Simon Gravel

32.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
40 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Simon Gravel is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Gravel has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Genetics, 4 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Simon Gravel's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (27 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (13 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (11 papers). Simon Gravel is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (27 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (13 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (11 papers). Simon Gravel collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Simon Gravel's co-authors include Carlos D. Bustamante, Eimear E. Kenny, Brian K. Maples, Christopher R. Gignoux, Aaron P. Ragsdale, Alicia R. Martin, Genevieve L. Wojcik, Mark J. Daly, Raymond K. Walters and Benjamin M. Neale and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Simon Gravel

37 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Human Demographic History Impacts Genetic Risk Prediction across Diverse Populations

2017 784 citations Simon Gravel, Carlos D. Bustamante et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics profile →
A weakly structured stem for human origins in Africa

2023 56 citations Aaron P. Ragsdale, Timothy D. Weaver et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Gravel Canada	22	2.5k	768	219	144	135	40	3.4k
Garrett Hellenthal United Kingdom	21	1.9k 0.8×	700 0.9×	246 1.1×	85 0.6×	146 1.1×	42	2.6k
Christopher R. Gignoux United States	27	2.3k 0.9×	749 1.0×	349 1.6×	148 1.0×	71 0.5×	74	3.8k
Daniel J. Lawson United Kingdom	21	2.0k 0.8×	764 1.0×	166 0.8×	64 0.4×	332 2.5×	59	3.1k
Sohini Ramachandran United States	21	2.7k 1.1×	886 1.2×	356 1.6×	102 0.7×	257 1.9×	46	4.3k
Agnar Helgason Iceland	34	2.7k 1.1×	1.4k 1.9×	336 1.5×	188 1.3×	159 1.2×	59	4.4k
Shuhua Xu China	31	2.1k 0.8×	1.2k 1.6×	348 1.6×	347 2.4×	90 0.7×	199	3.6k
Fernando Racimo United States	25	1.6k 0.6×	658 0.9×	342 1.6×	84 0.6×	235 1.7×	41	2.7k
Brenna M. Henn United States	31	2.0k 0.8×	710 0.9×	462 2.1×	68 0.5×	142 1.1×	68	3.4k
Jorge Rocha Portugal	25	1.1k 0.5×	601 0.8×	163 0.7×	192 1.3×	74 0.5×	78	2.8k
Neil Bradman United Kingdom	26	2.0k 0.8×	565 0.7×	297 1.4×	62 0.4×	54 0.4×	50	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Simon Gravel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Gravel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Gravel

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

All Works

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Zabad, Shadi, et al.. (2025). Toward whole-genome inference of polygenic scores with fast and memory-efficient algorithms. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 112(7). 1528–1546. 1 indexed citations

Diaz-Papkovich, Alex, Guillaume Sillon, Daniela D’Agostino, et al.. (2025). Using the ancestral recombination graph to study the history of rare variants in founder populations. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 112(12). 2973–2981.

Schurz, Haiko, Simon Gravel, Justin W. Myrick, et al.. (2025). The Indian Ocean slave trade and colonial expansion resulted in strong sex-biased admixture in South Africa. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 112(10). 2520–2537. 1 indexed citations

Dupras, Charles, Marie‐Pierre Dubé, Simon Gravel, & Hazar Haidar. (2024). Accountability for Reasonableness as a Framework for the Promotion of Fair and Equitable Research. The Hastings Center Report. 54(S2). S66–S72. 1 indexed citations

Anderson-Trocmé, Luke, Dominic Nelson, Shadi Zabad, et al.. (2023). On the genes, genealogies, and geographies of Quebec. Science. 380(6647). 849–855. 17 indexed citations

Ragsdale, Aaron P., Timothy D. Weaver, Elizabeth G. Atkinson, et al.. (2023). A weakly structured stem for human origins in Africa. Nature. 617(7962). 755–763. 56 indexed citations breakdown →

Spear, Melissa, Alex Diaz-Papkovich, Elad Ziv, et al.. (2020). Recent shifts in the genomic ancestry of Mexican Americans may alter the genetic architecture of biomedical traits. eLife. 9. 15 indexed citations

Nelson, Dominic, Jerome Kelleher, Aaron P. Ragsdale, et al.. (2020). Accounting for long-range correlations in genome-wide simulations of large cohorts. PLoS Genetics. 16(5). e1008619–e1008619. 27 indexed citations

Ragsdale, Aaron P., Dominic Nelson, Simon Gravel, & Jerome Kelleher. (2020). Lessons Learned from Bugs in Models of Human History. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 107(4). 583–588. 6 indexed citations

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Diaz-Papkovich, Alex, et al.. (2020). Don’t ignore genetic data from minority populations. Nature. 585(7824). 184–186. 34 indexed citations

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Ragsdale, Aaron P. & Simon Gravel. (2019). Unbiased Estimation of Linkage Disequilibrium from Unphased Data. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(3). 923–932. 22 indexed citations

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Anderson-Trocmé, Luke, Rick Farouni, Mathieu Bourgey, et al.. (2019). Legacy Data Confound Genomics Studies. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(1). 2–10. 17 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Zafarali, et al.. (2019). Learning proposals for sequential importance samplers using reinforced variational inference.. International Conference on Learning Representations.

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Ragsdale, Aaron P. & Simon Gravel. (2019). Models of archaic admixture and recent history from two-locus statistics. PLoS Genetics. 15(6). e1008204–e1008204. 51 indexed citations

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Diaz-Papkovich, Alex, et al.. (2019). UMAP reveals cryptic population structure and phenotype heterogeneity in large genomic cohorts. PLoS Genetics. 15(11). e1008432–e1008432. 120 indexed citations

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Gravel, Simon, et al.. (2018). On the decidability of population size histories from finite allele frequency spectra. Theoretical Population Biology. 120. 42–51. 16 indexed citations

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Ragsdale, Aaron P., Claudia Moreau, & Simon Gravel. (2018). Genomic inference using diffusion models and the allele frequency spectrum. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 53. 140–147. 19 indexed citations

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Gravel, Simon. (2016). When Is Selection Effective?. Genetics. 203(1). 451–462. 52 indexed citations

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Gravel, Simon. (2014). Predicting Discovery Rates of Genomic Features. Genetics. 197(2). 601–610. 8 indexed citations

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Henn, Brenna M., Simon Gravel, Andrés Moreno‐Estrada, Suehelay Acevedo‐Acevedo, & Carlos D. Bustamante. (2010). Fine-scale population structure and the era of next-generation sequencing. Human Molecular Genetics. 19(R2). R221–R226. 25 indexed citations

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