2026 Serge Morand: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	89	507	483	19	19	584	27167

Overview

Serge Morand is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research spans several interconnected fields primarily focusing on medicine, with a strong emphasis on public health, infectious diseases, and ecology. The scientist's main areas of study include public health, environmental and occupational health, infectious diseases, ecology, parasitology, and agronomy and crop science.

The research topics covered reflect the multidisciplinary nature of their work, with concentrations on zoonotic diseases and public health, viral infections and vectors, animal disease management and epidemiology, vector-borne infectious diseases, parasite biology and host interactions, Yersinia bacterium and plague with ectoparasites research, and animal ecology and behavior studies.

Serge Morand has a substantial number of publications across various peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
Research Square (Research Square)

The scientist has collaborated consistently with several co-authors, highlighting a network of research partnerships. Notable frequent co-authors are:

Kittipong Chaisiri
Anamika Kritiyakan
Claire Lajaunie
Chuanphot Thinphovong
Alexis Ribas

Among recent papers, Serge Morand contributed to the following notable works:

"Outbreaks of Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases Are Associated With Changes in Forest Cover and Oil Palm Expansion at Global Scale," Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021
"One Health: A new definition for a sustainable and healthy future," PLoS Pathogens, 2022
"Explaining among-country variation in COVID-19 case fatality rate," Scientific Reports, 2020
"SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: A genetic, epidemiological, and evolutionary perspective," Infection Genetics and Evolution, 2020
"Developing One Health surveillance systems," One Health, 2023

Serge Morand has authored several books published primarily by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and éditions Quae eBooks. Some book titles include:

La fabrique des pandémies: Préserver la biodiversité, un impératif pour la santé, 2021
Sortir des crises: One health en pratiques, 2022
On the Edge of the Sixth Mass Extinction in Biodiversity Hotspots: Facts, needs, solutions and opportunities in Thailand and adjacent countries, 2024
Zoonoses, 2022
Les zoonoses, 2021

Best Publications

Mechanisms of polymyxin resistance: acquired and intrinsic resistance in bacteria

Abiola Olumuyiwa Olaitan;Serge Morand;Jean-Marc Rolain

1518
Citations
The diversity of parasites.

Robert Poulin;Serge Morand

822
Citations
Dissemination of the mcr-1 colistin resistance gene

Abiola Olumuyiwa Olaitan;Selma Chabou;Liliane Okdah;Serge Morand

479
Citations
Comparative performance of species richness estimation methods.

B. A. Walther;S. Morand

377
Citations
Biodiversity in helminths and nematodes as a field of study: an overview

Jean-Pierre Hugot;Pierre Baujard;Serge Morand

343
Citations
REVIEW: Predictive ecology in a changing world

Nicolas Mouquet;Yvan Lagadeuc;Vincent Devictor;Luc Doyen

338
Citations
Worldwide emergence of colistin resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae from healthy humans and patients in Lao PDR, Thailand, Israel, Nigeria and France owing to inactivation of the PhoP/PhoQ regulator mgrB: an epidemiological and molecular study.

Abiola Olumuyiwa Olaitan;Seydina M. Diene;Marie Kempf;Meryem Berrazeg

319
Citations
Density, body mass and parasite species richness of terrestrial mammals

Serge Morand;Robert Poulin

318
Citations
Quantifying phylogenetically structured environmental variation.

Yves Desdevises;Pierre Legendre;Lamia Azouzi;Serge Morand

310
Citations
Usefulness of Multilocus Sequence Typing for Characterization of Clinical Isolates of Candida albicans

M.-E. Bougnoux;M.-E. Bougnoux;S. Morand;C. d'Enfert

273
Citations
Epidemiology of Leptospira Transmitted by Rodents in Southeast Asia

Jean François Cosson;Mathieu Picardeau;Mathilde Mielcarek;Caroline Tatard

247
Citations
Revisiting the taxonomy of the Rattini tribe: a phylogeny-based delimitation of species boundaries

Marie Pagès;Yannick Chaval;Vincent Herbreteau;Surachit Waengsothorn

245
Citations
Sex-biased parasitism, seasonality and sexual size dimorphism in desert rodents

Boris R. Krasnov;Serge Morand;Hadas Hawlena;Irina S. Khokhlova

233
Citations
Mammal density and patterns of ectoparasite species richness and abundance

Michal Stanko;Dana Miklisová;Joëlle Goüy de Bellocq;Serge Morand

222
Citations
Parasite-Host Coevolution and Geographic Patterns of Parasite Infectivity and Host Susceptibility

S. Morand;S. D. Manning;M. E. J. Woolhouse

208
Citations
The impact of multiple infections on wild animal hosts: a review.

Frédéric Bordes;Serge Morand

208
Citations
Parasite diversity/host age and size relationship in three coral-reef fishes from French Polynesia

Cédrik M. Lo;Serge Morand;René Galzin

201
Citations
A parasite reveals cryptic phylogeographic history of its host.

Caroline Nieberding;Serge Morand;Roland Libois;Johan René Michaux

189
Citations
Micromammals and macroparasites : from evolutionary ecology to management

S. Morand;Boris R. Krasnov;Robert Poulin

188
Citations
Mammalian metabolism, longevity and parasite species richness.

S. Morand;P. H. Harvey

185
Citations
Molecular phylogeny of congeneric monogenean parasites (Dactylogyrus): a case of intrahost speciation

Andrea Vetešníková Šimková;Andrea Vetešníková Šimková;Serge Morand;Edouard Jobet;Milan Gelnar

184
Citations
Evolutionary biology of host-parasite relationships : theory meets reality

R. Poulin;S. Morand;A. Skorping

174
Citations
The Biogeography of Host-Parasite Interactions

Serge Morand;Boris R. Krasnov

150
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Boris R. Krasnov Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Jean-François Cosson INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

Andrea Vetešníková Šimková Masaryk University

Johan Michaux University of Liège

Alexis Ribas University of Barcelona

Sathaporn Jittapalapong Kasetsart University

Michal Stanko Slovak Academy of Sciences

Robert Poulin University of Otago

Pierre Sasal University of Perpignan

Milan Gelnar Masaryk University

External Links

Personal website of Serge Morand Google Scholar page

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