Rick M. Fairhurst

19.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
116 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Rick M. Fairhurst is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Immunology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Rick M. Fairhurst has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 22 papers in Immunology and 20 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Rick M. Fairhurst's work include Malaria Research and Control (94 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (57 papers) and Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders (20 papers). Rick M. Fairhurst is often cited by papers focused on Malaria Research and Control (94 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (57 papers) and Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders (20 papers). Rick M. Fairhurst collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Mali. Rick M. Fairhurst's co-authors include Chanaki Amaratunga, Arjen M. Dondorp, Thomas E. Wellems, Steve M. Taylor, Pharath Lim, Seila Suon, Sokunthea Sreng, Jennifer M. Anderson, Didier Ménard and Benoît Witkowski and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Rick M. Fairhurst

114 papers receiving 6.1k 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.

K13-propeller mutations confer artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum clinical isolates

2014 473 citations Judith Straimer, Nina F. Gnädig et al. Science profile →
Novel phenotypic assays for the detection of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Cambodia: in-vitro and ex-vivo drug-response studies

2013 406 citations Benoît Witkowski, Chanaki Amaratunga et al. The Lancet Infectious Diseases profile →
Dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Cambodia: a multisite prospective cohort study

2016 329 citations Chanaki Amaratunga, Pharath Lim et al. The Lancet Infectious Diseases profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rick M. Fairhurst United States	42	4.9k	1.4k	901	837	834	116	6.2k
Kesinee Chotivanich Thailand	41	4.7k 0.9×	771 0.6×	814 0.9×	934 1.1×	877 1.1×	139	5.9k
Didier Ménard France	43	6.5k 1.3×	1.7k 1.3×	711 0.8×	1.4k 1.7×	750 0.9×	207	7.7k
Sasithon Pukrittayakamee Thailand	49	5.8k 1.2×	892 0.6×	690 0.8×	1.4k 1.7×	643 0.8×	143	7.4k
Mallika Imwong Thailand	43	4.9k 1.0×	871 0.6×	654 0.7×	1.4k 1.6×	450 0.5×	142	5.7k
Abdoulaye Djimdé Mali	40	5.4k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	440 0.5×	1.0k 1.2×	388 0.5×	175	6.2k
Christopher V. Plowe United States	50	9.1k 1.8×	1.7k 1.2×	1.3k 1.4×	1.7k 2.1×	1.3k 1.6×	169	10.8k
Cally Roper United Kingdom	40	4.4k 0.9×	650 0.5×	423 0.5×	1.1k 1.3×	668 0.8×	102	5.1k
Steven R. Meshnick United States	40	3.6k 0.7×	632 0.5×	588 0.7×	1.1k 1.3×	504 0.6×	136	5.5k
Odile Mercereau‐Puijalon France	57	7.4k 1.5×	1.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.7×	2.4k 2.8×	2.1k 2.5×	205	10.1k
J. Kevin Baird Indonesia	46	4.9k 1.0×	327 0.2×	586 0.7×	1.1k 1.3×	671 0.8×	121	6.6k

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Saelens, Joseph W., Jens E. V. Petersen, Elizabeth Freedman, et al.. (2021). Impact of Sickle Cell Trait Hemoglobin on the Intraerythrocytic Transcriptional Program of Plasmodium falciparum. mSphere. 6(5). e0075521–e0075521. 4 indexed citations

Petersen, Jens E. V., Joseph W. Saelens, Elizabeth Freedman, et al.. (2021). Sickle-trait hemoglobin reduces adhesion to both CD36 and EPCR by Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes. PLoS Pathogens. 17(6). e1009659–e1009659. 8 indexed citations

Mok, Sachel, Barbara H. Stokes, Nina F. Gnädig, et al.. (2021). Artemisinin-resistant K13 mutations rewire Plasmodium falciparum’s intra-erythrocytic metabolic program to enhance survival. Nature Communications. 12(1). 530–530. 89 indexed citations

Amato, Roberto, Richard D. Pearson, Jacob Almagro‐Garcia, et al.. (2018). Origins of the current outbreak of multidrug-resistant malaria in southeast Asia: a retrospective genetic study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 18(3). 337–345. 102 indexed citations

Morita, Masayuki, Eizo Takashima, Daisuke Ito, et al.. (2017). Immunoscreening of Plasmodium falciparum proteins expressed in a wheat germ cell-free system reveals a novel malaria vaccine candidate. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 46086–46086. 39 indexed citations

Miotto, Olivo, Pharath Lim, Rick M. Fairhurst, et al.. (2016). Analysis of anti-malarial resistance markers in pfmdr1 and pfcrt across Southeast Asia in the Tracking Resistance to Artemisinin Collaboration. Malaria Journal. 15(1). 325–325. 19 indexed citations

Hostetler, Jessica B., Eugenia Lo, Usheer Kanjee, et al.. (2016). Independent Origin and Global Distribution of Distinct Plasmodium vivax Duffy Binding Protein Gene Duplications. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 10(10). e0005091–e0005091. 58 indexed citations

Hostetler, Jessica B., Sumana Sharma, S. Josefin Bartholdson, et al.. (2015). A Library of Plasmodium vivax Recombinant Merozoite Proteins Reveals New Vaccine Candidates and Protein-Protein Interactions. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 9(12). e0004264–e0004264. 41 indexed citations

Straimer, Judith, Nina F. Gnädig, Benoît Witkowski, et al.. (2014). K13-propeller mutations confer artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum clinical isolates. Science. 347(6220). 428–431. 473 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ndour, Papa Alioune, Tatiana M. Lopera-Mesa, Seidina A. S. Diakité, et al.. (2014). PlasmodiumfalciparumClearance Is Rapid and Pitting Independent in Immune Malian Children Treated With Artesunate for Malaria. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 211(2). 290–297. 40 indexed citations

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Zeituni, Amir E., Kazutoyo Miura, Mahamadou Diakité, et al.. (2013). Effects of Age, Hemoglobin Type and Parasite Strain on IgG Recognition of Plasmodium falciparum–Infected Erythrocytes in Malian Children. PLoS ONE. 8(10). e76734–e76734. 5 indexed citations

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Toyang, Ngeh J., Michael Krause, Rick M. Fairhurst, et al.. (2013). Antiplasmodial activity of sesquiterpene lactones and a sucrose ester from Vernonia guineensis Benth. (Asteraceae). Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 147(3). 618–621. 20 indexed citations

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Wellems, Thomas E. & Rick M. Fairhurst. (2012). An evolving picture of the interactions between malaria parasites and their host erythrocytes. Cell Research. 22(3). 453–456. 2 indexed citations

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Taylor, Steve M., Christian M. Parobek, & Rick M. Fairhurst. (2012). Haemoglobinopathies and the clinical epidemiology of malaria: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 12(6). 457–468. 201 indexed citations

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Fairhurst, Rick M., et al.. (2012). Abnormal PfEMP1/knob display on Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes containing hemoglobin variants: fresh insights into malaria pathogenesis and protection. Microbes and Infection. 14(10). 851–862. 53 indexed citations

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Fairhurst, Rick M., et al.. (2011). Microvascular sequestration of Plasmodium falciparum. Blood. 117(24). 6410–6410. 6 indexed citations

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Bates, Adam, Jianbing Mu, Hongying Jiang, Rick M. Fairhurst, & Xin‐zhuan Su. (2010). Use of magnetically purified Plasmodium falciparum parasites improves the accuracy of erythrocyte invasion assays. Experimental Parasitology. 126(2). 278–280. 9 indexed citations

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Cholera, Rushina, Nathaniel J. Brittain, Mark R. Gillrie, et al.. (2008). Impaired cytoadherence of Plasmodium falciparum -infected erythrocytes containing sickle hemoglobin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(3). 991–996. 169 indexed citations

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Fairhurst, Rick M., Dror I. Baruch, Nathaniel J. Brittain, et al.. (2005). Abnormal display of PfEMP-1 on erythrocytes carrying haemoglobin C may protect against malaria. Nature. 435(7045). 1117–1121. 141 indexed citations

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Fairhurst, Rick M., et al.. (2003). Aberrant development of Plasmodium falciparum in hemoglobin CC red cells: implications for the malaria protective effect of the homozygous state. Blood. 101(8). 3309–3315. 70 indexed citations

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