Nikos Vasilakis

15.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
158 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Nikos Vasilakis is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Nikos Vasilakis has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 134 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 124 papers in Infectious Diseases and 29 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Nikos Vasilakis's work include Mosquito-borne diseases and control (134 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (117 papers) and Malaria Research and Control (33 papers). Nikos Vasilakis is often cited by papers focused on Mosquito-borne diseases and control (134 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (117 papers) and Malaria Research and Control (33 papers). Nikos Vasilakis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Australia. Nikos Vasilakis's co-authors include Scott C. Weaver, Robert B. Tesh, Shannan L. Rossi, Robert B. Tesh, Kathryn A. Hanley, Sandra V. Mayer, Rubing Chen, Sasha R. Azar, Pei‐Yong Shi and Edward C. Holmes and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Nikos Vasilakis

151 papers receiving 8.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Zika virus: History, emergence, biology, and prospects for control

2016 505 citations Scott C. Weaver, Pei‐Yong Shi et al. profile →
A Screen of FDA-Approved Drugs for Inhibitors of Zika Virus Infection

2016 370 citations Rafael K. Campos, Junling Gao et al. profile →
Characterization of a Novel Murine Model to Study Zika Virus

2016 363 citations Shannan L. Rossi, Robert B. Tesh et al. profile →
The emergence of arthropod-borne viral diseases: A global prospective on dengue, chikungunya and zika fevers

2016 324 citations Nikos Vasilakis et al. profile →
Zika, Chikungunya, and Other Emerging Vector-Borne Viral Diseases

2017 309 citations Scott C. Weaver, Nikos Vasilakis et al. profile →

Peers

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nikos Vasilakis

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Bussuquara Virus: A Neglected Orthoflavivirus with Broad Distribution Across Central and South America and the Caribbean 2025 ·Viruses ·(unknown), Michaela Buenemann, Nikos Vasilakis	0
2	Human Herpesvirus 1 Associated with Epizootics in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil 2025 ·Viruses ·(unknown), (unknown), Daniel Jacob, (unknown), Ana Maria de Oliveira Paschoal, Pedro Augusto Alves, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Tiago Antônio de Oliveira Mendes, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Érica Munhoz de Mello, (unknown), Kathryn A. Hanley, Nikos Vasilakis, Betânia Paiva Drumond	1
3	Trade-offs shaping transmission of sylvatic dengue and Zika viruses in monkey hosts 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Kathryn A. Hanley, (unknown), Sasha R. Azar, (unknown), (unknown), Natália Ingrid Oliveira Silva, Wanqin Yu, Ruimei Yun, Benjamin M. Althouse, Nikos Vasilakis, Shannan L. Rossi	10
4	Beyond Borders: Investigating the Mysteries of Cacipacoré, a Lesser-Studied Arbovirus in Brazil 2024 ·Viruses ·Marielena Vogel Saivish, Maurício Lacerda Nogueira, Shannan L. Rossi, Nikos Vasilakis	2
5	Potential role of heterologous flavivirus immunity in preventing urban transmission of yellow fever virus 2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Jessica A. Plante, Dionna Scharton, Brooke Mitchell, (unknown), Sasha R. Azar, Rafael K. Campos, Lívia Sacchetto, Betânia Paiva Drumond, Nikos Vasilakis, Kenneth S. Plante, Scott C. Weaver	4
6	Differential Neutralization Profiles of 17DD Vaccinated Population to 17D-204 and 17DD Vaccine Strains 2024 ·Vaccines ·Ana Carolina Bernardes Terzian, Sasha R. Azar, Cássia Fernanda Estofolete, Maurício Lacerda Nogueira, Nikos Vasilakis	0
7	Forest edge landscape context affects mosquito community composition and risk of pathogen emergence 2024 ·iScience ·Adam Hendy, Nelson Ferreira Fé, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Vincent Sluydts, Marcelo Gordo, Vera Margarete Scarpassa, Michaela Buenemann, Marcus Lacerda, Maria Paula Gomes Mourão, Nikos Vasilakis, Kathryn A. Hanley	3
8	YELLOW ALERT: Persistent Yellow Fever Virus Circulation among Non-Human Primates in Urban Areas of Minas Gerais State, Brazil (2021–2023) 2023 ·Viruses ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Érica Munhoz de Mello, (unknown), (unknown), Kathryn A. Hanley, Nikos Vasilakis, Betânia Paiva Drumond	4
9	Morphologic and Genetic Characterization of Ilheus Virus, a Potential Emergent Flavivirus in the Americas 2023 ·Viruses ·Jessica A. Plante, Kenneth S. Plante, Vsevolod L. Popov, (unknown), Steven G. Widen, Michaela Buenemann, Maurício Lacerda Nogueira, Nikos Vasilakis	9
10	Detection of Zika Virus in Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus Mosquitoes Collected in Urban Forest Fragments in the Brazilian Amazon 2023 ·Viruses ·(unknown), Lívia Sacchetto, Maurício Lima, Bárbara Aparecida Chaves, Adam Hendy, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Vanderson de Souza Sampaio, Vera Margarete Scarpassa, Michaela Buenemann, Nikos Vasilakis, Djane Clarys Baía-da-Silva, Maurício Lacerda Nogueira, Maria Paula Gomes Mourão, Marcus Lacerda	6
11	Arboviral Infections in Neurological Disorders in Hospitalized Patients in São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil 2022 ·Viruses ·(unknown), (unknown), Ana Carolina Bernardes Terzian, (unknown), (unknown), Adriana Luchs, Nathália Zini, Lívia Sacchetto, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Nikos Vasilakis, Cássia Fernanda Estofolete, Maurício Lacerda Nogueira	9
12	Aedes aegypti Shows Increased Susceptibility to Zika Virus via Both In Vitro and In Vivo Models of Type II Diabetes 2022 ·Viruses ·Sasha R. Azar, Rafael K. Campos, Ruimei Yun, (unknown), Shannan L. Rossi, Kathryn A. Hanley, Nikos Vasilakis, Scott C. Weaver	6
13	Rocio Virus: An Updated View on an Elusive Flavivirus 2021 ·Viruses ·Marielena Vogel Saivish, Vivaldo Gomes da Costa, (unknown), Roosevelt Alves da Silva, (unknown), Marcos Lázaro Moreli, Lívia Sacchetto, Carolina Colombelli Pacca, Nikos Vasilakis, Maurício Lacerda Nogueira	19
14	Inhibition of innate immune response ameliorates Zika virus-induced neurogenesis deficit in human neural stem cells 2021 ·PLoS neglected tropical diseases ·Pei Xu, Junling Gao, Chao Shan, Tiffany Dunn, Xuping Xie, Hongjie Xia, Jing Zou, (unknown), (unknown), Yongjia Yu, Alexander N. Freiberg, Nikos Vasilakis, Pei‐Yong Shi, Scott C. Weaver, Ping Wu	8
15	Identification of Mosquito Bloodmeals Collected in Diverse Habitats in Malaysian Borneo Using COI Barcoding 2020 ·Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease ·(unknown), (unknown), Sasha R. Azar, (unknown), (unknown), Lark L. Coffey, R. Jason Pitts, Michaela Buenemann, Nikos Vasilakis, David Perera, Kathryn A. Hanley	10
16	Characterization of Port Bolivar Virus, a Novel Entomobirnavirus (Birnaviridae) Isolated from Mosquitoes Collected in East Texas, USA 2020 ·Viruses ·Robert B. Tesh, Bethany G. Bolling, Hilda Guzmán, Vsevolod L. Popov, Ashley Wilson, Steven G. Widen, Thomas G. Wood, Peter J. Walker, Nikos Vasilakis	7
17	Evolution of resistance to fluoroquinolones by dengue virus serotype 4 provides insight into mechanism of action and consequences for viral fitness 2020 ·Virology ·(unknown), (unknown), Chinnasamy Ramesh, Steven G. Widen, Sasha R. Azar, Shannan L. Rossi, Jeffrey B. Arterburn, Nikos Vasilakis, Kathryn A. Hanley	8
18	Characterization of Three Novel Viruses from the Families Nyamiviridae, Orthomyxoviridae, and Peribunyaviridae, Isolated from Dead Birds Collected during West Nile Virus Surveillance in Harris County, Texas 2019 ·Viruses ·Peter J. Walker, Robert B. Tesh, Hilda Guzmán, Vsevolod L. Popov, Amélia Travassos da Rosa, (unknown), Márcio Roberto Teixeira Nunes, William Marciel de Souza, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Rudy Bueno, Steven G. Widen, Thomas Wood, Nikos Vasilakis	4
19	ZIKV Demonstrates Minimal Pathologic Effects and Mosquito Infectivity in Viremic Cynomolgus Macaques 2018 ·Viruses ·Sasha R. Azar, Shannan L. Rossi, Sherry L. Haller, Ruimei Yun, Jing Huang, Jessica A. Plante, Jiehua Zhou, Juan P. Olano, Christopher M. Roundy, Kathryn A. Hanley, Scott C. Weaver, Nikos Vasilakis	12
20	Fever from the forest: prospects for the continued emergence of sylvatic dengue virus and its impact on public health 2011 ·Nature Reviews Microbiology ·Nikos Vasilakis, Jane Cardosa, Kathryn A. Hanley, Edward C. Holmes, Scott C. Weaver	261

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