Mircea T. Sofonea

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 601 citations indexed

About

Mircea T. Sofonea is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Modeling and Simulation and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Mircea T. Sofonea has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 601 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Infectious Diseases, 16 papers in Modeling and Simulation and 10 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Mircea T. Sofonea's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (16 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (12 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (9 papers). Mircea T. Sofonea is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (16 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (12 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (9 papers). Mircea T. Sofonea collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Switzerland. Mircea T. Sofonea's co-authors include Samuel Alizon, Sabine Trombert‐Paolantoni, Bénédicte Roquebert, Vincent Foulongne, Stéphanie Haïm‐Boukobza, Laura Verdurme, Emmanuel Lecorché, Yannis Michalakis, Ramsès Djidjou‐Demasse and Christian Selinger and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Virology and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mircea T. Sofonea

35 papers receiving 578 citations

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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.

Rapid spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in some French regions, June 2021

2021 256 citations Samuel Alizon, Vincent Foulongne et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mircea T. Sofonea France	11	275	200	92	86	68	36	601
Shevaun Paine New Zealand	10	190 0.7×	193 1.0×	78 0.8×	247 2.9×	47 0.7×	15	671
Jonathan E. Pekar United States	6	394 1.4×	165 0.8×	99 1.1×	63 0.7×	58 0.9×	14	584
Jiumeng Sun China	9	449 1.6×	96 0.5×	68 0.7×	51 0.6×	97 1.4×	13	780
Michael Li Canada	12	343 1.2×	222 1.1×	71 0.8×	71 0.8×	57 0.8×	26	618
Sibylle Bernard-Stoecklin France	10	251 0.9×	158 0.8×	37 0.4×	160 1.9×	90 1.3×	15	740
Wan-Ting He China	5	471 1.7×	96 0.5×	56 0.6×	57 0.7×	74 1.1×	5	728
Claudio Fronterrè United Kingdom	14	261 0.9×	114 0.6×	164 1.8×	254 3.0×	21 0.3×	41	856
Junjie Zai China	8	965 3.5×	261 1.3×	111 1.2×	93 1.1×	57 0.8×	11	1.3k
Shang Xia China	16	274 1.0×	223 1.1×	369 4.0×	131 1.5×	34 0.5×	69	967
Naif Khalaf Alharbi Saudi Arabia	16	500 1.8×	145 0.7×	68 0.7×	144 1.7×	66 1.0×	61	1.0k

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Djidjou‐Demasse, Ramsès, et al.. (2025). Mutant emergence timing and population immunisation status impact epidemiological dynamics. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 608. 112140–112140. 1 indexed citations

Godfrey‐Faussett, Peter, Corinne Merle, Mircea T. Sofonea, et al.. (2025). Tuberculosis and people who use drugs: why focus on this overlooked population is important and why adapted interventions are necessary. The Lancet Global Health. 13(3). e593–e598. 1 indexed citations

Hamel, Rodolphe, Arnaud Berthomieu, Sineewanlaya Wichit, et al.. (2024). West Nile virus can be transmitted within mosquito populations through infectious mosquito excreta. iScience. 27(11). 111099–111099. 5 indexed citations

Blanchet, Christophe, et al.. (2024). Real-time forecasting of COVID-19-related hospital strain in France using a non-Markovian mechanistic model. PLoS Computational Biology. 20(5). e1012124–e1012124. 2 indexed citations

Murall, Carmen Lía, Vanina Boué, Nicolas Tessandier, et al.. (2024). Incidence and duration of human papillomavirus infections in young women: insights from a bimonthly follow-up cohort. Infectious Diseases. 57(4). 322–331. 1 indexed citations

Mezzarobba, M., Mircea T. Sofonea, Didier Payen, et al.. (2023). Intensive Care Unit activity in France from the national database between 2013 and 2019: More critically ill patients, shorter stay and lower mortality rate. Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine. 42(5). 101228–101228. 3 indexed citations

Djidjou‐Demasse, Ramsès, Mircea T. Sofonea, Marc Choisy, & Samuel Alizon. (2023). Within-host evolutionary dynamics of antimicrobial quantitative resistance. Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena. 18. 24–24. 3 indexed citations

Kamiya, Tsukushi, et al.. (2023). Estimating time-dependent contact: a multi-strain epidemiological model of SARS-CoV-2 on the island of Ireland. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 100111–100111. 5 indexed citations

Selinger, Christian, et al.. (2022). Non-Markovian modelling highlights the importance of age structure on Covid-19 epidemiological dynamics. Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena. 17. 7–7. 10 indexed citations

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Roquebert, Bénédicte, Mircea T. Sofonea, Sabine Trombert‐Paolantoni, et al.. (2022). Variant‐specific SARS‐CoV‐2 within‐host kinetics. Journal of Medical Virology. 94(8). 3625–3633. 13 indexed citations

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Selinger, Christian, Mircea T. Sofonea, Stéphanie Miot, et al.. (2021). Analysing different exposures identifies that wearing masks and establishing COVID-19 areas reduce secondary-attack risk in aged-care facilities. International Journal of Epidemiology. 50(6). 1788–1794. 5 indexed citations

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Alizon, Samuel & Mircea T. Sofonea. (2021). SARS‐CoV‐2 virulence evolution: Avirulence theory, immunity and trade‐offs. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 34(12). 1867–1877. 22 indexed citations

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Sofonea, Mircea T., et al.. (2021). Estimating dates of origin and end of COVID-19 epidemics. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. 6 indexed citations

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Sofonea, Mircea T., et al.. (2021). Memory is key in capturing COVID-19 epidemiological dynamics. Epidemics. 35. 100459–100459. 34 indexed citations

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Alizon, Samuel, et al.. (2021). Age-structured non-pharmaceutical interventions for optimal control of COVID-19 epidemic. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(3). e1008776–e1008776. 37 indexed citations

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Djidjou‐Demasse, Ramsès, Samuel Alizon, & Mircea T. Sofonea. (2021). Within-host bacterial growth dynamics with both mutation and horizontal gene transfer. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 82(3). 16–16. 6 indexed citations

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Sofonea, Mircea T. & Samuel Alizon. (2021). Anticipating COVID-19 intensive care unit capacity strain: A look back at epidemiological projections in France. Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine. 40(4). 100943–100943. 4 indexed citations

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Djidjou‐Demasse, Ramsès, Christian Selinger, & Mircea T. Sofonea. (2020). Épidémiologie mathématique et modélisation de la pandémie de Covid-19 : enjeux et diversité. Revue Francophone des Laboratoires. 2020(526). 63–69. 2 indexed citations

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Sofonea, Mircea T.. (2018). A global asymptotic stability condition for a Lotka–Volterra model with indirect interactions. Applicable Analysis. 98(9). 1636–1645. 1 indexed citations

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Sofonea, Mircea T., et al.. (2017). Can Ebola virus evolve to be less virulent in humans?. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 31(3). 382–392. 6 indexed citations

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