Eskild Petersen

22.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
269 papers, 11.5k citations indexed

About

Eskild Petersen is a scholar working on Parasitology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Eskild Petersen has authored 269 papers receiving a total of 11.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Parasitology, 109 papers in Epidemiology and 84 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Eskild Petersen's work include Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies (97 papers), Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments (54 papers) and Malaria Research and Control (51 papers). Eskild Petersen is often cited by papers focused on Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies (97 papers), Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments (54 papers) and Malaria Research and Control (51 papers). Eskild Petersen collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United Kingdom and Oman. Eskild Petersen's co-authors include Nicola Petrosillo, Ruth Gilbert, Giuseppe Ippolito, Alimuddin Zumla, Önder Ergönül, Marion Koopmans, Giulio Viceconte, Martine Wallon, Wilma Buffolano and Xing‐Quan Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Eskild Petersen

266 papers receiving 11.1k 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.

Comparing SARS-CoV-2 with SARS-CoV and influenza pandemics

2020 814 citations Eskild Petersen, Marion Koopmans et al. The Lancet Infectious Diseases profile →
COVID-19, SARS and MERS: are they closely related?

2020 795 citations Nicola Petrosillo, Giulio Viceconte et al. Clinical Microbiology and Infection profile →
Human Monkeypox

2019 432 citations Eskild Petersen, Marion Koopmans et al. profile →
The WHO Global Tuberculosis 2021 Report – not so good news and turning the tide back to End TB

2022 236 citations Jeremiah Chakaya, Eskild Petersen et al. International Journal of Infectious Diseases profile →
Monkeypox outbreaks outside endemic regions: scientific and social priorities

2022 131 citations Alimuddin Zumla, Sofia R. Valdoleiros et al. The Lancet Infectious Diseases profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Eskild Petersen	5.4k	4.7k	3.1k	2.3k	2.0k	269	11.5k
Philippe Brouqui	6.7k 1.2×	2.2k 0.5×	7.7k 2.5×	3.7k 1.6×	866 0.4×	330	13.3k
Jordan W. Tappero	1.9k 0.4×	4.3k 0.9×	6.5k 2.1×	1.9k 0.8×	542 0.3×	209	11.7k
Pedro L. Alonso	2.6k 0.5×	3.4k 0.7×	2.9k 0.9×	11.7k 5.0×	1.6k 0.8×	458	19.8k
François Chappuis	2.0k 0.4×	4.7k 1.0×	1.3k 0.4×	6.2k 2.6×	941 0.5×	261	11.0k
Michael T. Osterholm	829 0.2×	3.8k 0.8×	4.7k 1.5×	1.6k 0.7×	4.8k 2.4×	146	14.6k
David L. Swerdlow	1.3k 0.2×	2.6k 0.5×	7.1k 2.3×	1.3k 0.5×	1.8k 0.9×	188	16.0k
James McCarthy	5.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.3×	3.7k 1.2×	5.2k 2.2×	1.6k 0.8×	382	15.3k
Alfonso J. Rodríguez‐Morales	896 0.2×	1.8k 0.4×	5.1k 1.6×	3.2k 1.4×	1.3k 0.6×	663	11.5k
Lyle R. Petersen	1.5k 0.3×	2.3k 0.5×	8.7k 2.8×	8.3k 3.6×	757 0.4×	156	13.2k
Azra C. Ghani	1.3k 0.2×	2.9k 0.6×	4.6k 1.5×	7.5k 3.2×	1.9k 0.9×	240	15.9k

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Al-Maani, Amal, Eskild Petersen, & Ziad A. Memish. (2025). The critical role of new tuberculosis vaccines in achieving the WHO 2035 End TB target. IJID Regions. 14(Suppl 2). 100595–100595. 2 indexed citations

Leblebicioğlu, Hakan, Nicholas J. Beeching, & Eskild Petersen. (2024). Emerging and Re-emerging Infections in Travellers. Rivm Repository (Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment). 2 indexed citations

Petersen, Eskild, Seif Al-Abri, Ziad A. Memish, et al.. (2024). Screening for latent tuberculosis in migrants—status quo and future challenges. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 141. 107002–107002. 6 indexed citations

Granata, Guido, Eskild Petersen, Alessandro Capone, et al.. (2024). The impact of armed conflict on the development and global spread of antibiotic resistance: a systematic review. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 30(7). 858–865. 20 indexed citations

Kurt, Özgür, Ahmet Özbilgin, Eskild Petersen, & Önder Ergönül. (2023). An Update on the Imported Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Europe. PubMed. 5(1). 59–62. 2 indexed citations

Khamis, Faryal, et al.. (2022). Demographic, clinical, and outcome characteristics of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae over a 10-year period (2010–2020) in Oman. IJID Regions. 4. 165–170. 4 indexed citations

Chakaya, Jeremiah, Eskild Petersen, Rebecca Nantanda, et al.. (2022). The WHO Global Tuberculosis 2021 Report – not so good news and turning the tide back to End TB. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 124. S26–S29. 236 indexed citations breakdown →

Salmi, Issa Al, et al.. (2022). Physicians’ attitudes, knowledge, and practices regarding antibiotic prescriptions. Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance. 32. 58–65. 11 indexed citations

Haider, Najmul, Javier Guitián, David Simons, et al.. (2022). Increased outbreaks of monkeypox highlight gaps in actual disease burden in Sub-Saharan Africa and in animal reservoirs. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 122. 107–111. 72 indexed citations

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Zumla, Alimuddin, Sofia R. Valdoleiros, Najmul Haider, et al.. (2022). Monkeypox outbreaks outside endemic regions: scientific and social priorities. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 22(7). 929–931. 131 indexed citations breakdown →

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Di, Antonino, et al.. (2021). Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 escape mutants and protective immunity from natural infections or immunizations. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 27(6). 823–826. 14 indexed citations

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Petrosillo, Nicola, Giulio Viceconte, Önder Ergönül, Giuseppe Ippolito, & Eskild Petersen. (2020). COVID-19, SARS and MERS: are they closely related?. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 26(6). 729–734. 795 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ergönül, Önder, Cem Tanrıöver, Henning Tiemeier, et al.. (2020). National case fatality rates of the COVID-19 pandemic. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 27(1). 118–124. 24 indexed citations

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Purpari, Giuseppa, Giusi Macaluso, Santina Di Bella, et al.. (2019). Molecular characterization of human enteric viruses in food, water samples, and surface swabs in Sicily. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 80. 66–72. 64 indexed citations

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Christiansen, Stig Hill, Niels Henrik Bruun, Søren Jensen‐Fangel, et al.. (2019). Inhaled nebulized glatiramer acetate against Gram-negative bacteria is not associated with adverse pulmonary reactions in healthy, young adult female pigs. PLoS ONE. 14(10). e0223647–e0223647. 5 indexed citations

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Petersen, Eskild, Ibrahim Abubakar, Chikwe Ihekweazu, et al.. (2018). Monkeypox — Enhancing public health preparedness for an emerging lethal human zoonotic epidemic threat in the wake of the smallpox post-eradication era. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 78. 78–84. 124 indexed citations

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Schlagenhauf, Patricia & Eskild Petersen. (2013). Current Challenges in Travelers’ Malaria. Current Infectious Disease Reports. 15(4). 307–315. 7 indexed citations

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Petersen, Eskild, et al.. (2013). Infectious disease risk from the Syrian conflict. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 17(9). e666–e667. 25 indexed citations

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Høgh, Birthe, et al.. (2005). Treatment of infants with congenital toxoplasmosis: tolerability and plasma concentrations of sulfadiazine and pyrimethamine. European Journal of Pediatrics. 165(1). 19–25. 57 indexed citations

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Ertuğ, Sema, et al.. (2000). Comparison of ELISA and Western blotting methods for the detection of IgG antibodies against Toxoplasma gondii.. 24(1). 17–21. 1 indexed citations

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