Christian L. Althaus

10.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
80 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Christian L. Althaus is a scholar working on Modeling and Simulation, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian L. Althaus has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Modeling and Simulation, 27 papers in Microbiology and 25 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Christian L. Althaus's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (28 papers), Reproductive tract infections research (27 papers) and Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (16 papers). Christian L. Althaus is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (28 papers), Reproductive tract infections research (27 papers) and Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (16 papers). Christian L. Althaus collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Christian L. Althaus's co-authors include Julien Riou, Nicola Low, Rob J. de Boer, Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Janneke C. M. Heijne, Adam J. Kucharski, Sereina A. Herzog, Matthias Egger, Magnus Unemo and Sunniva Foerster and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Journal of Immunology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Christian L. Althaus

78 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Pattern of early human-to-human transmission of Wuhan 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), December 2019 to January 2020

2020 831 citations Julien Riou, Christian L. Althaus Eurosurveillance profile →
COVID-19 epidemic in Switzerland: on the importance of testing, contact tracing and isolation

2020 334 citations Christian L. Althaus, Richard A. Neher et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian L. Althaus Switzerland	30	1.4k	1.3k	621	535	532	80	3.5k
Peter J White United Kingdom	35	1.6k 1.1×	649 0.5×	1.6k 2.6×	437 0.8×	352 0.7×	122	3.6k
Janneke C. M. Heijne Netherlands	23	1.1k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	1.5k 2.4×	590 1.1×	427 0.8×	75	3.2k
Johan Giesecke Sweden	34	1.8k 1.3×	440 0.3×	1.2k 2.0×	222 0.4×	383 0.7×	144	4.8k
Meagan C. Fitzpatrick United States	26	1.5k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	606 1.0×	106 0.2×	346 0.7×	66	2.9k
Małgorzata Sadkowska-Todys Poland	12	842 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	1.0k 1.7×	220 0.4×	376 0.7×	108	2.7k
Joël Mossong Luxembourg	31	1.7k 1.2×	1.9k 1.5×	2.1k 3.4×	149 0.3×	468 0.9×	84	4.8k
Claúdio J. Struchiner Brazil	40	1.8k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	1.4k 2.3×	199 0.4×	1.8k 3.4×	214	6.1k
Ashleigh R. Tuite Canada	29	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	990 1.6×	291 0.5×	498 0.9×	124	3.3k
Magdalena Rosińska Poland	17	1.0k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	1.4k 2.2×	107 0.2×	381 0.7×	147	2.9k
Peter Horby United Kingdom	40	2.6k 1.8×	826 0.7×	2.5k 4.0×	302 0.6×	1.6k 2.9×	184	6.3k

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Matthes, Katarina L., et al.. (2025). Retrospective modelling of the disease and mortality burden of the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic in Zurich, Switzerland. Epidemics. 50. 100813–100813. 1 indexed citations

Hodcroft, Emma B., et al.. (2025). Estimating Re and overdispersion in secondary cases from the size of identical sequence clusters of SARS-CoV-2. PLoS Computational Biology. 21(4). e1012960–e1012960. 1 indexed citations

Riou, Julien, et al.. (2023). Direct and indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality in Switzerland. Nature Communications. 14(1). 90–90. 18 indexed citations

Reichmuth, Martina L., Emma B. Hodcroft, & Christian L. Althaus. (2023). Importation of Alpha and Delta variants during the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Switzerland: Phylogenetic analysis and intervention scenarios. PLoS Pathogens. 19(8). e1011553–e1011553. 1 indexed citations

Reichmuth, Martina L., Julien Riou, André Moser, et al.. (2023). Socio-demographic characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccination uptake in Switzerland: longitudinal analysis of the CoMix study. BMC Public Health. 23(1). 1523–1523. 9 indexed citations

Wallinga, Jacco, et al.. (2022). EpiLPS: A fast and flexible Bayesian tool for estimation of the time-varying reproduction number. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(10). e1010618–e1010618. 20 indexed citations

Reichmuth, Martina L., Emma B. Hodcroft, Julien Riou, et al.. (2022). Impact of cross-border-associated cases on the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Switzerland during summer 2020 and 2021. Epidemics. 41. 100654–100654. 4 indexed citations

Riou, Julien, Radoslaw Panczak, Christian L. Althaus, et al.. (2021). From testing to mortality: COVID-19 and the inverse care law in switzerland. 29(1). 40–40. 3 indexed citations

Riou, Julien, Silvia Bertagnolio, Ravindra K. Gupta, et al.. (2021). Drivers of HIV-1 drug resistance to non-nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) in nine southern African countries: a modelling study. BMC Infectious Diseases. 21(1). 1042–1042. 7 indexed citations

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García, Víctor, et al.. (2020). Understanding the spread of de novo and transmitted macrolide-resistance in Mycoplasma genitalium. PeerJ. 8. e8913–e8913. 7 indexed citations

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Gsteiger, Sandro, Nicola Low, Pam Sonnenberg, Catherine H Mercer, & Christian L. Althaus. (2020). Gini coefficients for measuring the distribution of sexually transmitted infections among individuals with different levels of sexual activity. PeerJ. 8. e8434–e8434. 5 indexed citations

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Riou, Julien & Christian L. Althaus. (2020). Pattern of early human-to-human transmission of Wuhan 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), December 2019 to January 2020. Eurosurveillance. 25(4). 831 indexed citations breakdown →

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Riesen, Maurane, Garyfallos Konstantinoudis, Phung Lang, et al.. (2018). Exploring variation in human papillomavirus vaccination uptake in Switzerland: a multilevel spatial analysis of a national vaccination coverage survey. BMJ Open. 8(5). e021006–e021006. 27 indexed citations

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Foerster, Sunniva, Magnus Unemo, Lucy J. Hathaway, Nicola Low, & Christian L. Althaus. (2016). Time-kill curve analysis and pharmacodynamic modelling for in vitro evaluation of antimicrobials against Neisseria gonorrhoeae. BMC Microbiology. 16(1). 216–216. 96 indexed citations

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Althaus, Christian L.. (2015). Rapid drop in the reproduction number during the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. PeerJ. 3. e1418–e1418. 8 indexed citations

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Althaus, Christian L., Nicola Low, Emmanuel Musa, Faisal Shuaib, & Sandro Gsteiger. (2015). Ebola virus disease outbreak in Nigeria: Transmission dynamics and rapid control. Epidemics. 11. 80–84. 74 indexed citations

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Althaus, Christian L., Béda Joos, Alan S. Perelson, & Huldrych F. Günthard. (2014). Quantifying the Turnover of Transcriptional Subclasses of HIV-1-Infected Cells. PLoS Computational Biology. 10(10). e1003871–e1003871. 18 indexed citations

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Althaus, Christian L.. (2014). Estimating the reproduction number of Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) during the 2014 outbreak in West Africa. arXiv (Cornell University). 18 indexed citations

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Herzog, Sereina A., Janneke C. M. Heijne, Pippa Scott, Christian L. Althaus, & Nicola Low. (2013). Direct and Indirect Effects of Screening for Chlamydia trachomatis on the Prevention of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease. Epidemiology. 24(6). 854–862. 9 indexed citations

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Althaus, Christian L., Vitaly V. Ganusov, & Rob J. de Boer. (2007). Dynamics of CD8+ T Cell Responses during Acute and Chronic Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus Infection. The Journal of Immunology. 179(5). 2944–2951. 51 indexed citations

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