Donal Bisanzio

92.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Donal Bisanzio is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases and Modeling and Simulation. According to data from OpenAlex, Donal Bisanzio has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 29 papers in Infectious Diseases and 19 papers in Modeling and Simulation. Recurrent topics in Donal Bisanzio's work include Mosquito-borne diseases and control (34 papers), Malaria Research and Control (26 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (19 papers). Donal Bisanzio is often cited by papers focused on Mosquito-borne diseases and control (34 papers), Malaria Research and Control (26 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (19 papers). Donal Bisanzio collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. Donal Bisanzio's co-authors include Richard Reithinger, Gonzalo M. Vazquez‐Prokopec, Uriel Kitron, Peter W. Gething, Samir Bhatt, Ewan Cameron, Daniel J. Weiss, Luigi Bertolotti, Laura Tomassone and Simon I Hay and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Donal Bisanzio

75 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

The Global Prevalence of Strongyloides stercoralis Infection

2020 230 citations Dora Buonfrate, Donal Bisanzio et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Donal Bisanzio United States	25	1.0k	661	542	318	244	80	2.2k
Jonathan Cox United Kingdom	36	2.8k 2.8×	581 0.9×	590 1.1×	274 0.9×	301 1.2×	59	3.9k
Caroline Kabaria Kenya	20	3.0k 3.0×	440 0.7×	510 0.9×	215 0.7×	151 0.6×	39	3.8k
Marc Souris France	24	728 0.7×	877 1.3×	257 0.5×	217 0.7×	242 1.0×	63	1.7k
Justin M Cohen United States	29	2.4k 2.4×	386 0.6×	337 0.6×	355 1.1×	267 1.1×	54	3.0k
Hugh J. W. Sturrock United States	28	1.8k 1.8×	313 0.5×	550 1.0×	201 0.6×	236 1.0×	68	2.7k
Zhongjie Li China	36	979 1.0×	1.4k 2.1×	217 0.4×	859 2.7×	1.1k 4.3×	156	3.9k
Iqbal Elyazar Indonesia	28	3.1k 3.1×	659 1.0×	652 1.2×	209 0.7×	272 1.1×	63	3.9k
Colleen L. Lau Australia	30	1.3k 1.3×	1.7k 2.6×	1.4k 2.6×	132 0.4×	398 1.6×	189	3.4k
Matthew H. Bonds United States	23	612 0.6×	393 0.6×	114 0.2×	277 0.9×	133 0.5×	61	1.5k
Susanne H. Sokolow United States	31	944 0.9×	553 0.8×	790 1.5×	200 0.6×	181 0.7×	61	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Donal Bisanzio

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Müller, Jochen F., Varun Goel, Donal Bisanzio, et al.. (2025). Integrating mobility, travel survey, and malaria case data to understand drivers of malaria importation to Zanzibar, 2022–2023. Malaria Journal. 24(1). 373–373.

LaBeaud, A. Desirée, Bryson Ndenga, Francis Mutuku, et al.. (2025). Non-household environments make a major contribution to dengue transmission: implications for vector control. Royal Society Open Science. 12(4). 241919–241919.

Bisanzio, Donal, Alioune Camara, Timothée Guilavogui, et al.. (2024). Malaria trends in districts that were targeted and not-targeted for seasonal malaria chemoprevention in children under 5 years of age in Guinea, 2014–2021. BMJ Global Health. 9(2). e013898–e013898. 3 indexed citations

Jackson, F., Elihaika G. Minja, Najat F. Kahamba, et al.. (2024). Comparison of fine-scale malaria strata derived from population survey data collected using RDTs, microscopy and qPCR in South-Eastern Tanzania. Malaria Journal. 23(1). 376–376. 2 indexed citations

Granger, Donald L., Daniel Ansong, Tsiri Agbenyega, et al.. (2024). Longitudinal associations of plasma amino acid levels with recovery from malarial coma. Malaria Journal. 23(1). 253–253. 1 indexed citations

Bisanzio, Donal, Cássia Fernanda Estofolete, & Richard Reithinger. (2024). Dengue and diabetes comorbidity: an emerging public health threat. International Health. 17(4). 597–599. 1 indexed citations

Buonfrate, Dora, Antonio Montresor, Zeno Bisoffi, Francesca Tamarozzi, & Donal Bisanzio. (2023). Progress towards the implementation of control programmes for strongyloidiasis in endemic areas: estimation of number of adults in need of ivermectin for strongyloidiasis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1894). 20220433–20220433. 4 indexed citations

Martello, Elisa, et al.. (2023). Antioxidant Effect of a Dietary Supplement Containing Fermentative S-Acetyl-Glutathione and Silybin in Dogs with Liver Disease. Veterinary Sciences. 10(2). 131–131. 4 indexed citations

Bisanzio, Donal, Mohamed H. Ali, Humphrey Mkali, et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporal dynamics of malaria in Zanzibar, 2015–2020. BMJ Global Health. 8(1). e009566–e009566. 9 indexed citations

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Bisanzio, Donal, et al.. (2022). Factors associated with marital status of women with genital fistula after childbirth: a retrospective review in nine African countries. BMJ Open. 12(5). e055961–e055961. 1 indexed citations

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Cooper, Laura, Su Yun Kang, Donal Bisanzio, et al.. (2019). Pareto rules for malaria super-spreaders and super-spreading. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3939–3939. 40 indexed citations

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Kraemer, Moritz U. G., Donal Bisanzio, Robert C. Reiner, et al.. (2018). Inferences about spatiotemporal variation in dengue virus transmission are sensitive to assumptions about human mobility: a case study using geolocated tweets from Lahore, Pakistan. EPJ Data Science. 7(1). 16–16. 35 indexed citations

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Battle, Katherine E., Donal Bisanzio, Harry S. Gibson, et al.. (2016). Treatment-seeking rates in malaria endemic countries. Malaria Journal. 15(1). 20–20. 49 indexed citations

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Mappin, Bonnie, Ewan Cameron, Ursula Dalrymple, et al.. (2015). Standardizing Plasmodium falciparum infection prevalence measured via microscopy versus rapid diagnostic test. Malaria Journal. 14(1). 460–460. 21 indexed citations

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Bisanzio, Donal, et al.. (2015). Evidence for West Nile Virus Spillover into the Squirrel Population in Atlanta, Georgia. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 15(5). 303–310. 7 indexed citations

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Cameron, Ewan, Katherine E. Battle, Samir Bhatt, et al.. (2015). Defining the relationship between infection prevalence and clinical incidence of Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8170–8170. 49 indexed citations

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Rimbach, Rebecca, et al.. (2015). Brown spider monkeys (Ateles hybridus): a model for differentiating the role of social networks and physical contact on parasite transmission dynamics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 370(1669). 20140110–20140110. 81 indexed citations

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Bhatt, Samir, Daniel J. Weiss, Bonnie Mappin, et al.. (2015). Coverage and system efficiencies of insecticide-treated nets in Africa from 2000 to 2017. eLife. 4. 111 indexed citations

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Bisanzio, Donal, Francis Mutuku, Amaya L. Bustinduy, et al.. (2014). Cross-sectional Study of the Burden of Vector-Borne and Soil-Transmitted Polyparasitism in Rural Communities of Coast Province, Kenya. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 8(7). e2992–e2992. 35 indexed citations

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Bertolotti, Luigi, et al.. (2010). Transmission Dynamics of Borrelia lusitaniae and Borrelia afzelii Among Ixodes ricinus , Lizards, and Mice in Tuscany, Central Italy. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 11(1). 21–28. 24 indexed citations

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