Philippe Schaeffer

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
103 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Philippe Schaeffer is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Molecular Biology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Philippe Schaeffer has authored 103 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 30 papers in Molecular Biology and 19 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Philippe Schaeffer's work include Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (33 papers), Petroleum Processing and Analysis (13 papers) and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (12 papers). Philippe Schaeffer is often cited by papers focused on Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (33 papers), Petroleum Processing and Analysis (13 papers) and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (12 papers). Philippe Schaeffer collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and United Kingdom. Philippe Schaeffer's co-authors include Pierre Adam, Jochen J. Brocks, Stefano M. Bernasconi, P. Albrecht, James R. Maxwell, Lorenz Schwark, Pierre Albrecht, Anke Behrens, Nicolas Picot and Yannice Faugère and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Philippe Schaeffer

98 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Lost world of complex life and the late rise of the eukaryotic crown

2023 68 citations Jochen J. Brocks, Benjamin J. Nettersheim et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Philippe Schaeffer France	26	974	547	528	508	411	103	2.5k
François Gelin France	18	1.1k 1.1×	546 1.0×	278 0.5×	533 1.0×	194 0.5×	39	2.2k
Erik Tegelaar Netherlands	27	1.5k 1.5×	249 0.5×	646 1.2×	726 1.4×	205 0.5×	37	3.1k
Emmanuelle Grosjean Australia	18	750 0.8×	272 0.5×	1.2k 2.3×	551 1.1×	197 0.5×	51	2.2k
Peter Blokker Netherlands	23	483 0.5×	441 0.8×	338 0.6×	552 1.1×	327 0.8×	37	1.9k
Christian Hallmann Germany	21	665 0.7×	282 0.5×	1.2k 2.3×	734 1.4×	237 0.6×	46	2.3k
Paul F. Greenwood Australia	32	1.5k 1.5×	155 0.3×	646 1.2×	490 1.0×	208 0.5×	112	3.1k
Pierre Metzger France	29	810 0.8×	405 0.7×	234 0.4×	440 0.9×	1.0k 2.5×	77	3.1k
M.E.L. Kohnen Netherlands	18	1.3k 1.3×	298 0.5×	313 0.6×	360 0.7×	148 0.4×	23	1.8k
Fabien Kenig United States	30	1.9k 1.9×	436 0.8×	1.1k 2.1×	1.1k 2.1×	295 0.7×	74	3.7k
Pierre Adam France	27	1.0k 1.1×	141 0.3×	388 0.7×	235 0.5×	299 0.7×	96	2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Philippe Schaeffer

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Schaeffer, Philippe, Sonja‐Verena Albers, Yoann Louis, et al.. (2025). Bilayer-Forming Lipids Enhance Archaeal Monolayer Membrane Stability. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(7). 3045–3045. 2 indexed citations

Hope, Janet M., Philippe Schaeffer, Pierre Adam, et al.. (2025). Hopanoid breakdown products (HBPs) and their influence on tetracyclic and tricyclic terpane (cheilanthane) oil-source rock parameters. Organic Geochemistry. 210. 105085–105085.

Schaeffer, Philippe, Marie‐Isabelle Pujol, Ole Andersen, et al.. (2025). Merging Recent Mean Sea Surface Into a 2023 Hybrid Model (From Scripps, DTU, CLS, and CNES). Earth and Space Science. 12(2). 5 indexed citations

Sallon, Sarah, Elaine Solowey, Morgan R. Gostel, et al.. (2024). Characterization and analysis of a Commiphora species germinated from an ancient seed suggests a possible connection to a species mentioned in the Bible. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1109–1109. 2 indexed citations

Sansone, Anna, Frédéric Melin, Philippe Chaignon, et al.. (2024). Towards Bacterial Resistance via the Membrane Strategy: Enzymatic, Biophysical and Biomimetic Studies of the Lipid cis‐trans Isomerase of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. ChemBioChem. 26(1). e202400844–e202400844. 1 indexed citations

Schaeffer, Philippe, et al.. (2023). The CNES CLS 2022 Mean Sea Surface: Short Wavelength Improvements from CryoSat-2 and SARAL/AltiKa High-Sampled Altimeter Data. Remote Sensing. 15(11). 2910–2910. 26 indexed citations

Brocks, Jochen J., Benjamin J. Nettersheim, Pierre Adam, et al.. (2023). Lost world of complex life and the late rise of the eukaryotic crown. Nature. 618(7966). 767–773. 68 indexed citations breakdown →

Schaeffer, Philippe, et al.. (2022). Novel oxygenated fossil nor-diterpenoids from Cretaceous amber (South-Western France) as potential markers from Cupressaceae and/or Cheirolepidiaceae. Organic Geochemistry. 167. 104372–104372. 5 indexed citations

Nettersheim, Benjamin J., Arne Leider, Jochen J. Brocks, et al.. (2020). Geological alteration of Precambrian steroids mimics early animal signatures. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(2). 169–173. 19 indexed citations

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Schaeffer, Philippe, et al.. (2019). The effects of diagenetic aromatization on the carbon and hydrogen isotopic composition of higher plant di- and triterpenoids: Evidence from buried wood. Organic Geochemistry. 136. 103889–103889. 3 indexed citations

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Adam, Pierre, et al.. (2019). Biosynthesis of Isoprene Units in Euphorbia lathyris Laticifers vs. Other Tissues: MVA and MEP Pathways, Compartmentation and Putative Endophytic Fungi Contribution. Molecules. 24(23). 4322–4322. 6 indexed citations

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Solazzo, Caroline, Jacques Connan, Bart E. van Dongen, et al.. (2016). Identification of the earliest collagen- and plant-based coatings from Neolithic artefacts (Nahal Hemar cave, Israel). Scientific Reports. 6(1). 31053–31053. 32 indexed citations

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Cario, Anaïs, Vincent Grossi, Philippe Schaeffer, & Philippe Oger. (2015). Membrane homeoviscous adaptation in the piezo-hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus barophilus. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 1152–1152. 65 indexed citations

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Saito, Ryosuke, Masahiro Oba, Kunio Kaiho, et al.. (2014). Extreme euxinia just prior to the Middle Triassic biotic recovery from the latest Permian mass extinction. Organic Geochemistry. 73. 113–122. 17 indexed citations

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Rio, Marie‐Hélène, Sandrine Mulet, Philippe Schaeffer, & Nicolas Picot. (2013). The Ocean Mean Dynamic Topography: 20 Years of Improvements. 710. 7. 2 indexed citations

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Méhay, S., Gretchen L. Früh‐Green, Stefano M. Bernasconi, et al.. (2010). Archaeal communities of the Lost City Hydrothermal Field. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 74. 1 indexed citations

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Schaeffer, Philippe, et al.. (2007). Identification of suspicious, unknown event patterns in an event cloud. 77. 164–170. 17 indexed citations

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Schaeffer, Philippe, et al.. (2006). From the Altimetric Sea Level Measurement to the Ocean Absolute Dynamic Topography: Mean Sea Surface, Geoid, Mean Dynamic Topography, A Three-Component Challenge. ESA Special Publication. 614. 56. 1 indexed citations

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Schaeffer, Philippe, Pierre Adam, J.M. Trendel, et al.. (2006). The wide diversity of hopanoid sulfides evidenced by the structural identification of several novel hopanoid series. Organic Geochemistry. 37(11). 1590–1616. 23 indexed citations

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Adam, Pierre, et al.. (1998). Novel Polycyclic Sulfides Derived from Regular Polyprenoids in Sediments: Characterization, Distribution, and Geochemical Significance. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 62(5). 805–814. 24 indexed citations

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