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 re... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2020 2005 2020 2008 2014 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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.

  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 Juanjuan Zhang, Maria Litvinova 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 →

Peers

Cécile Viboud
Comparison fields: 5 of 210
  • Epidemiology 14.1k
  • Modeling and Simulation 10.7k
  • Infectious Diseases 7.7k
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2.4k
  • Economics and Econometrics 2.3k
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Bryan T. Grenfell United States
Ira M. Longini United States
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Hongjie Yu China
Neil M. Ferguson United Kingdom
Lone Simonsen United States
Christophe Fraser United Kingdom
Simon Cauchemez France
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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The association between influenza vaccination uptake and influenza and pneumonia-associated deaths in the United States
2024 ·Vaccine ·Anthony T. Newall, (unknown), David Muscatello, David Boettiger, Cécile Viboud, Lone Simonsen, Robin Turner
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Disentangling the relationship between cancer mortality and COVID-19 in the US
2024 ·eLife ·C. Hansen, Cécile Viboud, Lone Simonsen
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Ensemble 2 : Scenarios ensembling for communication and performance analysis
2024 ·Epidemics ·(unknown), Guillaume St-Onge, Jessica T. Davis, Matteo Chinazzi, Emily Howerton, Justin Lessler, Michael C. Runge, Katriona Shea, Shaun Truelove, Cécile Viboud, Alessandro Vespignani
2
4
The US COVID-19 and Influenza Scenario Modeling Hubs: Delivering long-term projections to guide policy
2023 ·Epidemics ·(unknown), Emily Howerton, Lucie Contamin, Claire P. Smith, Rebecca K. Borchering, Luke C. Mullany, (unknown), (unknown), Sung-mok Jung, Tiffany L. Bogich, Willem G. van Panhuis, (unknown), Jeremy U. Espino, (unknown), Harry Hochheiser, Michael C. Runge, Katriona Shea, Justin Lessler, Cécile Viboud, Shaun Truelove
12
5
Leveraging Serosurveillance and Postmortem Surveillance to Quantify the Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Africa
2022 ·Clinical Infectious Diseases ·(unknown), (unknown), David L. Swerdlow, Cécile Viboud, Muhammed Semakula, Marc Lipsitch, Mauricio Santillana
4
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Synergistic interventions to control COVID-19: Mass testing and isolation mitigates reliance on distancing
2021 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Emily Howerton, Matthew J. Ferrari, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Tiffany L. Bogich, Rebecca K. Borchering, Chris Jewell, James D. Nichols, William J. M. Probert, Michael C. Runge, Michael J. Tildesley, Cécile Viboud, Katriona Shea
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Toward the use of neural networks for influenza prediction at multiple spatial resolutions
2021 ·Science Advances ·(unknown), André T. Nguyen, Cécile Viboud, Mauricio Santillana
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Strategic testing approaches for targeted disease monitoring can be used to inform pandemic decision-making
2021 ·PLoS Biology ·James D. Nichols, Tiffany L. Bogich, Emily Howerton, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Rebecca K. Borchering, Matthew J. Ferrari, Murali Haran, Chris Jewell, Kim M. Pepin, William J. M. Probert, Juliet R.C. Pulliam, Michael C. Runge, Michael J. Tildesley, Cécile Viboud, Katriona Shea
11
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Health‐seeking behaviors of patients with acute respiratory infections during the outbreak of novel coronavirus disease 2019 in Wuhan, China
2020 ·Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses ·Juan Yang, Hui Gong, Xinhua Chen, Zhiyuan Chen, Xiaowei Deng, Mengcen Qian, Zhiyuan Hou, Marco Ajelli, Cécile Viboud, Hongjie Yu
13
10
Transmission heterogeneities, kinetics, and controllability of SARS-CoV-2
2020 ·Science ·Kaiyuan Sun, Wei Wang, Lidong Gao, Yan Wang, Kaiwei Luo, Lingshuang Ren, Zhifei Zhan, Xinghui Chen, Shanlu Zhao, Yiwei Huang, Qianlai Sun, Ziyan Liu, Maria Litvinova, Alessandro Vespignani, Marco Ajelli, Cécile Viboud, Hongjie Yu
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The effect of travel restrictions on the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak breakdown →
2020 ·Science ·Matteo Chinazzi, Jessica T. Davis, Marco Ajelli, Corrado Gioannini, Maria Litvinova, Stefano Merler, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Kunpeng Mu, Luca Rossi, Kaiyuan Sun, Cécile Viboud, Xinyue Xiong, Hongjie Yu, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Ira M. Longini, Alessandro Vespignani
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Symbolic transfer entropy reveals the age structure of pandemic influenza transmission from high-volume influenza-like illness data
2020 ·Journal of The Royal Society Interface ·Stephen M. Kissler, Cécile Viboud, Bryan T. Grenfell, Julia R. Gog
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13
Substantial and sustained reduction in under-5 mortality, diarrhea, and pneumonia in Oshikhandass, Pakistan: evidence from two longitudinal cohort studies 15 years apart
2020 ·BMC Public Health ·(unknown), C. Hansen, Benjamin McCormick, Iqbal Azam, (unknown), Julia M. Baker, Erfan Hussain, Ali Jahan, (unknown), Stacey Knobler, (unknown), W.H. Shah, David Spiro, E. Donnall Thomas, Cécile Viboud, Zeba Rasmussen
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Real-time estimation of disease activity in emerging outbreaks using internet search information
2020 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·(unknown), Sarah F. McGough, Maimuna S. Majumder, (unknown), André T. Nguyen, Cécile Viboud, Mauricio Santillana
12
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Changes in contact patterns shape the dynamics of the COVID-19 outbreak in China breakdown →
2020 ·Science ·Juanjuan Zhang, Maria Litvinova, Yuxia Liang, Yan Wang, Wei Wang, Shanlu Zhao, Qianhui Wu, Stefano Merler, Cécile Viboud, Alessandro Vespignani, Marco Ajelli, Hongjie Yu
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Deploying digital health data to optimize influenza surveillance at national and local scales
2018 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Elizabeth C. Lee, Ali Arab, (unknown), Cécile Viboud, Bryan T. Grenfell, Shweta Bansal
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17
Influence of birth rates and transmission rates on the global seasonality of rotavirus incidence
2011 ·Journal of The Royal Society Interface ·Virginia E. Pitzer, Cécile Viboud, Ben Lopman, Manish M. Patel, Umesh D. Parashar, Bryan T. Grenfell
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18
Influenza and Pneumonia Mortality in 66 Large Cities in the United States in Years Surrounding the 1918 Pandemic
2011 ·PLoS ONE ·Rodolfo Acuña-Soto, Cécile Viboud, Gerardo Chowell
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Lessons from the past: Familial aggregation analysis of fatal pandemic influenza (Spanish flu) in Iceland in 1918
2008 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Magnús Gottfreðsson, Bjarni V. Halldórsson, S. Jönsson, Már Kristjánsson, Kristleifur Kristjánsson, Karl G. Kristinsson, (unknown), Þorsteinn Blöndal, Cécile Viboud, Sverrir Thorvaldsson, Agnar Helgason, Jeffrey R. Gulcher, Hreinn Stefánsson, Ingileif Jónsdóttir
50
20
Synchrony, Waves, and Spatial Hierarchies in the Spread of Influenza breakdown →
2006 ·Science ·Cécile Viboud, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, David L. Smith, Lone Simonsen, Mark A. Miller, Bryan T. Grenfell
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