Stilianos Louca

9.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
44 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Stilianos Louca is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Stilianos Louca has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Ecology and 12 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Stilianos Louca's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (20 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (19 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (9 papers). Stilianos Louca is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (20 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (19 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (9 papers). Stilianos Louca collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Stilianos Louca's co-authors include Michael Doebeli, Laura Wegener Parfrey, Matthew W. Pennell, Diane S. Srivastava, Florent Mazel, Michaeline Albright, Sean A. Crowe, Aria S Hahn, Martin Ackermann and Julie A. Huber and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Stilianos Louca

42 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Decoupling function and taxonomy in the global ocean microbiome

2016 2.3k citations Stilianos Louca, Laura Wegener Parfrey et al. Science profile →
Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems

2018 1.2k citations Stilianos Louca, Martin F. Polz et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
High taxonomic variability despite stable functional structure across microbial communities

2016 384 citations Stilianos Louca, Aliny P. F. Pires et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
Efficient comparative phylogenetics on large trees

2017 351 citations Stilianos Louca, Michael Doebeli Bioinformatics profile →
Extant timetrees are consistent with a myriad of diversification histories

2020 314 citations Stilianos Louca, Matthew W. Pennell Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stilianos Louca United States	20	2.9k	2.2k	1.1k	794	738	44	5.8k
Daniel H. Buckley United States	41	3.1k 1.1×	1.8k 0.8×	1.7k 1.6×	1.7k 2.2×	712 1.0×	105	6.2k
Thomas Bell United Kingdom	36	2.7k 0.9×	1.9k 0.9×	895 0.8×	685 0.9×	415 0.6×	75	5.5k
Frida Lise Daae Norway	20	2.4k 0.8×	2.2k 1.0×	788 0.7×	395 0.5×	783 1.1×	24	4.9k
Jean Thioulouse France	43	2.5k 0.9×	2.0k 0.9×	2.1k 2.0×	950 1.2×	433 0.6×	113	8.2k
Juan Miguel González Grau Spain	42	3.0k 1.0×	2.9k 1.3×	992 0.9×	229 0.3×	587 0.8×	190	7.3k
Jianjun Wang China	49	4.3k 1.5×	2.3k 1.0×	1.9k 1.7×	838 1.1×	983 1.3×	332	9.3k
Sina M. Adl Canada	27	1.6k 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	1.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.4×	267 0.4×	77	4.8k
Frédéric Mahé France	25	4.7k 1.6×	5.0k 2.2×	1.8k 1.7×	448 0.6×	656 0.9×	59	10.0k
M. Claire Horner‐Devine United States	22	5.2k 1.8×	3.0k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	683 0.9×	492 0.7×	34	7.1k
Todd Z. DeSantis United States	25	3.0k 1.0×	3.0k 1.4×	2.3k 2.1×	727 0.9×	601 0.8×	29	8.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Stilianos Louca

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stilianos Louca

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stilianos Louca

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Louca, Stilianos, et al.. (2025). Effects of Vacuum‐Heat‐Assisted Sample Desiccation on Microbiome Surveys. Molecular Ecology Resources. 25(7). e70020–e70020.

Loo, Yen Yi, Stilianos Louca, Annabel Whibley, et al.. (2024). Vocal convergence and social proximity shape the calls of the most basal Passeriformes, New Zealand Wrens. Communications Biology. 7(1). 575–575. 3 indexed citations

Abrams, John, et al.. (2024). Taxonomic variability and functional stability across Oregon coastal subsurface microbiomes. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1663–1663. 1 indexed citations

Louca, Stilianos, et al.. (2023). Trait biases in microbial reference genomes. Scientific Data. 10(1). 84–84. 11 indexed citations

Louca, Stilianos, et al.. (2021). Fundamental Identifiability Limits in Molecular Epidemiology. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(9). 4010–4024. 30 indexed citations

Louca, Stilianos & Matthew W. Pennell. (2021). Why extinction estimates from extant phylogenies are so often zero. Current Biology. 31(14). 3168–3173.e4. 40 indexed citations

Louca, Stilianos. (2021). SARS-CoV-2 infections in 165 countries over time. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 111. 336–346. 7 indexed citations

Louca, Stilianos. (2020). Simulating trees with millions of species. Bioinformatics. 36(9). 2907–2908. 8 indexed citations

Louca, Stilianos & Matthew W. Pennell. (2020). Extant timetrees are consistent with a myriad of diversification histories. Nature. 580(7804). 502–505. 314 indexed citations breakdown →

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Louca, Stilianos, Yrene Astor, Michael Doebeli, Gordon T. Taylor, & Mary I. Scranton. (2019). Microbial metabolite fluxes in a model marine anoxic ecosystem. Geobiology. 17(6). 628–642. 4 indexed citations

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Louca, Stilianos, Martin F. Polz, Florent Mazel, et al.. (2018). Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(6). 936–943. 1178 indexed citations breakdown →

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Louca, Stilianos, Michael Doebeli, & Laura Wegener Parfrey. (2018). Correcting for 16S rRNA gene copy numbers in microbiome surveys remains an unsolved problem. Microbiome. 6(1). 41–41. 232 indexed citations

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Louca, Stilianos, Patrick M. Shih, Matthew W. Pennell, et al.. (2018). Bacterial diversification through geological time. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(9). 1458–1467. 63 indexed citations

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Louca, Stilianos, Aliny P. F. Pires, Juliana S. Leal, et al.. (2017). Functional structure of the bromeliad tank microbiome is strongly shaped by local geochemical conditions. Environmental Microbiology. 19(8). 3132–3151. 55 indexed citations

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Louca, Stilianos, Laura Wegener Parfrey, & Michael Doebeli. (2016). Decoupling function and taxonomy in the global ocean microbiome. Science. 353(6305). 1272–1277. 2326 indexed citations breakdown →

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Louca, Stilianos, Aliny P. F. Pires, Juliana S. Leal, et al.. (2016). High taxonomic variability despite stable functional structure across microbial communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(1). 15–15. 384 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hahn, Aria S, Kishori M. Konwar, Stilianos Louca, Niels W. Hanson, & Steven Hallam. (2016). The information science of microbial ecology. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 31. 209–216. 13 indexed citations

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Louca, Stilianos & Michael Doebeli. (2015). Detecting cyclicity in ecological time series. Ecology. 96(6). 1724–1732. 13 indexed citations

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Louca, Stilianos & Michael Doebeli. (2014). Distinguishing intrinsic limit cycles from forced oscillations in ecological time series. Theoretical Ecology. 7(4). 381–390. 8 indexed citations

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Louca, Stilianos, et al.. (2011). Specialized nursery pollination mutualisms as evolutionary traps stabilized by antagonistic traits. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 296. 65–83. 6 indexed citations

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