Katherine Smith

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Katherine Smith is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Katherine Smith has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 6 papers in Infectious Diseases and 6 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Katherine Smith's work include Zoonotic diseases and public health (14 papers), COVID-19 epidemiological studies (6 papers) and Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (6 papers). Katherine Smith is often cited by papers focused on Zoonotic diseases and public health (14 papers), COVID-19 epidemiological studies (6 papers) and Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (6 papers). Katherine Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Katherine Smith's co-authors include Dov F. Sax, Amy B. Pedersen, Karina Acevedo‐Whitehouse, Kevin D. Lafferty, James H. Brown, Lynn Carlson, Samantha R. Rosenthal, Michael E. Goldberg, Jane Chen and Sohini Ramachandran and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Katherine Smith

30 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Global rise in human infectious disease outbreaks

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Katherine Smith United States	17	660	555	426	316	260	34	2.0k
A. Alonso Aguirre United States	24	408 0.6×	888 1.6×	707 1.7×	201 0.6×	228 0.9×	58	2.2k
Christine K. Johnson United States	30	801 1.2×	754 1.4×	983 2.3×	241 0.8×	245 0.9×	98	3.0k
Gary Tabor United States	16	707 1.1×	855 1.5×	667 1.6×	176 0.6×	549 2.1×	33	2.6k
Colleen T. Webb United States	27	535 0.8×	445 0.8×	553 1.3×	455 1.4×	204 0.8×	76	2.3k
Luis E. Escobar United States	32	715 1.1×	856 1.5×	982 2.3×	416 1.3×	193 0.7×	99	3.1k
Noam Ross United States	12	545 0.8×	813 1.5×	804 1.9×	293 0.9×	340 1.3×	28	2.5k
Sarah E. Perkins United Kingdom	34	1.2k 1.8×	533 1.0×	636 1.5×	604 1.9×	215 0.8×	90	3.4k
Sara H. Paull United States	14	541 0.8×	460 0.8×	330 0.8×	310 1.0×	173 0.7×	25	1.3k
Nicole L. Gottdenker United States	25	441 0.7×	916 1.7×	562 1.3×	249 0.8×	107 0.4×	104	2.2k
N. D. Barlow New Zealand	28	947 1.4×	473 0.9×	438 1.0×	564 1.8×	123 0.5×	64	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Katherine Smith

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Katherine Smith

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20 of 20 papers shown

Smith, Katherine, et al.. (2025). Chemical anchoring and crosslinking of polyelectrolyte complex for durable flame retardant cotton. Polymer Degradation and Stability. 243. 111775–111775.

Monteiro, Kristina, et al.. (2023). Planetary Health—Global Environmental Change and Emerging Infectious Disease: A New Undergraduate Online Asynchronous Course. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 14(3). 36–36. 1 indexed citations

Smith, Katherine. (2019). The Data of Disease:. Delaware Journal of Public Health. 5(1). 102–104.

Gillan, Caitlin, et al.. (2018). Virtually Certified: Development of an Online Oral Examination Phase for a National Advanced Practice Certification Model for Radiation Therapists in Canada.. PubMed. 47(3). 228–233. 1 indexed citations

Rosenthal, Samantha R., Richard S. Ostfeld, Stephen T. McGarvey, Mark N. Lurie, & Katherine Smith. (2015). Redefining disease emergence to improve prioritization and macro-ecological analyses. One Health. 1. 17–23. 11 indexed citations

Jean, Kévin, W. Burnside, Lynn Carlson, Katherine Smith, & Jean‐François Guégan. (2015). An equilibrium theory signature in the island biogeography of human parasites and pathogens. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 25(1). 107–116. 16 indexed citations

Smith, Katherine, et al.. (2015). Biomarkers for differentiation of causes of respiratory distress in dogs and cats: Part 2 – Lower airway, thromboembolic, and inflammatory diseases. Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. 25(3). 330–348. 3 indexed citations

Perrings, Charles, Carlos Castillo‐Chávez, Gerardo Chowell, et al.. (2014). Merging Economics and Epidemiology to Improve the Prediction and Management of Infectious Disease. EcoHealth. 11(4). 464–475. 73 indexed citations

Smith, Katherine, et al.. (2014). Platelet parameters from an automated hematology analyzer in dogs with inflammatory clinical diseases. The Veterinary Journal. 201(3). 406–411. 14 indexed citations

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Smith, Katherine, et al.. (2011). Examining the Evidence for Chytridiomycosis in Threatened Amphibian Species. PLoS ONE. 6(8). e23150–e23150. 13 indexed citations

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Smith, Kristine M., Katherine Smith, & Jennifer P. D’Auria. (2011). Exotic Pets: Health and Safety Issues for Children and Parents. Journal of Pediatric Health Care. 26(2). e2–e6. 16 indexed citations

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Smith, Katherine & Jean‐François Guégan. (2010). Changing Geographic Distributions of Human Pathogens. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics. 41(1). 231–250. 48 indexed citations

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Smith, Katherine, Michael D. Behrens, & Dov F. Sax. (2009). Local Scale Effects of Disease on Biodiversity. EcoHealth. 6(2). 287–295. 26 indexed citations

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Smith, Katherine, Karina Acevedo‐Whitehouse, & Amy B. Pedersen. (2009). The role of infectious diseases in biological conservation. Animal Conservation. 12(1). 1–12. 406 indexed citations

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Smith, Katherine, Dov F. Sax, Steven D. Gaines, Vanina Guernier, & Jean‐François Guégan. (2007). GLOBALIZATION OF HUMAN INFECTIOUS DISEASE. Ecology. 88(8). 1903–1910. 88 indexed citations

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Smith, Katherine, et al.. (2006). Potential spread of introduced black rat (Rattus rattus) parasites to endemic deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) on the California Channel Islands. Diversity and Distributions. 12(6). 742–748. 38 indexed citations

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Smith, Katherine, Dov F. Sax, & Kevin D. Lafferty. (2006). Evidence for the Role of Infectious Disease in Species Extinction and Endangerment. Conservation Biology. 20(5). 1349–1357. 394 indexed citations

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Smith, Katherine, Andrew P. Dobson, F. Ellis McKenzie, et al.. (2005). Ecological theory to enhance infectious disease control and public health policy. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 3(1). 29–37. 59 indexed citations

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Sax, Dov F., Brian P. Kinlan, & Katherine Smith. (2005). A conceptual framework for comparing species assemblages in native and exotic habitats. Oikos. 108(3). 457–464. 67 indexed citations

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Smith, Katherine & James H. Brown. (2002). Patterns of diversity, depth range and body size among pelagic fishes along a gradient of depth. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 11(4). 313–322. 113 indexed citations

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