2026 Patrick Forterre: Microbiology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Microbiology	99	444	398	23	23	372	29660
Genetics	98	815	767	24	20	341	28995

Research.com Recognitions

2024 - Research.com Genetics in France Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in France Leader Award
2017 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Patrick Forterre is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their research spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Environmental Science. Within these domains, they focus extensively on Molecular Biology, Ecology, Plant Science, Genetics, and Biomedical Engineering as prominent subfields.

The topics most frequently covered by Forterre include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Plant Virus Research Studies, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Plant and Fungal Interactions Research, and Extracellular vesicles in disease.

Forterre's publication record includes research articles in key venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Environmental Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Evolution, mLife, and médecine/sciences. These contribute to their scientific footprint with a focus on microbial ecology, evolutionary biology, and molecular mechanisms.

Some of their recent papers are:

Vesiduction: the fourth way of HGT, 2020, Environmental Microbiology
Diversity and evolution of B-family DNA polymerases, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
Eukaryotic virus composition can predict the efficiency of carbon export in the global ocean, 2020, iScience
Archaeal extracellular vesicles are produced in an ESCRT-dependent manner and promote gene transfer and nutrient cycling in extreme environments, 2021, The ISME Journal
Giant Viruses Encode Actin-Related Proteins, 2022, Molecular Biology and Evolution

Forterre collaborates frequently with other researchers. Their most frequent co-authors include Violette Da Cunha, Morgan Gaïa, Mart Krupovìč, Aurore Gorlas, and Ryan Catchpole.

Among honors received, Forterre was made a Member of Academia Europaea in 2017.

Best Publications

Mesophilic crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota

Céline Brochier-Armanet;Bastien Boussau;Simonetta Gribaldo;Patrick Forterre;Patrick Forterre

1469
Citations
An atypical topoisomerase II from Archaea with implications for meiotic recombination.

Bergerat A;de Massy B;Gadelle D;Varoutas Pc

1167
Citations
The Virophage as a Unique Parasite of the Giant Mimivirus

Bernard La Scola;Christelle Desnues;Isabelle Pagnier;Catherine Robert

691
Citations
Redefining viruses: lessons from Mimivirus.

Didier Raoult;Patrick Forterre

554
Citations
History of CRISPR-Cas from Encounter with a Mysterious Repeated Sequence to Genome Editing Technology.

Yoshizumi Ishino;Yoshizumi Ishino;Mart Krupovic;Patrick Forterre;Patrick Forterre

550
Citations
Extracellular membrane vesicles in the three domains of life and beyond.

Sukhvinder Gill;Ryan Catchpole;Patrick Forterre;Patrick Forterre

503
Citations
The origin of viruses and their possible roles in major evolutionary transitions.

Patrick Forterre

473
Citations
Viruses of the Archaea: a unifying view

David Prangishvili;Patrick Forterre;Roger A. Garrett

422
Citations
Origin and evolution of DNA topoisomerases.

Patrick Forterre;Simonetta Gribaldo;Danièle Gadelle;Marie-Claude Serre

414
Citations
The Rooting of the Universal Tree of Life Is Not Reliable

Hervé Philippe;Patrick Forterre

377
Citations
An alternative flavin-dependent mechanism for thymidylate synthesis.

Hannu Myllykallio;Gerard Lipowski;Damien Leduc;Jonathan Filee

331
Citations
Three RNA cells for ribosomal lineages and three DNA viruses to replicate their genomes: A hypothesis for the origin of cellular domain

Patrick Forterre

321
Citations
The two ages of the RNA world, and the transition to the DNA world: a story of viruses and cells.

Patrick Forterre

320
Citations
Where is the root of the universal tree of life

Patrick Forterre;Hervé Philippe

313
Citations
A hot story from comparative genomics: reverse gyrase is the only hyperthermophile-specific protein.

Patrick Forterre

309
Citations
Bacterial Mode of Replication with Eukaryotic-Like Machinery in a Hyperthermophilic Archaeon

Hannu Myllykallio;Philippe Lopez;Purificación López-Garcı́a;Roland Heilig

292
Citations
Evolution of DNA polymerase families: evidences for multiple gene exchange between cellular and viral proteins.

Jonathan Filée;Patrick Forterre;Tang Sen-Lin;Jacqueline Laurent

290
Citations
Phylogeny and evolution of the Archaea: one hundred genomes later

Celine Brochier-Armanet;Patrick Forterre;Patrick Forterre;Simonetta Gribaldo

273
Citations
The origin of DNA genomes and DNA replication proteins

Patrick Forterre

261
Citations
Archaeal Phylogeny Based on Ribosomal Proteins

Oriane Matte-Tailliez;Céline Brochier;Patrick Forterre;Hervé Philippe

256
Citations
The Mre11 protein interacts with both Rad50 and the HerA bipolar helicase and is recruited to DNA following gamma irradiation in the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius

Achim Quaiser;Florence Constantinesco;Malcolm F White;Patrick Forterre

59
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mart Krupovic Université Paris Cité

David Prangishvili Institut Pasteur

Simonetta Gribaldo Institut Pasteur

Daniel Prieur University of Western Brittany

Céline Brochier-Armanet Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

Hervé Philippe Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

Purificación López-García University of Paris-Saclay

Herman van Tilbeurgh University of Paris-Saclay

Eugene V. Koonin National Institutes of Health

Simon Roux Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

External Links

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