Sebastian Funk

36.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
117 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Sebastian Funk is a scholar working on Modeling and Simulation, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sebastian Funk has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Modeling and Simulation, 48 papers in Infectious Diseases and 44 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Sebastian Funk's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (71 papers), Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (26 papers) and Influenza Virus Research Studies (17 papers). Sebastian Funk is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (71 papers), Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (26 papers) and Influenza Virus Research Studies (17 papers). Sebastian Funk collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Sebastian Funk's co-authors include Vincent A. A. Jansen, Marcel Salathé, Erez Gilad, W. John Edmunds, Chris Watkins, Adam J. Kucharski, Anton Camacho, Rosalind M. Eggo, Sam Abbott and Ken Eames and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sebastian Funk

113 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

Modelling the influence of human behaviour on the spread of infectious diseases: a review

2010 887 citations Sebastian Funk, Vincent A. A. Jansen et al. Journal of The Royal Society Interface profile →
The spread of awareness and its impact on epidemic outbreaks

2009 783 citations Sebastian Funk, Vincent A. A. Jansen et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Generation time of the alpha and delta SARS-CoV-2 variants: an epidemiological analysis

2022 141 citations Sebastian Funk et al. profile →
Heavy-tailed sexual contact networks and monkeypox epidemiology in the global outbreak, 2022

2022 112 citations Akira Endo, Sam Abbott 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
Sebastian Funk United Kingdom	35	2.9k	1.6k	1.6k	1.2k	981	117	5.3k
Lauren Ancel Meyers United States	48	3.8k 1.3×	2.1k 1.3×	1.5k 1.0×	1.8k 1.5×	1.3k 1.3×	162	9.7k
Caroline O. Buckee United States	50	2.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	2.6k 1.7×	1.8k 1.4×	228 0.2×	147	8.1k
David J. D. Earn Canada	40	3.4k 1.2×	1.4k 0.8×	2.2k 1.4×	2.0k 1.6×	483 0.5×	104	7.7k
Daihai He Hong Kong	36	4.0k 1.4×	3.0k 1.8×	1.6k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	398 0.4×	225	6.8k
Marco Ajelli United States	42	5.6k 1.9×	2.8k 1.7×	1.2k 0.7×	2.1k 1.7×	630 0.6×	128	8.6k
Ken Eames United Kingdom	28	2.2k 0.7×	824 0.5×	997 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	44	4.6k
Chris T. Bauch Canada	44	3.1k 1.1×	1.0k 0.6×	1.8k 1.2×	1.8k 1.4×	1.1k 1.1×	169	7.1k
Mirjam Kretzschmar Netherlands	52	2.5k 0.8×	3.8k 2.3×	1.6k 1.0×	4.7k 3.8×	453 0.5×	291	11.2k
Seyed M. Moghadas Canada	34	2.7k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	139 0.1×	157	4.7k
Shweta Bansal United States	30	1.5k 0.5×	733 0.5×	942 0.6×	763 0.6×	570 0.6×	118	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Sebastian Funk

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sebastian Funk

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Restif, Olivier, et al.. (2025). How does policy modelling work in practice? A global analysis on the use of epidemiological modelling in health crises. PLOS Global Public Health. 5(6). e0004675–e0004675. 3 indexed citations

Jung, Sung-mok, Fuminari Miura, Sebastian Funk, et al.. (2024). Dynamic Landscape of Mpox Importation Risks Driven by Heavy-Tailed Sexual Contact Networks Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in 2022. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 231(1). e234–e243. 2 indexed citations

Finger, Flavio, Joseph C. Lemaitre, Brendan R. Jackson, et al.. (2024). Inferring the proportion of undetected cholera infections from serological and clinical surveillance in an immunologically naive population. Epidemiology and Infection. 152. e149–e149. 1 indexed citations

Wolffram, Daniel, Sam Abbott, Matthias an der Heiden, et al.. (2023). Collaborative nowcasting of COVID-19 hospitalization incidences in Germany. PLoS Computational Biology. 19(8). e1011394–e1011394. 10 indexed citations

Park, Sang Woo, Kaiyuan Sun, Sam Abbott, et al.. (2023). Inferring the differences in incubation-period and generation-interval distributions of the Delta and Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(22). e2221887120–e2221887120. 22 indexed citations

Gimma, Amy, James D Munday, Kerry LM Wong, et al.. (2022). Changes in social contacts in England during the COVID-19 pandemic between March 2020 and March 2021 as measured by the CoMix survey: A repeated cross-sectional study. PLoS Medicine. 19(3). e1003907–e1003907. 74 indexed citations

Endo, Akira, Sam Abbott, Ruwan Ratnayake, et al.. (2022). Heavy-tailed sexual contact networks and monkeypox epidemiology in the global outbreak, 2022. Science. 378(6615). 90–94. 112 indexed citations breakdown →

Endo, Akira, Mitsuo Uchida, Yang Liu, et al.. (2021). Within and between classroom transmission patterns of seasonal influenza among primary school students in Matsumoto city, Japan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(46). 12 indexed citations

Bedson, Jamie, Laura Skrip, Danielle Pedi, et al.. (2021). A review and agenda for integrated disease models including social and behavioural factors. Nature Human Behaviour. 5(7). 834–846. 98 indexed citations

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Biggs, Joseph R., Oliver J. Brady, Adam J. Kucharski, et al.. (2021). Serological Evidence of Widespread Zika Transmission across the Philippines. Viruses. 13(8). 1441–1441. 5 indexed citations

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Zandvoort, Kevin van, Sam Abbott, Katharine Sherratt, et al.. (2021). The impact of population-wide rapid antigen testing on SARS-CoV-2 prevalence in Slovakia. Science. 372(6542). 635–641. 110 indexed citations

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Biggs, Joseph R., Katharine Sherratt, Oliver J. Brady, et al.. (2021). Estimating the annual dengue force of infection from the age of reporting primary infections across urban centres in endemic countries. BMC Medicine. 19(1). 217–217. 7 indexed citations

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Robert, Alexis, Adam J. Kucharski, Paul A. Gastañaduy, Prabasaj Paul, & Sebastian Funk. (2020). Probabilistic reconstruction of measles transmission clusters from routinely collected surveillance data. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 17(168). 20200084–20200084. 6 indexed citations

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Métras, Raphaëlle, W. John Edmunds, Guillaume Fournié, et al.. (2020). Estimation of Rift Valley fever virus spillover to humans during the Mayotte 2018–2019 epidemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(39). 24567–24574. 25 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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Knight, Gwenan M., Mirko Zimic, Sebastian Funk, et al.. (2018). The relative fitness of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis : a modelling study of household transmission in Peru. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 15(143). 20180025–20180025. 9 indexed citations

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Yakob, Laith, Sebastian Funk, Anton Camacho, Oliver J. Brady, & W. John Edmunds. (2017). Aedes aegypti Control Through Modernized, Integrated Vector Management. PLoS Currents. 9. 31 indexed citations

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Blumberg, Seth, Sebastian Funk, & Juliet R.C. Pulliam. (2014). Detecting Differential Transmissibilities That Affect the Size of Self-Limited Outbreaks. PLoS Pathogens. 10(10). e1004452–e1004452. 30 indexed citations

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Klepac, Petra, Sebastian Funk, T. Déirdre Hollingsworth, C. Jessica E. Metcalf, & Katie Hampson. (2014). Six challenges in the eradication of infectious diseases. Epidemics. 10. 97–101. 34 indexed citations

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Bryden, John, Sebastian Funk, Nicholas Geard, Seth Bullock, & Vincent A. A. Jansen. (2010). Stability in flux: community structure in dynamic networks. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 8(60). 1031–1040. 28 indexed citations

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