William Helbert

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

William Helbert is a scholar working on Aquatic Science, Biotechnology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Helbert has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Aquatic Science, 38 papers in Biotechnology and 28 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in William Helbert's work include Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds (49 papers), Enzyme Production and Characterization (37 papers) and Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls (21 papers). William Helbert is often cited by papers focused on Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds (49 papers), Enzyme Production and Characterization (37 papers) and Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls (21 papers). William Helbert collaborates with scholars based in France, Japan and Israel. William Helbert's co-authors include Mirjam Czjzek, Tristan Barbeyron, Gurvan Michel, J.Y. Cavaillé, Alain Dufresne, Junji Sugiyama, Gaëlle Correc, Jan‐Hendrik Hehemann, Bernard Henrissat and M. J. Miles and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

William Helbert

97 papers receiving 5.4k 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.

Transfer of carbohydrate-active enzymes from marine bacteria to Japanese gut microbiota

2010 799 citations Tristan Barbeyron, William Helbert et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Helbert France	41	1.7k	1.5k	1.3k	1.2k	1.0k	98	5.5k
Gurvan Michel France	48	2.5k 1.4×	3.5k 2.3×	231 0.2×	1.9k 1.5×	911 0.9×	99	7.9k
Miguel D. Noseda Brazil	37	2.1k 1.2×	779 0.5×	447 0.3×	398 0.3×	398 0.4×	133	4.6k
José Manuel Barat Baviera Spain	52	693 0.4×	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	760 0.6×	1.3k 1.2×	331	9.1k
Haijin Mou China	31	994 0.6×	1.9k 1.2×	257 0.2×	627 0.5×	577 0.6×	129	4.3k
Joseph Selvin India	45	882 0.5×	1.6k 1.0×	344 0.3×	1.1k 0.9×	144 0.1×	158	5.4k
Edwin R. Morris United Kingdom	47	838 0.5×	887 0.6×	1.4k 1.0×	410 0.3×	1.3k 1.2×	97	9.1k
Vincent Bulone Sweden	45	340 0.2×	2.5k 1.6×	1.2k 0.9×	684 0.6×	504 0.5×	179	6.7k
Bjørn E. Christensen Norway	41	359 0.2×	1.7k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	356 0.3×	370 0.4×	129	5.6k
Sylvie L. Turgeon Canada	44	1.1k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	545 0.4×	229 0.2×	1.5k 1.4×	134	7.1k
Tristan Barbeyron France	39	1.9k 1.1×	2.3k 1.5×	93 0.1×	1.7k 1.4×	635 0.6×	70	4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by William Helbert

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Loiodice, Mélanie, Élodie Drula, S.V. Antonyuk, et al.. (2025). Bacterial polysaccharide lyase family 33: Specificity from an evolutionarily conserved binding tunnel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(7). e2421623122–e2421623122. 2 indexed citations

Garron, Marie-Line, M. Paul Vuillemin, Bo Pilgaard, et al.. (2025). Division of the large and multifunctional glycoside hydrolase family 2: high functional specificity and biochemical assays in the uncharacterized subfamilies. Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts. 18(1). 68–68. 1 indexed citations

Poulet, Laurent, et al.. (2023). α-Carrageenan: An alternative route for the heterogenous phase degradation of hybrid ι-/κ-carrageenan. Algal Research. 71. 103049–103049. 7 indexed citations

Couturier, Marie, Nicolas Terrapon, Élodie Drula, et al.. (2022). Functional exploration of the glycoside hydrolase family GH113. PLoS ONE. 17(4). e0267509–e0267509. 8 indexed citations

Mathieu, Sophie, et al.. (2022). Sulfate groups position determines the ionic selectivity and syneresis properties of carrageenan systems. Carbohydrate Polymers. 299. 120166–120166. 15 indexed citations

Mathieu, Sophie, Laurent Poulet, Sophie Drouillard, et al.. (2018). Ancient acquisition of “alginate utilization loci” by human gut microbiota. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 8075–8075. 50 indexed citations

Helbert, William, et al.. (2016). New Family of Ulvan Lyases Identified in Three Isolates from the Alteromonadales Order. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 291(11). 5871–5878. 42 indexed citations

Mathieu, Sophie, et al.. (2016). Functional Exploration of the Polysaccharide Lyase Family PL6. PLoS ONE. 11(7). e0159415–e0159415. 43 indexed citations

Kravchenko, Anna O., Stanislav D. Anastyuk, Ekaterina V. Sokolova, et al.. (2016). Structural analysis and cytokine-induced activity of gelling sulfated polysaccharide from the cystocarpic plants of Ahnfeltiopsis flabelliformis. Carbohydrate Polymers. 151. 523–534. 26 indexed citations

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Préchoux, Aurélie, Sabine Génicot, Hélène Rogniaux, & William Helbert. (2015). Enzyme-Assisted Preparation of Furcellaran-Like κ-/β-Carrageenan. Marine Biotechnology. 18(1). 133–143. 24 indexed citations

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Collén, Pi Nyvall, Alexandra Jeudy, Jean‐François Sassi, et al.. (2014). A Novel Unsaturated β-Glucuronyl Hydrolase Involved in Ulvan Degradation Unveils the Versatility of Stereochemistry Requirements in Family GH105. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(9). 6199–6211. 39 indexed citations

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Préchoux, Aurélie & William Helbert. (2013). Preparation and detailed NMR analyses of a series of oligo-α-carrageenans. Carbohydrate Polymers. 101. 864–870. 17 indexed citations

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Boulenguer, Patrick, et al.. (2009). Complete assignment of 1H and 13C NMR spectra of standard neo-ι-carrabiose oligosaccharides. Carbohydrate Research. 345(4). 547–551. 17 indexed citations

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Michel, Gurvan, et al.. (2006). Bioconversion of red seaweed galactans: a focus on bacterial agarases and carrageenases. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 71(1). 23–33. 194 indexed citations

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Antonopoulos, Aristotelis, Patrick Favetta, William Helbert, & M. Lafosse. (2004). Isolation of κ-carrageenan oligosaccharides using ion-pair liquid chromatography––characterisation by electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry in positive-ion mode. Carbohydrate Research. 339(7). 1301–1309. 27 indexed citations

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Allouch, Julie, William Helbert, Bernard Henrissat, & Mirjam Czjzek. (2004). Parallel Substrate Binding Sites in a β-Agarase Suggest a Novel Mode of Action on Double-Helical Agarose. Structure. 12(4). 623–632. 62 indexed citations

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Antonopoulos, Aristotelis, B. Herbreteau, M. Lafosse, & William Helbert. (2003). Comparative analysis of enzymatically digested κ-carrageenans, using liquid chromatography on ion-exchange and porous graphitic carbon columns coupled to an evaporative light scattering detector. Journal of Chromatography A. 1023(2). 231–238. 18 indexed citations

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Helbert, William, et al.. (2000). New Insight into Cellulose Structure by Atomic Force Microscopy Shows the Iα Crystal Phase at Near-Atomic Resolution. Biophysical Journal. 79(2). 1139–1145. 139 indexed citations

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Helbert, William & H. Chanzy. (1994). Single crystals of V amylose complexed with n-butanol or n-pentanol: structural features and properties. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 16(4). 207–213. 99 indexed citations

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Helbert, William, H. Chanzy, Véronique Planchot, A. Buléon, & Paul Colonna. (1993). Morphological and structural features of amylose spherocrystals of A-type. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 15(3). 183–187. 34 indexed citations

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