Amy Y. Vittor

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Amy Y. Vittor is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases and Parasitology. According to data from OpenAlex, Amy Y. Vittor has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 18 papers in Infectious Diseases and 6 papers in Parasitology. Recurrent topics in Amy Y. Vittor's work include Mosquito-borne diseases and control (18 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (13 papers) and Malaria Research and Control (6 papers). Amy Y. Vittor is often cited by papers focused on Mosquito-borne diseases and control (18 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (13 papers) and Malaria Research and Control (6 papers). Amy Y. Vittor collaborates with scholars based in United States, Panama and United Kingdom. Amy Y. Vittor's co-authors include Thaddeus K. Graczyk, Jonathan A. Patz, Robert H. Gilman, Jonathan A. Patz, James M. Tielsch, Tim Shields, Gregory E. Glass, Nathan D. Burkett‐Cadena, Viviana Pinedo-Cancino and Silvia Flores and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, PLoS ONE and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Amy Y. Vittor

27 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Effects of environmental change on emerging parasitic diseases

2000 840 citations Jonathan A. Patz, Thaddeus K. Graczyk et al. International Journal for Parasitology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amy Y. Vittor United States	14	1.3k	670	436	352	117	30	2.0k
Liang Lu China	24	1.0k 0.8×	960 1.4×	256 0.6×	221 0.6×	76 0.6×	95	2.0k
Marilyn O. Ruiz United States	30	2.2k 1.7×	1.7k 2.6×	408 0.9×	246 0.7×	138 1.2×	62	3.1k
Jonathan A. Patz United States	10	748 0.6×	498 0.7×	354 0.8×	470 1.3×	139 1.2×	14	2.0k
A. Alonso Aguirre United States	24	888 0.7×	707 1.1×	307 0.7×	408 1.2×	78 0.7×	58	2.2k
Cameron Webb Australia	28	1.6k 1.2×	978 1.5×	295 0.7×	269 0.8×	55 0.5×	120	2.5k
Ulisses Confalonieri Brazil	21	698 0.5×	492 0.7×	272 0.6×	234 0.7×	69 0.6×	63	2.1k
Vanina Guernier France	20	601 0.5×	664 1.0×	478 1.1×	204 0.6×	259 2.2×	43	1.9k
Vincent Herbreteau France	24	593 0.4×	432 0.6×	459 1.1×	466 1.3×	162 1.4×	72	1.5k
Sérgio Luíz Bessa Luz Brazil	24	645 0.5×	769 1.1×	208 0.5×	507 1.4×	105 0.9×	68	1.6k
Christina L. Faust United Kingdom	18	569 0.4×	311 0.5×	314 0.7×	289 0.8×	67 0.6×	33	1.2k

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Souza, William Marciel de, Robert B. Tesh, Hilda Guzmán, et al.. (2025). Contrasting Ecological Patterns of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis and Madariaga Viruses in Small Mammal and Mosquito Populations from Two Enzootic Regions of Panama. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 25(12). 749–760.

Schully, Kevin L., Melissa K. Gregory, Joost Brandsma, et al.. (2024). Retrospective Analysis of Blood Biomarkers of Neurological Injury in Human Cases of Viral Infection and Bacterial Sepsis. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 231(3). 805–815.

Vittor, Amy Y., et al.. (2024). Amazon Wildfires and Respiratory Health: Impacts during the Forest Fire Season from 2009 to 2019. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 21(6). 675–675. 7 indexed citations

Burkett‐Cadena, Nathan D., Durland Fish, Scott C. Weaver, & Amy Y. Vittor. (2023). Everglades virus: an underrecognized disease-causing subtype of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus endemic to Florida, USA. Journal of Medical Entomology. 60(6). 1149–1164. 2 indexed citations

Abid, Nabil, et al.. (2023). Infectivity of three Mayaro Virus geographic isolates in human cell lines. Acta Tropica. 242. 106894–106894. 1 indexed citations

Vittor, Amy Y., et al.. (2022). Infectious diseases compensation in the USA: the relative value. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 22(8). 1106–1108. 8 indexed citations

Vittor, Amy Y., Erik M. Blosser, Nabil Abid, et al.. (2022). Everglades virus evolution: Genome sequence analysis of the envelope 1 protein reveals recent mutation and divergence in South Florida wetlands. Virus Evolution. 8(2). veac111–veac111. 1 indexed citations

Reeves, Lawrence E., et al.. (2022). Evaluating sampling strategies for enzootic Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus vectors in Florida and Panama. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 16(4). e0010329–e0010329. 5 indexed citations

Benedetti, Francesca, Carla Mavian, Arshi Munawwar, et al.. (2021). Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 Receptors Expression in Primary Endothelial Cells and Retinoic Acid-Differentiated Human Neuronal Cells. Viruses. 13(11). 2193–2193. 10 indexed citations

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Vittor, Amy Y., Gabriel Zorello Laporta, Maria Anice Mureb Sallum, & Robert Walker. (2021). The COVID-19 crisis and Amazonia’s indigenous people: Implications for conservation and global health. World Development. 145. 105533–105533. 11 indexed citations

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Carrera, Jean‐Paul, Reneé Pereyra‐Elías, Juan Miguel Pascale, et al.. (2020). Clinical and Serological Findings of Madariaga and Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Viral Infections: A Follow-up Study 5 Years After an Outbreak in Panama. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 7(9). ofaa359–ofaa359. 8 indexed citations

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Rosa, Patrícia Sammarco, et al.. (2020). Multidrug Therapy for Leprosy Can Cure Patients with Lobomycosis in Acre State, Brazil: A Proof of Therapy Study. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 104(2). 634–639. 9 indexed citations

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Mavian, Carla, et al.. (2018). Islands as Hotspots for Emerging Mosquito-Borne Viruses: A One-Health Perspective. Viruses. 11(1). 11–11. 44 indexed citations

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Lima, Joanna M. Tucker, Amy Y. Vittor, Sami W. Rifai, & Denis Valle. (2017). Does deforestation promote or inhibit malaria transmission in the Amazon? A systematic literature review and critical appraisal of current evidence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 372(1722). 20160125–20160125. 76 indexed citations

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Vittor, Amy Y., Blas Armién, Jean‐Paul Carrera, et al.. (2016). Epidemiology of Emergent Madariaga Encephalitis in a Region with Endemic Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis: Initial Host Studies and Human Cross-Sectional Study in Darien, Panama. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 10(4). e0004554–e0004554. 36 indexed citations

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Ochieng, Caroline, Amy Y. Vittor, Raymond Nyoka, et al.. (2015). Seroprevalence of Infections with Dengue, Rift Valley Fever and Chikungunya Viruses in Kenya, 2007. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0132645–e0132645. 55 indexed citations

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Carrera, Jean‐Paul, Naomi L. Forrester, Eryu Wang, et al.. (2013). Eastern Equine Encephalitis in Latin America. New England Journal of Medicine. 369(8). 732–744. 77 indexed citations

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Vittor, Amy Y., Joseph Garland, & David Schlossberg. (2011). Improving the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis: From QuantiFERON to New Techniques to Diagnose Tuberculosis Infections. Current HIV/AIDS Reports. 8(3). 153–163. 6 indexed citations

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Vittor, Amy Y., Robert H. Gilman, James M. Tielsch, et al.. (2006). THE EFFECT OF DEFORESTATION ON THE HUMAN-BITING RATE OF ANOPHELES DARLINGI, THE PRIMARY VECTOR OF FALCIPARUM MALARIA IN THE PERUVIAN AMAZON. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 74(1). 3–11. 349 indexed citations

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Patz, Jonathan A., et al.. (2000). Effects of environmental change on emerging parasitic diseases. International Journal for Parasitology. 30(12-13). 1395–1405. 840 indexed citations breakdown →

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