François Blanquart

3.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
50 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

François Blanquart is a scholar working on Genetics, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, François Blanquart has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Genetics, 12 papers in Infectious Diseases and 12 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in François Blanquart's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (23 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (11 papers) and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (11 papers). François Blanquart is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (23 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (11 papers) and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (11 papers). François Blanquart collaborates with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and United States. François Blanquart's co-authors include Sylvain Gandon, Scott L. Nuismer, Oliver Kaltz, Sonja Lehtinen, Christophe Fraser, Marc Lipsitch, Thomas Bataillon, Florence Débarre, Susan F. Bailey and Rees Kassen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

François Blanquart

47 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

A practical guide to measuring local adaptation

2013 409 citations François Blanquart, Sylvain Gandon et al. profile →
Phage–host coevolution in natural populations

2022 119 citations François Blanquart, Sylvain Gandon et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
François Blanquart France	20	633	377	312	278	261	50	1.6k
Benjamin J. Ridenhour United States	22	519 0.8×	336 0.9×	273 0.9×	455 1.6×	221 0.8×	47	1.8k
Camila J. Mazzoni Germany	20	331 0.5×	392 1.0×	504 1.6×	138 0.5×	168 0.6×	57	1.4k
Joseph D. Busch United States	28	904 1.4×	975 2.6×	1.2k 3.7×	429 1.5×	430 1.6×	64	2.9k
Alex R. Hall Switzerland	29	895 1.4×	801 2.1×	694 2.2×	175 0.6×	247 0.9×	97	2.2k
Tom Vogwill United Kingdom	15	603 1.0×	368 1.0×	389 1.2×	137 0.5×	85 0.3×	16	1.2k
Jason T. Ladner United States	23	287 0.5×	1.1k 3.1×	500 1.6×	234 0.8×	642 2.5×	73	2.5k
Marc Choisy France	27	413 0.7×	322 0.9×	193 0.6×	109 0.4×	476 1.8×	89	2.1k
Anja Bråthen Kristoffersen Norway	26	197 0.3×	735 1.9×	638 2.0×	215 0.8×	730 2.8×	88	2.9k
Robert P. Reynolds Canada	12	574 0.9×	368 1.0×	880 2.8×	100 0.4×	153 0.6×	34	1.5k
Adrien Rieux France	19	277 0.4×	220 0.6×	379 1.2×	82 0.3×	265 1.0×	49	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by François Blanquart

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Fields of papers citing papers by François Blanquart

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of François Blanquart

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Blanquart, François, et al.. (2025). The evolution of antibiotic resistance in Europe, 1998–2019. PLoS Pathogens. 21(4). e1012945–e1012945. 3 indexed citations

Tonkin‐Hill, Gerry, Thibaut Morel‐Journel, Stephen D. Bentley, et al.. (2025). Quantifying the effects of antibiotic resistance and within-host competition on strain fitness in Streptococcus pneumoniae. PLoS Biology. 23(8). e3003300–e3003300. 2 indexed citations

Blanquart, François, et al.. (2024). Using early detection data to estimate the date of emergence of an epidemic outbreak. PLoS Computational Biology. 20(3). e1011934–e1011934. 2 indexed citations

Day, Troy, et al.. (2023). A stochastic analysis of the interplay between antibiotic dose, mode of action, and bacterial competition in the evolution of antibiotic resistance. PLoS Computational Biology. 19(8). e1011364–e1011364. 9 indexed citations

Blanquart, François, et al.. (2023). Temporal, age, and geographical variation in vaccine efficacy against infection by the Delta and Omicron variants in the community in France, December 2021 to March 2022. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 133. 89–96. 5 indexed citations

Gandon, Sylvain, et al.. (2023). Bottlenecks can constrain and channel evolutionary paths. Genetics. 224(2). 6 indexed citations

Marin, Julie, Olivier Clermont, Guilhem Royer, et al.. (2022). The Population Genomics of Increased Virulence and Antibiotic Resistance in Human Commensal Escherichia coli over 30 Years in France. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 88(15). e0066422–e0066422. 24 indexed citations

Lehtinen, Sonja, Nicholas J. Croucher, François Blanquart, & Christophe Fraser. (2022). Epidemiological dynamics of bacteriocin competition and antibiotic resistance. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1984). 20221197–20221197. 8 indexed citations

Blanquart, François, Nathanaël Hozé, Benjamin J. Cowling, Florence Débarre, & Simon Cauchemez. (2022). Selection for infectivity profiles in slow and fast epidemics, and the rise of SARS-CoV-2 variants. eLife. 11. 12 indexed citations

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Blanquart, François, et al.. (2022). From individual-based epidemic models to McKendrick-von Foerster PDEs: a guide to modeling and inferring COVID-19 dynamics. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 85(4). 43–43. 6 indexed citations

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Débarre, Florence, António Gonçalves, Olivier Tenaillon, et al.. (2021). Success of prophylactic antiviral therapy for SARS-CoV-2: Predicted critical efficacies and impact of different drug-specific mechanisms of action. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(3). e1008752–e1008752. 33 indexed citations

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Blanquart, François, et al.. (2021). Estimating the global reduction in transmission and rise in detection capacity of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in early 2020. Epidemics. 35. 100445–100445. 1 indexed citations

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Baron, Alexandra, François Blanquart, Sara Dion, et al.. (2020). Success of Escherichia coli O25b:H4 Sequence Type 131 Clade C Associated with a Decrease in Virulence. Infection and Immunity. 88(12). 16 indexed citations

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Schertzer, Emmanuel, et al.. (2020). The stochastic dynamics of early epidemics: probability of\n establishment, initial growth rate, and infection cluster size at first\n detection. arXiv (Cornell University). 8 indexed citations

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Lehtinen, Sonja, et al.. (2020). Factors favouring the evolution of multidrug resistance in bacteria. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 17(168). 20200105–20200105. 31 indexed citations

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Lehtinen, Sonja, François Blanquart, Marc Lipsitch, & Christophe Fraser. (2019). On the evolutionary ecology of multidrug resistance in bacteria. PLoS Pathogens. 15(5). e1007763–e1007763. 52 indexed citations

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Lehtinen, Sonja, François Blanquart, Nicholas J. Croucher, et al.. (2017). Evolution of antibiotic resistance is linked to any genetic mechanism affecting bacterial duration of carriage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(5). 1075–1080. 93 indexed citations

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Bailey, Susan F., François Blanquart, Thomas Bataillon, & Rees Kassen. (2016). What drives parallel evolution?. BioEssays. 39(1). 1–9. 88 indexed citations

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Blanquart, François. (2014). The demography of a metapopulation in an environment changing in time and space. Theoretical Population Biology. 94. 1–9. 2 indexed citations

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Blanquart, François & Sylvain Gandon. (2011). Evolution of Migration in a Periodically Changing Environment. The American Naturalist. 177(2). 188–201. 44 indexed citations

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