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

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

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 →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Dellicour Belgium	31	969	885	815	460	428	115	2.8k
Olivier Restif United Kingdom	28	760 0.8×	949 1.1×	380 0.5×	459 1.0×	175 0.4×	75	2.7k
Gudrun Wibbelt Germany	30	914 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	1.2k 1.5×	434 0.9×	105 0.2×	109	3.2k
Jan Šlapeta Australia	38	584 0.6×	1.4k 1.5×	442 0.5×	338 0.7×	468 1.1×	232	5.5k
Cor J. Vink New Zealand	27	1000 1.0×	596 0.7×	736 0.9×	140 0.3×	360 0.8×	122	3.0k
Luis E. Escobar United States	32	416 0.4×	982 1.1×	471 0.6×	339 0.7×	181 0.4×	99	3.1k
Sandra Eßbauer Germany	30	435 0.4×	1.5k 1.7×	537 0.7×	429 0.9×	119 0.3×	98	2.7k
Roman Biek United Kingdom	36	923 1.0×	1.5k 1.7×	635 0.8×	687 1.5×	110 0.3×	89	4.3k
Meggan E. Craft United States	31	687 0.7×	791 0.9×	490 0.6×	316 0.7×	111 0.3×	102	3.5k
Sebastián Duchêne Australia	34	1.0k 1.1×	1.0k 1.2×	361 0.4×	204 0.4×	138 0.3×	90	3.9k
Kevin J. Bown United Kingdom	27	394 0.4×	1.4k 1.5×	519 0.6×	284 0.6×	287 0.7×	54	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Simon Dellicour

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Simon Dellicour's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Simon Dellicour with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Simon Dellicour more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Dellicour

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Simon Dellicour. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Simon Dellicour. The network helps show where Simon Dellicour may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Dellicour

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact