Neil M. Ferguson

551 total papers · 71.3k total citations
296 papers, 25.3k citations indexed

About

Neil M. Ferguson is a scholar working on Modeling and Simulation, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Neil M. Ferguson has authored 296 papers receiving a total of 25.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Modeling and Simulation, 106 papers in Infectious Diseases and 81 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Neil M. Ferguson's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (129 papers), Influenza Virus Research Studies (61 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (49 papers). Neil M. Ferguson is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (129 papers), Influenza Virus Research Studies (61 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (49 papers). Neil M. Ferguson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Neil M. Ferguson's co-authors include Christophe Fraser, Roy M. Anderson, Simon Cauchemez, Christl A. Donnelly, Azra C. Ghani, Steven Riley, Derek A. T. Cummings, Donald S. Burke, Anne Cori and Philip C. Cooley and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Neil M. Ferguson

288 papers receiving 24.4k citations

Hit Papers

Strategies for mitigating... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2006 2005 2013 2008 2003 500 1000 1.5k
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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Strategies for mitigating an influenza pandemic
    2006 1.6k citations Neil M. Ferguson, Derek A. T. Cummings et al. Nature profile →
  2. Strategies for containing an emerging influenza pandemic in Southeast Asia
    2005 1.4k citations Neil M. Ferguson, Derek A. T. Cummings et al. Nature profile →
  3. A New Framework and Software to Estimate Time-Varying Reproduction Numbers During Epidemics
    2013 860 citations Anne Cori, Neil M. Ferguson et al. American Journal of Epidemiology profile →
  4. Time Lines of Infection and Disease in Human Influenza: A Review of Volunteer Challenge Studies
    2008 841 citations Fabrice Carrat, Elisabeta Vergu et al. American Journal of Epidemiology profile →
  5. Transmission Dynamics of the Etiological Agent of SARS in Hong Kong: Impact of Public Health Interventions
    2003 809 citations Steven Riley, Christophe Fraser et al. Science profile →
  6. Factors that make an infectious disease outbreak controllable
    2004 745 citations Christophe Fraser, Steven Riley et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  7. Epidemiological determinants of spread of causal agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong
    2003 683 citations Christl A. Donnelly, Azra C. Ghani et al. The Lancet profile →
  8. Ecological and immunological determinants of influenza evolution
    2003 515 citations Neil M. Ferguson, Alison P. Galvani et al. Nature profile →
  9. Estimating the impact of school closure on influenza transmission from Sentinel data
    2008 502 citations Simon Cauchemez, Alain‐Jacques Valleron et al. Nature profile →
  10. Modeling targeted layered containment of an influenza pandemic in the United States
    2008 472 citations M. Elizabeth Halloran, Neil M. Ferguson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  11. Reducing Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Transmission in Africa: A Model-Based Evaluation of Intervention Strategies
    2010 411 citations Jamie T. Griffin, T. Déirdre Hollingsworth et al. PLoS Medicine profile →
  12. Assessing the global threat from Zika virus
    2016 296 citations Justin Lessler, Lelia H. Chaisson et al. Science profile →
  13. Vaccine equity in low and middle income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis
    2022 105 citations Anna-Maria Hartner, Susy Echeverría-Londoño et al. International Journal for Equity in Health profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Neil M. Ferguson 11.7k 8.5k 8.4k 7.0k 2.6k 296 25.3k
Bryan T. Grenfell 10.0k 0.9× 9.8k 1.2× 8.4k 1.0× 8.2k 1.2× 3.8k 1.4× 407 38.0k
Christophe Fraser 8.7k 0.7× 7.7k 0.9× 8.0k 0.9× 3.1k 0.4× 1.0k 0.4× 196 20.7k
Cécile Viboud 10.6k 0.9× 14.0k 1.7× 7.7k 0.9× 2.4k 0.3× 2.2k 0.9× 281 26.7k
Donald S. Burke 4.7k 0.4× 6.4k 0.8× 10.9k 1.3× 8.1k 1.2× 1.6k 0.6× 293 25.3k
GM Leung 9.5k 0.8× 8.3k 1.0× 9.8k 1.2× 4.2k 0.6× 1.7k 0.7× 657 32.6k
Marc Lipsitch 8.8k 0.8× 14.3k 1.7× 12.3k 1.5× 4.6k 0.7× 843 0.3× 412 37.1k
Ira M. Longini 10.0k 0.9× 8.2k 1.0× 6.5k 0.8× 3.4k 0.5× 1.2k 0.5× 215 19.5k
Christl A. Donnelly 4.3k 0.4× 3.8k 0.5× 6.6k 0.8× 5.1k 0.7× 3.2k 1.2× 349 19.6k
Matt J. Keeling 7.6k 0.7× 3.7k 0.4× 3.6k 0.4× 5.6k 0.8× 2.9k 1.1× 255 17.2k
Benjamin J. Cowling 9.0k 0.8× 10.7k 1.3× 10.1k 1.2× 1.7k 0.2× 2.5k 1.0× 709 29.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Neil M. Ferguson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Neil M. Ferguson

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

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