Liam Brierley

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 958 citations indexed

About

Liam Brierley is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Agronomy and Crop Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Liam Brierley has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 958 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Infectious Diseases, 11 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 10 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science. Recurrent topics in Liam Brierley's work include Zoonotic diseases and public health (11 papers), Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (10 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (8 papers). Liam Brierley is often cited by papers focused on Zoonotic diseases and public health (11 papers), Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (10 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (8 papers). Liam Brierley collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Liam Brierley's co-authors include Mark Woolhouse, Máté Pálfy, Jessica Polka, G.K. Dey, Jonathon Alexis Coates, Federico Nanni, Nicholas Fraser, Kate E. Jones, Samantha Lycett and Florence Mutua and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, The American Naturalist and PLoS Biology.

In The Last Decade

Liam Brierley

26 papers receiving 926 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.

The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape

2021 239 citations Nicholas Fraser, Liam Brierley et al. PLoS Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liam Brierley United Kingdom	16	320	313	193	154	148	26	958
Piers Millett United Kingdom	10	315 1.0×	186 0.6×	17 0.1×	27 0.2×	14 0.1×	25	597
Atila Iamarino Brazil	11	531 1.7×	576 1.8×	10 0.1×	10 0.1×	33 0.2×	14	953
Victor Del Rio Vilas United Kingdom	21	286 0.9×	292 0.9×	7 0.0×	260 1.7×	8 0.1×	75	1.2k
Cheikh Loucoubar Senegal	18	566 1.8×	559 1.8×	8 0.0×	20 0.1×	8 0.1×	66	1.1k
Nicholas Geard Australia	17	178 0.6×	121 0.4×	7 0.0×	16 0.1×	7 0.0×	87	884
Nathan L. Yozwiak United States	8	265 0.8×	123 0.4×	21 0.1×	30 0.2×	10 0.1×	9	731
Simon Pollett United States	16	443 1.4×	280 0.9×	6 0.0×	41 0.3×	4 0.0×	38	950
Sumiko R. Mekaru United States	23	393 1.2×	472 1.5×	11 0.1×	58 0.4×	2 0.0×	37	1.5k
Donald S. Grant United States	17	657 2.1×	186 0.6×	9 0.0×	29 0.2×	3 0.0×	46	1.1k
Ben Lambert United Kingdom	15	181 0.6×	266 0.8×	4 0.0×	9 0.1×	12 0.1×	59	719

Countries citing papers authored by Liam Brierley

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Fields of papers citing papers by Liam Brierley

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liam Brierley

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Brierley, Liam, et al.. (2025). Predicting high confidence ctDNA somatic variants with ensemble machine learning models. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 18384–18384. 1 indexed citations

Brierley, Liam, et al.. (2024). Benchmarking UMI-aware and standard variant callers for low frequency ctDNA variant detection. BMC Genomics. 25(1). 827–827. 3 indexed citations

Lu, Lu, Feifei Zhang, Liam Brierley, et al.. (2024). Temporal Dynamics, Discovery, and Emergence of Human-Transmissible RNA Viruses. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 41(1). 2 indexed citations

Farrell, Maxwell J., et al.. (2024). The changing landscape of text mining: a review of approaches for ecology and evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2027). 20240423–20240423. 4 indexed citations

Farrell, Maxwell J., et al.. (2024). The changing landscape of text mining - a review of approaches for ecology and evolution. 1 indexed citations

Charalampopoulos, Dimitrios, et al.. (2023). A Systematic Review of the Prevalence of Persistent Gastrointestinal Symptoms and Incidence of New Gastrointestinal Illness after Acute SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Viruses. 15(8). 1625–1625. 7 indexed citations

Poisot, Timothée, Nardus Mollentze, Maxwell J. Farrell, et al.. (2023). Network embedding unveils the hidden interactions in the mammalian virome. Patterns. 4(6). 100738–100738. 8 indexed citations

Gibb, Rory, Gregory F. Albery, Nardus Mollentze, et al.. (2022). Mammal virus diversity estimates are unstable due to accelerating discovery effort. Biology Letters. 18(1). 20210427–20210427. 23 indexed citations

Brierley, Liam, Federico Nanni, Jessica Polka, et al.. (2022). Tracking changes between preprint posting and journal publication during a pandemic. PLoS Biology. 20(2). e3001285–e3001285. 54 indexed citations

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Farrell, Maxwell J., et al.. (2022). Past and future uses of text mining in ecology and evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1975). 20212721–20212721. 27 indexed citations

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Brierley, Liam. (2021). Lessons from the influx of preprints during the early COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancet Planetary Health. 5(3). e115–e117. 30 indexed citations

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Brierley, Liam & Anna Fowler. (2021). Predicting the animal hosts of coronaviruses from compositional biases of spike protein and whole genome sequences through machine learning. PLoS Pathogens. 17(4). e1009149–e1009149. 23 indexed citations

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Metelmann, Soeren, Liam Brierley, Cyril Caminade, et al.. (2021). Impact of climatic, demographic and disease control factors on the transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in large cities worldwide. One Health. 12. 100221–100221. 23 indexed citations

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Fraser, Nicholas, Liam Brierley, G.K. Dey, et al.. (2021). The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape. PLoS Biology. 19(4). e3000959–e3000959. 239 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Feifei, Margo Chase‐Topping, Chuan‐Guo Guo, et al.. (2020). Global discovery of human-infective RNA viruses: A modelling analysis. PLoS Pathogens. 16(11). e1009079–e1009079. 9 indexed citations

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McGurnaghan, Stuart J., Liam Brierley, Thomas M. Caparrotta, et al.. (2019). The effect of dapagliflozin on glycaemic control and other cardiovascular disease risk factors in type 2 diabetes mellitus: a real-world observational study. Diabetologia. 62(4). 621–632. 30 indexed citations

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Brierley, Liam, Amy B. Pedersen, & Mark Woolhouse. (2019). Tissue tropism and transmission ecology predict virulence of human RNA viruses. PLoS Biology. 17(11). e3000206–e3000206. 17 indexed citations

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Woolhouse, Mark & Liam Brierley. (2018). Epidemiological characteristics of human-infective RNA viruses. Scientific Data. 5(1). 180017–180017. 61 indexed citations

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Woolhouse, Mark, et al.. (2016). Assessing the Epidemic Potential of RNA and DNA Viruses. Emerging infectious diseases. 22(12). 2037–2044. 62 indexed citations

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Woolhouse, Mark, et al.. (2013). RNA Viruses: A Case Study of the Biology of Emerging Infectious Diseases. Microbiology Spectrum. 1(1). 53 indexed citations

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