Benoît Morel

9.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
52 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Benoît Morel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Benoît Morel has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Benoît Morel's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (10 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (5 papers). Benoît Morel is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (10 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (5 papers). Benoît Morel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Benoît Morel's co-authors include Alexandros Stamatakis, Alexey M. Kozlov, Tomáš Flouri, Diego Darriba, David Posada, Rangaraj Ramanujam, Lucas Czech, Pierre Barbera, Gergely J. Szöllősi and Penelope A. Morel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Benoît Morel

50 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

RAxML-NG: a fast, scalable and user-friendly tool for maximum likelihood phylogenetic inference

2019 2.5k citations Alexey M. Kozlov, Diego Darriba et al. Bioinformatics profile →
ModelTest-NG: A New and Scalable Tool for the Selection of DNA and Protein Evolutionary Models

2019 1.2k citations Diego Darriba, David Posada et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
EPA-ng: Massively Parallel Evolutionary Placement of Genetic Sequences

2018 398 citations Alexey M. Kozlov, Benoît Morel et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benoît Morel United States	18	2.1k	1.2k	1.1k	868	857	52	5.2k
Tobias Müller Germany	41	3.5k 1.7×	1.2k 1.0×	1.6k 1.4×	719 0.8×	786 0.9×	111	6.2k
Mark Cavanaugh United States	12	2.4k 1.1×	823 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	593 0.7×	405 0.5×	12	4.4k
François Chevenet France	14	2.7k 1.3×	1.4k 1.2×	835 0.7×	502 0.6×	463 0.5×	24	5.4k
Lukas Wagner United States	9	3.4k 1.6×	1.2k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	697 0.8×	387 0.5×	11	6.1k
Jiajie Zhang United States	19	2.2k 1.0×	752 0.6×	2.0k 1.8×	1.1k 1.2×	937 1.1×	55	7.3k
Christopher J. Creevey United Kingdom	34	5.0k 2.3×	1.0k 0.9×	1.5k 1.3×	1.6k 1.8×	522 0.6×	103	7.9k
Eric W Sayers United States	26	5.1k 2.4×	1.7k 1.4×	2.0k 1.8×	1.1k 1.3×	766 0.9×	35	9.0k
David Binns United Kingdom	8	4.6k 2.2×	2.2k 1.9×	1.3k 1.1×	981 1.1×	496 0.6×	9	7.5k
Stefan Götz Germany	21	3.2k 1.5×	2.4k 2.1×	786 0.7×	960 1.1×	444 0.5×	54	7.2k
Michael P. Cummings United States	43	2.3k 1.1×	1.4k 1.2×	933 0.8×	2.2k 2.6×	1.8k 2.1×	92	5.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benoît Morel

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Davín, Adrián, Ben J. Woodcroft, Rochelle M. Soo, et al.. (2025). A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation. Science. 388(6742). eadp1853–eadp1853. 7 indexed citations

Morel, Benoît, et al.. (2024). Order of amino acid recruitment into the genetic code resolved by last universal common ancestor’s protein domains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(52). e2410311121–e2410311121. 8 indexed citations

Morel, Benoît, et al.. (2024). Simulation of laser-induced ionization in wide bandgap solid dielectrics with a particle-in-cell code. Optics Express. 32(6). 10175–10175. 2 indexed citations

Kozlov, Alexey M., et al.. (2024). Performance assessment of phylogenetic inference tools using PhyloSmew. Bioinformatics Advances. 5(1). vbaf300–vbaf300.

Fantuzzi, Eric Michele, Benoît Morel, Simone Bux, et al.. (2024). Dual picosecond fast tunable optical parametric amplifier laser system for wide-field nonlinear optical microscopy. APL Photonics. 9(9).

Morel, Benoît, Tom A. Williams, Alexandros Stamatakis, & Gergely J. Szöllősi. (2024). AleRax: a tool for gene and species tree co-estimation and reconciliation under a probabilistic model of gene duplication, transfer, and loss. Bioinformatics. 40(4). 6 indexed citations

Nishikawa, Ken‐Ichi, Remo Giust, Benoît Morel, et al.. (2023). Femtosecond laser-induced sub-wavelength plasma inside dielectrics. III. Terahertz radiation emission. Physics of Plasmas. 30(1). 4 indexed citations

Lutteropp, Sarah, Céline Scornavacca, Alexey M. Kozlov, Benoît Morel, & Alexandros Stamatakis. (2022). NetRAX: accurate and fast maximum likelihood phylogenetic network inference. Bioinformatics. 38(15). 3725–3733. 19 indexed citations

Meyer, Rémi, Remo Giust, Benoît Morel, et al.. (2022). Femtosecond laser-induced sub-wavelength plasma inside dielectrics: I. Field enhancement. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations

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Morel, Benoît, et al.. (2021). SpeciesRax: A Tool for Maximum Likelihood Species Tree Inference from Gene Family Trees under Duplication, Transfer, and Loss. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(2). 31 indexed citations

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Morel, Benoît, Laurent Guéguen, Bastien Boussau, et al.. (2020). Treerecs: an integrated phylogenetic tool, from sequences to reconciliations. Bioinformatics. 36(18). 4822–4824. 22 indexed citations

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Morel, Benoît, Alexey M. Kozlov, Alexandros Stamatakis, & Gergely J. Szöllősi. (2020). GeneRax: A Tool for Species-Tree-Aware Maximum Likelihood-Based Gene Family Tree Inference under Gene Duplication, Transfer, and Loss. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(9). 2763–2774. 91 indexed citations

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Darriba, Diego, David Posada, Alexey M. Kozlov, et al.. (2019). ModelTest-NG: A New and Scalable Tool for the Selection of DNA and Protein Evolutionary Models. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(1). 291–294. 1226 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kozlov, Alexey M., Diego Darriba, Tomáš Flouri, Benoît Morel, & Alexandros Stamatakis. (2019). RAxML-NG: a fast, scalable and user-friendly tool for maximum likelihood phylogenetic inference. Bioinformatics. 35(21). 4453–4455. 2509 indexed citations breakdown →

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Morel, Benoît, Alexey M. Kozlov, & Alexandros Stamatakis. (2018). ParGenes: a tool for massively parallel model selection and phylogenetic tree inference on thousands of genes. Bioinformatics. 35(10). 1771–1773. 50 indexed citations

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Kandlikar, Milind & Benoît Morel. (2008). Accelerating the Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Influence of Uncertainties in Economic Growth and Technological Change. 7(1). 1 indexed citations

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Morel, Penelope A., Shlomo Ta’asan, Benoît Morel, Denise E. Kirschner, & JoAnne L. Flynn. (2006). New Insights into Mathematical Modeling of the Immune System. Immunologic Research. 36(1-3). 157–166. 11 indexed citations

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Farrow, Scott & Benoît Morel. (2001). Continuation rights, precautionary principle, and global change. 6(3). 145–155. 7 indexed citations

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Morel, Benoît, et al.. (1993). The limited partnership : building a Russian-US security community. Virtual Defense Library (Ministerio de Defensa). 2 indexed citations

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Morel, Benoît, et al.. (1991). Verification of the chemical convention. Nature. 351(6327). 515–516. 14 indexed citations

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