2026 Colomban de Vargas: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	88	518	494	20	20	325	34150

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

2953
Citations
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

2253
Citations
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

2037
Citations
Determinants of community structure in the global plankton interactome

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

1028
Citations
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

960
Citations
Marine DNA Viral Macro- and Microdiversity from Pole to Pole.

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

833
Citations
Insights into global diatom distribution and diversity in the world’s ocean

Shruti Malviya;Eleonora Scalco;Stéphane Audic;Flora Vincent

797
Citations
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

780
Citations
Patterns and ecological drivers of ocean viral communities

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

775
Citations
CBOL Protist Working Group: Barcoding Eukaryotic Richness beyond the Animal, Plant, and Fungal Kingdoms

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

593
Citations
Swarm v2: highly-scalable and high-resolution amplicon clustering

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

565
Citations
Sensitivity of coccolithophores to carbonate chemistry and ocean acidification

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

564
Citations
Pan genome of the phytoplankton Emiliania underpins its global distribution

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

536
Citations
Patterns of Rare and Abundant Marine Microbial Eukaryotes

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

530
Citations
A Holistic Approach to Marine Eco-Systems Biology

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

491
Citations
Tara Oceans: towards global ocean ecosystems biology.

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

471
Citations
Open science resources for the discovery and analysis of Tara Oceans data.

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

461
Citations
Global Trends in Marine Plankton Diversity across Kingdoms of Life.

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

436
Citations
Molecular evidence of cryptic speciation in planktonic foraminifers and their relation to oceanic provinces.

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

413
Citations
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

398
Citations
A global ocean atlas of eukaryotic genes

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

397
Citations
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

392
Citations
Plankton networks driving carbon export in the oligotrophic ocean

Lionel Guidi;Samuel Chaffron;Lucie Bittner;Damien Eveillard

199
Citations
Open science resources for the discovery and analysis of Tara Oceans data

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

8
Citations
Article Patterns of Rare and Abundant Marine Microbial Eukaryotes

Ramiro Logares;David Bass;Lucie Bittner;Christophe Boutte

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Pawlowski Heidelberg University

Ramiro Logares Spanish National Research Council

Josep M. Gasol Spanish National Research Council

Carlos M. Duarte King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Shinichi Sunagawa Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Hiroyuki Ogata Kyoto University

Adriana Zingone Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn

Thomas A. Richards University of Oxford

Richard Christen Université Côte d'Azur

Jean-Michel Claverie Aix-Marseille University

External Links

Personal website of Colomban de Vargas

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