Guy Baele

31.0k total citations · 8 hit papers
167 papers, 15.8k citations indexed

About

Guy Baele is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Guy Baele has authored 167 papers receiving a total of 15.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Genetics, 55 papers in Molecular Biology and 40 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Guy Baele's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (48 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (33 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (18 papers). Guy Baele is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (48 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (33 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (18 papers). Guy Baele collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and United Kingdom. Guy Baele's co-authors include Marc A. Suchard, Andrew Rambaut, Alexei J. Drummond, Dong Xie, Philippe Lemey, Daniel L. Ayres, Trevor Bedford, Alexander V. Alekseyenko, Filip Bielejec and Steven Maere and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Guy Baele

161 papers receiving 15.7k 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.

Posterior Summarization in Bayesian Phylogenetics Using Tracer 1.7

2018 7.1k citations Andrew Rambaut, Alexei J. Drummond et al. Systematic Biology profile →
Bayesian phylogenetic and phylodynamic data integration using BEAST 1.10

2018 2.3k citations Marc A. Suchard, Philippe Lemey et al. Virus Evolution profile →
Improving the Accuracy of Demographic and Molecular Clock Model Comparison While Accommodating Phylogenetic Uncertainty

2012 878 citations Guy Baele, Philippe Lemey et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
Accurate Model Selection of Relaxed Molecular Clocks in Bayesian Phylogenetics

2012 474 citations Guy Baele, Alexei J. Drummond et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
Domestication and Divergence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Beer Yeasts

2016 468 citations Brigida Gallone, Guy Baele et al. profile →
The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations

2014 406 citations Nuno R. Faria, Andrew Rambaut et al. Science profile →
SpreaD3: Interactive Visualization of Spatiotemporal History and Trait Evolutionary Processes

2016 375 citations Guy Baele, Bram Vrancken et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
Unifying Viral Genetics and Human Transportation Data to Predict the Global Transmission Dynamics of Human Influenza H3N2

2014 275 citations Philippe Lemey, Andrew Rambaut et al. PLoS Pathogens profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Guy Baele Belgium	36	4.3k	4.2k	3.5k	3.2k	2.7k	167	15.8k
François Balloux United Kingdom	60	4.1k 1.0×	7.1k 1.7×	2.5k 0.7×	2.2k 0.7×	3.5k 1.3×	144	17.1k
Olga Chernomor Austria	8	6.4k 1.5×	3.3k 0.8×	3.6k 1.0×	1.6k 0.5×	3.8k 1.4×	8	15.6k
Maria Anisimova Switzerland	28	8.6k 2.0×	4.0k 0.9×	2.9k 0.8×	1.9k 0.6×	4.3k 1.6×	75	20.0k
Wim Hordijk United States	28	6.7k 1.6×	3.1k 0.7×	2.6k 0.7×	1.5k 0.5×	3.8k 1.4×	70	16.7k
Jean-François Dufayard France	13	8.5k 2.0×	3.4k 0.8×	2.7k 0.8×	1.9k 0.6×	4.3k 1.6×	14	19.6k
Vincent Lefort France	13	9.1k 2.1×	3.5k 0.8×	2.8k 0.8×	2.0k 0.6×	4.8k 1.8×	23	21.0k
Dong Xie United States	26	7.4k 1.7×	7.2k 1.7×	6.6k 1.9×	2.1k 0.7×	5.1k 1.9×	37	22.7k
Amy Wilson Canada	14	6.3k 1.5×	3.3k 0.8×	3.9k 1.1×	1.2k 0.4×	4.0k 1.5×	34	15.5k
Peter Meintjes New Zealand	3	6.4k 1.5×	3.3k 0.8×	3.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.4×	3.8k 1.4×	4	15.1k
Shane Sturrock United Kingdom	8	6.6k 1.5×	3.3k 0.8×	3.8k 1.1×	1.2k 0.4×	3.9k 1.4×	10	15.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Guy Baele

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Dellicour, Simon, Fabiana Gámbaro, Maude Jacquot, et al.. (2025). Comparative performance of viral landscape phylogeography approaches. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(26). e2506743122–e2506743122.

Gallego‐García, Pilar, Samuel L. Hong, Simon Dellicour, et al.. (2025). International importance and spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants Alpha, Delta, and Omicron BA.1 into Spain. Communications Medicine. 5(1). 209–209.

Baele, Guy, Xiang Ji, Gabriel W. Hassler, et al.. (2025). BEAST X for Bayesian phylogenetic, phylogeographic and phylodynamic inference. Nature Methods. 22(8). 1653–1656. 8 indexed citations

Sun, Yankuo, Yue Li, Han Gao, et al.. (2024). Demographic and zoological drivers of infectome diversity in companion cats with ascites. mSystems. 9(9). e0063624–e0063624.

Hong, Samuel L., Fabiana Gámbaro, Marc A. Suchard, et al.. (2024). spread.gl: visualizing pathogen dispersal in a high-performance browser application. Bioinformatics. 40(12). 4 indexed citations

Carvalho, Luiz Max, Samuel L. Hong, Frederick A. Matsen, et al.. (2024). On the importance of assessing topological convergence in Bayesian phylogenetic inference. Virus Evolution. 10(1). veae081–veae081. 2 indexed citations

Baele, Guy, et al.. (2023). Detecting Episodic Evolution through Bayesian Inference of Molecular Clock Models. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(10). 4 indexed citations

Zhao, Jin, Hongyan Wu, Bowen Sun, et al.. (2023). Risk assessment of SARS-CoV-2 replicating and evolving in animals. Trends in Microbiology. 32(1). 79–92. 4 indexed citations

Dellicour, Simon, Samuel L. Hong, Verity Hill, et al.. (2023). Variant-specific introduction and dispersal dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in New York City – from Alpha to Omicron. PLoS Pathogens. 19(4). e1011348–e1011348. 8 indexed citations

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Seabra, Sofia G., Pieter Libin, Kristof Theys, et al.. (2022). Genome-wide diversity of Zika virus: Exploring spatio-temporal dynamics to guide a new nomenclature proposal. Virus Evolution. 8(1). veac029–veac029. 5 indexed citations

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Hassler, Gabriel W., Brigida Gallone, Leandro Arístide, et al.. (2022). Principled, practical, flexible, fast: A new approach to phylogenetic factor analysis. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(10). 2181–2197. 16 indexed citations

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Lequime, Sébastian, Paul Bastide, Simon Dellicour, Philippe Lemey, & Guy Baele. (2020). nosoi: A stochastic agent‐based transmission chain simulation framework in r. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 11(8). 1002–1007. 15 indexed citations

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Duchêne, Sebastián, Philippe Lemey, Tanja Stadler, et al.. (2020). Bayesian Evaluation of Temporal Signal in Measurably Evolving Populations. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(11). 3363–3379. 75 indexed citations

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Dellicour, Simon, Keith Durkin, Samuel L. Hong, et al.. (2020). A Phylodynamic Workflow to Rapidly Gain Insights into the Dispersal History and Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Lineages. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(4). 1608–1613. 51 indexed citations

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Duchêne, Sebastián, Leo Featherstone, Melina Haritopoulou-Sinanidou, et al.. (2020). Temporal signal and the phylodynamic threshold of SARS-CoV-2. Virus Evolution. 6(2). veaa061–veaa061. 234 indexed citations

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Dellicour, Simon, Cécile Troupin, Fatemeh Jahanbakhsh, et al.. (2019). Using phylogeographic approaches to analyse the dispersal history, velocity and direction of viral lineages — Application to rabies virus spread in Iran. Molecular Ecology. 28(18). 4335–4350. 30 indexed citations

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Suchard, Marc A., Xiang Ji, Sophie Gryseels, et al.. (2019). Divergence dating using mixed effects clock modelling: An application to HIV-1. Virus Evolution. 5(2). vez036–vez036. 16 indexed citations

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Baele, Guy, Marc A. Suchard, Andrew Rambaut, & Philippe Lemey. (2016). Emerging Concepts of Data Integration in Pathogen Phylodynamics. Systematic Biology. 66(1). syw054–syw054. 74 indexed citations

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Faria, Nuno R., Andrew Rambaut, Marc A. Suchard, et al.. (2014). The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations. Science. 346(6205). 56–61. 406 indexed citations breakdown →

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Baele, Guy, Philippe Lemey, Trevor Bedford, et al.. (2012). Improving the Accuracy of Demographic and Molecular Clock Model Comparison While Accommodating Phylogenetic Uncertainty. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29(9). 2157–2167. 878 indexed citations breakdown →

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