Nicolas Puillandre

9.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
108 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Nicolas Puillandre is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolas Puillandre has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Oceanography, 45 papers in Ecology and 40 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Nicolas Puillandre's work include Marine Biology and Ecology Research (55 papers), Mollusks and Parasites Studies (22 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (19 papers). Nicolas Puillandre is often cited by papers focused on Marine Biology and Ecology Research (55 papers), Mollusks and Parasites Studies (22 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (19 papers). Nicolas Puillandre collaborates with scholars based in France, Russia and United States. Nicolas Puillandre's co-authors include Sophie Brouillet, Guillaume Achaz, Amaury Lambert, Philippe Bouchet, Sarah Samadi, Eric Pante, Yuri Kantor, Corinne Cruaud, Charlotte Schoelinck and Alexander Fedosov and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Nicolas Puillandre

104 papers receiving 6.6k 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.

ABGD, Automatic Barcode Gap Discovery for primary species delimitation

2011 2.5k citations Nicolas Puillandre, Amaury Lambert et al. Molecular Ecology profile →
ASAP: assemble species by automatic partitioning

2020 977 citations Nicolas Puillandre, Sophie Brouillet et al. Molecular Ecology Resources profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicolas Puillandre France	31	2.8k	2.1k	1.8k	1.6k	1.5k	108	6.7k
Gustav Paulay United States	31	3.2k 1.1×	1.3k 0.6×	1.7k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	784 0.5×	114	5.7k
Guillaume Achaz France	25	1.7k 0.6×	1.8k 0.9×	825 0.5×	1.7k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	55	5.3k
Barbara K. Mable United Kingdom	35	2.0k 0.7×	3.0k 1.4×	740 0.4×	3.1k 2.0×	2.2k 1.4×	95	7.8k
Walter R. Hoeh United States	32	3.4k 1.2×	1.1k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	59	5.6k
David J. Lohman United States	24	1.9k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	557 0.3×	2.7k 1.8×	3.1k 2.0×	67	7.2k
Markus Pfenninger Germany	42	3.6k 1.3×	1.3k 0.6×	575 0.3×	2.3k 1.5×	1.8k 1.2×	142	7.1k
Joseph E. Neigel United States	29	3.3k 1.2×	1.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	3.4k 2.2×	1.3k 0.9×	57	7.0k
Sophie Brouillet France	6	1.5k 0.5×	978 0.5×	793 0.5×	997 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	7	3.6k
Lee A. Weigt United States	31	2.2k 0.8×	2.5k 1.2×	652 0.4×	1.9k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	57	5.6k
Joan Pons Spain	29	1.6k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	604 0.3×	1.5k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	93	4.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicolas Puillandre

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Zancolli, Giulia, et al.. (2025). Redistribution of Ancestral Functions Underlies the Evolution of Venom Production in Marine Predatory Snails. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(5). 1 indexed citations

Blin, Amandine, Marie Cariou, Sarah Farhat, et al.. (2025). Too Far From Relatives? Impact of the Genetic Distance on the Success of Exon Capture in Phylogenomics. Molecular Ecology Resources. 25(4). e14064–e14064.

Fedosov, Alexander, Paul Zaharias, Maria Vittoria Modica, et al.. (2024). Phylogenomics of Neogastropoda: The Backbone Hidden in the Bush. Systematic Biology. 73(3). 521–531. 10 indexed citations

Fassio, Giulia, et al.. (2024). From coral reefs into the abyss: the evolution of corallivory in the Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda, Muricidae). Coral Reefs. 43(5). 1285–1302. 4 indexed citations

Farhat, Sarah, Maria Vittoria Modica, & Nicolas Puillandre. (2023). Whole Genome Duplication and Gene Evolution in the Hyperdiverse Venomous Gastropods. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(8). 16 indexed citations

Miralles, Aurélien, Sophie Brouillet, Tomáš Flouri, et al.. (2021). SPART: A versatile and standardized data exchange format for species partition information. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22(1). 430–438. 11 indexed citations

Abalde, Samuel, Carlos A. M. Afonso, M. Jimenez-Tenorio, et al.. (2021). Mitogenomic phylogeny of mud snails of the mostly Atlantic/Mediterranean genus Tritia (Gastropoda: Nassariidae). Sapientia (Algarve University).

Vences, Miguel, Aurélien Miralles, Sophie Brouillet, et al.. (2021). iTaxoTools 0.1: Kickstarting a specimen-based software toolkit for taxonomists. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 6(2). 97 indexed citations

Merle, Didier, et al.. (2020). Raising names from the dead: A time-calibrated phylogeny of frog shells (Bursidae, Tonnoidea, Gastropoda) using mitogenomic data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 156. 107040–107040. 4 indexed citations

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Alfaro, Michael E., et al.. (2019). Lack of Signal for the Impact of Conotoxin Gene Diversity on Speciation Rates in Cone Snails. Systematic Biology. 68(5). 781–796. 17 indexed citations

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Collado, Gonzalo A., et al.. (2019). Morphological and molecular analysis of cryptic native and invasive freshwater snails in Chile. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 7846–7846. 20 indexed citations

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Gerdol, Marco, Nicolas Puillandre, Gianluca De Moro, et al.. (2015). Identification and Characterization of a Novel Family of Cysteine-Rich Peptides (MgCRP-I) fromMytilus galloprovincialis. Genome Biology and Evolution. 7(8). 2203–2219. 13 indexed citations

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Pante, Eric, Nicolas Puillandre, Amélia Viricel, et al.. (2014). Species are hypotheses: avoid connectivity assessments based on pillars of sand. Molecular Ecology. 24(3). 525–544. 197 indexed citations

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Puillandre, Nicolas, Philippe Bouchet, Timothy F. Duda, et al.. (2014). Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the cone snails (Gastropoda, Conoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 78. 290–303. 136 indexed citations

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Kantor, Yuri, Pierre Lozouet, Nicolas Puillandre, & Philippe Bouchet. (2014). Lost and found: The Eocene family Pyramimitridae (Neogastropoda) discovered in the Recent fauna of the Indo-Pacific. Zootaxa. 3754(3). 239–76. 7 indexed citations

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Zuccon, Dario, et al.. (2012). An optimised protocol for barcoding museum collections of decapod crustaceans: a case-study for a 10–40-years-old collection. Invertebrate Systematics. 26(6). 592–600. 17 indexed citations

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Duperron, Sébastien, Marie-Anne Pottier, Nelly Léger, et al.. (2012). A tale of two chitons: is habitat specialisation linked to distinct associated bacterial communities?. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 83(3). 552–567. 32 indexed citations

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Puillandre, Nicolas, Amaury Lambert, Sophie Brouillet, & Guillaume Achaz. (2011). ABGD, Automatic Barcode Gap Discovery for primary species delimitation. Molecular Ecology. 21(8). 1864–1877. 2527 indexed citations breakdown →

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Holford, Mandë, Nicolas Puillandre, Maria Vittoria Modica, et al.. (2009). Correlating Molecular Phylogeny with Venom Apparatus Occurrence in Panamic Auger Snails (Terebridae). PLoS ONE. 4(11). e7667–e7667. 11 indexed citations

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Holford, Mandë, et al.. (2008). Evolution of the Toxoglossa Venom Apparatus as Inferred by Molecular Phylogeny of the Terebridae. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 26(1). 15–25. 33 indexed citations

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