Nicolas Pons

51.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
48 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Nicolas Pons is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolas Pons has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Physiology and 9 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Nicolas Pons's work include Gut microbiota and health (25 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (10 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers). Nicolas Pons is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (25 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (10 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers). Nicolas Pons collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Denmark. Nicolas Pons's co-authors include S. Dusko Ehrlich, Emmanuelle Le Chatelier, Hugo Roume, Edi Prifti, Pierre Renault, Benoît Quinquis, Victoria Meslier, Florence Levenez, Éric Guédon and Sean Kennedy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Nicolas Pons

47 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Mediterranean diet intervention in overweight and obese subjects lowers plasma cholesterol and causes changes in the gut microbiome and metabolome independently of energy intake

2020 400 citations Victoria Meslier, Manolo Laiola et al. Gut profile →
Effects of Low FODMAP Diet on Symptoms, Fecal Microbiome, and Markers of Inflammation in Patients With Quiescent Inflammatory Bowel Disease in a Randomized Trial

2019 252 citations Selina Cox, James O. Lindsay et al. Gastroenterology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicolas Pons France	25	1.7k	933	365	328	321	48	2.6k
Alison N. Thorburn Australia	13	1.8k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	259 0.7×	219 0.7×	385 1.2×	17	3.1k
Isabel Moreno‐Indias Spain	32	1.8k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	292 0.8×	262 0.8×	357 1.1×	112	3.3k
Mio Nakamura United States	23	1.4k 0.8×	894 1.0×	209 0.6×	322 1.0×	219 0.7×	103	3.4k
Bejan Saeedi United States	19	1.7k 1.0×	584 0.6×	297 0.8×	198 0.6×	268 0.8×	41	3.0k
Alfonso Benítez‐Páez Spain	36	2.1k 1.3×	908 1.0×	203 0.6×	318 1.0×	371 1.2×	64	3.2k
Craig I. McKenzie Australia	15	1.9k 1.1×	988 1.1×	247 0.7×	178 0.5×	423 1.3×	24	3.3k
Kassem Makki Sweden	9	1.7k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	251 0.7×	314 1.0×	365 1.1×	12	3.3k
Remo Frei Switzerland	30	1.1k 0.7×	1.3k 1.4×	242 0.7×	290 0.9×	405 1.3×	58	3.1k
Shingo Yamanishi Japan	11	2.2k 1.3×	875 0.9×	237 0.6×	240 0.7×	292 0.9×	18	3.1k
Vanessa K. Ridaura United States	9	2.5k 1.5×	1.1k 1.1×	324 0.9×	223 0.7×	398 1.2×	10	3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicolas Pons

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All Works

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Benallaoua, Mourad, Anne‐Sophie Alvarez, Nicolas Pons, et al.. (2025). Associations Among Diet, Health, Lifestyle, and Gut Microbiota Composition in the General French Population: Protocol for the Le French Gut – Le Microbiote Français Study. JMIR Research Protocols. 14. e64894–e64894. 1 indexed citations

Thirion, Florence, Florian Plaza Oñate, Franck Gauthier, et al.. (2025). Accurate profiling of microbial communities for shotgun metagenomic sequencing with Meteor2. Microbiome. 13(1). 227–227.

Licandro, Hélène, Caroline Truntzer, Christian Morabito, et al.. (2023). The bacterial species profiles of the lingual and salivary microbiota differ with basic tastes sensitivity in human. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 20339–20339. 4 indexed citations

Meslier, Victoria, Benoît Quinquis, Kévin Da Silva, et al.. (2022). Benchmarking second and third-generation sequencing platforms for microbial metagenomics. Scientific Data. 9(1). 694–694. 69 indexed citations

Thirion, Florence, Susie Guilly, Sébastien Fromentin, et al.. (2022). Changes in Gut Microbiota of Patients with Atopic Dermatitis During Balneotherapy. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13 indexed citations

Laiola, Manolo, Rosalia Ferracane, Marilena Vitale, et al.. (2021). Mediterranean diet consumption affects the endocannabinoid system in overweight and obese subjects: possible links with gut microbiome, insulin resistance and inflammation. European Journal of Nutrition. 60(7). 3703–3716. 57 indexed citations

Meslier, Victoria, Manolo Laiola, Henrik M. Roager, et al.. (2020). Mediterranean diet intervention in overweight and obese subjects lowers plasma cholesterol and causes changes in the gut microbiome and metabolome independently of energy intake. Gut. 69(7). 1258–1268. 400 indexed citations breakdown →

Oñate, Florian Plaza, Jonathan Plassais, Christophe Bonny, et al.. (2020). Impact of laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy on gut microbiota: a metagenomic comparative analysis. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 16(7). 852–862. 42 indexed citations

Caballero, Ignacio, Mustapha Si‐Tahar, Pascal Barbry, et al.. (2020). Evidence of early increased sialylation of airway mucins and defective mucociliary clearance in CFTR-deficient piglets. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis. 20(1). 173–182. 14 indexed citations

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Legrand, Romain, Nicolás Lucas, S. Nobis, et al.. (2020). Commensal Hafnia alvei strain reduces food intake and fat mass in obese mice—a new potential probiotic for appetite and body weight management. International Journal of Obesity. 44(5). 1041–1051. 62 indexed citations

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Ramayo‐Caldas, Yuliaxis, Laura M. Zingaretti, Milka Popova, et al.. (2019). Identification of rumen microbial biomarkers linked to methane emission in Holstein dairy cows. Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics. 137(1). 49–59. 66 indexed citations

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Cox, Selina, James O. Lindsay, Sébastien Fromentin, et al.. (2019). Effects of Low FODMAP Diet on Symptoms, Fecal Microbiome, and Markers of Inflammation in Patients With Quiescent Inflammatory Bowel Disease in a Randomized Trial. Gastroenterology. 158(1). 176–188.e7. 252 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zaragosi, Laure‐Emmanuelle, Camille Boutin, Marie Deprez, et al.. (2018). CDC20B is required for deuterosome-mediated centriole production in multiciliated cells. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4668–4668. 51 indexed citations

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Raguideau, Sébastien, Sandra Plancade, Nicolas Pons, Marion Leclerc, & Béatrice Laroche. (2016). Inferring Aggregated Functional Traits from Metagenomic Data Using Constrained Non-negative Matrix Factorization: Application to Fiber Degradation in the Human Gut Microbiota. PLoS Computational Biology. 12(12). e1005252–e1005252. 11 indexed citations

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Mkaouar, Héla, Vincent Mariaule, Samira Boudebbouze, et al.. (2016). Siropins, novel serine protease inhibitors from gut microbiota acting on human proteases involved in inflammatory bowel diseases. Microbial Cell Factories. 15(1). 201–201. 31 indexed citations

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Brahe, Lena Kirchner, Emmanuelle Le Chatelier, Edi Prifti, et al.. (2015). Specific gut microbiota features and metabolic markers in postmenopausal women with obesity. Nutrition and Diabetes. 5(6). e159–e159. 224 indexed citations

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Oñate, Florian Plaza, Jean-Michel Batto, Catherine Juste, et al.. (2015). Quality control of microbiota metagenomics by k-mer analysis. BMC Genomics. 16(1). 183–183. 17 indexed citations

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Hébert, Laurent, Bouziane Moumen, Nicolas Pons, et al.. (2012). Genomic Characterization of the Taylorella Genus. PLoS ONE. 7(1). e29953–e29953. 23 indexed citations

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Pons, Nicolas, Jean-Michel Batto, S. Dusko Ehrlich, & Pierre Renault. (2007). Development of Software Facilities to Characterize Regulatory Binding Motifs and Application to Streptococcaceae. Microbial Physiology. 14(1-3). 67–73. 7 indexed citations

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Aust, Daniela E., Jonathan P. Terdiman, Cornell Chang, et al.. (2001). Abstracts 18th European Congress of Pathology Berlin, Germany, September 8–13, 2001. Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medicin. 439(3). 235–483. 1 indexed citations

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