Simone Prospero

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Simone Prospero is a scholar working on Plant Science, Cell Biology and Endocrinology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simone Prospero has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Plant Science, 43 papers in Cell Biology and 41 papers in Endocrinology. Recurrent topics in Simone Prospero's work include Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (43 papers), Plant and Fungal Interactions Research (41 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (24 papers). Simone Prospero is often cited by papers focused on Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (43 papers), Plant and Fungal Interactions Research (41 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (24 papers). Simone Prospero collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, France and United States. Simone Prospero's co-authors include Daniel Rigling, Niklaus J. Grünwald, Matteo Garbelotto, Tetyana Tsykun, Kurt Heungens, Erica M. Goss, L. M. Winton, Everett M. Hansen, Ottmar Holdenrieder and Corine N. Schoebel and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Simone Prospero

86 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Cryphonectria parasitica , the causal agent of chestnut blight: invasion history, population biology and disease control

2017 325 citations Daniel Rigling, Simone Prospero Molecular Plant Pathology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simone Prospero Switzerland	26	1.9k	1.1k	793	534	489	86	2.3k
Daniel Rigling Switzerland	33	3.0k 1.6×	1.2k 1.1×	2.3k 2.9×	221 0.4×	563 1.2×	125	3.5k
Paolo Capretti Italy	27	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	239 0.3×	570 1.1×	866 1.8×	118	2.4k
Ned Tisserat United States	24	1.2k 0.7×	608 0.5×	436 0.5×	324 0.6×	606 1.2×	86	1.9k
Irene Barnes South Africa	26	1.5k 0.8×	1.7k 1.5×	164 0.2×	800 1.5×	1.2k 2.4×	116	2.4k
T. Kowalski Poland	24	1.2k 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	201 0.3×	507 0.9×	1.1k 2.3×	116	2.1k
Sandra Denman United Kingdom	35	2.9k 1.6×	2.5k 2.2×	150 0.2×	1.3k 2.4×	834 1.7×	111	3.7k
Nicola Luchi Italy	21	810 0.4×	728 0.6×	158 0.2×	270 0.5×	591 1.2×	72	1.4k
Rein Drenkhan Estonia	22	801 0.4×	767 0.7×	136 0.2×	339 0.6×	686 1.4×	73	1.4k
Marc A. Cubeta United States	24	1.9k 1.0×	671 0.6×	579 0.7×	298 0.6×	88 0.2×	72	2.1k
Akif Eşkalen United States	27	1.7k 0.9×	1.8k 1.6×	120 0.2×	540 1.0×	1.2k 2.5×	96	2.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simone Prospero

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Marti, Hanna, Michael Biggel, Stefan Kesselheim, et al.. (2025). Nanopore- and AI-empowered microbial viability inference. GigaScience. 14. 1 indexed citations

Prospero, Simone, et al.. (2025). A modeling approach to determine substitutive tree species for sweet chestnut in stands affected by ink disease. Journal of Forestry Research. 36(1). 1 indexed citations

Eschen, René, et al.. (2025). Metabarcoding with Illumina and Oxford Nanopore Technologies provides complementary insights into tree seed mycobiota. Environmental Microbiome. 20(1). 53–53. 1 indexed citations

Schoebel, Corine N., Simone Prospero, Daniel Rigling, & Beat Ruffner. (2024). Fishing for Phytophthora in watercourses of the highly urbanized Swiss Plateau. Mycological Progress. 23(1). 3 indexed citations

Castagneyrol, Bastien, Quentin Ponette, Simone Prospero, et al.. (2023). Tree diversity reduces co-infestation of Douglas fir by two exotic pests and pathogens. NeoBiota. 84. 397–413. 2 indexed citations

Prospero, Simone, Yingyu Chen, Juanita Engelbrecht, et al.. (2023). Distribution, causal agents, and infection dynamic of emerging ink disease of sweet chestnut in Southern Switzerland. Environmental Microbiology. 25(11). 2250–2265. 8 indexed citations

Migliorini, Duccio, Marie‐Anne Auger‐Rozenberg, Andrea Battisti, et al.. (2023). Towards a global sentinel plants research strategy to prevent new introductions of non-native pests and pathogens in forests. The experience of HOMED. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9. 1 indexed citations

Croll, Daniel, et al.. (2022). Temporal changes in pathogen diversity in a perennial plant–pathogen–hyperparasite system. Molecular Ecology. 31(7). 2073–2088. 10 indexed citations

Prospero, Simone, et al.. (2022). Microsatellite Genotyping in the Chestnut Blight Fungus Cryphonectria parasitica. Methods in molecular biology. 2536. 423–433. 1 indexed citations

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Badet, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Emergence and diversification of a highly invasive chestnut pathogen lineage across southeastern Europe. eLife. 10. 17 indexed citations

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Prospero, Simone, et al.. (2020). Comparative Genomics Analyses of Lifestyle Transitions at the Origin of an Invasive Fungal Pathogen in the Genus Cryphonectria. mSphere. 5(5). 18 indexed citations

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Prospero, Simone, et al.. (2019). Identification and characterization of hypovirus-infected Cryphonectriaparasiticaisolates from biological control plots in İzmir, Kütahya, and Sinop. TURKISH JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY. 43(6). 527–537. 4 indexed citations

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Rigling, Daniel & Simone Prospero. (2017). Cryphonectria parasitica , the causal agent of chestnut blight: invasion history, population biology and disease control. Molecular Plant Pathology. 19(1). 7–20. 325 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tsykun, Tetyana, Christian Rellstab, Cyril Dutech, György Sipos, & Simone Prospero. (2017). Comparative assessment of SSR and SNP markers for inferring the population genetic structure of the common fungus Armillaria cepistipes. Heredity. 119(5). 371–380. 57 indexed citations

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Prospero, Simone, et al.. (2017). Frequent diploidisation of haploid Armillaria ostoyae strains in an outdoor inoculation experiment. Fungal Biology. 122(2-3). 147–155. 5 indexed citations

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Peters, Franziska S., Johanna Bußkamp, Simone Prospero, Daniel Rigling, & Berthold Metzler. (2014). Genetic diversification of the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica and its associated hypovirus in Germany. Fungal Biology. 118(2). 193–210. 33 indexed citations

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Tsykun, Tetyana, Daniel Rigling, & Simone Prospero. (2013). A new multilocus approach for a reliable DNA-based identification of Armillaria species. Mycologia. 105(4). 1059–1076. 32 indexed citations

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Prospero, Simone & Beat Forster. (2011). Chestnut gall wasp (Dryocosmus kuriphilus) infestations: new opportunities for the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica?. New Disease Reports. 23(1). 35–35. 13 indexed citations

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Prospero, Simone, B. Lung‐Escarmant, & Cyril Dutech. (2008). Genetic structure of an expanding Armillaria root rot fungus (Armillaria ostoyae) population in a managed pine forest in southwestern France. Molecular Ecology. 17(14). 3366–3378. 35 indexed citations

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Prospero, Simone, Everett M. Hansen, Niklaus J. Grünwald, & L. M. Winton. (2007). Population dynamics of the sudden oak death pathogen Phytophthora ramorum in Oregon from 2001 to 2004. Molecular Ecology. 16(14). 2958–2973. 88 indexed citations

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