Simon Boitard

5.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Simon Boitard is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Animal Science and Zoology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Boitard has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Genetics, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Animal Science and Zoology. Recurrent topics in Simon Boitard's work include Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (17 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (17 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (16 papers). Simon Boitard is often cited by papers focused on Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (17 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (17 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (16 papers). Simon Boitard collaborates with scholars based in France, Portugal and Morocco. Simon Boitard's co-authors include Kim‐Anh Lê Cao, Philippe Besse, Bertrand Servin, Willy Rodríguez, Magali SanCristobal, María Inés Fariello, Olivier Mazet, Lounès Chikhi, Simona Grusea and Hugo Naya and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Genetics and PLoS Biology.

In The Last Decade

Simon Boitard

31 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

Sparse PLS discriminant analysis: biologically relevant f... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2012 200 400 600
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. Sparse PLS discriminant analysis: biologically relevant feature selection and graphical displays for multiclass problems
    2011 667 citations Kim‐Anh Lê Cao, Simon Boitard et al. BMC Bioinformatics profile →
  2. Genome-Wide Analysis of the World's Sheep Breeds Reveals High Levels of Historic Mixture and Strong Recent Selection
    2012 619 citations James Kijas, Johannes A. Lenstra et al. PLoS Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Simon Boitard France 18 1.7k 724 342 256 243 32 2.7k
Magali SanCristobal France 21 1.3k 0.8× 594 0.8× 170 0.5× 227 0.9× 179 0.7× 33 2.0k
Wen Huang United States 37 1.7k 1.0× 1.2k 1.7× 315 0.9× 154 0.6× 281 1.2× 114 3.4k
Florence Jaffrézic France 22 991 0.6× 1.2k 1.7× 434 1.3× 247 1.0× 115 0.5× 78 2.7k
Mehar S. Khatkar Australia 25 1.7k 1.0× 328 0.5× 241 0.7× 143 0.6× 182 0.7× 88 2.3k
Qiang Qiu China 26 805 0.5× 855 1.2× 186 0.5× 110 0.4× 245 1.0× 88 2.2k
Juha Kantanen Finland 37 2.7k 1.6× 528 0.7× 475 1.4× 351 1.4× 193 0.8× 132 3.3k
A. M. Crawford New Zealand 27 2.1k 1.2× 842 1.2× 134 0.4× 238 0.9× 479 2.0× 104 2.9k
Bertrand Servin France 25 2.4k 1.4× 618 0.9× 403 1.2× 289 1.1× 124 0.5× 59 3.2k
Dénis Laloë France 28 2.0k 1.2× 1.1k 1.5× 482 1.4× 394 1.5× 144 0.6× 97 3.5k
Keren Byrne Australia 37 1.6k 0.9× 1.1k 1.5× 212 0.6× 338 1.3× 455 1.9× 82 3.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Boitard

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Boitard

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

All Works

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Hobolth, Asger, Simon Boitard, Andreas Futschik, & Raphaël Leblois. (2025). A matrix-analytical sampling formula for time-homogeneous coalescent processes under the infinite sites mutation model. Theoretical Population Biology. 163. 62–79.
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Montagnani, Caroline, Bruno Petton, Julien de Lorgeril, et al.. (2022). Early life microbial exposures shape the Crassostrea gigas immune system for lifelong and intergenerational disease protection. Microbiome. 10(1). 85–85. 40 indexed citations
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Boitard, Simon, et al.. (2021). Inferring number of populations and changes in connectivity under the n-island model. Heredity. 126(6). 896–912. 17 indexed citations
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Boitard, Simon, et al.. (2021). Gene Banks as Reservoirs to Detect Recent Selection: The Example of the Asturiana de los Valles Bovine Breed. Frontiers in Genetics. 12. 575405–575405. 8 indexed citations
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Berri, Cécile, Simon Boitard, Christelle Hennequet‐Antier, et al.. (2018). Mapping QTL for white striping in relation to breast muscle yield and meat quality traits in broiler chickens. BMC Genomics. 19(1). 202–202. 50 indexed citations
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Grusea, Simona, Willy Rodríguez, Didier Pinchon, et al.. (2018). Coalescence times for three genes provide sufficient information to distinguish population structure from population size changes. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 78(1-2). 189–224. 10 indexed citations
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Boitard, Simon, Willy Rodríguez, Flora Jay, Stefano Mona, & Frédéric Austerlitz. (2016). Inferring Population Size History from Large Samples of Genome-Wide Molecular Data - An Approximate Bayesian Computation Approach. PLoS Genetics. 12(3). e1005877–e1005877. 104 indexed citations
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Mazet, Olivier, Willy Rodríguez, Simona Grusea, Simon Boitard, & Lounès Chikhi. (2015). On the importance of being structured: instantaneous coalescence rates and human evolution—lessons for ancestral population size inference?. Heredity. 116(4). 362–371. 192 indexed citations
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Fariello, María Inés, et al.. (2014). Selection Signatures in Worldwide Sheep Populations. PLoS ONE. 9(8). e103813–e103813. 136 indexed citations
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Sallé, Guillaume, Carole Moréno, Simon Boitard, et al.. (2014). Functional investigation of a QTL affecting resistance to Haemonchus contortus in sheep. Veterinary Research. 45(1). 68–68. 16 indexed citations
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Kijas, James, Johannes A. Lenstra, Ben J. Hayes, et al.. (2012). Genome-Wide Analysis of the World's Sheep Breeds Reveals High Levels of Historic Mixture and Strong Recent Selection. PLoS Biology. 10(2). e1001258–e1001258. 619 indexed citations breakdown →
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Boitard, Simon, et al.. (2012). Detecting Selective Sweeps from Pooled Next-Generation Sequencing Samples. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29(9). 2177–2186. 66 indexed citations
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Fève, Katia, Fabienne Pituello, David Gourichon, et al.. (2011). Epilepsy Caused by an Abnormal Alternative Splicing with Dosage Effect of the SV2A Gene in a Chicken Model. PLoS ONE. 6(10). e26932–e26932. 31 indexed citations
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Amigues, Yves, et al.. (2011). Genetic characterization of the Blonde d’Aquitaine cattle breed using microsatellite markers and relationship with three other French cattle populations. Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics. 128(3). 201–208. 14 indexed citations
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Cao, Kim‐Anh Lê, Simon Boitard, & Philippe Besse. (2011). Sparse PLS discriminant analysis: biologically relevant feature selection and graphical displays for multiclass problems. BMC Bioinformatics. 12(1). 253–253. 667 indexed citations breakdown →
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Boitard, Simon, Jihad Abdallah, Hubert de Rochambeau, Christine Cierco-Ayrolles, & Brigitte Mangin. (2006). Linkage disequilibrium interval mapping of quantitative trait loci. BMC Genomics. 7(1). 54–54. 7 indexed citations

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