Jan Votýpka

10.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
195 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Jan Votýpka is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Parasitology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Votýpka has authored 195 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Epidemiology, 93 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 70 papers in Parasitology. Recurrent topics in Jan Votýpka's work include Trypanosoma species research and implications (91 papers), Research on Leishmaniasis Studies (82 papers) and Vector-borne infectious diseases (40 papers). Jan Votýpka is often cited by papers focused on Trypanosoma species research and implications (91 papers), Research on Leishmaniasis Studies (82 papers) and Vector-borne infectious diseases (40 papers). Jan Votýpka collaborates with scholars based in Czechia, United States and Slovakia. Jan Votýpka's co-authors include Julius Lukeš, Petr Volf, Vyacheslav Yurchenko, Milena Svobodová, David Modrý, Katrin Kuhls, Denis Séréno, Mohammad Akhoundi, Pierre Marty and Arnaud Cannet and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Jan Votýpka

188 papers receiving 7.1k 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.

A Historical Overview of the Classification, Evolution, and Dispersion of Leishmania Parasites and Sandflies

2016 650 citations Jan Votýpka et al. PLoS neglected tropical diseases profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jan Votýpka Czechia	46	4.0k	3.5k	2.5k	1.9k	1.2k	195	7.2k
Petr Volf Czechia	51	6.5k 1.6×	4.2k 1.2×	1.5k 0.6×	1.8k 1.0×	853 0.7×	286	7.9k
Tovi Lehmann United States	51	2.8k 0.7×	1.9k 0.6×	2.8k 1.1×	838 0.5×	449 0.4×	130	6.6k
Jeffrey Jon Shaw Brazil	52	5.9k 1.5×	4.1k 1.2×	1.7k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	872 0.8×	219	7.9k
Michel Tibayrenc France	49	6.3k 1.6×	8.2k 2.4×	2.4k 1.0×	3.0k 1.6×	999 0.9×	214	10.6k
Stephen J. Torr United Kingdom	39	2.6k 0.7×	1.9k 0.5×	956 0.4×	2.0k 1.1×	987 0.9×	146	4.8k
Wendy Gibson United Kingdom	53	4.2k 1.1×	6.3k 1.8×	1.8k 0.7×	2.8k 1.5×	339 0.3×	167	7.8k
Ana María Jansen Brazil	41	3.0k 0.8×	3.9k 1.1×	2.0k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	510 0.4×	173	5.2k
Charles B. Beard United States	36	1.7k 0.4×	1.0k 0.3×	2.1k 0.8×	1.9k 1.0×	1.8k 1.6×	69	5.0k
Ricardo E. Gürtler Argentina	46	3.4k 0.9×	5.2k 1.5×	1.6k 0.6×	2.8k 1.5×	402 0.3×	181	6.5k
Philippe Solano France	40	2.1k 0.5×	2.9k 0.8×	1.1k 0.4×	1.5k 0.8×	561 0.5×	164	4.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jan Votýpka

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Tashyreva, Daria, Jan Votýpka, Akinori Yabuki, Aleš Horák, & Julius Lukeš. (2025). Description of new diplonemids (Diplonemea, Euglenozoa) and their endosymbionts: Charting the morphological diversity of these poorly known heterotrophic flagellates. Protist. 177. 126090–126090. 2 indexed citations

Záhonová, Kristína, Zoltán Füssy, Anzhelika Butenko, et al.. (2025). Comparative genomic analysis of trypanosomatid protists illuminates an extensive change in the nuclear genetic code. mBio. 16(6). e0088525–e0088525. 2 indexed citations

Votýpka, Jan, Miloslav Jirkú, Petr Pajer, et al.. (2025). Trypanosomes in Neotropical frogs: unveiling hidden megadiversity and complex host–parasite patterns. Open Biology. 15(11). 250190–250190.

Vojtková, Barbora, Vít Dvořák, Ewelina Kwiecień, et al.. (2025). Trypanosomatids in European bison (Bison bonasus): insights from biting midges and tissue screening. European Journal of Wildlife Research. 71(4). 2 indexed citations

Grybchuk, Danyil, Diego H. Macedo, Yuri I. Wolf, et al.. (2024). Identification of diverse RNA viruses in Obscuromonas flagellates (Euglenozoa: Trypanosomatidae: Blastocrithidiinae). Virus Evolution. 10(1). veae037–veae037. 4 indexed citations

Grybchuk, Danyil, Diego H. Macedo, Jan Votýpka, et al.. (2023). RNA viruses of Crithidia bombi, a parasite of bumblebees. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 201. 107991–107991. 3 indexed citations

Grybchuk, Danyil, et al.. (2023). Evolution of RNA viruses in trypanosomatids: new insights from the analysis of Sauroleishmania. Parasitology Research. 122(10). 2279–2286. 13 indexed citations

Erban, Tomáš, et al.. (2023). Imidacloprid increases the prevalence of the intestinal parasite Lotmaria passim in honey bee workers. The Science of The Total Environment. 905. 166973–166973. 5 indexed citations

Carrington, Mark, Alexander O. Frolov, Evgeny S. Gerasimov, et al.. (2023). Shining the spotlight on the neglected: new high-quality genome assemblies as a gateway to understanding the evolution of Trypanosomatidae. BMC Genomics. 24(1). 471–471. 14 indexed citations

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Macedo, Diego H., Danyil Grybchuk, Jan Votýpka, et al.. (2023). Diversity of RNA viruses in the cosmopolitan monoxenous trypanosomatid Leptomonas pyrrhocoris. BMC Biology. 21(1). 191–191. 6 indexed citations

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Mendoza‐Roldan, Jairo Alfonso, Andrea Zatelli, Maria Stefanía Latrofa, et al.. (2022). Leishmania (Sauroleishmania) tarentolae isolation and sympatric occurrence with Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum in geckoes, dogs and sand flies. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 16(8). e0010650–e0010650. 22 indexed citations

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Vojtková, Barbora, Padet Siriyasatien, Jan Votýpka, et al.. (2021). Experimental transmission of Leishmania (Mundinia) parasites by biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). PLoS Pathogens. 17(6). e1009654–e1009654. 40 indexed citations

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Kostygov, Alexei Yu., Anna Karnkowska, Jan Votýpka, et al.. (2021). Euglenozoa: taxonomy, diversity and ecology, symbioses and viruses. Open Biology. 11(3). 200407–200407. 135 indexed citations

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Vojtková, Barbora, Jan Votýpka, Tereza Leštinová, et al.. (2020). Central Asian Rodents as Model Animals for Leishmania major and Leishmania donovani Research. Microorganisms. 8(9). 1440–1440. 9 indexed citations

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Jaarsma, Ryanne I., Hein Sprong, Katsuhisa Takumi, et al.. (2019). Anaplasma phagocytophilum evolves in geographical and biotic niches of vertebrates and ticks. Parasites & Vectors. 12(1). 328–328. 89 indexed citations

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Kraeva, Natalya, Tereza Leštinová, Aygul Ishemgulova, et al.. (2019). LmxM.22.0250-Encoded Dual Specificity Protein/Lipid Phosphatase Impairs Leishmania mexicana Virulence In Vitro. Pathogens. 8(4). 241–241. 12 indexed citations

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Ondriska, František, et al.. (2015). Imported new world cutaneous leishmaniasis in a traveller from Slovakia. Bratislavské lekárske listy/Bratislava medical journal. 116(3). 203–206. 7 indexed citations

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Svobodová, Milena, Jan Votýpka, Vít Dvořák, et al.. (2006). Distinct Transmission Cycles ofLeishmania tropicain 2 Adjacent Foci, Northern Israel. Emerging infectious diseases. 12(12). 1860–1868. 125 indexed citations

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Votýpka, Jan, Julius Lukeš, & Miroslav Obornı́k. (2004). Phylogenetic Relationship of Trypanosoma corvi with Other Avian Trypanosomes. Acta Protozoologica. 43(3). 225–231. 33 indexed citations

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Svobodová, Milena, Petr Voříšek, Jan Votýpka, & Karel Weidinger. (2004). Heteroxenous Coccidia (Apicomplexa: Sarcocystidae) in the Populations of Their Final and Intermediate Hosts: European Buzzard and Small Mammals. Acta Protozoologica. 43(3). 251–260. 12 indexed citations

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