Jean‐François Guégan

15.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
196 papers, 10.9k citations indexed

About

Jean‐François Guégan is a scholar working on Ecology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jean‐François Guégan has authored 196 papers receiving a total of 10.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Ecology, 54 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 49 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Jean‐François Guégan's work include Zoonotic diseases and public health (46 papers), Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (38 papers) and Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (37 papers). Jean‐François Guégan is often cited by papers focused on Zoonotic diseases and public health (46 papers), Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (38 papers) and Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (37 papers). Jean‐François Guégan collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and United Kingdom. Jean‐François Guégan's co-authors include Sovan Lek, Thierry Oberdorff, Howard V. Cornell, Jeremy T. Kerr, Bradford A. Hawkins, John R. G. Turner, Eileen M. O’Brien, Dawn M. Kaufman, Richard Field and David J. Currie and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Lancet and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Jean‐François Guégan

188 papers receiving 10.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

ENERGY, WATER, AND BROAD-SCALE GEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF SPECIES RICHNESS

2003 1.9k citations Bradford A. Hawkins, Richard Field et al. profile →
Predictions and tests of climate‐based hypotheses of broad‐scale variation in taxonomic richness

2004 976 citations David J. Currie, Gary G. Mittelbach et al. Ecology Letters profile →
Artificial neural networks as a tool in ecological modelling, an introduction

1999 681 citations Jean‐François Guégan et al. profile →
Spatial species‐richness gradients across scales: a meta‐analysis

2008 565 citations Richard Field, Bradford A. Hawkins et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jean‐François Guégan France	46	3.9k	3.4k	2.2k	1.8k	1.6k	196	10.9k
Hamish McCallum Australia	51	3.8k 1.0×	1.2k 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	1.5k 0.9×	2.2k 1.4×	202	10.3k
Xavier Lambin United Kingdom	52	5.7k 1.4×	2.0k 0.6×	724 0.3×	2.3k 1.3×	1.9k 1.2×	210	8.5k
Pieter T. J. Johnson United States	58	7.8k 2.0×	3.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	2.3k 1.4×	199	13.8k
Ottar N. Bjørnstad United States	67	6.3k 1.6×	3.4k 1.0×	788 0.4×	2.9k 1.6×	2.4k 1.5×	202	14.9k
Charles E. Mitchell United States	45	3.2k 0.8×	2.4k 0.7×	539 0.2×	2.6k 1.4×	1.4k 0.9×	262	12.9k
Robert R. Dunn United States	69	3.7k 0.9×	3.0k 0.9×	2.8k 1.3×	5.0k 2.8×	4.0k 2.5×	306	16.2k
Daniel T. Haydon United Kingdom	57	4.2k 1.1×	1.2k 0.3×	639 0.3×	2.7k 1.5×	2.3k 1.5×	205	12.6k
Mercedes Pascual United States	52	3.0k 0.8×	1.2k 0.4×	588 0.3×	1.6k 0.9×	2.1k 1.3×	160	12.9k
Thibaut Jombart United Kingdom	37	4.9k 1.2×	3.1k 0.9×	1.3k 0.6×	3.3k 1.9×	8.3k 5.3×	88	18.1k
Piran C. L. White United Kingdom	50	4.5k 1.1×	961 0.3×	797 0.4×	1.1k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	230	9.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jean‐François Guégan

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Chevillon, Christine, Jennifer L. Pechal, Michael J. Sandel, et al.. (2025). Seasonality and mycobacterial infectious diseases in animals and humans: is there a generality of seasonal patterns for mycobacterial infections?. Infectious Diseases of Poverty. 14(1). 59–59.

Guégan, Jean‐François, Cláudia Barbosa Ladeira de Campos, Christine Chevillon, et al.. (2025). Land-use and land-cover changes and emerging non-tuberculous and tuberculous infectious diseases in humans and animals: a mixed-methods review of research findings from global and spatio-temporal perspectives. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 3(1). 12003–12003. 1 indexed citations

Guégan, Jean‐François. (2024). From disease surveillance to public action. Re-inforcing both epidemiological surveillance and data analysis: an illustration with Mycobacterium bovis. 3 indexed citations

Guégan, Jean‐François, et al.. (2023). World forests, global change, and emerging pests and pathogens. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 61. 101266–101266. 36 indexed citations

Guégan, Jean‐François, Loïc Epelboin, Maylis Douine, et al.. (2023). Emerging infectious diseases and new pandemics: dancing with a ghost! Lessons in inter- and transdisciplinary research in French Guiana, South America. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 133. 9–13. 4 indexed citations

Kocher, Arthur, Josselin Cornuault, Jean-Charles Gantier, et al.. (2022). Biodiversity and vector‐borne diseases: Host dilution and vector amplification occur simultaneously for Amazonian leishmaniases. Molecular Ecology. 32(8). 1817–1831. 28 indexed citations

Receveur, Joseph P., Jennifer L. Pechal, Heather R. Jordan, et al.. (2021). A need for null models in understanding disease transmission: the example ofMycobacterium ulcerans(Buruli ulcer disease). FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 46(1). 10 indexed citations

Roche, Benjamín, Andrés Garchitorena, Jean‐François Guégan, et al.. (2020). Was the COVID‐19 pandemic avoidable? A call for a “solution‐oriented” approach in pathogen evolutionary ecology to prevent future outbreaks. Ecology Letters. 23(11). 1557–1560. 28 indexed citations

Guégan, Jean‐François, Ahidjo Ayouba, Julien Cappelle, & Benoı̂t de Thoisy. (2020). Forests and emerging infectious diseases: unleashing the beast within. Environmental Research Letters. 15(8). 83007–83007. 52 indexed citations

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Guégan, Jean‐François, et al.. (2019). Environmental Variations in Mycobacterium ulcerans Transcriptome: Absence of Mycolactone Expression in Suboptimal Environments. Toxins. 11(3). 146–146. 6 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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Combe, Marine, Amanda Sheffield Morris, Andrés Garchitorena, et al.. (2017). Global and local environmental changes as drivers of Buruli ulcer emergence [+ erratum in Emerging Microbes and Infections.2017,6, e34]. Emerging Microbes & Infections. 6. 3 indexed citations

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Garchitorena, Andrés, Calistus N. Ngonghala, Jean‐François Guégan, et al.. (2015). Economic inequality caused by feedbacks between poverty and the dynamics of a rare tropical disease: the case of Buruli ulcer in sub-Saharan Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1818). 20151426–20151426. 11 indexed citations

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Zogo, Barnabas, et al.. (2015). A Field Study in Benin to Investigate the Role of Mosquitoes and Other Flying Insects in the Ecology of Mycobacterium ulcerans. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 9(7). e0003941–e0003941. 23 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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Currie, David J., Gary G. Mittelbach, Howard V. Cornell, et al.. (2004). Predictions and tests of climate‐based hypotheses of broad‐scale variation in taxonomic richness. Ecology Letters. 7(12). 1121–1134. 976 indexed citations breakdown →

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Guégan, Jean‐François & A. Lambert. (1991). Dactylogyrids (Platyhelminthes : Monogenea) f Labeo : Cyprinidae) from West African coastal rivers. 58(1). 1 indexed citations

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Lévêque, Christian & Jean‐François Guégan. (1990). Les grands Barbus ( Teleostei, Cyprinidae ) d'Afrique de l'Ouest : révision systématique et parasitofaune branchiale. 23(1). 41–65. 9 indexed citations

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Guégan, Jean‐François, A. Lambert, & Louis Euzet. (1989). Etude des Monogènes des Cyprinidae du genre Labeo en Afrique de l'Ouest. II: Genre Dogielius Bykhowski, 1936. 22(1). 35–48. 6 indexed citations

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Paugy, Didier & Jean‐François Guégan. (1989). Note à propos de trois espèces d'Hydrocynus (Pisces, Characidae) du bassin du Niger suivie de la réhabilitation de l'espèce Hydrocynus vittatus (Castelnau, 1861). 22(1). 63–69. 8 indexed citations

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