Louis du Plessis

25.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
37 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Louis du Plessis is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Louis du Plessis has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Genetics and 11 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Louis du Plessis's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (8 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (7 papers). Louis du Plessis is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (8 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (7 papers). Louis du Plessis collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and United States. Louis du Plessis's co-authors include Oliver G. Pybus, John T. McCrone, Áine O’Toole, Andrew Rambaut, Verity Hill, Edward C. Holmes, Christopher Ruis, Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Bernardo Gutiérrez and Nuno R. Faria and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Louis du Plessis

35 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China

2020 1.9k citations Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Chia-Hung Yang et al. Science profile →
A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology

2020 1.4k citations Andrew Rambaut, Edward C. Holmes et al. Nature Microbiology profile →
Assignment of epidemiological lineages in an emerging pandemic using the pangolin tool

2021 551 citations Áine O’Toole, Emily Scher et al. Virus Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Louis du Plessis United Kingdom	18	2.3k	1.6k	804	683	662	37	4.7k
Nuno R. Faria United Kingdom	40	2.4k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	689 0.9×	779 1.1×	1.3k 2.0×	102	6.8k
Don Klinkenberg Netherlands	29	1.8k 0.8×	2.2k 1.4×	221 0.3×	1.1k 1.6×	905 1.4×	82	5.7k
Yonatan H. Grad United States	42	2.3k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	1.5k 1.8×	523 0.8×	1.4k 2.2×	142	7.6k
Shengjie Lai China	35	1.6k 0.7×	1.8k 1.1×	256 0.3×	615 0.9×	1.3k 2.0×	147	5.0k
Chieh‐Hsi Wu United Kingdom	18	856 0.4×	1.4k 0.9×	2.0k 2.5×	679 1.0×	791 1.2×	48	8.1k
C. Jessica E. Metcalf United States	51	2.6k 1.1×	3.1k 1.9×	733 0.9×	660 1.0×	2.4k 3.6×	218	10.2k
Alex R. Cook Singapore	46	2.8k 1.2×	2.6k 1.6×	374 0.5×	992 1.5×	2.0k 3.0×	229	8.8k
Ruiyun Li China	25	1.7k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	939 1.2×	531 0.8×	656 1.0×	96	4.6k
Amy Wesolowski United States	29	1.7k 0.7×	2.3k 1.4×	309 0.4×	564 0.8×	1.4k 2.1×	94	6.3k
Stefano Merler Italy	46	2.6k 1.1×	5.1k 3.1×	444 0.6×	1.5k 2.2×	2.2k 3.3×	157	9.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Louis du Plessis

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All Works

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Zarebski, Alexander E., et al.. (2025). Estimating epidemic dynamics with genomic and time series data. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 22(227). 20240632–20240632.

Guinat, Claire, François‐Xavier Briand, Sébastien Lambert, et al.. (2025). Poultry farm density and proximity drive highly pathogenic avian influenza spread. Communications Biology. 8(1). 1306–1306. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Zhiyuan, Joseph L.-H. Tsui, Jun Cai, et al.. (2025). Disruption of seasonal influenza circulation and evolution during the 2009 H1N1 and COVID-19 pandemics in Southeastern Asia. Nature Communications. 16(1). 475–475. 4 indexed citations

Majander, Kerttu, Louis du Plessis, Natasha Arora, et al.. (2024). Redefining the treponemal history through pre-Columbian genomes from Brazil. Nature. 627(8002). 182–188. 7 indexed citations

Fuhrmann, Lara, Kim Philipp Jablonski, Ivan Topolsky, et al.. (2024). V-pipe 3.0: a sustainable pipeline for within-sample viral genetic diversity estimation. GigaScience. 13. 7 indexed citations

Tsui, Joseph L.-H., Bernardo Gutiérrez, Louis du Plessis, et al.. (2024). COVID-19 pandemic interventions reshaped the global dispersal of seasonal influenza viruses. Science. 386(6722). eadq3003–eadq3003. 34 indexed citations

Raghwani, Jayna, Louis du Plessis, John T. McCrone, et al.. (2022). Genomic Epidemiology of Early SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Dynamics, Gujarat, India. Emerging infectious diseases. 28(4). 751–758. 4 indexed citations

O’Toole, Áine, Emily Scher, Anthony Underwood, et al.. (2021). Assignment of epidemiological lineages in an emerging pandemic using the pangolin tool. Virus Evolution. 7(2). veab064–veab064. 551 indexed citations breakdown →

O’Toole, Áine, Emily Scher, Anthony Underwood, et al.. (2021). Assignment of Epidemiological Lineages in an Emerging Pandemic Using the Pangolin Tool. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 1 indexed citations

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Parag, Kris V., Louis du Plessis, & Oliver G. Pybus. (2020). Jointly Inferring the Dynamics of Population Size and Sampling Intensity from Molecular Sequences. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(8). 2414–2429. 21 indexed citations

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Majander, Kerttu, Saskia Pfrengle, Arthur Kocher, et al.. (2020). Ancient Bacterial Genomes Reveal a High Diversity of Treponema pallidum Strains in Early Modern Europe. Current Biology. 30(19). 3788–3803.e10. 36 indexed citations

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Rambaut, Andrew, Edward C. Holmes, Áine O’Toole, et al.. (2020). A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology. Nature Microbiology. 5(11). 1403–1407. 1402 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dellicour, Simon, Sébastian Lequime, Bram Vrancken, et al.. (2020). Epidemiological hypothesis testing using a phylogeographic and phylodynamic framework. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5620–5620. 37 indexed citations

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Kraemer, Moritz U. G., Chia-Hung Yang, Bernardo Gutiérrez, et al.. (2020). The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China. Science. 368(6490). 493–497. 1934 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vasylyeva, Tetyana I., Louis du Plessis, Andrea-Clemencia Pineda-Peña, et al.. (2019). Tracing the Impact of Public Health Interventions on HIV-1 Transmission in Portugal Using Molecular Epidemiology. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 220(2). 233–243. 20 indexed citations

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Vasylyeva, Tetyana I., Louis du Plessis, Esther Fearnhill, et al.. (2018). The Changing Epidemiological Profile of HIV-1 Subtype B Epidemic in Ukraine. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 35(2). 155–163. 6 indexed citations

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Schmid‐Hempel, Paul, Markus Aebi, Seth M. Barribeau, et al.. (2018). The genomes of Crithidia bombi and C. expoeki, common parasites of bumblebees. PLoS ONE. 13(1). e0189738–e0189738. 22 indexed citations

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Plessis, Louis du, Gabriel E. Leventhal, & Sebastian Bonhoeffer. (2016). How Good Are Statistical Models at Approximating Complex Fitness Landscapes?. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33(9). 2454–2468. 22 indexed citations

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Plessis, Louis du, Nives Škunca, & Christophe Dessimoz. (2011). The what, where, how and why of gene ontology--a primer for bioinformaticians. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 12(6). 723–735. 98 indexed citations

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Damelin, Steven B., et al.. (2008). An investigation of data compression techniques for hyperspectral core imager data. Planta. 232(5). 1141–9. 6 indexed citations

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