Laura Spinney

1.5k total citations
65 papers, 833 citations indexed

About

Laura Spinney is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura Spinney has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 833 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Infectious Diseases, 5 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 4 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Laura Spinney's work include Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (4 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (2 papers) and Health and Medical Research Impacts (2 papers). Laura Spinney is often cited by papers focused on Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (4 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (2 papers) and Health and Medical Research Impacts (2 papers). Laura Spinney collaborates with scholars based in Colombia, Canada and United States. Laura Spinney's co-authors include Eberhard Gwinner, Martin Wikelski, Wendy M. Schelsky, Alexander Scheuerlein, Michaela Hau and G. Bentley and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Laura Spinney

54 papers receiving 772 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Laura Spinney Colombia 12 242 221 112 92 74 65 833
Carlo Giovanni Camarda France 13 190 0.8× 172 0.8× 74 0.7× 125 1.4× 99 1.3× 50 1.2k
Samuli Helle Finland 21 212 0.9× 241 1.1× 197 1.8× 233 2.5× 152 2.1× 65 1.7k
Oskar Bürger United States 16 114 0.5× 128 0.6× 227 2.0× 96 1.0× 28 0.4× 35 1.1k
Andrew T. Kahn Australia 14 331 1.4× 128 0.6× 87 0.8× 161 1.8× 51 0.7× 17 1.2k
Thomas S. Kraft United States 17 141 0.6× 130 0.6× 98 0.9× 82 0.9× 60 0.8× 46 867
Tjard de Cock Buning Netherlands 21 183 0.8× 110 0.5× 108 1.0× 147 1.6× 57 0.8× 58 1.2k
Jean Gayon France 17 135 0.6× 150 0.7× 109 1.0× 185 2.0× 174 2.4× 107 1.1k
James S. Boster United States 26 127 0.5× 115 0.5× 399 3.6× 82 0.9× 38 0.5× 52 2.0k
John Jackson United Kingdom 13 69 0.3× 143 0.6× 106 0.9× 63 0.7× 30 0.4× 45 688
Mirkka Lahdenperä Finland 21 210 0.9× 375 1.7× 241 2.2× 311 3.4× 76 1.0× 58 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Laura Spinney

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Fields of papers citing papers by Laura Spinney

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Laura Spinney. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Laura Spinney. The network helps show where Laura Spinney may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laura Spinney

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Laura Spinney. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Laura Spinney 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 Laura Spinney. Laura Spinney 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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Spinney, Laura. (2022). Pandemics disable people — the history lesson that policymakers ignore. Nature. 602(7897). 383–385. 9 indexed citations
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Spinney, Laura. (2019). Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present. Nature. 574(7778). 324–326. 83 indexed citations
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Spinney, Laura. (2019). How pandemics shape social evolution. Nature. 574(7778). 324–326. 11 indexed citations
4.
Spinney, Laura. (2018). Link to Alzheimer's seen in nodding syndrome. Science. 362(6421). 1341–1341. 3 indexed citations
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Spinney, Laura. (2018). Can robots make art?. Nature. 557(7706). 490–491. 1 indexed citations
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Spinney, Laura. (2018). Ancient cities rescued from rubble, bit by bit. Nature. 563(7731). 321–322. 2 indexed citations
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Spinney, Laura. (2012). Searching for doggerland. National geographic/˜The œcomplete National geographic/˜The œNational geographic magazine. 222(6). 132–143. 3 indexed citations
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Spinney, Laura. (2010). Uncovering the true prevalence of Huntington's disease. The Lancet Neurology. 9(8). 760–761. 27 indexed citations
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Spinney, Laura. (2009). European Brain Policy Forum 2009: Depression and the European Society. European Psychiatry. 24(8). 550–551. 8 indexed citations
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Spinney, Laura. (2009). The twilight zone. The New Scientist. 204(2729). 30–34. 1 indexed citations
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Spinney, Laura. (2008). Alzheimer's disease funding and the French health system. The Lancet Neurology. 7(1). 26–27. 8 indexed citations
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Spinney, Laura. (2008). Archaeology: The lost world. Nature. 454(7201). 151–153. 10 indexed citations
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Spinney, Laura. (2007). Therapy for autistic children causes outcry in France. The Lancet. 370(9588). 645–646. 10 indexed citations
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Spinney, Laura. (2007). The science of swearing. The New Scientist. 196(2635-2636). 51–53. 1 indexed citations
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Spinney, Laura, G. Bentley, & Michaela Hau. (2006). Endocrine correlates of alternative phenotypes in the white-throated sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis). Hormones and Behavior. 50(5). 762–771. 79 indexed citations
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Spinney, Laura. (2004). A stage of evolution. Nature. 432(7016). 445–445.
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Spinney, Laura. (2004). US academics forbidden to attend Cuban coma conference. The Lancet Neurology. 3(5). 260–260. 1 indexed citations
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Spinney, Laura. (2003). Ambitious researchers take awkward first steps to a Euro-NIH. Nature Medicine. 9(4). 378–378. 1 indexed citations
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Wikelski, Martin, Laura Spinney, Wendy M. Schelsky, Alexander Scheuerlein, & Eberhard Gwinner. (2003). Slow pace of life in tropical sedentary birds: a common-garden experiment on four stonechat populations from different latitudes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 270(1531). 2383–2388. 229 indexed citations
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Spinney, Laura. (2002). First Human Proteome Organisation congress. Genome Biology. 3. gb–spotlight.

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