Niall Johnson

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Niall Johnson is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Niall Johnson has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Epidemiology, 4 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 3 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Niall Johnson's work include Influenza Virus Research Studies (9 papers), COVID-19 epidemiological studies (3 papers) and Climate Change and Health Impacts (3 papers). Niall Johnson is often cited by papers focused on Influenza Virus Research Studies (9 papers), COVID-19 epidemiological studies (3 papers) and Climate Change and Health Impacts (3 papers). Niall Johnson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and South Sudan. Niall Johnson's co-authors include Juergen Mueller, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Gerardo Chowell, Cécile Viboud, Wladimir J. Alonso, R Jackson, A. Sefton, William A. Innes, Peter Cameron and John J. McNeil and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

In The Last Decade

Niall Johnson

15 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Updating the Accounts: Global Mortality of the 1918-1920 ... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Updating the Accounts: Global Mortality of the 1918-1920 "Spanish" Influenza Pandemic
    2002 1.2k citations Niall Johnson, Juergen Mueller Bulletin of the history of medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Niall Johnson United Kingdom 9 927 448 406 242 175 16 1.7k
Juergen Mueller Germany 2 736 0.8× 370 0.8× 247 0.6× 153 0.6× 170 1.0× 3 1.3k
Donald R. Olson United States 17 959 1.0× 392 0.9× 649 1.6× 157 0.6× 52 0.3× 39 1.8k
Tim K. Tsang Hong Kong 21 1.1k 1.2× 1.1k 2.5× 1.4k 3.4× 182 0.8× 122 0.7× 87 2.9k
Xiangjun Du China 14 563 0.6× 405 0.9× 803 2.0× 100 0.4× 48 0.3× 54 1.6k
Sylvie Briand Switzerland 21 549 0.6× 631 1.4× 318 0.8× 293 1.2× 73 0.4× 61 2.0k
Melissa A. Rolfes United States 22 1.5k 1.6× 1.3k 3.0× 399 1.0× 159 0.7× 87 0.5× 81 2.7k
Matthew Smallman‐Raynor United Kingdom 18 291 0.3× 189 0.4× 217 0.5× 245 1.0× 46 0.3× 69 1.1k
Tom Sumner United Kingdom 19 361 0.4× 755 1.7× 103 0.3× 65 0.3× 159 0.9× 47 1.1k
Jennifer B. Nuzzo United States 22 395 0.4× 466 1.0× 254 0.6× 155 0.6× 16 0.1× 86 1.5k
Zulma M. Cucunubá Colombia 25 1.1k 1.2× 425 0.9× 399 1.0× 1.0k 4.3× 66 0.4× 77 2.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Niall Johnson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Niall Johnson

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

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Williams, Phoebe, Annaleise R. Howard‐Jones, Archana Koirala, et al.. (2023). Clinical and Epidemiologic Profile of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Australian Children Following the Relaxation of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions Against SARS-COV-2. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 42(9). e341–e342. 8 indexed citations
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Bambra, Clare, Paul Norman, & Niall Johnson. (2020). Visualising regional inequalities in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic in England and Wales. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 53(4). 607–611. 12 indexed citations
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Johnson, Niall. (2019). Ida Milne, Stacking the Coffins: Influenza, War and Revolution in Ireland, 1918-19. Social History of Medicine. 32(2). 428–429.
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Evans, Sue, Ian Scott, Niall Johnson, Peter Cameron, & John J. McNeil. (2011). Development of clinical‐quality registries in Australia: the way forward. The Medical Journal of Australia. 194(7). 360–363. 56 indexed citations
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Chowell, Gerardo, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Niall Johnson, Wladimir J. Alonso, & Cécile Viboud. (2007). The 1918–1919 influenza pandemic in England and Wales: spatial patterns in transmissibility and mortality impact. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 275(1634). 501–509. 134 indexed citations
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Johnson, Niall. (2006). Britain and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic. 29 indexed citations
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Johnson, Niall. (2006). Britain and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic: A Dark Epilogue. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 16 indexed citations
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Johnson, Niall. (2004). Scottish 'flu – The Scottish Experience Of ‘spanish Flu’. Scottish historical review/˜The œScottish historical review. 83(2). 216–226. 4 indexed citations
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Johnson, Niall. (2003). Measuring a pandemic: Mortality, demography and geography. 4(2). 31–51. 2 indexed citations
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Sefton, A., et al.. (2002). World War I may have allowed the emergence of “Spanish” influenza. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 2(2). 111–114. 94 indexed citations
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Johnson, Niall. (2002). Animating Geography: Multimedia and communication. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 26(1). 13–18. 8 indexed citations
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Johnson, Niall & Juergen Mueller. (2002). Updating the Accounts: Global Mortality of the 1918-1920 "Spanish" Influenza Pandemic. Bulletin of the history of medicine. 76(1). 105–115. 1234 indexed citations breakdown →
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Smallman‐Raynor, Matthew, Niall Johnson, & Andrew Cliff. (2002). The spatial anatomy of an epidemic: influenza in London and the county boroughs of England and Wales, 1918–1919. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 27(4). 452–470. 28 indexed citations
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Oxford, John, A. Sefton, R Jackson, et al.. (2001). Early herald wave outbreaks of influenza in 1916 prior to the pandemic of 1918. International Congress Series. 1219. 155–161. 6 indexed citations
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Oxford, John, A. Sefton, R Jackson, Niall Johnson, & R. S. Daniels. (1999). Who's that lady?. Nature Medicine. 5(12). 1351–1352. 16 indexed citations
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Johnson, Niall & L. Lee Dupuis. (1989). A quality assurance audit of a drug information service.. PubMed. 42(2). 57–61. 4 indexed citations

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