Benjamin Rader

3.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
42 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Rader is a scholar working on Modeling and Simulation, Epidemiology and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Rader has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Modeling and Simulation, 13 papers in Epidemiology and 10 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Rader's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (18 papers), Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (9 papers) and Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (9 papers). Benjamin Rader is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (18 papers), Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (9 papers) and Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (9 papers). Benjamin Rader collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Benjamin Rader's co-authors include John S. Brownstein, Christina M. Astley, Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Huaiyu Tian, Karla Therese L. Sy, Laura F. White, Kara Sewalk, Samuel V. Scarpino, Jon Cohen and Micaela E. Martinez and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Rader

41 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Mask-wearing and control of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the USA: a cross-sectional study

2021 173 citations Benjamin Rader, Laura F. White et al. The Lancet Digital Health profile →
Use of At-Home COVID-19 Tests — United States, August 23, 2021–March 12, 2022

2022 121 citations Benjamin Rader, A. Danielle Iuliano et al. MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report profile →
Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Infectious-Disease Surveillance

2023 85 citations John S. Brownstein, Benjamin Rader et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin Rader United States	19	490	297	214	182	169	42	1.4k
Parham Habibzadeh Iran	13	351 0.7×	355 1.2×	175 0.8×	202 1.1×	40 0.2×	41	1.5k
Cliff C. Kerr Australia	21	364 0.7×	414 1.4×	299 1.4×	144 0.8×	60 0.4×	85	1.5k
Charlie Giattino United Kingdom	7	697 1.4×	795 2.7×	125 0.6×	293 1.6×	540 3.2×	9	1.7k
Elma Dervić Austria	9	528 1.1×	192 0.6×	152 0.7×	292 1.6×	128 0.8×	18	1.1k
H. Juliette T. Unwin United Kingdom	16	415 0.8×	337 1.1×	136 0.6×	195 1.1×	121 0.7×	37	1.3k
Christina M. Astley United States	14	256 0.5×	213 0.7×	165 0.8×	86 0.5×	129 0.8×	22	991
Hidehiro Watanabe Japan	16	163 0.3×	185 0.6×	128 0.6×	119 0.7×	291 1.7×	77	947
Xingjie Hao China	14	833 1.7×	587 2.0×	252 1.2×	319 1.8×	118 0.7×	55	1.8k
Hai Fang China	25	415 0.8×	685 2.3×	212 1.0×	304 1.7×	1.0k 6.1×	67	2.5k
Dimple Rajgor Singapore	17	133 0.3×	261 0.9×	138 0.6×	73 0.4×	43 0.3×	33	1.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin Rader

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McBain, Ryan K., Robert Bozick, Melissa Kay Diliberti, et al.. (2025). Use of Generative AI for Mental Health Advice Among US Adolescents and Young Adults. JAMA Network Open. 8(11). e2542281–e2542281.

Brownstein, John S., Adam G. Dunn, Sylvain Landry Faye, et al.. (2025). Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence for disease-surveillance purposes. BMC Proceedings. 19(S4). 7–7. 1 indexed citations

Rader, Benjamin, et al.. (2024). Changes in Adult Obesity Trends in the US. JAMA Health Forum. 5(12). e243685–e243685. 6 indexed citations

Khazanchi, Rohan, Benjamin Rader, Jonathan Cantor, et al.. (2024). Spatial Accessibility and Uptake of Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccinations by Social Vulnerability. PEDIATRICS. 154(2). 2 indexed citations

Rader, Benjamin, Yulin Hswen, & John S. Brownstein. (2024). Further Reflections on the Use of Large Language Models in Pediatrics. JAMA Pediatrics. 178(6). 628–628. 3 indexed citations

Rader, Benjamin, et al.. (2024). Examining the Role of Physician Characteristics in Web-Based Verified Primary Care Physician Reviews: Observational Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 26. e51672–e51672. 1 indexed citations

Rader, Benjamin, et al.. (2023). Parental compliance and reasons for COVID-19 Vaccination among American children. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(4). e0000147–e0000147. 13 indexed citations

Wang, Jingyuan, José Lourenço, Bingying Li, et al.. (2022). Assessing the asymptomatic proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infection with age in China before mass vaccination. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 19(195). 7 indexed citations

Rader, Benjamin, A. Danielle Iuliano, Christina M. Astley, et al.. (2022). Use of At-Home COVID-19 Tests — United States, August 23, 2021–March 12, 2022. MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 71(13). 489–494. 121 indexed citations breakdown →

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Leech, Gavin, Darren Smith, Joshua Teperowski Monrad, et al.. (2022). Mask wearing in community settings reduces SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(23). e2119266119–e2119266119. 57 indexed citations

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Astley, Christina M., Gaurav Tuli, Kimberly A. Mc Cord, et al.. (2021). Global monitoring of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic through online surveys sampled from the Facebook user base. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(51). 38 indexed citations

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Sadilek, Adam, Luyang Liu, Dung T. Nguyen, et al.. (2021). Privacy-first health research with federated learning. npj Digital Medicine. 4(1). 132–132. 104 indexed citations

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Mesulam, Marsel, Christina Coventry, Benjamin Rader, et al.. (2021). Modularity and granularity across the language network-A primary progressive aphasia perspective. Cortex. 141. 482–496. 18 indexed citations

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Rader, Benjamin, Laura F. White, Jack Chen, et al.. (2021). Mask-wearing and control of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the USA: a cross-sectional study. The Lancet Digital Health. 3(3). e148–e157. 173 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sy, Karla Therese L., Micaela E. Martinez, Benjamin Rader, & Laura F. White. (2020). Socioeconomic Disparities in Subway Use and COVID-19 Outcomes in New York City. American Journal of Epidemiology. 190(7). 1234–1242. 87 indexed citations

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Rader, Benjamin, Christina M. Astley, Karla Therese L. Sy, et al.. (2020). Geographic access to United States SARS-CoV-2 testing sites highlights healthcare disparities and may bias transmission estimates. Journal of Travel Medicine. 27(7). 101 indexed citations

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Nsoesie, Elaine O., et al.. (2020). Analysis of hospital traffic and search engine data in Wuhan China indicates early disease activity in the Fall of 2019. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 21 indexed citations

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Lapointe‐Shaw, Lauren, Benjamin Rader, Christina M. Astley, et al.. (2020). Web and phone-based COVID-19 syndromic surveillance in Canada: A cross-sectional study. PLoS ONE. 15(10). e0239886–e0239886. 20 indexed citations

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Rader, Benjamin, Samuel V. Scarpino, Anjalika Nande, et al.. (2020). Crowding and the shape of COVID-19 epidemics. Nature Medicine. 26(12). 1829–1834. 173 indexed citations

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Weıntraub, Sandra, Merilee Teylan, Benjamin Rader, et al.. (2019). APOE is a correlate of phenotypic heterogeneity in Alzheimer disease in a national cohort. Neurology. 94(6). e607–e612. 28 indexed citations

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