Marjorie Couton

908 total citations · 2 hit papers
14 papers, 442 citations indexed

About

Marjorie Couton is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Marjorie Couton has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 442 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Ecology, 8 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Marjorie Couton's work include Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (11 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (7 papers) and Identification and Quantification in Food (6 papers). Marjorie Couton is often cited by papers focused on Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (11 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (7 papers) and Identification and Quantification in Food (6 papers). Marjorie Couton collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, France and China. Marjorie Couton's co-authors include Florian Altermatt, François Keck, Rosetta C. Blackman, Dominik Kirschner, Samuel Hürlemann, Raphaël Bossart, Jeanine Brantschen, Frédérique Viard, Heng Zhang and Thierry Comtet and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Scientific Reports and Molecular Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Marjorie Couton

13 papers receiving 432 citations

Hit Papers

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Meta‐analysis shows both congruence and complementarity of DNA and eDNA metabarcoding to traditional methods for biological community assessment

2022 151 citations François Keck, Rosetta C. Blackman et al. Molecular Ecology profile →
The global human impact on biodiversity

2025 28 citations François Keck, Tianna Peller et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Marjorie Couton

ECOLO

NLC

GPC

Hege Vestheim Norway

Philip D. Lamb United Kingdom

Charles Baillie United Kingdom

Arsalan Emami‐Khoyi South Africa

Coline Gaboriaud France

Mišel Jelić Croatia

Luca Cornetti Switzerland

Tessa M. Bradford Australia

Marlise Ladvocat Bartholomei‐Santos Brazil

Bruno Zava Italy

Hege Vestheim Norway

Marjorie Couton

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ECOLO

251 ×1.0

51 ×0.8

NLC

65 ×1.1

GPC

47 ×1.1

Citations per year, relative to Marjorie Couton Marjorie Couton (= 1×) peers Hege Vestheim

Countries citing papers authored by Marjorie Couton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marjorie Couton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marjorie Couton

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14 of 14 papers shown

Altermatt, Florian, Marjorie Couton, Luca Carraro, et al.. (2025). Utilizing aquatic environmental DNA to address global biodiversity targets. NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council). 1(5). 332–346. 8 indexed citations

Keck, François, Tianna Peller, Roman Alther, et al.. (2025). The global human impact on biodiversity. Nature. 641(8062). 395–400. 28 indexed citations breakdown →

Blackman, Rosetta C., Marjorie Couton, François Keck, et al.. (2024). Environmental DNA: The next chapter. Molecular Ecology. 33(11). e17355–e17355. 31 indexed citations

Alther, Roman, et al.. (2024). Temporal consistency and spatial variability in detection: implications for monitoring of macroinvertebrates from shallow groundwater aquifers. Subterranean Biology. 49. 139–161.

Couton, Marjorie, et al.. (2023). Integrating citizen science and environmental DNA metabarcoding to study biodiversity of groundwater amphipods in Switzerland. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 18097–18097. 13 indexed citations

Couton, Marjorie, Frédérique Viard, & Florian Altermatt. (2023). Opportunities and inherent limits of using environmental DNA for population genetics. Environmental DNA. 5(5). 1048–1064. 19 indexed citations

Couton, Marjorie, et al.. (2023). Groundwater environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals hidden diversity and reflects land‐use and geology. Molecular Ecology. 32(13). 3497–3512. 17 indexed citations

Keck, François, Rosetta C. Blackman, Raphaël Bossart, et al.. (2022). Meta‐analysis shows both congruence and complementarity of DNA and eDNA metabarcoding to traditional methods for biological community assessment. Molecular Ecology. 31(6). 1820–1835. 151 indexed citations breakdown →

Couton, Marjorie, Laurent Lévêque, Claire Daguin‐Thiébaut, Thierry Comtet, & Frédérique Viard. (2022). Water eDNA metabarcoding is effective in detecting non-native species in marinas, but detection errors still hinder its use for passive monitoring. Biofouling. 38(4). 367–383. 21 indexed citations

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Keck, François, Marjorie Couton, & Florian Altermatt. (2022). Navigating the seven challenges of taxonomic reference databases in metabarcoding analyses. Molecular Ecology Resources. 23(4). 742–755. 75 indexed citations

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Couton, Marjorie, et al.. (2021). High‐throughput sequencing on preservative ethanol is effective at jointly examining infraspecific and taxonomic diversity, although bioinformatics pipelines do not perform equally. Ecology and Evolution. 11(10). 5533–5546. 12 indexed citations

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Couton, Marjorie, et al.. (2019). Metabarcoding on planktonic larval stages: an efficient approach for detecting and investigating life cycle dynamics of benthic aliens. Management of Biological Invasions. 10(4). 657–689. 28 indexed citations

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Couton, Marjorie, Maarten J. Voordouw, Olivier Rais, et al.. (2018). Whole body transcriptomes and new insights into the biology of the tick Ixodes ricinus. Parasites & Vectors. 11(1). 364–364. 28 indexed citations

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Præbel, Kim, Marjorie Couton, Rune Knudsen, & Per‐Arne Amundsen. (2016). Genetic consequences of allopatric and sympatric divergence in Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus (L.)) from Fjellfrøsvatn as inferred by microsatellite markers. Hydrobiologia. 783(1). 257–267. 11 indexed citations

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