Brian Wahl

5.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
45 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Brian Wahl is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Health and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Wahl has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Epidemiology, 14 papers in Health and 11 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Brian Wahl's work include Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (14 papers), Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (12 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (11 papers). Brian Wahl is often cited by papers focused on Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (14 papers), Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (12 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (11 papers). Brian Wahl collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Switzerland. Brian Wahl's co-authors include Nina Schwalbe, Stefan Germann, Maria Deloria Knoll, David McAllister, Harry Campbell, Li Liu, Yue Chu, Katherine L. O’Brien, Harish Nair and Robert E. Black and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, The Lancet and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Brian Wahl

38 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Burden of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influe... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2020 2020 2021 200 400 600
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. Burden of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae type b disease in children in the era of conjugate vaccines: global, regional, and national estimates for 2000–15
    2018 716 citations Brian Wahl, Katherine L. O’Brien et al. The Lancet Global Health profile →
  2. Artificial intelligence and the future of global health
    2020 418 citations Nina Schwalbe, Brian Wahl profile →
  3. Building trust while influencing online COVID-19 content in the social media world
    2020 235 citations Rupali J. Limaye, Molly Sauer et al. profile →
  4. Evidence on Digital Mental Health Interventions for Adolescents and Young People: Systematic Overview
    2021 227 citations Susanna Lehtimaki, Brian Wahl et al. JMIR Mental Health profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Brian Wahl United States 20 955 558 460 420 348 45 3.0k
Mariano Martini Italy 21 717 0.8× 507 0.9× 185 0.4× 328 0.8× 37 0.1× 141 2.0k
Jackie Cassell United Kingdom 35 743 0.8× 865 1.6× 183 0.4× 360 0.9× 66 0.2× 189 4.1k
Giang Thu Vu Vietnam 28 253 0.3× 354 0.6× 184 0.4× 228 0.5× 191 0.5× 131 2.5k
Ran D. Balicer Israel 42 1.3k 1.4× 3.4k 6.1× 781 1.7× 1.4k 3.4× 73 0.2× 261 8.8k
Wai‐Kit Ming China 25 380 0.4× 166 0.3× 137 0.3× 223 0.5× 155 0.4× 158 2.8k
Nina Schwalbe United States 16 275 0.3× 253 0.5× 77 0.2× 217 0.5× 350 1.0× 40 2.2k
Adi V. Gundlapalli United States 39 977 1.0× 1.9k 3.5× 396 0.9× 530 1.3× 50 0.1× 195 6.4k
Corrado De Vito Italy 34 692 0.7× 401 0.7× 108 0.2× 377 0.9× 48 0.1× 198 3.9k
Lisa M. Lee United States 26 1.2k 1.2× 1.0k 1.9× 148 0.3× 210 0.5× 37 0.1× 80 3.0k
Kin On Kwok Hong Kong 26 607 0.6× 1.1k 2.1× 1.2k 2.7× 1.0k 2.5× 49 0.1× 91 3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Brian Wahl

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brian Wahl

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Wahl

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Brian Wahl. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Brian Wahl based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Brian Wahl. Brian Wahl is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Johri, Mira, et al.. (2025). Vaccination for prevention of hearing loss: a scoping review. Communications Medicine. 5(1). 85–85. 1 indexed citations
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Higdon, Melissa M., Brian Wahl, Joseph G. Rosen, et al.. (2022). A Systematic Review of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine Efficacy and Effectiveness Against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection and Disease. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 9(6). ofac138–ofac138. 57 indexed citations
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Lai, Xiaozhen, Brian Wahl, Wenzhou Yu, et al.. (2022). National, regional, and provincial disease burden attributed to Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae type b in children in China: Modelled estimates for 2010–17. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific. 22. 100430–100430. 27 indexed citations
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Erchick, Daniel J., Madhu Gupta, Molly Sauer, et al.. (2022). Understanding determinants of vaccine hesitancy and acceptance in India: A qualitative study of government officials and civil society stakeholders. PLoS ONE. 17(6). e0269606–e0269606. 11 indexed citations
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Blanc, Diana Chang, John Grundy, Samir V. Sodha, et al.. (2022). Immunization programs to support primary health care and achieve universal health coverage. Vaccine. 42. S38–S42. 13 indexed citations
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Krishna, Sandeep, et al.. (2022). Effect of hybrid immunity, school reopening, and the Omicron variant on the trajectory of the COVID-19 epidemic in India: a modelling study. The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia. 8. 100095–100095. 8 indexed citations
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Lai, Xiaozhen, Dan Wu, Maria Deloria Knoll, et al.. (2022). Estimating national, regional and provincial cost-effectiveness of introducing childhood 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination in China: a modelling analysis. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific. 32. 100666–100666. 7 indexed citations
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Lehtimaki, Susanna, et al.. (2021). Evidence on Digital Mental Health Interventions for Adolescents and Young People: Systematic Overview. JMIR Mental Health. 8(4). e25847–e25847. 227 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Haijun, Wenzhou Yu, Maria Deloria Knoll, et al.. (2021). National and provincial impact and cost-effectiveness of Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccine in China: a modeling analysis. BMC Medicine. 19(1). 181–181. 13 indexed citations
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Smith, Andrew, Brian Wahl, Tisungane Mvalo, et al.. (2021). Continuous positive airway pressure for children in resource-limited settings, effect on mortality and adverse events: systematic review and meta-analysis. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 107(6). 543–552. 10 indexed citations
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Laxminarayan, Ramanan, Brian Wahl, ShankarReddy Dudala, et al.. (2020). Epidemiology and transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in two Indian states. Science. 370(6517). 691–697. 297 indexed citations
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Wahl, Brian, Maria Deloria Knoll, Anita Shet, et al.. (2020). National, regional, and state-level pneumonia and severe pneumonia morbidity in children in India: modelled estimates for 2000 and 2015. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. 4(9). 678–687. 16 indexed citations
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Gupta, Madhu, Brian Wahl, Naor Bar‐Zeev, et al.. (2020). The need for COVID-19 research in low- and middle-income countries. Global Health Research and Policy. 5(1). 33–33. 56 indexed citations
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Kandasamy, Rama, Meeru Gurung, Stephen Thorson, et al.. (2019). Comparison of two schedules of two-dose priming with the ten-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Nepalese children: an open-label, randomised non-inferiority controlled trial. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 19(2). 156–164. 6 indexed citations
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Farrar, Daniel S., Shally Awasthi, Shaza A. Fadel, et al.. (2019). Seasonal variation and etiologic inferences of childhood pneumonia and diarrhea mortality in India. eLife. 8. 13 indexed citations
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Wahl, Brian, Maria Deloria Knoll, Rajesh Kumar, et al.. (2019). National, regional, and state-level burden of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae type b disease in children in India: modelled estimates for 2000–15. The Lancet Global Health. 7(6). e735–e747. 35 indexed citations
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Wahl, Brian, Katherine L. O’Brien, Adena Greenbaum, et al.. (2018). Burden of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae type b disease in children in the era of conjugate vaccines: global, regional, and national estimates for 2000–15. The Lancet Global Health. 6(7). e744–e757. 716 indexed citations breakdown →

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