Amy Wesolowski

12.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
94 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Amy Wesolowski is a scholar working on Modeling and Simulation, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Amy Wesolowski has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Modeling and Simulation, 35 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 30 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Amy Wesolowski's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (50 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (25 papers) and Malaria Research and Control (25 papers). Amy Wesolowski is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (50 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (25 papers) and Malaria Research and Control (25 papers). Amy Wesolowski collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Kenya. Amy Wesolowski's co-authors include Caroline O. Buckee, Andrew J. Tatem, Nathan Eagle, C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Robert W. Snow, Abdisalan M. Noor, David L. Smith, Saki Takahashi, Benjamin L. Rice and Fidisoa Rasambainarivo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Amy Wesolowski

87 papers receiving 6.1k 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.

  1. Infectious disease in an era of global change
    2021 1.0k citations Benjamin L. Rice, Saki Takahashi et al. profile →
  2. Effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions to contain COVID-19 in China
    2020 864 citations Shengjie Lai, Nick Ruktanonchai et al. Nature profile →
  3. Quantifying the Impact of Human Mobility on Malaria
    2012 634 citations Amy Wesolowski, Nathan Eagle et al. Science profile →
  4. A systematic review of antibody mediated immunity to coronaviruses: kinetics, correlates of protection, and association with severity
    2020 578 citations Justin Lessler, Henrik Salje et al. Nature Communications profile →
  5. Impact of human mobility on the emergence of dengue epidemics in Pakistan
    2015 326 citations Amy Wesolowski, Taimur Qureshi et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  6. Aggregated mobility data could help fight COVID-19
    2020 279 citations Caroline O. Buckee, Bryan T. Grenfell et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Amy Wesolowski United States 29 2.3k 1.7k 1.4k 1.4k 1.3k 94 6.3k
Caroline O. Buckee United States 50 2.6k 1.1× 1.2k 0.7× 2.6k 1.9× 1.8k 1.3× 1.4k 1.1× 147 8.1k
Vittoria Colizza France 46 5.4k 2.3× 1.7k 1.0× 1.7k 1.2× 2.5k 1.8× 1.7k 1.3× 145 11.6k
Shengjie Lai China 35 1.8k 0.8× 1.6k 1.0× 1.1k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 415 0.3× 147 5.0k
C. Jessica E. Metcalf United States 51 3.1k 1.3× 2.6k 1.5× 1.8k 1.3× 2.4k 1.8× 441 0.3× 218 10.2k
Stefano Merler Italy 46 5.1k 2.2× 2.6k 1.5× 1.6k 1.2× 2.2k 1.6× 603 0.5× 157 9.2k
Nuno R. Faria United Kingdom 40 1.8k 0.8× 2.4k 1.4× 1.2k 0.9× 1.3k 1.0× 380 0.3× 102 6.8k
Huaiyu Tian China 28 2.0k 0.9× 1.7k 1.0× 774 0.6× 982 0.7× 411 0.3× 93 4.7k
Ana Pastore y Piontti United States 16 2.9k 1.2× 1.2k 0.7× 581 0.4× 799 0.6× 425 0.3× 29 4.2k
Samuel V. Scarpino United States 26 2.4k 1.0× 855 0.5× 445 0.3× 1.0k 0.7× 536 0.4× 67 4.8k
Marco Ajelli United States 42 5.6k 2.4× 2.8k 1.6× 1.2k 0.8× 2.1k 1.5× 641 0.5× 128 8.6k

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All Works

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Cleary, Eimear, Alessandro Sorichetta, Nick Ruktanonchai, et al.. (2025). Comparing lagged impacts of mobility changes and environmental factors on COVID-19 waves in rural and urban India: A Bayesian spatiotemporal modelling study. PLOS Global Public Health. 5(4). e0003431–e0003431.
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Rice, Benjamin L., Christopher D. Golden, Gabriel A. Vecchi, et al.. (2025). Vaccination to mitigate climate-driven disruptions to malaria control in Madagascar. Science. 389(6757). eadp5365–eadp5365. 1 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Tran Dang, et al.. (2023). National-scale simulation of human movement in a spatially coupled individual-based model of malaria in Burkina Faso. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 321–321. 2 indexed citations
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Mutembo, Simon, Rohan Arambepola, Nyambe Sinyange, et al.. (2023). Changes in mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in Zambia: Implications for the effectiveness of NPIs in Sub-Saharan Africa. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(10). e0000892–e0000892. 1 indexed citations
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Ge, Yong, Wenbin Zhang, Xiaoli Wang, et al.. (2023). Effects of public-health measures for zeroing out different SARS-CoV-2 variants. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5270–5270. 13 indexed citations
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Winter, Amy K., William J. Moss, J Giles, et al.. (2022). Impact of disruptions to routine vaccination programs, quantifying burden of measles, and mapping targeted supplementary immunization activities. Epidemics. 41. 100647–100647. 7 indexed citations
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Drabo, Emmanuel F., Amy Wesolowski, Shaun Truelove, et al.. (2022). Comparison of allocation strategies of convalescent plasma to reduce excess infections and mortality from SARS‐CoV‐2 in a US‐like population. Transfusion. 63(1). 92–103. 2 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Tran Dang, Anyirékun Fabrice Somé, Thu Nguyen-Anh Tran, et al.. (2022). Long-term effects of increased adoption of artemisinin combination therapies in Burkina Faso. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). e0000111–e0000111. 11 indexed citations
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Markwalter, Christine F., Diana Menya, Amy Wesolowski, et al.. (2022). Plasmodium falciparum importation does not sustain malaria transmission in a semi-arid region of Kenya. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(8). e0000807–e0000807. 8 indexed citations
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Rakotondramanga, Jean Marius, Inès Vigan-Womas, Laura C. Steinhardt, et al.. (2022). Identification of factors associated with residual malaria transmission using school-based serological surveys in settings pursuing elimination. Malaria Journal. 21(1). 242–242. 1 indexed citations
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Arambepola, Rohan, Francis Dien Mwansa, Phillimon Ndubani, et al.. (2021). Using geospatial models to map zero-dose children: factors associated with zero-dose vaccination status before and after a mass measles and rubella vaccination campaign in Southern province, Zambia. BMJ Global Health. 6(12). e007479–e007479. 24 indexed citations
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Sumner, Kelsey M., Elizabeth Freedman, Lucy Abel, et al.. (2021). Genotyping cognate Plasmodium falciparum in humans and mosquitoes to estimate onward transmission of asymptomatic infections. Nature Communications. 12(1). 909–909. 29 indexed citations
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Salje, Henrik, Amy Wesolowski, Tyler S. Brown, et al.. (2021). Reconstructing unseen transmission events to infer dengue dynamics from viral sequences. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1810–1810. 10 indexed citations
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Giles, J, Elisabeth zu Erbach-Schoenberg, Andrew J. Tatem, et al.. (2020). The duration of travel impacts the spatial dynamics of infectious diseases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(36). 22572–22579. 26 indexed citations
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Lai, Shengjie, Nick Ruktanonchai, Liangcai Zhou, et al.. (2020). Effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions to contain COVID-19 in China. Nature. 585(7825). 410–413. 864 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mensah, Keitly, Jean‐Michel Héraud, Saki Takahashi, et al.. (2019). Seasonal gaps in measles vaccination coverage in Madagascar. Vaccine. 37(18). 2511–2519. 16 indexed citations
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Wesolowski, Amy, Taimur Qureshi, Maciej F. Boni, et al.. (2015). Impact of human mobility on the emergence of dengue epidemics in Pakistan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(38). 11887–11892. 326 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wesolowski, Amy & Nathan Eagle. (2010). Parameterizing the dynamics of slums. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 103–108. 21 indexed citations

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