Oliver J. Watson

13.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Oliver J. Watson is a scholar working on Modeling and Simulation, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Oliver J. Watson has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Modeling and Simulation, 17 papers in Infectious Diseases and 17 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Oliver J. Watson's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (19 papers), Malaria Research and Control (16 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (13 papers). Oliver J. Watson is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (19 papers), Malaria Research and Control (16 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (13 papers). Oliver J. Watson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Oliver J. Watson's co-authors include Azra C. Ghani, Peter Winskill, Alexandra B. Hogan, Gregory Barnsley, Jaspreet Toor, Robert Verity, Hannah Slater, Neil M. Ferguson, Patrick Walker and Steven R. Meshnick and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Medicine and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Oliver J. Watson

45 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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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.

Global impact of the first year of COVID-19 vaccination: a mathematical modelling study

2022 882 citations Oliver J. Watson, Gregory Barnsley et al. The Lancet Infectious Diseases profile →

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Peter Winskill United Kingdom

Alexandra B. Hogan United Kingdom

Ruian Ke United States

Mingwang Shen China

Ethan Romero-Severson United States

Tung Thanh Le Japan

Farid Khan United States

Wira Winardi Indonesia

Simon Thelwall United Kingdom

Peter Winskill United Kingdom

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20 of 20 papers shown

Watson, Oliver J., Thu Nguyen-Anh Tran, Tasmin L. Symons, et al.. (2025). Global risk of selection and spread of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2 and 3 gene deletions. Nature Medicine. 31(10). 3372–3379.

Watson, Oliver J., Riemke Aggio‐Bruce, Rohan W. Essex, & Krisztina Valter. (2025). Effect of Photobiomodulation on Proliferative Changes in the Retina: Evidence from an In Vitro Model of PVR. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 1468. 195–200.

Whittaker, Charles, Gregory Barnsley, Daniela Olivera Mesa, et al.. (2025). Quantifying the impact of a broadly protective sarbecovirus vaccine in a future SARS-X pandemic. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8495–8495.

Watson, Oliver J. & Alexandra B. Hogan. (2024). Impact of COVID-19 vaccination programmes in Europe: lives saved and lessons learned. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. 12(9). 663–664. 1 indexed citations

Barnsley, Gregory, Daniela Olivera Mesa, Alexandra B. Hogan, et al.. (2024). Impact of the 100 days mission for vaccines on COVID-19: a mathematical modelling study. The Lancet Global Health. 12(11). e1764–e1774. 6 indexed citations

Bowen, Jessica, Mónica Hernández Alava, Diana Johnson, et al.. (2023). Diagnosis and management of vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: Experience of the UK national diagnostic service, Sheffield. European Journal of Human Genetics. 31(7). 749–760. 21 indexed citations

Hogan, Alexandra B., Patrick Doohan, Sean L. Wu, et al.. (2023). Estimating long-term vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 variants: a model-based approach. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4325–4325. 15 indexed citations

Bhatia, Sangeeta, Natsuko Imai, Oliver J. Watson, et al.. (2023). Lessons from COVID-19 for rescalable data collection. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 23(9). e383–e388. 11 indexed citations

Giesbrecht, David, Corine Karema, Oliver J. Watson, et al.. (2023). Examining the Early Distribution of the Artemisinin-Resistant Plasmodium falciparum kelch13 R561H Mutation in Areas of Higher Transmission in Rwanda. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 10(4). ofad149–ofad149. 10 indexed citations

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Hogan, Alexandra B., Sean L. Wu, Jaspreet Toor, et al.. (2023). Long-term vaccination strategies to mitigate the impact of SARS-CoV-2 transmission: A modelling study. PLoS Medicine. 20(11). e1004195–e1004195. 7 indexed citations

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Watson, Oliver J., Gregory Barnsley, Jaspreet Toor, et al.. (2022). Global impact of the first year of COVID-19 vaccination: a mathematical modelling study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 22(9). 1293–1302. 882 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mesa, Daniela Olivera, Alexandra B. Hogan, Oliver J. Watson, et al.. (2022). Modelling the impact of vaccine hesitancy in prolonging the need for Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions to control the COVID-19 pandemic. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 14–14. 42 indexed citations

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Pons-Salort, Margarita, Jacob John, Oliver J. Watson, et al.. (2022). Reassessing Reported Deaths and Estimated Infection Attack Rate during the First 6 Months of the COVID-19 Epidemic, Delhi, India. Emerging infectious diseases. 28(4). 759–766. 3 indexed citations

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Smith, Tom, Seth Flaxman, Amanda S. Gallinat, et al.. (2021). Temperature and population density influence SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the absence of nonpharmaceutical interventions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(25). 84 indexed citations

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Ratnayake, Ruwan, et al.. (2021). Country differences in transmissibility, age distribution and case-fatality of SARS-CoV-2: a global ecological analysis. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 114. 210–218. 8 indexed citations

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Mangal, Tara D., Charles Whittaker, Dominic Nkhoma, et al.. (2021). Potential impact of intervention strategies on COVID-19 transmission in Malawi: a mathematical modelling study. BMJ Open. 11(7). e045196–e045196. 5 indexed citations

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Hogan, Alexandra B., Peter Winskill, Oliver J. Watson, et al.. (2021). Within-country age-based prioritisation, global allocation, and public health impact of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2: A mathematical modelling analysis. Vaccine. 39(22). 2995–3006. 72 indexed citations

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Witmer, Kathrin, Michael J. Delves, Oliver J. Watson, et al.. (2020). Transmission of Artemisinin-Resistant Malaria Parasites to Mosquitoes under Antimalarial Drug Pressure. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 65(1). 33 indexed citations

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Cremin, Íde, Oliver J. Watson, Natsuko Imai, et al.. (2017). An infectious way to teach students about outbreaks. Epidemics. 23. 42–48. 6 indexed citations

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Quaife, Nicholas M., Oliver J. Watson, & Tim Chico. (2012). Zebrafish: an emerging model of vascular development and remodelling. Current Opinion in Pharmacology. 12(5). 608–614. 21 indexed citations

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