Denise Kühnert

17.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Denise Kühnert is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Denise Kühnert has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Infectious Diseases, 18 papers in Genetics and 11 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Denise Kühnert's work include HIV Research and Treatment (8 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (8 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (6 papers). Denise Kühnert is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (8 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (8 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (6 papers). Denise Kühnert collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and New Zealand. Denise Kühnert's co-authors include Alexei J. Drummond, Chieh‐Hsi Wu, Remco Bouckaert, Marc A. Suchard, Joseph Heled, Andrew Rambaut, Dong Xie, Tanja Stadler, Sebastian Bonhoeffer and Timothy G. Vaughan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Denise Kühnert

38 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

1 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.

BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

2014 4.9k citations Remco Bouckaert, Joseph Heled et al. PLoS Computational Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Denise Kühnert Germany	22	2.5k	1.9k	1.7k	1.3k	956	42	6.6k
Matthew J. Phillips Australia	30	3.2k 1.3×	2.7k 1.4×	2.3k 1.4×	1.8k 1.4×	606 0.6×	77	8.6k
Fumin Lei China	43	2.2k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.7k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	245	6.2k
Tanja Stadler Switzerland	47	2.8k 1.1×	2.7k 1.4×	2.1k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.4×	163	9.5k
Adalgisa Caccone United States	52	3.3k 1.3×	2.4k 1.3×	1.5k 0.9×	2.3k 1.7×	375 0.4×	252	8.9k
Kevin Winker United States	40	2.9k 1.1×	1.6k 0.8×	2.2k 1.3×	3.5k 2.7×	560 0.6×	184	8.1k
Diep Thi Hoang Vietnam	6	1.4k 0.6×	2.4k 1.3×	1.7k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	542 0.6×	11	6.4k
Dominik Schrempf Hungary	12	1.6k 0.6×	3.7k 1.9×	1.5k 0.9×	1.9k 1.5×	968 1.0×	17	8.3k
Michael D. Woodhams Australia	11	1.7k 0.7×	3.7k 1.9×	1.5k 0.9×	1.9k 1.5×	972 1.0×	16	8.3k
Joseph Heled New Zealand	12	3.9k 1.5×	2.9k 1.5×	2.7k 1.6×	2.1k 1.6×	395 0.4×	14	8.6k
Alexandre Hassanin France	32	1.8k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	985 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.4×	93	5.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Denise Kühnert

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Yang, Zewen, et al.. (2025). Holistic forecasting for future pandemics: a review of pathogens, models, and data. Discover Public Health. 22(1).

Kühnert, Denise, et al.. (2025). CLASV: Rapid Lassa virus lineage assignment with random forest. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 19(9). e0013512–e0013512.

Kühnert, Denise, et al.. (2023). Reconstructing relative transmission rates in Bayesian phylodynamics: Two-fold transmission advantage of Omicron in Berlin, Germany during December 2021. Virus Evolution. 9(2). vead070–vead070.

Savin, Cyril, Voahangy Andrianaivoarimanana, Zhemin Zhou, et al.. (2023). Phylogenetic analysis of the origin and spread of plague in Madagascar. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 17(5). e0010362–e0010362. 3 indexed citations

Scire, Jérémie, Joëlle Barido‐Sottani, Denise Kühnert, Timothy G. Vaughan, & Tanja Stadler. (2022). Robust Phylodynamic Analysis of Genetic Sequencing Data from Structured Populations. Viruses. 14(8). 1648–1648. 15 indexed citations

Boumasmoud, Mathilde, Vanina Dengler Haunreiter, Bhavya Chakrakodi, et al.. (2022). Genomic Surveillance of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Reveals Spread of a Linear Plasmid Conferring a Nutrient Utilization Advantage. mBio. 13(2). e0377121–e0377121. 18 indexed citations

Spyrou, Maria A., Lyazzat Musralina, Guido Alberto Gnecchi‐Ruscone, et al.. (2022). The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia. Nature. 606(7915). 718–724. 61 indexed citations

Kühnert, Denise, et al.. (2021). Rapid incidence estimation from SARS-CoV-2 genomes reveals decreased case detection in Europe during summer 2020. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6009–6009. 15 indexed citations

Pečerska, Jūlija, Denise Kühnert, Conor J. Meehan, et al.. (2021). Quantifying transmission fitness costs of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. Epidemics. 36. 100471–100471. 14 indexed citations

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Majander, Kerttu, Saskia Pfrengle, Arthur Kocher, et al.. (2020). Ancient Bacterial Genomes Reveal a High Diversity of Treponema pallidum Strains in Early Modern Europe. Current Biology. 30(19). 3788–3803.e10. 36 indexed citations

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Scerri, Eleanor M. L., Denise Kühnert, James Blinkhorn, et al.. (2020). Field-based sciences must transform in response to COVID-19. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(12). 1571–1574. 22 indexed citations

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Vasylyeva, Tetyana I., Louis du Plessis, Andrea-Clemencia Pineda-Peña, et al.. (2019). Tracing the Impact of Public Health Interventions on HIV-1 Transmission in Portugal Using Molecular Epidemiology. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 220(2). 233–243. 20 indexed citations

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Meehan, Conor J., Pieter Moris, Thomas A. Kohl, et al.. (2018). The relationship between transmission time and clustering methods in Mycobacterium tuberculosis epidemiology. EBioMedicine. 37. 410–416. 83 indexed citations

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Reh, Lucia, Carsten Magnus, Claus Kadelka, et al.. (2018). Phenotypic deficits in the HIV-1 envelope are associated with the maturation of a V2-directed broadly neutralizing antibody lineage. PLoS Pathogens. 14(1). e1006825–e1006825. 10 indexed citations

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Kühnert, Denise, Roger D. Kouyos, George Shirreff, et al.. (2018). Quantifying the fitness cost of HIV-1 drug resistance mutations through phylodynamics. PLoS Pathogens. 14(2). e1006895–e1006895. 42 indexed citations

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Stadler, Tanja, Timothy G. Vaughan, Alex Gavryushkin, et al.. (2015). How well can the exponential-growth coalescent approximate constant-rate birth–death population dynamics?. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1806). 20150420–20150420. 25 indexed citations

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Novitsky, Vlad, et al.. (2015). Phylodynamic analysis of HIV sub-epidemics in Mochudi, Botswana. Epidemics. 13. 44–55. 15 indexed citations

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Bouckaert, Remco, Joseph Heled, Denise Kühnert, et al.. (2014). BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis. PLoS Computational Biology. 10(4). e1003537–e1003537. 4936 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bahl, Justin, Scott Krauss, Denise Kühnert, et al.. (2013). Influenza A Virus Migration and Persistence in North American Wild Birds. PLoS Pathogens. 9(8). e1003570–e1003570. 73 indexed citations

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Kühnert, Denise, Chieh‐Hsi Wu, & Alexei J. Drummond. (2011). Phylogenetic and epidemic modeling of rapidly evolving infectious diseases. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 11(8). 1825–1841. 58 indexed citations

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