Rumi Chunara

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
79 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Rumi Chunara is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Health and Modeling and Simulation. According to data from OpenAlex, Rumi Chunara has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Epidemiology, 14 papers in Health and 14 papers in Modeling and Simulation. Recurrent topics in Rumi Chunara's work include Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (24 papers), COVID-19 epidemiological studies (14 papers) and Influenza Virus Research Studies (8 papers). Rumi Chunara is often cited by papers focused on Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (24 papers), COVID-19 epidemiological studies (14 papers) and Influenza Virus Research Studies (8 papers). Rumi Chunara collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Pakistan. Rumi Chunara's co-authors include John S. Brownstein, David Mann, Paul Testa, Oded Nov, Ji Chen, Jason R. Andrews, Clark C. Freifeld, Qingyu Yuan, Mark S. Smolinski and Oktawia Wójcik and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Applied Physics Letters and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Rumi Chunara

73 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

COVID-19 transforms health care through telemedicine: Evidence from the field

2020 955 citations David Mann, Rumi Chunara et al. profile →
Telemedicine and healthcare disparities: a cohort study in a large healthcare system in New York City during COVID-19

2020 225 citations Rumi Chunara, Katharine Lawrence et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rumi Chunara United States	27	1.1k	1.1k	792	500	428	79	3.5k
Elaine O. Nsoesie United States	26	1.0k 1.0×	558 0.5×	304 0.4×	433 0.9×	103 0.2×	78	3.1k
Justin Clark Australia	34	783 0.7×	749 0.7×	791 1.0×	183 0.4×	708 1.7×	155	5.3k
Megan L. Ranney United States	34	318 0.3×	949 0.9×	1.2k 1.5×	675 1.4×	411 1.0×	170	5.0k
Daniel Westreich United States	38	1.5k 1.4×	702 0.7×	939 1.2×	424 0.8×	259 0.6×	184	6.9k
Jay Bhattacharya United States	39	942 0.9×	862 0.8×	1.3k 1.7×	290 0.6×	275 0.6×	169	5.5k
Stephen B. Thacker United States	39	1.2k 1.1×	955 0.9×	1.0k 1.3×	304 0.6×	152 0.4×	110	5.2k
Daniel D. Reidpath Malaysia	39	795 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	1.5k 1.8×	605 1.2×	191 0.4×	234	5.4k
Felix Greaves United Kingdom	31	832 0.8×	822 0.8×	2.1k 2.6×	386 0.8×	69 0.2×	88	4.6k
Shaun R. Seaman United Kingdom	27	703 0.7×	546 0.5×	384 0.5×	262 0.5×	349 0.8×	91	5.2k
Xinguang Chen United States	47	897 0.8×	710 0.7×	1.4k 1.8×	1.2k 2.5×	144 0.3×	275	6.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Rumi Chunara

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rumi Chunara

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rumi Chunara

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rumi Chunara. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rumi Chunara 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 Rumi Chunara. Rumi Chunara is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Samad, Zainab, et al.. (2025). Quantifying Greenspace with Satellite Images in Karachi, Pakistan, Using a New Data Augmentation Paradigm. 3(1). 1–23. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Jiawei, et al.. (2024). Associations between news coverage, social media discussions, and search trends about celebrity deaths, screening, and other colorectal cancer-related events. Preventive Medicine. 185. 108022–108022.

Rahman, Salman, et al.. (2024). Understanding Disparities in Post Hoc Machine Learning Explanation. 2374–2388. 2 indexed citations

Zhao, Yuan, et al.. (2024). Constructing Social Vulnerability Indexes with Increased Data and Machine Learning Highlight the Importance of Wealth Across Global Contexts. Social Indicators Research. 175(2). 639–657. 3 indexed citations

Chunara, Rumi, Aysha Habib Khan, Afia Zafar, et al.. (2023). Prevalence of familial hypercholesterolemia in a country-wide laboratory network in Pakistan: 10-year data from 988, 306 patients. Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases. 79. 19–27. 4 indexed citations

Blecker, Saul, Xiyue Li, Ian M. Kronish, et al.. (2023). Neighborhood-Level Socioeconomic Status and Prescription Fill Patterns Among Patients With Heart Failure. JAMA Network Open. 6(12). e2347519–e2347519. 18 indexed citations

Adhikari, Samrachana, Xiyue Li, Rumi Chunara, et al.. (2023). Cohort profile: a large EHR-based cohort with linked pharmacy refill and neighbourhood social determinants of health data to assess heart failure medication adherence. BMJ Open. 13(12). e076812–e076812. 1 indexed citations

Margolin, Drew, et al.. (2022). Search Term Identification Methods for Computational Health Communication: Word Embedding and Network Approach for Health Content on YouTube. JMIR Medical Informatics. 10(8). e37862–e37862. 7 indexed citations

Adhikari, Samrachana, Xiyue Li, John A. Dodson, et al.. (2022). Association Between Copayment Amount and Filling of Medications for Angiotensin Receptor Neprilysin Inhibitors in Patients With Heart Failure. Journal of the American Heart Association. 11(24). e027662–e027662. 8 indexed citations

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Mandal, Soumik, Batia M. Wiesenfeld, David Mann, et al.. (2022). Evidence for Telemedicine’s Ongoing Transformation of Health Care Delivery Since the Onset of COVID-19: Retrospective Observational Study. JMIR Formative Research. 6(10). e38661–e38661. 14 indexed citations

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Chunara, Rumi, et al.. (2022). Generalizability challenges of mortality risk prediction models: A retrospective analysis on a multi-center database. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(4). e0000023–e0000023. 28 indexed citations

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Padilla, Lace, et al.. (2022). Impact of COVID-19 forecast visualizations on pandemic risk perceptions. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 2014–2014. 18 indexed citations

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Daughton, Ashlynn R., Rumi Chunara, & Michael J. Paul. (2020). Comparison of Social Media, Syndromic Surveillance, and Microbiologic Acute Respiratory Infection Data: Observational Study. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 6(2). e14986–e14986. 9 indexed citations

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Chunara, Rumi, et al.. (2019). Deep Landscape Features for Improving Vector-borne Disease Prediction. arXiv (Cornell University). 44–51. 4 indexed citations

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Baltrusaitis, Kristin, Mauricio Santillana, Adam W. Crawley, et al.. (2017). Determinants of Participants’ Follow-Up and Characterization of Representativeness in Flu Near You, A Participatory Disease Surveillance System. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 3(2). e18–e18. 42 indexed citations

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Ray, Bisakha, Elodie Ghedin, & Rumi Chunara. (2016). Network inference from multimodal data: A review of approaches from infectious disease transmission. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 64. 44–54. 10 indexed citations

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Rowe, Aaron A., et al.. (2015). Surveillance of Acute Respiratory Infections Using Community-Submitted Symptoms and Specimens for Molecular Diagnostic Testing. PLoS Currents. 7. 27 indexed citations

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Wójcik, Oktawia, John S. Brownstein, Rumi Chunara, & Michael A. Johansson. (2014). Public health for the people: participatory infectious disease surveillance in the digital age. Emerging Themes in Epidemiology. 11(1). 7–7. 98 indexed citations

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Chunara, Rumi, et al.. (2013). Assessing the Online Social Environment for Surveillance of Obesity Prevalence. PLoS ONE. 8(4). e61373–e61373. 57 indexed citations

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Lee, Jungchul, Rumi Chunara, Kristofor R. Payer, et al.. (2010). Suspended microchannel resonators with piezoresistive sensors. Lab on a Chip. 11(4). 645–651. 57 indexed citations

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