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D-Index
88
Citations
34150
World Ranking
514
National Ranking
20

Colomban de Vargas publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Colomban de Vargas sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 325 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Colomban de Vargas D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Colomban de Vargas sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 88 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Colomban de Vargas is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with 197 publications contributing to this domain. Within this broad area, their work focuses on several specific subfields, including Ecology, Molecular Biology, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's research topics span a range of subjects related to microbial and marine ecology as well as molecular and environmental studies. Key topics of focus include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Protist Diversity and Phylogeny
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research

Among their recent publications are several papers that reflect these research interests:

  • "Tara Oceans: towards global ocean ecosystems biology," 2020, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • "Disentangling the mechanisms shaping the surface ocean microbiota," 2020, Microbiome
  • "Cryptic and abundant marine viruses at the evolutionary origins of Earth's RNA virome," 2022, Science
  • "Protist taxonomic and functional diversity in soil, freshwater and marine ecosystems," 2020, Environment International
  • "EukProt: A database of genome-scale predicted proteins across the diversity of eukaryotes," 2022, Peer Community Journal

Colomban de Vargas frequently collaborates with various researchers in their field. Their most frequent coauthors include:

  • Patrick Wincker
  • Chris Bowler
  • Shinichi Sunagawa
  • Fabien Lombard
  • Emmanuel Boss

The scientist often publishes in both traditional and open-access venues. The most frequent publication platforms in their body of work are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Nature Communications
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome

    Shinichi Sunagawa;Luis Pedro Coelho;Samuel Chaffron;Jens Roat Kultima

  • The Protist Ribosomal Reference database (PR2): a catalog of unicellular eukaryote Small Sub-Unit rRNA sequences with curated taxonomy

    Laure Guillou;Dipankar Bachar;Stéphane Audic;David Bass

  • Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean

    Colomban de Vargas;Colomban de Vargas;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;Nicolas Henry;Nicolas Henry;Johan Decelle;Johan Decelle

  • Determinants of community structure in the global plankton interactome

    Gipsi Lima-Mendez;Karoline Faust;Nicolas Henry;Johan Decelle

  • Swarm: robust and fast clustering method for amplicon-based studies.

    Frédéric Mahé;Frédéric Mahé;Frédéric Mahé;Torbjørn Rognes;Torbjørn Rognes;Christopher Quince;Colomban de Vargas;Colomban de Vargas

  • Marine DNA Viral Macro- and Microdiversity from Pole to Pole.

    Ann C. Gregory;Ahmed A. Zayed;Nádia Conceição-Neto;Ben Temperton

  • Insights into global diatom distribution and diversity in the world’s ocean

    Shruti Malviya;Eleonora Scalco;Stéphane Audic;Flora Vincent

  • Membrane lipids of symbiotic algae are diagnostic of sensitivity to thermal bleaching in corals

    Dan Tchernov;Maxim Y. Gorbunov;Colomban de Vargas;Swati Narayan Yadav

  • Patterns and ecological drivers of ocean viral communities

    Jennifer R. Brum;J. Cesar Ignacio-Espinoza;Simon Roux;Guilhem Doulcier;Guilhem Doulcier

  • CBOL Protist Working Group: Barcoding Eukaryotic Richness beyond the Animal, Plant, and Fungal Kingdoms

    Jan Wojciech Pawlowski;Stéphane Audic;Sina Adl;David Bass

  • Swarm v2: highly-scalable and high-resolution amplicon clustering

    Frédéric Mahé;Torbjørn Rognes;Torbjørn Rognes;Christopher Quince;Colomban de Vargas;Colomban de Vargas

  • Sensitivity of coccolithophores to carbonate chemistry and ocean acidification

    L. Beaufort;I. Probert;T. de Garidel-Thoron;E. M. Bendif

  • Pan genome of the phytoplankton Emiliania underpins its global distribution

    Betsy A. Read;Jessica Kegel;Mary J. Klute;Alan Kuo

  • Patterns of Rare and Abundant Marine Microbial Eukaryotes

    Ramiro Logares;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;David Bass;Lucie Bittner;Lucie Bittner;Lucie Bittner

  • A Holistic Approach to Marine Eco-Systems Biology

    Eric Karsenti;Silvia G. Acinas;Peer Bork;Chris Bowler;Chris Bowler

  • Tara Oceans: towards global ocean ecosystems biology.

    Shinichi Sunagawa;Silvia G Acinas;Peer Bork;Peer Bork;Chris Bowler

  • Open science resources for the discovery and analysis of Tara Oceans data.

    Stéphane Pesant;Fabrice Not;Marc Picheral;Stefanie Kandels-Lewis

  • Global Trends in Marine Plankton Diversity across Kingdoms of Life.

    Federico M. Ibarbalz;Nicolas Henry;Manoela C. Brandão;Séverine Martini

  • Molecular evidence of cryptic speciation in planktonic foraminifers and their relation to oceanic provinces.

    C de Vargas;R Norris;L Zaninetti;Stuart l Gibb

  • Marine protist diversity in European coastal waters and sediments as revealed by high-throughput sequencing

    Ramon Massana;Angélique Gobet;Angélique Gobet;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;David Bass;David Bass

  • A global ocean atlas of eukaryotic genes

    Quentin Carradec;Eric Pelletier;Corinne Da Silva;Adriana Alberti

  • Metagenomic 16S rDNA Illumina tags are a powerful alternative to amplicon sequencing to explore diversity and structure of microbial communities

    Ramiro Logares;Shinichi Sunagawa;Guillem Salazar;Francisco M. Cornejo-Castillo

  • Plankton networks driving carbon export in the oligotrophic ocean

    Lionel Guidi;Samuel Chaffron;Lucie Bittner;Damien Eveillard

  • Open science resources for the discovery and analysis of Tara Oceans data

    Stéphane Pesant;Fabrice Not;Marc Picheral;Stefanie Kandels-Lewis

  • Article Patterns of Rare and Abundant Marine Microbial Eukaryotes

    Ramiro Logares;David Bass;Lucie Bittner;Christophe Boutte

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Pawlowski
Jan Pawlowski Heidelberg University
Ramiro Logares
Ramiro Logares Spanish National Research Council
Josep M. Gasol
Josep M. Gasol Spanish National Research Council
Carlos M. Duarte
Carlos M. Duarte King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Shinichi Sunagawa
Shinichi Sunagawa Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Hiroyuki Ogata
Hiroyuki Ogata Kyoto University
Adriana Zingone
Adriana Zingone Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Thomas A. Richards
Thomas A. Richards University of Oxford
Richard Christen
Richard Christen Université Côte d'Azur
Jean-Michel Claverie
Jean-Michel Claverie Aix-Marseille University

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