Simon Dellicour

9.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
115 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Simon Dellicour is a scholar working on Genetics, Infectious Diseases and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Dellicour has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Genetics, 39 papers in Infectious Diseases and 35 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Simon Dellicour's work include Plant and animal studies (28 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (17 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (16 papers). Simon Dellicour is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (28 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (17 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (16 papers). Simon Dellicour collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and France. Simon Dellicour's co-authors include Jean‐François Flot, Philippe Lemey, Denis Michez, Patrick Mardulyn, Oliver G. Pybus, Thomas Lecocq, Guy Baele, Pierre Rasmont, Bram Vrancken and Marc A. Suchard and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Simon Dellicour

108 papers receiving 2.8k citations

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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.

Contribution of climate change to the spatial expansion of West Nile virus in Europe

2024 51 citations Nathan D. Grubaugh, Simon Dellicour et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Olivier Restif United Kingdom

Gudrun Wibbelt Germany

Jan Šlapeta Australia

Cor J. Vink New Zealand

Luis E. Escobar United States

Sandra Eßbauer Germany

Roman Biek United Kingdom

Meggan E. Craft United States

Sebastián Duchêne Australia

Kevin J. Bown United Kingdom

Olivier Restif United Kingdom

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Dellicour

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Gallego‐García, Pilar, Samuel L. Hong, Simon Dellicour, et al.. (2025). International importance and spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants Alpha, Delta, and Omicron BA.1 into Spain. Communications Medicine. 5(1). 209–209.

Lim, Jun‐Sik, et al.. (2024). A spatially-heterogeneous impact of fencing on the African swine fever wavefront in the Korean wild boar population. Veterinary Research. 55(1). 163–163. 2 indexed citations

Guinat, Claire, et al.. (2024). Genetic insights of H9N2 avian influenza viruses circulating in Mali and phylogeographic patterns in Northern and Western Africa. Virus Evolution. 10(1). veae011–veae011. 4 indexed citations

Silva, Felipe Ennes, Romina Batista, Fábio Röhe, et al.. (2024). Impact of Quaternary Amazonian river dynamics on the diversification of uakari monkeys (genus Cacajao). Journal of Biogeography. 51(8). 1505–1517. 2 indexed citations

Bastide, Paul, Gabriel W. Hassler, François Chevenet, et al.. (2024). Modeling the velocity of evolving lineages and predicting dispersal patterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(47). e2411582121–e2411582121. 1 indexed citations

Layan, Maylis, Nicola F. Müller, Simon Dellicour, et al.. (2023). Impact and mitigation of sampling bias to determine viral spread: Evaluating discrete phylogeography through CTMC modeling and structured coalescent model approximations. Virus Evolution. 9(1). vead010–vead010. 29 indexed citations

Borm, Steven Van, Simon Dellicour, Darren P. Martin, et al.. (2023). Complete genome reconstruction of the global and European regional dispersal history of the lumpy skin disease virus. Journal of Virology. 97(11). e0139423–e0139423. 7 indexed citations

Layan, Maylis, Laurent Dacheux, Philippe Lemey, et al.. (2023). Uncovering the endemic circulation of rabies in Cambodia. Molecular Ecology. 32(18). 5140–5155. 2 indexed citations

Dellicour, Simon, Philippe Lemey, Marc A. Suchard, Marius Gilbert, & Guy Baele. (2022). Accommodating sampling location uncertainty in continuous phylogeography. Virus Evolution. 8(1). veac041–veac041. 10 indexed citations

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Bielejec, Filip, Simon Dellicour, Andrew Rambaut, et al.. (2022). SPREAD 4: online visualisation of pathogen phylogeographic reconstructions. Virus Evolution. 8(2). veac088–veac088. 17 indexed citations

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Gill, Mandev S., et al.. (2021). On the Use of Phylogeographic Inference to Infer the Dispersal History of Rabies Virus: A Review Study. Viruses. 13(8). 1628–1628. 9 indexed citations

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Layan, Maylis, Simon Dellicour, Guy Baele, Simon Cauchemez, & Hervé Bourhy. (2021). Mathematical modelling and phylodynamics for the study of dog rabies dynamics and control: A scoping review. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 15(5). e0009449–e0009449. 13 indexed citations

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Lemey, Philippe, Nick Ruktanonchai, Samuel L. Hong, et al.. (2021). Untangling introductions and persistence in COVID-19 resurgence in Europe. Nature. 595(7869). 713–717. 89 indexed citations

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Dellicour, Simon, Keith Durkin, Samuel L. Hong, et al.. (2020). A Phylodynamic Workflow to Rapidly Gain Insights into the Dispersal History and Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Lineages. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(4). 1608–1613. 51 indexed citations

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Lequime, Sébastian, Paul Bastide, Simon Dellicour, Philippe Lemey, & Guy Baele. (2020). nosoi: A stochastic agent‐based transmission chain simulation framework in r. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 11(8). 1002–1007. 15 indexed citations

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Hong, Samuel L., Simon Dellicour, Bram Vrancken, et al.. (2020). In Search of Covariates of HIV-1 Subtype B Spread in the United States—A Cautionary Tale of Large-Scale Bayesian Phylogeography. Viruses. 12(2). 182–182. 13 indexed citations

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Dellicour, Simon, Sébastian Lequime, Bram Vrancken, et al.. (2020). Epidemiological hypothesis testing using a phylogeographic and phylodynamic framework. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5620–5620. 37 indexed citations

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Dellicour, Simon, Cécile Troupin, Fatemeh Jahanbakhsh, et al.. (2019). Using phylogeographic approaches to analyse the dispersal history, velocity and direction of viral lineages — Application to rabies virus spread in Iran. Molecular Ecology. 28(18). 4335–4350. 30 indexed citations

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Dellicour, Simon, Philippe Lemey, Jean Artois, et al.. (2019). Incorporating heterogeneous sampling probabilities in continuous phylogeographic inference — Application to H5N1 spread in the Mekong region. Bioinformatics. 36(7). 2098–2104. 16 indexed citations

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Tian, Huaiyu, Yun Feng, Bram Vrancken, et al.. (2018). Transmission dynamics of re-emerging rabies in domestic dogs of rural China. PLoS Pathogens. 14(12). e1007392–e1007392. 36 indexed citations

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