Sylvain Gandon

14.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
146 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Sylvain Gandon is a scholar working on Genetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sylvain Gandon has authored 146 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 104 papers in Genetics, 69 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 37 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Sylvain Gandon's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (100 papers), Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models (52 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (37 papers). Sylvain Gandon is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (100 papers), Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models (52 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (37 papers). Sylvain Gandon collaborates with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and United States. Sylvain Gandon's co-authors include Yannis Michalakis, Ana Rivero, Troy Day, Scott L. Nuismer, Andrew F. Read, Angus Buckling, François Blanquart, Sébastien Lion, Margaret J. Mackinnon and Oliver Kaltz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sylvain Gandon

144 papers receiving 9.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A practical guide to measuring local adaptation

2013 409 citations François Blanquart, Sylvain Gandon et al. Ecology Letters profile →
Phage–host coevolution in natural populations

2022 119 citations François Blanquart, Sylvain Gandon et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sylvain Gandon France	54	4.9k	2.7k	2.5k	1.9k	1.7k	146	9.4k
Yannis Michalakis France	50	3.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.5×	2.1k 0.8×	1.9k 1.0×	676 0.4×	117	8.2k
Troy Day Canada	59	5.5k 1.1×	2.3k 0.9×	2.2k 0.9×	3.4k 1.8×	2.0k 1.2×	153	11.1k
Cheryl J. Briggs United States	53	2.0k 0.4×	1.6k 0.6×	2.8k 1.1×	2.7k 1.5×	419 0.3×	129	11.6k
Jacob C. Koella Switzerland	48	2.1k 0.4×	3.3k 1.2×	1.5k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	539 0.3×	139	7.6k
Mike Boots United Kingdom	40	2.6k 0.5×	1.9k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	933 0.6×	122	5.6k
Angus Buckling United Kingdom	71	7.8k 1.6×	1.7k 0.6×	6.4k 2.5×	2.2k 1.2×	3.6k 2.2×	233	15.9k
Andrew F. Read United Kingdom	78	6.7k 1.4×	8.0k 3.0×	5.1k 2.0×	3.2k 1.7×	1.4k 0.8×	293	20.9k
Sonia Altizer United States	58	3.7k 0.8×	2.8k 1.0×	5.5k 2.2×	4.2k 2.3×	521 0.3×	130	14.3k
Sean Nee United Kingdom	44	3.6k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	3.2k 1.3×	3.3k 1.8×	785 0.5×	94	9.9k
Daniel T. Haydon United Kingdom	57	2.3k 0.5×	2.3k 0.9×	4.2k 1.6×	2.7k 1.5×	339 0.2×	205	12.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sylvain Gandon

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20 of 20 papers shown

McLeod, David V. & Sylvain Gandon. (2025). Horizontal gene transfer, segregation loss, and the speed of microbial adaptation. Evolution Letters. 9(5). 576–588.

Whitaker, Rachel J., et al.. (2025). Host Competitive Asymmetries Accelerate Viral Evolution in a Microbe–Virus Coevolutionary System. Ecology Letters. 28(6). e70153–e70153. 1 indexed citations

McLeod, David V., et al.. (2024). Conditions for the spread of CRISPR-Cas immune systems into bacterial populations. The ISME Journal. 18(1). 4 indexed citations

McLeod, David V., Claudia Bank, & Sylvain Gandon. (2024). A multilocus perspective on the evolutionary dynamics of multistrain pathogens. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(42). 1 indexed citations

Carmona, Philippe, et al.. (2023). Seasonality and the persistence of vector-borne pathogens. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 20(209). 20230470–20230470. 3 indexed citations

Lion, Sébastien, et al.. (2023). Phenotypic evolution of SARS-CoV-2: a statistical inference approach. Evolution. 77(10). 2213–2223. 4 indexed citations

Gandon, Sylvain, et al.. (2023). Bottlenecks can constrain and channel evolutionary paths. Genetics. 224(2). 6 indexed citations

Espinosa, Léon, et al.. (2023). Phage-antibiotic synergy: Cell filamentation is a key driver of successful phage predation. PLoS Pathogens. 19(9). e1011602–e1011602. 32 indexed citations

Gandon, Sylvain & Sébastien Lion. (2022). Targeted vaccination and the speed of SARS-CoV-2 adaptation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(3). 13 indexed citations

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Chabas, Hélène, Antoine Nicot, Lotte Hindhede, et al.. (2022). Competition and coevolution drive the evolution and the diversification of CRISPR immunity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(10). 1480–1488. 16 indexed citations

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Day, Troy, David Kennedy, Andrew F. Read, & Sylvain Gandon. (2022). Pathogen evolution during vaccination campaigns. PLoS Biology. 20(9). e3001804–e3001804. 19 indexed citations

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Mirrahimi, Sepideh & Sylvain Gandon. (2019). Evolution of Specialization in Heterogeneous Environments: Equilibrium Between Selection, Mutation and Migration. Genetics. 214(2). 479–491. 15 indexed citations

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Pigeault, Romain, et al.. (2015). Transgenerational effect of infection in Plasmodium- infected mosquitoes. Biology Letters. 11(3). 15 indexed citations

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Zélé, Flore, Grégory L’Ambert, Antoine Nicot, et al.. (2014). Dynamics of prevalence and diversity of avian malaria infections in wild Culex pipiens mosquitoes: the effects of Wolbachia, filarial nematodes and insecticide resistance. Parasites & Vectors. 7(1). 437–437. 44 indexed citations

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Berngruber, Thomas W., Sébastien Lion, & Sylvain Gandon. (2013). Evolution of suicide as a defence strategy against pathogens in a spatially structured environment. Ecology Letters. 16(4). 446–453. 44 indexed citations

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Cornet, Stéphane, Antoine Nicot, Ana Rivero, & Sylvain Gandon. (2012). Malaria infection increases bird attractiveness to uninfected mosquitoes. Ecology Letters. 16(3). 323–329. 106 indexed citations

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Varaldi, Julien, et al.. (2009). Chapter 13 A Virus-Shaping Reproductive Strategy in a Drosophila Parasitoid. Advances in Parasitology. 333–363. 14 indexed citations

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Débarre, Florence, Thomas Lenormand, & Sylvain Gandon. (2009). Evolutionary Epidemiology of Drug-Resistance in Space. PLoS Computational Biology. 5(4). e1000337–e1000337. 23 indexed citations

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Dieckmann, Ulf, Karl Sigmund, Paul W. Ewald, et al.. (2002). Adaptive Dynamics of Infectious Diseases. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 238 indexed citations

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Godelle, Bernard, Frédéric Austerlitz, Stéphanie Brachet, et al.. (1998). Système génétique, polymorphisme neutre et sélectionné: implications en biologie de la conservation. Genetics Selection Evolution. 30(S1). 3 indexed citations

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