Bram Vrancken

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Bram Vrancken is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Virology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bram Vrancken has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Infectious Diseases, 21 papers in Epidemiology and 20 papers in Virology. Recurrent topics in Bram Vrancken's work include HIV Research and Treatment (18 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (10 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (9 papers). Bram Vrancken is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (18 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (10 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (9 papers). Bram Vrancken collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and United Kingdom. Bram Vrancken's co-authors include Philippe Lemey, Marc A. Suchard, Guy Baele, Andrew Rambaut, Filip Bielejec, Simon Dellicour, Timothy E. Schlub, Antoine Chaillon, Davey M. Smith and Denis Fargette and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Bram Vrancken

56 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

SpreaD3: Interactive Visualization of Spatiotemporal History and Trait Evolutionary Processes

2016 375 citations Guy Baele, Bram Vrancken et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bram Vrancken Belgium	21	800	532	526	238	223	58	1.6k
Juan García‐Arriaza Spain	25	811 1.0×	713 1.3×	626 1.2×	587 2.5×	465 2.1×	68	2.1k
Ryan M. Troyer United States	24	721 0.9×	783 1.5×	469 0.9×	382 1.6×	324 1.5×	59	2.0k
Nicolás Berthet France	25	762 1.0×	458 0.9×	633 1.2×	532 2.2×	115 0.5×	87	1.8k
Eitel Mpoudi Ngole Cameroon	17	752 0.9×	563 1.1×	410 0.8×	320 1.3×	145 0.7×	32	1.5k
Rebecca Sheets United States	19	864 1.1×	342 0.6×	360 0.7×	507 2.1×	345 1.5×	35	1.9k
Joseph N. Fair United States	19	908 1.1×	838 1.6×	785 1.5×	679 2.9×	114 0.5×	30	1.9k
Katrina Lythgoe United Kingdom	19	769 1.0×	278 0.5×	342 0.7×	239 1.0×	291 1.3×	38	1.5k
Filip Bielejec United States	9	436 0.5×	152 0.3×	422 0.8×	232 1.0×	341 1.5×	11	1.3k
Olivier Bourry France	23	931 1.2×	464 0.9×	311 0.6×	93 0.4×	259 1.2×	64	1.5k
Vedapuri Shanmugam United States	22	581 0.7×	812 1.5×	692 1.3×	225 0.9×	345 1.5×	31	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Bram Vrancken

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bram Vrancken

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bram Vrancken. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bram Vrancken based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Bram Vrancken. Bram Vrancken is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Awada, Lina, Bram Vrancken, Julien Thézé, et al.. (2025). Quantifying Time‐Dependent Predictors for the International Spatial Spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5NX: Focus on Trade and Surveillance Efforts. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 2025(1). 2020766–2020766.

Li, Gairu, Xinxin Li, Jie Chen, et al.. (2025). Tracing more than two decades of Japanese encephalitis virus circulation in mainland China. Journal of Virology. 99(3). e0157524–e0157524. 2 indexed citations

Gryseels, Sophie, Anne Laudisoit, Joë̈lle Goü̈y de Bellocq, et al.. (2025). Evaluation of metatranscriptomic sequencing protocols to obtain full-length RNA virus genomes from mammalian tissues. PLoS ONE. 20(5). e0324537–e0324537. 1 indexed citations

Urban, Christian, Bram Vrancken, Livia Victoria Patrono, et al.. (2025). An ancient influenza genome from Switzerland allows deeper insights into host adaptation during the 1918 flu pandemic in Europe. BMC Biology. 23(1). 179–179. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Guogang, Jayna Raghwani, Bram Vrancken, et al.. (2023). Bidirectional Movement of Emerging H5N8 Avian Influenza Viruses Between Europe and Asia via Migratory Birds Since Early 2020. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(2). 23 indexed citations

Schär, Daniel, Zhenyu Zhang, João Pires, et al.. (2023). Dispersal history and bidirectional human-fish host switching of invasive, hypervirulent Streptococcus agalactiae sequence type 283. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(10). e0002454–e0002454. 3 indexed citations

Vrancken, Bram, George Koumbaris, Dora C. Stylianou, et al.. (2021). A Comprehensive Molecular Epidemiological Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Cyprus from April 2020 to January 2021: Evidence of a Highly Polyphyletic and Evolving Epidemic. Viruses. 13(6). 1098–1098. 12 indexed citations

Hoecke, Silvie Van den, Marlies Ballegeer, Bram Vrancken, et al.. (2021). In Vivo Therapy with M2e-Specific IgG Selects for an Influenza A Virus Mutant with Delayed Matrix Protein 2 Expression. mBio. 12(4). e0074521–e0074521. 6 indexed citations

Dellicour, Simon, Samuel L. Hong, Bram Vrancken, et al.. (2021). Dispersal dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 lineages during the first epidemic wave in New York City. PLoS Pathogens. 17(5). e1009571–e1009571. 18 indexed citations

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Hong, Samuel L., Simon Dellicour, Bram Vrancken, et al.. (2020). In Search of Covariates of HIV-1 Subtype B Spread in the United States—A Cautionary Tale of Large-Scale Bayesian Phylogeography. Viruses. 12(2). 182–182. 13 indexed citations

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Dellicour, Simon, Sébastian Lequime, Bram Vrancken, et al.. (2020). Epidemiological hypothesis testing using a phylogeographic and phylodynamic framework. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5620–5620. 37 indexed citations

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Chaillon, Antoine, Sara Gianella, Simon Dellicour, et al.. (2020). HIV persists throughout deep tissues with repopulation from multiple anatomical sources. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 130(4). 1699–1712. 142 indexed citations

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Suchard, Marc A., Xiang Ji, Sophie Gryseels, et al.. (2019). Divergence dating using mixed effects clock modelling: An application to HIV-1. Virus Evolution. 5(2). vez036–vez036. 16 indexed citations

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Scheerder, Marie‐Angélique De, Bram Vrancken, Simon Dellicour, et al.. (2019). HIV Rebound Is Predominantly Fueled by Genetically Identical Viral Expansions from Diverse Reservoirs. Cell Host & Microbe. 26(3). 347–358.e7. 103 indexed citations

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Pineda-Peña, Andrea-Clemencia, Marta Pingarilho, Guangdi Li, et al.. (2019). Drivers of HIV-1 transmission: The Portuguese case. PLoS ONE. 14(9). e0218226–e0218226. 8 indexed citations

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Tian, Huaiyu, Yun Feng, Bram Vrancken, et al.. (2018). Transmission dynamics of re-emerging rabies in domestic dogs of rural China. PLoS Pathogens. 14(12). e1007392–e1007392. 36 indexed citations

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Cuypers, Lize, Nádia Conceição‐Neto, Yoeri Schrooten, et al.. (2017). A18 Random amplification with next-generation sequencing to cover HIV and HCV full-length genomes. Virus Evolution. 3(suppl_1). 1 indexed citations

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Al‐Qahtani, Ahmed A., Guy Baele, Marc A. Suchard, et al.. (2017). The epidemic dynamics of hepatitis C virus subtypes 4a and 4d in Saudi Arabia. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 44947–44947. 19 indexed citations

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Cuypers, Lize, Joke Snoeck, Bram Vrancken, et al.. (2014). A near-full length genotypic assay for HCV1b. Journal of Virological Methods. 209. 126–135. 10 indexed citations

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Goede, Anna L. de, Hanneke W. M. van Deutekom, Bram Vrancken, et al.. (2013). HIV-1 evolution in patients undergoing immunotherapy with Tat, Rev, and Nef expressing dendritic cells followed by treatment interruption. AIDS. 27(17). 2679–2689. 7 indexed citations

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