Alexander Watts

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Alexander Watts is a scholar working on Modeling and Simulation, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Watts has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Modeling and Simulation, 14 papers in Infectious Diseases and 13 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Alexander Watts's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (18 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (10 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (10 papers). Alexander Watts is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (18 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (10 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (10 papers). Alexander Watts collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Alexander Watts's co-authors include Kamran Khan, Isaac I. Bogoch, Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Andrea Thomas-Bachli, Carmen Huber, Oliver J. Brady, Ashleigh R. Tuite, Simon I Hay, Matthew German and Maria I. Creatore and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Watts

30 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Pneumonia of unknown aetiology in Wuhan, China: potential for international spread via commercial air travel

2020 576 citations Isaac I. Bogoch, Alexander Watts et al. Journal of Travel Medicine profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Watts Canada	19	681	560	440	243	161	30	1.6k
Borame Sue Lee Dickens Singapore	20	624 0.9×	743 1.3×	533 1.2×	327 1.3×	184 1.1×	90	1.9k
Jue Tao Lim Singapore	18	638 0.9×	706 1.3×	470 1.1×	310 1.3×	184 1.1×	92	1.9k
Wenyi Zhang China	23	1.2k 1.7×	455 0.8×	476 1.1×	206 0.8×	297 1.8×	65	2.4k
Qianying Lin Hong Kong	14	767 1.1×	1.2k 2.1×	323 0.7×	460 1.9×	247 1.5×	27	1.8k
Éric D’Ortenzio France	19	849 1.2×	538 1.0×	650 1.5×	306 1.3×	231 1.4×	54	1.9k
Christine Tedijanto United States	7	766 1.1×	811 1.4×	178 0.4×	316 1.3×	293 1.8×	13	1.9k
Henrik Sjödin Sweden	12	415 0.6×	588 1.1×	358 0.8×	277 1.1×	92 0.6×	26	1.4k
Mohammad Yasir Essar Afghanistan	23	649 1.0×	330 0.6×	439 1.0×	172 0.7×	167 1.0×	169	1.8k
Abhishek Pandey United States	22	1.0k 1.5×	1.1k 2.0×	360 0.8×	322 1.3×	396 2.5×	62	2.3k
Alexandra Phelan United States	17	929 1.4×	353 0.6×	240 0.5×	246 1.0×	135 0.8×	58	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Alexander Watts

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Watts

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20 of 20 papers shown

Colón‐González, Felipe J., Rory Gibb, Kamran Khan, et al.. (2023). Projecting the future incidence and burden of dengue in Southeast Asia. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5439–5439. 39 indexed citations

Lai, Shengjie, Isaac I. Bogoch, Nick Ruktanonchai, et al.. (2022). Assessing spread risk of COVID-19 in early 2020. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(4). 212–218. 15 indexed citations

Chin, Taylor, James A. Hay, Pablo M. De Salazar, et al.. (2021). Estimating internationally imported cases during the early COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Communications. 12(1). 311–311. 27 indexed citations

Jones, Aaron, Alexander Watts, Salah Uddin Khan, et al.. (2021). Impact of a Public Policy Restricting Staff Mobility Between Nursing Homes in Ontario, Canada During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 22(3). 494–497. 18 indexed citations

Firkowski, Carina R., Joseph Bennett, Cole B. Brookson, et al.. (2021). Bridging the divide between ecological forecasts and environmental decision making. Ecosphere. 12(12). 21 indexed citations

Tuite, Ashleigh R., Deepit Bhatia, Rahim Moineddin, et al.. (2020). Global trends in air travel: implications for connectivity and resilience to infectious disease threats. Journal of Travel Medicine. 27(4). 34 indexed citations

Huber, Carmen, Alexander Watts, Jean Hai Ein Yong, et al.. (2020). Modelling airport catchment areas to anticipate the spread of infectious diseases across land and air travel. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. 36. 100380–100380. 10 indexed citations

Straka, William, Shobha Kondragunta, Zigang Wei, et al.. (2020). Examining the Economic and Environmental Impacts of COVID-19 Using Earth Observation Data. Remote Sensing. 13(1). 5–5. 40 indexed citations

Cândido, Darlan da Silva, Alexander Watts, Leandro Abade, et al.. (2020). Routes for COVID-19 importation in Brazil. Journal of Travel Medicine. 27(3). 95 indexed citations

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Bogoch, Isaac I., Alexander Watts, Andrea Thomas-Bachli, et al.. (2020). Pneumonia of unknown aetiology in Wuhan, China: potential for international spread via commercial air travel. Journal of Travel Medicine. 27(2). 576 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tuite, Ashleigh R., Alexander Watts, Kamran Khan, & Isaac I. Bogoch. (2019). Countries at risk of importation of chikungunya virus cases from Southern Thailand: A modeling study. Infectious Disease Modelling. 4. 251–256. 6 indexed citations

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Tuite, Ashleigh R., Alexander Watts, Kamran Khan, & Isaac I. Bogoch. (2019). Ebola virus outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, Democratic Republic of Congo, and the potential for further transmission through commercial air travel. Journal of Travel Medicine. 26(7). 20 indexed citations

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Brent, Shannon E., Alexander Watts, Martín S. Cetron, et al.. (2018). International travel between global urban centres vulnerable to yellow fever transmission. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 96(5). 343–354B. 31 indexed citations

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Watts, Alexander, Jennifer Miniota, Heather A. Joseph, et al.. (2017). Elevation as a proxy for mosquito-borne Zika virus transmission in the Americas. PLoS ONE. 12(5). e0178211–e0178211. 31 indexed citations

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Kraemer, Moritz U. G., Oliver J. Brady, Alexander Watts, et al.. (2017). Zika virus transmission in Angola and the potential for further spread to other African settings. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 111(11). 527–529. 18 indexed citations

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Bogoch, Isaac I., Oliver J. Brady, Moritz U. G. Kraemer, et al.. (2016). Potential for Zika virus introduction and transmission in resource-limited countries in Africa and the Asia-Pacific region: a modelling study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 16(11). 1237–1245. 121 indexed citations

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Morrison, Stephanie, et al.. (2016). Projected Zika Virus Importation and Subsequent Ongoing Transmission after Travel to the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games — Country-Specific Assessment, July 2016. MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 65(28). 711–715. 17 indexed citations

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Watts, Alexander, Victoria M. Lukasik, Marie‐Josée Fortin, & Shelley M. Alexander. (2015). Urbanization, Grassland, and Diet Influence Coyote (Canis latrans) Parasitism Structure. EcoHealth. 12(4). 645–659. 6 indexed citations

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Watts, Alexander, Peter E. Schlichting, Shawn M. Billerman, et al.. (2015). How spatio-temporal habitat connectivity affects amphibian genetic structure. Frontiers in Genetics. 6. 275–275. 64 indexed citations

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Watts, Phillip B., et al.. (1990). Exertional intensities and energy requirements of technical mountaineering at moderate altitude.. PubMed. 30(4). 365–76. 7 indexed citations

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