Katrina Lythgoe

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Katrina Lythgoe is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Virology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Katrina Lythgoe has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Infectious Diseases, 16 papers in Virology and 13 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Katrina Lythgoe's work include HIV Research and Treatment (16 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (13 papers) and HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (8 papers). Katrina Lythgoe is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (16 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (13 papers) and HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (8 papers). Katrina Lythgoe collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Katrina Lythgoe's co-authors include Christophe Fraser, Martin Beer, Peter Simmonds, Nikolaos I. Stilianakis, Aris Katzourakis, Peter V. Markov, Mahan Ghafari, Lorenzo Pellis, Lin Chao and Sebastian Bonhoeffer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Katrina Lythgoe

35 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

The evolution of SARS-CoV-2

2023 545 citations Peter V. Markov, Mahan Ghafari et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Katrina Lythgoe United Kingdom	19	769	342	291	278	256	38	1.5k
Carla Mavian United States	18	729 0.9×	181 0.5×	176 0.6×	138 0.5×	294 1.1×	66	1.3k
Bram Vrancken Belgium	21	800 1.0×	526 1.5×	223 0.8×	532 1.9×	201 0.8×	58	1.6k
Wuze Ren United States	11	1.7k 2.2×	307 0.9×	122 0.4×	251 0.9×	292 1.1×	12	2.1k
Hanzhong Wang China	15	2.0k 2.5×	390 1.1×	135 0.5×	140 0.5×	454 1.8×	30	2.6k
Timothy R. Peters United States	19	534 0.7×	614 1.8×	123 0.4×	172 0.6×	219 0.9×	54	1.5k
Sidney M. Bell United States	4	1.3k 1.7×	336 1.0×	151 0.5×	90 0.3×	153 0.6×	5	1.8k
Danielle E. Anderson Singapore	25	2.2k 2.8×	592 1.7×	196 0.7×	174 0.6×	311 1.2×	65	3.0k
Thomas Tran Australia	22	1.0k 1.3×	824 2.4×	123 0.4×	131 0.5×	106 0.4×	49	1.9k
Gianguglielmo Zehender Italy	27	1.1k 1.4×	867 2.5×	112 0.4×	221 0.8×	406 1.6×	128	2.3k
Eitel Mpoudi Ngole Cameroon	17	752 1.0×	410 1.2×	145 0.5×	563 2.0×	210 0.8×	32	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Katrina Lythgoe

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Katrina Lythgoe

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

All Works

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Ghafari, Mahan, Steven A. Kemp, Luca Ferretti, et al.. (2025). SARS-CoV-2 genomic diversity and within-host evolution in individuals with persistent infection in the UK: an observational, longitudinal, population-based surveillance study. The Lancet Microbe. 6(9). 101154–101154.

Flegg, Jennifer A., et al.. (2025). Reconstructing the first COVID-19 pandemic wave with minimal data in England. Epidemics. 50. 100814–100814.

Tonkin‐Hill, Gerry, Christopher Ruis, Stephen D. Bentley, Katrina Lythgoe, & Josephine M. Bryant. (2025). Within-host bacterial evolution and the emergence of pathogenicity. Nature Microbiology. 10(8). 1829–1840.

Markov, Peter V., Mahan Ghafari, Martin Beer, et al.. (2023). The evolution of SARS-CoV-2. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 21(6). 361–379. 545 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhao, Lele & Katrina Lythgoe. (2023). The social role of defective viral genomes in chronic viral infections: a commentary on Leeks et al. 2023. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 36(11). 1577–1581. 1 indexed citations

Villabona‐Arenas, Christian Julián, Matthew Hall, Katrina Lythgoe, et al.. (2020). Number of HIV-1 founder variants is determined by the recency of the source partner infection. Science. 369(6499). 103–108. 8 indexed citations

Lythgoe, Katrina, Sheila Lumley, Lorenzo Pellis, Jane A. McKeating, & Philippa C. Matthews. (2020). Estimating hepatitis B virus cccDNA persistence in chronic infection†. Virus Evolution. 7(1). veaa063–veaa063. 20 indexed citations

Illingworth, Christopher J. R., Jayna Raghwani, David Serwadda, et al.. (2020). A de novo approach to inferring within-host fitness effects during untreated HIV-1 infection. PLoS Pathogens. 16(6). e1008171–e1008171. 3 indexed citations

Lythgoe, Katrina, et al.. (2019). On the diverse and opposing effects of nutrition on pathogen virulence. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1906). 20191220–20191220. 47 indexed citations

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Lumley, Sheila, Anna McNaughton, Paul Klenerman, Katrina Lythgoe, & Philippa C. Matthews. (2018). Hepatitis B Virus Adaptation to the CD8+ T Cell Response: Consequences for Host and Pathogen. Frontiers in Immunology. 9. 1561–1561. 28 indexed citations

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Raghwani, Jayna, Andrew D. Redd, Chieh‐Hsi Wu, et al.. (2018). Evolution of HIV-1 within untreated individuals and at the population scale in Uganda. PLoS Pathogens. 14(7). e1007167–e1007167. 17 indexed citations

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Lythgoe, Katrina, Andy Gardner, Oliver G. Pybus, & Joe Grove. (2017). Short-Sighted Virus Evolution and a Germline Hypothesis for Chronic Viral Infections. Trends in Microbiology. 25(5). 336–348. 39 indexed citations

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Fraser, Christophe, et al.. (2017). Effect of the Latent Reservoir on the Evolution of HIV at the Within- and Between-Host Levels. PLoS Computational Biology. 13(1). e1005228–e1005228. 20 indexed citations

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Lythgoe, Katrina, François Blanquart, Lorenzo Pellis, & Christophe Fraser. (2016). Large Variations in HIV-1 Viral Load Explained by Shifting-Mosaic Metapopulation Dynamics. PLoS Biology. 14(10). e1002567–e1002567. 12 indexed citations

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Fraser, Christophe, Katrina Lythgoe, Gabriel E. Leventhal, et al.. (2014). Virulence and Pathogenesis of HIV-1 Infection: An Evolutionary Perspective. Science. 343(6177). 1243727–1243727. 155 indexed citations

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Vijver, David van de, Brooke E Nichols, Ume L. Abbas, et al.. (2013). Preexposure prophylaxis will have a limited impact on HIV-1 drug resistance in sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS. 27(18). 2943–2951. 53 indexed citations

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Vijver, David van de, Brooke E Nichols, Valentina Cambiano, et al.. (2012). Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) will have a limited impact on the prevalence of HIV-1 drug resistance in sub-Saharan Africa: comparison of mathematical models. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 15. 140–141. 1 indexed citations

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Lythgoe, Katrina, Liam J. Morrison, Andrew F. Read, & J. David Barry. (2007). Parasite-intrinsic factors can explain ordered progression of trypanosome antigenic variation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(19). 8095–8100. 54 indexed citations

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Marcello, Lucio, J. David Barry, Liam J. Morrison, et al.. (2005). What the genome sequence is revealing about trypanosome antigenic variation. Biochemical Society Transactions. 33(5). 986–986. 43 indexed citations

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Lythgoe, Katrina & Andrew Read. (1998). Catching the Red Queen? The advice of the Rose. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 13(12). 473–474. 27 indexed citations

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