John S. Brownstein

52.4k total citations · 12 hit papers
345 papers, 30.1k citations indexed

About

John S. Brownstein is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Modeling and Simulation and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, John S. Brownstein has authored 345 papers receiving a total of 30.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 186 papers in Epidemiology, 116 papers in Modeling and Simulation and 93 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in John S. Brownstein's work include Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (145 papers), COVID-19 epidemiological studies (116 papers) and Influenza Virus Research Studies (75 papers). John S. Brownstein is often cited by papers focused on Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (145 papers), COVID-19 epidemiological studies (116 papers) and Influenza Virus Research Studies (75 papers). John S. Brownstein collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. John S. Brownstein's co-authors include Simon I Hay, Lawrence C. Madoff, Oliver J. Brady, Catherine L. Moyes, Peter W. Gething, Jane P. Messina, Samir Bhatt, Thomas W. Scott, Andrew Farlow and Dylan B. George and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

John S. Brownstein

340 papers receiving 29.1k citations

Hit Papers

The global distribution and burden of dengue 2009 2026 2014 2020 2013 2012 2020 2012 2020 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k
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.

  1. The global distribution and burden of dengue
    2013 7.0k citations Peter W. Gething, Oliver J. Brady et al. profile →
  2. Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health
    2012 2.3k citations John S. Brownstein et al. profile →
  3. The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China
    2020 1.9k citations Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Chieh‐Hsi Wu et al. profile →
  4. Refining the Global Spatial Limits of Dengue Virus Transmission by Evidence-Based Consensus
    2012 1.3k citations Oliver J. Brady, Peter W. Gething et al. profile →
  5. Factors Associated With US Adults’ Likelihood of Accepting COVID-19 Vaccination
    2020 540 citations John S. Brownstein, Yulin Hswen et al. profile →
  6. Digital Disease Detection — Harnessing the Web for Public Health Surveillance
    2009 511 citations John S. Brownstein et al. profile →
  7. Antibiotic resistance increases with local temperature
    2018 344 citations Mauricio Santillana, John S. Brownstein et al. profile →
  8. Mapping global environmental suitability for Zika virus
    2016 268 citations Jane P. Messina, Moritz U. G. Kraemer et al. eLife profile →
  9. The digital phenotype
    2015 267 citations Jared B. Hawkins, John S. Brownstein et al. profile →
  10. Mask-wearing and control of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the USA: a cross-sectional study
    2021 173 citations Benjamin Rader, Moritz U. G. Kraemer et al. profile →
  11. Use of At-Home COVID-19 Tests — United States, August 23, 2021–March 12, 2022
    2022 121 citations Benjamin Rader, Christina M. Astley et al. profile →
  12. Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Infectious-Disease Surveillance
    2023 85 citations John S. Brownstein, Benjamin Rader et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John S. Brownstein United States 76 12.5k 9.4k 7.2k 5.9k 3.6k 345 30.1k
Bryan T. Grenfell United States 94 8.2k 0.7× 8.4k 0.9× 9.8k 1.4× 10.0k 1.7× 1.7k 0.5× 407 38.2k
Roy M. Anderson United Kingdom 109 14.7k 1.2× 12.9k 1.4× 8.7k 1.2× 11.6k 2.0× 4.4k 1.2× 539 53.9k
Andrew J. Tatem United Kingdom 85 9.8k 0.8× 4.3k 0.5× 3.7k 0.5× 4.8k 0.8× 1.7k 0.5× 350 28.9k
Simon I Hay United Kingdom 108 31.0k 2.5× 13.3k 1.4× 4.2k 0.6× 4.2k 0.7× 2.1k 0.6× 377 47.9k
Neil M. Ferguson United Kingdom 76 7.0k 0.6× 8.5k 0.9× 8.5k 1.2× 11.7k 2.0× 1.2k 0.3× 296 25.4k
Marc Lipsitch United States 100 4.6k 0.4× 12.4k 1.3× 14.3k 2.0× 8.9k 1.5× 1.3k 0.4× 412 37.3k
Donald S. Burke United States 76 8.1k 0.6× 10.9k 1.2× 6.4k 0.9× 4.7k 0.8× 975 0.3× 293 25.4k
Christopher Dye Switzerland 84 7.2k 0.6× 18.3k 1.9× 14.8k 2.0× 3.2k 0.6× 1.1k 0.3× 238 32.7k
Annelies Wilder‐Smith Singapore 62 8.8k 0.7× 8.2k 0.9× 2.2k 0.3× 4.2k 0.7× 1.9k 0.5× 301 18.5k
Jeremy Farrar Vietnam 101 19.5k 1.6× 21.5k 2.3× 9.6k 1.3× 2.0k 0.3× 1.6k 0.4× 453 45.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Klein, Brennan, Lisa Friedland, Filippo Privitera, et al.. (2024). Characterizing collective physical distancing in the U.S. during the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). e0000430–e0000430. 4 indexed citations
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Khazanchi, Rohan, Benjamin Rader, Jonathan Cantor, et al.. (2024). Spatial Accessibility and Uptake of Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccinations by Social Vulnerability. PEDIATRICS. 154(2). 2 indexed citations
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Longhurst, Chris, et al.. (2024). A Call for Artificial Intelligence Implementation Science Centers to Evaluate Clinical Effectiveness. NEJM AI. 1(8). 26 indexed citations
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Rader, Benjamin, et al.. (2023). Travel Time and Costs for Abortion for Military Service Members After the Dobbs Decision. JAMA. 331(1). 75–75. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Lin, Bram Vrancken, Ruixue Wang, et al.. (2023). Association of vaccination, international travel, public health and social measures with lineage dynamics of SARS-CoV-2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(33). e2305403120–e2305403120. 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Jingyuan, José Lourenço, Bingying Li, et al.. (2022). Assessing the asymptomatic proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infection with age in China before mass vaccination. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 19(195). 7 indexed citations
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Bhatia, Sangeeta, Britta Lassmann, Emily Cohn, et al.. (2021). Using digital surveillance tools for near real-time mapping of the risk of infectious disease spread. npj Digital Medicine. 4(1). 73–73. 37 indexed citations
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Astley, Christina M., Gaurav Tuli, Kimberly A. Mc Cord, et al.. (2021). Global monitoring of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic through online surveys sampled from the Facebook user base. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(51). 38 indexed citations
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Brownstein, John S., et al.. (2020). Internet search patterns reveal firearm sales, policies, and deaths. npj Digital Medicine. 3(1). 152–152. 4 indexed citations
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Kraemer, Moritz U. G., Adam Sadilek, Qian Zhang, et al.. (2020). Mapping global variation in human mobility. Nature Human Behaviour. 4(8). 800–810. 83 indexed citations
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Ahmadvand, Alireza, Robert J. Gatchel, John S. Brownstein, & Lisa Nissen. (2018). The Biopsychosocial-Digital Approach to Health and Disease: Call for a Paradigm Expansion. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 20(5). e189–e189. 32 indexed citations
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Lu, Fred, Kristin Baltrusaitis, Manan Shah, et al.. (2018). Accurate Influenza Monitoring and Forecasting Using Novel Internet Data Streams: A Case Study in the Boston Metropolis. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 4(1). e4–e4. 67 indexed citations
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Yang, Shihao, S. C. Kou, Fred Lu, et al.. (2017). Advances in using Internet searches to track dengue. PLoS Computational Biology. 13(7). e1005607–e1005607. 67 indexed citations
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Messina, Jane P., Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Oliver J. Brady, et al.. (2016). Mapping global environmental suitability for Zika virus. eLife. 5. 268 indexed citations breakdown →
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Majumder, Maimuna S., et al.. (2016). Utilizing Nontraditional Data Sources for Near Real-Time Estimation of Transmission Dynamics During the 2015-2016 Colombian Zika Virus Disease Outbreak. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 2(1). e30–e30. 83 indexed citations
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Chakraborty, Prithwish, Pejman Khadivi, Bryan Lewis, et al.. (2014). Forecasting a Moving Target: Ensemble Models for ILI Case Count Predictions. 262–270. 51 indexed citations
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Kass‐Hout, Taha, Zhiheng Xu, So-Youn Park, et al.. (2012). Application of change point analysis to daily influenza-like illness emergency department visits. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 19(6). 1075–1081. 55 indexed citations
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Brownstein, John S., Cecily J. Wolfe, & Kenneth D. Mandl. (2006). Empirical Evidence for the Effect of Airline Travel on Inter-Regional Influenza Spread in the United States. PLoS Medicine. 3(10). e401–e401. 204 indexed citations
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Brownstein, John S., Ken Kleinman, & Kenneth D. Mandl. (2005). Identifying Pediatric Age Groups for Influenza Vaccination Using a Real-Time Regional Surveillance System. American Journal of Epidemiology. 162(7). 686–693. 110 indexed citations

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