Samuel Chaffron

20.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
40 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Samuel Chaffron is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Samuel Chaffron has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Ecology and 6 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Samuel Chaffron's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (15 papers), Gut microbiota and health (14 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers). Samuel Chaffron is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (15 papers), Gut microbiota and health (14 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers). Samuel Chaffron collaborates with scholars based in France, Switzerland and United States. Samuel Chaffron's co-authors include Christian von Mering, Peer Bork, Michael Kuhn, Tobias Doerks, Lars Juhl Jensen, P. Julien, Mitchell Stark, Alexander Röth, Jean Muller and Milan Simonovic and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Samuel Chaffron

40 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

STRING 8--a global view on proteins and their functional interactions in 630 organisms

2008 1.9k citations Lars Juhl Jensen, Michael Kuhn et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Exploits Inflammation to Compete with the Intestinal Microbiota

2007 818 citations Samuel Chaffron, Christian von Mering et al. profile →
Community proteogenomics reveals insights into the physiology of phyllosphere bacteria

2009 631 citations Samuel Chaffron, Christian von Mering et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
STRING 7--recent developments in the integration and prediction of protein interactions

2006 524 citations Christian von Mering, Lars Juhl Jensen et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Metaproteogenomic analysis of microbial communities in the phyllosphere and rhizosphere of rice

2011 484 citations Samuel Chaffron, Christian von Mering et al. profile →
Human‐induced salinity changes impact marine organisms and ecosystems

2023 74 citations Till Röthig, Stacey M. Trevathan‐Tackett et al. Global Change Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Samuel Chaffron France	23	4.1k	1.1k	1.0k	890	856	40	6.8k
Yongjie Liang China	19	3.1k 0.8×	1.4k 1.2×	799 0.8×	701 0.8×	591 0.7×	38	5.9k
Daniel R. Mende Germany	30	5.5k 1.3×	2.9k 2.7×	1.4k 1.4×	780 0.9×	610 0.7×	49	8.6k
Thomas Sicheritz‐Pontén Denmark	38	5.2k 1.3×	2.1k 1.9×	1.1k 1.1×	922 1.0×	1.0k 1.2×	95	9.8k
Helen Cook Denmark	11	6.1k 1.5×	1.4k 1.3×	1.5k 1.5×	470 0.5×	498 0.6×	14	10.9k
Jason R. Grant Switzerland	26	4.4k 1.1×	2.2k 2.0×	1.5k 1.4×	1.0k 1.1×	803 0.9×	89	8.8k
Ana Marcu Germany	16	2.7k 0.7×	1.3k 1.2×	788 0.8×	686 0.8×	572 0.7×	24	5.1k
Hidehiro Toh Japan	40	6.3k 1.5×	1.4k 1.2×	1.6k 1.6×	1.6k 1.8×	1.1k 1.3×	106	11.2k
Joseph N. Paulson United States	24	3.1k 0.8×	924 0.8×	1.5k 1.5×	404 0.5×	426 0.5×	66	6.5k
Min‐Soo Kim South Korea	36	3.9k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	587 0.6×	751 0.8×	713 0.8×	162	6.5k
Chao Xie Singapore	15	5.4k 1.3×	3.1k 2.8×	2.1k 2.0×	579 0.7×	765 0.9×	18	10.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Samuel Chaffron

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Silva, Ophélie Da, et al.. (2025). Independent transitions to fully planktonic life cycles shaped the global distribution of medusozoans in the epipelagic zone. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(22). e2415979122–e2415979122. 1 indexed citations

Trottier, Camille, et al.. (2024). Genome-scale community modelling reveals conserved metabolic cross-feedings in epipelagic bacterioplankton communities. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2721–2721. 25 indexed citations

Deutschmann, Ina Maria, Erwan Delage, Caterina R. Giner, et al.. (2024). Disentangling microbial networks across pelagic zones in the tropical and subtropical global ocean. Nature Communications. 15(1). 126–126. 13 indexed citations

Eveillard, Damien, et al.. (2024). Ecological associations distribution modelling of marine plankton at a global scale. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1909). 20230169–20230169. 5 indexed citations

Durand, Tony, Carole Brosseau, Erwan Delage, et al.. (2023). Maternal prebiotic supplementation impacts colitis development in offspring mice. Frontiers in Nutrition. 9. 988529–988529. 3 indexed citations

Röthig, Till, Stacey M. Trevathan‐Tackett, Christian R. Voolstra, et al.. (2023). Human‐induced salinity changes impact marine organisms and ecosystems. Global Change Biology. 29(17). 4731–4749. 74 indexed citations breakdown →

Meng, Lingjie, Tom O. Delmont, Morgan Gaïa, et al.. (2023). Genomic adaptation of giant viruses in polar oceans. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6233–6233. 11 indexed citations

Meng, Lingjie, Hisashi Endo, Romain Blanc‐Mathieu, et al.. (2021). Quantitative Assessment of Nucleocytoplasmic Large DNA Virus and Host Interactions Predicted by Co-occurrence Analyses. mSphere. 6(2). 24 indexed citations

Pétéra, Mélanie, Carole Migné, Fabienne Devime, et al.. (2021). Dietary switch to Western diet induces hypothalamic adaptation associated with gut microbiota dysbiosis in rats. International Journal of Obesity. 45(6). 1271–1283. 18 indexed citations

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Lin, Yajuan, Adrian Marchetti, Hugh W. Ducklow, et al.. (2021). Decline in plankton diversity and carbon flux with reduced sea ice extent along the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4948–4948. 36 indexed citations

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Gonzalès, Jacques, Laetitia Aymeric, Catherine Le Berre‐Scoul, et al.. (2021). Fecal Supernatant from Adult with Autism Spectrum Disorder Alters Digestive Functions, Intestinal Epithelial Barrier, and Enteric Nervous System. Microorganisms. 9(8). 1723–1723. 14 indexed citations

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Tito, Raúl Y., Rodrigo Bacigalupe, Mireia Valles‐Colomer, et al.. (2021). Treponema peruense sp. nov., a commensal spirochaete isolated from human faeces. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 71(10). 6 indexed citations

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Neunlist, Michel, et al.. (2021). MiBiOmics: an interactive web application for multi-omics data exploration and integration. BMC Bioinformatics. 22(1). 6–6. 64 indexed citations

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Kaneko, Hiroto, Romain Blanc‐Mathieu, Hisashi Endo, et al.. (2020). Eukaryotic virus composition can predict the efficiency of carbon export in the global ocean. iScience. 24(1). 102002–102002. 48 indexed citations

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Simon, Nathalie, Fabienne Rigaut‐Jalabert, Florence Le Gall, et al.. (2019). First Viruses Infecting the Marine Diatom Guinardia delicatula. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 3235–3235. 26 indexed citations

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Poling, Holly M., David Wu, Nicole Brown, et al.. (2018). Mechanically induced development and maturation of human intestinal organoids in vivo. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 2(6). 429–442. 84 indexed citations

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Tito, Raúl Y., Samuel Chaffron, Clara Caenepeel, et al.. (2018). Population-level analysis of Blastocystis subtype prevalence and variation in the human gut microbiota. Gut. 68(7). 1180–1189. 154 indexed citations

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Caputi, Luigi, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Domenico D’Alelio, et al.. (2017). Modelling plankton ecosystems in the meta-omics era. Are we ready?. Marine Genomics. 32. 1–17. 22 indexed citations

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Guidi, Lionel, Samuel Chaffron, Lucie Bittner, et al.. (2016). Plankton networks driving carbon export in the oligotrophic ocean. Flanders Marine Institute (Flanders Marine Institute). 2016. 123 indexed citations

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Mering, Christian von, Lars Juhl Jensen, Michael Kuhn, et al.. (2006). STRING 7--recent developments in the integration and prediction of protein interactions. Nucleic Acids Research. 35(Database). D358–D362. 524 indexed citations breakdown →

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