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Pierre E. Galand

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
47
Citations
7674
World Ranking
4469
National Ranking
191

Pierre E. Galand publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 127 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Pierre E. Galand 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 Pierre E. Galand sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Pierre E. Galand is affiliated with the Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to ecology, oceanography, molecular biology, global and planetary change, and environmental chemistry.

Their work covers key topics including coral and marine ecosystems studies, microbial community ecology and physiology, marine biology and ecology research, marine and coastal plant biology, genomics and phylogenetic studies, marine and fisheries research, and environmental DNA in biodiversity studies.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Patrick Wincker, Stéphane Pesant, Serge Planes, Shinichi Sunagawa, and Colomban de Vargas.

Publication venues where they have frequently contributed include:

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

Among their recent papers are:

  • Environmental vulnerability of the global ocean epipelagic plankton community interactome, 2021, Science Advances
  • Coral larval settlement preferences linked to crustose coralline algae with distinct chemical and microbial signatures, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Ecology of Endozoicomonadaceae in three coral genera across the Pacific Ocean, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Diversity of the Pacific Ocean coral reef microbiome, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Symbiotic associations of the deepest recorded photosynthetic scleractinian coral (172 m depth), 2021, The ISME Journal

Best Publications

  • Ecology of the rare microbial biosphere of the Arctic Ocean

    Pierre E. Galand;Emilio O. Casamayor;David L. Kirchman;Connie Lovejoy

  • Pole-to-pole biogeography of surface and deep marine bacterial communities

    Jean-François Ghiglione;Pierre E. Galand;Thomas Pommier;Carlos Pedrós-Alió

  • A strong link between marine microbial community composition and function challenges the idea of functional redundancy.

    Pierre E. Galand;Olivier Pereira;Corentin Hochart;Jean Christophe Auguet

  • Structure of the rare archaeal biosphere and seasonal dynamics of active ecotypes in surface coastal waters

    Mylène Hugoni;Mylène Hugoni;Najwa Taib;Najwa Taib;Didier Debroas;Didier Debroas;Isabelle Domaizon

  • Pathways for methanogenesis and diversity of methanogenic archaea in three boreal peatland ecosystems.

    P. E. Galand;H. Fritze;R. Conrad;K. Yrjälä

  • Hydrography shapes bacterial biogeography of the deep Arctic Ocean

    Pierre E Galand;Pierre E Galand;Marianne Potvin;Emilio O Casamayor;Connie Lovejoy

  • Macro- and microplastics affect cold-water corals growth, feeding and behaviour

    L. Chapron;E. Peru;A. Engler;J. F. Ghiglione

  • High bicarbonate assimilation in the dark by Arctic bacteria

    Laura Alonso-Sáez;Pierre E Galand;Emilio O Casamayor;Carlos Pedrós-Alió

  • Depth related diversity of methanogen Archaea in Finnish oligotrophic fen.

    Pierre E. Galand;Sanna Saarnio;Hannu Fritze;Kim Yrjälä

  • Unique archaeal assemblages in the Arctic Ocean unveiled by massively parallel tag sequencing

    Pierre E Galand;Emilio O Casamayor;David L Kirchman;Marianne Potvin

  • Methanogen communities and Bacteria along an ecohydrological gradient in a northern raised bog complex.

    Heli Juottonen;Pierre E. Galand;Eeva-Stiina Tuittila;Jukka Laine;Jukka Laine

  • Detection of methanogenic Archaea in peat: comparison of PCR primers targeting the mcrA gene.

    Heli Juottonen;Pierre E. Galand;Kim Yrjälä

  • Rhythmicity of coastal marine picoeukaryotes, bacteria and archaea despite irregular environmental perturbations.

    Stefan Lambert;Margot Tragin;Jean-Claude Lozano;Jean-François Ghiglione

  • Remarkably diverse and contrasting archaeal communities in a large arctic river and the coastal Arctic Ocean

    Pierre E. Galand;Connie Lovejoy;Warwick F. Vincent

  • Microsite-dependent changes in methanogenic populations in a boreal oligotrophic fen.

    Pierre E. Galand;Hannu Fritze;Kim Yrjälä

  • Variation of carbon isotope fractionation in hydrogenotrophic methanogenic microbial cultures and environmental samples at different energy status

    Holger Penning;Caroline M. Plugge;Pierre E. Galand;Ralf Conrad

  • Inter-annual recurrence of archaeal assemblages in the coastal NW Mediterranean Sea (Blanes Bay Microbial Observatory)

    Pierre E. Galand;Pierre E. Galand;Pierre E. Galand;Carmen Gutiérrez-Provecho;Ramon Massana;Josep M. Gasol

  • Vertical structure of archaeal communities and the distribution of ammonia monooxygenase A gene variants in two meromictic High Arctic lakes.

    Jérémie Pouliot;Pierre E. Galand;Pierre E. Galand;Connie Lovejoy;Warwick F. Vincent

  • Vertical distribution of microbial communities in a perennially stratified Arctic lake with saline, anoxic bottom waters

    André M. Comeau;Tommy Harding;Tommy Harding;Pierre E. Galand;Pierre E. Galand;Warwick F. Vincent

  • Environmental vulnerability of the global ocean epipelagic plankton community interactome

    Samuel Chaffron;Erwan Delage;Marko Budinich;Damien Vintache

  • Small thaw ponds: an unaccounted source of methane in the Canadian high Arctic.

    Karita Negandhi;Isabelle Laurion;Michael J. Whiticar;Pierre E. Galand;Pierre E. Galand

  • Microbial community diversity and heterotrophic production in a coastal Arctic ecosystem: A stamukhi lake and its source waters

    Pierre E. Galand;Connie Lovejoy;JÉrÉmie Pouliot;Marie-ève Garneau

Frequent Co-Authors

Connie Lovejoy
Connie Lovejoy Université Laval
Nadine Le Bris
Nadine Le Bris Université Paris Cité
Didier Debroas
Didier Debroas University of Clermont Auvergne
Emilio O. Casamayor
Emilio O. Casamayor Spanish National Research Council
Chris Bowler
Chris Bowler École Normale Supérieure
Jean-François Ghiglione
Jean-François Ghiglione Sorbonne University
Hannu Fritze
Hannu Fritze Natural Resources Institute Finland
David L. Kirchman
David L. Kirchman University of Delaware
Patrick Wincker
Patrick Wincker University of Paris-Saclay
Matthew B. Sullivan
Matthew B. Sullivan The Ohio State University

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