Olivier Thas

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
185 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Olivier Thas is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Molecular Biology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Olivier Thas has authored 185 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Statistics and Probability, 46 papers in Molecular Biology and 28 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Olivier Thas's work include Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (21 papers), Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (20 papers) and Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (17 papers). Olivier Thas is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (21 papers), Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (20 papers) and Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (17 papers). Olivier Thas collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Australia and United States. Olivier Thas's co-authors include J. C. W. Rayner, Jo Vandesompele, Lieven Clement, D. J. Best, Jean‐Pierre Ottoy, Frederiek‐Maarten Kerckhof, Koen Dewettinck, Nico Boon, Paul Van der Meeren and Pieter Van den Abbeele and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

In The Last Decade

Olivier Thas

176 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Olivier Thas Belgium	35	1.6k	484	450	390	384	185	4.5k
R. Woodrow Setzer United States	40	1.2k 0.8×	366 0.8×	193 0.4×	1.0k 2.7×	256 0.7×	107	6.4k
Shyamal D. Peddada United States	40	4.0k 2.5×	425 0.9×	661 1.5×	342 0.9×	614 1.6×	156	8.5k
Kim‐Anh Lê Cao Australia	43	4.8k 3.0×	393 0.8×	106 0.2×	644 1.7×	431 1.1×	124	9.0k
Edoardo Saccenti Netherlands	32	2.5k 1.6×	277 0.6×	69 0.2×	167 0.4×	270 0.7×	112	4.7k
Kun Chen China	37	895 0.6×	125 0.3×	482 1.1×	93 0.2×	221 0.6×	317	6.4k
Huub C. J. Hoefsloot Netherlands	40	4.7k 3.0×	572 1.2×	104 0.2×	242 0.6×	377 1.0×	137	8.7k
Hiroshi Kurata Japan	31	860 0.5×	306 0.6×	148 0.3×	217 0.6×	184 0.5×	192	3.5k
Cesare Furlanello Italy	34	1.5k 0.9×	145 0.3×	68 0.2×	277 0.7×	212 0.6×	120	4.7k
Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira Brazil	41	1.2k 0.7×	95 0.2×	514 1.1×	583 1.5×	173 0.5×	335	6.4k
David M. Reif United States	46	2.0k 1.3×	145 0.3×	107 0.2×	612 1.6×	87 0.2×	146	6.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Olivier Thas

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

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Chen, Yao, Ward De Spiegelaere, Wim Trypsteen, et al.. (2025). Polytect: an automatic clustering and labeling method for multicolor digital PCR data. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 7(1). lqaf015–lqaf015. 1 indexed citations

Thas, Olivier, et al.. (2024). The winner’s curse under dependence: repairing empirical Bayes using convoluted densities. Biostatistics. 26(1).

Meuris, Leander, Olivier Thas, Lieven Depypere, et al.. (2024). Therapy response monitoring in blood plasma from esophageal adenocarcinoma patients using cell-free DNA methylation profiling. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 31112–31112.

Chen, Yao, et al.. (2023). Measuring DNA quality by digital PCR using probability calculations. Analytica Chimica Acta. 1279. 341822–341822. 6 indexed citations

Vynck, Matthijs, Yao Chen, Jo Vandesompele, et al.. (2023). Digital PCR Partition Classification. Clinical Chemistry. 69(9). 976–990. 11 indexed citations

Forio, Marie Anne Eurie, Peter Goethals, Koen Lock, et al.. (2023). Determining Tipping Points and Responses of Macroinvertebrate Traits to Abiotic Factors in Support of River Management. Biology. 12(4). 593–593. 5 indexed citations

Vandesompele, Jo, et al.. (2020). SPsimSeq: semi-parametric simulation of bulk and single-cell RNA-sequencing data. Bioinformatics. 36(10). 3276–3278. 26 indexed citations

Vynck, Matthijs & Olivier Thas. (2018). Reducing Bias in Digital PCR Quantification Experiments: The Importance of Appropriately Modeling Volume Variability. Analytical Chemistry. 90(11). 6540–6547. 13 indexed citations

Claeys, Tom, Bert Dhondt, Filip Poelaert, et al.. (2017). Prognostic and Therapeutic Implications of Circulating Androgen Receptor Gene Copy Number in Prostate Cancer Patients Using Droplet Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction. Clinical Genitourinary Cancer. 16(3). 197–205.e5. 7 indexed citations

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Vermeulen, Karel, Olivier Thas, & Stijn Vansteelandt. (2014). Increasing the power of the Mann‐Whitney test in randomized experiments through flexible covariate adjustment. Statistics in Medicine. 34(6). 1012–1030. 38 indexed citations

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Neve, Jan De, Olivier Thas, Jean‐Pierre Ottoy, & Lieven Clement. (2013). An extension of the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test for analyzing RT-qPCR data. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology. 12(3). 333–346. 10 indexed citations

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Thas, Olivier, et al.. (2009). Smooth Tests of Goodness of Fit: Using R. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 32 indexed citations

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Carvalho, Beatriz, Cindy Postma, Sandra Mongera, et al.. (2008). Integration of DNA and expression microarray data unravels seven putative oncogenes on 20Q amplicon involved in colorectal adenoma to carcinoma progression. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 2 indexed citations

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Thas, Olivier, J. C. W. Rayner, & D. J. Best. (2005). Tests for Symmetry Based on the One-Sample Wilcoxon Signed Rank Statistic. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation. 34(4). 957–973. 17 indexed citations

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Thas, Olivier & Jean‐Pierre Ottoy. (2004). An extension of the Anderson–Darling k -sample test to arbitrary sample space partition sizes. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 74(9). 651–665. 4 indexed citations

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Thas, Olivier & Jean‐Pierre Ottoy. (2004). A Nonparametric Test for Independence Based on Sample Space Partitions. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation. 33(3). 711–728. 5 indexed citations

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Saveyn, Hans, et al.. (2001). Determination of the refractive index of water dispersable granules through differential refractometry and its influence in laser diffraction experiments. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 2 indexed citations

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Verdonck, Frederik, Joanna Jaworska, Olivier Thas, & Peter A. Vanrolleghem. (2000). UNCERTAINTY TECHNIQUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT. 65. 247–252. 5 indexed citations

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Thas, Olivier & Jean‐Pierre Ottoy. (1999). An approach to intervention analysis in spatio-temporal modelling of river quality. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

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Meirvenne, Marc Van, et al.. (1996). Stratified kriging using vague transition zones. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

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