Freya M. Shearer

8.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
52 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Freya M. Shearer is a scholar working on Modeling and Simulation, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Freya M. Shearer has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Modeling and Simulation, 23 papers in Infectious Diseases and 20 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Freya M. Shearer's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (28 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (14 papers) and Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (10 papers). Freya M. Shearer is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (28 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (14 papers) and Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (10 papers). Freya M. Shearer collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Freya M. Shearer's co-authors include Simon I Hay, David M. Pigott, Nick Golding, Oliver J. Brady, Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Jane P. Messina, Sarah E. Ray, Catherine L. Moyes, William Wint and Joshua Longbottom and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Freya M. Shearer

50 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The current and future global distribution and population at risk of dengue

2019 753 citations Jane P. Messina, Oliver J. Brady et al. Nature Microbiology profile →
Mapping global environmental suitability for Zika virus

2016 268 citations Jane P. Messina, Moritz U. G. Kraemer et al. eLife profile →
Vulnerability to snakebite envenoming: a global mapping of hotspots

2018 253 citations Joshua Longbottom, Freya M. Shearer et al. The Lancet profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Freya M. Shearer Australia	18	1.8k	1.2k	483	290	244	52	2.7k
Katherine E. Battle United Kingdom	27	3.0k 1.6×	777 0.6×	294 0.6×	232 0.8×	170 0.7×	46	4.0k
Andrea Pugliese Italy	31	1.0k 0.6×	727 0.6×	770 1.6×	535 1.8×	240 1.0×	154	2.7k
Ousmane Faye Senegal	32	2.1k 1.2×	2.1k 1.7×	216 0.4×	99 0.3×	208 0.9×	141	3.7k
Iqbal Elyazar Indonesia	28	3.1k 1.7×	659 0.5×	209 0.4×	170 0.6×	179 0.7×	63	3.9k
Dieudonné Nkoghe Gabon	30	1.9k 1.0×	1.9k 1.5×	174 0.4×	109 0.4×	163 0.7×	68	3.1k
Lin H. Chen United States	29	2.0k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	256 0.5×	96 0.3×	94 0.4×	130	3.0k
Sarah E. Ray United States	9	879 0.5×	600 0.5×	168 0.3×	271 0.9×	134 0.5×	13	1.4k
Nicholas H. Ogden Canada	41	1.9k 1.0×	4.0k 3.2×	268 0.6×	465 1.6×	804 3.3×	137	5.6k
Brett M. Forshey United States	24	1.4k 0.8×	1.4k 1.2×	301 0.6×	77 0.3×	120 0.5×	33	2.4k
Isabel Rodríguez-Barraquer United States	33	2.1k 1.2×	2.4k 2.0×	744 1.5×	80 0.3×	196 0.8×	88	3.9k

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Walker, James R., et al.. (2025). A modular approach to forecasting COVID-19 hospital bed occupancy. Communications Medicine. 5(1). 349–349. 1 indexed citations

Hao, Tianxiao, Gerard E. Ryan, Deborah Cromer, et al.. (2025). Predicting immune protection against outcomes of infectious disease from population-level effectiveness data with application to COVID-19. Vaccine. 55. 126987–126987. 1 indexed citations

Eales, Oliver, Freya M. Shearer, & James M. McCaw. (2025). How immunity shapes the long-term dynamics of influenza H3N2. PLoS Computational Biology. 21(3). e1012893–e1012893.

Shearer, Freya M., James M. McCaw, Gerard E. Ryan, et al.. (2024). Estimating the impact of test–trace–isolate–quarantine systems on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Australia. Epidemics. 47. 100764–100764. 3 indexed citations

Flegg, Jennifer A., Inke Nadia Diniyanti Lubis, Rintis Noviyanti, et al.. (2024). A multi-criteria framework for disease surveillance site selection: case study for Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in Indonesia. Royal Society Open Science. 11(1). 230641–230641. 5 indexed citations

Zachreson, Cameron, et al.. (2024). A model-based assessment of social isolation practices for COVID-19 outbreak response in residential care facilities. BMC Infectious Diseases. 24(1). 880–880.

Lubis, Inke Nadia Diniyanti, Rintis Noviyanti, Nicholas M. Anstey, et al.. (2024). Updating estimates of Plasmodium knowlesi malaria risk in response to changing land use patterns across Southeast Asia. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 18(1). e0011570–e0011570. 8 indexed citations

Golding, Nick, David J. Price, Gerard E. Ryan, et al.. (2023). A modelling approach to estimate the transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 during periods of high, low, and zero case incidence. eLife. 12. 16 indexed citations

Zachreson, Cameron, James R. Walker, Deborah Cromer, et al.. (2023). Individual variation in vaccine immune response can produce bimodal distributions of protection. Vaccine. 41(45). 6630–6636. 6 indexed citations

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Zachreson, Cameron, Freya M. Shearer, David J. Price, et al.. (2022). COVID-19 in low-tolerance border quarantine systems: Impact of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2. Science Advances. 8(14). eabm3624–eabm3624. 16 indexed citations

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Shearer, Freya M., James R. Walker, James M. McCaw, et al.. (2022). Rapid assessment of the risk of SARS-CoV-2 importation: case study and lessons learned. Epidemics. 38. 100549–100549. 5 indexed citations

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Shearer, Freya M., Robert Moss, Jodie McVernon, Joshua V. Ross, & James M. McCaw. (2020). Infectious disease pandemic planning and response: Incorporating decision analysis. PLoS Medicine. 17(1). e1003018–e1003018. 55 indexed citations

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Bharucha, Tehmina, Freya M. Shearer, Manivanh Vongsouvath, et al.. (2020). A need to raise the bar — A systematic review of temporal trends in diagnostics for Japanese encephalitis virus infection, and perspectives for future research. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 95. 444–456. 15 indexed citations

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Martin, Geneviève, Matthew Pace, Freya M. Shearer, et al.. (2019). Levels of Human Immunodeficiency Virus DNA Are Determined Before ART Initiation and Linked to CD8 T-Cell Activation and Memory Expansion. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 221(7). 1135–1145. 18 indexed citations

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Messina, Jane P., Oliver J. Brady, Nick Golding, et al.. (2019). The current and future global distribution and population at risk of dengue. Nature Microbiology. 4(9). 1508–1515. 753 indexed citations breakdown →

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Weetman, David, Basile Kamgang, Athanase Badolo, et al.. (2018). Aedes Mosquitoes and Aedes-Borne Arboviruses in Africa: Current and Future Threats. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 15(2). 220–220. 171 indexed citations

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Shearer, Freya M., Joshua Longbottom, Annie J. Browne, et al.. (2018). Existing and potential infection risk zones of yellow fever worldwide: a modelling analysis. The Lancet Global Health. 6(3). e270–e278. 96 indexed citations

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Longbottom, Joshua, Freya M. Shearer, Maria Devine, et al.. (2018). Vulnerability to snakebite envenoming: a global mapping of hotspots. The Lancet. 392(10148). 673–684. 253 indexed citations breakdown →

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Messina, Jane P., Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Oliver J. Brady, et al.. (2016). Mapping global environmental suitability for Zika virus. eLife. 5. 268 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kraemer, Moritz U. G., Marianne Sinka, Kirsten A. Duda, et al.. (2015). The global compendium of Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus occurrence. Scientific Data. 2(1). 150035–150035. 274 indexed citations

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