Doug E. Brackney

9.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
57 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Doug E. Brackney is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Doug E. Brackney has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 37 papers in Infectious Diseases and 28 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Doug E. Brackney's work include Mosquito-borne diseases and control (48 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (32 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (27 papers). Doug E. Brackney is often cited by papers focused on Mosquito-borne diseases and control (48 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (32 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (27 papers). Doug E. Brackney collaborates with scholars based in United States, Egypt and Liberia. Doug E. Brackney's co-authors include Gregory D. Ebel, Nathan D. Grubaugh, Ken E. Olson, Brian D. Foy, Carol D. Blair, Jeffrey Wilusz, Jennifer Beane, Philip M. Armstrong, Joshua L. Warren and Corey L. Campbell and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Doug E. Brackney

54 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Measurement of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater tracks community infection dynamics

2020 640 citations Doug E. Brackney, Nathan D. Grubaugh et al. profile →
An amplicon-based sequencing framework for accurately measuring intrahost virus diversity using PrimalSeq and iVar

2019 459 citations Nathan D. Grubaugh, Karthik Gangavarapu et al. Genome biology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Doug E. Brackney United States	28	2.0k	1.8k	1.1k	739	402	57	3.5k
Lark L. Coffey United States	30	2.4k 1.2×	2.3k 1.3×	597 0.5×	506 0.7×	178 0.4×	69	3.7k
Cixiu Li China	14	1.1k 0.6×	645 0.4×	707 0.6×	323 0.4×	99 0.2×	29	2.5k
Bradley S. Schneider United States	31	2.0k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	604 0.5×	491 0.7×	51 0.1×	68	3.4k
Ricardo Galler Brazil	31	2.2k 1.1×	2.8k 1.5×	439 0.4×	690 0.9×	51 0.1×	81	4.0k
Jorge E. Osorio United States	42	2.7k 1.3×	2.9k 1.6×	514 0.4×	979 1.3×	35 0.1×	150	5.2k
Kristen A. Bernard United States	36	3.0k 1.4×	3.2k 1.8×	553 0.5×	367 0.5×	34 0.1×	59	4.2k
Olga Francino Spain	34	797 0.4×	961 0.5×	156 0.1×	673 0.9×	165 0.4×	94	3.0k
Jody Hobson‐Peters Australia	27	1.6k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	808 0.7×	182 0.2×	29 0.1×	94	2.3k
Junya Yamagishi Japan	26	516 0.3×	413 0.2×	247 0.2×	582 0.8×	104 0.3×	135	2.0k
Guodong Liang China	33	2.6k 1.3×	2.4k 1.3×	512 0.4×	239 0.3×	21 0.1×	197	3.4k

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Davis, M. E., Sara M. Kross, Christopher Nagy, et al.. (2025). Functional connectivity for white-tailed deer drives the distribution of tick-borne pathogens in a highly urbanized setting. Landscape Ecology. 40(5). 87–87. 1 indexed citations

Johnson, Rebecca M., et al.. (2024). Investigating the dose-dependency of the midgut escape barrier using a mechanistic model of within-mosquito dengue virus population dynamics. PLoS Pathogens. 20(4). e1011975–e1011975. 8 indexed citations

Hyde, Josephine, Doug E. Brackney, & Blaire Steven. (2023). Three species of axenic mosquito larvae recruit a shared core of bacteria in a common garden experiment. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 89(9). e0077823–e0077823. 8 indexed citations

Brackney, Doug E., et al.. (2023). Comparison of acarological risk metrics derived from active and passive surveillance and their concordance with tick-borne disease incidence. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 14(6). 102243–102243. 7 indexed citations

Vogels, Chantal B. F., Doug E. Brackney, Alan P. Dupuis, et al.. (2023). Phylogeographic reconstruction of the emergence and spread of Powassan virus in the northeastern United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(16). e2218012120–e2218012120. 22 indexed citations

Brackney, Doug E. & Chantal B. F. Vogels. (2023). The known unknowns of Powassan virus ecology. Journal of Medical Entomology. 60(6). 1142–1148. 5 indexed citations

Johnson, Rebecca M., et al.. (2023). Increased blood meal size and feeding frequency compromise Aedes aegypti midgut integrity and enhance dengue virus dissemination. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 17(11). e0011703–e0011703. 13 indexed citations

Ma, Qicheng, Stephanie Gamez, Gargi Dayama, et al.. (2021). A mosquito small RNA genomics resource reveals dynamic evolution and host responses to viruses and transposons. Genome Research. 31(3). 512–528. 22 indexed citations

Watkins, Anne E., Eli P. Fenichel, Daniel M. Weinberger, et al.. (2021). Increased SARS-CoV-2 Testing Capacity with Pooled Saliva Samples. Emerging infectious diseases. 27(4). 29 indexed citations

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Sharma, Rohit, et al.. (2021). Vector competence of human-biting ticks Ixodes scapularis, Amblyomma americanum and Dermacentor variabilis for Powassan virus. Parasites & Vectors. 14(1). 466–466. 16 indexed citations

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Brackney, Doug E., et al.. (2021). Frequency matters: How successive feeding episodes by blood-feeding insect vectors influences disease transmission. PLoS Pathogens. 17(6). e1009590–e1009590. 30 indexed citations

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Williams, Scott C., et al.. (2021). Effective control of the motile stages of Amblyomma americanum and reduced Ehrlichia spp. prevalence in adults via permethrin treatment of white-tailed deer in coastal Connecticut, USA. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 12(3). 101675–101675. 14 indexed citations

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Steven, Blaire, et al.. (2021). The Axenic and Gnotobiotic Mosquito: Emerging Models for Microbiome Host Interactions. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 714222–714222. 26 indexed citations

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Hyde, Josephine, María A. Duque-Correa, Grant L. Hughes, Blaire Steven, & Doug E. Brackney. (2020). Limited influence of the microbiome on the transcriptional profile of female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 10880–10880. 16 indexed citations

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Grubaugh, Nathan D., Karthik Gangavarapu, Joshua Quick, et al.. (2019). An amplicon-based sequencing framework for accurately measuring intrahost virus diversity using PrimalSeq and iVar. Genome biology. 20(1). 8–8. 459 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fauver, Joseph R., James Weger‐Lucarelli, Lawrence Fakoli, et al.. (2018). Xenosurveillance reflects traditional sampling techniques for the identification of human pathogens: A comparative study in West Africa. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 12(3). e0006348–e0006348. 14 indexed citations

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Weger‐Lucarelli, James, Claudia Rückert, Nathan D. Grubaugh, et al.. (2018). Adventitious viruses persistently infect three commonly used mosquito cell lines. Virology. 521. 175–180. 26 indexed citations

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Fitzpatrick, Kelly A., Eleanor R. Deardorff, Kendra Pesko, et al.. (2010). Population variation of West Nile virus confers a host-specific fitness benefit in mosquitoes. Virology. 404(1). 89–95. 40 indexed citations

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Brackney, Doug E., et al.. (2010). Homogeneity of Powassan virus populations in naturally infected Ixodes scapularis. Virology. 402(2). 366–371. 21 indexed citations

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Brackney, Doug E., Jaclyn C. Scott, Fumihiko Sagawa, et al.. (2010). C6/36 Aedes albopictus Cells Have a Dysfunctional Antiviral RNA Interference Response. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 4(10). e856–e856. 249 indexed citations

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