Lionel Guy

4.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
46 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Lionel Guy is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lionel Guy has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Genetics and 14 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Lionel Guy's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (20 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (11 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (11 papers). Lionel Guy is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (20 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (11 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (11 papers). Lionel Guy collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Switzerland and United States. Lionel Guy's co-authors include Thijs J. G. Ettema, Siv G. E. Andersson, Jens Roat Kultima, Joran Martijn, Jimmy H. Saw, Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedźwiedzka, Anja Spang, Anders E. Lind, Steffen L. Jørgensen and Roel van Eijk and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Lionel Guy

45 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

2015 772 citations Jimmy H. Saw, Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedźwiedzka et al. profile →
genoPlotR: comparative gene and genome visualization in R

2010 506 citations Lionel Guy, Jens Roat Kultima et al. Bioinformatics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lionel Guy Sweden	20	1.8k	1.0k	445	345	243	46	2.7k
Hoda Khouri United States	16	1.3k 0.7×	792 0.8×	279 0.6×	436 1.3×	109 0.4×	18	2.4k
Alexandra Calteau France	26	1.1k 0.6×	685 0.7×	198 0.4×	482 1.4×	279 1.1×	37	2.5k
Giddy Landan Germany	26	2.3k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	573 1.3×	568 1.6×	74 0.3×	40	3.3k
Luke J. Tallon United States	30	1.9k 1.1×	774 0.8×	354 0.8×	776 2.2×	256 1.1×	67	3.6k
Sophie S. Abby France	25	1.3k 0.7×	868 0.9×	451 1.0×	382 1.1×	367 1.5×	37	2.2k
Olga Zhaxybayeva United States	28	2.3k 1.3×	1.5k 1.5×	633 1.4×	686 2.0×	149 0.6×	64	3.3k
Sarah P. Preheim United States	22	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	326 0.7×	155 0.4×	341 1.4×	39	2.4k
Thomas G. Doak United States	29	2.7k 1.5×	1.2k 1.2×	799 1.8×	928 2.7×	93 0.4×	66	3.6k
Bastien Chevreux United States	10	2.4k 1.3×	968 1.0×	1.0k 2.3×	715 2.1×	122 0.5×	12	3.7k
Stéphane Cruveiller France	33	2.5k 1.4×	888 0.9×	1.2k 2.7×	1.1k 3.1×	415 1.7×	71	4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Lionel Guy

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lionel Guy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lionel Guy

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Paranjape, Kiran, et al.. (2025). Host-Specific Adaptation of Legionella pneumophila to Single and Multiple Hosts. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(8).

Paranjape, Kiran, et al.. (2023). Rapid adaptations of Legionella pneumophila to the human host. Microbial Genomics. 9(3). 6 indexed citations

Biffignandi, Gherard Batisti, Michele Castelli, Emanuela Olivieri, et al.. (2023). The evolution of intramitochondriality in Midichloria bacteria. Environmental Microbiology. 25(11). 2102–2117. 5 indexed citations

Andersson, Siv G. E., et al.. (2023). TADA: taxonomy-aware dataset aggregator. Bioinformatics. 39(12). 1 indexed citations

Ammunét, Tea, et al.. (2022). Host Adaptation in Legionellales Is 1.9 Ga, Coincident with Eukaryogenesis. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(3). 18 indexed citations

Jernberg, Cecilia, et al.. (2021). Molecular Characterization of Multidrug-Resistant Yersinia enterocolitica From Foodborne Outbreaks in Sweden. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 664665–664665. 33 indexed citations

Hurtig, Fredrik, Jens Eriksson, Lionel Guy, et al.. (2021). Heimdallarchaea encodes profilin with eukaryotic-like actin regulation and polyproline binding. Communications Biology. 4(1). 1024–1024. 18 indexed citations

Wang, Helen, Jens‐Kjeld Jensen, Anna Olsson, et al.. (2020). Chlamydia psittaci in fulmars on the Faroe Islands: a causative link to South American psittacines eight decades after a severe epidemic. Microbes and Infection. 22(8). 356–359. 7 indexed citations

Kaçar, Betül, Lionel Guy, Eric Smith, & John A. Baross. (2017). Resurrecting ancestral genes in bacteria to interpret ancient biosignatures. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 375(2109). 20160352–20160352. 21 indexed citations

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Guy, Lionel. (2017). phyloSkeleton: taxon selection, data retrieval and marker identification for phylogenomics. Bioinformatics. 33(8). 1230–1232. 13 indexed citations

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Tamarit, Daniel, Kristina Näslund, Jüergen Liebig, et al.. (2016). The genome of Rhizobiales bacteria in predatory ants reveals urease gene functions but no genes for nitrogen fixation. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 39197–39197. 45 indexed citations

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Martijn, Joran, Frederik Schulz, Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedźwiedzka, et al.. (2015). Single-cell genomics of a rare environmental alphaproteobacterium provides unique insights into Rickettsiaceae evolution. The ISME Journal. 9(11). 2373–2385. 32 indexed citations

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Guy, Lionel, Jimmy H. Saw, & Thijs J. G. Ettema. (2014). The Archaeal Legacy of Eukaryotes: A Phylogenomic Perspective. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 6(10). a016022–a016022. 47 indexed citations

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Guy, Lionel, Björn Nystedt, Yu Sun, et al.. (2012). A genome-wide study of recombination rate variation in Bartonella henselae. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 12(1). 65–65. 17 indexed citations

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Guy, Lionel & Thijs J. G. Ettema. (2011). The archaeal ‘TACK’ superphylum and the origin of eukaryotes. Trends in Microbiology. 19(12). 580–587. 228 indexed citations

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Guy, Lionel, Jens Roat Kultima, & Siv G. E. Andersson. (2010). genoPlotR: comparative gene and genome visualization in R. Bioinformatics. 26(18). 2334–2335. 506 indexed citations breakdown →

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Panchaud, Alexandre, Lionel Guy, François Collyn, et al.. (2009). M-protein and other intrinsic virulence factors of Streptococcus pyogenes are encoded on an ancient pathogenicity island. BMC Genomics. 10(1). 198–198. 17 indexed citations

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Guy, Lionel, et al.. (2007). Solving ambiguities in contig assembly ofIdiomarina loihiensisL2TR chromosome byin silicoanalyses. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 271(2). 187–192. 4 indexed citations

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Guy, Lionel. (2006). Identification and Characterization of Pathogenicity and Other Genomic Islands Using Base Composition Analyses. Future Microbiology. 1(3). 309–316. 10 indexed citations

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Greub, Gilbert, et al.. (2004). A genomic island present along the bacterial chromosome of the Parachlamydiaceae UWE25, an obligate amoebal endosymbiont, encodes a potentially functional F-like conjugative DNA transfer system. BMC Microbiology. 4(1). 48–48. 55 indexed citations

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