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François Balloux

Active 1997–2024

107
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32,518
Citations
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Citations

Citations per year for François Balloux1992: 2 citations1993: 1 citations1994: 1 citations1998: 2 citations1999: 14 citations2000: 3 citations2001: 19 citations2002: 32 citations2003: 43 citations2004: 50 citations2005: 77 citations2006: 107 citations2007: 134 citations2008: 140 citations2009: 245 citations2010: 244 citations2011: 183 citations2012: 209 citations2013: 230 citations2014: 256 citations2015: 242 citations2016: 283 citations2017: 263 citations2018: 284 citations2019: 905 citations2020: 1,148 citations2021: 1,157 citations2022: 728 citations2023: 523 citations2024: 784 citations2025: 336 citations2026: 13 citations1995–1997: no citations, so these years are not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 3,250 citing papers, 18.4% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 1,647 citing papers, 9.3% of this breakdownChina: 1,072 citing papers, 6.1% of this breakdownGermany: 915 citing papers, 5.2% of this breakdownFrance: 846 citing papers, 4.8% of this breakdownAustralia: 647 citing papers, 3.6% of this breakdownCanada: 566 citing papers, 3.2% of this breakdownSpain: 526 citing papers, 3% of this breakdownItaly: 467 citing papers, 2.6% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 440 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdownSweden: 361 citing papers, 2% of this breakdownNetherlands: 314 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology46.7%
  • Medicine26.1%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences7.6%
  • Environmental Science7.5%
  • Immunology and Microbiology2.8%
  • Mathematics2.6%
  • Other6.7%

Topics

  • Genetic diversity and population structure6.3%
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies3.4%
  • Forensic and Genetic Research3%
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria2.6%
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research2.2%
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock2.1%
  • Other80.4%

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  1. Discriminant analysis of principal components: a new method for the analysis of genetically structured populations

    Authors: Thibaut Jombart, Sébastien Devillard, François Balloux - BMC Genetics 2010 cited by 5,116

  2. The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations

    Authors: Swapan Mallick, Heng Li, Mark Lipson, Iain Mathieson, Melissa Gymrek, Fernando Racimo, Mengyao Zhao, Niru Chennagiri, Susanne Nordenfelt, Arti Tandon, Pontus Skoglund, Iosif Lazaridis, Sriram Sankararaman, Qiaomei Fu, Nadin Rohland, Gabriel Renaud, Yaniv Erlich, Thomas Willems, Carla Gallo, Jeffrey P. Spence, Yun S. Song, Giovanni Poletti, François Balloux, George van Driem, Peter de Knijff, Irene Gallego Romero, Aashish R. Jha, Doron M. Behar, Cláudio M. Bravi, Cristian Capelli, Tor Hervig, Andrés Moreno‐Estrada, Olga L. Posukh, Elena Balanovska, Oleg Balanovsky, Sena Karachanak-Yankova, Hovhannes Sahakyan, Драга Тончева, Levon Yepiskoposyan, Chris Tyler‐Smith, Yali Xue, Muhammad Syafiq Abdullah, Andrés Ruiz‐Linares, Cynthia M. Beall, Anna Di Rienzo, Choongwon Jeong, Elena B. Starikovskaya, Ene Metspalu, Jüri Parik, Richard Villems, Brenna M. Henn, Uğur Hodoğlugil, Robert W. Mahley, Antti Sajantila, George Stamatoyannopoulos, Joseph Wee, Р. И. Хусаинова, Э. К. Хуснутдинова, Sergey Litvinov, George Ayodo, David Comas, Michael F. Hammer, Toomas Kivisild, William Klitz, Cheryl A. Winkler, Damian Labuda, Michael J. Bamshad, Lynn B. Jorde, Sarah A. Tishkoff, W. Scott Watkins, Mait Metspalu, Stanislav Dryomov, R. I. Sukernik, Lalji Singh, Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Svante Pääbo, Janet Kelso, Nick Patterson, David Reich - Nature 2016 cited by 1,797

  3. Transient structural variations have strong effects on quantitative traits and reproductive isolation in fission yeast

    Authors: Daniel Jeffares, Clemency Jolly, Mimoza Hoti, Doug Speed, Liam P. Shaw, Charalampos Rallis, François Balloux, Christophe Dessimoz, Jürg Bähler, Fritz J. Sedlazeck - Nature Communications 2017 cited by 944

  4. The global distribution and spread of the mobilized colistin resistance gene mcr-1

    Authors: Ruobing Wang, Lucy van Dorp, Liam P. Shaw, Phelim Bradley, Qi Wang, Xiaojuan Wang, Longyang Jin, Qing Zhang, Yuqing Liu, Adrien Rieux, Thamarai Schneiders, Lucy A. Weinert, Zamin Iqbal, Xavier Didelot, Hui Wang, François Balloux - Nature Communications 2018 cited by 671

  5. Role of mobile genetic elements in the global dissemination of the carbapenem resistance gene blaNDM

    Authors: Mislav Acman, Ruobing Wang, Lucy van Dorp, Liam P. Shaw, Qi Wang, Nina Luhmann, Yuyao Yin, Shijun Sun, Hongbin Chen, Hui Wang, François Balloux - Nature Communications 2022 cited by 237

  6. Pandemic Potential of a Strain of Influenza A (H1N1): Early Findings

    Authors: Christophe Fraser, Christl A. Donnelly, Simon Cauchemez, William P. Hanage, Maria D. Van Kerkhove, T. Déirdre Hollingsworth, Jamie T. Griffin, Rebecca F. Baggaley, Helen E. Jenkins, Emily Lyons, Thibaut Jombart, Wes Hinsley, Nicholas C. Grassly, François Balloux, Azra C. Ghani, Neil M. Ferguson, Andrew Rambaut, Oliver G. Pybus, Hugo López‐Gatell, Celia Alpuche‐Aranda, Ietza Bojórquez, Ethel Palacios Zavala, Dulce Ma. Espejo Guevara, Francesco Checchi, Erika Garcia, Stéphane Hugonnet, Cathy Roth - Science 2009 cited by 1,969

  7. Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines

    Authors: Simon J. O’Hanlon, Adrien Rieux, Rhys A. Farrer, Gonçalo M. Rosa, Bruce Waldman, Arnaud Bataille, Tiffany A. Kosch, Kris A. Murray, Balázs Brankovics, Matteo Fumagalli, Michael D. Martin, Nathan Wales, Mario Alvarado‐Rybak, Kieran A. Bates, Lee Berger, Susanne Böll, Lola Brookes, Frances C. Clare, Élodie A. Courtois, Andrew A. Cunningham, Thomas M. Doherty‐Bone, Pria N. Ghosh, David J. Gower, William E. Hintz, ‎Jacob Höglund, Thomas S. Jenkinson, Chun-Fu Lin, Anssi Laurila, Adeline Loyau, An Martel, Sara Meurling, Claude Miaud, Pete Minting, Frank Pasmans, Dirk S. Schmeller, Benedikt R. Schmidt, Jennifer Shelton, Lee F. Skerratt, Freya Smith, Claudio Azat, Matteo Spagnoletti, Giulia Tessa, Luı́s Felipe Toledo, Andrés Valenzuela‐Sánchez, Ruhan Verster, Judit Vörös, Rebecca J. Webb, Claudia Wierzbicki, Emma Wombwell, Kelly R. Zamudio, David M. Aanensen, Timothy Y. James, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Ché Weldon, Jaime Bosch, François Balloux, Trenton W. J. Garner, Matthew C. Fisher - Science 2018 cited by 599

  8. Emergence of genomic diversity and recurrent mutations in SARS-CoV-2

    Authors: Lucy van Dorp, Mislav Acman, Damien Richard, Liam P. Shaw, Charlotte Ford, Louise Ormond, C. J. Owen, Juanita Pang, Cedric Tan, Florencia A.T. Boshier, Arturo Torres Ortiz, François Balloux - Infection Genetics and Evolution 2020 cited by 895

  9. An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia

    Authors: Morten Rasmussen, Xiaosen Guo, Yong Wang, Kirk E. Lohmueller, Simon Rasmussen, Anders Albrechtsen, Line Skotte, Stinus Lindgreen, Mait Metspalu, Thibaut Jombart, Toomas Kivisild, Weiwei Zhai, Anders Eriksson, Andrea Manica, Ludovic Orlando, Francisco M. De La Vega, Silvana R. Tridico, Ene Metspalu, Kasper Nielsen, María C. Ávila‐Arcos, J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar, Craig Muller, Joe Dortch, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Ole Lund, Agata Wesolowska, Monika Karmin, Lucy A. Weinert, Bo Wang, Jun Li, Shuaishuai Tai, Fei Xiao, Tsunehiko Hanihara, George van Driem, Aashish R. Jha, François‐Xavier Ricaut, Peter de Knijff, Andrea Bamberg Migliano, Irene Gallego Romero, Karsten Kristiansen, David M. Lambert, Søren Brunak, Peter Forster, Bernd Brinkmann, Olaf Nehlich, Michael Bunce, Michael P. Richards, Ramneek Gupta, Carlos D. Bustamante, Anders Krogh, Robert A. Foley, Marta Mìrazón Lahr, François Balloux, Thomas Sicheritz‐Pontén, Richard Villems, Rasmus Nielsen, Jun Wang, Eske Willerslev - Science 2011 cited by 818

  10. Increase in antioxidant capacity associated with the successful subclone of hypervirulent carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae ST11-KL64

    Authors: Ruobing Wang, Anru R. Zhang, Shijun Sun, Guankun Yin, Xingyu Wu, Qi Ding, Qi Wang, Fengning Chen, Shuyi Wang, Lucy van Dorp, Yawei Zhang, Longyang Jin, Xiaojuan Wang, François Balloux, Hui Wang - Nature Communications 2024 cited by 62

  11. adephylo: new tools for investigating the phylogenetic signal in biological traits

    Authors: Thibaut Jombart, François Balloux, Stéphane Dray - Bioinformatics, Bioinform. 2010 cited by 435

  12. Large-scale network analysis captures biological features of bacterial plasmids

    Authors: Mislav Acman, Lucy van Dorp, Joanne M. Santini, François Balloux - Nature Communications 2020 cited by 136

  13. An African origin for the intimate association between humans and Helicobacter pylori

    Authors: Bodo Linz, François Balloux, Yoshan Moodley, Andrea Manica, Hua Liu, Philippe Roumagnac, Daniel Falush, Christiana Stamer, Franck Prugnolle, Van der Merwe, Yoshio Yamaoka, David Y. Graham, Emilio Pérez‐Trallero, Torkel Wadström, Sebastian Suerbaum, Mark Achtman - Nature 2007 cited by 985

  14. From Theory to Practice: Translating Whole-Genome Sequencing (WGS) into the Clinic

    Authors: François Balloux, Ola Brynildsrud, Lucy van Dorp, Liam P. Shaw, Hongbin Chen, Kathryn Harris, Hui Wang, Vegard Eldholm - Trends in Microbiology 2018 cited by 180

  15. SAK/PLK4 Is Required for Centriole Duplication and Flagella Development

    Authors: Mónica Bettencourt‐Dias, Ana Rodrigues-Martins, Lee Carpenter, Maria Giovanna Riparbelli, Laurent Lehmann, Melanie K. Gatt, Nuno Carmo, François Balloux, Giuliano Callaini, David M. Glover - Current Biology 2005 cited by 626

  16. Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

    Authors: Maanasa Raghavan, Matthias Steinrücken, Kelley Harris, Stephan Schiffels, Simon Rasmussen, Michael DeGiorgio, Anders Albrechtsen, Cristina Valdiosera, María C. Ávila‐Arcos, Anna‐Sapfo Malaspinas, Anders Eriksson, Ida Moltke, Mait Metspalu, Julian R. Homburger, Jeff Wall, Omar E. Cornejo, J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar, Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen, Tracey Pierre, Morten Rasmussen, Paula F. Campos, Peter de Barros Damgaard, Morten E. Allentoft, John Lindo, Ene Metspalu, Ricardo Varela, Josefina Mansilla Lory, Celeste Henrickson, Andaine Seguin‐Orlando, Helena Malmström, Thomas Stafford, Suyash Shringarpure, Andrés Moreno‐Estrada, Monika Karmin, Kristiina Tambets, Anders Bergström, Yali Xue, Vera Warmuth, A. D. Friend, Joy Singarayer, Paul J. Valdes, François Balloux, Ilán Leboreiro, José Luis Vera, Héctor Rangel‐Villalobos, Davide Pettener, Donata Luiselli, Loren G. Davis, Évelyne Heyer, Christoph P. E. Zollikofer, Marcia S. Ponce de León, Colin Smith, Vaughan Grimes, Kelly-Anne Pike, Michael Deal, Benjamin T. Fuller, Bernardo Arriaza, Vivien G. Standen, Maria Francisca Luz, François‐Xavier Ricaut, Niède Guidon, L. P. Osipova, Mikhail I. Voevoda, Olga L. Posukh, Oleg Balanovsky, Maria Lavryashina, Yuri Bogunov, Э. К. Хуснутдинова, Marina Gubina, Elena Balanovska, С.А. Федорова, Sergey Litvinov, B. А. Malyarchuk, М. В. Деренко, M. J. Mosher, David Archer, Jerome S. Cybulski, Barbara Petzelt, Joycelynn Mitchell, Rosita Worl, Paul J. Norman, Peter Parham, Brian M. Kemp, Toomas Kivisild, Chris Tyler-Smith, Manjinder S. Sandhu, Michael Crawford, Richard Villems, David Glenn Smith, Michael R. Waters, Ted Goebel, John R. Johnson, Ripan S. Malhi, Mattias Jakobsson, David J. Meltzer, Andrea Manica, Richard Durbin, Carlos D. Bustamante, Yun S. Song, Rasmus Nielsen and 1 more - Science 2015 cited by 573

  17. Population-level emergence of bedaquiline and clofazimine resistance-associated variants among patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis in southern Africa: a phenotypic and phylogenetic analysis

    Authors: Camus Nimmo, James Millard, Lucy van Dorp, Kayleen Brien, Sashen Moodley, Allison Wolf, Alison D. Grant, Nesri Padayatchi, Alexander S. Pym, François Balloux, Max R. O’Donnell - The Lancet Microbe 2020 cited by 111

  18. The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana

    Authors: Morten Rasmussen, Sarah L. Anzick, Michael R. Waters, Pontus Skoglund, Michael DeGiorgio, Thomas W. Stafford, Simon Rasmussen, Ida Moltke, Anders Albrechtsen, Shane Doyle, G. David Poznik, Valborg Guðmundsdóttir, Rachita Yadav, Anna‐Sapfo Malaspinas, Samuel Stockton White, Morten E. Allentoft, Omar E. Cornejo, Kristiina Tambets, Anders Eriksson, Peter D. Heintzman, Monika Karmin, Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen, David J. Meltzer, Tracey L. Pierre, Jesper Stenderup, Lauri Saag, Vera Warmuth, Margarida C. Lopes, Ripan S. Malhi, Søren Brunak, Thomas Sicheritz‐Pontén, Ian Barnes, Matthew J. Collins, Ludovic Orlando, François Balloux, Andrea Manica, Ramneek Gupta, Mait Metspalu, Carlos D. Bustamante, Mattias Jakobsson, Rasmus Nielsen, Eske Willerslev - Nature 2014 cited by 586

  19. Q&A: What are pathogens, and what have they done to and for us?

    Authors: François Balloux, Lucy van Dorp - BMC Biology 2017 cited by 133

  20. Dynamics of within-host Mycobacterium tuberculosis diversity and heteroresistance during treatment

    Authors: Camus Nimmo, Kayleen Brien, James Millard, Alison D. Grant, Nesri Padayatchi, Alexander S. Pym, Max R. O’Donnell, Richard A. Goldstein, Judith Breuer, François Balloux - EBioMedicine 2020 cited by 89

  21. A genomic portrait of the emergence, evolution, and global spread of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pandemic

    Authors: Matthew T. G. Holden, Li Yang Hsu, Kevin Kurt, Lucy A. Weinert, Alison E. Mather, Simon R. Harris, Birgit Strommenger, Franziska Layer, Wolfgang Witte, Hermı́nia de Lencastre, Robert Skov, Henrik Westh, Helena Žemličková, Geoffrey W. Coombs, Angela Kearns, Robert L. Hill, Jonathan D. Edgeworth, Ian M. Gould, Vanya Gant, Jonathan Cooke, Giles Edwards, Paul R. McAdam, Kate Templeton, Angela McCann, Zhemin Zhou, Santiago Castillo‐Ramírez, Edward J. Feil, Lyndsey O. Hudson, Mark C. Enright, François Balloux, David M. Aanensen, Brian G. Spratt, J. Ross Fitzgerald, Julian Parkhill, Mark Achtman, Stephen D. Bentley, Ulrich Nübel - Genome Research 2013 cited by 449

  22. Modelling microbiome recovery after antibiotics using a stability landscape framework

    Authors: Liam P. Shaw, Bassam Abdul Rasool Hassan, C. Barnes, A. Sarah Walker, Nigel Klein, François Balloux - The ISME Journal 2019 cited by 186

  23. Oral microbiomes from hunter‐gatherers and traditional farmers reveal shifts in commensal balance and pathogen load linked to diet

    Authors: Florent Lassalle, Matteo Spagnoletti, Matteo Fumagalli, Liam P. Shaw, Mark Dyble, Catherine Walker, Mark Thomas, Andrea Bamberg Migliano, François Balloux - Molecular Ecology 2017 cited by 115

  24. Antimicrobial Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis : The Odd One Out

    Authors: Vegard Eldholm, François Balloux - Trends in Microbiology 2016 cited by 108