Christophe Fraser

45.2k total citations · 11 hit papers
196 papers, 20.7k citations indexed

About

Christophe Fraser is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Virology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christophe Fraser has authored 196 papers receiving a total of 20.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Infectious Diseases, 89 papers in Epidemiology and 66 papers in Virology. Recurrent topics in Christophe Fraser's work include HIV Research and Treatment (65 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (59 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (52 papers). Christophe Fraser is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (65 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (59 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (52 papers). Christophe Fraser collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Christophe Fraser's co-authors include Neil M. Ferguson, Steven Riley, William P. Hanage, Roy M. Anderson, Simon Cauchemez, Nicholas C. Grassly, Derek A. T. Cummings, Donald S. Burke, Brian G. Spratt and Christl A. Donnelly and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Christophe Fraser

192 papers receiving 20.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Strategies for mitigating an influenza pandemic

2006 1.6k citations Neil M. Ferguson, Christophe Fraser et al. Nature profile →
Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing

2020 1.5k citations Luca Ferretti, Chris Wymant et al. Science profile →
Strategies for containing an emerging influenza pandemic in Southeast Asia

2005 1.4k citations Neil M. Ferguson, Christophe Fraser et al. Nature profile →
A New Framework and Software to Estimate Time-Varying Reproduction Numbers During Epidemics

2013 871 citations Anne Cori, Neil M. Ferguson et al. American Journal of Epidemiology profile →
Transmission Dynamics of the Etiological Agent of SARS in Hong Kong: Impact of Public Health Interventions

2003 810 citations Steven Riley, Christophe Fraser et al. Science profile →
Factors that make an infectious disease outbreak controllable

2004 745 citations Christophe Fraser, Steven Riley et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Epidemiological determinants of spread of causal agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong

2003 682 citations Azra C. Ghani, Christophe Fraser et al. profile →
HIV-1 Transmission, by Stage of Infection

2008 474 citations T. Déirdre Hollingsworth, Roy M. Anderson et al. profile →
Modeling targeted layered containment of an influenza pandemic in the United States

2008 473 citations Neil M. Ferguson, Christophe Fraser et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Mathematical models of infectious disease transmission

2008 457 citations Christophe Fraser et al. profile →
The epidemiological impact of the NHS COVID-19 app

2021 163 citations Chris Wymant, Luca Ferretti et al. Nature profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christophe Fraser

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christophe Fraser. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christophe Fraser 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 Christophe Fraser. Christophe Fraser is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Estimating the contribution of age-structure to the COVID-19 epidemic in England 2025 ·Journal of Theoretical Biology ·Robert Hinch, Jasmina Panovska‐Griffiths, Christophe Fraser	0
2	Epidemiological impacts of the NHS COVID-19 app in England and Wales throughout its first year 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Michelle Kendall, (unknown), Chris Wymant, (unknown), (unknown), Xavier Didelot, Luca Ferretti, Christophe Fraser	22
3	HIV drug resistance in a community‐randomized trial of universal testing and treatment: HPTN 071 (PopART) 2022 ·Journal of the International AIDS Society ·Jessica M. Fogel, Ethan Wilson, Estelle Piwowar‐Manning, Autumn Breaud, William Clarke, Christos J. Petropoulos, Ayana Moore, Christophe Fraser, Barry Kosloff, Kwame Shanaube, Gert U. van Zyl, (unknown), Sian Floyd, Peter Bock, Helen Ayles, Sarah Fidler, Richard Hayes, Deborah Donnell, Susan H. Eshleman, (unknown)	2
4	PopART-IBM, a highly efficient stochastic individual-based simulation model of generalised HIV epidemics developed in the context of the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial 2021 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Michael Pickles, Anne Cori, William J. M. Probert, Rafael Sauter, Robert Hinch, Sarah Fidler, Helen Ayles, Peter Bock, Deborah Donnell, Ethan Wilson, Estelle Piwowar‐Manning, Sian Floyd, Richard Hayes, Christophe Fraser, (unknown)	5
5	Modeling the effect of exposure notification and non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 transmission in Washington state 2021 ·npj Digital Medicine ·(unknown), Robert Hinch, Neo Wu, Luyang Liu, William J. M. Probert, (unknown), P. R. Eastham, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Anel Nurtay, Lucie Abeler‐Dörner, David Bonsall, Michael V. McConnell, Shawn O’Banion, Christophe Fraser	63
6	The epidemiological impact of the NHS COVID-19 app breakdown → 2021 ·Nature ·Chris Wymant, Luca Ferretti, (unknown), (unknown), Lucie Abeler‐Dörner, David Bonsall, Robert Hinch, Michelle Kendall, Luke Milsom, Matthew Ayres, Chris Holmes, Mark Briers, Christophe Fraser	163
7	Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing breakdown → 2020 ·Science ·Luca Ferretti, Chris Wymant, Michelle Kendall, Lele Zhao, Anel Nurtay, Lucie Abeler‐Dörner, Michael Parker, David Bonsall, Christophe Fraser	1519
8	Phylogenetic and Demographic Characterization of Directed HIV-1 Transmission Using Deep Sequences from High-Risk and General Population Cohorts/Groups in Uganda 2020 ·Viruses ·Nicholas Bbosa, Deogratius Ssemwanga, (unknown), Xiaoyue Xi, Yunia Mayanja, Ubaldo Bahemuka, Janet Seeley, Deenan Pillay, Lucie Abeler‐Dörner, Tanya Golubchik, Christophe Fraser, Pontiano Kaleebu, Oliver Ratmann	13
9	Horizontal gene transfer rate is not the primary determinant of observed antibiotic resistance frequencies in Streptococcus pneumoniae 2020 ·Science Advances ·Sonja Lehtinen, Claire Chewapreecha, John A. Lees, William P. Hanage, Marc Lipsitch, Nicholas J. Croucher, Stephen D. Bentley, Paul Turner, Christophe Fraser, Rafal Mostowy	16
10	Synergistic Activity of Mobile Genetic Element Defences in Streptococcus pneumoniae 2019 ·Genes ·Min Jung Kwun, Marco R. Oggioni, Stephen D. Bentley, Christophe Fraser, Nicholas J. Croucher	6
11	Evolution of antibiotic resistance is linked to any genetic mechanism affecting bacterial duration of carriage 2017 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Sonja Lehtinen, François Blanquart, Nicholas J. Croucher, Paul Turner, Marc Lipsitch, Christophe Fraser	93
12	Host population structure and treatment frequency maintain balancing selection on drug resistance 2017 ·Journal of The Royal Society Interface ·Sarah Cobey, Edward B. Baskerville, Caroline Colijn, William P. Hanage, Christophe Fraser, Marc Lipsitch	22
13	Convergent evolution and topologically disruptive polymorphisms among multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Peru 2017 ·PLoS ONE ·Louis Grandjean, Robert H. Gilman, Tomotada Iwamoto, Claudio U. Köser, Jorge Coronel, Mirko Zimic, M. Estée Török, Diepreye Ayabina, Michelle Kendall, Christophe Fraser, Simon R. Harris, Julian Parkhill, Sharon J. Peacock, David Moore, Caroline Colijn	18
14	Virulence and Pathogenesis of HIV-1 Infection: An Evolutionary Perspective 2014 ·Science ·Christophe Fraser, Katrina Lythgoe, Gabriel E. Leventhal, George Shirreff, T. Déirdre Hollingsworth, Samuel Alizon, Sebastian Bonhoeffer	155
15	Inferring pandemic growth rates from sequence data 2012 ·Journal of The Royal Society Interface ·Eric de Silva, Neil M. Ferguson, Christophe Fraser	34
16	What is the mechanism for persistent coexistence of drug-susceptible and drug-resistant strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae ? 2009 ·Journal of The Royal Society Interface ·Caroline Colijn, Ted Cohen, Christophe Fraser, William P. Hanage, Edward Goldstein, Noga Givon‐Lavi, Ron Dagan, Marc Lipsitch	70
17	Hyper-Recombination, Diversity, and Antibiotic Resistance in Pneumococcus 2009 ·Science ·William P. Hanage, Christophe Fraser, Jing Tang, Thomas R. Connor, Jukka Corander	133
18	The Effect on Treatment Comparisons of Different Measurement Frequencies in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Observational Databases 2006 ·American Journal of Epidemiology ·(unknown), Christophe Fraser, Luuk Gras, Frank de Wolf, Azra C. Ghani	10
19	Neutral microepidemic evolution of bacterial pathogens 2005 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Christophe Fraser, William P. Hanage, Brian G. Spratt	105
20	Factors that make an infectious disease outbreak controllable breakdown → 2004 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Christophe Fraser, Steven Riley, Roy M. Anderson, Neil M. Ferguson	745

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