Joshua Longbottom

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Joshua Longbottom is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Joshua Longbottom has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 7 papers in Infectious Diseases and 5 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Joshua Longbottom's work include Mosquito-borne diseases and control (13 papers), Malaria Research and Control (7 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (4 papers). Joshua Longbottom is often cited by papers focused on Mosquito-borne diseases and control (13 papers), Malaria Research and Control (7 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (4 papers). Joshua Longbottom collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Joshua Longbottom's co-authors include Simon I Hay, Catherine L. Moyes, Freya M. Shearer, David M. Pigott, Marianne Sinka, Janet Hemingway, N. Claire Massey, Daniel J. Weiss, Annie J. Browne and Katherine J. Willis and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Joshua Longbottom

20 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Vulnerability to snakebite envenoming: a global mapping of hotspots

2018 253 citations Joshua Longbottom, Freya M. Shearer et al. The Lancet profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joshua Longbottom United Kingdom	13	729	451	297	219	172	20	1.4k
Marc Choisy France	27	558 0.8×	476 1.1×	413 1.4×	91 0.4×	193 1.1×	89	2.1k
César Cabezas Peru	22	748 1.0×	578 1.3×	132 0.4×	158 0.7×	91 0.5×	132	1.7k
Sarah E. Ray United States	9	879 1.2×	600 1.3×	271 0.9×	202 0.9×	126 0.7×	13	1.4k
Tasha Epp Canada	17	366 0.5×	272 0.6×	261 0.9×	57 0.3×	187 1.1×	66	939
Katharina Kreppel Tanzania	20	688 0.9×	212 0.5×	342 1.2×	48 0.2×	109 0.6×	63	1.3k
Freya M. Shearer Australia	18	1.8k 2.5×	1.2k 2.7×	290 1.0×	218 1.0×	176 1.0×	52	2.7k
Agoritsa Baka Greece	22	846 1.2×	700 1.6×	110 0.4×	66 0.3×	150 0.9×	63	1.4k
Yin Wenwu China	24	737 1.0×	825 1.8×	140 0.5×	255 1.2×	63 0.4×	62	1.6k
Francisco J. Díaz Colombia	21	468 0.6×	636 1.4×	93 0.3×	91 0.4×	107 0.6×	91	1.4k
Abedin Saghafipour Iran	18	540 0.7×	299 0.7×	187 0.6×	50 0.2×	72 0.4×	112	987

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joshua Longbottom

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Joshua Longbottom. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Joshua Longbottom based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Joshua Longbottom. Joshua Longbottom is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Muthukrishnan, Suresh, Nicholas Feasey, Marc Henrion, et al.. (2025). Mapping and quantifying travel time to define health facility catchment areas in Blantyre city in Malawi. Communications Medicine. 5(1). 227–227. 1 indexed citations

Longbottom, Joshua, Johan Esterhuizen, Andrew Hope, et al.. (2024). Impact of a national tsetse control programme to eliminate Gambian sleeping sickness in Uganda: a spatiotemporal modelling study. BMJ Global Health. 9(10). e015374–e015374. 1 indexed citations

Longbottom, Joshua, et al.. (2023). Aedes albopictus invasion across Africa: the time is now for cross-country collaboration and control. The Lancet Global Health. 11(4). e623–e628. 33 indexed citations

Hope, Andrew, Johan Esterhuizen, Iñaki Tirados, et al.. (2022). Scaling up of tsetse control to eliminate Gambian sleeping sickness in northern Uganda. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 16(6). e0010222–e0010222. 6 indexed citations

Bessell, Paul R., Johan Esterhuizen, M. J. Lehane, et al.. (2021). Estimating the impact of Tiny Targets in reducing the incidence of Gambian sleeping sickness in the North-west Uganda focus. Parasites & Vectors. 14(1). 410–410. 11 indexed citations

Longbottom, Joshua, et al.. (2021). Optimising passive surveillance of a neglected tropical disease in the era of elimination: A modelling study. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 15(3). e0008599–e0008599. 6 indexed citations

Ray, Nicolas, Joshua Longbottom, Masoud Yousefi, et al.. (2021). Addressing the global snakebite crisis with geo-spatial analyses – Recent advances and future direction. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11. 100076–100076. 30 indexed citations

Browne, Annie J., Bahar H. Kashef Hamadani, Emmanuelle A. P. Kumaran, et al.. (2020). Drug-resistant enteric fever worldwide, 1990 to 2018: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Medicine. 18(1). 1–1. 219 indexed citations

Longbottom, Joshua, et al.. (2020). Quantifying geographic accessibility to improve efficiency of entomological monitoring. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 14(3). e0008096–e0008096. 7 indexed citations

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Longbottom, Joshua, Cyril Caminade, Harry S. Gibson, et al.. (2020). Modelling the impact of climate change on the distribution and abundance of tsetse in Northern Zimbabwe. Parasites & Vectors. 13(1). 526–526. 18 indexed citations

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Sinka, Marianne, Samuel Pironon, N. Claire Massey, et al.. (2020). A new malaria vector in Africa: Predicting the expansion range of Anopheles stephensi and identifying the urban populations at risk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(40). 24900–24908. 186 indexed citations

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Shearer, Freya M., Joshua Longbottom, Annie J. Browne, et al.. (2018). Existing and potential infection risk zones of yellow fever worldwide: a modelling analysis. The Lancet Global Health. 6(3). e270–e278. 96 indexed citations

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Longbottom, Joshua, Freya M. Shearer, Maria Devine, et al.. (2018). Vulnerability to snakebite envenoming: a global mapping of hotspots. The Lancet. 392(10148). 673–684. 253 indexed citations breakdown →

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Browne, Annie J., Puja C Rao, Joshua Longbottom, et al.. (2018). Antimicrobial drug resistance in Salmonella Typhi and Paratyphi isolates worldwide, 1990 to 2017: A systematic review of the literature. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 73. 133–134. 2 indexed citations

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Wiebe, Antoinette, Joshua Longbottom, Katherine Gleave, et al.. (2017). Geographical distributions of African malaria vector sibling species and evidence for insecticide resistance. Malaria Journal. 16(1). 85–85. 97 indexed citations

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Longbottom, Joshua, Annie J. Browne, David M. Pigott, et al.. (2017). Mapping the spatial distribution of the Japanese encephalitis vector, Culex tritaeniorhynchus Giles, 1901 (Diptera: Culicidae) within areas of Japanese encephalitis risk. Parasites & Vectors. 10(1). 148–148. 48 indexed citations

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Shearer, Freya M., Catherine L. Moyes, David M. Pigott, et al.. (2017). Global yellow fever vaccination coverage from 1970 to 2016: an adjusted retrospective analysis. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 17(11). 1209–1217. 113 indexed citations

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Ishak, Intan H., Jacob M. Riveron, Sulaiman S. Ibrahim, et al.. (2016). The Cytochrome P450 gene CYP6P12 confers pyrethroid resistance in kdr-free Malaysian populations of the dengue vector Aedes albopictus. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 24707–24707. 68 indexed citations

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Mylne, Adrian, David M. Pigott, Joshua Longbottom, et al.. (2015). Mapping the zoonotic niche of Lassa fever in Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 109(8). 483–492. 104 indexed citations

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Howes, Rosalind E., Robert C. Reiner, Katherine E. Battle, et al.. (2015). Plasmodium vivax Transmission in Africa. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 9(11). e0004222–e0004222. 81 indexed citations

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