Mike Boots

8.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
122 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Mike Boots is a scholar working on Genetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Mike Boots has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Genetics, 73 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 40 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Mike Boots's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (69 papers), Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models (49 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (40 papers). Mike Boots is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (69 papers), Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models (49 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (40 papers). Mike Boots collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Japan. Mike Boots's co-authors include Alex Best, Akira Sasaki, Andy White, Andrew White, Lena Wilfert, Michael Begon, Roger K. Butlin, Gráinne H. Long, Daniel M. Tompkins and Helen C. Leggett and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mike Boots

121 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

Deformed wing virus is a recent global epidemic in honeybees driven by Varroa mites

2016 367 citations Gráinne H. Long, Mike Boots et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mike Boots United Kingdom	40	2.6k	1.9k	1.5k	1.4k	1.2k	122	5.6k
Jacob C. Koella Switzerland	48	2.1k 0.8×	3.3k 1.8×	1.9k 1.3×	1.5k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	139	7.6k
Jacobus C. de Roode United States	43	2.5k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	1.8k 1.2×	978 0.7×	1.8k 1.5×	100	5.3k
Yannis Michalakis France	50	3.9k 1.5×	1.4k 0.7×	1.7k 1.1×	2.1k 1.5×	1.9k 1.6×	117	8.2k
Tom J. Little United Kingdom	38	2.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	728 0.6×	91	5.0k
Andy Fenton United Kingdom	39	1.7k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	825 0.5×	2.2k 1.6×	615 0.5×	117	5.3k
Sylvain Gandon France	54	4.9k 1.8×	2.7k 1.5×	1.4k 0.9×	2.5k 1.9×	1.9k 1.5×	146	9.4k
Cheryl J. Briggs United States	53	2.0k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	2.8k 2.1×	2.7k 2.2×	129	11.6k
Troy Day Canada	59	5.5k 2.1×	2.3k 1.2×	789 0.5×	2.2k 1.6×	3.4k 2.8×	153	11.1k
Michael Boots United Kingdom	34	1.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	889 0.6×	476 0.4×	637 0.5×	63	3.1k
Paul W. Ewald United States	34	1.5k 0.6×	918 0.5×	573 0.4×	1.1k 0.8×	1.4k 1.2×	81	4.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Mike Boots

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mike Boots

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mike Boots

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20 of 20 papers shown

Boots, Mike, et al.. (2025). Avoiding the tragedies of parasite tolerance in Darwinian beekeeping. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2040). 20242433–20242433. 2 indexed citations

Howell, Elizabeth A., Andrew White, Peter W. W. Lurz, & Mike Boots. (2024). Immune interactions and heterogeneity in transmission drives the pathogen‐mediated invasion of grey squirrels in the UK. Journal of Animal Ecology. 93(6). 663–675. 1 indexed citations

White, Andrew, et al.. (2024). Multispecies interactions and the community context of the evolution of virulence. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2031). 20240991–20240991. 1 indexed citations

Brook, Cara E., Carly Rozins, Sarah Guth, & Mike Boots. (2023). Reservoir host immunology and life history shape virulence evolution in zoonotic viruses. PLoS Biology. 21(9). e3002268–e3002268. 11 indexed citations

White, Andy, et al.. (2023). The evolution of parasite virulence under targeted culling and harvesting in wildlife and livestock. Evolutionary Applications. 16(10). 1697–1707. 1 indexed citations

Guth, Sarah, Nardus Mollentze, Daniel G. Streicker, et al.. (2022). Bats host the most virulent—but not the most dangerous—zoonotic viruses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(14). e2113628119–e2113628119. 37 indexed citations

Uricchio, Lawrence H., Emily L. Bruns, Michael E. Hood, Mike Boots, & Janis Antonovics. (2022). Multimodal pathogen transmission as a limiting factor in host distribution. Ecology. 104(3). e3956–e3956. 2 indexed citations

Boots, Mike, et al.. (2021). Experimental evidence that local interactions select against selfish behaviour. Ecology Letters. 24(6). 1187–1192. 2 indexed citations

Brook, Cara E., Mike Boots, Kartik Chandran, et al.. (2020). Accelerated viral dynamics in bat cell lines, with implications for zoonotic emergence. eLife. 9. 87 indexed citations

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Bartlett, Lewis J., et al.. (2020). The target of selection matters: An established resistance—development‐time negative genetic trade‐off is not found when selecting on development time. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 33(8). 1109–1119. 5 indexed citations

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Guth, Sarah, Kathryn A. Hanley, Benjamin M. Althouse, & Mike Boots. (2020). Ecological processes underlying the emergence of novel enzootic cycles: Arboviruses in the neotropics as a case study. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 14(8). e0008338–e0008338. 18 indexed citations

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Guth, Sarah, Elisa Visher, Mike Boots, & Cara E. Brook. (2019). Host phylogenetic distance drives trends in virus virulence and transmissibility across the animal–human interface. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 374(1782). 20190296–20190296. 52 indexed citations

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Best, Alex, Andrew White, & Mike Boots. (2017). The evolution of host defence when parasites impact reproduction. Evolutionary ecology research. 18(4). 393–409. 8 indexed citations

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White, Andrew, et al.. (2016). Modelling disease spread in real landscapes: Squirrelpox spread in Southern Scotland as a case study. Hystrix. 27(1). 17 indexed citations

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Boots, Mike, Andy White, Alex Best, & Roger Bowers. (2012). The importance of who infects whom: the evolution of diversity in host resistance to infectious disease. Ecology Letters. 15(10). 1104–1111. 18 indexed citations

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Long, Gráinne H. & Mike Boots. (2011). How can immunopathology shape the evolution of parasite virulence?. Trends in Parasitology. 27(7). 300–305. 15 indexed citations

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Lion, Sébastien & Mike Boots. (2010). Are parasites ‘‘prudent’’ in space?. Ecology Letters. 13(10). 1245–1255. 72 indexed citations

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Adams, Ben, Edward C. Holmes, M. P. Mammen, et al.. (2006). Cross-protective immunity can account for the alternating epidemic pattern of dengue virus serotypes circulating in Bangkok. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(38). 14234–14239. 195 indexed citations

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Kamo, Masashi & Mike Boots. (2006). The evolution of parasite dispersal, transmission, and virulence in spatial host populations. Evolutionary ecology research. 8(7). 1333–1347. 22 indexed citations

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Boots, Mike, et al.. (2002). A laboratory and field evaluation of Macrocyclops distinctus , Megacyclops viridis and Mesocyclops pehpeiensis as control agents of the dengue vector Aedes albopictus in a peridomestic area in Nagasaki, Japan. Medical and Veterinary Entomology. 16(3). 285–291. 28 indexed citations

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