Xavier Didelot

19.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
158 papers, 10.9k citations indexed

About

Xavier Didelot is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Xavier Didelot has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 10.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Molecular Biology, 53 papers in Genetics and 38 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Xavier Didelot's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (43 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (28 papers) and Escherichia coli research studies (20 papers). Xavier Didelot is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (43 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (28 papers) and Escherichia coli research studies (20 papers). Xavier Didelot collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Xavier Didelot's co-authors include Daniel J. Wilson, Daniel Falush, Derrick W. Crook, Tim Peto, Michiel Vos, Rory Bowden, Martin Maiden, Caroline Colijn, A. Sarah Walker and Sebastian Suerbaum and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Xavier Didelot

155 papers receiving 10.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

ClonalFrameML: Efficient Inference of Recombination in Whole Bacterial Genomes

2015 580 citations Xavier Didelot, Daniel J. Wilson PLoS Computational Biology profile →
Inference of Bacterial Microevolution Using Multilocus Sequence Data

2006 544 citations Xavier Didelot, Daniel Falush Genetics profile →
Transforming clinical microbiology with bacterial genome sequencing

2012 538 citations Xavier Didelot, Rory Bowden et al. profile →
Diverse Sources of C. difficile Infection Identified on Whole-Genome Sequencing

2013 487 citations David W. Eyre, Madeleine Cule et al. profile →
The global distribution and spread of the mobilized colistin resistance gene mcr-1

2018 476 citations Adrien Rieux, Xavier Didelot et al. profile →

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xavier Didelot

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Inference of Multiple Mergers while Dating a Pathogen Phylogeny 2025 ·Systematic Biology ·(unknown), Jere Koskela, Xavier Didelot	1
2	Inference of Infectious Disease Transmission through a Relaxed Bottleneck Using Multiple Genomes Per Host 2024 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·(unknown), Matt J. Keeling, David Wyllie, Paolo Ribeca, Xavier Didelot	4
3	Understanding the potential role of whole genome sequencing (WGS) in managing patients with gonorrhoea: A systematic review of WGS use on human pathogens in individual patient care 2024 ·Journal of Infection ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Gwenda Hughes, Nigel Field, Michelle Cole, Xavier Didelot, John Saunders	0
4	Genomic epidemiology of Campylobacter fetus subsp. venerealis from Germany 2023 ·Frontiers in Veterinary Science ·Mostafa Y. Abdel‐Glil, Helmut Hotzel, Herbert Tomaso, Xavier Didelot, Christian Brandt, Christian Seyboldt, Jörg Linde, Štefan Schwarz, Heinrich Neubauer, Hosny El‐Adawy	2
5	Model design for nonparametric phylodynamic inference and applications to pathogen surveillance 2023 ·Virus Evolution ·Xavier Didelot, (unknown), Simon D. W. Frost, Ann M. Dennis, Erik Volz	3
6	Penicillin Binding Protein Substitutions Cooccur with Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Epidemic Lineages of Multidrug-Resistant Clostridioides difficile 2023 ·mBio ·Kate E. Dingle, Jane Freeman, Xavier Didelot, T. Phuong Quan, David W. Eyre, Jeremy Swann, (unknown), Emma Clark, Keith A. Jolley, A Sarah Walker, Mark H. Wilcox, Derrick W. Crook	9
7	London parochial burial records from 1563 to 1665 indicate higher plague death rates for males than females: Some possible demographic and social explanations 2022 ·PLoS ONE ·Xavier Didelot, C M Evans	1
8	SARS-CoV-2 transmissibility compared between variants of concern and vaccination status 2021 ·Briefings in Bioinformatics ·Liang Wang, Xavier Didelot, Yuhai Bi, George F. Gao	3
9	Identification of Hidden Population Structure in Time-Scaled Phylogenies 2020 ·Systematic Biology ·Erik Volz, Carsten Wiuf, Yonatan H. Grad, Simon D. W. Frost, Ann M. Dennis, Xavier Didelot	18
10	Emerging phylogenetic structure of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic 2020 ·Virus Evolution ·Nicholas M. Fountain‐Jones, (unknown), Scott Carver, Xavier Didelot, Erik Volz, Michael Charleston	17
11	Co-existence of multiple distinct lineages in Vibrio parahaemolyticus serotype O4:K12 2019 ·Microbial Genomics ·(unknown), Hong-You Chen, Xavier Didelot, Zhenpeng Li, Yinghui Li, Meiling Chen, Yu Du, (unknown), Jie Li, Qinghua Hu, Biao Kan, Min Chen, Bo Pang	4
12	A phylogenetic method to perform genome-wide association studies in microbes that accounts for population structure and recombination 2018 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Caitlin Collins, Xavier Didelot	148
13	Estimating the fitness cost and benefit of cefixime resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae to inform prescription policy: A modelling study 2017 ·PLoS Medicine ·Lilith K. Whittles, Peter J White, Xavier Didelot	45
14	Declaring a tuberculosis outbreak over with genomic epidemiology 2016 ·Microbial Genomics ·(unknown), Xavier Didelot, Sue Pollock, Patrick Tang, Anamaria Crisan, James C. Johnston, Caroline Colijn, Jennifer L. Gardy	23
15	Bayesian Inference of the Evolution of a Phenotype Distribution on a Phylogenetic Tree 2016 ·Genetics ·M. Azim Ansari, Xavier Didelot	22
16	Impact of HIV co-infection on the evolution and transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis 2016 ·eLife ·Vegard Eldholm, Adrien Rieux, Johana Monteserin, (unknown), Domingo Palmero, Beatriz López, Viviana Ritacco, Xavier Didelot, François Balloux	54
17	Epidemiological analysis of the Eyam plague outbreak of 1665–1666 2016 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Lilith K. Whittles, Xavier Didelot	36
18	Worldwide Population Structure, Long-Term Demography, and Local Adaptation of Helicobacter pylori 2015 ·Genetics ·Valeria Montano, Xavier Didelot, Matthieu Foll, Bodo Linz, Richard Reinhardt, Sebastian Suerbaum, Yoshan Moodley, Jeffrey D. Jensen	51
19	Microevolutionary analysis of Clostridium difficile genomes to investigate transmission 2012 ·Genome biology ·Xavier Didelot, David W. Eyre, Madeleine Cule, Camilla L. C. Ip, M. Azim Ansari, David Griffiths, Alison Vaughan, Lily O’Connor, Tanya Golubchik, Elizabeth M. Batty, Paolo Piazza, Daniel J. Wilson, Rory Bowden, Peter Donnelly, Kate E. Dingle, Mark H. Wilcox, A Sarah Walker, Derrick W. Crook, Tim Peto, Rosalind M. Harding	157
20	Inference of Homologous Recombination in Bacteria Using Whole-Genome Sequences 2010 ·Genetics ·Xavier Didelot, Daniel J. Lawson, Aaron E. Darling, Daniel Falush	120

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