Olivier Zablocki

4.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
22 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Olivier Zablocki is a scholar working on Ecology, Plant Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Olivier Zablocki has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Ecology, 8 papers in Plant Science and 6 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Olivier Zablocki's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (16 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (8 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (6 papers). Olivier Zablocki is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (16 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (8 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (6 papers). Olivier Zablocki collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and United Kingdom. Olivier Zablocki's co-authors include Matthew B. Sullivan, Benjamin Bolduc, Evelien M. Adriaenssens, Ahmed A. Zayed, Ann Gregory, Ho Bin Jang, Don A. Cowan, Dann Turner, J. Rodney Brister and Andrew M. Kropinski and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Nature Geoscience.

In The Last Decade

Olivier Zablocki

21 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Taxonomic assignment of uncultivated prokaryotic virus genomes is enabled by gene-sharing networks

2019 572 citations Ho Bin Jang, Benjamin Bolduc et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
The Gut Virome Database Reveals Age-Dependent Patterns of Virome Diversity in the Human Gut

2020 407 citations Ann Gregory, Olivier Zablocki et al. Cell Host & Microbe profile →
Soil Aggregate Microbial Communities: Towards Understanding Microbiome Interactions at Biologically Relevant Scales

2019 296 citations Regina L. Wilpiszeski, Jayde A. Aufrecht et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Olivier Zablocki United States	15	1.3k	738	509	268	189	22	1.8k
Kurt E. Williamson United States	18	1.3k 1.0×	415 0.6×	534 1.0×	267 1.0×	55 0.3×	23	1.6k
Jiarong Guo China	10	816 0.6×	534 0.7×	351 0.7×	137 0.5×	176 0.9×	23	1.3k
David VanInsberghe United States	15	528 0.4×	407 0.6×	362 0.7×	213 0.8×	128 0.7×	24	1.2k
Dean Vik United States	12	1.4k 1.1×	836 1.1×	440 0.9×	250 0.9×	29 0.2×	19	1.9k
Sarah Melamed Israel	15	1.6k 1.2×	1.8k 2.4×	720 1.4×	267 1.0×	160 0.8×	19	3.2k
Noriko A. Cassman Netherlands	11	839 0.6×	510 0.7×	385 0.8×	195 0.7×	363 1.9×	14	1.4k
Natalia Mikhailova United States	16	890 0.7×	932 1.3×	484 1.0×	151 0.6×	30 0.2×	42	1.8k
Yvan Bettarel France	26	1.4k 1.0×	361 0.5×	241 0.5×	158 0.6×	34 0.2×	60	1.7k
María Consuelo Gazitúa United States	12	1.2k 0.9×	765 1.0×	318 0.6×	212 0.8×	18 0.1×	16	1.7k
Brian Bushnell United States	9	755 0.6×	1.1k 1.5×	302 0.6×	167 0.6×	29 0.2×	13	1.9k

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Bolduc, Benjamin, Olivier Zablocki, Dann Turner, et al.. (2025). Machine learning enables scalable and systematic hierarchical virus taxonomy. Nature Biotechnology.

Baek, Alice, Shuliang Chen, Nagaraja Tirumuru, et al.. (2024). Single-molecule epitranscriptomic analysis of full-length HIV-1 RNAs reveals functional roles of site-specific m6As. Nature Microbiology. 9(5). 1340–1355. 25 indexed citations

Tian, Funing, James M. Wainaina, Cristina Howard‐Varona, et al.. (2024). Prokaryotic-virus-encoded auxiliary metabolic genes throughout the global oceans. Microbiome. 12(1). 159–159. 23 indexed citations

Zhong, Zhi-Ping, Dean Vik, Josephine Z. Rapp, et al.. (2023). Lower viral evolutionary pressure under stable versus fluctuating conditions in subzero Arctic brines. Microbiome. 11(1). 174–174. 11 indexed citations

Jang, Ho Bin, Lauren Chittick, Yueh‐Fen Li, et al.. (2022). Viral tag and grow: a scalable approach to capture and characterize infectious virus–host pairs. ISME Communications. 2(1). 12–12. 7 indexed citations

Greenlon, Alex, Ella T. Sieradzki, Olivier Zablocki, et al.. (2022). Quantitative Stable-Isotope Probing (qSIP) with Metagenomics Links Microbial Physiology and Activity to Soil Moisture in Mediterranean-Climate Grassland Ecosystems. mSystems. 7(6). e0041722–e0041722. 23 indexed citations

Sakowski, Eric G., Funing Tian, Ahmed A. Zayed, et al.. (2021). Interaction dynamics and virus–host range for estuarine actinophages captured by epicPCR. Nature Microbiology. 6(5). 630–642. 46 indexed citations

Zablocki, Olivier, Michelle L. Michelsen, Natalie Solonenko, et al.. (2021). VirION2: a short- and long-read sequencing and informatics workflow to study the genomic diversity of viruses in nature. PeerJ. 9. e11088–e11088. 26 indexed citations

Gregory, Ann, et al.. (2020). The Gut Virome Database Reveals Age-Dependent Patterns of Virome Diversity in the Human Gut. Cell Host & Microbe. 28(5). 724–740.e8. 407 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jang, Ho Bin, Benjamin Bolduc, Olivier Zablocki, et al.. (2019). Taxonomic assignment of uncultivated prokaryotic virus genomes is enabled by gene-sharing networks. Nature Biotechnology. 37(6). 632–639. 572 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wilpiszeski, Regina L., Jayde A. Aufrecht, Scott T. Retterer, et al.. (2019). Soil Aggregate Microbial Communities: Towards Understanding Microbiome Interactions at Biologically Relevant Scales. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 85(14). 296 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zablocki, Olivier, Leonardo Joaquim van Zyl, & Marla Trindade. (2018). Biogeography and taxonomic overview of terrestrial hot spring thermophilic phages. Extremophiles. 22(6). 827–837. 18 indexed citations

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Ramond, Jean‐Baptiste, Aline Frossard, Olivier Zablocki, et al.. (2017). Namib Desert Soil Microbial Community Diversity, Assembly, and Function Along a Natural Xeric Gradient. Microbial Ecology. 75(1). 193–203. 53 indexed citations

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Zablocki, Olivier, Leonardo Joaquim van Zyl, Bronwyn M. Kirby, & Marla Trindade. (2017). Diversity of dsDNA Viruses in a South African Hot Spring Assessed by Metagenomics and Microscopy. Viruses. 9(11). 348–348. 18 indexed citations

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Zablocki, Olivier, Evelien M. Adriaenssens, & Don A. Cowan. (2015). Diversity and Ecology of Viruses in Hyperarid Desert Soils. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 82(3). 770–777. 78 indexed citations

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Zablocki, Olivier, Leonardo Joaquim van Zyl, Evelien M. Adriaenssens, et al.. (2014). High-Level Diversity of Tailed Phages, Eukaryote-Associated Viruses, and Virophage-Like Elements in the Metaviromes of Antarctic Soils. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 80(22). 6888–6897. 89 indexed citations

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Zablocki, Olivier & Gerhard Pietersen. (2014). Characterization of a novel citrus tristeza virus genotype within three cross-protecting source GFMS12 sub-isolates in South Africa by means of Illumina sequencing. Archives of Virology. 159(8). 2133–2139. 17 indexed citations

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Zablocki, Olivier, Edward P. Rybicki, & Don A. Cowan. (2014). First Report of a Potyvirus Infecting Albuca rautanenii in the Namib Desert. Plant Disease. 98(12). 1749–1749. 2 indexed citations

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Zablocki, Olivier, Leonardo Joaquim van Zyl, Evelien M. Adriaenssens, et al.. (2014). Niche-dependent genetic diversity in Antarctic metaviromes. PubMed Central. 4(4). e980125–e980125. 9 indexed citations

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Zablocki, Olivier, et al.. (2012). Genotype composition of populations of grapefruit-cross-protecting citrus tristeza virus strain GFMS12 in different host plants and aphid-transmitted sub-isolates. Archives of Virology. 158(1). 27–37. 38 indexed citations

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