Franck Prugnolle

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
99 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Franck Prugnolle is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Franck Prugnolle has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 27 papers in Genetics and 25 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Franck Prugnolle's work include Malaria Research and Control (32 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (21 papers) and Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (18 papers). Franck Prugnolle is often cited by papers focused on Malaria Research and Control (32 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (21 papers) and Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (18 papers). Franck Prugnolle collaborates with scholars based in France, Gabon and United Kingdom. Franck Prugnolle's co-authors include François Balloux, Andrea Manica, Patrick Durand, François Renaud, Hua Liu, Anne‐Laure Bañuls, Mallorie Hidé, Benjamin Ollomo, Marie J. E. Charpentier and Céline Arnathau and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Franck Prugnolle

93 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

An African origin for the intimate association between humans and Helicobacter pylori

2007 664 citations François Balloux, Andrea Manica et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Franck Prugnolle France	32	1.4k	1.4k	979	810	696	99	4.9k
Heinz Ellerbrok Germany	39	1.0k 0.7×	815 0.6×	497 0.5×	349 0.4×	1.2k 1.7×	95	4.5k
Tony L. Goldberg United States	52	2.4k 1.7×	1.2k 0.8×	1.9k 2.0×	876 1.1×	795 1.1×	260	8.3k
Stephen J. Kemp United Kingdom	36	566 0.4×	1.7k 1.2×	591 0.6×	399 0.5×	618 0.9×	160	3.8k
Armand Sánchez Spain	42	961 0.7×	2.7k 2.0×	323 0.3×	560 0.7×	1.6k 2.2×	217	6.0k
Sarah E. Perkins United Kingdom	34	533 0.4×	604 0.4×	1.2k 1.2×	515 0.6×	540 0.8×	90	3.4k
Rupert J. Quinnell United Kingdom	39	2.5k 1.7×	555 0.4×	984 1.0×	1.9k 2.3×	319 0.5×	101	5.3k
Francisco J. Ayala United States	34	1.9k 1.3×	625 0.4×	361 0.4×	906 1.1×	722 1.0×	87	3.7k
Linda Munson United States	31	452 0.3×	842 0.6×	794 0.8×	289 0.4×	358 0.5×	75	3.3k
Fabian H. Leendertz Germany	45	1.6k 1.1×	825 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	363 0.4×	1.6k 2.2×	172	5.7k
Mary B. Brown United States	41	568 0.4×	349 0.2×	1.3k 1.4×	735 0.9×	330 0.5×	160	5.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Franck Prugnolle

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Franck Prugnolle

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Galal, Lokman, Matthieu Fritz, Pierre Becquart, et al.. (2025). Toxoplasma gondii from Gabonese forest, Central Africa: First report of an African wild strain. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 19(1). e0012214–e0012214.

Grosbois, Vladimir, Mduduzi Ndlovu, Olga Basso, et al.. (2025). Foot-and-mouth disease dynamics in multi-species livestock systems at the interface of African protected areas. Veterinary Research. 56(1). 58–58.

Choisy, Marc, Jan A. Venter, Hervé Fritz, et al.. (2025). Climate and predation drive variation of diel activity patterns in chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) across Southern Africa. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 39342–39342.

Arnathau, Céline, Gustavo Fontecha, Óscar Noya, et al.. (2025). Genomic exploration of the journey of Plasmodium vivax in Latin America. PLoS Pathogens. 21(1). e1012811–e1012811. 1 indexed citations

Mombo, Illich Manfred, Virginie Rougeron, Philippe Gauthier, et al.. (2024). Investigation of caliciviruses and astroviruses in Gabonese rodents: A possible influence of national and international trade on the spread of enteric viruses. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 122. 105607–105607. 1 indexed citations

Daron, Josquin, et al.. (2023). Population Genomic Evidence of Adaptive Response during the Invasion History ofPlasmodium falciparumin the Americas. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(5). 3 indexed citations

Jiolle, Davy, Sophie Ravel, Angélique Porciani, et al.. (2023). Flying Syringes for Emerging Enzootic Virus Screening: Proof of Concept for the Development of Noninvasive Xenosurveillance Tools Based on Tsetse Flies. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 2023. 1–10. 3 indexed citations

Davis, Robert S., et al.. (2023). Baboons (Papio spp.) as a potentially underreported source of food loss and kleptoparasitism of cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) kills. Food Webs. 38. e00331–e00331.

Daron, Josquin, Anne Boissière, Larson Boundenga, et al.. (2021). Population genomic evidence of Plasmodium vivax Southeast Asian origin. Science Advances. 7(18). 25 indexed citations

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Tonkin‐Hill, Gerry, Shazia Ruybal‐Pesántez, Kathryn E. Tiedje, et al.. (2021). Evolutionary analyses of the major variant surface antigen-encoding genes reveal population structure of Plasmodium falciparum within and between continents. PLoS Genetics. 17(2). e1009269–e1009269. 14 indexed citations

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Boundenga, Larson, Laurent Givalois, Séverine Mercier‐Delarue, et al.. (2020). Ecological, parasitological and individual determinants of plasma neopterin levels in a natural mandrill population. International Journal for Parasitology Parasites and Wildlife. 11. 198–206. 13 indexed citations

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Ayala, Diégo, Nil Rahola, Pierre Kengne, et al.. (2019). Natural Wolbachia infections are common in the major malaria vectors in Central Africa. Evolutionary Applications. 12(8). 1583–1594. 33 indexed citations

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Obame‐Nkoghe, Judicaël, Nil Rahola, Mathieu Bourgarel, et al.. (2016). Bat flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae and Streblidae) infesting cave-dwelling bats in Gabon: diversity, dynamics and potential role in Polychromophilus melanipherus transmission. Parasites & Vectors. 9(1). 333–333. 37 indexed citations

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Prugnolle, Franck, Benjamin Ollomo, Patrick Durand, et al.. (2011). African monkeys are infected by Plasmodium falciparum nonhuman primate-specific strains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(29). 11948–11953. 52 indexed citations

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Prugnolle, Franck, Patrick Durand, Cécile Neel, et al.. (2010). African great apes are natural hosts of multiple related malaria species, including Plasmodium falciparum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(4). 1458–1463. 164 indexed citations

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Meeûs, Thierry de, Karen D. McCoy, Franck Prugnolle, et al.. (2006). Population genetics and molecular epidemiology or how to “débusquer la bête”. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 7(2). 308–332. 139 indexed citations

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Caillaud, Damien, Franck Prugnolle, Patrick Durand, André Thèron, & Thierry de Meeûs. (2006). Host sex and parasite genetic diversity. Microbes and Infection. 8(9-10). 2477–2483. 22 indexed citations

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Liu, Hua, Franck Prugnolle, Andrea Manica, & François Balloux. (2006). A Geographically Explicit Genetic Model of Worldwide Human-Settlement History. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 79(2). 230–237. 244 indexed citations

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Prugnolle, Franck, Andrea Manica, Marie J. E. Charpentier, et al.. (2005). Pathogen-Driven Selection and Worldwide HLA Class I Diversity. Current Biology. 15(11). 1022–1027. 334 indexed citations

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Thèron, André, C. Sire, Anne Rognon, Franck Prugnolle, & P. Durand. (2004). Molecular ecology of Schistosoma mansoni transmission inferred from the genetic composition of larval and adult infrapopulations within intermediate and definitive hosts. Parasitology. 129(5). 571–585. 75 indexed citations

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