Conall Watson

5.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
49 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Conall Watson is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Conall Watson has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Infectious Diseases, 22 papers in Epidemiology and 14 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Conall Watson's work include Respiratory viral infections research (12 papers), COVID-19 epidemiological studies (10 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (10 papers). Conall Watson is often cited by papers focused on Respiratory viral infections research (12 papers), COVID-19 epidemiological studies (10 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (10 papers). Conall Watson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Fiji and Australia. Conall Watson's co-authors include W. John Edmunds, Mike Kama, Colleen L. Lau, Eric J. Nilles, John H. Lowry, Adam J. Kucharski, Helen E. Hughes, Sebastian Funk, Rosalind M. Eggo and Anton Camacho and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Conall Watson

43 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus in children younger than 5 years in England during the COVID-19 pandemic, measured by laboratory, clinical, and syndromic surveillance: a retrospective observational study

2022 152 citations Megan Bardsley, Roger Morbey et al. The Lancet Infectious Diseases profile →
Increase in invasive group A streptococcal infection notifications, England, 2022

2023 88 citations Rebecca Guy, Helen E. Hughes et al. Eurosurveillance profile →
Protecting infants against RSV disease: an impact and cost-effectiveness comparison of long-acting monoclonal antibodies and maternal vaccination

2024 39 citations Conall Watson, Stefan Flasche et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Conall Watson United Kingdom	20	518	378	318	165	136	49	1.1k
Boris Pavlin United States	17	741 1.4×	155 0.4×	325 1.0×	198 1.2×	58 0.4×	38	1.4k
Jan van de Kassteele Netherlands	25	523 1.0×	1.1k 3.0×	161 0.5×	218 1.3×	139 1.0×	73	2.0k
Alexandra Septfons France	11	475 0.9×	136 0.4×	161 0.5×	132 0.8×	132 1.0×	26	921
Alison Smith‐Palmer United Kingdom	18	456 0.9×	254 0.7×	130 0.4×	78 0.5×	99 0.7×	54	1.2k
Tamano Matsui Japan	21	626 1.2×	311 0.8×	404 1.3×	125 0.8×	65 0.5×	78	1.3k
Robert E. Fontaine United States	19	400 0.8×	237 0.6×	277 0.9×	65 0.4×	45 0.3×	46	1.1k
Sooria Balasegaram United Kingdom	19	499 1.0×	309 0.8×	207 0.7×	47 0.3×	171 1.3×	83	1.1k
Leon Heron Australia	22	545 1.1×	1.0k 2.8×	300 0.9×	145 0.9×	56 0.4×	56	1.7k
Cédric P. Yansouni Canada	20	785 1.5×	434 1.1×	234 0.7×	76 0.5×	151 1.1×	73	1.7k
Mark J Ferson Australia	26	656 1.3×	993 2.6×	156 0.5×	69 0.4×	79 0.6×	119	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Conall Watson

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Whitaker, Heather, Freja Kirsebom, Catherine Quinot, et al.. (2025). Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccines and Duration of Protection Against Hospitalisation in England: 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 Seasons. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. 19(12). e70194–e70194.

Stowe, Julia, Conall Watson, Mary Ramsay, & Nick Andrews. (2025). Assessing the risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome in older adults after bivalent RSV pre-F vaccination in England. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11496–11496.

Broad, Jonathan, Louise Letley, Jemma Walker, et al.. (2025). An England-wide survey on attitudes towards antenatal and infant immunisation against respiratory syncytial virus amongst pregnant and post-partum women. Vaccine. 62. 127482–127482. 1 indexed citations

Broad, Jonathan, Dominic Sparkes, Naomi Platt, et al.. (2024). Adapting COVID-19 research infrastructure to capture influenza and respiratory syncytial virus alongside SARS-CoV-2 in UK healthcare workers winter 2022/23 and beyond: protocol for a pragmatic sub-study. NIHR Open Research. 4. 1–1. 1 indexed citations

Elson, William H., Cecilia Okusi, Rachel Byford, et al.. (2024). Validation of an acute respiratory infection phenotyping algorithm to support robust computerised medical record-based respiratory sentinel surveillance, England, 2023. Eurosurveillance. 29(35).

Christie, Rachel, James Guilder, Robert S. Paton, et al.. (2024). A comparative study of influenza surveillance systems and administrative data in England during the 2022–2023 season. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(9). e0003627–e0003627. 1 indexed citations

Whitaker, Heather, Katja Höschler, Julia Stowe, et al.. (2024). Influenza vaccination during the 2021/22 season: A data-linkage test-negative case-control study of effectiveness against influenza requiring emergency care in England and serological analysis of primary care patients. Vaccine. 42(7). 1656–1664. 3 indexed citations

Todkill, Daniel, Theresa Lamagni, Richard Pebody, et al.. (2024). Persistent elevation in incidence of pneumonia in children in England, 2023/24. Eurosurveillance. 29(32). 4 indexed citations

Morbey, Roger, Daniel Todkill, Conall Watson, & Alex J. Elliot. (2023). Machine learning forecasts for seasonal epidemic peaks: Lessons learnt from an atypical respiratory syncytial virus season. PLoS ONE. 18(9). e0291932–e0291932.

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Sinnathamby, Mary, Fiona Warburton, Rebecca Guy, et al.. (2023). Epidemiological Impact of the Pediatric Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine (LAIV) Program on Group A Streptococcus (GAS) Infection in England. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 10(6). ofad270–ofad270. 3 indexed citations

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Cooper, Ben S., Stephanie Evans, Yalda Jafari, et al.. (2023). The burden and dynamics of hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 in England. Nature. 623(7985). 132–138. 26 indexed citations

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Bardsley, Megan, Roger Morbey, Helen E. Hughes, et al.. (2022). Epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus in children younger than 5 years in England during the COVID-19 pandemic, measured by laboratory, clinical, and syndromic surveillance: a retrospective observational study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 23(1). 56–66. 152 indexed citations breakdown →

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Manoharan, Lakshmi, Piero Olliaro, Peter Horby, & Conall Watson. (2021). Chemoprophylaxis trial designs in epidemics: insights from a systematic review of COVID-19 study registrations. Trials. 22(1). 370–370. 1 indexed citations

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Dean, Natalie E., Ron Brookmeyer, Victor De Gruttola, et al.. (2019). Design of vaccine efficacy trials during public health emergencies. Science Translational Medicine. 11(499). 41 indexed citations

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Mayfield, Helen J., John H. Lowry, Conall Watson, et al.. (2018). Use of geographically weighted logistic regression to quantify spatial variation in the environmental and sociodemographic drivers of leptospirosis in Fiji: a modelling study. The Lancet Planetary Health. 2(5). e223–e232. 51 indexed citations

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Lau, Colleen L., Helen J. Mayfield, John H. Lowry, et al.. (2017). Unravelling infectious disease eco-epidemiology using Bayesian networks and scenario analysis: A case study of leptospirosis in Fiji. Environmental Modelling & Software. 97. 271–286. 19 indexed citations

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Watson, Conall, Stefan Flasche, Adam J. Kucharski, et al.. (2017). Social mixing in Fiji: Who-eats-with-whom contact patterns and the implications of age and ethnic heterogeneity for disease dynamics in the Pacific Islands. PLoS ONE. 12(12). e0186911–e0186911. 5 indexed citations

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Watson, Conall, Stephen Baker, Colleen L. Lau, et al.. (2017). A cross-sectional seroepidemiological survey of typhoid fever in Fiji. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 11(7). e0005786–e0005786. 49 indexed citations

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Lau, Colleen L., Conall Watson, John H. Lowry, et al.. (2016). Human Leptospirosis Infection in Fiji: An Eco-epidemiological Approach to Identifying Risk Factors and Environmental Drivers for Transmission. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 10(1). e0004405–e0004405. 119 indexed citations

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Syddall, Holly, Shirley Simmonds, Helmut Martin, et al.. (2009). Cohort profile: The Hertfordshire Ageing Study (HAS). International Journal of Epidemiology. 39(1). 36–43. 28 indexed citations

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