Roy M. Anderson

76.8k total citations · 24 hit papers
539 papers, 53.9k citations indexed

About

Roy M. Anderson is a scholar working on Parasitology, Ecology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Roy M. Anderson has authored 539 papers receiving a total of 53.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 148 papers in Parasitology, 136 papers in Ecology and 132 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Roy M. Anderson's work include Parasites and Host Interactions (146 papers), Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (123 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (78 papers). Roy M. Anderson is often cited by papers focused on Parasites and Host Interactions (146 papers), Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (123 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (78 papers). Roy M. Anderson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Roy M. Anderson's co-authors include Robert M. May, Neil M. Ferguson, T. Déirdre Hollingsworth, Christl A. Donnelly, Hans Heesterbeek, Don Klinkenberg, Christophe Fraser, Daren Austin, Sunetra Gupta and Geoff P. Garnett and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Roy M. Anderson

525 papers receiving 50.7k citations

Hit Papers

Infectious Diseases of Humans 1978 2026 1994 2010 1991 1979 2020 1978 1982 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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.

  1. Infectious Diseases of Humans
    1991 4.4k citations Roy M. Anderson, Robert M. May profile →
  2. Population biology of infectious diseases: Part I
    1979 2.5k citations Roy M. Anderson, Robert M. May profile →
  3. How will country-based mitigation measures influence the course of the COVID-19 epidemic?
    2020 2.4k citations Roy M. Anderson, T. Déirdre Hollingsworth et al. profile →
  4. Regulation and Stability of Host-Parasite Population Interactions: I. Regulatory Processes
    1978 1.4k citations Roy M. Anderson, Robert M. May profile →
  5. Coevolution of hosts and parasites
    1982 1.2k citations Roy M. Anderson, Robert M. May profile →
  6. Population Biology of Infectious Diseases
    1982 1.1k citations Roy M. Anderson, Robert M. May profile →
  7. The population dynamics of microparasites and their invertebrate hosts
    1981 911 citations Roy M. Anderson, Robert M. May profile →
  8. Heterogeneities in the transmission of infectious agents: Implications for the design of control programs
    1997 884 citations Roy M. Anderson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  9. Transmission Dynamics of the Etiological Agent of SARS in Hong Kong: Impact of Public Health Interventions
    2003 810 citations Steven Riley, Christophe Fraser et al. profile →
  10. Factors that make an infectious disease outbreak controllable
    2004 745 citations Christophe Fraser, Steven Riley et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  11. Population biology of infectious diseases: Part II
    1979 699 citations Robert M. May, Roy M. Anderson profile →
  12. Epidemiological determinants of spread of causal agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong
    2003 682 citations Christl A. Donnelly, Christophe Fraser et al. profile →
  13. Epidemiology and genetics in the coevolution of parasites and hosts
    1983 657 citations Robert M. May, Roy M. Anderson PubMed profile →
  14. The relationship between the volume of antimicrobial consumption in human communities and the frequency of resistance
    1999 604 citations Roy M. Anderson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  15. Processes influencing the distribution of parasite numbers within host populations with special emphasis on parasite-induced host mortalities
    1982 557 citations Roy M. Anderson et al. profile →
  16. The invasion, persistence and spread of infectious diseases within animal and plant communities
    1986 555 citations Roy M. Anderson, Robert M. May profile →
  17. Transmission dynamics of HIV infection
    1987 548 citations Robert M. May, Roy M. Anderson profile →
  18. Vaccination and herd immunity to infectious diseases
    1985 536 citations Roy M. Anderson, Robert M. May profile →
  19. The Foot-and-Mouth Epidemic in Great Britain: Pattern of Spread and Impact of Interventions
    2001 500 citations Neil M. Ferguson, Christl A. Donnelly et al. profile →
  20. Regulation and Stability of Host-Parasite Population Interactions: II. Destabilizing Processes
    1978 499 citations Robert M. May, Roy M. Anderson profile →
  21. HIV-1 Transmission, by Stage of Infection
    2008 474 citations T. Déirdre Hollingsworth, Roy M. Anderson et al. profile →
  22. Helminth Infections of Humans: Mathematical Models, Population Dynamics, and Control
    1985 463 citations Roy M. Anderson, Robert M. May profile →
  23. Directly Transmitted Infections Diseases: Control by Vaccination
    1982 460 citations Roy M. Anderson, Robert M. May profile →
  24. Plasma tau, neurofilament light chain and amyloid-β levels and risk of dementia; a population-based cohort study
    2020 215 citations Kevin McRae‐McKee, Roy M. Anderson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Roy M. Anderson United Kingdom 109 14.7k 12.9k 11.6k 10.5k 10.2k 539 53.9k
Robert M. May United Kingdom 136 20.6k 1.4× 5.4k 0.4× 8.2k 0.7× 18.7k 1.8× 22.3k 2.2× 476 82.1k
Bryan T. Grenfell United States 94 8.2k 0.6× 8.4k 0.7× 10.0k 0.9× 7.0k 0.7× 6.3k 0.6× 407 38.2k
Simon I Hay United Kingdom 108 31.0k 2.1× 13.3k 1.0× 4.2k 0.4× 2.2k 0.2× 2.0k 0.2× 377 47.9k
Peter Daszak United States 78 11.3k 0.8× 16.2k 1.3× 3.0k 0.3× 4.7k 0.4× 3.6k 0.4× 257 34.3k
Andrew P. Dobson United States 84 7.3k 0.5× 5.3k 0.4× 1.4k 0.1× 15.0k 1.4× 6.1k 0.6× 263 36.0k
Edward C. Holmes Australia 126 13.0k 0.9× 30.6k 2.4× 3.0k 0.3× 5.3k 0.5× 9.6k 0.9× 736 66.1k
Andrew Rambaut United Kingdom 93 5.1k 0.3× 18.4k 1.4× 2.4k 0.2× 11.9k 1.1× 20.1k 2.0× 225 72.1k
Christopher Dye Switzerland 84 7.2k 0.5× 18.3k 1.4× 3.2k 0.3× 1.1k 0.1× 1.9k 0.2× 238 32.7k
Christl A. Donnelly United Kingdom 74 5.1k 0.3× 6.7k 0.5× 4.5k 0.4× 1.6k 0.2× 1.4k 0.1× 354 20.1k
Mark Woolhouse United Kingdom 68 5.9k 0.4× 6.1k 0.5× 1.7k 0.2× 3.7k 0.4× 3.1k 0.3× 330 20.6k

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All Works

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Kura, Klodeta, Wilma A. Stolk, María‐Gloria Basáñez, et al.. (2024). How Does the Proportion of Never Treatment Influence the Success of Mass Drug Administration Programs for the Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis?. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 78(Supplement_2). S93–S100. 6 indexed citations
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Kura, Klodeta, Nyamai Mutono, María‐Gloria Basáñez, et al.. (2024). How Does Treatment Coverage and Proportion Never Treated Influence the Success of Schistosoma mansoni Elimination as a Public Health Problem by 2030?. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 78(Supplement_2). S126–S130. 3 indexed citations
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Coffeng, Luc E., Matthew Graham, Klodeta Kura, et al.. (2024). Improving the Cost-efficiency of Preventive Chemotherapy: Impact of New Diagnostics on Stopping Decisions for Control of Schistosomiasis. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 78(Supplement_2). S153–S159. 3 indexed citations
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Mayer, Julia, Benjamin Collyer, Rosie Maddren, et al.. (2024). Patterns of soil-transmitted helminth aggregation in the human host population after several years of intensive mass drug administration. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 118(12). 829–831. 2 indexed citations
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Collyer, Benjamin & Roy M. Anderson. (2023). The transmission dynamics of Strongyloides stercoralis and the impact of mass drug administration. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1894). 20220442–20220442. 1 indexed citations
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Maddren, Rosie, Benjamin Collyer, Anna E. Phillips, et al.. (2023). Patterns of individual compliance with anthelmintic treatment for soil-transmitted helminth infections in southern Ethiopia over six rounds of community-wide mass drug administration. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 118(5). 304–312. 5 indexed citations
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Anderson, Roy M., Jorge Cano, T. Déirdre Hollingsworth, et al.. (2022). Responding to the cuts in UK AID to neglected tropical diseases control programmes in Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 117(3). 237–239. 7 indexed citations
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Kura, Klodeta, Diepreye Ayabina, Jaspreet Toor, T. Déirdre Hollingsworth, & Roy M. Anderson. (2021). Disruptions to schistosomiasis programmes due to COVID-19: an analysis of potential impact and mitigation strategies. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 115(3). 236–244. 28 indexed citations
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Giardina, Federica, Carolin Vegvari, Sumali Bajaj, et al.. (2020). Modelling the impact of COVID-19-related control programme interruptions on progress towards the WHO 2030 target for soil-transmitted helminths. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 115(3). 253–260. 12 indexed citations
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Werkman, Marleen, James E. Truscott, Jaspreet Toor, James E. Wright, & Roy M. Anderson. (2017). The past matters: estimating intrinsic hookworm transmission intensity in areas with past mass drug administration to control lymphatic filariasis. Parasites & Vectors. 10(1). 254–254. 10 indexed citations
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Anderson, Roy M., Sam H. Farrell, Hugo C. Turner, et al.. (2017). Assessing the interruption of the transmission of human helminths with mass drug administration alone: optimizing the design of cluster randomized trials. Parasites & Vectors. 10(1). 93–93. 44 indexed citations
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Ive, Prudence, et al.. (2006). Decreased sexual risk behaviour after the diagnosis of HIV and initiation of antiretroviral treatment - a study of patients in Johannesburg. Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine. 7(25). 12–14. 3 indexed citations
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Fraser, Christophe, Steven Riley, Roy M. Anderson, & Neil M. Ferguson. (2004). Factors that make an infectious disease outbreak controllable. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(16). 6146–6151. 745 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fraser, Christophe & Roy M. Anderson. (2003). HIV viral sex: inbreeding, recombination, drug resistance and clinical outcome. Antiviral Therapy. 8. 1 indexed citations
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Swinton, Jonathan, Alain Schweitzer, & Roy M. Anderson. (1994). Two Signal Activation as an Explanation of High Zone Tolerance: A Mathematical Exploration of the Nature of the Second Signal. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 169(1). 23–30. 10 indexed citations
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Garnett, Geoffrey P. & Roy M. Anderson. (1994). Balancing sexual partnership in an age and activity stratified model of HIV transmission in heterosexual populations. Mathematical Medicine and Biology A Journal of the IMA. 11(3). 161–192. 87 indexed citations
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Grenfell, Bryan T. & Roy M. Anderson. (1989). Pertussis in England and Wales: an investigation of transmission dynamics and control by mass vaccination. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 236(1284). 213–252. 53 indexed citations
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Medley, Graham F., Lynne Billard, David R. Cox, & Roy M. Anderson. (1988). The distribution of the incubation period for the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 233(1272). 367–377. 53 indexed citations
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May, Robert M. & Roy M. Anderson. (1983). Epidemiology and genetics in the coevolution of parasites and hosts. PubMed. 219(1216). 281–313. 657 indexed citations breakdown →

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