| Estimating the false-negative test probability of SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR PS Wikramaratna, RS Paton, M Ghafari, J Lourenço Eurosurveillance 25 (50), 2000568, 2020 | 339* | 2020 |
| The evolution of SARS-CoV-2 PV Markov, M Ghafari, M Beer, K Lythgoe, P Simmonds, NI Stilianakis, ... Nature Reviews Microbiology 21 (6), 361-379, 2023 | 326 | 2023 |
| Purifying selection determines the short-term time dependency of evolutionary rates in SARS-CoV-2 and pH1N1 influenza M Ghafari, L du Plessis, J Raghwani, S Bhatt, B Xu, OG Pybus, ... Molecular biology and evolution 39 (2), msac009, 2022 | 57* | 2022 |
| Excess deaths associated with the Iranian COVID-19 epidemic: A province-level analysis M Ghafari, A Kadivar, A Katzourakis International Journal of Infectious Diseases 107, 101-115, 2021 | 49 | 2021 |
| A mechanistic evolutionary model explains the time-dependent pattern of substitution rates in viruses M Ghafari, P Simmonds, O Pybus, A Katzourakis Current Biology 31, 1-8, 2021 | 42 | 2021 |
| A novel variant of interest of SARS-CoV-2 with multiple spike mutations detected through travel surveillance in Africa T de Oliveira, S Lutucuta, J Nkengasong, J Morais, JP Paixão, Z Neto, ... MedRxiv, 2021.03. 30.21254323, 2021 | 32 | 2021 |
| Lessons for preparedness and reasons for concern from the early COVID-19 epidemic in Iran M Ghafari, B Hejazi, A Karshenas, S Dascalu, A Kadivar, MA Khosravi, ... Epidemics 100472, 2021 | 32* | 2021 |
| Inferring transmission bottleneck size from viral sequence data using a novel haplotype reconstruction method M Ghafari, CK Lumby, DB Weissman, CJR Illingworth Journal of Virology 94 (13), 2020 | 28 | 2020 |
| Investigating the evolutionary origins of the first three SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern M Ghafari, Q Liu, A Dhillon, A Katzourakis, DB Weissman Frontiers in Virology 2, 2022 | 26 | 2022 |
| Luria–Delbrück, revisited: the classic experiment does not rule out Lamarckian evolution CM Holmes, M Ghafari, A Abbas, V Saravanan, I Nemenman Physical biology 14 (5), 055004, 2017 | 18 | 2017 |
| Lineage replacement and evolution captured by 3 years of the United Kingdom Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey KA Lythgoe, T Golubchik, M Hall, T House, R Cahuantzi, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290 (2009), 20231284, 2023 | 16* | 2023 |
| Engaging religious institutions and faith-based communities in public health initiatives: a case study of the Romanian Orthodox Church during the COVID-19 pandemic S Dascalu, PG Flammer, M Ghafari, SC Henson, R Nascimento, ... Frontiers in Public Health 9, 768091, 2021 | 16 | 2021 |
| A framework for reconstructing SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics using excess mortality data M Ghafari, OJ Watson, A Karlinsky, L Ferretti, A Katzourakis Nature Communications 13, 3015, 2022 | 15 | 2022 |
| On the role of topology in regulating transcriptional cascades M Ghafari, A Mashaghi Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19 (36), 25168-25179, 2017 | 11 | 2017 |
| Estimating SARS-CoV-2 variant fitness and the impact of interventions in England using statistical and geo-spatial agent-based models R Hinch, J Panovska-Griffiths, WJM Probert, L Ferretti, C Wymant, ... Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 380 (2233), 20210304, 2022 | 8 | 2022 |
| Estimates of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody seroprevalence in Iran M Ghafari, A Kadivar, A Katzourakis The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2021 | 8 | 2021 |
| Prevalence of persistent SARS-CoV-2 in a large community surveillance study M Ghafari, M Hall, T Golubchik, D Ayoubkhani, T House, ... Nature 626, 1094–1101, 2024 | 5* | 2024 |
| The expected time to cross extended fitness plateaus M Ghafari, DB Weissman Theoretical population biology 129, 54-67, 2019 | 5 | 2019 |
| Iran’s covid-19 vaccination programme: using transparency to build public trust in immunisation M Ghafari, MS Rezaee-Zavareh, S Dascalu, A Katzourakis https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/08/03/irans-covid-19-vaccination-programme …, 2021 | 4* | 2021 |
| In search of the murder: Making sense of Iran’s reported deaths M Ghafari, K Madani https://medium.com/@kavehmadani/in-search-of-the-murder-making-sense-of …, 2020 | 4 | 2020 |
Aris KatzourakisProfessor of Evolution and Genomics, University of OxfordVerified email at biology.ox.ac.uk
