Phillip Williamson

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
90 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Phillip Williamson is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Oceanography and Parasitology. According to data from OpenAlex, Phillip Williamson has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Infectious Diseases, 22 papers in Oceanography and 22 papers in Parasitology. Recurrent topics in Phillip Williamson's work include Viral Infections and Vectors (31 papers), Vector-borne infectious diseases (21 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (18 papers). Phillip Williamson is often cited by papers focused on Viral Infections and Vectors (31 papers), Vector-borne infectious diseases (21 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (18 papers). Phillip Williamson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Phillip Williamson's co-authors include Jean‐Pierre Gattuso, Robert A. D. Cameron, R. S. Bowman, J. R. Lewis, Michael A. Kendall, Peggy M. Billingsley, Ellen Y. Stromdahl, Alexandre Magnan, Carlos M. Duarte and Judith A. Rosentreter and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Phillip Williamson

88 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Ocean Solutions to Address Climate Change and Its Effects on Marine Ecosystems

2018 260 citations Jean‐Pierre Gattuso, Phillip Williamson et al. profile →
Sustainability limits needed for CO ₂ removal

2024 52 citations Paul Leadley, Kate Dooley et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Phillip Williamson United States	35	997	888	853	819	734	90	3.5k
Giulio A. De Leo United States	44	507 0.5×	456 0.5×	940 1.1×	3.0k 3.7×	2.0k 2.8×	195	6.9k
Erin K. Lipp United States	39	1.3k 1.3×	744 0.8×	165 0.2×	2.1k 2.6×	928 1.3×	85	6.6k
P. Jensen Denmark	33	794 0.8×	863 1.0×	904 1.1×	1.0k 1.3×	499 0.7×	94	3.4k
Bruce A. Wilcox United States	32	451 0.5×	86 0.1×	385 0.5×	1.7k 2.1×	629 0.9×	91	4.5k
Shannon L. LaDeau United States	38	1.1k 1.1×	76 0.1×	250 0.3×	1.2k 1.4×	1.3k 1.8×	81	4.7k
Renato Casagrandi Italy	31	360 0.4×	226 0.3×	122 0.1×	1.1k 1.4×	610 0.8×	94	4.0k
Robert Parmenter United States	32	692 0.7×	159 0.2×	196 0.2×	2.5k 3.1×	1.3k 1.8×	79	5.1k
John Y. Takekawa United States	46	910 0.9×	374 0.4×	210 0.2×	4.0k 4.9×	908 1.2×	247	6.3k
David B. Mark Welch United States	30	440 0.4×	1.1k 1.2×	344 0.4×	5.3k 6.5×	354 0.5×	75	9.4k
Cory Merow United States	31	349 0.4×	214 0.2×	97 0.1×	3.1k 3.8×	1.4k 2.0×	66	7.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Phillip Williamson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Phillip Williamson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Phillip Williamson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Phillip Williamson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Phillip Williamson 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 Phillip Williamson. Phillip Williamson 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

Bach, Lennart T., Phillip Williamson, Joanna I. House, & Philip W. Boyd. (2025). Natural carbon uptake by ocean biology will not deliver credible carbon credits. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 6(12). 767–768.

Williams, Nari, Nick Waipara, Colleen M. Higgins, et al.. (2024). Why a strategic shift in action is needed to recognise and empower Indigenous plant pathology knowledge and research. Australasian Plant Pathology. 53(3). 211–219.

Leadley, Paul, Kate Dooley, Phillip Williamson, et al.. (2024). Sustainability limits needed for CO ₂ removal. Science. 383(6682). 484–486. 52 indexed citations breakdown →

Bach, Lennart T., Naomi E. Vaughan, Cliff S. Law, & Phillip Williamson. (2024). Implementation of marine CO2 removal for climate mitigation: The challenges of additionality, predictability, and governability. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene. 12(1). 6 indexed citations

Williamson, Phillip, Hans‐Otto Pörtner, Steve Widdicombe, & Jean‐Pierre Gattuso. (2021). Ideas and perspectives: When ocean acidification experiments are not the same, repeatability is not tested. Biogeosciences. 18(5). 1787–1792. 11 indexed citations

Custer, Brian, Claire Quiner, Richard E. Haaland, et al.. (2020). HIV antiretroviral therapy and prevention use in US blood donors: a new blood safety concern. Blood. 136(11). 1351–1358. 33 indexed citations

Stone, Mars, Sonia Bakkour, Marion C. Lanteri, et al.. (2020). Zika virus RNA and IgM persistence in blood compartments and body fluids: a prospective observational study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 20(12). 1446–1456. 30 indexed citations

Galel, Susan A., Phillip Williamson, Michael P. Busch, et al.. (2017). First Zika‐positive donations in the continental United States. Transfusion. 57(3pt2). 762–769. 53 indexed citations

Simmons, Graham, Vanessa Brès, Kai Lü, et al.. (2016). High Incidence of Chikungunya Virus and Frequency of Viremic Blood Donations during Epidemic, Puerto Rico, USA, 2014. Emerging infectious diseases. 22(7). 1221–1228. 79 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2016). Frequency and Distribution of Rickettsiae, Borreliae, and Ehrlichiae Detected in Human-Parasitizing Ticks, Texas, USA. Emerging infectious diseases. 22(2). 312–315. 34 indexed citations

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Williamson, Phillip, Brian Custer, Brad J. Biggerstaff, et al.. (2016). Incidence of West Nile virus infection in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area during the 2012 epidemic. Epidemiology and Infection. 145(12). 2536–2544. 6 indexed citations

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Grinev, Andriyan, Caren Chancey, Evgeniya Volkova, et al.. (2016). Genetic Variability of West Nile Virus in U.S. Blood Donors from the 2012 Epidemic Season. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 10(5). e0004717–e0004717. 11 indexed citations

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Mathis, Jeremy T., et al.. (2015). Introduction to this Special Issue on Ocean Acidification: The Pathway from Science to Policy. Oceanography. 25(2). 10–15. 9 indexed citations

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Atkinson, Samuel F., et al.. (2014). A determination of the spatial concordance between Lyme disease incidence and habitat probability of its primary vector Ixodes scapularis (black-legged tick). Geospatial health. 9(1). 203–203. 7 indexed citations

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Williamson, Phillip & Carol Turley. (2012). Ocean acidification in a geoengineering context. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 370(1974). 4317–4342. 37 indexed citations

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Williamson, Phillip, et al.. (2010). Borrelia,Ehrlichia, andRickettsiaspp. in Ticks Removed from Persons, Texas, USA. Emerging infectious diseases. 16(3). 441–446. 80 indexed citations

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Stromdahl, Ellen Y., et al.. (2008). Rickettsia amblyommii Infecting Amblyomma americanum Larvae. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 8(1). 15–24. 69 indexed citations

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Budowle, Bruce, Steven E. Schutzer, Stephen Morse, et al.. (2008). Criteria for Validation of Methods in Microbial Forensics. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 74(18). 5599–5607. 19 indexed citations

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Labruna, Marcelo B., Jere W. McBride, Luís Marcelo Aranha Camargo, et al.. (2006). A preliminary investigation of Ehrlichia species in ticks, humans, dogs, and capybaras from Brazil. Veterinary Parasitology. 143(2). 189–195. 54 indexed citations

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Williamson, Phillip & Patrick M. Holligan. (1990). Ocean productivity and climate change. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 5(9). 299–303. 10 indexed citations

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