Derek A. T. Cummings

30.6k total citations · 12 hit papers
225 papers, 16.9k citations indexed

About

Derek A. T. Cummings is a scholar working on Modeling and Simulation, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Derek A. T. Cummings has authored 225 papers receiving a total of 16.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Modeling and Simulation, 105 papers in Infectious Diseases and 99 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Derek A. T. Cummings's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (107 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (79 papers) and Influenza Virus Research Studies (52 papers). Derek A. T. Cummings is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (107 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (79 papers) and Influenza Virus Research Studies (52 papers). Derek A. T. Cummings collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Thailand. Derek A. T. Cummings's co-authors include Donald S. Burke, Justin Lessler, Neil M. Ferguson, Christophe Fraser, Nicholas G Reich, Philip C. Cooley, Simon Cauchemez, Henrik Salje, Steven Riley and James Cajka and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Derek A. T. Cummings

214 papers receiving 16.3k citations

Hit Papers

Strategies for mitigating... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2006 2005 2013 2005 2020 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. Strategies for mitigating an influenza pandemic
    2006 1.6k citations Neil M. Ferguson, Derek A. T. Cummings et al. profile →
  2. Strategies for containing an emerging influenza pandemic in Southeast Asia
    2005 1.4k citations Neil M. Ferguson, Derek A. T. Cummings et al. profile →
  3. Hospital Outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
    2013 892 citations Derek A. T. Cummings et al. profile →
  4. Containing Pandemic Influenza at the Source
    2005 891 citations Derek A. T. Cummings et al. profile →
  5. Age-specific mortality and immunity patterns of SARS-CoV-2
    2020 712 citations Megan O’Driscoll, Lin Wang et al. profile →
  6. Incubation periods of acute respiratory viral infections: a systematic review
    2009 611 citations Justin Lessler, Derek A. T. Cummings et al. profile →
  7. A systematic review of antibody mediated immunity to coronaviruses: kinetics, correlates of protection, and association with severity
    2020 578 citations Angkana T. Huang, Bernardo García‐Carreras et al. Nature Communications profile →
  8. Modeling targeted layered containment of an influenza pandemic in the United States
    2008 473 citations Neil M. Ferguson, Derek A. T. Cummings et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  9. N95 Respirators vs Medical Masks for Preventing Influenza Among Health Care Personnel
    2019 305 citations Derek A. T. Cummings et al. profile →
  10. Assessing the global threat from Zika virus
    2016 297 citations Justin Lessler, Kyra H. Grantz et al. profile →
  11. Effectiveness of the CoronaVac vaccine in older adults during a gamma variant associated epidemic of covid-19 in Brazil: test negative case-control study
    2021 195 citations Otávio T. Ranzani, Matt D. T. Hitchings et al. profile →
  12. Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV (COVID-19): early estimation of epidemiological parameters and epidemic size estimates
    2021 188 citations Jonathan M. Read, Derek A. T. Cummings et al. profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Derek A. T. Cummings United States 58 7.5k 7.3k 5.6k 5.4k 1.1k 225 16.9k
Simon Cauchemez France 53 6.4k 0.9× 8.1k 1.1× 3.2k 0.6× 6.7k 1.3× 1.1k 1.0× 217 15.7k
Gerardo Chowell United States 65 5.8k 0.8× 8.6k 1.2× 3.4k 0.6× 4.3k 0.8× 861 0.8× 297 15.2k
Justin Lessler United States 54 6.9k 0.9× 5.9k 0.8× 3.1k 0.6× 3.7k 0.7× 1.2k 1.1× 221 16.4k
Christophe Fraser United Kingdom 68 8.0k 1.1× 8.7k 1.2× 3.1k 0.6× 7.7k 1.4× 663 0.6× 196 20.7k
Ira M. Longini United States 71 6.5k 0.9× 10.0k 1.4× 3.4k 0.6× 8.2k 1.5× 2.0k 1.8× 215 19.5k
Alison P. Galvani United States 58 5.4k 0.7× 4.9k 0.7× 2.9k 0.5× 4.4k 0.8× 1.7k 1.5× 284 14.0k
Ziad A. Memish Saudi Arabia 84 14.4k 1.9× 4.2k 0.6× 7.1k 1.3× 7.2k 1.3× 1.6k 1.5× 608 30.5k
Donald S. Burke United States 76 10.9k 1.5× 4.7k 0.6× 8.1k 1.4× 6.4k 1.2× 1.0k 0.9× 293 25.4k
M. Elizabeth Halloran United States 49 4.4k 0.6× 6.5k 0.9× 2.5k 0.4× 4.6k 0.9× 1.4k 1.3× 161 13.0k
Neil M. Ferguson United Kingdom 76 8.5k 1.1× 11.7k 1.6× 7.0k 1.2× 8.5k 1.6× 1.2k 1.1× 296 25.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yang, Bingyi, Katelyn M. Gostic, Dillon C. Adam, et al.. (2025). Breadth of influenza A antibody cross-reactivity varies by virus isolation interval and subtype. Nature Microbiology. 10(7). 1711–1722.
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Amin, Avnika B., Matt D. T. Hitchings, Otávio T. Ranzani, et al.. (2024). Severity-dependent test-seeking behaviors and test-negative designs: impact on estimated vaccine effectiveness and utility of analytic and design choices. American Journal of Epidemiology. 194(7). 1855–1862.
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Wang, Lin, Angkana T. Huang, Leah C. Katzelnick, et al.. (2024). Antigenic distance between primary and secondary dengue infections correlates with disease risk. Science Translational Medicine. 16(744). eadk3259–eadk3259. 11 indexed citations
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Buddhari, Darunee, Henrik Salje, Derek A. T. Cummings, et al.. (2023). Household immunity and individual risk of infection with dengue virus in a prospective, longitudinal cohort study. Nature Microbiology. 9(1). 274–283. 6 indexed citations
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O’Driscoll, Megan, Darunee Buddhari, Angkana T. Huang, et al.. (2023). Maternally derived antibody titer dynamics and risk of hospitalized infant dengue disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(41). e2308221120–e2308221120. 15 indexed citations
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Hitchings, Matt D. T., Brooke A. Borgert, Bingyi Yang, et al.. (2023). Dynamics of Anti-influenza Mucosal IgA Over a Season in a Cohort of Individuals Living or Working in a Long-term Care Facility. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 228(4). 383–390. 1 indexed citations
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Lind, Margaret L., Murilo Dorión, Sarah Lapidus, et al.. (2023). Evidence of leaky protection following COVID-19 vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 infection in an incarcerated population. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5055–5055. 14 indexed citations
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Hitchings, Matt D. T., Eshan U. Patel, Aylur K. Srikrishnan, et al.. (2023). A Mixture Model for Estimating SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence in Chennai, India. American Journal of Epidemiology. 192(9). 1552–1561. 3 indexed citations
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García‐Carreras, Bernardo, Bingyi Yang, M. Kate Grabowski, et al.. (2022). Periodic synchronisation of dengue epidemics in Thailand over the last 5 decades driven by temperature and immunity. PLoS Biology. 20(3). e3001160–e3001160. 10 indexed citations
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Salje, Henrik, Amy Wesolowski, Tyler S. Brown, et al.. (2021). Reconstructing unseen transmission events to infer dengue dynamics from viral sequences. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1810–1810. 10 indexed citations
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Hitchings, Matt D. T., Natalie E. Dean, Bernardo García‐Carreras, et al.. (2021). The Usefulness of the Test-Positive Proportion of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 as a Surveillance Tool. American Journal of Epidemiology. 190(7). 1396–1405. 9 indexed citations
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Hitchings, Matt D. T., Otávio T. Ranzani, Murilo Dorión, et al.. (2021). Effectiveness of ChAdOx1 vaccine in older adults during SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant circulation in São Paulo. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6220–6220. 52 indexed citations
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Quandelacy, Talía M., Shanta M. Zimmer, Justin Lessler, et al.. (2021). Predicting virologically confirmed influenza using school absences in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA during the 2007‐2015 influenza seasons. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. 15(6). 757–766. 1 indexed citations
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Cattarino, Lorenzo, Isabel Rodríguez-Barraquer, Natsuko Imai, Derek A. T. Cummings, & Neil M. Ferguson. (2020). Mapping global variation in dengue transmission intensity. Science Translational Medicine. 12(528). 141 indexed citations
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Borchering, Rebecca K., Angkana T. Huang, Luis Mier-y-Terán-Romero, et al.. (2019). Impacts of Zika emergence in Latin America on endemic dengue transmission. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5730–5730. 43 indexed citations
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Clapham, Hannah, Derek A. T. Cummings, & Michael A. Johansson. (2017). Immune status alters the probability of apparent illness due to dengue virus infection: Evidence from a pooled analysis across multiple cohort and cluster studies. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 11(9). e0005926–e0005926. 50 indexed citations
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Althouse, Benjamin M., Anna P. Durbin, Kathryn A. Hanley, et al.. (2014). Viral kinetics of primary dengue virus infection in non-human primates: A systematic review and individual pooled analysis. Virology. 452-453. 237–246. 45 indexed citations
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Liu, Su‐Hsun, Derek A. T. Cummings, Jonathan M. Zenilman, Patti E. Gravitt, & Rebecca M. Brotman. (2013). Characterizing the Temporal Dynamics of Human Papillomavirus DNA Detectability Using Short-Interval Sampling. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 23(1). 200–208. 27 indexed citations
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Epstein, Joshua M., et al.. (2004). Toward a Containment Strategy for Smallpox Bioterror: An Individual-Based Computational Approach. D-Scholarship@Pitt (University of Pittsburgh). 277–306. 61 indexed citations

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