Cécile Viboud

45.5k total citations · 16 hit papers
281 papers, 26.8k citations indexed

About

Cécile Viboud is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Modeling and Simulation and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Cécile Viboud has authored 281 papers receiving a total of 26.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 207 papers in Epidemiology, 173 papers in Modeling and Simulation and 94 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Cécile Viboud's work include Influenza Virus Research Studies (181 papers), COVID-19 epidemiological studies (173 papers) and Respiratory viral infections research (77 papers). Cécile Viboud is often cited by papers focused on Influenza Virus Research Studies (181 papers), COVID-19 epidemiological studies (173 papers) and Respiratory viral infections research (77 papers). Cécile Viboud collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Denmark. Cécile Viboud's co-authors include Lone Simonsen, Mark A. Miller, Gerardo Chowell, Bryan T. Grenfell, Hongjie Yu, Wladimir J. Alonso, Kaiyuan Sun, Martha I. Nelson, Edward C. Holmes and Marco Ajelli and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Cécile Viboud

280 papers receiving 26.1k citations

Hit Papers

The effect of travel rest... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2020 2005 2020 2008 2014 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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.

  1. The effect of travel restrictions on the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
    2020 2.4k citations Matteo Chinazzi, Jessica T. Davis et al. Science profile →
  2. Antibody response to influenza vaccination in the elderly: A quantitative review
    2005 815 citations Cécile Viboud, Lone Simonsen et al. Vaccine profile →
  3. Changes in contact patterns shape the dynamics of the COVID-19 outbreak in China
    2020 732 citations Maria Litvinova, Yan Wang et al. Science profile →
  4. The genomic and epidemiological dynamics of human influenza A virus
    2008 714 citations Cécile Viboud et al. profile →
  5. Hand, foot, and mouth disease in China, 2008–12: an epidemiological study
    2014 713 citations Cécile Viboud, Hongjie Yu et al. profile →
  6. Stevens–Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis: Assessment of Medication Risks with Emphasis on Recently Marketed Drugs. The EuroSCAR-Study
    2007 686 citations Cécile Viboud et al. profile →
  7. Synchrony, Waves, and Spatial Hierarchies in the Spread of Influenza
    2006 637 citations Cécile Viboud, Ottar N. Bjørnstad et al. Science profile →
  8. Absolute Humidity and the Seasonal Onset of Influenza in the Continental United States
    2010 462 citations Virginia E. Pitzer, Cécile Viboud et al. PLoS Biology profile →
  9. Global mortality associated with seasonal influenza epidemics: New burden estimates and predictors from the GLaMOR Project
    2019 439 citations Lone Simonsen, Cécile Viboud et al. profile →
  10. Hospitalizations Associated With Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus in the United States, 1993–2008
    2012 438 citations Cécile Viboud et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
  11. Environmental Predictors of Seasonal Influenza Epidemics across Temperate and Tropical Climates
    2013 385 citations Cécile Viboud et al. profile →
  12. Early epidemiological analysis of the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak based on crowdsourced data: a population-level observational study
    2020 347 citations Kaiyuan Sun, Cécile Viboud et al. profile →
  13. Transmission characteristics of MERS and SARS in the healthcare setting: a comparative study
    2015 323 citations Gerardo Chowell, Cécile Viboud et al. profile →
  14. Aggregated mobility data could help fight COVID-19
    2020 279 citations Bryan T. Grenfell, M. Elizabeth Halloran et al. Science profile →
  15. Urbanization and humidity shape the intensity of influenza epidemics in U.S. cities
    2018 240 citations Stephen M. Kissler, Julia R. Gog et al. Science profile →
  16. Mortality Associated With Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus in the US, 1999-2018
    2022 144 citations C. Hansen, Cécile Viboud et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Cécile Viboud 14.1k 10.7k 7.7k 2.4k 2.3k 281 26.8k
Benjamin J. Cowling 10.7k 0.8× 9.1k 0.9× 10.1k 1.3× 1.7k 0.7× 2.3k 1.0× 711 29.5k
GM Leung 8.4k 0.6× 9.5k 0.9× 9.8k 1.3× 4.2k 1.7× 3.4k 1.4× 656 32.8k
Bryan T. Grenfell 9.8k 0.7× 10.0k 0.9× 8.4k 1.1× 8.2k 3.4× 1.4k 0.6× 407 38.2k
Ira M. Longini 8.2k 0.6× 10.0k 0.9× 6.5k 0.8× 3.4k 1.4× 1.8k 0.8× 215 19.5k
Marc Lipsitch 14.3k 1.0× 8.9k 0.8× 12.4k 1.6× 4.6k 1.9× 1.8k 0.8× 412 37.3k
Hongjie Yu 4.7k 0.3× 5.2k 0.5× 5.7k 0.7× 2.0k 0.8× 2.0k 0.8× 436 16.3k
Neil M. Ferguson 8.5k 0.6× 11.7k 1.1× 8.5k 1.1× 7.0k 2.9× 1.7k 0.7× 296 25.4k
Lone Simonsen 11.5k 0.8× 5.0k 0.5× 5.4k 0.7× 1.5k 0.6× 723 0.3× 194 18.1k
Christophe Fraser 7.7k 0.5× 8.7k 0.8× 8.0k 1.0× 3.1k 1.3× 1.5k 0.6× 196 20.7k
Simon Cauchemez 6.7k 0.5× 8.1k 0.8× 6.4k 0.8× 3.2k 1.3× 1.3k 0.6× 217 15.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cécile Viboud

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hansen, C., Cécile Viboud, & Lone Simonsen. (2024). Disentangling the relationship between cancer mortality and COVID-19 in the US. eLife. 13. 3 indexed citations
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Newall, Anthony T., David Muscatello, David Boettiger, et al.. (2024). The association between influenza vaccination uptake and influenza and pneumonia-associated deaths in the United States. Vaccine. 42(8). 2044–2050. 5 indexed citations
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St-Onge, Guillaume, Jessica T. Davis, Matteo Chinazzi, et al.. (2024). Ensemble 2 : Scenarios ensembling for communication and performance analysis. Epidemics. 46. 100748–100748. 2 indexed citations
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Howerton, Emily, Michael C. Runge, Tiffany L. Bogich, et al.. (2023). Context-dependent representation of within- and between-model uncertainty: aggregating probabilistic predictions in infectious disease epidemiology. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 20(198). 20220659–20220659. 11 indexed citations
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Park, Sang Woo, Kaiyuan Sun, Sam Abbott, et al.. (2023). Inferring the differences in incubation-period and generation-interval distributions of the Delta and Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(22). e2221887120–e2221887120. 22 indexed citations
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Swerdlow, David L., et al.. (2022). Leveraging Serosurveillance and Postmortem Surveillance to Quantify the Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Africa. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 76(3). 424–432. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Quan-Hui, Peng Cheng, Maria Litvinova, et al.. (2022). Model-based evaluation of alternative reactive class closure strategies against COVID-19. Nature Communications. 13(1). 322–322. 29 indexed citations
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Howerton, Emily, Matthew J. Ferrari, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, et al.. (2021). Synergistic interventions to control COVID-19: Mass testing and isolation mitigates reliance on distancing. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(10). e1009518–e1009518. 8 indexed citations
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Nichols, James D., Tiffany L. Bogich, Emily Howerton, et al.. (2021). Strategic testing approaches for targeted disease monitoring can be used to inform pandemic decision-making. PLoS Biology. 19(6). e3001307–e3001307. 11 indexed citations
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Kissler, Stephen M., Cécile Viboud, Bryan T. Grenfell, & Julia R. Gog. (2020). Symbolic transfer entropy reveals the age structure of pandemic influenza transmission from high-volume influenza-like illness data. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 17(164). 20190628–20190628. 7 indexed citations
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Yang, Juan, Hui Gong, Xinhua Chen, et al.. (2020). Health‐seeking behaviors of patients with acute respiratory infections during the outbreak of novel coronavirus disease 2019 in Wuhan, China. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. 15(2). 188–194. 13 indexed citations
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Sun, Kaiyuan, Wei Wang, Lidong Gao, et al.. (2020). Transmission heterogeneities, kinetics, and controllability of SARS-CoV-2. Science. 371(6526). 243 indexed citations
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Chinazzi, Matteo, Jessica T. Davis, Marco Ajelli, et al.. (2020). The effect of travel restrictions on the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Science. 368(6489). 395–400. 2411 indexed citations breakdown →
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Smirnova, Alexandra, Natalie Sterrett, Óscar J. Mújica, et al.. (2020). Spatial dynamics and the basic reproduction number of the 1991–1997 Cholera epidemic in Peru. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 14(7). e0008045–e0008045. 11 indexed citations
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Hansen, C., Benjamin McCormick, Iqbal Azam, et al.. (2020). Substantial and sustained reduction in under-5 mortality, diarrhea, and pneumonia in Oshikhandass, Pakistan: evidence from two longitudinal cohort studies 15 years apart. BMC Public Health. 20(1). 759–759. 8 indexed citations
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McGough, Sarah F., et al.. (2020). Real-time estimation of disease activity in emerging outbreaks using internet search information. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(8). e1008117–e1008117. 12 indexed citations
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Baker, Rachel E., Ayesha S. Mahmud, Caroline E. Wagner, et al.. (2019). Epidemic dynamics of respiratory syncytial virus in current and future climates. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5512–5512. 95 indexed citations
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Pitzer, Virginia E., Cécile Viboud, Ben Lopman, et al.. (2011). Influence of birth rates and transmission rates on the global seasonality of rotavirus incidence. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 8(64). 1584–1593. 67 indexed citations
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Gottfreðsson, Magnús, Bjarni V. Halldórsson, S. Jönsson, et al.. (2008). Lessons from the past: Familial aggregation analysis of fatal pandemic influenza (Spanish flu) in Iceland in 1918. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(4). 1303–1308. 50 indexed citations
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Viboud, Cécile, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, David L. Smith, et al.. (2006). Synchrony, Waves, and Spatial Hierarchies in the Spread of Influenza. Science. 312(5772). 447–451. 637 indexed citations breakdown →

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