Daniel J. Becker

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
114 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Daniel J. Becker is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel J. Becker has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Infectious Diseases, 46 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 34 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Daniel J. Becker's work include Viral Infections and Vectors (54 papers), Zoonotic diseases and public health (41 papers) and Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (27 papers). Daniel J. Becker is often cited by papers focused on Viral Infections and Vectors (54 papers), Zoonotic diseases and public health (41 papers) and Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (27 papers). Daniel J. Becker collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Daniel J. Becker's co-authors include Sonia Altizer, Daniel G. Streicker, Raina K. Plowright, Richard J. Hall, Maureen H. Murray, Gregory F. Albery, Sonia M. Hernández, Cecilia A. Sánchez, Nancy B. Simmons and Alex D. Washburne and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Daniel J. Becker

103 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Land use-induced spillover: a call to action to safeguard environmental, animal, and human health

2021 195 citations Raina K. Plowright, Daniel J. Becker et al. profile →
Pathogens and planetary change

2025 13 citations Colin J. Carlson, Cole B. Brookson et al. PubMed profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel J. Becker United States	32	1.2k	1.1k	1.0k	774	514	114	3.1k
Scott Carver Australia	31	1.3k 1.1×	838 0.7×	871 0.9×	417 0.5×	480 0.9×	184	3.4k
Kris A. Murray United Kingdom	30	915 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	746 0.7×	585 0.8×	579 1.1×	101	3.7k
Luis E. Escobar United States	32	982 0.8×	856 0.8×	715 0.7×	471 0.6×	416 0.8×	99	3.1k
Lee F. Skerratt Australia	43	1.2k 1.0×	814 0.7×	1.5k 1.5×	1.6k 2.1×	716 1.4×	208	7.4k
Parviez R. Hosseini United States	24	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	750 0.7×	461 0.6×	648 1.3×	35	3.4k
Benoı̂t de Thoisy French Guiana	36	845 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	554 0.7×	413 0.8×	168	3.7k
Meggan E. Craft United States	31	791 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	991 1.0×	490 0.6×	687 1.3×	102	3.5k
Carlos Zambrana‐Torrelio United States	22	1.8k 1.5×	1.9k 1.7×	489 0.5×	557 0.7×	567 1.1×	45	3.9k
Kevin J. Olival United States	29	3.0k 2.4×	1.9k 1.7×	443 0.4×	798 1.0×	482 0.9×	67	4.6k
Tiffany L. Bogich United States	15	1.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	484 0.5×	323 0.4×	376 0.7×	25	2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel J. Becker

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20 of 20 papers shown

Becker, Daniel J., et al.. (2025). Diverse hosts, diverse immune systems: Evolutionary variation in bat immunology. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1550(1). 151–172. 3 indexed citations

Carlson, Colin J., Cole B. Brookson, Daniel J. Becker, et al.. (2025). Pathogens and planetary change. PubMed. 1(1). 32–49. 13 indexed citations breakdown →

Castle, Kevin T., Joy M. O’Keefe, Riley F. Bernard, et al.. (2025). A Collaborative Multiple Stressor Approach for Identifying Spatial Heterogeneities in Wildlife Health and Conservation Priorities. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 65(6). 1772–1780. 2 indexed citations

Herrera, Natalia G., et al.. (2025). Proteomics Approaches to Ecoimmunology: New Insights into Wildlife Immunity and Disease. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 65(6). 1744–1754. 2 indexed citations

Yang, Anni, Dmitriy V. Volokhov, M. Brock Fenton, et al.. (2024). Bat cellular immunity varies by year and dietary habit amidst land conversion. Conservation Physiology. 12(1). coad102–coad102. 2 indexed citations

Carlson, Colin J., Daniel J. Becker, Christian Happi, et al.. (2024). Save lives in the next pandemic: ensure vaccine equity now. Nature. 626(8001). 952–953. 6 indexed citations

Volokhov, Dmitriy V., Claudia Herrera, Ryan F. Relich, et al.. (2023). Serum proteomics reveals a tolerant immune phenotype across multiple pathogen taxa in wild vampire bats. Frontiers in Immunology. 14. 13 indexed citations

Muylaert, Renata L., Stephanie N. Seifert, Gregory F. Albery, et al.. (2023). The coevolutionary mosaic of bat betacoronavirus emergence risk. Virus Evolution. 10(1). vead079–vead079. 11 indexed citations

Becker, Daniel J., et al.. (2021). Body size affects immune cell proportions in birds and non-volant mammals, but not bats. Journal of Experimental Biology. 224(13). 10 indexed citations

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Mastromonaco, Gabriela F., et al.. (2021). Inter- and intra-specific variation in hair cortisol concentrations of Neotropical bats. Conservation Physiology. 9(1). coab053–coab053. 7 indexed citations

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Becker, Daniel J. & Barbara A. Han. (2021). The macroecology and evolution of avian competence for Borrelia burgdorferi. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 30(3). 710–724. 25 indexed citations

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Neely, Benjamin A., Michael G. Janech, M. Brock Fenton, et al.. (2021). Surveying the Vampire Bat ( Desmodus rotundus ) Serum Proteome: A Resource for Identifying Immunological Proteins and Detecting Pathogens. Journal of Proteome Research. 20(5). 2547–2559. 20 indexed citations

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Albery, Gregory F., Amy R. Sweeny, Daniel J. Becker, & Shweta Bansal. (2021). Fine‐scale spatial patterns of wildlife disease are common and understudied. Functional Ecology. 36(1). 214–225. 26 indexed citations

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Becker, Daniel J., et al.. (2020). Artificial light at night amplifies seasonal relapse of haemosporidian parasites in a widespread songbird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1935). 20201831–20201831. 16 indexed citations

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Becker, Daniel J., Alice Broos, Laura M. Bergner, et al.. (2020). Temporal patterns of vampire bat rabies and host connectivity in Belize. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 68(2). 870–879. 14 indexed citations

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Becker, Daniel J., Kelly A. Speer, M. Brock Fenton, et al.. (2020). Ecological and evolutionary drivers of haemoplasma infection and bacterial genotype sharing in a Neotropical bat community. Molecular Ecology. 29(8). 1534–1549. 24 indexed citations

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Albery, Gregory F., Daniel J. Becker, Fiona Kenyon, Daniel H. Nussey, & Josephine M. Pemberton. (2019). The Fine-Scale Landscape of Immunity and Parasitism in a Wild Ungulate Population. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 59(5). 1165–1175. 34 indexed citations

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Washburne, Alex D., Daniel Crowley, Daniel J. Becker, et al.. (2019). Percolation models of pathogen spillover. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 374(1782). 20180331–20180331. 14 indexed citations

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Glennon, Emma E., Daniel J. Becker, Alison J. Peel, et al.. (2019). What is stirring in the reservoir? Modelling mechanisms of henipavirus circulation in fruit bat hosts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 374(1782). 20190021–20190021. 26 indexed citations

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Becker, Daniel J., Alex D. Washburne, Christina L. Faust, et al.. (2019). Dynamic and integrative approaches to understanding pathogen spillover. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 374(1782). 20190014–20190014. 33 indexed citations

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