Erin A. Mordecai

10.3k total citations · 7 hit papers
98 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Erin A. Mordecai is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Erin A. Mordecai has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 41 papers in Infectious Diseases and 19 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Erin A. Mordecai's work include Mosquito-borne diseases and control (45 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (37 papers) and Malaria Research and Control (27 papers). Erin A. Mordecai is often cited by papers focused on Mosquito-borne diseases and control (45 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (37 papers) and Malaria Research and Control (27 papers). Erin A. Mordecai collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and United Kingdom. Erin A. Mordecai's co-authors include Sadie J. Ryan, Leah R. Johnson, Colin J. Carlson, Kevin D. Lafferty, Jamie M. Caldwell, Jason R. Rohr, Andrew MacDonald, Marta S. Shocket, Courtney C. Murdock and Matthew B. Thomas and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Erin A. Mordecai

90 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 2019 2012 2017 2019 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

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. Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links
    2008 682 citations Kevin D. Lafferty, Erin A. Mordecai et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  2. Global expansion and redistribution of Aedes-borne virus transmission risk with climate change
    2019 549 citations Sadie J. Ryan, Erin A. Mordecai et al. PLoS neglected tropical diseases profile →
  3. Optimal temperature for malaria transmission is dramatically lower than previously predicted
    2012 423 citations Erin A. Mordecai, Krijn P. Paaijmans et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  4. Detecting the impact of temperature on transmission of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya using mechanistic models
    2017 416 citations Erin A. Mordecai, Jeremy M. Cohen et al. PLoS neglected tropical diseases profile →
  5. Thermal biology of mosquito‐borne disease
    2019 394 citations Erin A. Mordecai, Jamie M. Caldwell et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  6. Towards common ground in the biodiversity–disease debate
    2019 186 citations Jason R. Rohr, Kevin D. Lafferty et al. profile →
  7. Interconnecting global threats: climate change, biodiversity loss, and infectious diseases
    2024 49 citations Erin A. Mordecai, T. Jonathan Davies et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Erin A. Mordecai United States 33 3.1k 1.9k 1.1k 713 665 98 5.6k
Sadie J. Ryan United States 39 3.5k 1.1× 2.1k 1.1× 2.3k 2.0× 366 0.5× 661 1.0× 184 7.6k
Robert Cheke United Kingdom 35 1.8k 0.6× 1.2k 0.6× 1.3k 1.1× 750 1.1× 949 1.4× 219 4.6k
Nick Golding United Kingdom 37 3.3k 1.1× 2.4k 1.3× 812 0.7× 344 0.5× 256 0.4× 86 6.2k
Krijn P. Paaijmans United States 35 3.4k 1.1× 1.3k 0.7× 803 0.7× 747 1.0× 604 0.9× 71 5.1k
David Roiz France 36 2.6k 0.8× 1.7k 0.9× 971 0.8× 658 0.9× 320 0.5× 76 4.6k
Tony L. Goldberg United States 52 2.4k 0.8× 2.9k 1.5× 1.9k 1.7× 328 0.5× 1.2k 1.7× 260 8.3k
Shannon L. LaDeau United States 38 1.4k 0.5× 1.1k 0.6× 1.2k 1.0× 679 1.0× 262 0.4× 81 4.7k
Parviez R. Hosseini United States 24 1.2k 0.4× 1.2k 0.6× 750 0.7× 349 0.5× 648 1.0× 35 3.4k
Dina M. Fonseca United States 45 4.5k 1.5× 2.4k 1.3× 820 0.7× 1.2k 1.7× 460 0.7× 135 6.4k
Guiyun Yan United States 46 4.5k 1.5× 905 0.5× 610 0.5× 967 1.4× 596 0.9× 144 6.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Couper, Lisa, Caroline K. Glidden, Fernando Fernández Sánchez, et al.. (2025). A Scoping Review of Mosquito Vector Range Shifts: Widespread Expansions and Evidence Gaps in Climate Attribution. Global Change Biology. 31(10). e70551–e70551.
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Kirk, Devin, Jeremy M. Cohen, Marissa L. Childs, et al.. (2025). Impacts of Weather Anomalies and Climate on Plant Disease. Ecology Letters. 28(1). e70062–e70062.
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Couper, Lisa, et al.. (2024). How Much Warming Can Mosquito Vectors Tolerate?. Global Change Biology. 30(12). e17610–e17610. 2 indexed citations
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Couper, Lisa, et al.. (2024). Mosquito thermal tolerance is remarkably constrained across a large climatic range. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2015). 20232457–20232457. 10 indexed citations
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Rezende, Izabela Maurício de, Katharine S. Walter, Panpim Thongsripong, et al.. (2024). Molecular epidemiology and evolutionary characteristics of dengue virus 2 in East Africa. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7832–7832. 5 indexed citations
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Couper, Lisa, et al.. (2024). Plasticity in mosquito size and thermal tolerance across a latitudinal climate gradient. Journal of Animal Ecology. 94(3). 330–339. 3 indexed citations
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Kain, Morgan P., et al.. (2022). Not all mosquitoes are created equal: A synthesis of vector competence experiments reinforces virus associations of Australian mosquitoes. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 16(10). e0010768–e0010768. 12 indexed citations
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Childs, Marissa L., Morgan P. Kain, Mallory Harris, et al.. (2021). The impact of long-term non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 epidemic dynamics and control: the value and limitations of early models. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1957). 20210811–20210811. 30 indexed citations
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Kain, Morgan P., Eloise B. Skinner, Andrew F. van den Hurk, Hamish McCallum, & Erin A. Mordecai. (2021). Physiology and ecology combine to determine host and vector importance for Ross River virus. eLife. 10. 10 indexed citations
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Couper, Lisa, Jamie M. Caldwell, Marissa L. Childs, et al.. (2021). How will mosquitoes adapt to climate warming?. eLife. 10. 65 indexed citations
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Couper, Lisa, Andrew MacDonald, & Erin A. Mordecai. (2020). Impact of prior and projected climate change on US Lyme disease incidence. Global Change Biology. 27(4). 738–754. 43 indexed citations
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Kendig, Amy E., et al.. (2020). Native perennial and non‐native annual grasses shape pathogen community composition and disease severity in a California grassland. Journal of Ecology. 109(2). 900–912. 2 indexed citations
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Shocket, Marta S., Jeremy M. Cohen, Fadoua El Moustaid, et al.. (2020). Transmission of West Nile and five other temperate mosquito-borne viruses peaks at temperatures between 23°C and 26°C. eLife. 9. 110 indexed citations
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Nova, Nicole, Ethan R. Deyle, Marta S. Shocket, et al.. (2020). Susceptible host availability modulates climate effects on dengue dynamics. Ecology Letters. 24(3). 415–425. 19 indexed citations
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Harris, Mallory, Jamie M. Caldwell, & Erin A. Mordecai. (2019). Climate drives spatial variation in Zika epidemics in Latin America. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1909). 20191578–20191578. 17 indexed citations
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Childs, Marissa L., et al.. (2019). Mosquito and primate ecology predict human risk of yellow fever virus spillover in Brazil. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 374(1782). 20180335–20180335. 37 indexed citations
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Tesla, Blanka, Leah R. Demakovsky, Erin A. Mordecai, et al.. (2018). Temperature drives Zika virus transmission: evidence from empirical and mathematical models. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1884). 20180795–20180795. 143 indexed citations
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Shocket, Marta S., Sadie J. Ryan, & Erin A. Mordecai. (2018). Temperature explains broad patterns of Ross River virus transmission. eLife. 7. 63 indexed citations
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Ryan, Sadie J., Amy McNally, Leah R. Johnson, et al.. (2015). Mapping Physiological Suitability Limits for Malaria in Africa Under Climate Change. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 15(12). 718–725. 98 indexed citations
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Ryan, Sadie J., Amy McNally, Leah R. Johnson, et al.. (2014). Rising suitability and declining severity of malaria transmission in Africa under climate change. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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