Kris A. Murray

18.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
101 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Kris A. Murray is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Global and Planetary Change and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Kris A. Murray has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 26 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 23 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Kris A. Murray's work include Zoonotic diseases and public health (25 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (22 papers) and Climate Change and Health Impacts (17 papers). Kris A. Murray is often cited by papers focused on Zoonotic diseases and public health (25 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (22 papers) and Climate Change and Health Impacts (17 papers). Kris A. Murray collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Gambia and United States. Kris A. Murray's co-authors include Lee F. Skerratt, Carlos Zambrana‐Torrelio, Hamish McCallum, Moreno Di Marco, Peter Daszak, Toph Allen, Carlo Rondinini, Kevin J. Olival, Stephen S. Morse and Nathan Breit and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kris A. Murray

95 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

Global hotspots and correlates of emerging zoonotic diseases 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Global hotspots and correlates of emerging zoonotic diseases
    2017 670 citations Toph Allen, Kris A. Murray et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kris A. Murray United Kingdom 30 1.3k 915 832 746 591 101 3.7k
David J. Civitello United States 30 1.1k 0.8× 740 0.8× 611 0.7× 1.2k 1.6× 373 0.6× 73 3.5k
Colin J. Carlson United States 30 1.6k 1.2× 1.2k 1.3× 373 0.4× 850 1.1× 331 0.6× 98 3.7k
Roman Biek United Kingdom 36 934 0.7× 1.5k 1.6× 444 0.5× 794 1.1× 257 0.4× 89 4.3k
Johannes Foufopoulos United States 29 727 0.6× 587 0.6× 999 1.2× 1.3k 1.7× 587 1.0× 70 3.5k
David W. Redding United Kingdom 26 859 0.7× 667 0.7× 827 1.0× 1.4k 1.8× 1.1k 1.9× 44 4.2k
Erin A. Mordecai United States 33 3.1k 2.4× 1.9k 2.0× 393 0.5× 1.1k 1.5× 378 0.6× 98 5.6k
Luis E. Escobar United States 32 856 0.7× 982 1.1× 193 0.2× 715 1.0× 764 1.3× 99 3.1k
Bruce A. Wilcox United States 32 913 0.7× 451 0.5× 629 0.8× 1.7k 2.3× 416 0.7× 91 4.5k
Lisa K. Belden United States 37 857 0.7× 741 0.8× 2.8k 3.4× 1.4k 1.9× 979 1.7× 114 5.7k
Michael D. Samuel United States 42 979 0.8× 827 0.9× 831 1.0× 3.4k 4.5× 527 0.9× 150 6.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Kris A. Murray

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kris A. Murray

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kris A. Murray

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kris A. Murray. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kris A. Murray 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 Kris A. Murray. Kris A. Murray is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fornace, Kimberly, et al.. (2025). Human animal contact, land use change and zoonotic disease risk: a protocol for systematic review. Systematic Reviews. 14(1). 65–65.
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Romero, David, et al.. (2024). Climate change is aggravating dengue and yellow fever transmission risk. Ecography. 2024(10). 10 indexed citations
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Napoli, Claudia Di, Marina Romanello, Kelton Minor, et al.. (2023). The role of global reanalyses in climate services for health: Insights from the Lancet Countdown. Meteorological Applications. 30(2). 13 indexed citations
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Hanley‐Cook, Giles, Aisling J. Daly, Roseline Remans, et al.. (2022). Food biodiversity: Quantifying the unquantifiable in human diets. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. 63(25). 7837–7851. 14 indexed citations
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Martín, Gerardo, Joseph J. Erinjery, Dileepa Senajith Ediriweera, et al.. (2022). A mechanistic model of snakebite as a zoonosis: Envenoming incidence is driven by snake ecology, socioeconomics and its impacts on snakes. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 16(5). e0009867–e0009867. 12 indexed citations
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Murray, Kris A., et al.. (2021). The effect of resource limitation on the temperature dependence of mosquito population fitness. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1949). 20203217–20203217. 29 indexed citations
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Malhotra, Anita, et al.. (2021). Promoting co-existence between humans and venomous snakes through increasing the herpetological knowledge base. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 12. 100081–100081. 29 indexed citations
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Martín, Gerardo, Joseph J. Erinjery, Rikki Gumbs, et al.. (2021). Integrating snake distribution, abundance and expert‐derived behavioural traits predicts snakebite risk. Journal of Applied Ecology. 59(2). 611–623. 8 indexed citations
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Erinjery, Joseph J., Gerardo Martín, Anuradhani Kasturiratne, et al.. (2021). Integrating human behavior and snake ecology with agent-based models to predict snakebite in high risk landscapes. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 15(1). e0009047–e0009047. 29 indexed citations
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Ediriweera, Dileepa Senajith, A. Pathmeswaran, Shaluka Jayamanne, et al.. (2021). Evaluating spatiotemporal dynamics of snakebite in Sri Lanka: Monthly incidence mapping from a national representative survey sample. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 15(6). e0009447–e0009447. 11 indexed citations
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Kelman, Ilan, et al.. (2020). Understanding the risks for post-disaster infectious disease outbreaks: a systematic review protocol. BMJ Open. 10(9). e039608–e039608. 4 indexed citations
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Meinert, Edward, Michelle Helena van Velthoven, Abrar Alturkistani, et al.. (2019). COST MEASUREMENTS IN PRODUCTION AND DELIVERY OF A MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE (MOOC) FOR TEACHING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMAN HEALTH AND CLIMATE CHANGE: A CASE STUDY. 17(2). 1 indexed citations
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Shah, Hiral, et al.. (2019). Agricultural land-uses consistently exacerbate infectious disease risks in Southeast Asia. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4299–4299. 86 indexed citations
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Allen, Toph, Kris A. Murray, Carlos Zambrana‐Torrelio, et al.. (2017). ecohealthalliance/pubcrawler: "Global correlates" paper. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Allen, Toph, Kris A. Murray, Carlos Zambrana‐Torrelio, et al.. (2017). ecohealthalliance/hotspots2: "Global correlates" paper. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Murray, Kris A., et al.. (2013). Whether the Weather Drives Patterns of Endemic Amphibian Chytridiomycosis: A Pathogen Proliferation Approach. PLoS ONE. 8(4). e61061–e61061. 31 indexed citations
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Murray, Kris A. & Lee F. Skerratt. (2012). Predicting Wild Hosts for Amphibian Chytridiomycosis: Integrating Host Life-History Traits with Pathogen Environmental Requirements. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment An International Journal. 18(1). 200–224. 24 indexed citations
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Meyer, Edward A., Kris A. Murray, & Harry B. Hines. (2012). Further observations of visual signalling in Australo-Papuan hylid frogs of the genus Litoria (Tschudi). Australian Zoologist. 36(1). 55–58. 2 indexed citations
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