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Pierre Formenty

Pierre Formenty

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
71
Citations
25940
World Ranking
1807
National Ranking
46

Pierre Formenty publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pierre Formenty sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 157 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Pierre Formenty D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pierre Formenty sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

Pierre Formenty is affiliated with the World Health Organization in Switzerland. Their work primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with a significant emphasis on Infectious Diseases.

The scientist has contributed extensively to subfields including Infectious Diseases, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Modeling and Simulation, Emergency Medical Services, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research topics cover a range of subjects related to viral pathogens and outbreak response. Main topics of Formenty's work include Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research, Viral Infections and Vectors, Vector-Borne Animal Diseases, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Disaster Response and Management, Mosquito-borne diseases and control, and Plant Virus Research Studies.

Frequent publication venues for Formenty's research comprise Archives of Virology, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Journal of General Virology, UNC Libraries, and Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Several recent papers highlight the ongoing research contributions:

  • 2020 taxonomic update for phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales, 2020, Archives of Virology
  • Resurgence of Ebola virus in 2021 in Guinea suggests a new paradigm for outbreaks, 2021, Nature
  • 2021 Taxonomic update of phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales, 2021, Archives of Virology
  • 2022 taxonomic update of phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales, 2022, Archives of Virology
  • Persistence of Ebola virus in semen among Ebola virus disease survivors in Sierra Leone: A cohort study of frequency, duration, and risk factors, 2021, PLoS Medicine

Co-authorship collaborations are a notable aspect of Formenty's academic output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Anaïs Legand
  • Stephan Günther
  • Jens H. Kuhn
  • Alexander Bukreyev
  • Kartik Chandran

Best Publications

  • Emergence of Zaire Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea

    Sylvain Baize;Delphine Pannetier;Lisa Oestereich;Toni Rieger

  • Real-time, portable genome sequencing for Ebola surveillance

    Joshua Quick;Nicholas J. Loman;Sophie Duraffour;Jared T. Simpson;Jared T. Simpson

  • Ecology of zoonoses: natural and unnatural histories

    William B Karesh;William B Karesh;William B Karesh;Andy P. Dobson;Andy P. Dobson;James O Lloyd-Smith;James O Lloyd-Smith;Juan Lubroth

  • Multiple Ebola Virus Transmission Events and Rapid Decline of Central African Wildlife

    Eric M. Leroy;Pierre Rouquet;Pierre Formenty;Sandrine Souquière

  • Major increase in human monkeypox incidence 30 years after smallpox vaccination campaigns cease in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

    Anne W. Rimoin;Prime M. Mulembakani;Sara C. Johnston;James O. Lloyd Smith

  • A tale of two clades: monkeypox viruses.

    Anna M. Likos;Scott A. Sammons;Victoria A. Olson;A. Michael Frace

  • Isolation of Genetically Diverse Marburg Viruses from Egyptian Fruit Bats

    Jonathan S. Towner;Brian R. Amman;Tara K. Sealy;Serena A. Reeder Carroll

  • Human Ebola Outbreak Resulting from Direct Exposure to Fruit Bats in Luebo, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2007

    Eric M. Leroy;Alain Epelboin;Vital Mondonge;Xavier Pourrut

  • Pandemic human viruses cause decline of endangered great apes.

    Sophie Köndgen;Sophie Köndgen;Hjalmar Kühl;Paul K. N'Goran;Peter D. Walsh

  • Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2016

    Claudio L. Afonso;Gaya K. Amarasinghe;Krisztián Bányai;Yīmíng Bào

  • Isolation and partial characterisation of a new strain of Ebola virus

    B. Le Guenno;P. Formenty;M. Wyers;P. Gounon

  • Molecular Evidence of Sexual Transmission of Ebola Virus

    Suzanne E Mate;Jeffrey R Kugelman;Tolbert G Nyenswah;Jason T Ladner

  • Virus genomes reveal factors that spread and sustained the Ebola epidemic

    Gytis Dudas;Gytis Dudas;Luiz Max Carvalho;Trevor Bedford;Andrew J. Tatem

  • Prediction of a Rift Valley fever outbreak.

    Assaf Anyamba;Jean-Paul Chretien;Jennifer Small;Compton J. Tucker

  • Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2018

    Gaya K. Amarasinghe;Nidia G. Aréchiga Ceballos;Ashley C. Banyard;Christopher F. Basler

  • Human Infection Due to Ebola Virus, Subtype Côte d'Ivoire: Clinical and Biologic Presentation

    Pierre Formenty;Christophe Hatz;Bernard Le Guenno;Agnés Stoll

  • EXTENDED INTERHUMAN TRANSMISSION OF MONKEYPOX IN A HOSPITAL COMMUNITY IN THE REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, 2003

    Lynne A. Learned;Mary G. Reynolds;Demole Wassa Wassa;Yu Li

  • Panmicrobial oligonucleotide array for diagnosis of infectious diseases.

    Gustavo F. Palacios;Phuong-Lan Quan;Omar J. Jabado;Sean Conlan

  • Temporal and spatial analysis of the 2014–2015 Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa

    Miles W. Carroll;David A. Matthews;Julian A. Hiscox;Michael J. Elmore

  • Ebola virus outbreak among wild chimpanzees living in a rain forest of Cote d'Ivoire

    Pierre Formenty;Christophe Boesch;Monique Wyers;Claudia Steiner

  • Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

    Gaël D. Maganga;Jimmy Kapetshi;Nicolas Berthet;Benoît Kebela Ilunga

  • Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2017

    Gaya K. Amarasinghe;Yīmíng Bào;Christopher F. Basler;Sina Bavari

  • Report Pandemic Human Viruses Cause Decline of Endangered Great Apes

    Peter D. Walsh;Svenja Schenk;Nancy Ernst;Roman Biek

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric M. Leroy
Eric M. Leroy Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Jens H. Kuhn
Jens H. Kuhn National Institutes of Health
Jonathan S. Towner
Jonathan S. Towner Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Janusz T. Paweska
Janusz T. Paweska National Health Laboratory Service
Gustavo Palacios
Gustavo Palacios Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Stephan Günther
Stephan Günther Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
Roger Hewson
Roger Hewson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Norbert Nowotny
Norbert Nowotny University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Kartik Chandran
Kartik Chandran Albert Einstein College of Medicine
John M. Dye
John M. Dye United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases

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