Cassandra Willyard

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
121 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Cassandra Willyard is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Cassandra Willyard has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Infectious Diseases and 20 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Cassandra Willyard's work include Science, Research, and Medicine (10 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (9 papers) and Biotechnology and Related Fields (8 papers). Cassandra Willyard is often cited by papers focused on Science, Research, and Medicine (10 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (9 papers) and Biotechnology and Related Fields (8 papers). Cassandra Willyard collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Sweden. Cassandra Willyard's co-authors include Megan Scudellari, Linda Nordling, Alexandra Witze, Ewen Callaway, Heidi Ledford, Ehsan Masood, Sara Reardon, Jeff Tollefson and Max Kozlov and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Medicine and Nature Reviews Drug Discovery.

In The Last Decade

Cassandra Willyard

116 papers receiving 2.1k citations

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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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cassandra Willyard United States	16	727	390	241	232	225	121	2.1k
Jun Zheng China	29	1.1k 1.4×	240 0.6×	218 0.9×	515 2.2×	701 3.1×	82	3.5k
Meenakshi Malhotra United States	32	1.4k 2.0×	586 1.5×	206 0.9×	87 0.4×	191 0.8×	107	3.2k
Michael J. Kelso Australia	30	1.6k 2.1×	259 0.7×	156 0.6×	182 0.8×	241 1.1×	82	3.2k
Yinghua Li China	33	854 1.2×	619 1.6×	607 2.5×	147 0.6×	437 1.9×	111	3.0k
Xiangrong Song China	33	2.5k 3.4×	787 2.0×	494 2.0×	325 1.4×	321 1.4×	147	4.5k
Yanyu Xiao China	40	1.3k 1.8×	701 1.8×	233 1.0×	346 1.5×	169 0.8×	140	4.2k
Zuhair Mohammad Hassan Iran	35	1.3k 1.8×	233 0.6×	140 0.6×	186 0.8×	168 0.7×	192	3.6k
Ting Xue China	26	1.3k 1.8×	284 0.7×	63 0.3×	244 1.1×	613 2.7×	127	2.4k
Abdus Samad India	25	1.1k 1.5×	257 0.7×	124 0.5×	63 0.3×	210 0.9×	80	2.6k
Eryvaldo Sócrates Tabosa do Egito Brazil	28	501 0.7×	270 0.7×	172 0.7×	132 0.6×	137 0.6×	136	2.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cassandra Willyard

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Willyard, Cassandra. (2024). Can autoimmune diseases be cured? Scientists see hope at last. Nature. 625(7996). 646–648. 6 indexed citations

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Willyard, Cassandra. (2023). The next frontier for malaria vaccination. Nature. 618(7967). S20–S22. 1 indexed citations

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Willyard, Cassandra. (2023). How quickly does COVID immunity fade? What scientists know. Nature. 614(7948). 395–396. 6 indexed citations

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Willyard, Cassandra. (2023). Monoclonal antibodies show promise for malaria prevention. Nature. 618(7967). S23–S23. 2 indexed citations

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Willyard, Cassandra. (2023). More People Die From Venomous Snakebites Each Year Than Have Ever Died from Ebola. Nature. 621(7979). S40–S47. 2 indexed citations

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Willyard, Cassandra. (2022). Could tiny blood clots cause long COVID’s puzzling symptoms?. Nature. 608(7924). 662–664. 11 indexed citations

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Willyard, Cassandra. (2022). The slow roll-out of the world’s first malaria vaccine. Nature. 612(7941). S48–S49. 8 indexed citations

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Willyard, Cassandra. (2022). What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity. Nature. 602(7895). 22–25. 29 indexed citations

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Willyard, Cassandra. (2020). How anti-ageing drugs could boost COVID vaccines in older people. Nature. 586(7829). 352–354. 13 indexed citations

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Willyard, Cassandra. (2019). Can AI Fix Medical Records?. Nature. 576(7787). S59–S62. 10 indexed citations

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Willyard, Cassandra. (2018). Unlocking the secrets of scar-free skin healing. Nature. 563(7732). S86–S88. 59 indexed citations

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Willyard, Cassandra. (2017). Screening: In the blood. Nature. 549(7673). S19–S21. 3 indexed citations

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Willyard, Cassandra. (2014). Advances in marmoset and mouse models buoy Ebola research. Nature Medicine. 20(12). 1356–1357. 8 indexed citations

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Willyard, Cassandra. (2013). Pathology: At the heart of the problem. Nature. 493(7434). S10–S11. 1 indexed citations

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Willyard, Cassandra. (2011). Microbiome: Gut reaction. Nature. 479(7374). S5–S7. 9 indexed citations

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Willyard, Cassandra. (2010). The saving switch. Nature Medicine. 16(1). 18–21. 10 indexed citations

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Willyard, Cassandra. (2010). Tiny steps towards an HIV vaccine. Nature. 466(7304). S8–S8. 8 indexed citations

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Willyard, Cassandra. (2009). Pandemic vaccine enters clinical trials. Nature Medicine. 15(9). 978–978. 1 indexed citations

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Willyard, Cassandra. (2007). Africa's HIV transmission laws based on questionable science. Nature Medicine. 13(8). 890–890.

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Willyard, Cassandra. (2007). Pfizer lawsuit spotlights ethics of developing world clinical trials. Nature Medicine. 13(7). 763–763. 14 indexed citations

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