Sebastian Bonhoeffer

30.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
233 papers, 21.2k citations indexed

About

Sebastian Bonhoeffer is a scholar working on Genetics, Virology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Sebastian Bonhoeffer has authored 233 papers receiving a total of 21.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Genetics, 88 papers in Virology and 68 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Sebastian Bonhoeffer's work include HIV Research and Treatment (88 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (86 papers) and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (50 papers). Sebastian Bonhoeffer is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (88 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (86 papers) and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (50 papers). Sebastian Bonhoeffer collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Sebastian Bonhoeffer's co-authors include Martin A. Nowak, Thomas Pfeiffer, Robert M. May, Roland R. Regoes, Stefan Schuster, Roger D. Kouyos, M A Nowak, David D. Ho, Emilio A. Emini and Xiping Wei and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sebastian Bonhoeffer

229 papers receiving 20.7k citations

Hit Papers

Viral dynamics in human i... 1995 2026 2005 2015 1995 1998 2001 1996 2019 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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.

  1. Viral dynamics in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection
    1995 2.6k citations Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Martin A. Nowak et al. profile →
  2. Quantitation of HIV-1-Specific Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes and Plasma Load of Viral RNA
    1998 1.2k citations Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Martin A. Nowak et al. Science profile →
  3. Cooperation and Competition in the Evolution of ATP-Producing Pathways
    2001 1.0k citations Sebastian Bonhoeffer et al. Science profile →
  4. Viral dynamics in hepatitis B virus infection.
    1996 835 citations Sebastian Bonhoeffer et al. profile →
  5. Global trends in antimicrobial resistance in animals in low- and middle-income countries
    2019 758 citations Sebastian Bonhoeffer et al. Science profile →
  6. Analysis of Total Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-Specific CD4 + and CD8 + T-Cell Responses: Relationship to Viral Load in Untreated HIV Infection
    2001 574 citations Michael R. Betts, David R. Ambrozak et al. Journal of Virology profile →
  7. Reducing antimicrobial use in food animals
    2017 526 citations Sebastian Bonhoeffer et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sebastian Bonhoeffer Switzerland 71 8.6k 6.1k 4.9k 4.3k 3.9k 233 21.2k
Oliver G. Pybus United Kingdom 79 3.8k 0.4× 10.7k 1.8× 4.0k 0.8× 1.6k 0.4× 4.8k 1.2× 303 27.7k
Simon D. W. Frost United States 54 3.7k 0.4× 5.3k 0.9× 2.8k 0.6× 1.8k 0.4× 4.2k 1.1× 152 15.3k
Donald S. Burke United States 76 5.0k 0.6× 10.9k 1.8× 1.2k 0.2× 2.5k 0.6× 2.0k 0.5× 293 25.4k
Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond United States 60 4.5k 0.5× 7.3k 1.2× 4.3k 0.9× 2.5k 0.6× 6.9k 1.8× 200 21.7k
Philippe Lemey Belgium 72 3.3k 0.4× 8.9k 1.5× 4.4k 0.9× 869 0.2× 4.0k 1.0× 307 22.3k
Jaap Goudsmit Netherlands 85 11.5k 1.3× 11.1k 1.8× 4.0k 0.8× 6.1k 1.4× 5.1k 1.3× 329 23.6k
Avidan U. Neumann Israel 50 7.6k 0.9× 5.5k 0.9× 1.4k 0.3× 4.1k 0.9× 1.6k 0.4× 149 16.7k
H. Clifford Lane United States 77 12.1k 1.4× 10.0k 1.6× 3.3k 0.7× 10.5k 2.4× 14.5k 3.7× 309 42.5k
George M. Shaw United States 91 25.1k 2.9× 14.2k 2.3× 1.9k 0.4× 11.9k 2.7× 5.4k 1.4× 236 32.1k
Esteban Domingo Spain 83 2.2k 0.3× 5.9k 1.0× 6.7k 1.4× 1.1k 0.3× 8.1k 2.1× 379 23.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sebastian Bonhoeffer

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All Works

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Bonhoeffer, Sebastian, et al.. (2024). My host’s enemy is my enemy: plasmids carrying CRISPR-Cas as a defence against phages. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2015). 20232449–20232449. 4 indexed citations
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Kouyos, Roger D., et al.. (2024). Assessing the Role of Bacterial Innate and Adaptive Immunity as Barriers to Conjugative Plasmids. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 41(10). 1 indexed citations
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Egger, Matthias, et al.. (2024). The effect of combining antibiotics on resistance: A systematic review and meta-analysis. eLife. 13. 1 indexed citations
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Vasse, Marie, Sebastian Bonhoeffer, & Antoine Frénoy. (2022). Ecological effects of stress drive bacterial evolvability under sub-inhibitory antibiotic treatments. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 80–80. 7 indexed citations
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Uecker, Hildegard & Sebastian Bonhoeffer. (2021). Antibiotic treatment protocols revisited: the challenges of a conclusive assessment by mathematical modelling. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 18(181). 20210308–20210308. 9 indexed citations
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Ashcroft, Peter, Sonja Lehtinen, Daniel C. Angst, Nicola Low, & Sebastian Bonhoeffer. (2021). Quantifying the impact of quarantine duration on COVID-19 transmission. eLife. 10. 54 indexed citations
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Pascual‐García, Alberto, Sebastian Bonhoeffer, & Thomas Bell. (2020). Metabolically cohesive microbial consortia and ecosystem functioning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1798). 20190245–20190245. 44 indexed citations
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Huisman, Jana S., Erik Bakkeren, Tanja Stadler, et al.. (2020). Plasmid- and strain-specific factors drive variation in ESBL-plasmid spread in vitro and in vivo. The ISME Journal. 15(3). 862–878. 62 indexed citations
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Sun, Lei, Peter Ashcroft, Martin Ackermann, & Sebastian Bonhoeffer. (2019). Stochastic Gene Expression Influences the Selection of Antibiotic Resistance Mutations. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(1). 58–70. 7 indexed citations
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Leventhal, Gabriel E., Alison L. Hill, Martin A. Nowak, & Sebastian Bonhoeffer. (2015). Evolution and emergence of infectious diseases in theoretical and real-world networks. Nature Communications. 6(1). 85 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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Bošková, Veronika, Sebastian Bonhoeffer, & Tanja Stadler. (2014). Inference of Epidemiological Dynamics Based on Simulated Phylogenies Using Birth-Death and Coalescent Models. PLoS Computational Biology. 10(11). e1003913–e1003913. 38 indexed citations
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Salathé, Marcel & Sebastian Bonhoeffer. (2008). The effect of opinion clustering on disease outbreaks. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 5(29). 1505–1508. 171 indexed citations
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Magnus, Carsten, Peter Rusert, Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Alexandra Trkola, & Roland R. Regoes. (2008). Estimating the Stoichiometry of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Entry. Journal of Virology. 83(3). 1523–1531. 88 indexed citations
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Soyer, Orkun S., Marcel Salathé, & Sebastian Bonhoeffer. (2005). Signal transduction networks: Topology, response and biochemical processes. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 238(2). 416–425. 27 indexed citations
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Broström, Christina, et al.. (2005). Short Communication: HIV Type 2 Dynamics. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 21(7). 608–610. 2 indexed citations
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Molinier, Jean, et al.. (2004). Interchromatid and Interhomolog Recombination in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Cell. 16(2). 342–352. 70 indexed citations
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Brown, Mark J. F. & Sebastian Bonhoeffer. (2003). On the evolution of claustral colony founding in ants. Evolutionary ecology research. 5(2). 305–313. 44 indexed citations
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Betts, Michael R., David R. Ambrozak, Daniel C. Douek, et al.. (2001). Analysis of Total Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-Specific CD4 + and CD8 + T-Cell Responses: Relationship to Viral Load in Untreated HIV Infection. Journal of Virology. 75(24). 11983–11991. 574 indexed citations breakdown →

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