Barbara A. Han

6.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
74 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Barbara A. Han is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Barbara A. Han has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 37 papers in Infectious Diseases and 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Barbara A. Han's work include Zoonotic diseases and public health (30 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (29 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (18 papers). Barbara A. Han is often cited by papers focused on Zoonotic diseases and public health (30 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (29 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (18 papers). Barbara A. Han collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Canada. Barbara A. Han's co-authors include John M. Drake, Sonia Altizer, Rebecca A. Bartel, John P. Schmidt, Andrew R. Blaustein, Andrew M. Kramer, Sarah E. Bowden, Monica Mendelsohn, Thomas M. Jessell and Michael W. Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Barbara A. Han

73 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

Animal Migration and Infectious Disease Risk

2011 683 citations Barbara A. Han et al. profile →
Rodent reservoirs of future zoonotic diseases

2015 401 citations Barbara A. Han, John P. Schmidt et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Global Patterns of Zoonotic Disease in Mammals

2016 310 citations Barbara A. Han, Andrew M. Kramer et al. Trends in Parasitology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Barbara A. Han United States	30	1.3k	1.2k	971	800	582	74	4.1k
Benoı̂t de Thoisy French Guiana	36	1.1k 0.8×	845 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	426 0.5×	413 0.7×	168	3.7k
Terry L. Yates United States	29	705 0.5×	1.4k 1.2×	855 0.9×	1.0k 1.3×	645 1.1×	75	3.4k
Vanessa O. Ezenwa United States	37	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	2.1k 2.1×	283 0.4×	1.1k 2.0×	116	5.4k
Michael D. Samuel United States	42	979 0.8×	827 0.7×	3.4k 3.5×	831 1.0×	640 1.1×	150	6.9k
Dominique Pontier France	42	755 0.6×	725 0.6×	2.5k 2.6×	575 0.7×	2.6k 4.4×	160	6.7k
Daniel M. Tompkins New Zealand	35	643 0.5×	670 0.6×	2.6k 2.7×	334 0.4×	964 1.7×	104	4.5k
Jeremy M. Cohen United States	20	912 0.7×	586 0.5×	903 0.9×	621 0.8×	408 0.7×	35	3.1k
Stephanie N. Seifert United States	18	599 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	1.0k 1.1×	295 0.4×	440 0.8×	41	3.4k
Samantha M. Wisely United States	30	322 0.3×	553 0.5×	1.3k 1.3×	254 0.3×	809 1.4×	154	2.7k
Andrea L. Graham United States	39	1.7k 1.3×	1.7k 1.4×	1.4k 1.4×	217 0.3×	1.4k 2.4×	112	6.0k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Han, Barbara A., et al.. (2025). Ecological Adaptation Strategies of Desert Plants in the Farming–Pastoral Zone of Northern Tarim Basin. Sustainability. 17(7). 2899–2899.

Poisot, Timothée, et al.. (2024). Disease ecology and pathogeography: Changing the focus to better interpret and anticipate complex environment–host–pathogen interactions. Ecography. 2024(10). 3 indexed citations

Han, Barbara A., et al.. (2024). Understanding transmission risk and predicting environmental suitability for Mayaro Virus in Central and South America. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 18(1). e0011859–e0011859. 2 indexed citations

Castellanos, Adrian A., et al.. (2024). A review of emerging health threats from zoonotic New World mammarenaviruses. BMC Microbiology. 24(1). 115–115. 4 indexed citations

Han, Barbara A., Kush R. Varshney, Shannon L. LaDeau, et al.. (2023). A synergistic future for AI and ecology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(38). e2220283120–e2220283120. 25 indexed citations

Ecke, Frauke, Barbara A. Han, Birger Hörnfeldt, et al.. (2022). Population fluctuations and synanthropy explain transmission risk in rodent-borne zoonoses. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7532–7532. 30 indexed citations

Becker, Daniel J., Gregory F. Albery, Anna Sjödin, et al.. (2022). Optimising predictive models to prioritise viral discovery in zoonotic reservoirs. The Lancet Microbe. 3(8). e625–e637. 55 indexed citations

Fischhoff, Ilya R., Adrian A. Castellanos, João Rodrigues, Arvind Varsani, & Barbara A. Han. (2021). Predicting the zoonotic capacity of mammals to transmit SARS-CoV-2. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1963). 20211651–20211651. 47 indexed citations

Becker, Daniel J. & Barbara A. Han. (2021). The macroecology and evolution of avian competence for Borrelia burgdorferi. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 30(3). 710–724. 25 indexed citations

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Wells, Heather, Michael Letko, Gorka Lasso, et al.. (2021). The evolutionary history of ACE2 usage within the coronavirus subgenus Sarbecovirus. Virus Evolution. 7(1). veab007–veab007. 49 indexed citations

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Han, Barbara A., Adrian A. Castellanos, John P. Schmidt, Ilya R. Fischhoff, & John M. Drake. (2021). The ecology of zoonotic parasites in the Carnivora. Trends in Parasitology. 37(12). 1096–1110. 14 indexed citations

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Majewska, Ania A., Tao Huang, Barbara A. Han, & John M. Drake. (2021). Predictors of zoonotic potential in helminths. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1837). 20200356–20200356. 14 indexed citations

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Han, Barbara A., Suzanne M. O’Regan, John P. Schmidt, & John M. Drake. (2020). Integrating data mining and transmission theory in the ecology of infectious diseases. Ecology Letters. 23(8). 1178–1188. 30 indexed citations

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Strona, Giovanni, et al.. (2018). The intrinsic vulnerability of networks to epidemics. Ecological Modelling. 383. 91–97. 16 indexed citations

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Han, Barbara A., et al.. (2018). Transmissibility of emerging viral zoonoses. PLoS ONE. 13(11). e0206926–e0206926. 25 indexed citations

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Schmidt, John P., Andrew Park, Andrew M. Kramer, et al.. (2017). Spatiotemporal Fluctuations and Triggers of Ebola Virus Spillover. Emerging infectious diseases. 23(3). 415–422. 9 indexed citations

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Romansic, John M., Pieter T. J. Johnson, Catherine L. Searle, et al.. (2011). Individual and combined effects of multiple pathogens on Pacific treefrogs. Oecologia. 166(4). 1029–1041. 39 indexed citations

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Blaustein, Andrew R., Barbara A. Han, Rick A. Relyea, et al.. (2011). The complexity of amphibian population declines: understanding the role of cofactors in driving amphibian losses. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1223(1). 108–119. 247 indexed citations

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Lampo, Margarita, et al.. (2008). Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Venezuela. Herpetological review. 39(4). 449–454. 15 indexed citations

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Yoshida, Yutaka, Barbara A. Han, Monica Mendelsohn, & Thomas M. Jessell. (2006). PlexinA1 Signaling Directs the Segregation of Proprioceptive Sensory Axons in the Developing Spinal Cord. Neuron. 52(5). 775–788. 108 indexed citations

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