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62
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42658
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10501
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380

Pierre Renault publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pierre Renault sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 223 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Pierre Renault D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pierre Renault sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Pierre Renault is affiliated with INRAE: Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these broad categories, they have contributed significantly to subfields such as Food Science, Molecular Biology, Agronomy and Crop Science, Biotechnology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics covered in Pierre Renault's work include Probiotics and Fermented Foods, Identification and Quantification in Food, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows, Gut Microbiota and Health, Microbial Inactivation Methods, and Agriculture and Rural Development Research.

Frequent publication venues for their research include HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Food Research International, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), International Journal of Food Microbiology, and ISME Communications.

Key recent publications by Pierre Renault are:

  • Revealing the microbial heritage of traditional Brazilian cheeses through metagenomics (2022), Food Research International
  • Unraveling the world of halophilic and halotolerant bacteria in cheese by combining cultural, genomic and metagenomic approaches (2021), International Journal of Food Microbiology
  • Characterization of lactic acid bacteria isolated from a traditional Ivoirian beer process to develop starter cultures for safe sorghum-based beverages (2020), International Journal of Food Microbiology
  • Lebanese fermented goat milk products: From tradition to meta-omics (2023), Food Research International
  • Nutritional and microbial profiles of ripened plant-based cheese analogs collected from the European market (2024), Food Research International

Among their frequent co-authors are:

  • Caroline Isabel Kothe
  • Nacer Mohellibi
  • Bédis Dridi
  • Alexander Bolotin
  • Bochra-Farah Kraïem

Best Publications

  • A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

    Junjie Qin;Ruiqiang Li;Jeroen Raes;Manimozhiyan Arumugam

  • A metagenome-wide association study of gut microbiota in type 2 diabetes

    Junjie Qin;Yingrui Li;Zhiming Cai;Shenghui Li

  • Richness of human gut microbiome correlates with metabolic markers

    Trine Nielsen;Junjie Qin;Edi Prifti

  • An integrated catalog of reference genes in the human gut microbiome

    Junhua Li;Huijue Jia;Xianghang Cai;Huanzi Zhong

  • Dietary intervention impact on gut microbial gene richness

    Aurélie Cotillard;Aurélie Cotillard;Sean P. Kennedy;Ling Chun Kong;Ling Chun Kong;Edi Prifti;Edi Prifti;Edi Prifti

  • Identification and assembly of genomes and genetic elements in complex metagenomic samples without using reference genomes

    H Bjørn Nielsen;Mathieu Almeida;Agnieszka Sierakowska Juncker;Simon Rasmussen

  • Complete sequence and comparative genome analysis of the dairy bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus

    Alexander Bolotin;Benoît Quinquis;Pierre Renault;Alexei Sorokin

  • New insights in the molecular biology and physiology of Streptococcus thermophilus revealed by comparative genomics

    Pascal Hols;Frédéric Hancy;Laetitia Fontaine;Benoît Grossiord

  • Nitrous oxide production by nitrification and denitrification in soil aggregates as affected by O2 concentration

    K Khalil;B Mary;P Renault

  • Survival, physiology, and lysis of Lactococcus lactis in the digestive tract.

    Sophie Drouault;Gérard Corthier;S. Dusko Ehrlich;Pierre Renault

  • Pleiotropic transcriptional repressor CodY senses the intracellular pool of branched-chain amino acids in Lactococcus lactis.

    Eric Guédon;Pascale Serror;S. Dusko Ehrlich;Pierre Renault

  • Malolactic fermentation: electrogenic malate uptake and malate/lactate antiport generate metabolic energy.

    Bert Poolman;Douwe Molenaar;Eddy J. Smid;Trees Ubbink

  • Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Streptococcus salivarius, a Commensal Bacterium of the Oral Cavity and Digestive Tract

    Ghalia Kaci;Denise Goudercourt;Véronique Dennin;Bruno Pot

  • Overall control of nitrogen metabolism in Lactococcus lactis by CodY, and possible models for CodY regulation in Firmicutes.

    Eric Guédon;Brice Sperandio;Nicolas Pons;Stanislav Dusko Ehrlich

  • An aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase paralog with a catalytic role in histidine biosynthesis

    Marie Sissler;Christine Delorme;Jeff Bond;S. Dusko Ehrlich

  • Differential Effects of Soil Water Content and Temperature on Nitrification and Aeration

    G. L. Grundmann;P. Renault;L. Rosso;R. Bardin

  • Modeling Oxygen Diffusion in Aggregated Soils: I. Anaerobiosis inside the Aggregates

    Pierre Renault;Pierre Stengel

  • Transcriptional Pattern of Genes Coding for the Proteolytic System of Lactococcus lactis and Evidence for Coordinated Regulation of Key Enzymes by Peptide Supply

    Eric Guédon;Pierre Renault;S. Dusko Ehrlich;Christine Delorme

  • Gene inactivation in Lactococcus lactis: branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis.

    J J Godon;C Delorme;J Bardowski;M C Chopin

  • Dual role of alpha-acetolactate decarboxylase in Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis.

    N Goupil-Feuillerat;M Cocaign-Bousquet;J J Godon;S D Ehrlich

Frequent Co-Authors

S. Dusko Ehrlich
S. Dusko Ehrlich University College London
Nicolas Pons
Nicolas Pons University of Paris-Saclay
Gérard Corthier
Gérard Corthier INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Joël Doré
Joël Doré INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Romain Briandet
Romain Briandet University of Paris-Saclay
Torben Hansen
Torben Hansen University of Copenhagen
Oluf Pedersen
Oluf Pedersen University of Copenhagen
Bruno Pot
Bruno Pot Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pascal Hols
Pascal Hols Université Catholique de Louvain
Jan Hattendorf
Jan Hattendorf University of Basel

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