Jacob C. Koella

10.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
139 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Jacob C. Koella is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Genetics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jacob C. Koella has authored 139 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 59 papers in Genetics and 54 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Jacob C. Koella's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (52 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (50 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (48 papers). Jacob C. Koella is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (52 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (50 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (48 papers). Jacob C. Koella collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, France and United Kingdom. Jacob C. Koella's co-authors include Stephen C. Stearns, Werner Huber, Philip Agnew, Olivier Restif, Christophe Boëte, Louis Lambrechts, Rustom Antia, E. Lyimo, Robert A. Anderson and Alex Schwartz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jacob C. Koella

135 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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 EVOLUTION OF PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY IN LIFE‐HISTORY TRAITS: PREDICTIONS OF REACTION NORMS FOR AGE AND SIZE AT MATURITY

1986 967 citations Jacob C. Koella et al. Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jacob C. Koella Switzerland	48	3.3k	2.1k	1.9k	1.5k	1.3k	139	7.6k
Frédéric Thomas France	53	2.4k 0.7×	2.3k 1.1×	1.9k 1.0×	3.5k 2.4×	1.3k 1.0×	327	10.7k
Mike Boots United Kingdom	40	1.9k 0.6×	2.6k 1.3×	1.5k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	122	5.6k
Jeffrey R. Powell United States	48	3.1k 0.9×	2.5k 1.2×	2.2k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	162	8.5k
Sylvain Gandon France	54	2.7k 0.8×	4.9k 2.3×	1.4k 0.7×	2.5k 1.7×	1.9k 1.4×	146	9.4k
Adalgisa Caccone United States	52	2.4k 0.7×	3.3k 1.6×	1.6k 0.8×	2.3k 1.5×	1.5k 1.1×	252	8.9k
Matthew B. Thomas United States	56	5.3k 1.6×	1.6k 0.7×	4.3k 2.2×	1.8k 1.3×	1.4k 1.0×	171	11.5k
Cheryl J. Briggs United States	53	1.6k 0.5×	2.0k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	2.8k 1.9×	2.7k 2.0×	129	11.6k
Jacobus C. de Roode United States	43	1.4k 0.4×	2.5k 1.2×	1.8k 0.9×	978 0.7×	1.8k 1.3×	100	5.3k
Yannis Michalakis France	50	1.4k 0.4×	3.9k 1.8×	1.7k 0.9×	2.1k 1.4×	1.9k 1.4×	117	8.2k
Nora J. Besansky United States	49	4.1k 1.2×	2.2k 1.1×	1.5k 0.8×	708 0.5×	744 0.6×	124	7.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Jacob C. Koella

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Jacob C. Koella's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Jacob C. Koella with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Jacob C. Koella more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Jacob C. Koella

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Jacob C. Koella. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Jacob C. Koella. The network helps show where Jacob C. Koella may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jacob C. Koella

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jacob C. Koella. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jacob C. Koella based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jacob C. Koella. Jacob C. Koella is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Vallat, Armelle, et al.. (2025). Mechanisms of host exploitation by a microsporidian parasite. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2050). 20251123–20251123. 1 indexed citations

Koella, Jacob C., et al.. (2025). Virulence Evolution: Thinking Outside of the Host. Evolutionary Applications. 18(9). e70136–e70136.

Acerbi, G., et al.. (2025). Sublethal insecticide exposure of larvae affects the blood-feeding behaviour of adult mosquitoes. Parasites & Vectors. 18(1). 189–189.

Acerbi, G., et al.. (2024). Exposure to Pseudomonas spp. increases Anopheles gambiae insecticide resistance in a host-dependent manner. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 29789–29789. 2 indexed citations

Koella, Jacob C., et al.. (2024). Host-specific effects of a generalist parasite of mosquitoes. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 18365–18365. 7 indexed citations

Bozzuto, Claudio, Stefano Canessa, & Jacob C. Koella. (2021). Exploring artificial habitat fragmentation to control invasion by infectious wildlife diseases. Theoretical Population Biology. 141. 14–23. 2 indexed citations

Barreaux, Antoine M. G., Chris Stone, Priscille Barreaux, & Jacob C. Koella. (2018). The relationship between size and longevity of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae (s.s.) depends on the larval environment. Parasites & Vectors. 11(1). 485–485. 64 indexed citations

Canessa, Stefano, Claudio Bozzuto, Evan H. Campbell Grant, et al.. (2018). Decision‐making for mitigating wildlife diseases: From theory to practice for an emerging fungal pathogen of amphibians. Journal of Applied Ecology. 55(4). 1987–1996. 45 indexed citations

Bargielowski, Irka, Christian Kaufmann, Luke Alphey, Paul L. Reiter, & Jacob C. Koella. (2012). Flight Performance and Teneral Energy Reserves of Two Genetically-Modified and One Wild-Type Strain of the Yellow Fever Mosquito Aedes aegypti. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 12(12). 1053–1058. 28 indexed citations

10.

Fellous, Simon & Jacob C. Koella. (2009). Different transmission strategies of a parasite in male and female hosts. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 22(3). 582–588. 6 indexed citations

11.

Koella, Jacob C., Penelope A. Lynch, Matthew B. Thomas, & Andrew F. Read. (2009). Towards evolution‐proof malaria control with insecticides. Evolutionary Applications. 2(4). 469–480. 73 indexed citations

12.

Voordouw, Maarten J., Jacob C. Koella, & Hilary Hurd. (2008). Comparison of male reproductive success in malaria-refractory and susceptible strains of Anopheles gambiae. Malaria Journal. 7(1). 103–103. 12 indexed citations

13.

Lambrechts, Louis, Jean Halbert, Patrick Durand, Louis‐Clément Gouagna, & Jacob C. Koella. (2005). Host genotype by parasite genotype interactions underlying the resistance of anopheline mosquitoes to Plasmodium falciparum.. Malaria Journal. 4(1). 3–3. 142 indexed citations

14.

Koella, Jacob C.. (2004). On the evolutionary ecology of mosquito immunity and the use of transgenic mosquitoes for malaria control. 2. 173–185. 3 indexed citations

15.

Lambrechts, Louis, John Vulule, & Jacob C. Koella. (2004). GENETIC CORRELATION BETWEEN MELANIZATION AND ANTIBACTERIAL IMMUNE RESPONSES IN A NATURAL POPULATION OF THE MALARIA VECTOR ANOPHELES GAMBIAE. Evolution. 58(10). 2377–2381. 31 indexed citations

16.

Antia, Rustom, Roland R. Regoes, Jacob C. Koella, & Carl T. Bergstrom. (2003). The role of evolution in the emergence of infectious diseases. Nature. 426(6967). 658–661. 367 indexed citations

17.

Huber, Werner & Jacob C. Koella. (1993). A comparison of three methods of estimating EC50 in studies of drug resistance of malaria parasites. Acta Tropica. 55(4). 257–261. 426 indexed citations

18.

Lyimo, E. & Jacob C. Koella. (1992). Relationship between body size of adult Anopheles gambiae s.l. and infection with the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Parasitology. 104(2). 233–237. 114 indexed citations

19.

Day, Karen P., Jacob C. Koella, Sean Nee, Sunetra Gupta, & Andrew F. Read. (1992). Population genetics and dynamics ofPlasmodium falciparum: an ecological view. Parasitology. 104(S1). S35–S52. 76 indexed citations

20.

Koella, Jacob C., Hassan Mshinda, D. de Savigny, et al.. (1990). In vitro resistance patterns of Plasmodium falciparum to chloroquine—a reflection of strain-specific immunity?. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 84(5). 662–665. 15 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact