Niel Hens

19.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
382 papers, 11.0k citations indexed

About

Niel Hens is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Modeling and Simulation and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Niel Hens has authored 382 papers receiving a total of 11.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 181 papers in Epidemiology, 118 papers in Modeling and Simulation and 86 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Niel Hens's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (116 papers), Influenza Virus Research Studies (55 papers) and Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (49 papers). Niel Hens is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (116 papers), Influenza Virus Research Studies (55 papers) and Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (49 papers). Niel Hens collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Uganda and Australia. Niel Hens's co-authors include Philippe Beutels, Marc Aerts, Pierre Van Damme, Christel Faes, Jacco Wallinga, W. John Edmunds, Joël Mossong, Marco Massari, Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba and Mark Jit and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

In The Last Decade

Niel Hens

368 papers receiving 10.8k 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.

Social Contacts and Mixing Patterns Relevant to the Spread of Infectious Diseases

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Author						Papers	Cites
Niel Hens	4.6k	4.0k	2.8k	1.5k	1.4k	382	11.0k
David N. Fisman	3.4k 0.7×	3.0k 0.8×	3.7k 1.3×	1.4k 0.9×	702 0.5×	241	11.8k
W. John Edmunds	6.8k 1.5×	5.5k 1.4×	4.6k 1.6×	2.0k 1.4×	1.9k 1.3×	226	14.7k
Jacco Wallinga	4.8k 1.1×	6.0k 1.5×	3.6k 1.3×	1.5k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	209	11.0k
Mark Jit	7.0k 1.5×	3.9k 1.0×	4.0k 1.4×	1.4k 0.9×	3.4k 2.4×	355	14.2k
Philippe Beutels	4.6k 1.0×	3.7k 0.9×	2.9k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	1.8k 1.3×	334	10.8k
Mirjam Kretzschmar	4.7k 1.0×	2.5k 0.6×	3.8k 1.4×	1.6k 1.1×	1.0k 0.7×	291	11.2k
Lyn Finelli	10.0k 2.2×	2.5k 0.6×	3.3k 1.2×	815 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	179	14.0k
Lone Simonsen	11.5k 2.5×	5.0k 1.3×	5.4k 1.9×	1.5k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	194	18.1k
Martin I. Meltzer	4.5k 1.0×	1.3k 0.3×	3.3k 1.2×	2.0k 1.3×	959 0.7×	192	9.6k
Alison P. Galvani	4.4k 1.0×	4.9k 1.2×	5.4k 1.9×	2.9k 2.0×	1.7k 1.2×	284	14.0k

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Krivitsky, Pavel N., Pietro Coletti, & Niel Hens. (2024). Correction. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 119(546). 1694–1695. 1 indexed citations

Faes, Christel, Philippe Beutels, Koen Pepermans, et al.. (2024). The effect of spatio-temporal sample imbalance in epidemiologic surveillance using opportunistic samples: An ecological study using real and simulated self-reported COVID-19 symptom data. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. 50. 100676–100676. 1 indexed citations

Hens, Niel, et al.. (2024). Measuring Approximate Functional Dependencies: A Comparative Study. 3505–3518. 2 indexed citations

Layan, Maylis, Niel Hens, Marieke L. A. de Hoog, et al.. (2024). Addressing current limitations of household transmission studies by collecting contact data. American Journal of Epidemiology. 193(12). 1832–1839. 1 indexed citations

Neels, Karel, et al.. (2023). Exploring the impact of population ageing on the spread of emerging respiratory infections and the associated burden of mortality. BMC Infectious Diseases. 23(1). 767–767. 6 indexed citations

Hens, Niel, et al.. (2023). Spatio-temporal model to investigate COVID-19 spread accounting for the mobility amongst municipalities. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. 45. 100568–100568. 5 indexed citations

Robinson, Cynthia, Michael Katwere, Chelsea McLean, et al.. (2023). Safety and Immunogenicity of the Heterologous 2-Dose Ad26.ZEBOV, MVA-BN-Filo Vaccine Regimen in Health Care Providers and Frontliners of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 229(4). 1068–1076. 2 indexed citations

Mao, Zhuxin, Xiao Li, Ana Dacosta-Urbieta, et al.. (2023). Economic burden and health-related quality-of-life among infants with respiratory syncytial virus infection: A multi-country prospective cohort study in Europe. Vaccine. 41(16). 2707–2715. 29 indexed citations

Nguyen, Thi Huyen Trang, Christel Faes, & Niel Hens. (2022). Measles epidemic in Southern Vietnam: an age-stratified spatio-temporal model for infectious disease counts. Epidemiology and Infection. 150. e169–e169. 5 indexed citations

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Verbeeck, Johan, Christel Faes, Thomas Neyens, et al.. (2021). A linear mixed model to estimate COVID‐19‐induced excess mortality. Biometrics. 79(1). 417–425. 10 indexed citations

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Willem, Lander, Elise Kuylen, Pieter Libin, & Niel Hens. (2021). STRIDE v1.1.0 (household bubbles). Document Server@UHasselt (UHasselt). 1 indexed citations

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Hoang, Thang Van, Pietro Coletti, Alessia Melegaro, et al.. (2019). A Systematic Review of Social Contact Surveys to Inform Transmission Models of Close-contact Infections. Epidemiology. 30(5). 723–736. 123 indexed citations

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Buyze, Jozefien, Wim Vanden Berghe, Niel Hens, & Chris Kenyon. (2018). Current levels of gonorrhoea screening in MSM in Belgium may have little effect on prevalence: a modelling study. Epidemiology and Infection. 146(3). 333–338. 23 indexed citations

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Neuter, Nicolas De, Esther Bartholomeus, George Elias, et al.. (2018). Memory CD4+ T cell receptor repertoire data mining as a tool for identifying cytomegalovirus serostatus. Genes and Immunity. 20(3). 255–260. 13 indexed citations

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Borremans, Benny, Jonas Reijniers, Niel Hens, & Herwig Leirs. (2017). The shape of the contact–density function matters when modelling parasite transmission in fluctuating populations. Royal Society Open Science. 4(11). 171308–171308. 21 indexed citations

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Beutels, Philippe, Yannick Vandendijck, Lander Willem, et al.. (2013). Seasonal influenza vaccination: prioritizing children or other target groups?. 1 indexed citations

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House, Thomas, Marc Baguelin, Albert Jan van Hoek, et al.. (2011). Modelling the impact of local reactive school closures on critical care provision during an influenza pandemic. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 278(1719). 2753–2760. 47 indexed citations

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Bilcke, Joke, Christiaan Marais, Albert Jan van Hoek, et al.. (2010). Kosteneffectiviteit van vaccinatie tegen windpokken bij kinderen en tegen zona bij ouderen in België. 1 indexed citations

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Hens, Niel, et al.. (2009). Shared-parameter models and missingness at random. Document Server@UHasselt (UHasselt). 2 indexed citations

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Hens, Niel, Liesbeth Bruckers, M. Arbyn, Marc Aerts, & Geert Molenberghs. (2002). Classification trees and its application to cervix cancer screening in the Belgian Health Interview Survey. Lirias (KU Leuven). 1 indexed citations

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