Rachel Lowe

21.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
105 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Rachel Lowe is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Rachel Lowe has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 36 papers in Infectious Diseases and 28 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Rachel Lowe's work include Mosquito-borne diseases and control (50 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (31 papers) and Climate Change and Health Impacts (27 papers). Rachel Lowe is often cited by papers focused on Mosquito-borne diseases and control (50 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (31 papers) and Climate Change and Health Impacts (27 papers). Rachel Lowe collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and United States. Rachel Lowe's co-authors include Christovam Barcellos, Anna M. Stewart‐Ibarra, Marília Sá Carvalho, Xavier Rodó, Adrian M. Tompkins, Felipe J. Colón‐González, Trevor Bailey, David B. Stephenson, Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz and Richard Graham and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Rachel Lowe

92 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

The impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on SARS-CoV-2 transmission across 130 countries and territories

2021 236 citations Rachel Lowe et al. BMC Medicine profile →
Projecting the risk of mosquito-borne diseases in a warmer and more populated world: a multi-model, multi-scenario intercomparison modelling study

2021 229 citations Felipe J. Colón‐González, Rachel Lowe et al. profile →
Climate change, thermal anomalies, and the recent progression of dengue in Brazil

2024 33 citations Christovam Barcellos, Raquel Martins Lana et al. Scientific Reports profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rachel Lowe United Kingdom	33	1.9k	1.2k	835	516	309	105	3.2k
Zhicong Yang China	28	1.3k 0.7×	1.7k 1.4×	685 0.8×	355 0.7×	218 0.7×	90	3.7k
Menno J. Bouma United Kingdom	30	2.1k 1.1×	893 0.7×	765 0.9×	584 1.1×	279 0.9×	44	3.9k
Christovam Barcellos Brazil	36	1.5k 0.8×	948 0.8×	381 0.5×	349 0.7×	463 1.5×	163	3.8k
Michael Emch United States	40	1.1k 0.6×	854 0.7×	570 0.7×	534 1.0×	947 3.1×	189	5.1k
Jonathan E. Suk Sweden	30	889 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	331 0.4×	334 0.6×	398 1.3×	64	2.8k
Anna M. Stewart‐Ibarra United States	25	1.7k 0.9×	951 0.8×	398 0.5×	285 0.6×	84 0.3×	83	2.3k
Madeleine C. Thomson United Kingdom	37	1.9k 1.0×	737 0.6×	293 0.4×	429 0.8×	458 1.5×	94	4.0k
Zhongjie Li China	36	979 0.5×	1.4k 1.2×	859 1.0×	182 0.4×	1.1k 3.4×	156	3.9k
Cyril Caminade United Kingdom	29	1.9k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	284 0.3×	409 0.8×	92 0.3×	71	3.6k
Ricardo J. Soares Magalhães Australia	40	1.4k 0.7×	1.7k 1.4×	258 0.3×	217 0.4×	942 3.0×	231	5.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Rachel Lowe

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rachel Lowe

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rachel Lowe

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20 of 20 papers shown

Freitas, Laís Picinini, et al.. (2025). Introduction, establishment, and distribution of Aedes aegypti and dengue in a temperate capital of Brazil: a retrospective surveillance-based study. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas. 48. 101153–101153. 1 indexed citations

Barcellos, Christovam, et al.. (2024). Climate change, thermal anomalies, and the recent progression of dengue in Brazil. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 5948–5948. 33 indexed citations breakdown →

Lowe, Rachel & Cláudia Torres Codeço. (2024). Harmonizing Multisource Data to Inform Vector-Borne Disease Risk Management Strategies. Annual Review of Entomology. 70(1). 337–358. 4 indexed citations

Cai, Wenjia, Jessica Fanzo, Jason Glaser, et al.. (2024). Views on climate change and health. Nature Climate Change. 14(5). 419–423. 5 indexed citations

Rees, Eleanor M., et al.. (2023). TOWARDS A LEPTOSPIROSIS EARLY WARNING SYSTEM IN NORTH- EASTERN ARGENTINA. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 130. S155–S155. 1 indexed citations

Ballester, Joan, Kim Robin van Daalen, Zhaoyue Chen, et al.. (2023). The effect of temporal data aggregation to assess the impact of changing temperatures in Europe: an epidemiological modelling study. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe. 36. 100779–100779. 21 indexed citations

Napoli, Claudia Di, Marina Romanello, Kelton Minor, et al.. (2023). The role of global reanalyses in climate services for health: Insights from the Lancet Countdown. Meteorological Applications. 30(2). 13 indexed citations

Freitas, Laís Picinini, et al.. (2022). Identifying hidden Zika hotspots in Pernambuco, Brazil: a spatial analysis. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 117(3). 189–196. 2 indexed citations

Ortiz‐Prado, Esteban, Katherine Simbaña‐Rivera, Lenin Gómez‐Barreno, et al.. (2021). Epidemiological, socio-demographic and clinical features of the early phase of the COVID-19 epidemic in Ecuador. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 15(1). e0008958–e0008958. 87 indexed citations

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Colón‐González, Felipe J., Leonardo Soares Bastos, Barbara Hofmann, et al.. (2021). Probabilistic seasonal dengue forecasting in Vietnam: A modelling study using superensembles. PLoS Medicine. 18(3). e1003542–e1003542. 47 indexed citations

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Schneider, Rochelle, Alessandro Sebastianelli, Dario Spiller, et al.. (2021). Climate-based ensemble machine learning model to forecast Dengue epidemics. International Conference on Machine Learning.

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Bezerra, Haroldo Sergio da Silva, Mary Cameron, Jeffrey Hii, et al.. (2020). The COVID-19 pandemic should not derail global vector control efforts. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 14(8). e0008606–e0008606. 14 indexed citations

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Lowe, Rachel, Sadie J. Ryan, Roché Mahon, et al.. (2020). Building resilience to mosquito-borne diseases in the Caribbean. PLoS Biology. 18(11). e3000791–e3000791. 17 indexed citations

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Liu, Keke, Xiang Hou, Zhoupeng Ren, et al.. (2020). Climate factors and the East Asian summer monsoon may drive large outbreaks of dengue in China. Environmental Research. 183. 109190–109190. 41 indexed citations

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Freitas, Laís Picinini, Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz, Rachel Lowe, & Marília Sá Carvalho. (2019). Space–time dynamics of a triple epidemic: dengue, chikungunya and Zika clusters in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1912). 20191867–20191867. 37 indexed citations

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Petrova, Desislava, Rachel Lowe, Anna M. Stewart‐Ibarra, et al.. (2019). Sensitivity of large dengue epidemics in Ecuador to long-lead predictions of El Niño. Climate Services. 15. 100096–100096. 12 indexed citations

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Castro, Márcia C., Andrés Baeza, Cláudia Torres Codeço, et al.. (2019). Development, environmental degradation, and disease spread in the Brazilian Amazon. PLoS Biology. 17(11). e3000526–e3000526. 56 indexed citations

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Watts, Nicholas, Markus Amann, Sonja Ayeb‐Karlsson, et al.. (2018). The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health (vol 391, pg 540, 2017). UCL Discovery (University College London). 3 indexed citations

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O’Reilly, Kathleen, Rachel Lowe, W. John Edmunds, et al.. (2018). Projecting the end of the Zika virus epidemic in Latin America: a modelling analysis. BMC Medicine. 16(1). 180–180. 40 indexed citations

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Stewart, Avaré & Rachel Lowe. (2012). El Niño-Southern Oscillation and dengue early warning in Ecuador. EGUGA. 1151.

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