Kara Sewalk

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 355 citations indexed

About

Kara Sewalk is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Health and Modeling and Simulation. According to data from OpenAlex, Kara Sewalk has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 355 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Epidemiology, 4 papers in Health and 4 papers in Modeling and Simulation. Recurrent topics in Kara Sewalk's work include Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (7 papers), Influenza Virus Research Studies (6 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (4 papers). Kara Sewalk is often cited by papers focused on Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (7 papers), Influenza Virus Research Studies (6 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (4 papers). Kara Sewalk collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. Kara Sewalk's co-authors include John S. Brownstein, Yulin Hswen, Benjamin Rader, Christina M. Astley, Karla Therese L. Sy, Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Jared B. Hawkins, Gaurav Tuli, Carrie Reed and Tanner J. Varrelman and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Kara Sewalk

16 papers receiving 340 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.

Use of At-Home COVID-19 Tests — United States, August 23, 2021–March 12, 2022

2022 121 citations Benjamin Rader, A. Danielle Iuliano et al. MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kara Sewalk United States	8	129	121	94	75	46	17	355
Stijn Van Hees Belgium	10	148 1.1×	73 0.6×	122 1.3×	110 1.5×	28 0.6×	22	404
Jewel Mullen United States	9	73 0.6×	55 0.5×	98 1.0×	99 1.3×	45 1.0×	14	448
Andrea McNeill New Zealand	5	82 0.6×	106 0.9×	38 0.4×	35 0.5×	43 0.9×	8	256
Karla Therese L. Sy United States	10	203 1.6×	228 1.9×	102 1.1×	125 1.7×	57 1.2×	22	560
Carolina Batista Switzerland	12	211 1.6×	87 0.7×	180 1.9×	113 1.5×	42 0.9×	29	543
Stephanie A. Dopson United States	5	88 0.7×	133 1.1×	36 0.4×	57 0.8×	59 1.3×	15	356
Greta Tam Hong Kong	11	112 0.9×	69 0.6×	72 0.8×	98 1.3×	40 0.9×	21	391
Danielle Greene United States	7	288 2.2×	138 1.1×	104 1.1×	34 0.5×	54 1.2×	12	418
Allan Maleche United States	10	134 1.0×	62 0.5×	69 0.7×	30 0.4×	67 1.5×	23	344
Simone Villa Italy	11	320 2.5×	57 0.5×	49 0.5×	117 1.6×	52 1.1×	31	535

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17 of 17 papers shown

Libel, Marlo, et al.. (2024). Using EpiCore to Enable Rapid Verification of Potential Health Threats: Illustrated Use Cases and Summary Statistics. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 10. e52093–e52093. 1 indexed citations

Sewalk, Kara, et al.. (2023). Dissemination of information in event-based surveillance, a case study of Avian Influenza. PLoS ONE. 18(9). e0285341–e0285341. 3 indexed citations

Rader, Benjamin, et al.. (2023). Decreased Seasonal Influenza Rates Detected in a Crowdsourced Influenza-Like Illness Surveillance System During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Prospective Cohort Study. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 9. e40216–e40216. 2 indexed citations

Rader, Benjamin, A. Danielle Iuliano, Christina M. Astley, et al.. (2022). Use of At-Home COVID-19 Tests — United States, August 23, 2021–March 12, 2022. MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 71(13). 489–494. 121 indexed citations breakdown →

Sewalk, Kara, et al.. (2022). Assessing the Shift in Reasoning for COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the United States Using a Six-Month Cross-Sectional Analysis from December 2020 to June 2021. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 116. S59–S59. 1 indexed citations

Rader, Benjamin, Christina M. Astley, Kara Sewalk, et al.. (2022). Spatial modeling of vaccine deserts as barriers to controlling SARS-CoV-2. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 26 indexed citations

Li, Jianqiao, Margaret A. Hojlo, Kent Shefchek, et al.. (2021). Underrepresentation of Phenotypic Variability of 16p13.11 Microduplication Syndrome Assessed With an Online Self-Phenotyping Tool (Phenotypr): Cohort Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 23(3). e21023–e21023. 3 indexed citations

Suchsland, Monica Zigman, Barry R. Lutz, Victoria Lyon, et al.. (2021). Evaluating an app-guided self-test for influenza: lessons learned for improving the feasibility of study designs to evaluate self-tests for respiratory viruses. BMC Infectious Diseases. 21(1). 617–617. 5 indexed citations

Smith, Shannon M., Kara Sewalk, Lauren Goodwin, et al.. (2021). Maintaining User Engagement in an Infectious Disease Surveillance-Related Citizen Science Project. Citizen Science Theory and Practice. 6(1). 5 indexed citations

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Rader, Benjamin, Christina M. Astley, Karla Therese L. Sy, et al.. (2020). Geographic access to United States SARS-CoV-2 testing sites highlights healthcare disparities and may bias transmission estimates. Journal of Travel Medicine. 27(7). 101 indexed citations

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Hswen, Yulin, Jared B. Hawkins, Kara Sewalk, et al.. (2020). Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Patient Experiences in the United States: 4-Year Content Analysis of Twitter. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 22(8). e17048–e17048. 10 indexed citations

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Hswen, Yulin, et al.. (2020). Investigation of Geographic and Macrolevel Variations in LGBTQ Patient Experiences: Longitudinal Social Media Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 22(7). e17087–e17087. 11 indexed citations

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Baltrusaitis, Kristin, Carrie Reed, Kara Sewalk, et al.. (2020). Healthcare-Seeking Behavior for Respiratory Illness Among Flu Near You Participants in the United States During the 2015–2016 Through 2018–2019 Influenza Seasons. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 226(2). 270–277. 14 indexed citations

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Hswen, Yulin, et al.. (2020). Use of social media to assess the impact of equitable state policies on LGBTQ patient experiences: An exploratory study. Healthcare. 8(2). 100410–100410. 3 indexed citations

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Sewalk, Kara, Kristin Baltrusaitis, Emily Cohn, Adam W. Crawley, & John S. Brownstein. (2019). Flu near you: crowdsourcing influenza-like illness reporting in the United States comparing the 2016-17 and 2017-18 influenza season with participant-reported symptoms. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 79. 32–33.

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Hswen, Yulin, Kara Sewalk, Emily Alsentzer, et al.. (2018). Investigating inequities in hospital care among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals using social media. Social Science & Medicine. 215. 92–97. 20 indexed citations

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Sewalk, Kara, Gaurav Tuli, Yulin Hswen, John S. Brownstein, & Jared B. Hawkins. (2018). Using Twitter to Examine Web-Based Patient Experience Sentiments in the United States: Longitudinal Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 20(10). e10043–e10043. 29 indexed citations

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