Joan Brunkard

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Joan Brunkard is a scholar working on Endocrinology, Nutrition and Dietetics and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Joan Brunkard has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Endocrinology, 9 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 8 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Joan Brunkard's work include Vibrio bacteria research studies (10 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (9 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (4 papers). Joan Brunkard is often cited by papers focused on Vibrio bacteria research studies (10 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (9 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (4 papers). Joan Brunkard collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Zambia. Joan Brunkard's co-authors include Gonza Namulanda, Raoult Ratard, Jonathan S. Yoder, Virginia A. Roberts, Enrique Cifuentes, Stephen J. Rothenberg, Michael J. Beach, Tim Wade, Sharon L. Roy and Gunther F. Craun and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Clinical Microbiology Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Joan Brunkard

27 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Trends in Disease Severity and Health Care Utilization During the Early Omicron Variant Period Compared with Previous SARS-CoV-2 High Transmission Periods — United States, December 2020–January 2022

2022 301 citations Joan Brunkard et al. MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joan Brunkard United States	16	721	444	253	235	228	28	1.8k
Kathleen E. Fullerton United States	22	1.2k 1.7×	229 0.5×	237 0.9×	616 2.6×	272 1.2×	39	3.0k
Line Vold Norway	25	922 1.3×	333 0.8×	162 0.6×	420 1.8×	249 1.1×	93	2.5k
Bertrand Súdre Sweden	30	999 1.4×	1.0k 2.4×	141 0.6×	567 2.4×	372 1.6×	47	2.5k
Gordon Nichols United Kingdom	41	2.3k 3.2×	485 1.1×	594 2.3×	404 1.7×	699 3.1×	94	4.9k
Osvalda De Giglio Italy	23	677 0.9×	176 0.4×	109 0.4×	208 0.9×	210 0.9×	91	1.8k
Samendra P. Sherchan United States	29	1.7k 2.4×	185 0.4×	291 1.2×	110 0.5×	247 1.1×	110	2.9k
Richard Rheingans United States	37	1.3k 1.9×	570 1.3×	190 0.8×	160 0.7×	127 0.6×	75	4.0k
Daniele Lantagne United States	29	325 0.5×	191 0.4×	485 1.9×	429 1.8×	298 1.3×	119	2.1k
Jeffrey K. Griffiths United States	35	1.4k 2.0×	284 0.6×	119 0.5×	240 1.0×	240 1.1×	104	3.4k
Elizabeth J. Carlton United States	24	342 0.5×	377 0.8×	176 0.7×	65 0.3×	1.0k 4.6×	64	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joan Brunkard

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Okunga, Emmanuel, et al.. (2025). Mapping of cholera Priority Areas for Multisectoral Interventions (PAMIs) using the 2023 GTFCC guidance: The Kenya experience. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 19(6). e0013078–e0013078.

Williams, Samantha, Mitsuru Toda, Tom Chiller, Joan Brunkard, & Anastasia P. Litvintseva. (2024). Effects of climate change on fungal infections. PLoS Pathogens. 20(5). e1012219–e1012219. 14 indexed citations

Okunga, Emmanuel, Doris Marwanga, Daniel Langat, et al.. (2023). Mapping of cholera hotspots in Kenya using epidemiologic and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) indicators as part of Kenya’s new 2022–2030 cholera elimination plan. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 17(3). e0011166–e0011166. 13 indexed citations

Hubbard, Sydney, Martin I. Meltzer, Sun Kyung Kim, et al.. (2020). Household illness and associated water and sanitation factors in peri-urban Lusaka, Zambia, 2016–2017. npj Clean Water. 3(1). 17 indexed citations

Davis, William W., Fred Kapaya, Jennifer L. Murphy, et al.. (2020). Risk Factors for Epidemic Cholera in Lusaka, Zambia—2017. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 103(2). 646–651. 14 indexed citations

Moore, Sean M., Andrew S. Azman, Benjamin F. Zaitchik, et al.. (2017). El Niño and the shifting geography of cholera in Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(17). 4436–4441. 70 indexed citations

LaKind, Judy S., Jonathan T. Overpeck, Patrick N. Breysse, et al.. (2016). Exposure science in an age of rapidly changing climate: challenges and opportunities. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. 26(6). 529–538. 12 indexed citations

Curran, Kathryn, James J. Gibson, John T. Redd, et al.. (2016). Cluster of Ebola Virus Disease Linked to a Single Funeral — Moyamba District, Sierra Leone, 2014. MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 65(8). 202–205. 29 indexed citations

Gargano, Julia W., Amy Freeland, Melissa Morrison, et al.. (2015). Acute gastrointestinal illness following a prolonged community-wide water emergency. Epidemiology and Infection. 143(13). 2766–2776. 8 indexed citations

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Sreenivasan, Nandini, Eugene Lam, Tracy Ayers, et al.. (2014). Cholera Epidemic Associated with Consumption of Unsafe Drinking Water and Street-Vended Water—Eastern Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2012. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 90(3). 518–523. 51 indexed citations

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Ailes, Elizabeth C., Philip J. Budge, Sarah A. Collier, et al.. (2013). Economic and Health Impacts Associated with a Salmonella Typhimurium Drinking Water Outbreak−Alamosa, CO, 2008. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e57439–e57439. 27 indexed citations

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Wallender, Erika, Elizabeth C. Ailes, Jonathan S. Yoder, Virginia A. Roberts, & Joan Brunkard. (2013). Contributing Factors to Disease Outbreaks Associated with Untreated Groundwater. Ground Water. 52(6). 886–897. 94 indexed citations

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Lando, James, et al.. (2012). Formaldehyde levels in FEMA-supplied travel trailers, park models, and mobile homes in Louisiana and Mississippi. Indoor Air. 23(2). 134–141. 18 indexed citations

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Bowen, Anna, Ciara E. O’Reilly, Catherine L. Hough, et al.. (2011). Cholera Prevention Training Materials for Community Health Workers, Haiti, 2010–2011. Emerging infectious diseases. 17(11). 2162–5. 11 indexed citations

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Brunkard, Joan, Gonza Namulanda, & Raoult Ratard. (2008). Hurricane Katrina Deaths, Louisiana, 2005. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 2(4). 215–223. 220 indexed citations

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Brunkard, Joan, Enrique Cifuentes, & Stephen J. Rothenberg. (2008). Assessing the roles of temperature, precipitation, and enso in dengue re-emergence on the Texas-Mexico border region. Salud Pública de México. 50(3). 227–34. 106 indexed citations

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Kallen, Alexander J., Joan Brunkard, Zachary Moore, et al.. (2008). Staphylococcus aureus Community-Acquired Pneumonia During the 2006 to 2007 Influenza Season. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 53(3). 358–365. 122 indexed citations

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Ramos, Mary M., Hamish Mohammed, Emily Zielinski-Gutiérrez, et al.. (2008). Epidemic Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever at the Texas–Mexico Border: Results of a Household-based Seroepidemiologic Survey, December 2005. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 78(3). 364–369. 134 indexed citations

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Brunkard, Joan, Enrique Cifuentes, Stephen J. Rothenberg, et al.. (2007). Dengue Fever Seroprevalence and Risk Factors, Texas–Mexico Border, 2004. Emerging infectious diseases. 13(10). 1477–1483. 133 indexed citations

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Cifuentes, Enrique, et al.. (2006). Rapid assessment procedures in environmental sanitation research: a case study from the northern border of Mexico.. PubMed. 97(1). 24–8. 13 indexed citations

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