Mark Woolhouse

33.1k total citations · 10 hit papers
330 papers, 20.6k citations indexed

About

Mark Woolhouse is a scholar working on Agronomy and Crop Science, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Woolhouse has authored 330 papers receiving a total of 20.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 117 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science, 89 papers in Infectious Diseases and 68 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Mark Woolhouse's work include Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (113 papers), Parasites and Host Interactions (57 papers) and Vector-Borne Animal Diseases (51 papers). Mark Woolhouse is often cited by papers focused on Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (113 papers), Parasites and Host Interactions (57 papers) and Vector-Borne Animal Diseases (51 papers). Mark Woolhouse collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Kenya. Mark Woolhouse's co-authors include Louise Taylor, Sophia Latham, Daniel T. Haydon, Margo Chase‐Topping, Louise Matthews, Joanne P. Webster, S.K. Chandiwana, Matt J. Keeling, Darren J. Shaw and Bryan T. Grenfell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mark Woolhouse

325 papers receiving 19.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Risk factors for human disease emergence

2001 1.8k citations Mark Woolhouse et al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
Host Range and Emerging and Reemerging Pathogens

2005 1.0k citations Mark Woolhouse et al. profile →
Heterogeneities in the transmission of infectious agents: Implications for the design of control programs

1997 884 citations Mark Woolhouse et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Dynamics of the 2001 UK Foot and Mouth Epidemic: Stochastic Dispersal in a Heterogeneous Landscape

2001 687 citations Mark Woolhouse, Margo Chase‐Topping et al. profile →
Prediction and prevention of the next pandemic zoonosis

2012 664 citations Mark Woolhouse et al. profile →
Biological and biomedical implications of the co-evolution of pathogens and their hosts

2002 616 citations Mark Woolhouse, Joanne P. Webster et al. profile →
Population Biology of Multihost Pathogens

2001 579 citations Mark Woolhouse et al. profile →
Emerging pathogens: the epidemiology and evolution of species jumps

2005 497 citations Mark Woolhouse et al. profile →
Antimicrobial resistance in humans, livestock and the wider environment

2015 456 citations Mark Woolhouse, Bram van Bunnik et al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
Severity of omicron variant of concern and effectiveness of vaccine boosters against symptomatic disease in Scotland (EAVE II): a national cohort study with nested test-negative design

2022 154 citations Aziz Sheikh, Mark Woolhouse et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Woolhouse

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Temporal Dynamics, Discovery, and Emergence of Human-Transmissible RNA Viruses 2024 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Lu Lu, Feifei Zhang, Liam Brierley, (unknown), Margo Chase‐Topping, Samantha Lycett, Mark Woolhouse	2
2	What does equitable global health research and delivery look like? Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa (TIBA) partnership as a case study 2023 ·BMJ Global Health ·Francisca Mutapi, Geoffrey Banda, Mark Woolhouse	4
3	Predictors of human-infective RNA virus discovery in the United States, China, and Africa, an ecological study 2022 ·eLife ·Feifei Zhang, Margo Chase‐Topping, Chuan‐Guo Guo, Mark Woolhouse	1
4	Efficacy of praziquantel has been maintained over four decades (from 1977 to 2018): A systematic review and meta-analysis of factors influence its efficacy 2021 ·PLoS neglected tropical diseases ·Mizuho Fukushige, Margo Chase‐Topping, Mark Woolhouse, Francisca Mutapi	33
5	Association between multimorbidity and mortality in a cohort of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in Scotland 2021 ·Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine ·Utkarsh Agrawal, Amaya Azcoaga-Lorenzo, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Eleftheria Vasileiou, (unknown), Colin R Simpson, Sarah J. Stock, Syed Ahmar Shah, Chris Robertson, Mark Woolhouse, Lewis Ritchie, (unknown), Ewen M. Harrison, Annemarie B Docherty, Colin McCowan	21
6	What are SARS-CoV-2 genomes from the WHO Africa region member states telling us? 2021 ·BMJ Global Health ·Lu Lu, Samantha Lycett, Jordan Ashworth, Francisca Mutapi, Mark Woolhouse	8
7	Cohort Profile: Early Pandemic Evaluation and Enhanced Surveillance of COVID-19 (EAVE II) Database 2021 ·International Journal of Epidemiology ·Rachel Mulholland, Eleftheria Vasileiou, Colin R Simpson, Chris Robertson, Lewis Ritchie, Utkarsh Agrawal, Mark Woolhouse, Josie Murray, Helen R. Stagg, Annemarie B Docherty, Colin McCowan, Rachael Wood, Sarah J. Stock, Aziz Sheikh	16
8	Segmentation and shielding of the most vulnerable members of the population as elements of an exit strategy from COVID-19 lockdown 2021 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Bram van Bunnik, (unknown), Paul R. Bessell, (unknown), Feifei Zhang, (unknown), Jordan Ashworth, Shengyuan Zhao, (unknown), Meghan Perry, (unknown), Lu Lu, Paul Kellam, Aziz Sheikh, Graham F. Medley, Mark Woolhouse	22
9	Schistosoma haematobium infection is associated with alterations in energy and purine-related metabolism in preschool-aged children 2020 ·PLoS neglected tropical diseases ·Derick Nii Mensah Osakunor, Takafira Mduluza, Douglas Osei‐Hyiaman, Karl Burgess, Mark Woolhouse, Francisca Mutapi	12
10	Vaccines That Reduce Viral Shedding Do Not Prevent Transmission of H1N1 Pandemic 2009 Swine Influenza A Virus Infection to Unvaccinated Pigs 2020 ·Journal of Virology ·Helen Everett, Pauline M. van Diemen, Mario Aramouni, (unknown), Vivien Coward, Vincent Pavot, Laëtitia Canini, Barbara Holzer, Sophie Morgan, Mark Woolhouse, Elma Tchilian, Sharon M. Brookes, Ian H. Brown, Bryan Charleston, Sarah C. Gilbert	14
11	Global discovery of human-infective RNA viruses: A modelling analysis 2020 ·PLoS Pathogens ·Feifei Zhang, Margo Chase‐Topping, Chuan‐Guo Guo, Bram van Bunnik, Liam Brierley, Mark Woolhouse	9
12	Investigating a strategy for quantifying schistosome infection levels in preschool-aged children using prevalence data from school-aged children 2020 ·PLoS neglected tropical diseases ·(unknown), Mark Woolhouse, Takafira Mduluza, Margo Chase‐Topping, Derick Nii Mensah Osakunor, Lester Chitsulo, Francisca Mutapi	3
13	Are Food Animals Responsible for Transfer of Antimicrobial-Resistant Escherichia coli or Their Resistance Determinants to Human Populations? A Systematic Review 2018 ·Foodborne Pathogens and Disease ·Dishon Muloi, Melissa J. Ward, Amy B. Pedersen, Eric M. Fèvre, Mark Woolhouse, Bram van Bunnik	128
14	Efficient surveillance for healthcare-associated infections spreading between hospitals 2014 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·M. Ciccolini, Tjibbe Donker, Hajo Grundmann, Marc J. M. Bonten, Mark Woolhouse	38
15	Comparing parasitological vs serological determination of Schistosoma haematobium infection prevalence in preschool and primary school-aged children: implications for control programmes 2014 ·Parasitology ·Welcome Wami, Norman Nausch, Katharina Bauer, Nicholas Midzi, (unknown), Peter Simmonds, Takafira Mduluza, Mark Woolhouse, Francisca Mutapi	27
16	Protective immunity to Schistosoma haematobium infection is primarily an anti-fecundity response stimulated by the death of adult worms 2012 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Kate M. Mitchell, Francisca Mutapi, Nicholas J. Savill, Mark Woolhouse	36
17	Temporal trends in the discovery of human viruses 2008 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Mark Woolhouse, Richard Howey, Eleanor Gaunt, (unknown), Margo Chase‐Topping, (unknown)	85
18	Managing foot-and-mouth 2001 ·Nature ·Mark Woolhouse, Alex Donaldson	47
19	SELECTION AND STRAIN SPECIFICITY OF COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN SNAIL INTERMEDIATE HOSTS AND THEIR PARASITIC SCHISTOSOMES 1998 ·Evolution ·Joanne P. Webster, Mark Woolhouse	88
20	Extensive genetic variation revealed within Biomphalaria pfeifferi from one river system in the Zimbabwean highveld 1998 ·PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University) ·Joseph I. Hoffman, Joanne P. Webster, J. Ndamba, Mark Woolhouse	4

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