Michael Worobey

14.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
81 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Michael Worobey is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Worobey has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Infectious Diseases, 32 papers in Epidemiology and 15 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Michael Worobey's work include HIV Research and Treatment (14 papers), Influenza Virus Research Studies (11 papers) and Animal Virus Infections Studies (11 papers). Michael Worobey is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (14 papers), Influenza Virus Research Studies (11 papers) and Animal Virus Infections Studies (11 papers). Michael Worobey collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Belgium. Michael Worobey's co-authors include Andrew Rambaut, Edward C. Holmes, Guan‐Zhu Han, Joel O. Wertheim, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Oliver G. Pybus, Dhanasekaran Vijaykrishna, Samir Bhatt, Y. M. Cheung and Gavin J. D. Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Michael Worobey

79 papers receiving 7.9k citations

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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.

Origins and evolutionary genomics of the 2009 swine-origin H1N1 influenza A epidemic

2009 1.7k citations Gavin J. D. Smith, Dhanasekaran Vijaykrishna et al. Nature profile →
Potent protection against H5N1 and H7N9 influenza via childhood hemagglutinin imprinting

2016 314 citations Katelyn M. Gostic, Monique Ambrose et al. Science profile →
The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic

2022 198 citations Michael Worobey, Alexander Crits‐Christoph et al. Science profile →
The global H5N1 influenza panzootic in mammals

2024 123 citations Thomas P. Peacock, Louise H. Moncla et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Worobey United States	41	3.1k	2.8k	2.0k	1.1k	1.1k	81	8.1k
Trevor Bedford United States	38	2.3k 0.8×	3.6k 1.3×	2.1k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	513 0.5×	96	7.6k
Marco Salemi United States	46	1.6k 0.5×	2.9k 1.0×	1.8k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	877 0.8×	243	8.4k
Tommy Tsan‐Yuk Lam Hong Kong	38	2.6k 0.8×	4.5k 1.6×	2.5k 1.3×	1.7k 1.5×	1.2k 1.1×	108	10.4k
Nathan Wolfe United States	45	2.1k 0.7×	3.4k 1.2×	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	1.5k 1.4×	117	8.8k
Donald B. Smith United Kingdom	42	3.5k 1.2×	3.3k 1.2×	5.2k 2.6×	1.2k 1.1×	719 0.7×	117	14.6k
Gustavo Palacios United States	52	2.5k 0.8×	5.7k 2.0×	1.9k 1.0×	889 0.8×	436 0.4×	259	10.1k
James O. Lloyd‐Smith United States	45	2.4k 0.8×	3.3k 1.2×	1.2k 0.6×	1.6k 1.4×	1.4k 1.3×	117	9.4k
John Ellis Australia	62	2.5k 0.8×	5.1k 1.8×	1.6k 0.8×	1.7k 1.5×	951 0.9×	365	13.8k
Bryan T. Eaton Australia	42	3.3k 1.1×	5.0k 1.8×	1.2k 0.6×	745 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	110	7.6k
Ben Murrell United States	32	1.3k 0.4×	2.9k 1.0×	2.5k 1.2×	1.7k 1.5×	403 0.4×	85	9.1k

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Pekar, Jonathan E., Niema Moshiri, Philippe Lemey, et al.. (2025). Recently reported SARS-CoV-2 genomes suggested to be intermediate between the two early main lineages are instead likely derived. Virus Evolution. 11(1). veaf008–veaf008. 2 indexed citations

Peacock, Thomas P., Louise H. Moncla, Gytis Dudas, et al.. (2024). The global H5N1 influenza panzootic in mammals. Nature. 637(8045). 304–313. 123 indexed citations breakdown →

Larsen, Brendan B., Simona Kraberger, Nathan S. Upham, et al.. (2023). Diverse DNA virus genomes identified in fecal samples of Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) captured in Chiricahua Mountains of southeast Arizona (USA). Virology. 580. 98–111. 7 indexed citations

Montoya, Vincent, Rachel L. Miller, Gideon Mordecai, et al.. (2022). Genomic epidemiology of the first two waves of SARS-CoV-2 in Canada. eLife. 11. 12 indexed citations

Pekar, Jonathan E., Michael Worobey, Niema Moshiri, Konrad Scheffler, & Joel O. Wertheim. (2021). Timing the SARS-CoV-2 index case in Hubei province. Science. 372(6540). 412–417. 105 indexed citations

Worobey, Michael, Jonathan E. Pekar, Brendan B. Larsen, et al.. (2020). The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in Europe and North America. Science. 370(6516). 564–570. 214 indexed citations

Lemey, Philippe, Samuel L. Hong, Verity Hill, et al.. (2020). Accommodating individual travel history and unsampled diversity in Bayesian phylogeographic inference of SARS-CoV-2. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5110–5110. 85 indexed citations

Suchard, Marc A., Xiang Ji, Sophie Gryseels, et al.. (2019). Divergence dating using mixed effects clock modelling: An application to HIV-1. Virus Evolution. 5(2). vez036–vez036. 16 indexed citations

Gostic, Katelyn M., et al.. (2019). Childhood immune imprinting to influenza A shapes birth year-specific risk during seasonal H1N1 and H3N2 epidemics. PLoS Pathogens. 15(12). e1008109–e1008109. 83 indexed citations

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Gostic, Katelyn M., Monique Ambrose, Michael Worobey, & James O. Lloyd‐Smith. (2016). Potent protection against H5N1 and H7N9 influenza via childhood hemagglutinin imprinting. Science. 354(6313). 722–726. 314 indexed citations breakdown →

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Worobey, Michael, Thomas D. Watts, Marc A. Suchard, et al.. (2016). 1970s and ‘Patient 0’ HIV-1 genomes illuminate early HIV/AIDS history in North America. Nature. 539(7627). 98–101. 111 indexed citations

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Han, Guan‐Zhu & Michael Worobey. (2014). Endogenous Viral Sequences from the Cape Golden Mole (Chrysochloris asiatica) Reveal the Presence of Foamy Viruses in All Major Placental Mammal Clades. PLoS ONE. 9(5). e97931–e97931. 17 indexed citations

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Ochman, Howard, Michael Worobey, Chih‐Horng Kuo, et al.. (2010). Evolutionary Relationships of Wild Hominids Recapitulated by Gut Microbial Communities. PLoS Biology. 8(11). e1000546–e1000546. 373 indexed citations

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Smith, Gavin J. D., Dhanasekaran Vijaykrishna, Justin Bahl, et al.. (2009). Origins and evolutionary genomics of the 2009 swine-origin H1N1 influenza A epidemic. Nature. 459(7250). 1122–1125. 1663 indexed citations breakdown →

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Adam, Rodney D., et al.. (2007). Population Genetics Provides Evidence for Recombination in Giardia. Current Biology. 17(22). 1984–1988. 130 indexed citations

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Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Tamara S. Haselkorn, Michael Bunce, et al.. (2007). The Isolation of Nucleic Acids from Fixed, Paraffin-Embedded Tissues–Which Methods Are Useful When?. PLoS ONE. 2(6). e537–e537. 305 indexed citations

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Lemey, Philippe, Oliver G. Pybus, Andrew Rambaut, et al.. (2004). The Molecular Population Genetics of HIV-1 Group O. Genetics. 167(3). 1059–1068. 87 indexed citations

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Rij, Ronald P. van, et al.. (2003). Evolution of R5 and X4 human immunodeficiency virus type 1 gag sequences in vivo: evidence for recombination. Virology. 314(1). 451–459. 22 indexed citations

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Worobey, Michael, et al.. (2001). Evidence for the Non-quasispecies Evolution of RNA Viruses. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 18(6). 987–994. 44 indexed citations

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Worobey, Michael & Edward C. Holmes. (2001). Homologous Recombination in GB Virus C/Hepatitis G Virus. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 18(2). 254–261. 58 indexed citations

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