laurent Falquet

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Fields of papers citing papers by Laurent Falquet

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Laurent Falquet. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Laurent Falquet. The network helps show where Laurent Falquet may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laurent Falquet

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Laurent Falquet. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Laurent Falquet 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 Laurent Falquet. Laurent Falquet is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Landi, Michael, Anna Vittoria Carluccio, Trushar Shah, et al.. (2025). Genome-wide comparison reveals large structural variants in cassava landraces. BMC Genomics. 26(1). 362–362.
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Baby, Vincent, Chloé Ambroset, Patrice Gaurivaud, et al.. (2023). Comparative genomics of Mycoplasma feriruminatoris, a fast-growing pathogen of wild Caprinae. Microbial Genomics. 9(10). 2 indexed citations
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Falquet, Laurent, et al.. (2023). Biological hydrogen cyanide emission globally impacts the physiology of both HCN-emitting and HCN-perceiving Pseudomonas. mBio. 14(5). e0085723–e0085723. 11 indexed citations
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Thoms, Matthias, Benjamin H.S. Lau, Jingdong Cheng, et al.. (2023). Structural insights into coordinating 5S RNP rotation with ITS2 pre‐ RNA processing during ribosome formation. EMBO Reports. 24(12). e57984–e57984. 6 indexed citations
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Gisel, Andreas, Livia Stavolone, Michael Landi, et al.. (2023). EpiCass and CassavaNet4Dev Advanced Bioinformatics Workshop. EMBnet journal. 29. e1045–e1045. 1 indexed citations
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Landi, Michael, Trushar Shah, Laurent Falquet, et al.. (2023). Haplotype-resolved genome of heterozygous African cassava cultivar TMEB117 (Manihot esculenta). Scientific Data. 10(1). 887–887. 8 indexed citations
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Léo, Stefano, Laure F. Pittet, Nicole L. Messina, et al.. (2023). Metagenomics analysis of the neonatal intestinal resistome. Frontiers in Pediatrics. 11. 1169651–1169651. 8 indexed citations
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Giudice, Emmanuel, Hatice Akarsu, Patricia Bordes, et al.. (2022). Substrate recognition and cryo-EM structure of the ribosome-bound TAC toxin of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2641–2641. 9 indexed citations
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Akarsu, Hatice, et al.. (2019). TASmania: A bacterial Toxin-Antitoxin Systems database. PLoS Computational Biology. 15(4). e1006946–e1006946. 87 indexed citations
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Akarsu, Hatice, Lisandra Aguilar‐Bultet, & Laurent Falquet. (2019). deltaRpkm: an R package for a rapid detection of differential gene presence between related bacterial genomes. BMC Bioinformatics. 20(1). 621–621. 3 indexed citations
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Bürki, Sibylle, et al.. (2019). Large-Scale Analysis of the Mycoplasma bovis Genome Identified Non-essential, Adhesion- and Virulence-Related Genes. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 2085–2085. 22 indexed citations
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Thoms, Matthias, Valentin Mitterer, Lukas Kater, et al.. (2018). Suppressor mutations in Rpf2–Rrs1 or Rpl5 bypass the Cgr1 function for pre-ribosomal 5S RNP-rotation. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4094–4094. 21 indexed citations
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Djordjevic, Steven P., Piklu Roy Chowdhury, Pamela Nicholson, et al.. (2017). Clostridium chauvoei, an Evolutionary Dead-End Pathogen. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 1054–1054. 31 indexed citations
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Ardissone, Silvia, Peter Redder, Giancarlo Russo, et al.. (2016). Cell Cycle Constraints and Environmental Control of Local DNA Hypomethylation in α-Proteobacteria. PLoS Genetics. 12(12). e1006499–e1006499. 17 indexed citations
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Pagni, Marco, et al.. (2016). The salivary microbiome for differentiating individuals: proof of principle. Microbes and Infection. 18(6). 399–405. 79 indexed citations
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Aguilar‐Bultet, Lisandra & Laurent Falquet. (2015). Sequencing and de novo assembly of bacterial genomes: an approach to study new pathogens.. Revista de salud animal. 37(2). 125–132.
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Aguilar‐Bultet, Lisandra & Laurent Falquet. (2015). Secuenciación y ensamblaje de novo de genomas bacterianos: una alternativa para el estudio de nuevos patógenos. Revista de salud animal. 37(2). 125–132. 5 indexed citations
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Frey, Joachim & Laurent Falquet. (2014). Patho-genetics of Clostridium chauvoei. Research in Microbiology. 166(4). 384–392. 40 indexed citations
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