Daniel E. Neafsey

12.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
89 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Daniel E. Neafsey is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Molecular Biology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel E. Neafsey has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 29 papers in Molecular Biology and 20 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Daniel E. Neafsey's work include Malaria Research and Control (66 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (39 papers) and Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (12 papers). Daniel E. Neafsey is often cited by papers focused on Malaria Research and Control (66 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (39 papers) and Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (12 papers). Daniel E. Neafsey collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Senegal. Daniel E. Neafsey's co-authors include Dyann F. Wirth, Sarah K. Volkman, Daniel L. Hartl, James E. Galagan, Aimee R. Taylor, S. F. Schaffner, Daniel J. Park, Rachel F. Daniels, Nora J. Besansky and Pardis C. Sabeti and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Daniel E. Neafsey

85 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Extensive introgression in a malaria vector species complex revealed by phylogenomics

2014 413 citations Daniel E. Neafsey, Igor V. Sharakhov et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel E. Neafsey United States	39	2.8k	1.4k	908	704	587	89	4.3k
Michael T. Ferdig United States	35	3.5k 1.3×	948 0.7×	470 0.5×	615 0.9×	523 0.9×	92	4.8k
Robert T. Good Australia	23	1.8k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	411 0.5×	418 0.6×	828 1.4×	40	3.3k
Jianbing Mu United States	37	3.7k 1.3×	867 0.6×	442 0.5×	804 1.1×	954 1.6×	92	4.8k
Margaret J. Mackinnon United Kingdom	40	3.2k 1.1×	503 0.4×	2.1k 2.3×	706 1.0×	725 1.2×	74	5.2k
Vincenzo Petrarca Italy	35	3.3k 1.2×	1.5k 1.1×	583 0.6×	348 0.5×	442 0.8×	62	4.1k
Lisa Ranford‐Cartwright United Kingdom	41	3.3k 1.2×	676 0.5×	364 0.4×	966 1.4×	1.1k 1.9×	99	4.4k
Yeya T. Touré Mali	36	2.8k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	553 0.6×	284 0.4×	383 0.7×	69	3.7k
Kirk Deitsch United States	38	4.0k 1.4×	1.7k 1.2×	321 0.4×	788 1.1×	1.7k 2.9×	93	5.6k
Alyssa E. Barry Australia	35	2.0k 0.7×	811 0.6×	381 0.4×	582 0.8×	490 0.8×	75	2.9k
Christos Louis Greece	38	1.7k 0.6×	2.3k 1.7×	605 0.7×	295 0.4×	980 1.7×	106	4.3k

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Mehra, Somya, Daniel E. Neafsey, Michael White, & Aimee R. Taylor. (2025). Systematic bias in malaria parasite relatedness estimation. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 15(5). 1 indexed citations

Perkins, Sarah A., Daniel E. Neafsey, & Angela M. Early. (2025). Heterogeneous constraint and adaptation across the malaria parasite life cycle. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2058). 20251549–20251549.

Schwabl, Philipp, Flavia Camponovo, Angela M. Early, et al.. (2024). Contrasting genomic epidemiology between sympatric Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax populations. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8450–8450.

Buysse, Marie, Nil Rahola, Josquin Daron, et al.. (2023). Limited association between Wolbachia and Plasmodium falciparum infections in natural populations of the major malaria mosquito Anopheles moucheti. Evolutionary Applications. 16(12). 1999–2006. 2 indexed citations

Early, Angela M., Flavia Camponovo, Stéphane Pelleau, et al.. (2022). Declines in prevalence alter the optimal level of sexual investment for the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(30). e2122165119–e2122165119. 5 indexed citations

Rodrigues, Priscila T., Angela M. Early, Ana Maria Ribeiro de Castro Duarte, et al.. (2021). Plasmodium simium : Population Genomics Reveals the Origin of a Reverse Zoonosis. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 224(11). 1950–1961. 18 indexed citations

Schwabl, Philipp & Daniel E. Neafsey. (2021). Molecular surveillance of malaria scales up. Trends in Parasitology. 37(12). 1020–1021. 1 indexed citations

Tennessen, Jacob A., Victoria A. Ingham, Kobié Hyacinthe Toé, et al.. (2020). A population genomic unveiling of a new cryptic mosquito taxon within the malaria‐transmitting Anopheles gambiae complex. Molecular Ecology. 30(3). 775–790. 18 indexed citations

Redmond, Seth, Atashi Sharma, Igor V. Sharakhov, et al.. (2020). Linked-read sequencing identifies abundant microinversions and introgression in the arboviral vector Aedes aegypti. BMC Biology. 18(1). 26–26. 13 indexed citations

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Cox, Horace, Angela M. Early, Sachel Mok, et al.. (2020). Local emergence in Amazonia of Plasmodium falciparum k13 C580Y mutants associated with in vitro artemisinin resistance. eLife. 9. 100 indexed citations

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Straub, Timothy J., W. Robert Shaw, Perrine Marcenac, et al.. (2020). The Anopheles coluzzii microbiome and its interaction with the intracellular parasite Wolbachia. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 13847–13847. 14 indexed citations

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Taylor, Aimee R., Pierre Jacob, Daniel E. Neafsey, & Caroline O. Buckee. (2019). Estimating Relatedness Between Malaria Parasites. Genetics. 212(4). 1337–1351. 43 indexed citations

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Redmond, Seth, Selina Bopp, Amy K. Bei, et al.. (2018). De Novo Mutations Resolve Disease Transmission Pathways in Clonal Malaria. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 35(7). 1678–1689. 11 indexed citations

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Baniecki, Mary Lynn, S. F. Schaffner, Daniel J. Park, et al.. (2015). Development of a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Barcode to Genotype Plasmodium vivax Infections. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 9(3). e0003539–e0003539. 105 indexed citations

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Rovira-Vallbona, Eduard, Azucena Bardají, Elisa Serra‐Casas, et al.. (2013). VAR2CSA Signatures of High Plasmodium falciparum Parasitemia in the Placenta. PLoS ONE. 8(7). e69753–e69753. 11 indexed citations

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Chang, Hsiao‐Han, Daniel J. Park, Kevin Galinsky, et al.. (2012). Genomic Sequencing of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Parasites from Senegal Reveals the Demographic History of the Population. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29(11). 3427–3439. 42 indexed citations

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Lozovsky, Elena R., Thanat Chookajorn, K M Brown, et al.. (2009). Stepwise acquisition of pyrimethamine resistance in the malaria parasite. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(29). 12025–12030. 202 indexed citations

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Hughes, Shayne S., et al.. (2008). Complex Selection on Intron Size in Cryptococcus neoformans. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 25(2). 247–253. 11 indexed citations

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Neafsey, Daniel E. & James E. Galagan. (2007). Positive selection for unpreferred codon usage in eukaryotic genomes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 20 indexed citations

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Neafsey, Daniel E. & Stephen R. Palumbi. (2003). Genome Size Evolution in Pufferfish: A Comparative Analysis of Diodontid and Tetraodontid Pufferfish Genomes. Genome Research. 13(5). 821–830. 77 indexed citations

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