Thomas Junier

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Thomas Junier is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Junier has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Molecular Biology, 28 papers in Ecology and 11 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Thomas Junier's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (24 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (23 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (9 papers). Thomas Junier is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (24 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (23 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (9 papers). Thomas Junier collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Thomas Junier's co-authors include Evgeny M. Zdobnov, Pilar Junier, Tina Wunderlin, Karl‐Paul Witzel, Laurent Kaiser, Nicole Jeanneret, Marco Pagni, Verónica Molina, Sevasti Filippidou and Cristina Dorador and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Junier

60 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

  1. The Newick utilities: high-throughput phylogenetic tree processing in the Unix shell
    2010 526 citations Thomas Junier, Evgeny M. Zdobnov profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Junier Switzerland 27 960 670 417 328 296 61 2.3k
Hans‐Joachim Ruscheweyh Switzerland 16 2.1k 2.2× 1.3k 1.9× 446 1.1× 323 1.0× 182 0.6× 36 3.8k
Y L Tsai United States 18 740 0.8× 852 1.3× 242 0.6× 415 1.3× 140 0.5× 24 2.2k
Mike Dyall‐Smith Australia 32 1.7k 1.8× 1.5k 2.3× 320 0.8× 819 2.5× 247 0.8× 93 3.1k
Kristian Dalsgaard Denmark 26 850 0.9× 245 0.4× 352 0.8× 545 1.7× 394 1.3× 65 2.7k
Tristan Renault France 49 741 0.8× 1.6k 2.3× 148 0.4× 218 0.7× 248 0.8× 134 6.6k
Tao Jin China 23 574 0.6× 520 0.8× 505 1.2× 187 0.6× 230 0.8× 68 2.1k
William M. Nelson United States 31 894 0.9× 401 0.6× 713 1.7× 617 1.9× 110 0.4× 81 3.3k
Kassian Kobert Germany 6 1.7k 1.8× 1.4k 2.0× 588 1.4× 183 0.6× 157 0.5× 10 4.0k
Dawei Guan China 26 371 0.4× 601 0.9× 984 2.4× 361 1.1× 217 0.7× 58 2.3k
Xu Su China 20 664 0.7× 422 0.6× 185 0.4× 119 0.4× 143 0.5× 90 1.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Junier

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Junier

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Junier, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Assessment of fungal spores and spore-like diversity in environmental samples by targeted lysis. BMC Microbiology. 23(1). 68–68. 11 indexed citations
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Lawless, Dylan, Suman R. Das, Thomas Junier, et al.. (2022). Viral Genetic Determinants of Prolonged Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection Among Infants in a Healthy Term Birth Cohort. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 227(10). 1194–1202. 6 indexed citations
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Gleizes, Anne, Florian Laubscher, Nicolas Guex, et al.. (2020). Virosaurus A Reference to Explore and Capture Virus Genetic Diversity. Viruses. 12(11). 1248–1248. 8 indexed citations
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Filippidou, Sevasti, Thomas Junier, Tina Wunderlin, et al.. (2019). Adaptive Strategies in a Poly-Extreme Environment: Differentiation of Vegetative Cells in Serratia ureilytica and Resistance to Extreme Conditions. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 102–102. 19 indexed citations
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Filippidou, Sevasti, Geoffrey L. House, Thomas Junier, et al.. (2018). Bacterial spores, from ecology to biotechnology. Advances in applied microbiology. 106. 79–111. 30 indexed citations
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Junier, Thomas, Sevasti Filippidou, Karin Beck, et al.. (2018). A historical legacy of antibiotic utilization on bacterial seed banks in sediments. PeerJ. 6. e4197–e4197. 10 indexed citations
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Junier, Thomas, Sevasti Filippidou, Karin Beck, et al.. (2018). Dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes associated with the sporobiota in sediments impacted by wastewater. PeerJ. 6. e4989–e4989. 12 indexed citations
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Hervé, Vincent, et al.. (2017). Carbonate Accumulation in the Bark of Terminalia bellirica: A New Habitat for the Oxalate-Carbonate Pathway. Geomicrobiology Journal. 35(1). 31–39. 6 indexed citations
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Hervé, Vincent, Thomas Junier, Saskia Bindschedler, Éric P. Verrecchia, & Pilar Junier. (2016). Diversity and ecology of oxalotrophic bacteria. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology. 32(2). 28–28. 48 indexed citations
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Wunderlin, Tina, et al.. (2016). Physical Isolation of Endospores from Environmental Samples by Targeted Lysis of Vegetative Cells. Journal of Visualized Experiments. e53411–e53411. 10 indexed citations
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Popadin, Konstantin, et al.. (2012). Purifying Selection in Mammalian Mitochondrial Protein-Coding Genes Is Highly Effective and Congruent with Evolution of Nuclear Genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 30(2). 347–355. 51 indexed citations
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Cordey, Samuel, Thomas Junier, Daniel Gerlach, et al.. (2010). Rhinovirus Genome Evolution during Experimental Human Infection. PLoS ONE. 5(5). e10588–e10588. 41 indexed citations
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Yerly, Sabine, Thomas Junier, Angèle Gayet‐Ageron, et al.. (2009). Impact of newly HIV diagnosed individuals on the transmission of drug resistance. Antiviral Therapy. 14(4).
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Junier, Pilar, Verónica Molina, Cristina Dorador, et al.. (2009). Phylogenetic and functional marker genes to study ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms (AOM) in the environment. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 85(3). 425–440. 135 indexed citations
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Yerly, Sabine, Thomas Junier, Angèle Gayet‐Ageron, et al.. (2009). The impact of transmission clusters on primary drug resistance in newly diagnosed HIV-1 infection. AIDS. 23(11). 1415–1423. 86 indexed citations
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Yerly, Sabine, Thomas Junier, Huldrych F. Günthard, et al.. (2008). Drug resistance in newly HIV diagnosed individuals: transmission rate, clusters and persistence. Antiviral Therapy. 13. 2 indexed citations
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González, Nicolas, Stephan Heeb, Claudio Valverde, et al.. (2008). Genome-wide search reveals a novel GacA-regulated small RNA in Pseudomonas species. BMC Genomics. 9(1). 167–167. 60 indexed citations
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Tapparel, Caroline, Thomas Junier, Daniel Gerlach, et al.. (2007). New complete genome sequences of human rhinoviruses shed light on their phylogeny and genomic features. BMC Genomics. 8(1). 224–224. 58 indexed citations
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Junier, Thomas, et al.. (1999). The Eukaryotic Promoter Database (EPD): recent developments. Nucleic Acids Research. 27(1). 307–309. 28 indexed citations
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Junier, Thomas & Philipp Bücher. (1998). SEView: A Java Applet for Browsing Molecular Sequence Data. In Silico Biology. 1(1). 13–20. 7 indexed citations

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