Mirjam Kretzschmar

20.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
291 papers, 11.2k citations indexed

About

Mirjam Kretzschmar is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Modeling and Simulation. According to data from OpenAlex, Mirjam Kretzschmar has authored 291 papers receiving a total of 11.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 158 papers in Epidemiology, 110 papers in Infectious Diseases and 75 papers in Modeling and Simulation. Recurrent topics in Mirjam Kretzschmar's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (74 papers), HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (55 papers) and HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (47 papers). Mirjam Kretzschmar is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (74 papers), HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (55 papers) and HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (47 papers). Mirjam Kretzschmar collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United States. Mirjam Kretzschmar's co-authors include Martina Morris, Peter Teunis, Jacco Wallinga, Alessandro Cassini, Rafael Mikolajczyk, Ganna Rozhnova, Arie H. Havelaar, Michiel van Boven, Martin Bootsma and Maarten J. Postma and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Mirjam Kretzschmar

281 papers receiving 10.9k 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.

Disability weights for the Global Burden of Disease 2013 study

2015 753 citations Juanita A. Haagsma, Arie H. Havelaar et al. profile →
Concurrent partnerships and the spread of HIV

1997 737 citations Mirjam Kretzschmar et al. AIDS profile →
Impact of delays on effectiveness of contact tracing strategies for COVID-19: a modelling study

2020 440 citations Mirjam Kretzschmar, Ganna Rozhnova et al. profile →
Burden of Six Healthcare-Associated Infections on European Population Health: Estimating Incidence-Based Disability-Adjusted Life Years through a Population Prevalence-Based Modelling Study

2016 417 citations Alessandro Cassini, Diamantis Plachouras et al. PLoS Medicine profile →
Impact of infectious diseases on population health using incidence-based disability-adjusted life years (DALYs): results from the Burden of Communicable Diseases in Europe study, European Union and European Economic Area countries, 2009 to 2013

2018 216 citations Alessandro Cassini, Arie H. Havelaar et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mirjam Kretzschmar Netherlands	52	4.7k	3.8k	2.5k	2.4k	1.6k	291	11.2k
C. Raina MacIntyre Australia	61	5.6k 1.2×	4.2k 1.1×	2.6k 1.1×	1.3k 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	563	16.0k
Laith J. Abu‐Raddad Qatar	50	5.8k 1.2×	4.4k 1.2×	1.3k 0.5×	1.5k 0.6×	1.6k 1.0×	299	11.7k
Niel Hens Belgium	50	4.6k 1.0×	2.8k 0.7×	4.0k 1.6×	711 0.3×	1.5k 0.9×	382	11.0k
W. John Edmunds United Kingdom	67	6.8k 1.5×	4.6k 1.2×	5.5k 2.3×	841 0.4×	2.0k 1.3×	226	14.7k
Robert Booy Australia	55	5.8k 1.2×	2.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	695 0.3×	1.7k 1.1×	317	12.5k
David N. Fisman Canada	50	3.4k 0.7×	3.7k 1.0×	3.0k 1.2×	763 0.3×	1.4k 0.8×	241	11.8k
Marianne A. B. van der Sande Netherlands	46	4.6k 1.0×	2.3k 0.6×	565 0.2×	1.6k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	266	11.8k
Philippe Beutels Belgium	51	4.6k 1.0×	2.9k 0.8×	3.7k 1.5×	687 0.3×	1.5k 0.9×	334	10.8k
Geoff P. Garnett United Kingdom	49	3.8k 0.8×	3.9k 1.0×	673 0.3×	2.6k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	133	8.5k
Mark Jit United Kingdom	58	7.0k 1.5×	4.0k 1.1×	3.9k 1.6×	849 0.4×	1.4k 0.8×	355	14.2k

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Roest, Bastiaan van der, Martin Bootsma, Egil A.J. Fischer, et al.. (2025). Phylodynamic assessment of SNP distances from whole genome sequencing for determining Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 10694–10694.

Müller, Laura, et al.. (2025). Testing paradox may explain increased observed prevalence of bacterial STIs among MSM on HIV PrEP: A modeling study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(44). e2524944122–e2524944122.

Kretzschmar, Mirjam, et al.. (2024). Estimating the relative importance of epidemiological and behavioural parameters for epidemic mpox transmission: a modelling study. BMC Medicine. 22(1). 297–297. 7 indexed citations

Denkinger, Claudia M., Mirjam Kretzschmar, Alexander Kuhlmann, et al.. (2024). A scoping review of guidelines on reporting and assessing dynamic mathematical models of infectious diseases. medRxiv. 1 indexed citations

Teslya, Alexandra, et al.. (2022). The effect of competition between health opinions on epidemic dynamics. PNAS Nexus. 1(5). pgac260–pgac260. 12 indexed citations

Kretzschmar, Mirjam, Ganna Rozhnova, & Michiel van Boven. (2021). Isolation and Contact Tracing Can Tip the Scale to Containment of COVID-19 in Populations With Social Distancing. Frontiers in Physics. 8. 23 indexed citations

Piotrowska, Monika Joanna, Konrad Sakowski, André Karch, et al.. (2020). Modelling pathogen spread in a healthcare network: Indirect patient movements. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(11). e1008442–e1008442. 9 indexed citations

Young, Peter W., Emily Zielinski-Gutiérrez, Joyce Wamicwe, et al.. (2019). Use of viral load to improve survey estimates of known HIV-positive status and antiretroviral treatment coverage. AIDS. 34(4). 631–636. 2 indexed citations

Rozhnova, Ganna, Janneke C. M. Heijne, Maartje Basten, et al.. (2019). Impact of sexual trajectories of men who have sex with men on the reduction in HIV transmission by pre-exposure prophylaxis. Epidemics. 28. 100337–100337. 4 indexed citations

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Schram, Miranda T., Christian J. P. A. Hoebe, Mirjam Kretzschmar, et al.. (2018). Social networks in relation to self-reported symptomatic infections in individuals aged 40–75 - the Maastricht study –. BMC Infectious Diseases. 18(1). 300–300. 6 indexed citations

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Smit, Lidwien A.M., Gudrun Freidl, Floor Borlée, et al.. (2018). Pneumonia risk of people living close to goat and poultry farms – Taking GPS derived mobility patterns into account. Environment International. 115. 150–160. 15 indexed citations

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Cassini, Alessandro, Diamantis Plachouras, Tim Eckmanns, et al.. (2016). Burden of Six Healthcare-Associated Infections on European Population Health: Estimating Incidence-Based Disability-Adjusted Life Years through a Population Prevalence-Based Modelling Study. PLoS Medicine. 13(10). e1002150–e1002150. 417 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brooke, Russell J., Mirjam Kretzschmar, Volker Hackert, et al.. (2016). Spatial Prediction of Coxiella burnetii Outbreak Exposure via Notified Case Counts in a Dose–Response Model. Epidemiology. 28(1). 127–135. 3 indexed citations

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Brooke, Russell J., A. van Lier, Gé Donker, Wim van der Hoek, & Mirjam Kretzschmar. (2014). Comparing the impact of two concurrent infectious disease outbreaks on The Netherlands population, 2009, using disability-adjusted life years. Epidemiology and Infection. 142(11). 2412–2421. 11 indexed citations

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Burns, David, Victor DeGruttola, Christopher D. Pilcher, et al.. (2014). Toward an Endgame: Finding and Engaging People Unaware of Their HIV-1 Infection in Treatment and Prevention. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 30(3). 217–224. 31 indexed citations

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Swart, A. N., Michele Tomasi, Mirjam Kretzschmar, Arie H. Havelaar, & Odo Diekmann. (2012). The protective effects of temporary immunity under imposed infection pressure. Epidemics. 4(1). 43–47. 19 indexed citations

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Fava, Emanuele Del, Ziv Shkedy, Niel Hens, et al.. (2011). Joint Modeling of HCV and HIV Co-Infection among Injecting Drug Users in Italy and Spain Using Individual Cross-Sectional Data. 3(1). 14 indexed citations

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Wielders, Cornelia C. H., Arianne B. van Gageldonk‐Lafeber, Cees C. van den Wijngaard, et al.. (2010). The burden of 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) in the Netherlands. European Journal of Public Health. 22(1). 150–157. 33 indexed citations

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Boven, Michiel van, Mirjam Kretzschmar, Jacco Wallinga, et al.. (2010). Estimation of measles vaccine efficacy and critical vaccination coverage in a highly vaccinated population. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 7(52). 1537–1544. 58 indexed citations

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Krämer, Alexander, Mirjam Kretzschmar, & Klaus Krickeberg. (2009). Modern infectious disease epidemiology : concepts, methods, mathematical models, and public health. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 50 indexed citations

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