Chad R. Wells

3.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
36 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Chad R. Wells is a scholar working on Modeling and Simulation, Infectious Diseases and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Chad R. Wells has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Modeling and Simulation, 16 papers in Infectious Diseases and 8 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Chad R. Wells's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (18 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (11 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (7 papers). Chad R. Wells is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (18 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (11 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (7 papers). Chad R. Wells collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Chad R. Wells's co-authors include Alison P. Galvani, Burton H. Singer, Seyed M. Moghadas, Affan Shoukat, Abhishek Pandey, Lauren Ancel Meyers, Meagan C. Fitzpatrick, Pratha Sah, Zheng Wang and Joanne M. Langley and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Chad R. Wells

34 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

The Impact of Vaccination on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreaks in the United States

2021 348 citations Seyed M. Moghadas, Thomas N. Vilches et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
Impact of international travel and border control measures on the global spread of the novel 2019 coronavirus outbreak

2020 345 citations Chad R. Wells, Pratha Sah et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chad R. Wells United States	18	865	751	288	254	253	36	1.7k
Affan Shoukat Canada	16	885 1.0×	832 1.1×	302 1.0×	336 1.3×	282 1.1×	31	1.8k
Abhishek Pandey United States	22	1.1k 1.3×	1.0k 1.4×	322 1.1×	396 1.6×	206 0.8×	62	2.3k
Christine Tedijanto United States	7	811 0.9×	766 1.0×	316 1.1×	293 1.2×	142 0.6×	13	1.9k
Ruian Ke United States	21	815 0.9×	1.2k 1.6×	218 0.8×	393 1.5×	196 0.8×	55	2.3k
Xingjie Hao China	14	833 1.0×	587 0.8×	319 1.1×	252 1.0×	118 0.5×	55	1.8k
Alberto Alexander Gayle Japan	5	1.0k 1.2×	971 1.3×	455 1.6×	201 0.8×	89 0.4×	9	2.1k
Andrei R. Akhmetzhanov Japan	14	1.5k 1.7×	995 1.3×	577 2.0×	352 1.4×	104 0.4×	37	2.2k
Juliette Paireau France	17	853 1.0×	1.1k 1.5×	242 0.8×	485 1.9×	230 0.9×	46	2.1k
Kevin van Zandvoort United Kingdom	14	946 1.1×	634 0.8×	364 1.3×	310 1.2×	253 1.0×	34	1.6k
Juliet Bedford United Kingdom	14	537 0.6×	633 0.8×	293 1.0×	137 0.5×	294 1.2×	37	2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chad R. Wells

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Wells, Chad R., Affan Shoukat, Thomas Shin, Alison P. Galvani, & Seyed M. Moghadas. (2025). Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Meningococcal Vaccination Coverage and Disease Burden Among U.S. Adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health. 78(2). 308–314.

Fitzpatrick, Meagan C., Chad R. Wells, Abhishek Pandey, et al.. (2025). School-Level Gaps in MMR Coverage as the Fuel for Measles Outbreaks. Annals of Internal Medicine. 179(1). 149–152.

Shoukat, Affan, et al.. (2025). Assessing the impact of revising MenACWY vaccination schedule for adolescents in the United States: a modelling study. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas. 44. 101033–101033. 3 indexed citations

Barrett, Christopher B., et al.. (2024). Network Agency: An Agent-based Model of Forced Migration from Ukraine. 1372–1380. 1 indexed citations

Wells, Chad R., Abhishek Pandey, Seyed M. Moghadas, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of Strategies for Transitioning to Annual SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Campaigns in the United States. Annals of Internal Medicine. 177(5). 609–617. 3 indexed citations

Venkatramanan, Srinivasan, Samarth Swarup, Bryan Lewis, et al.. (2024). An agent-based framework to study forced migration: A case study of Ukraine. PNAS Nexus. 3(3). pgae080–pgae080. 5 indexed citations

Pandey, Abhishek, Ye Yang, Chad R. Wells, Burton H. Singer, & Alison P. Galvani. (2024). Estimating the lives that could be saved by expanded access to weight-loss drugs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(43). e2412872121–e2412872121. 6 indexed citations

Wells, Chad R., Abhishek Pandey, Gary R. Krieger, et al.. (2022). Quarantine and serial testing for variants of SARS-CoV-2 with benefits of vaccination and boosting on consequent control of COVID-19. PNAS Nexus. 1(3). pgac100–pgac100. 5 indexed citations

Vilches, Thomas N., Ellen Rafferty, Chad R. Wells, Alison P. Galvani, & Seyed M. Moghadas. (2022). Economic evaluation of COVID-19 rapid antigen screening programs in the workplace. BMC Medicine. 20(1). 452–452. 5 indexed citations

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Moghadas, Seyed M., Thomas N. Vilches, Kevin Zhang, et al.. (2021). The Impact of Vaccination on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreaks in the United States. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 73(12). 2257–2264. 348 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wells, Chad R., Youfang Cao, David P. Durham, et al.. (2021). Mechanistic basis of post-treatment control of SIV after anti-α4β7 antibody therapy. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(6). e1009031–e1009031. 5 indexed citations

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Fitzpatrick, Meagan C., Abhishek Pandey, Chad R. Wells, Pratha Sah, & Alison P. Galvani. (2020). Buyer beware: inflated claims of sensitivity for rapid COVID-19 tests. The Lancet. 397(10268). 24–25. 21 indexed citations

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Shoukat, Affan, Chad R. Wells, Joanne M. Langley, et al.. (2020). Projecting demand for critical care beds during COVID-19 outbreaks in Canada. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 192(19). E489–E496. 98 indexed citations

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Wells, Chad R., Meagan C. Fitzpatrick, Pratha Sah, et al.. (2020). Projecting the demand for ventilators at the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak in the USA. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 20(10). 1123–1125. 49 indexed citations

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Wells, Chad R., Abhishek Pandey, Alyssa S. Parpia, et al.. (2019). Ebola vaccination in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(20). 10178–10183. 36 indexed citations

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Wells, Chad R., Abhishek Pandey, Martial L. Ndeffo-Mbah, et al.. (2019). The exacerbation of Ebola outbreaks by conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(48). 24366–24372. 49 indexed citations

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Wells, Chad R., Dan Yamin, Martial L. Ndeffo-Mbah, et al.. (2015). Harnessing Case Isolation and Ring Vaccination to Control Ebola. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 9(5). e0003794–e0003794. 27 indexed citations

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Scarpino, Samuel V., Atila Iamarino, Chad R. Wells, et al.. (2014). Epidemiological and Viral Genomic Sequence Analysis of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak Reveals Clustered Transmission. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 60(7). 1079–1082. 41 indexed citations

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Wells, Chad R., Eili Klein, & Chris T. Bauch. (2013). Policy Resistance Undermines Superspreader Vaccination Strategies for Influenza. PLoS Computational Biology. 9(3). e1002945–e1002945. 29 indexed citations

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Wells, Chad R., Jean M. Tchuenche, Lauren Ancel Meyers, Alison P. Galvani, & Chris T. Bauch. (2011). Impact of Imitation Processes on the Effectiveness of Ring Vaccination. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 73(11). 2748–2772. 8 indexed citations

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