Pierre Offre

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Pierre Offre is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Pierre Offre has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Ecology, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Pierre Offre's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (16 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (7 papers). Pierre Offre is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (16 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (7 papers). Pierre Offre collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Austria and Germany. Pierre Offre's co-authors include Christa Schleper, Anja Spang, Graeme W. Nicol, James I. Prosser, Philippe Lemanceau, Christophe Mougel, Thijs J. G. Ettema, Joran Martijn, Julian Vosseberg and Lionel Guy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Pierre Offre

23 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

Archaea in Biogeochemical Cycles 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 100 200 300
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.

  1. Archaea in Biogeochemical Cycles
    2013 341 citations Pierre Offre, Anja Spang et al. Annual Review of Microbiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Pierre Offre Netherlands 20 1.6k 1.0k 742 535 531 24 2.7k
Michael Schloter Germany 7 2.0k 1.2× 814 0.8× 1.3k 1.8× 391 0.7× 598 1.1× 9 2.8k
Steffen Kolb Germany 29 1.5k 0.9× 1.0k 1.0× 397 0.5× 449 0.8× 978 1.8× 72 2.9k
Marc G. Dumont United Kingdom 34 2.4k 1.5× 1.7k 1.6× 947 1.3× 456 0.9× 1.2k 2.3× 66 4.0k
Cécile Gubry‐Rangin United Kingdom 25 2.0k 1.2× 753 0.7× 1.5k 2.1× 524 1.0× 573 1.1× 57 3.1k
Shigeto Otsuka Japan 32 1.8k 1.1× 617 0.6× 945 1.3× 605 1.1× 1.2k 2.2× 79 3.2k
Yucheng Wu China 26 1.2k 0.7× 626 0.6× 1.2k 1.6× 517 1.0× 257 0.5× 56 2.4k
Man‐Young Jung South Korea 22 1.4k 0.9× 643 0.6× 977 1.3× 158 0.3× 465 0.9× 60 2.1k
Roey Angel Czechia 22 1.2k 0.7× 560 0.5× 255 0.3× 342 0.6× 552 1.0× 52 2.1k
Karl‐Paul Witzel Germany 19 1.4k 0.8× 555 0.5× 994 1.3× 176 0.3× 362 0.7× 33 2.0k
Irina S. Kulichevskaya Russia 29 1.4k 0.9× 1.0k 1.0× 287 0.4× 303 0.6× 371 0.7× 57 2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Pierre Offre

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Fields of papers citing papers by Pierre Offre

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pierre Offre

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

All Works

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Molari, Massimiliano, et al.. (2023). A hydrogenotrophic Sulfurimonas is globally abundant in deep-sea oxygen-saturated hydrothermal plumes. Nature Microbiology. 8(4). 651–665. 32 indexed citations
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Dombrowski, Nina, Jun-Hoe Lee, Tom A. Williams, Pierre Offre, & Anja Spang. (2019). Genomic diversity, lifestyles and evolutionary origins of DPANN archaea. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 366(2). 118 indexed citations
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Martijn, Joran, Julian Vosseberg, Lionel Guy, Pierre Offre, & Thijs J. G. Ettema. (2018). Deep mitochondrial origin outside the sampled alphaproteobacteria. Nature. 557(7703). 101–105. 240 indexed citations
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Buttigieg, Pier Luigi, Eduard Fadeev, Christina Bienhold, et al.. (2018). Marine microbes in 4D — using time series observation to assess the dynamics of the ocean microbiome and its links to ocean health. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 43. 169–185. 43 indexed citations
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Spang, Anja, et al.. (2018). Genome size evolution in the Archaea. Emerging Topics in Life Sciences. 2(4). 595–605. 26 indexed citations
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Bayer, Barbara, Jana Vojvoda, Pierre Offre, et al.. (2015). Physiological and genomic characterization of two novel marine thaumarchaeal strains indicates niche differentiation. The ISME Journal. 10(5). 1051–1063. 126 indexed citations
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Prommer, Judith, Wolfgang Wanek, Florian Hofhansl, et al.. (2014). Biochar Decelerates Soil Organic Nitrogen Cycling but Stimulates Soil Nitrification in a Temperate Arable Field Trial. PLoS ONE. 9(1). e86388–e86388. 249 indexed citations
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Offre, Pierre, Melina Kerou, Anja Spang, & Christa Schleper. (2014). Variability of the transporter gene complement in ammonia-oxidizing archaea. Trends in Microbiology. 22(12). 665–675. 72 indexed citations
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Offre, Pierre, Anja Spang, & Christa Schleper. (2013). Archaea in Biogeochemical Cycles. Annual Review of Microbiology. 67(1). 437–457. 341 indexed citations breakdown →
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Spang, Anja, Anja Poehlein, Pierre Offre, et al.. (2012). The genome of the ammonia‐oxidizing C andidatus N itrososphaera gargensis: insights into metabolic versatility and environmental adaptations. Environmental Microbiology. 14(12). 3122–3145. 276 indexed citations
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Zhang, Limei, Pierre Offre, Ji‐Zheng He, et al.. (2010). Autotrophic ammonia oxidation by soil thaumarchaea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(40). 17240–17245. 287 indexed citations
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Offre, Pierre, Graeme W. Nicol, & James I. Prosser. (2010). Community profiling and quantification of putative autotrophic thaumarchaeal communities in environmental samples. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 3(2). 245–253. 19 indexed citations
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Offre, Pierre, James I. Prosser, & Graeme W. Nicol. (2009). Growth of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in soil microcosms is inhibited by acetylene. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 70(1). 99–108. 229 indexed citations
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Offre, Pierre, Barbara Pivato, Sylvie Mazurier, et al.. (2008). Microdiversity of Burkholderiales associated with mycorrhizal and nonmycorrhizal roots of Medicago truncatula. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 65(2). 180–192. 27 indexed citations
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Offre, Pierre, Barbara Pivato, Elisa Gamalero, et al.. (2006). Identification of Bacterial Groups Preferentially Associated with Mycorrhizal Roots of Medicago truncatula. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 73(3). 913–921. 77 indexed citations
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Mougel, Christophe, Pierre Offre, Lionel Ranjard, et al.. (2006). Dynamic of the genetic structure of bacterial and fungal communities at different developmental stages of Medicago truncatula Gaertn. cv. Jemalong line J5. New Phytologist. 170(1). 165–175. 148 indexed citations

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