Andrew Rambaut

152.3k total citations · 28 hit papers
225 papers, 72.1k citations indexed

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Andrew Rambaut is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew Rambaut has authored 225 papers receiving a total of 72.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Molecular Biology, 81 papers in Genetics and 71 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Andrew Rambaut's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (62 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (39 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (38 papers). Andrew Rambaut is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (62 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (39 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (38 papers). Andrew Rambaut collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Belgium. Andrew Rambaut's co-authors include Alexei J. Drummond, Marc A. Suchard, Dong Xie, Guy Baele, Oliver G. Pybus, Philippe Lemey, Edward C. Holmes, Simon Y. W. Ho, Matthew J. Phillips and N. Grass and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Andrew Rambaut

220 papers receiving 71.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

BEAST: Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees

2007 10.8k citations Alexei J. Drummond, Andrew Rambaut profile →
Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

2012 8.2k citations Alexei J. Drummond, Marc A. Suchard et al. profile →
Posterior Summarization in Bayesian Phylogenetics Using Tracer 1.7

2018 7.1k citations Andrew Rambaut, Alexei J. Drummond et al. Systematic Biology profile →
Relaxed Phylogenetics and Dating with Confidence

2006 5.1k citations Alexei J. Drummond, Andrew Rambaut et al. profile →
BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

2014 4.9k citations Marc A. Suchard, Andrew Rambaut et al. profile →
Bayesian phylogenetic and phylodynamic data integration using BEAST 1.10

2018 2.3k citations Marc A. Suchard, Philippe Lemey et al. Virus Evolution profile →
SARS-CoV-2 variants, spike mutations and immune escape

2021 2.1k citations Ben Jackson, Andrew Rambaut et al. profile →
Origins and evolutionary genomics of the 2009 swine-origin H1N1 influenza A epidemic

2009 1.7k citations Michael Worobey, Oliver G. Pybus et al. profile →
A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology

2020 1.4k citations Andrew Rambaut, Edward C. Holmes et al. Nature Microbiology profile →
Bayesian Phylogeography Finds Its Roots

2009 1.3k citations Philippe Lemey, Andrew Rambaut et al. profile →
Exploring the temporal structure of heterochronous sequences using TempEst (formerly Path-O-Gen)

2016 1.2k citations Andrew Rambaut, Luiz Max Carvalho et al. Virus Evolution profile →
Seq-Gen: an application for the Monte Carlo simulation of DNA sequence evolution along phylogenetic trees

1997 1.2k citations Andrew Rambaut et al. profile →
Comparative analysis by independent contrasts (CAIC): an Apple Macintosh application for analysing comparative data

1995 1.0k citations Andrew Rambaut et al. profile →
Improving the Accuracy of Demographic and Molecular Clock Model Comparison While Accommodating Phylogenetic Uncertainty

2012 878 citations Guy Baele, Philippe Lemey et al. profile →
The genomic and epidemiological dynamics of human influenza A virus

2008 714 citations Andrew Rambaut, Oliver G. Pybus et al. profile →
Evolutionary origins of the SARS-CoV-2 sarbecovirus lineage responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 614 citations Philippe Lemey, Andrew Rambaut et al. Nature Microbiology profile →
Assignment of epidemiological lineages in an emerging pandemic using the pangolin tool

2021 551 citations Áine O’Toole, Emily Scher et al. Virus Evolution profile →
Rates of Molecular Evolution in RNA Viruses: A Quantitative Phylogenetic Analysis

2002 520 citations Andrew Rambaut, Oliver G. Pybus et al. profile →
Phylogeography Takes a Relaxed Random Walk in Continuous Space and Time

2010 487 citations Philippe Lemey, Andrew Rambaut et al. profile →
BEAGLE: An Application Programming Interface and High-Performance Computing Library for Statistical Phylogenetics

2011 461 citations Daniel L. Ayres, Andrew Rambaut et al. Systematic Biology profile →
Persistent HIV-1 replication maintains the tissue reservoir during therapy

2016 458 citations Trevor Bedford, Andrew Rambaut et al. profile →
Evolutionary analysis of the dynamics of viral infectious disease

2009 423 citations Oliver G. Pybus, Andrew Rambaut profile →
SPREAD: spatial phylogenetic reconstruction of evolutionary dynamics

2011 413 citations Andrew Rambaut, Marc A. Suchard et al. Bioinformatics profile →
The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations

2014 406 citations Nuno R. Faria, Andrew Rambaut et al. Science profile →
SpreaD3: Interactive Visualization of Spatiotemporal History and Trait Evolutionary Processes

2016 375 citations Guy Baele, Marc A. Suchard et al. profile →
Unifying Viral Genetics and Human Transportation Data to Predict the Global Transmission Dynamics of Human Influenza H3N2

2014 275 citations Philippe Lemey, Andrew Rambaut et al. profile →
Tracking virus outbreaks in the twenty-first century

2018 243 citations Philippe Lemey, Oliver G. Pybus et al. Nature Microbiology profile →
The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic

2022 198 citations Michael Worobey, Marc A. Suchard et al. Science profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	BEAST X for Bayesian phylogenetic, phylogeographic and phylodynamic inference 2025 ·Nature Methods ·Guy Baele, Xiang Ji, Gabriel W. Hassler, John T. McCrone, (unknown), (unknown), Andrew J. Holbrook, Philippe Lemey, Alexei J. Drummond, Andrew Rambaut, Marc A. Suchard	8
2	Clockor2: Inferring Global and Local Strict Molecular Clocks Using Root-to-Tip Regression 2024 ·Systematic Biology ·Leo Featherstone, Andrew Rambaut, Sebastián Duchêne, Wytamma Wirth	5
3	On the importance of assessing topological convergence in Bayesian phylogenetic inference 2024 ·Virus Evolution ·(unknown), Luiz Max Carvalho, Samuel L. Hong, (unknown), Frederick A. Matsen, Andrew Rambaut, Philippe Lemey, Marc A. Suchard, Gytis Dudas, Guy Baele	2
4	A framework for automated scalable designation of viral pathogen lineages from genomic data 2024 ·Nature Microbiology ·Jakob McBroome, Adriano de Bernardi Schneider, Cornelius Roemer, Michael T. Wolfinger, Angie S. Hinrichs, Áine O’Toole, Christopher Ruis, Yatish Turakhia, Andrew Rambaut, Russell Corbett‐Detig	6
5	SARS-CoV-2 evolution in the Omicron era 2023 ·Nature Microbiology ·Cornelius Roemer, Daniel J. Sheward, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kenta Sato, Áine O’Toole, Andrew Rambaut, Oliver G. Pybus, Christopher Ruis, Ben Murrell, Thomas P. Peacock	54
6	Pango lineage designation and assignment using SARS-CoV-2 spike gene nucleotide sequences 2022 ·BMC Genomics ·Áine O’Toole, Oliver G. Pybus, Michael E. Abram, Elizabeth J. Kelly, Andrew Rambaut	71
7	Assignment of epidemiological lineages in an emerging pandemic using the pangolin tool breakdown → 2021 ·Virus Evolution ·Áine O’Toole, Emily Scher, Anthony Underwood, Ben Jackson, Verity Hill, John T. McCrone, Rachel Colquhoun, Chris Ruis, Khalil Abudahab, Ben Taylor, Corin Yeats, Louis du Plessis, Daniel Maloney, Nathan Medd, Stephen W. Attwood, David M. Aanensen, Edward C. Holmes, Oliver G. Pybus, Andrew Rambaut	551
8	Emergence and spread of a SARS-CoV-2 lineage A variant (A.23.1) with altered spike protein in Uganda 2021 ·Nature Microbiology ·Daniel Lule Bugembe, My V. T. Phan, Isaac Ssewanyana, (unknown), Hellen Nansumba, (unknown), Susan Nabadda, Áine O’Toole, Andrew Rambaut, Pontiano Kaleebu, Matthew Cotten	47
9	Temporal signal and the phylodynamic threshold of SARS-CoV-2 2020 ·Virus Evolution ·Sebastián Duchêne, Leo Featherstone, Melina Haritopoulou-Sinanidou, Andrew Rambaut, Philippe Lemey, Guy Baele	234
10	A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology breakdown → 2020 ·Nature Microbiology ·Andrew Rambaut, Edward C. Holmes, Áine O’Toole, Verity Hill, John T. McCrone, Christopher Ruis, Louis du Plessis, Oliver G. Pybus	1402
11	SANTA-SIM: simulating viral sequence evolution dynamics under selection and recombination 2019 ·Virus Evolution ·(unknown), (unknown), Koen Deforche, Pieter Libin, Alexei J. Drummond, Andrew Rambaut, F. A. Matsen, Kristof Theys	18
12	Bayesian phylogenetic and phylodynamic data integration using BEAST 1.10 breakdown → 2018 ·Virus Evolution ·Marc A. Suchard, Philippe Lemey, Guy Baele, Daniel L. Ayres, Alexei J. Drummond, Andrew Rambaut	2288
13	The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations breakdown → 2014 ·Science ·Nuno R. Faria, Andrew Rambaut, Marc A. Suchard, Guy Baele, Trevor Bedford, Melissa J. Ward, Andrew J. Tatem, João Sousa, Nimalan Arinaminpathy, Jacques Pépin, David Posada, Martine Peeters, Oliver G. Pybus, Philippe Lemey	406
14	Evolutionary Genomics of Staphylococcus aureus Reveals Insights into the Origin and Molecular Basis of Ruminant Host Adaptation 2010 ·Genome Biology and Evolution ·Caitriona M. Guinane, Nouri L. Ben Zakour, María Ángeles Tormo‐Más, Lucy A. Weinert, (unknown), (unknown), Davida S. Smyth, Cyril J. Smyth, Jodi A. Lindsay, Katherine A. Gould, Adam A. Witney, Jason Hinds, Jonathan P. Bollback, Andrew Rambaut, José R. Penadés, J. Ross Fitzgerald	162
15	Recent human-to-poultry host jump, adaptation, and pandemic spread of Staphylococcus aureus 2009 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Caitriona M. Guinane, Nouri L. Ben Zakour, Lucy A. Weinert, Andrew Conway Morris, (unknown), A. John Simpson, Andrew Rambaut, Ulrich Nübel, J. Ross Fitzgerald	313
16	Many-core algorithms for statistical phylogenetics 2009 ·Bioinformatics ·Marc A. Suchard, Andrew Rambaut	313
17	Recombination Confounds the Early Evolutionary History of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1: Subtype G Is a Circulating Recombinant Form 2007 ·Journal of Virology ·Ana Abecasis, Philippe Lemey, Nicole Vidal, Túlio de Oliveira, Martine Peeters, Ricardo Camacho, Beth Shapiro, Andrew Rambaut, Anne–Mieke Vandamme	68
18	The Molecular Population Genetics of HIV-1 Group O 2004 ·Genetics ·Philippe Lemey, Oliver G. Pybus, Andrew Rambaut, Alexei J. Drummond, David L. Robertson, Pierre Roques, Michael Worobey, Anne–Mieke Vandamme	87
19	New Inferences from Tree Shape: Numbers of Missing Taxa and Population Growth Rates 2002 ·Systematic Biology ·Oliver G. Pybus, Andrew Rambaut, Edward C. Holmes, Paul Harvey	66
20	New Inferences from Tree Shape: Numbers of Missing Taxa and Population Growth Rates 2002 ·Systematic Biology ·Oliver G. Pybus, Andrew Rambaut, Edward C. Holmes, Paul Harvey	3

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