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D-Index
73
Citations
26785
World Ranking
1159
National Ranking
44

Eric Coissac 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 Eric Coissac sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 152 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Eric Coissac 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 Eric Coissac sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Eric Coissac is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France and conducts research primarily in Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields including Ecology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Atmospheric Science, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's research topics incorporate a range of areas such as Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Genetic diversity and population structure, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Identification and Quantification in Food.

Eric Coissac has published notable papers including:

  • "A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA" (2022, Nature)
  • "Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics" (2021, Nature)
  • "The Treasure Vault Can be Opened: Large-Scale Genome Skimming Works Well Using Herbarium and Silica Gel Dried Material" (2020, Plants)
  • "High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change" (2022, Nature Communications)
  • "Postglacial species arrival and diversity buildup of northern ecosystems took millennia" (2022, Science Advances)

Frequent collaborators include Inger Greve Alsos, Pierre Taberlet, Adriana Alberti, France Denœud, and Youri Lammers, reflecting an active partnership network across multiple research projects.

Eric Coissac's work has appeared mainly in journals such as Molecular Ecology Resources, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature, Molecular Ecology, and Nature Communications.

Best Publications

  • Towards next‐generation biodiversity assessment using DNA metabarcoding

    Pierre Taberlet;Eric Coissac;François Pompanon;Christian Brochmann

  • Environmental DNA: ENVIRONMENTAL DNA

    Pierre Taberlet;Eric Coissac;Mehrdad Hajibabaei;Loren H. Rieseberg

  • Power and limitations of the chloroplast trnL(UAA) intron for plant DNA barcoding

    Pierre Taberlet;Eric Coissac;François Pompanon;Ludovic Gielly

  • Next-generation monitoring of aquatic biodiversity using environmental DNA metabarcoding

    Alice Valentini;Pierre Taberlet;Pierre Taberlet;Claude Miaud;Raphaël Civade

  • ITS as an environmental DNA barcode for fungi: an in silico approach reveals potential PCR biases

    Eva Bellemain;Tor Carlsen;Christian Brochmann;Eric Coissac

  • obitools: a unix-inspired software package for DNA metabarcoding.

    Frédéric Boyer;Céline Mercier;Aurélie Bonin;Yvan Le Bras

  • Replication levels, false presences and the estimation of the presence/absence from eDNA metabarcoding data.

    Gentile F. Ficetola;Johan Pansu;Aurélie Bonin;Eric Coissac

  • ecoPrimers: inference of new DNA barcode markers from whole genome sequence analysis

    Tiayyba Riaz;Wasim Shehzad;Alain Viari;François Pompanon

  • Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

    Eske Willerslev;John Davison;Mari Moora;Martin Zobel

  • DNA metabarcoding and the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I marker: Not a perfect match

    Bruce E. Deagle;Simon N. Jarman;Eric Coissac;François Pompanon;François Pompanon

  • Environmental DNA: For Biodiversity Research and Monitoring

    P. Taberlet;A. Bonin;L. Zinger;E. Coissac

  • DNA metabarcoding multiplexing and validation of data accuracy for diet assessment: application to omnivorous diet

    M. De Barba;C. Miquel;F. Boyer;C. Mercier

  • New perspectives in diet analysis based on DNA barcoding and parallel pyrosequencing: the trnL approach

    Alice Valentini;Christian Miquel;Muhammad Ali Nawaz;Eva Bellemain

  • An In silico approach for the evaluation of DNA barcodes

    Gentile Francesco Ficetola;Gentile Francesco Ficetola;Eric Coissac;Stéphanie Zundel;Tiayyba Riaz

  • From barcodes to genomes: extending the concept of DNA barcoding

    Eric Coissac;Peter M. Hollingsworth;Sébastien Lavergne;Pierre Taberlet

  • Glacial Survival of Boreal Trees in Northern Scandinavia

    Laura Parducci;Laura Parducci;Tina Jørgensen;Mari Mette Tollefsrud;Ellen Elverland

  • Brazilian montane rainforest expansion induced by Heinrich Stadial 1 event

    Jorge L. D. Pinaya;Francisco W. Cruz;Gregorio C. T. Ceccantini;Pedro L. P. Correa

  • DNA metabarcoding-Need for robust experimental designs to draw sound ecological conclusions.

    Lucie Zinger;Aurélie Bonin;Inger G. Alsos;Miklós Bálint

  • New environmental metabarcodes for analysing soil DNA: potential for studying past and present ecosystems.

    Laura S. Epp;Sanne Boessenkool;Eva P. Bellemain;James Haile;James Haile

  • Long livestock farming history and human landscape shaping revealed by lake sediment DNA

    Charline Giguet-Covex;Johan Pansu;Fabien Arnaud;Pierre-Jérôme Rey

  • Bioinformatic challenges for DNA metabarcoding of plants and animals

    Eric Coissac;Tiayyba Riaz;Nicolas Puillandre

  • Carnivore diet analysis based on next-generation sequencing: application to the leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) in Pakistan.

    Wasim Shehzad;Tiayyba Riaz;Muhammad A. Nawaz;Christian Miquel

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Taberlet
Pierre Taberlet Grenoble Alpes University
François Pompanon
François Pompanon Grenoble Alpes University
Ludovic Gielly
Ludovic Gielly Grenoble Alpes University
Eske Willerslev
Eske Willerslev University of Copenhagen
James Haile
James Haile Murdoch University
Christian Miquel
Christian Miquel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Gentile Francesco Ficetola University of Milan
Mary E. Edwards
Mary E. Edwards University of Southampton
Ludovic Orlando
Ludovic Orlando Paul Sabatier University

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