Nick Ruktanonchai

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Nick Ruktanonchai is a scholar working on Modeling and Simulation, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, Nick Ruktanonchai has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Modeling and Simulation, 15 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 12 papers in Transportation. Recurrent topics in Nick Ruktanonchai's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (22 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (12 papers) and Malaria Research and Control (11 papers). Nick Ruktanonchai is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (22 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (12 papers) and Malaria Research and Control (11 papers). Nick Ruktanonchai collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Nick Ruktanonchai's co-authors include Andrew J. Tatem, Shengjie Lai, Jessica Floyd, Olivia Prosper, Amy Wesolowski, Xiangjun Du, Hongjie Yu, Chi Zhang, Mauricio Santillana and Wei Luo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Nick Ruktanonchai

44 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions to contain COVID-19 in China

2020 864 citations Shengjie Lai, Nick Ruktanonchai et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nick Ruktanonchai United States	24	1.2k	505	471	452	450	45	2.3k
Lauren Gardner United States	23	887 0.7×	315 0.6×	581 1.2×	431 1.0×	485 1.1×	93	2.2k
Chiara Poletto France	27	1.8k 1.4×	640 1.3×	882 1.9×	229 0.5×	677 1.5×	58	3.1k
Corrado Gioannini Italy	4	1.7k 1.4×	252 0.5×	514 1.1×	299 0.7×	503 1.1×	4	2.7k
Xinyue Xiong China	8	1.7k 1.4×	216 0.4×	503 1.1×	291 0.6×	444 1.0×	10	2.6k
Kunpeng Mu China	4	1.6k 1.3×	214 0.4×	495 1.1×	278 0.6×	431 1.0×	9	2.5k
Bernardo Gutiérrez Ecuador	15	2.1k 1.7×	279 0.6×	809 1.7×	397 0.9×	601 1.3×	43	3.5k
Paul L. Delamater United States	25	596 0.5×	297 0.6×	451 1.0×	448 1.0×	443 1.0×	106	2.9k
Maylis Layan France	6	1.4k 1.1×	131 0.3×	322 0.7×	343 0.8×	402 0.9×	10	2.0k
Brennan Klein United States	12	1.3k 1.1×	131 0.3×	289 0.6×	359 0.8×	388 0.9×	29	2.3k
Michele Tizzoni Italy	24	1.1k 0.9×	232 0.5×	182 0.4×	712 1.6×	685 1.5×	55	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nick Ruktanonchai

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Cleary, Eimear, Alessandro Sorichetta, Nick Ruktanonchai, et al.. (2025). Comparing lagged impacts of mobility changes and environmental factors on COVID-19 waves in rural and urban India: A Bayesian spatiotemporal modelling study. PLOS Global Public Health. 5(4). e0003431–e0003431.

Steele, Jessica, Eimear Cleary, Nick Ruktanonchai, et al.. (2024). Identifying counter-urbanisation using Facebook's user count data. Habitat International. 150. 103113–103113. 1 indexed citations

Glass, Gregory E., et al.. (2024). Metapopulations, the Inflationary Effect, and Consequences for Public Health. The American Naturalist. 205(3). 342–359. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Die, Yong Ge, Jianghao Wang, et al.. (2024). Optimizing the detection of emerging infections using mobility-based spatial sampling. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 131. 103949–103949. 1 indexed citations

Ruktanonchai, Nick, D. R. Woods, Andrew J. Tatem, et al.. (2023). Exploring the Relationship between Temporal Fluctuations in Satellite Nightlight Imagery and Human Mobility across Africa. Remote Sensing. 15(17). 4252–4252. 9 indexed citations

Ge, Yong, Wenbin Zhang, Xiaoli Wang, et al.. (2023). Effects of public-health measures for zeroing out different SARS-CoV-2 variants. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5270–5270. 13 indexed citations

Ge, Yong, Wenbin Zhang, Corrine W. Ruktanonchai, et al.. (2022). Untangling the changing impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions and vaccination on European COVID-19 trajectories. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3106–3106. 67 indexed citations

Lai, Shengjie, Isaac I. Bogoch, Nick Ruktanonchai, et al.. (2022). Assessing spread risk of COVID-19 in early 2020. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(4). 212–218. 15 indexed citations

Wang, Jinfeng, Hui Lin, Corrine W. Ruktanonchai, et al.. (2021). Risk of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Transmission Among Air Passengers in China. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 75(1). e234–e240. 11 indexed citations

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Huang, Bo, Jionghua Wang, Jixuan Cai, et al.. (2021). Integrated vaccination and physical distancing interventions to prevent future COVID-19 waves in Chinese cities. Nature Human Behaviour. 5(6). 695–705. 104 indexed citations

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Lemey, Philippe, Nick Ruktanonchai, Samuel L. Hong, et al.. (2021). Untangling introductions and persistence in COVID-19 resurgence in Europe. Nature. 595(7869). 713–717. 89 indexed citations

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Lai, Shengjie, Nick Ruktanonchai, Alessandra Carioli, et al.. (2021). Assessing the Effect of Global Travel and Contact Restrictions on Mitigating the COVID-19 Pandemic. Engineering. 7(7). 914–923. 22 indexed citations

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Lai, Shengjie, Nick Ruktanonchai, Liangcai Zhou, et al.. (2020). Effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions to contain COVID-19 in China. Nature. 585(7825). 410–413. 864 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ruktanonchai, Nick, Jessica Floyd, Shengjie Lai, et al.. (2020). Assessing the impact of coordinated COVID-19 exit strategies across Europe. Science. 369(6510). 1465–1470. 133 indexed citations

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Tessema, Sofonías K., Amy Wesolowski, Anna Chen, et al.. (2019). Using parasite genetic and human mobility data to infer local and cross-border malaria connectivity in Southern Africa. eLife. 8. 59 indexed citations

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Thomson, Dana R., Forrest R. Stevens, Nick Ruktanonchai, Andrew J. Tatem, & Márcia C. Castro. (2017). GridSample: an R package to generate household survey primary sampling units (PSUs) from gridded population data. International Journal of Health Geographics. 16(1). 25–25. 35 indexed citations

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Erbach-Schoenberg, Elisabeth zu, Victor A. Alegana, Alessandro Sorichetta, et al.. (2016). Dynamic denominators: the impact of seasonally varying population numbers on disease incidence estimates. Population Health Metrics. 14(1). 35–35. 34 indexed citations

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Alegana, Victor A., Simon P. Kigozi, Joaniter I. Nankabirwa, et al.. (2016). Spatio-temporal analysis of malaria vector density from baseline through intervention in a high transmission setting. Parasites & Vectors. 9(1). 637–637. 12 indexed citations

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Sorichetta, Alessandro, Nick Ruktanonchai, Elisabeth zu Erbach-Schoenberg, et al.. (2016). Mapping internal connectivity through human migration in malaria endemic countries. Scientific Data. 3(1). 160066–160066. 49 indexed citations

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Caughlin, T. Trevor, Nick Ruktanonchai, Miguel A. Acevedo, et al.. (2013). Place-Based Attributes Predict Community Membership in a Mobile Phone Communication Network. PLoS ONE. 8(2). e56057–e56057. 7 indexed citations

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