2026 Marc A. Suchard: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	108	1025	911	618	536	500	112308

Research.com Recognitions

2013 - COPSS Presidents' Award For extraordinarily wide-ranging and insightful contributions to the statistical sciences in the areas of Bayesian inference, computation and stochastic processes;
2012 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
2008 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2007 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Marc A. Suchard is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research contributions span multiple fields with a particular focus on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their publication record indicates significant involvement in infectious diseases, molecular biology, genetics, statistics and probability, and epidemiology.

They have authored numerous papers on topics including genomics and phylogenetic studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, genetic diversity and population structure, COVID-19 clinical research studies, evolution and paleontology studies, and influenza virus research studies.

Marc A. Suchard's frequent coauthors include:

Philippe Lemey
George Hripcsak
Patrick Ryan
Martijn J. Schuemie
Guy Baele

They have published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent being:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Science

Recent published works by Marc A. Suchard include:

Genomics and epidemiology of the P.1 SARS-CoV-2 lineage in Manaus, Brazil (2021) - Science
COVID-19: Epidemiology, Evolution, and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (2020) - Trends in Molecular Medicine
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in Europe and North America (2020) - Science
The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic (2022) - Science
Emergence and rapid transmission of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 in the United States (2021) - Cell

Awards received by Marc A. Suchard encompass:

COPSS Presidents' Award (2013) for wide-ranging and insightful contributions to statistical sciences in Bayesian inference, computation, and stochastic processes
Fellow of the American Statistical Association (2012)
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2008)
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2007)

Best Publications

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice across a Large Model Space

Fredrik Ronquist;Maxim Teslenko;Paul van der Mark;Daniel L. Ayres

28999
Citations
Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

Alexei J. Drummond;Marc A. Suchard;Dong-jie Xie;Andrew Rambaut

11313
Citations
Posterior Summarization in Bayesian Phylogenetics Using Tracer 1.7.

Andrew Rambaut;Alexei J Drummond;Dong Xie;Guy Baele

10675
Citations
BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

Remco R. Bouckaert;Joseph Heled;Denise Kühnert;Timothy G. Vaughan

7022
Citations
BEAST 2.5: An advanced software platform for Bayesian evolutionary analysis.

Remco Bouckaert;Remco Bouckaert;Timothy G Vaughan;Timothy G Vaughan;Joëlle Barido-Sottani;Joëlle Barido-Sottani;Sebastián Duchêne

4307
Citations
Bayesian phylogenetic and phylodynamic data integration using BEAST 1.10

Marc A Suchard;Philippe Lemey;Guy Baele;Daniel L Ayres

3880
Citations
Bayesian phylogeography finds its roots.

Philippe Lemey;Andrew Rambaut;Alexei J. Drummond;Marc A. Suchard

2020
Citations
Genomics and epidemiology of the P.1 SARS-CoV-2 lineage in Manaus, Brazil.

Nuno R Faria;Thomas A Mellan;Charles Whittaker;Ingra M Claro

1422
Citations
Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI): Opportunities for Observational Researchers

George Hripcsak;Jon D. Duke;Nigam H. Shah;Christian G. Reich

1240
Citations
Improving the Accuracy of Demographic and Molecular Clock Model Comparison While Accommodating Phylogenetic Uncertainty

Guy Baele;Philippe Lemey;Trevor Bedford;Andrew Rambaut

1149
Citations
Mapping the origins and expansion of the Indo-European language family

Remco Bouckaert;Philippe Lemey;Michael D. Dunn;Simon J. Greenhill;Simon J. Greenhill

993
Citations
The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations

Nuno Rodrigues Faria;Andrew Rambaut;Marc A Suchard;Guy Baele

967
Citations
Bayesian Selection of Continuous-Time Markov Chain Evolutionary Models

Marc A. Suchard;Robert E. Weiss;Janet S. Sinsheimer

919
Citations
A Physical Map of 30,000 Human Genes

P. Deloukas;G. D. Schuler;G. Gyapay;E. M. Beasley

836
Citations
Phylogeography Takes a Relaxed Random Walk in Continuous Space and Time

Philippe Lemey;Andrew Rambaut;Andrew Rambaut;John J. Welch;Marc A. Suchard

813
Citations
BEAGLE: An Application Programming Interface and High-Performance Computing Library for Statistical Phylogenetics

Daniel L. Ayres;Aaron E. Darling;Derrick J. Zwickl;Peter Beerli

810
Citations
Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans

Eline D. Lorenzen;David Nogués-Bravo;Ludovic Orlando;Jaco Weinstock

800
Citations
Smooth Skyride through a Rough Skyline: Bayesian Coalescent-Based Inference of Population Dynamics

Vladimir N. Minin;Erik W. Bloomquist;Marc A. Suchard

760
Citations
COVID-19: Epidemiology, Evolution, and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives.

Jiumeng Sun;Wan Ting He;Lifang Wang;Alexander Lai

729
Citations
Accurate Model Selection of Relaxed Molecular Clocks in Bayesian Phylogenetics

Guy Baele;Wai Lok Sibon Li;Alexei J. Drummond;Marc A. Suchard

627
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Philippe Lemey KU Leuven

Andrew Rambaut University of Edinburgh

George Hripcsak Columbia University

Martijn J. Schuemie Janssen (Belgium)

Nuno Rodrigues Faria Imperial College London

David Madigan Northeastern University

Oliver G. Pybus University of Oxford

Janet S. Sinsheimer University of California, Los Angeles

Trevor Bedford Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Alexei J. Drummond University of Auckland

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