Philippe Grandcolas

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
146 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Philippe Grandcolas is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Philippe Grandcolas has authored 146 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 75 papers in Genetics and 21 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Philippe Grandcolas's work include Plant and animal studies (79 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (60 papers) and Fossil Insects in Amber (54 papers). Philippe Grandcolas is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (79 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (60 papers) and Fossil Insects in Amber (54 papers). Philippe Grandcolas collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and United Kingdom. Philippe Grandcolas's co-authors include Frédéric Legendre, Roseli Pellens, Tony Robillard, Laure Desutter‐Grandcolas, Régine Vignes‐Lebbe, Amandine Blin, Sandrine Pavoine, André Nel, Éric Guilbert and Jérôme Murienne and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Philippe Grandcolas

144 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

  1. Taxonomic bias in biodiversity data and societal preferences
    2017 503 citations Philippe Grandcolas, Amandine Blin et al. Scientific Reports profile →

Peers

Philippe Grandcolas
Jochen Martens Germany
Darren E. Irwin Canada
Mats Björklund Sweden
J. V. Remsen United States
Elizabeth P. Derryberry United States
Carlos Daniel Cadena Colombia
Ignacio De la Riva Spain
Stephen C. Lougheed Canada
Evan P. Economo Japan
Pablo L. Tubaro Argentina
Jochen Martens Germany
Philippe Grandcolas
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Countries citing papers authored by Philippe Grandcolas

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Fields of papers citing papers by Philippe Grandcolas

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Philippe Grandcolas

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

All Works

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Grandcolas, Philippe, et al.. (2025). In good form: Morphological adaptations to burrowing lifestyles in cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattodea). Functional Ecology. 39(10). 2860–2875. 1 indexed citations
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Lecointre, Guillaume, et al.. (2023). Revisiting Nature’s “Unifying Patterns”: A Biological Appraisal. Biomimetics. 8(4). 362–362. 6 indexed citations
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Legendre, Frédéric, et al.. (2022). Eusocial Transition in Blattodea: Transposable Elements and Shifts of Gene Expression. Genes. 13(11). 1948–1948. 5 indexed citations
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Jouault, Corentin, Michael S. Engel, Frédéric Legendre, et al.. (2022). Incrementing and clarifying the diversity and early evolution of termites (Blattodea: Isoptera). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 196(2). 608–629. 2 indexed citations
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Grandcolas, Philippe. (2019). The Rise of “Digital Biology”: We need not only open, FAIR but also sustainable data!. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 3. 2 indexed citations
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Grandcolas, Philippe, et al.. (2019). Reconciling the concepts and measures of diversity, rarity and originality in ecology and evolution. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 94(4). 1317–1337. 59 indexed citations
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Grandcolas, Philippe, et al.. (2017). Taxonomic bias in biodiversity data and societal preferences. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 9132–9132. 503 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gasc, Amandine, et al.. (2015). Acoustic indices for biodiversity assessments: Analyses of bias based on simulated bird assemblages and recommendations for field surveys. Biological Conservation. 191. 306–312. 101 indexed citations
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Legendre, Frédéric, André Nel, Gavin J. Svenson, et al.. (2015). Phylogeny of Dictyoptera: Dating the Origin of Cockroaches, Praying Mantises and Termites with Molecular Data and Controlled Fossil Evidence. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0130127–e0130127. 152 indexed citations
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Roy, Roger, et al.. (2015). Catalogue of Dictyoptera from Syria and neighbouring countries (Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Jordan). Zootaxa. 3948(1). 71–92. 7 indexed citations
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Robillard, Tony, Frédéric Legendre, Laure Desutter‐Grandcolas, & Philippe Grandcolas. (2006). Phylogenetic analysis and alignment of behavioral sequences by direct optimization. Cladistics. 22(6). 602–633. 30 indexed citations
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Grandcolas, Philippe. (2001). The Phylogeny of Cockroach Families: Is the Current Molecular Hypothesis Robust?. Cladistics. 17(1). 48–55. 25 indexed citations
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Grandcolas, Philippe. (2000). Cryptocercus matilei n. sp., du Sichuan de Chine (Dictyoptera, Blattaria, Polyphaginae). 22(4). 223–226. 13 indexed citations
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Grandcolas, Philippe. (1999). Systematics, endosymbiosis, and biogeography of Cryptocercus clevelandi and C. punctulatus (Blattaria: Polyphagidae) from North America: a phylogenetic perspective. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 92(3). 285–291. 25 indexed citations
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Grandcolas, Philippe. (1997). The origin of biodiversity in insects : phylogenetic tests of evolutionary scenarios. 173. 105 indexed citations
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Grandcolas, Philippe. (1996). Habitat and Population Structure of Polyphaga Aegyptiaca (Blattaria: Polyphagidae) in Asir, Saudi Arabia. Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N S ). 32(2). 201–205. 4 indexed citations
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Grandcolas, Philippe. (1994). Nel A. & Paicheler J. C., 1993. — Les Isoptera fossiles. État actuel des connaissances, implications paléoécologiques et paléoclimatologiques. (Insecta, Dictyoptera). Cahiers de Paléontologie, CNRS Éditions, Paris. Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France. 99(1). 92–92. 2 indexed citations
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Grandcolas, Philippe. (1993). Monophylie et Structure Phylogénétique des [Blaberinae + Zetoborinae + Gyninae + Diplopterinae] (Dictyoptera: Blaberidae). Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N S ). 29(2). 195–221. 25 indexed citations

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