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Stephane Pesant

Stephane Pesant

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
44
Citations
17445
World Ranking
6572
National Ranking
427

Stephane Pesant publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephane Pesant sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 198 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Stephane Pesant D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephane Pesant sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Stephane Pesant is affiliated with the University of Bremen in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science, with a focus on ecology, molecular biology, and oceanography among other subfields.

Their research primarily addresses topics related to coral and marine ecosystems studies, microbial community ecology and physiology, genomics and phylogenetic studies, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, marine and fisheries research, methane hydrates and related phenomena, and marine and coastal plant biology.

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Tara Oceans: towards global ocean ecosystems biology", 2020, published in Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • "Cryptic and abundant marine viruses at the evolutionary origins of Earth's RNA virome", 2022, published in Science
  • "Deep ocean metagenomes provide insight into the metabolic architecture of bathypelagic microbial communities", 2021, published in Communications Biology
  • "Functional repertoire convergence of distantly related eukaryotic plankton lineages abundant in the sunlit ocean", 2022, published in Cell Genomics
  • "The European Nucleotide Archive in 2020", 2020, published in Nucleic Acids Research

Stephane Pesant frequently collaborates with several co-authors including:

  • Patrick Wincker
  • Shinichi Sunagawa
  • Colomban de Vargas
  • Chris Bowler
  • Fabien Lombard

The scientist's work is commonly published in venues such as:

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

Stephane Pesant's career focuses on integrating multi-disciplinary approaches within environmental science to address complex biological and ecological questions, especially in marine contexts. Their body of work includes significant contributions to understanding microbial and plankton communities in ocean ecosystems, alongside developments in sequencing and nucleotide archiving.

Best Publications

  • Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome

    Shinichi Sunagawa;Luis Pedro Coelho;Samuel Chaffron;Jens Roat Kultima

  • 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

  • Determinants of community structure in the global plankton interactome

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

  • Plankton networks driving carbon export in the oligotrophic ocean.

    Lionel Guidi;Samuel Chaffron;Lucie Bittner;Damien Eveillard

  • Marine DNA Viral Macro- and Microdiversity from Pole to Pole.

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

  • Patterns and ecological drivers of ocean viral communities

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

  • Digital zooplankton image analysis using the ZooScan integrated system

    Gaby Gorsky;Gaby Gorsky;Mark D. Ohman;Marc Picheral;Marc Picheral;Stéphane Gasparini;Stéphane Gasparini

  • A Holistic Approach to Marine Eco-Systems Biology

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

  • Tara Oceans: towards global ocean ecosystems biology.

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

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

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

  • Global Trends in Marine Plankton Diversity across Kingdoms of Life.

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

  • Gene Expression Changes and Community Turnover Differentially Shape the Global Ocean Metatranscriptome

    Guillem Salazar;Lucas Paoli;Adriana Alberti;Jaime Huerta-Cepas

  • Exploring nucleo-cytoplasmic large DNA viruses in Tara Oceans microbial metagenomes

    Pascal Hingamp;Nigel Grimsley;Silvia G Acinas;Camille Clerissi

  • Environmental characteristics of Agulhas rings affect interocean plankton transport

    Emilie Villar;Gregory K. Farrant;Gregory K. Farrant;Michael Follows;Laurence Garczarek;Laurence Garczarek

  • The ocean sampling day consortium

    Anna Kopf;Anna Kopf;Mesude Bicak;Renzo Kottmann;Julia Schnetzer;Julia Schnetzer

  • Functional repertoire convergence of distantly related eukaryotic plankton lineages abundant in the sunlit ocean

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  • Deep ocean metagenomes provide insight into the metabolic architecture of bathypelagic microbial communities.

    Silvia G. Acinas;Pablo Sánchez;Guillem Salazar;Guillem Salazar;Francisco M. Cornejo-Castillo;Francisco M. Cornejo-Castillo

  • Viral to metazoan marine plankton nucleotide sequences from the Tara Oceans expedition

    Adriana Alberti;Julie Poulain;Stefan Engelen;Karine Labadie

  • Plankton networks driving carbon export in the oligotrophic ocean

    Lionel Guidi;Samuel Chaffron;Lucie Bittner;Damien Eveillard

  • The Leeuwin Current and its eddies: An introductory overview

    Anya Waite;P.A. Thompson;S.C. Pesant;S.C. Pesant;S.C. Pesant;M. Feng

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

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

  • A global ocean atlas of eukaryotic genes

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Picheral
Marc Picheral Université Paris Cité
Lars Stemmann
Lars Stemmann Sorbonne University
Gabriel Gorsky
Gabriel Gorsky Sorbonne University
Mark D. Ohman
Mark D. Ohman University of California, San Diego
Patrick Wincker
Patrick Wincker University of Paris-Saclay
Shinichi Sunagawa
Shinichi Sunagawa Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Chris Bowler
Chris Bowler École Normale Supérieure
Fabrice Not
Fabrice Not Roscoff Marine Station
Lionel Guidi
Lionel Guidi Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Daniele Iudicone
Daniele Iudicone Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn

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