Simon D. W. Frost

22.7k total citations · 8 hit papers
152 papers, 15.3k citations indexed

About

Simon D. W. Frost is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Virology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon D. W. Frost has authored 152 papers receiving a total of 15.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Infectious Diseases, 66 papers in Virology and 45 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Simon D. W. Frost's work include HIV Research and Treatment (65 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (51 papers) and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (32 papers). Simon D. W. Frost is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (65 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (51 papers) and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (32 papers). Simon D. W. Frost collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Spain. Simon D. W. Frost's co-authors include Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Spencer V. Muse, Art F. Y. Poon, Mike B. Gravenor, Wayne Delport, Christopher H. Woelk, David Posada, Andrew Brown, Erik Volz and Douglas D. Richman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Simon D. W. Frost

145 papers receiving 15.1k citations

Hit Papers

HyPhy: hypothesis testing using phylogenies 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 2005 2005 2010 2006 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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. HyPhy: hypothesis testing using phylogenies
    2004 2.3k citations Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Simon D. W. Frost et al. profile →
  2. Not So Different After All: A Comparison of Methods for Detecting Amino Acid Sites Under Selection
    2005 1.7k citations Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Simon D. W. Frost profile →
  3. Datamonkey: rapid detection of selective pressure on individual sites of codon alignments
    2005 1.2k citations Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Simon D. W. Frost profile →
  4. Datamonkey 2010: a suite of phylogenetic analysis tools for evolutionary biology
    2010 990 citations Art F. Y. Poon, Simon D. W. Frost et al. profile →
  5. Automated Phylogenetic Detection of Recombination Using a Genetic Algorithm
    2006 759 citations Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, David Posada et al. profile →
  6. GARD: a genetic algorithm for recombination detection
    2006 643 citations Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, David Posada et al. profile →
  7. Producing polished prokaryotic pangenomes with the Panaroo pipeline
    2020 576 citations Simon D. W. Frost et al. profile →
  8. HyPhy 2.5—A Customizable Platform for Evolutionary Hypothesis Testing Using Phylogenies
    2019 367 citations Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Art F. Y. Poon 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
Simon D. W. Frost United States 54 5.3k 4.2k 3.7k 3.5k 2.8k 152 15.3k
Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond United States 60 7.3k 1.4× 6.9k 1.7× 4.5k 1.2× 3.9k 1.1× 4.3k 1.6× 200 21.7k
Philippe Lemey Belgium 72 8.9k 1.7× 4.0k 1.0× 3.3k 0.9× 5.7k 1.6× 4.4k 1.6× 307 22.3k
Raul Andino United States 62 4.9k 0.9× 6.5k 1.6× 999 0.3× 2.2k 0.6× 2.8k 1.0× 142 15.0k
Sebastian Bonhoeffer Switzerland 71 6.1k 1.2× 3.9k 0.9× 8.6k 2.3× 3.4k 1.0× 4.9k 1.8× 233 21.2k
Esteban Domingo Spain 83 5.9k 1.1× 8.1k 1.9× 2.2k 0.6× 3.7k 1.1× 6.7k 2.4× 379 23.3k
John J. Sninsky United States 49 2.9k 0.5× 4.0k 1.0× 2.9k 0.8× 3.1k 0.9× 2.6k 1.0× 120 12.5k
F.A. Rey France 64 9.3k 1.8× 3.9k 0.9× 2.2k 0.6× 4.9k 1.4× 1.2k 0.4× 202 17.8k
Mariano Estéban Spain 67 2.6k 0.5× 5.7k 1.4× 5.8k 1.6× 5.7k 1.6× 3.6k 1.3× 366 15.8k
Martine Peeters France 61 7.9k 1.5× 2.3k 0.5× 8.9k 2.4× 3.8k 1.1× 1.1k 0.4× 296 14.3k
Marco Salemi United States 46 2.9k 0.5× 1.8k 0.4× 2.1k 0.6× 1.6k 0.5× 1.1k 0.4× 243 8.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Carnell, George, Phil Palmer, Lorraine A. O’Reilly, et al.. (2025). Computationally designed haemagglutinin with nanocage plug-and-display elicits pan-H5 influenza vaccine responses. Emerging Microbes & Infections. 14(1). 2511132–2511132.
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Didelot, Xavier, et al.. (2023). Model design for nonparametric phylodynamic inference and applications to pathogen surveillance. Virus Evolution. 9(1). vead028–vead028. 3 indexed citations
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Zhou, Shuntai, Nathan Long, Matt Moeser, et al.. (2023). Use of Next-Generation Sequencing in a State-Wide Strategy of HIV-1 Surveillance: Impact of the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic on HIV-1 Diagnosis and Transmission. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 228(12). 1758–1765.
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Galiwango, Ronald, et al.. (2022). Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Dynamics of Human Influenza Type-A Viruses in Africa: A Systematic Review. Microorganisms. 10(5). 900–900. 5 indexed citations
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Oluniyi, Paul E., Fehintola V. Ajogbasile, Judith U. Oguzie, et al.. (2021). VGEA: an RNA viral assembly toolkit. PeerJ. 9. e12129–e12129. 2 indexed citations
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Volz, Erik, Carsten Wiuf, Yonatan H. Grad, et al.. (2020). Identification of Hidden Population Structure in Time-Scaled Phylogenies. Systematic Biology. 69(5). 884–896. 18 indexed citations
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Wells, Konstans, Miguel Lurgi, Brendan Collins, et al.. (2020). Disease control across urban–rural gradients. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 17(173). 20200775–20200775. 11 indexed citations
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Olawoye, Idowu B., Simon D. W. Frost, & Christian Happi. (2020). The Bacteria Genome Pipeline (BAGEP): an automated, scalable workflow for bacteria genomes with Snakemake. PeerJ. 8. e10121–e10121. 13 indexed citations
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Eick, Geeta N., María José Ruiz‐López, David Hyeroba, et al.. (2019). Genome-Wide Patterns of Gene Expression in a Wild Primate Indicate Species-Specific Mechanisms Associated with Tolerance to Natural Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection. Genome Biology and Evolution. 11(6). 1630–1643. 7 indexed citations
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Dennis, Ann M., Erik Volz, Simon D. W. Frost, et al.. (2018). HIV-1 Transmission Clustering and Phylodynamics Highlight the Important Role of Young Men Who Have Sex with Men. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 34(10). 879–888. 21 indexed citations
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Salvaña, Edsel Maurice T., et al.. (2017). The changing molecular epidemiology of HIV in the Philippines. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 61. 44–50. 17 indexed citations
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Frost, Simon D. W. & Rachel McCrindle. (2016). Speech Development and Therapy Using the Kinect. 9(3). 269. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Zheng, Jia Li, Marcia L. Kalish, et al.. (2015). Genomic Characterization of Two Novel HIV-1 Unique (CRF01_AE/B) Recombinant Forms Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Beijing, China. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 31(9). 921–925. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Zheng, Huamian Wei, Jia Li, et al.. (2014). Genomic Characterization of Two Novel HIV-1 Second-Generation Recombinant Forms Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Beijing, China. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 31(3). 342–346. 12 indexed citations
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McCreesh, Nicky, Simon D. W. Frost, Janet Seeley, et al.. (2011). Evaluation of Respondent-driven Sampling. Epidemiology. 23(1). 138–147. 220 indexed citations
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Pond, Sergei L. Kosakovsky, David Posada, Eric Stawiski, et al.. (2009). An Evolutionary Model-Based Algorithm for Accurate Phylogenetic Breakpoint Mapping and Subtype Prediction in HIV-1. PLoS Computational Biology. 5(11). e1000581–e1000581. 165 indexed citations
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Pond, Sergei L. Kosakovsky, Art F. Y. Poon, Selene Zárate, et al.. (2008). Estimating selection pressures on HIV‐1 using phylogenetic likelihood models. Statistics in Medicine. 27(23). 4779–4789. 17 indexed citations
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Poon, Art F. Y., Fraser Lewis, Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, & Simon D. W. Frost. (2007). Evolutionary Interactions between N-Linked Glycosylation Sites in the HIV-1 Envelope. PLoS Computational Biology. 3(1). e11–e11. 60 indexed citations
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Frost, Simon D. W.. (2002). Dynamics and evolution of HIV-1 during structured treatment interruptions.. PubMed. 4(3). 119–27. 8 indexed citations

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