Michael G. Baker

18.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
340 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

Michael G. Baker is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael G. Baker has authored 340 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Infectious Diseases, 110 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 86 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Michael G. Baker's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (60 papers), Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (54 papers) and Influenza Virus Research Studies (52 papers). Michael G. Baker is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (60 papers), Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (54 papers) and Influenza Virus Research Studies (52 papers). Michael G. Baker collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, Australia and United States. Michael G. Baker's co-authors include Philippa Howden‐Chapman, Nick Wilson, Kamalesh Venugopal, Simon Hales, Nick Wilson, Amanda Kvalsvig, Nigel French, Tony Blakely, Lucy Telfar-Barnard and Nevil Pierse and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Michael G. Baker

327 papers receiving 8.7k 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.

Pandemic influenza A(H1N1)v in New Zealand: the experience from April to August 2009

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Author						Papers	Cites
Michael G. Baker	2.9k	2.1k	2.0k	1.4k	1.1k	340	9.0k
Mohammad Yunus	2.5k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	950 0.7×	2.5k 2.4×	472	15.0k
David J. Weber	7.9k 2.7×	4.7k 2.2×	1.7k 0.9×	807 0.6×	658 0.6×	527	18.4k
Alfonso J. Rodríguez‐Morales	5.1k 1.8×	1.8k 0.9×	3.2k 1.6×	1.3k 0.9×	380 0.4×	663	11.5k
Trish M. Perl	8.4k 2.9×	5.2k 2.5×	2.5k 1.2×	862 0.6×	387 0.4×	287	24.6k
Elena N. Naumova	1.2k 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	2.2k 1.1×	473 0.3×	1.2k 1.2×	263	8.1k
Laura C. Rodrigues	8.6k 3.0×	4.3k 2.1×	3.6k 1.7×	501 0.4×	583 0.5×	408	19.0k
Stephen P. Luby	8.2k 2.9×	6.3k 3.0×	3.6k 1.8×	998 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	564	22.6k
Paul Hunter	5.8k 2.0×	2.3k 1.1×	1.6k 0.8×	383 0.3×	1.5k 1.4×	309	17.2k
Marianne A. B. van der Sande	2.3k 0.8×	4.6k 2.2×	1.6k 0.8×	565 0.4×	422 0.4×	266	11.8k
David N. Fisman	3.7k 1.3×	3.4k 1.6×	1.4k 0.7×	3.0k 2.2×	587 0.6×	241	11.8k

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Pepin, Kim M., Keith M. Carlisle, Richard B. Chipman, et al.. (2025). Practitioner perspectives on informing decisions in One Health sectors with predictive models. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 12(1).

Chambers, Tim, et al.. (2025). Examining campylobacteriosis disease notification rates: Association with water supply characteristics. Environmental Research. 271. 121064–121064. 2 indexed citations

Boyd, Matt, Michael G. Baker, Amanda Kvalsvig, & Nick Wilson. (2025). Impact of Covid-19 control strategies on health and GDP growth outcomes in 193 sovereign jurisdictions. PLOS Global Public Health. 5(10). e0004554–e0004554. 1 indexed citations

Chambers, Tim, et al.. (2024). Population and contact tracer uptake of New Zealand’s QR-code-based digital contact tracing app for COVID-19. Epidemiology and Infection. 152. e66–e66. 2 indexed citations

Chambers, Tim, et al.. (2024). An evaluation of the population uptake and contact tracer utilisation of the Covid-19 Bluetooth Exposure Notification Framework in New Zealand. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 48(6). 100197–100197. 2 indexed citations

Lorenz, Natalie, Reuben McGregor, Alana L. Whitcombe, et al.. (2024). An acute rheumatic fever immune signature comprising inflammatory markers, IgG3, and Streptococcus pyogenes-specific antibodies. iScience. 27(8). 110558–110558. 3 indexed citations

Kvalsvig, Amanda, Lucy Telfar-Barnard, Jennifer Summers, & Michael G. Baker. (2022). Integrated Prevention and Control of Seasonal Respiratory Infections in Aotearoa New Zealand: next steps for transformative change. Policy Quarterly. 18(1). 44–51. 4 indexed citations

Gray, Lesley, et al.. (2022). The lived experience of hotel isolation and quarantine at the Aotearoa New Zealand border for COVID-19: A qualitative descriptive study. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 70. 102779–102779. 6 indexed citations

Bennett, Julie, William Leung, Rachel Webb, et al.. (2022). Medical Treatment for Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Narrative Review. Heart Lung and Circulation. 31(11). 1463–1470. 1 indexed citations

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Whitcombe, Alana L., Reuben McGregor, Julie Bennett, et al.. (2022). Increased Breadth of Group A Streptococcus Antibody Responses in Children With Acute Rheumatic Fever Compared to Precursor Pharyngitis and Skin Infections. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 226(1). 167–176. 15 indexed citations

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Baker, Michael G., et al.. (2021). Imported arboviral infections in New Zealand, 2001 to 2017: A risk factor for local transmission. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. 41. 102047–102047. 3 indexed citations

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Kvalsvig, Amanda & Michael G. Baker. (2021). How Aotearoa New Zealand rapidly revised its Covid‐19 response strategy: lessons for the next pandemic plan. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 51(S1). 22 indexed citations

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Whitcombe, Alana L., Reuben McGregor, Campbell R. Sheen, et al.. (2021). Charting elimination in the pandemic: a SARS-CoV-2 serosurvey of blood donors in New Zealand. Epidemiology and Infection. 149. e173–e173. 7 indexed citations

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Kvalsvig, Amanda, et al.. (2021). Expansion of a national Covid-19 alert level system to improve population health and uphold the values of Indigenous peoples. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific. 12. 100206–100206. 5 indexed citations

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Harris, Paul W. R., Reuben McGregor, Renata Kowalczyk, et al.. (2021). Antibody responses to collagen peptides and streptococcal collagen-like 1 proteins in acute rheumatic fever patients. Pathogens and Disease. 79(6). 9 indexed citations

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Prasad, Namrata, Tiffany Walker, Ben Waite, et al.. (2020). Respiratory Syncytial Virus–Associated Hospitalizations Among Adults With Chronic Medical Conditions. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 73(1). e158–e163. 60 indexed citations

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McGregor, Reuben, Alana L. Whitcombe, Campbell R. Sheen, et al.. (2020). Collaborative networks enable the rapid establishment of serological assays for SARS-CoV-2 during nationwide lockdown in New Zealand. PeerJ. 8. e9863–e9863. 8 indexed citations

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Prasad, Namrata, Q. Sue Huang, Tim Wood, et al.. (2019). Influenza-Associated Outcomes Among Pregnant, Postpartum, and Nonpregnant Women of Reproductive Age. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 219(12). 1893–1903. 35 indexed citations

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Wilson, Nick, et al.. (2017). Potential public health benefits from eradicating rats in New Zealand cities and a tentative research agenda. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 48(4). 280–290. 8 indexed citations

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Tagg, John, Frank W. Austin, Terry Maguire, et al.. (2014). Volume 35 Number 3. Microbiology Australia. 35(3). 117–179.

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