Paul Simion

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 738 citations indexed

About

Paul Simion is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Simion has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 738 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Ecology and 3 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Paul Simion's work include Marine Ecology and Invasive Species (3 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers) and Marine Sponges and Natural Products (2 papers). Paul Simion is often cited by papers focused on Marine Ecology and Invasive Species (3 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers) and Marine Sponges and Natural Products (2 papers). Paul Simion collaborates with scholars based in France, Belgium and Canada. Paul Simion's co-authors include Hervé Philippe, Michaël Manuel, Frédéric Delsuc, Muriel Jager, Éric Quéinnec, Alexander Ereskovsky, Erwan Corre, Daniel J. Richter, Arnaud Di Franco and Béatrice Roure and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Paul Simion

12 papers receiving 733 citations

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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.

A Large and Consistent Phylogenomic Dataset Supports Sponges as the Sister Group to All Other Animals

2017 335 citations Paul Simion, Hervé Philippe et al. Current Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul Simion France	11	366	241	182	182	154	12	738
Nathan J. Kenny United Kingdom	21	450 1.2×	119 0.5×	241 1.3×	183 1.0×	286 1.9×	51	1.1k
Fabian Schreiber Germany	9	488 1.3×	385 1.6×	182 1.0×	176 1.0×	176 1.1×	12	866
Jean Vacelet France	5	284 0.8×	337 1.4×	114 0.6×	190 1.0×	110 0.7×	5	652
Walker Pett United States	15	593 1.6×	346 1.4×	221 1.2×	157 0.9×	254 1.6×	18	1.0k
Pierre Kerner France	17	621 1.7×	161 0.7×	92 0.5×	181 1.0×	88 0.6×	21	931
Arnaud Di Franco France	5	249 0.7×	172 0.7×	112 0.6×	76 0.4×	103 0.7×	5	455
Yi‐Jyun Luo Taiwan	15	443 1.2×	122 0.5×	98 0.5×	275 1.5×	187 1.2×	24	851
Alexandre Alié France	13	292 0.8×	372 1.5×	64 0.4×	325 1.8×	79 0.5×	21	676
Oliver Voigt Germany	20	471 1.3×	181 0.8×	133 0.7×	189 1.0×	303 2.0×	38	1.1k
Michael Kroiher Germany	15	296 0.8×	275 1.1×	69 0.4×	154 0.8×	109 0.7×	28	703

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Simion

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

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Nicolas, Émilien, Paul Simion, Matthieu Terwagne, et al.. (2023). Horizontal acquisition of a DNA ligase improves DNA damage tolerance in eukaryotes. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7638–7638. 5 indexed citations

2.

Jaroň, Kamil S., Darren J. Parker, Patrick Tran Van, et al.. (2022). Convergent consequences of parthenogenesis on stick insect genomes. Science Advances. 8(8). eabg3842–eabg3842. 29 indexed citations

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Van, Patrick Tran, Jens Bast, Zoé Dumas, et al.. (2021). First annotated draft genomes of nonmarine ostracods (Ostracoda, Crustacea) with different reproductive modes. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 11(4). 10 indexed citations

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Brandt, Alexander, Patrick Tran Van, Zoé Dumas, et al.. (2021). Haplotype divergence supports long-term asexuality in the oribatid mite Oppiella nova. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(38). 26 indexed citations

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Rousselle, Marjolaine, Paul Simion, Marie‐Ka Tilak, et al.. (2020). Is adaptation limited by mutation? A timescale-dependent effect of genetic diversity on the adaptive substitution rate in animals. PLoS Genetics. 16(4). e1008668–e1008668. 39 indexed citations

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Debiais‐Thibaud, Mélanie, Paul Simion, Stéphanie Ventéo, et al.. (2019). Skeletal Mineralization in Association with Type X Collagen Expression Is an Ancestral Feature for Jawed Vertebrates. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36(10). 2265–2276. 23 indexed citations

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Simion, Paul, Khalid Belkhir, Clémentine François, et al.. (2018). A software tool ‘CroCo’ detects pervasive cross-species contamination in next generation sequencing data. BMC Biology. 16(1). 28–28. 68 indexed citations

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Delsuc, Frédéric, Hervé Philippe, Georgia Tsagkogeorga, et al.. (2018). A phylogenomic framework and timescale for comparative studies of tunicates. BMC Biology. 16(1). 39–39. 125 indexed citations

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Simion, Paul, et al.. (2018). Evolution of dental tissue mineralization: an analysis of the jawed vertebrate SPARC and SPARC-L families. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 18(1). 127–127. 17 indexed citations

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Alié, Alexandre, Laurel S. Hiebert, Paul Simion, et al.. (2018). Convergent Acquisition of Nonembryonic Development in Styelid Ascidians. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 35(7). 1728–1743. 30 indexed citations

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Simion, Paul, Hervé Philippe, Denis Baurain, et al.. (2017). A Large and Consistent Phylogenomic Dataset Supports Sponges as the Sister Group to All Other Animals. Current Biology. 27(7). 958–967. 335 indexed citations breakdown →

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Simion, Paul, Nicolas Bekkouche, Muriel Jager, Éric Quéinnec, & Michaël Manuel. (2014). Exploring the potential of small RNA subunit and ITS sequences for resolving phylogenetic relationships within the phylum Ctenophora. Zoology. 118(2). 102–114. 31 indexed citations

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