Frédéric Thomas

15.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
327 papers, 10.7k citations indexed

About

Frédéric Thomas is a scholar working on Ecology, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Frédéric Thomas has authored 327 papers receiving a total of 10.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 104 papers in Ecology, 93 papers in Genetics and 57 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Frédéric Thomas's work include Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (78 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (58 papers) and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (35 papers). Frédéric Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (78 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (58 papers) and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (35 papers). Frédéric Thomas collaborates with scholars based in France, Australia and United States. Frédéric Thomas's co-authors include Robert Poulin, Beáta Újvári, Dorothée Missé, Thierry Léfèvre, Michel Gauthier‐Clerc, François Renaud, Jean‐François Guégan, Camille Lebarbenchon, Shelley A. Adamo and Thierry de Meeûs and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Frédéric Thomas

319 papers receiving 10.4k 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.

Biology of Zika Virus Infection in Human Skin Cells

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Frédéric Thomas France	53	3.5k	2.4k	2.3k	1.9k	1.6k	327	10.7k
Cheryl J. Briggs United States	53	2.8k 0.8×	1.6k 0.7×	2.0k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	129	11.6k
Sylvain Gandon France	54	2.5k 0.7×	2.7k 1.1×	4.9k 2.1×	1.4k 0.7×	859 0.5×	146	9.4k
Sonia Altizer United States	58	5.5k 1.6×	2.8k 1.2×	3.7k 1.6×	1.5k 0.8×	2.3k 1.5×	130	14.3k
Jason R. Rohr United States	66	4.3k 1.2×	2.6k 1.1×	1.7k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	203	13.6k
Jacob C. Koella Switzerland	48	1.5k 0.4×	3.3k 1.4×	2.1k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	727 0.5×	139	7.6k
Pieter T. J. Johnson United States	58	7.8k 2.2×	2.1k 0.9×	2.3k 1.0×	867 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	199	13.8k
Andrea L. Graham United States	39	1.4k 0.4×	1.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	634 0.3×	1.7k 1.1×	112	6.0k
Sergé Morand France	67	9.2k 2.6×	2.8k 1.2×	4.2k 1.8×	1.3k 0.7×	2.6k 1.6×	520	17.8k
Andrew A. Cunningham United Kingdom	62	5.0k 1.4×	4.4k 1.8×	2.3k 1.0×	755 0.4×	5.4k 3.4×	265	19.7k
Adalgisa Caccone United States	52	2.3k 0.6×	2.4k 1.0×	3.3k 1.5×	1.6k 0.8×	375 0.2×	252	8.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frédéric Thomas

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Dujon, Antoine M., Peter A. Biro, Beáta Újvári, & Frédéric Thomas. (2025). Towards a more robust comparative oncology: a Bayesian reanalysis of Peto’s paradox and discussion of comparative cancer risk studies in vertebrates. Royal Society Open Science. 12(7). 250840–250840. 1 indexed citations

Touchard, F., E. A. V. Burioli, Laure Paradis, et al.. (2024). Marine transmissible cancer navigates urbanized waters, threatening spillover. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2017). 20232541–20232541. 6 indexed citations

Schultz, Aaron G., Thomas Madsen, Frédéric Thomas, et al.. (2023). Genetic divergence of farmed blue mussels (Mytilus sp.) in Australian waters. Aquaculture. 578. 740059–740059. 1 indexed citations

Schultz, Aaron G., Peter A. Biro, Christa Beckmann, et al.. (2023). The effect of mitochondrial recombination on fertilization success in blue mussels. The Science of The Total Environment. 913. 169491–169491.

Dujon, Antoine M., Orsolya Vincze, Mathieu Giraudeau, et al.. (2023). Cancer hygiene hypothesis: A test from wild captive mammals. Ecology and Evolution. 13(9). e10547–e10547. 4 indexed citations

Madsen, Thomas, Marcel Klaassen, Nynke Raven, et al.. (2022). Transmissible cancer and longitudinal telomere dynamics in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii). Molecular Ecology. 31(24). 6531–6540. 2 indexed citations

Raven, Nynke, Marcel Klaassen, Thomas Madsen, et al.. (2022). Transmissible cancer influences immune gene expression in an endangered marsupial, the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii). Molecular Ecology. 31(8). 2293–2311. 3 indexed citations

Dujon, Antoine M., et al.. (2021). Machine learning is a powerful tool to study the effect of cancer on species and ecosystems. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(12). 2310–2323. 4 indexed citations

Capp, Jean‐Pascal, James DeGregori, Aurora M. Nedelcu, et al.. (2021). Group phenotypic composition in cancer. eLife. 10. 24 indexed citations

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Vantaux, Amélie, Domonbabélé François de Sales Hien, Bienvenue K. Yaméogo, et al.. (2021). Field evidence for manipulation of mosquito host selection by the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. 10 indexed citations

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Dujon, Antoine M., Jean‐Pascal Capp, Joel S. Brown, et al.. (2021). Is There One Key Step in the Metastatic Cascade?. Cancers. 13(15). 3693–3693. 27 indexed citations

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Capp, Jean‐Pascal & Frédéric Thomas. (2020). Tissue‐disruption‐induced cellular stochasticity and epigenetic drift: Common origins of aging and cancer?. BioEssays. 43(1). e2000140–e2000140. 11 indexed citations

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Dujon, Antoine M., Gail Schofield, Nynke Raven, et al.. (2020). Global meta‐analysis of over 50 years of multidisciplinary and international collaborations on transmissible cancers. Evolutionary Applications. 13(7). 1745–1755. 9 indexed citations

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Hamede, Rodrigo, Thomas Madsen, Hamish McCallum, et al.. (2020). Darwin, the devil, and the management of transmissible cancers. Conservation Biology. 35(2). 748–751. 13 indexed citations

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Biro, Peter A., Frédéric Thomas, Beáta Újvári, Bart Adriaenssens, & Christa Beckmann. (2019). Spontaneous activity rates and resting metabolism: Support for the allocation model of energy management at the among‐individual level. Ethology. 126(1). 32–39. 13 indexed citations

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Raven, Nynke, et al.. (2019). Fifth International Biannual Evolution and Ecology of Cancer Conference (Cooperation, Conflict and Parasitism) meeting report—Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK. Evolutionary Applications. 12(10). 1863–1867. 1 indexed citations

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Jacqueline, Camille, Jessica L. Abbate, Gabriele Sorci, et al.. (2018). The macroecology of cancer incidences in humans is associated with large-scale assemblages of endemic infections. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 61. 189–196. 1 indexed citations

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Vantaux, Amélie, Domonbabélé François de Sales Hien, Roch K. Dabiré, et al.. (2017). No evidence for manipulation of Anopheles gambiae, An. coluzzii and An. arabiensis host preference by Plasmodium falciparum. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 9415–9415. 19 indexed citations

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Léfèvre, Thierry, Shelley A. Adamo, David G. Biron, et al.. (2009). Chapter 3 Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Advances in Parasitology. 68. 45–83. 108 indexed citations

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Henry, Pierre‐Yves, Brigitte Poulin, François Rousset, François Renaud, & Frédéric Thomas. (2004). Infestation by the mite Harpirhynchus nidulans in the Bearded Tit Panurus biarmicus. Bird Study. 51(1). 34–40. 8 indexed citations

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