Jeffrey T. Foster

9.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
144 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Jeffrey T. Foster is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jeffrey T. Foster has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 44 papers in Ecology and 41 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Jeffrey T. Foster's work include Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (42 papers), Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research (34 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (28 papers). Jeffrey T. Foster is often cited by papers focused on Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (42 papers), Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research (34 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (28 papers). Jeffrey T. Foster collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Jeffrey T. Foster's co-authors include Paul Keim, A. Marm Kilpatrick, Katy L. Parise, Winifred F. Frick, Kate E. Langwig, Joseph R. Hoyt, Devon O’Rourke, Nicholas A. Bokulich, Kevin P. Drees and Michael S. Robeson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jeffrey T. Foster

136 papers receiving 5.0k citations

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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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jeffrey T. Foster United States	43	1.8k	1.4k	1.2k	1.1k	1.1k	144	5.1k
An Martel Belgium	53	734 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	1.9k 1.5×	434 0.4×	999 0.9×	290	8.8k
Michael R. Hutchings United Kingdom	38	636 0.4×	1.6k 1.2×	894 0.7×	632 0.6×	458 0.4×	132	4.4k
Martin Pfeffer Germany	47	1.2k 0.7×	633 0.5×	3.6k 3.0×	580 0.5×	1.0k 0.9×	204	6.9k
Amy B. Pedersen United Kingdom	29	810 0.5×	1.9k 1.4×	941 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	596 0.5×	61	4.9k
Robert A. Robinson United Kingdom	39	1.3k 0.8×	3.5k 2.6×	933 0.8×	467 0.4×	316 0.3×	211	6.9k
Steve Paterson United Kingdom	40	831 0.5×	2.3k 1.7×	805 0.7×	1.9k 1.7×	1.5k 1.3×	141	6.2k
Andrea L. Graham United States	39	758 0.4×	1.4k 1.0×	1.7k 1.4×	1.4k 1.3×	711 0.6×	112	6.0k
David Modrý Czechia	41	867 0.5×	1.5k 1.1×	2.1k 1.8×	681 0.6×	580 0.5×	325	6.2k
Claudio Bandi Italy	56	1.4k 0.8×	2.1k 1.5×	3.5k 3.0×	1.5k 1.3×	1.6k 1.4×	251	11.0k
Michael D. Samuel United States	42	840 0.5×	3.4k 2.5×	827 0.7×	640 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	150	6.9k

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Hoyt, Joseph R., Kate E. Langwig, Carl Herzog, et al.. (2025). The importance of peripheral populations in the face of novel environmental change. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2038). 20242331–20242331. 1 indexed citations

Laine, Christopher G., Dzeufiet Djomeni Paul Désiré, Wilfred Fon Mbacham, et al.. (2025). Prevalence study in Cameroon identifies Brucella abortus as the endemic Brucella species in livestock. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11600–11600.

Castle, Kevin T., Joy M. O’Keefe, Riley F. Bernard, et al.. (2025). A Collaborative Multiple Stressor Approach for Identifying Spatial Heterogeneities in Wildlife Health and Conservation Priorities. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 65(6). 1772–1780. 2 indexed citations

Ali, Shahzad, et al.. (2024). Molecular epidemiology of brucellosis in Asia: insights from genotyping analyses. Veterinary Research Communications. 48(6). 3533–3550. 6 indexed citations

Videvall, Elin, Jeffrey T. Foster, Matthew C. I. Medeiros, et al.. (2024). The Role of Geography, Diet, and Host Phylogeny on the Gut Microbiome in the Hawaiian Honeycreeper Radiation. Ecology and Evolution. 14(10). e70372–e70372. 1 indexed citations

Hoh, J., Jinelle H. Sperry, Jeffrey T. Foster, et al.. (2024). Effects of fruit novelty on feeding preference in four globally invasive frugivorous birds. Biological Invasions. 26(12). 4179–4198. 2 indexed citations

Williamson, Charles H. D., John D. Gillece, David O’Callaghan, et al.. (2023). Comparison of Brucella abortus population structure based on genotyping methods with different levels of resolution. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 211. 106772–106772. 4 indexed citations

Szentiványi, Tamara, Clifton McKee, Gareth Jones, & Jeffrey T. Foster. (2023). Trends in Bacterial Pathogens of Bats: Global Distribution and Knowledge Gaps. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 2023. 1–17. 26 indexed citations

Parise, Katy L., Tina L. Cheng, Joseph R. Hoyt, et al.. (2023). White-nose syndrome restructures bat skin microbiomes. Microbiology Spectrum. 11(6). e0271523–e0271523. 7 indexed citations

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Mau, Rebecca L., J. Patrick Kelley, Corey E. Tarwater, et al.. (2023). DNA metabarcoding reveals diet composition of invasive rats and mice in Hawaiian forests. Biological Invasions. 26(1). 79–105. 3 indexed citations

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Drake, Donald R., Jeferson Vizentin‐Bugoni, Jeffrey T. Foster, et al.. (2022). Introduced galliforms as seed predators and dispersers in Hawaiian forests. Biological Invasions. 24(10). 3083–3097. 5 indexed citations

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Paxton, Kristina L., Eben H. Paxton, Patrick J. Hart, et al.. (2022). Microbiomes associated with avian malaria survival differ between susceptible Hawaiian honeycreepers and sympatric malaria‐resistant introduced birds. Molecular Ecology. 32(23). 6659–6670. 10 indexed citations

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Langwig, Kate E., J. Paul White, Katy L. Parise, et al.. (2021). Mobility and infectiousness in the spatial spread of an emerging fungal pathogen. Journal of Animal Ecology. 90(5). 1134–1141. 9 indexed citations

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Vizentin‐Bugoni, Jeferson, Jinelle H. Sperry, J. Patrick Kelley, et al.. (2021). Ecological correlates of species’ roles in highly invaded seed dispersal networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(4). 44 indexed citations

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Esque, Todd C., et al.. (2021). Borreliosis Transmission from Ticks Associated with Desert Tortoise Burrows: Examples of Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever in the Mojave Desert. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 21(8). 635–637. 3 indexed citations

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Foster, Jeffrey T., Charles H. D. Williamson, François Schmitt, et al.. (2020). First Case of Brucellosis Caused by an Amphibian-type Brucella. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 72(9). e404–e407. 15 indexed citations

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Janowicz, Anna, Fabrizio De Massis, Katiuscia Zilli, et al.. (2020). Evolutionary history and current distribution of the West Mediterranean lineage of Brucella melitensis in Italy. Microbial Genomics. 6(11). 17 indexed citations

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Vizentin‐Bugoni, Jeferson, Corey E. Tarwater, Jeffrey T. Foster, et al.. (2019). Structure, spatial dynamics, and stability of novel seed dispersal mutualistic networks in Hawai ʻ i. Science. 364(6435). 78–82. 94 indexed citations

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Drees, Kevin P., Jonathan Palmer, Robert Sebra, et al.. (2016). Use of Multiple Sequencing Technologies To Produce a High-Quality Genome of the Fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans , the Causative Agent of Bat White-Nose Syndrome. Genome Announcements. 4(3). 21 indexed citations

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Gopaul, Krishna K., et al.. (2014). Development and assessment of multiplex high resolution melting assay as a tool for rapid single-tube identification of five Brucella species. BMC Research Notes. 7(1). 903–903. 23 indexed citations

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