James O. Lloyd‐Smith

27.1k citations

117 papers · 9.4k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 45

Impact in

Modeling and Simulation top 0.05%
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Virology top 0.5%
- Poxvirus research and outbreaks

Papers in

Modeling and Simulation 25
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies 25
Infectious Diseases 46
- Viral Infections and Vectors 15
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research 11

Co-authors: Wayne M. Getz Sebastian J. Schreiber Peter Ekkehard Kopp Paul C. Cross Katelyn M. Gostic Peter J. Hudson Andrea L. Graham Seth Blumberg
Journals: Epidemics (9 papers)eLife (9 papers)Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (7 papers)PLoS Computational Biology (5 papers)PLoS ONE (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom South Africa

In The Last Decade

James O. Lloyd‐Smith

112 papers receiving 9.1k citations

Hit Papers

7 papers align trajectories log scale

The global H5N1 influenza panzootic in mammals 2024 · 123 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Nature
2017 Nature Reviews Microbiology
2016 Science
2012 The Lancet
2010 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2009 Science
2005 Nature

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1	Predicting the presence of infectious virus from PCR data: A meta-analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in non-human primates PLoS Pathogens ·Celine E. Snedden, James O. Lloyd‐Smith	2024	0
2	Stability of Monkeypox Virus in Body Fluids and Wastewater Emerging infectious diseases ·Claude Kwe Yinda, Dylan H. Morris, Robert J. Fischer, Shane Gallogly, Zachary A. Weishampel, Julia R. Port, Trenton Bushmaker, Jonathan E. Schulz, Kyle Bibby, Neeltje van Doremalen, James O. Lloyd‐Smith, Vincent J. Munster	2023	16
3	Host and viral determinants of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the Syrian hamster eLife ·Julia R. Port, Dylan H. Morris, Jade C. Riopelle, Claude Kwe Yinda, Victoria A. Avanzato, Myndi G. Holbrook, Trenton Bushmaker, Jonathan E. Schulz, Taylor A. Saturday, Kent Barbian, Colin A. Russell, Rose Perry-Gottschalk, Carl Shaia, Craig Martens, James O. Lloyd‐Smith, Robert J. Fischer, Vincent J. Munster	2023	11
4	Cross-scale dynamics and the evolutionary emergence of infectious diseases Virus Evolution ·Sebastian J. Schreiber, Ruian Ke, Claude Loverdo, Miran Park, Prianna Ahsan, James O. Lloyd‐Smith	2021	12
5	Population structure, intergroup interaction, and human contact govern infectious disease impacts in mountain gorilla populations American Journal of Primatology ·Christopher A. Whittier, Felicia B. Nutter, Philip L. F. Johnson, Paul C. Cross, James O. Lloyd‐Smith, Barrett D. Slenning, Michael K. Stoskopf	2021	4
6	SARS-CoV-2: Cross-scale Insights from Ecology and Evolution Trends in Microbiology ·Celine E. Snedden, Sara K. Makanani, Shawn T. Schwartz, Amandine Gamble, Rachel V. Blakey, Benny Borremans, Sarah K. Helman, Luisa Espericueta, Alondra Valencia, Andrew Endo, Michael E. Alfaro, James O. Lloyd‐Smith	2021	12
7	Heat-Treated Virus Inactivation Rate Depends Strongly on Treatment Procedure: Illustration with SARS-CoV-2 Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Amandine Gamble, Robert J. Fischer, Dylan H. Morris, Claude Kwe Yinda, Vincent J. Munster, James O. Lloyd‐Smith	2021	22
8	Drivers and Distribution of Henipavirus-Induced Syncytia: What Do We Know? Viruses ·Amandine Gamble, Yao Yu Yeo, Aubrey Butler, Hubert Tang, Celine E. Snedden, Christian T. Mason, David W. Buchholz, John Bingham, Hector Aguilar, James O. Lloyd‐Smith	2021	11
9	Mechanistic theory predicts the effects of temperature and humidity on inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 and other enveloped viruses eLife ·Dylan H. Morris, Claude Kwe Yinda, Amandine Gamble, Fernando W. Rossine, Qishen Huang, Trenton Bushmaker, Robert J. Fischer, M. Jeremiah Matson, Neeltje van Doremalen, Peter J. Vikesland, Linsey C. Marr, Vincent J. Munster, James O. Lloyd‐Smith	2021	154
10	Quantifying antibody kinetics and RNA detection during early-phase SARS-CoV-2 infection by time since symptom onset eLife ·Benny Borremans, Amandine Gamble, Katherine C. Prager, Sarah K. Helman, Abby M. McClain, Caitlin Cox, Van Savage, James O. Lloyd‐Smith	2020	46
11	Estimating prevalence and test accuracy in disease ecology: How Bayesian latent class analysis can boost or bias imperfect test results Ecology and Evolution ·Sarah K. Helman, Riley O. Mummah, Katelyn M. Gostic, Michael Buhnerkempe, Katherine C. Prager, James O. Lloyd‐Smith	2020	13
12	Predominance of positive epistasis among drug resistance-associated mutations in HIV-1 protease PLoS Genetics ·Tian-hao Zhang, Lei Dai, John P. Barton, Yushen Du, Yuxiang Tan, Wenwen Pang, Arup K. Chakraborty, James O. Lloyd‐Smith, Ren Sun	2020	22
13	Childhood immune imprinting to influenza A shapes birth year-specific risk during seasonal H1N1 and H3N2 epidemics PLoS Pathogens ·Katelyn M. Gostic, Rebecca Bridge, Shane Brady, Cécile Viboud, Michael Worobey, James O. Lloyd‐Smith	2019	83
14	Dynamic and integrative approaches to understanding pathogen spillover Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Daniel J. Becker, Alex D. Washburne, Christina L. Faust, Juliet R.C. Pulliam, Erin A. Mordecai, James O. Lloyd‐Smith, Raina K. Plowright	2019	33
15	Potent protection against H5N1 and H7N9 influenza via childhood hemagglutinin imprinting Science ·Katelyn M. Gostic, Monique Ambrose, Michael Worobey, James O. Lloyd‐Smith Hit paper breakdown →	2016	314
16	Viral factors in influenza pandemic risk assessment eLife ·Marc Lipsitch, William Barclay, Rahul Raman, Charles J. Russell, Jessica A. Belser, Sarah Cobey, Peter M. Kasson, James O. Lloyd‐Smith, Sebastian Maurer‐Stroh, Steven Riley, Catherine A. A. Beauchemin, Trevor Bedford, Thomas C. Friedrich, Andreas Handel, Sander Herfst, Pablo R. Murcia, Benjamín Roche, Claus O. Wilke, Colin A. Russell	2016	66
17	Development of a real-time PCR for the detection of pathogenic Leptospira spp. in California sea lions Diseases of Aquatic Organisms ·Qinghua Wu, Katherine C. Prager, Tracey Goldstein, DP Alt, RL Galloway, R L Zuerner, James O. Lloyd‐Smith, Lori H. Schwacke	2014	11
18	Major increase in human monkeypox incidence 30 years after smallpox vaccination campaigns cease in the Democratic Republic of Congo Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Anne W. Rimoin, Prime Mulembakani, Sara C. Johnston, James O. Lloyd‐Smith, Neville K. Kisalu, Timothée L. Kinkela, Seth Blumberg, Henri A. Thomassen, Brian L. Pike, Joseph N. Fair, Nathan Wolfe, Robert Shongo, Barney S. Graham, Pierre Formenty, Emile Okitolonda, Lisa E. Hensley, Helmut E. Meyer, Linda L. Wright, Jean‐Jacques Muyembe Hit paper breakdown →	2010	564
19	Identifying genetic markers of adaptation for surveillance of viral host jumps Nature Reviews Microbiology ·Kim M. Pepin, Sandra Lass, Juliet R.C. Pulliam, Andrew F. Read, James O. Lloyd‐Smith	2010	113
20	Integrating association data and disease dynamics in a social ungulate: Bovine tuberculosis in African buffalo in the Kruger National Park Annales Zoologici Fennici ·Paul C. Cross, James O. Lloyd‐Smith, Justin Bowers, Craig Hay, Markus Hofmeyr, Wayne M. Getz	2004	104

About James O. Lloyd‐Smith

James O. Lloyd‐Smith is a scholar working on Modeling and Simulation, Infectious Diseases, Virology, Parasitology and Agronomy and Crop Science, having authored 117 papers that have together received 9.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Zoonotic diseases and public health (27 papers), COVID-19 epidemiological studies (25 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (23 papers), Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (20 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (15 papers), Leptospirosis research and findings (14 papers), Influenza Virus Research Studies (12 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Modeling and Simulation (2.2k citations), Virology (1.0k citations), Infectious Diseases (3.3k citations), Agronomy and Crop Science (1.4k citations) and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (3.0k citations). James O. Lloyd‐Smith has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and South Africa. Frequent co-authors include Wayne M. Getz, Sebastian J. Schreiber, Peter Ekkehard Kopp, Paul C. Cross, Katelyn M. Gostic, Peter J. Hudson, Andrea L. Graham, Seth Blumberg, Andrew P. Dobson and Michael Worobey. Their work appears in journals such as Epidemics, eLife, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, PLoS Computational Biology and PLoS ONE.

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