Olivier Gascuel

67.5k total citations · 12 hit papers
136 papers, 46.4k citations indexed

About

Olivier Gascuel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Olivier Gascuel has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 46.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Molecular Biology, 59 papers in Genetics and 29 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Olivier Gascuel's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (71 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (43 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (29 papers). Olivier Gascuel is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (71 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (43 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (29 papers). Olivier Gascuel collaborates with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Olivier Gascuel's co-authors include Stéphane Guindon, Maria Anisimova, Vincent Lefort, Jean-François Dufayard, Wim Hordijk, Si Quang Le, Jean-Emmanuel Longueville, Richard Desper, François Chevenet and Valentin Guignon and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Olivier Gascuel

132 papers receiving 45.7k citations

Hit Papers

A Simple, Fast, and Accur... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 2010 2008 2008 2006 4.0k 8.0k 12.0k
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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.

  1. A Simple, Fast, and Accurate Algorithm to Estimate Large Phylogenies by Maximum Likelihood
    2003 14.5k citations Stéphane Guindon, Olivier Gascuel Systematic Biology profile →
  2. New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0
    2010 13.7k citations Stéphane Guindon, Vincent Lefort et al. Systematic Biology profile →
  3. Phylogeny.fr: robust phylogenetic analysis for the non-specialist
    2008 3.8k citations Stéphane Guindon, Vincent Lefort et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  4. An Improved General Amino Acid Replacement Matrix
    2008 2.4k citations Olivier Gascuel et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
  5. Approximate Likelihood-Ratio Test for Branches: A Fast, Accurate, and Powerful Alternative
    2006 2.2k citations Olivier Gascuel et al. Systematic Biology profile →
  6. SMS: Smart Model Selection in PhyML
    2017 1.3k citations Vincent Lefort, Olivier Gascuel et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
  7. PHYML Online--a web server for fast maximum likelihood-based phylogenetic inference
    2005 1.2k citations Stéphane Guindon, Olivier Gascuel et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  8. FastME 2.0: A Comprehensive, Accurate, and Fast Distance-Based Phylogeny Inference Program: Table 1.
    2015 1.2k citations Vincent Lefort, Olivier Gascuel et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
  9. Survey of Branch Support Methods Demonstrates Accuracy, Power, and Robustness of Fast Likelihood-based Approximation Schemes
    2011 874 citations Olivier Gascuel et al. Systematic Biology profile →
  10. Estimating Maximum Likelihood Phylogenies with PhyML
    2009 642 citations Stéphane Guindon, Olivier Gascuel et al. profile →
  11. NGPhylogeny.fr: new generation phylogenetic services for non-specialists
    2019 536 citations Frédéric Lemoine, Vincent Lefort et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  12. Renewing Felsenstein’s phylogenetic bootstrap in the era of big data
    2018 448 citations Frédéric Lemoine, Olivier Gascuel et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Olivier Gascuel France 35 21.0k 11.1k 10.8k 8.7k 6.5k 136 46.4k
Stéphane Guindon France 21 16.3k 0.8× 10.0k 0.9× 8.8k 0.8× 8.3k 1.0× 7.3k 1.1× 39 39.8k
Bùi Quang Minh Austria 32 22.1k 1.1× 12.9k 1.2× 11.7k 1.1× 10.8k 1.2× 11.9k 1.8× 78 52.1k
Naruya Saitou Japan 45 30.6k 1.5× 12.8k 1.2× 14.6k 1.4× 10.8k 1.2× 4.2k 0.6× 199 58.9k
Alan Filipski United States 11 16.4k 0.8× 8.0k 0.7× 12.6k 1.2× 6.4k 0.7× 4.9k 0.7× 14 41.5k
Arndt von Haeseler Austria 58 28.4k 1.4× 13.8k 1.2× 13.2k 1.2× 14.1k 1.6× 12.4k 1.9× 192 61.8k
Aaron E. Darling Australia 39 15.2k 0.7× 9.6k 0.9× 8.0k 0.7× 6.4k 0.7× 7.5k 1.2× 101 34.1k
David Posada Spain 55 18.9k 0.9× 15.4k 1.4× 12.5k 1.2× 18.5k 2.1× 13.0k 2.0× 164 56.6k
Daron M. Standley Japan 36 17.9k 0.9× 7.0k 0.6× 9.0k 0.8× 5.4k 0.6× 6.6k 1.0× 113 35.8k
Kazutaka Katoh Japan 31 29.3k 1.4× 13.5k 1.2× 17.4k 1.6× 9.8k 1.1× 12.6k 1.9× 50 62.1k
Daniel S. Peterson United States 28 16.1k 0.8× 7.9k 0.7× 12.5k 1.2× 6.1k 0.7× 4.7k 0.7× 96 42.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Olivier Gascuel

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

All Works

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Xie, Ruopeng, Dillon C. Adam, Hu Shu, et al.. (2024). Integrating Contact Tracing Data to Enhance Outbreak Phylodynamic Inference: A Deep Learning Approach. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 41(11). 2 indexed citations
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Lemoine, Frédéric & Olivier Gascuel. (2024). The Bayesian Phylogenetic Bootstrap and its Application to Short Trees and Branches. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 41(11). 3 indexed citations
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Morel, Marie Hélène, Anna Zhukova, Frédéric Lemoine, & Olivier Gascuel. (2024). Accurate Detection of Convergent Mutations in Large Protein Alignments With ConDor. Genome Biology and Evolution. 16(4). 2 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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Amrane, Samir, Amina Bedrat, Patrícia Recordon-Pinson, et al.. (2022). Deciphering RNA G-quadruplex function during the early steps of HIV-1 infection. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(21). 12328–12343. 21 indexed citations
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Gascuel, Olivier, et al.. (2022). TiPS : Rapidly simulating trajectories and phylogenies from compartmental models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(2). 487–495. 2 indexed citations
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Lemoine, Frédéric & Olivier Gascuel. (2021). Gotree/Goalign: toolkit and Go API to facilitate the development of phylogenetic workflows. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 3(3). lqab075–lqab075. 64 indexed citations
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Lemoine, Frédéric, et al.. (2020). COVID-Align: accurate online alignment of hCoV-19 genomes using a profile HMM. Bioinformatics. 37(12). 1761–1762. 7 indexed citations
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Gascuel, Olivier & Mike Steel. (2019). A Darwinian Uncertainty Principle. Systematic Biology. 69(3). 521–529. 13 indexed citations
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Oliva, Aude, et al.. (2019). Accounting for ambiguity in ancestral sequence reconstruction. Bioinformatics. 35(21). 4290–4297. 9 indexed citations
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Chang, Jia‐Ming, Evan Floden, Javier Herrero, et al.. (2019). Incorporating alignment uncertainty into Felsenstein’s phylogenetic bootstrap to improve its reliability. Bioinformatics. 37(11). 1506–1514. 8 indexed citations
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Lemoine, Frédéric, Vincent Lefort, Olivia Doppelt‐Azeroual, et al.. (2019). NGPhylogeny.fr: new generation phylogenetic services for non-specialists. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(W1). W260–W265. 536 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ishikawa, Sohta A., Anna Zhukova, Wataru Iwasaki, & Olivier Gascuel. (2019). A Fast Likelihood Method to Reconstruct and Visualize Ancestral Scenarios. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36(9). 2069–2085. 139 indexed citations
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Gascuel, Olivier. (2006). Neighbor-Joining Revealed. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 23(11). 1997–2000. 200 indexed citations
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Elemento, Olivier & Olivier Gascuel. (2004). An exact and polynomial distance-based algorithm to reconstruct single copy tandem duplication trees. Journal of Discrete Algorithms. 3(2-4). 362–374. 2 indexed citations
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Guindon, Stéphane & Olivier Gascuel. (2003). A Simple, Fast, and Accurate Algorithm to Estimate Large Phylogenies by Maximum Likelihood. Systematic Biology. 52(5). 696–704. 14535 indexed citations breakdown →
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Elemento, Olivier & Olivier Gascuel. (2001). A Fast and Accurate Distance Algorithm to Reconstruct Tandem Duplication Trees. Bioinformatics. 18. 92–99. 6 indexed citations
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Gascuel, Olivier & Gilles Caraux. (1992). Statistical significance in inductive learning. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 435–439. 7 indexed citations
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Danchin, Antoine, Claudine Médigue, Olivier Gascuel, Henry Soldano, & Alain Hénaut. (1991). From data banks to data bases. Research in Microbiology. 142(7-8). 913–916. 22 indexed citations

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