Teofana Chonova

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 406 citations indexed

About

Teofana Chonova is a scholar working on Ecology, Biomaterials and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Teofana Chonova has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 406 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Ecology, 11 papers in Biomaterials and 5 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Teofana Chonova's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (11 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (11 papers) and Diatoms and Algae Research (11 papers). Teofana Chonova is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (11 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (11 papers) and Diatoms and Algae Research (11 papers). Teofana Chonova collaborates with scholars based in France, Switzerland and Sweden. Teofana Chonova's co-authors include Agnès Bouchez, François Keck, Jérôme Labanowski, Frédéric Rimet, Bernard Montuelle, Valentin Vasselon, Laure Wiest, Emmanuelle Vulliet, Robert Baudot and Alexandre Bergé and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Teofana Chonova

19 papers receiving 397 citations

Hit Papers

The global human impact on biodiversity 2025 2026 2025 5 10 15 20 25
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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.

  1. The global human impact on biodiversity
    2025 28 citations François Keck, Tianna Peller et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Teofana Chonova France 9 180 170 102 69 59 19 406
Qihang Liao China 8 84 0.5× 313 1.8× 46 0.5× 29 0.4× 50 0.8× 18 434
Bob Adyari China 12 81 0.5× 182 1.1× 11 0.1× 44 0.6× 63 1.1× 21 418
Hainan Lu China 7 50 0.3× 260 1.5× 27 0.3× 35 0.5× 170 2.9× 17 451
Marc Crampon France 11 87 0.5× 296 1.7× 13 0.1× 59 0.9× 162 2.7× 17 419
Courtney M. Gardner United States 10 50 0.3× 149 0.9× 13 0.1× 63 0.9× 71 1.2× 23 371
Agata Drobniewska Poland 11 30 0.2× 183 1.1× 22 0.2× 27 0.4× 103 1.7× 29 371
Nana Xue China 10 109 0.6× 345 2.0× 55 0.5× 45 0.7× 50 0.8× 19 471
Zhiyi Chen China 11 111 0.6× 59 0.3× 38 0.4× 59 0.9× 46 0.8× 23 388
Petra Burić Croatia 11 33 0.2× 261 1.5× 65 0.6× 22 0.3× 132 2.2× 32 471
Liling Xia China 15 127 0.7× 194 1.1× 12 0.1× 47 0.7× 142 2.4× 33 473

Countries citing papers authored by Teofana Chonova

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Fields of papers citing papers by Teofana Chonova

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Teofana Chonova. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Teofana Chonova. The network helps show where Teofana Chonova may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Teofana Chonova

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

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Keck, François, Tianna Peller, Roman Alther, et al.. (2025). The global human impact on biodiversity. Nature. 641(8062). 395–400. 28 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chonova, Teofana, et al.. (2024). Unveiling industrial emissions in a large European river: Insights from data mining of high-frequency measurements. Water Research. 268(Pt B). 122745–122745. 2 indexed citations
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Tapolczai, Kálmán, et al.. (2024). Molecular metrics to monitor ecological status of large rivers: Implementation of diatom DNA metabarcoding in the Joint Danube Survey 4. Ecological Indicators. 160. 111883–111883. 4 indexed citations
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Stancheva, Rosalina, Nélida Abarca, Agnès Bouchez, et al.. (2024). Adding more taxa to the Cocconeis placentula group (Bacillariophyta): two new species from streams in biodiversity hotspots. Nova Hedwigia. 118(3-4). 277–319. 1 indexed citations
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Chardon, Cécile, Teofana Chonova, François Keck, et al.. (2023). Filling reference libraries with diatom environmental sequences: strengths and weaknesses. Diatom Research. 38(2). 103–127. 6 indexed citations
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Chonova, Teofana, Frédéric Rimet, Agnès Bouchez, et al.. (2023). Revisiting global diversity and biogeography of freshwater diatoms: New insights from molecular data. Environmental DNA. 5(6). 1505–1515. 3 indexed citations
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Chonova, Teofana, Frédéric Rimet, Agnès Bouchez, & François Keck. (2021). Revisiting global biogeography of freshwater diatoms: new insights from molecular data. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 4. 2 indexed citations
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Vasselon, Valentin, Teofana Chonova, Iakovos Tziortzis, et al.. (2021). Cyprus’ diatom diversity and the association of environmental and anthropogenic influences for ecological assessment of rivers using DNA metabarcoding. Chemosphere. 272. 129814–129814. 12 indexed citations
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Rimet, Frédéric, Teofana Chonova, Maria Kahlert, et al.. (2021). Diat.barcode: a DNA tool to decipher diatom communities for the evaluation environmental pressures. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 4. 1 indexed citations
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Apothéloz‐Perret‐Gentil, Laure, Teofana Chonova, Alain Franc, et al.. (2020). Diatom DNA metabarcoding for ecological assessment: Comparison among bioinformatics pipelines used in six European countries reveals the need for standardization. The Science of The Total Environment. 745. 140948–140948. 55 indexed citations
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Chonova, Teofana, Rainer Kurmayer, Frédéric Rimet, et al.. (2019). Benthic Diatom Communities in an Alpine River Impacted by Waste Water Treatment Effluents as Revealed Using DNA Metabarcoding. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 653–653. 47 indexed citations
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Chonova, Teofana, Vivien Lecomte, Jean-Luc Bertrand-Krajewski, et al.. (2017). The SIPIBEL project: treatment of hospital and urban wastewater in a conventional urban wastewater treatment plant. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 25(10). 9197–9206. 13 indexed citations
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Wiest, Laure, et al.. (2017). Two-year survey of specific hospital wastewater treatment and its impact on pharmaceutical discharges. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 25(10). 9207–9218. 74 indexed citations
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Chonova, Teofana, Jérôme Labanowski, Benoît Cournoyer, et al.. (2017). River biofilm community changes related to pharmaceutical loads emitted by a wastewater treatment plant. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 25(10). 9254–9264. 35 indexed citations
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Labanowski, Jérôme, et al.. (2016). Rejets d’effluents hospitaliers : évaluation de la persistance environnementale des médicaments et des bactéries pathogènes. Techniques Sciences Méthodes. 22–30. 2 indexed citations
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Chonova, Teofana, François Keck, Jérôme Labanowski, et al.. (2015). Separate treatment of hospital and urban wastewaters: A real scale comparison of effluents and their effect on microbial communities. The Science of The Total Environment. 542(Pt A). 965–975. 96 indexed citations

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