Hamish McCallum

16.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
202 papers, 10.3k citations indexed

About

Hamish McCallum is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Hamish McCallum has authored 202 papers receiving a total of 10.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Ecology, 48 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 45 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Hamish McCallum's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (57 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (35 papers) and Microbial infections and disease research (34 papers). Hamish McCallum is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (57 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (35 papers) and Microbial infections and disease research (34 papers). Hamish McCallum collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Hamish McCallum's co-authors include Menna E. Jones, Andrew P. Dobson, Rodrigo Hamede, Raina K. Plowright, Shelly Lachish, Peter J. Hudson, Rick Speare, Lee F. Skerratt, Richard W. R. Retallick and Kris A. Murray and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Hamish McCallum

194 papers receiving 9.9k 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.

How should pathogen transmission be modelled?

2001 879 citations Hamish McCallum profile →
Pathways to zoonotic spillover

2017 644 citations Raina K. Plowright, Hamish McCallum et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hamish McCallum Australia	51	3.8k	2.4k	2.2k	2.0k	1.8k	202	10.3k
Daniel T. Haydon United Kingdom	57	4.2k 1.1×	2.3k 1.0×	2.3k 1.0×	870 0.4×	2.4k 1.3×	205	12.6k
Sonia Altizer United States	58	5.5k 1.4×	2.8k 1.2×	3.7k 1.7×	1.2k 0.6×	2.3k 1.3×	130	14.3k
Ottar N. Bjørnstad United States	67	6.3k 1.6×	2.6k 1.1×	2.4k 1.1×	2.8k 1.4×	1.8k 1.0×	202	14.9k
Alex D. Hyatt Australia	52	2.5k 0.7×	3.0k 1.2×	1.8k 0.8×	4.3k 2.2×	5.0k 2.8×	126	13.9k
Roșie Woodroffe United Kingdom	49	5.5k 1.4×	1.1k 0.5×	1.7k 0.8×	668 0.3×	1.3k 0.7×	123	8.6k
Wayne M. Getz United States	64	7.3k 1.9×	2.5k 1.0×	3.6k 1.6×	1.7k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	295	16.2k
Cheryl J. Briggs United States	53	2.8k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	2.0k 0.9×	4.6k 2.3×	1.3k 0.7×	129	11.6k
Andrew A. Cunningham United Kingdom	62	5.0k 1.3×	4.4k 1.8×	2.3k 1.0×	5.0k 2.5×	5.4k 3.0×	265	19.7k
Jean‐François Guégan France	46	3.9k 1.0×	1.5k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	196	10.9k
Guy Baele Belgium	36	2.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	4.2k 1.9×	1.1k 0.6×	3.2k 1.8×	167	15.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hamish McCallum

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Jones, Menna E., Shelly Lachish, Sébastien Comte, et al.. (2025). Life-history trade-offs and reproductive strategies in Tasmanian devils following disease-induced population decline. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2047). 20250697–20250697. 1 indexed citations

Kerlin, Douglas H., et al.. (2025). Purpose-driven approaches to age estimation in Australian flying-foxes (Pteropus). Wildlife Research. 52(3). 2 indexed citations

Melvin, Steven D., et al.. (2024). Chytridiomycosis disrupts metabolic responses in amphibians at metamorphic climax. Microbes and Infection. 27(3). 105438–105438. 1 indexed citations

Kozakiewicz, Christopher P., Rhett M. Rautsaw, Marc A. Beer, et al.. (2024). Intergenomic signatures of coevolution between Tasmanian devils and an infectious cancer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(12). e2307780121–e2307780121. 2 indexed citations

Grogan, Laura F., et al.. (2024). High chytrid prevalence and infection intensities in tadpoles of Mixophyes fleayi. Wildlife Research. 51(10). 1 indexed citations

Strickland, Kasha, Menna E. Jones, Andrew Storfer, et al.. (2024). Adaptive potential in the face of a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils. Molecular Ecology. 33(21). e17531–e17531. 2 indexed citations

Grogan, Laura F., et al.. (2022). Recovered frog populations coexist with endemic Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis despite load‐dependent mortality. Ecological Applications. 33(1). e2724–e2724. 19 indexed citations

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

Lunn, Tamika J., Alison J. Peel, Hamish McCallum, et al.. (2021). Spatial dynamics of pathogen transmission in communally roosting species: Impacts of changing habitats on bat‐virus dynamics. Journal of Animal Ecology. 90(11). 2609–2622. 10 indexed citations

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Stahlke, Amanda R., Brendan Epstein, Soraia Barbosa, et al.. (2021). Contemporary and historical selection in Tasmanian devils ( Sarcophilus harrisii ) support novel, polygenic response to transmissible cancer. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1951). 20210577–20210577. 13 indexed citations

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Fraik, Alexandra K., Mark J. Margres, Brendan Epstein, et al.. (2020). Disease swamps molecular signatures of genetic‐environmental associations to abiotic factors in Tasmanian devil ( Sarcophilus harrisii ) populations. Evolution. 74(7). 1392–1408. 17 indexed citations

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Hamede, Rodrigo, Thomas Madsen, Hamish McCallum, et al.. (2020). Darwin, the devil, and the management of transmissible cancers. Conservation Biology. 35(2). 748–751. 13 indexed citations

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Patton, Austin H., Mark J. Margres, Christopher P. Kozakiewicz, et al.. (2020). A transmissible cancer shifts from emergence to endemism in Tasmanian devils. Science. 370(6522). 26 indexed citations

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Hamilton, David G., Menna E. Jones, Elissa Z. Cameron, et al.. (2020). Infectious disease and sickness behaviour: tumour progression affects interaction patterns and social network structure in wild Tasmanian devils. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1940). 20202454–20202454. 24 indexed citations

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Kozakiewicz, Christopher P., Austin H. Patton, Amanda R. Stahlke, et al.. (2020). Comparative landscape genetics reveals differential effects of environment on host and pathogen genetic structure in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) and their transmissible tumour. Molecular Ecology. 29(17). 3217–3233. 9 indexed citations

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Grogan, Laura F., Jacques Robert, Chantal M. Lanctôt, et al.. (2020). Immunological Aspects of Chytridiomycosis. Journal of Fungi. 6(4). 234–234. 25 indexed citations

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Wells, Konstans, Rodrigo Hamede, Menna E. Jones, et al.. (2019). Individual and temporal variation in pathogen load predicts long‐term impacts of an emerging infectious disease. Ecology. 100(3). e02613–e02613. 30 indexed citations

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Margres, Mark J., Menna E. Jones, Brendan Epstein, et al.. (2018). Large‐effect loci affect survival in Tasmanian devils ( Sarcophilus harrisii ) infected with a transmissible cancer. Molecular Ecology. 27(21). 4189–4199. 38 indexed citations

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Storfer, Andrew, Paul A. Hohenlohe, Mark J. Margres, et al.. (2018). The devil is in the details: Genomics of transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils. PLoS Pathogens. 14(8). e1007098–e1007098. 13 indexed citations

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McCallum, Hamish, et al.. (2011). Macropod Population Control on Maria Island National Park - A Review. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania).

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