Thomas P. Van Boeckel

21.7k total citations · 15 hit papers
76 papers, 14.2k citations indexed

About

Thomas P. Van Boeckel is a scholar working on Molecular Medicine, Pollution and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas P. Van Boeckel has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 14.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Molecular Medicine, 25 papers in Pollution and 16 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Thomas P. Van Boeckel's work include Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (30 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (25 papers) and Antibiotic Use and Resistance (16 papers). Thomas P. Van Boeckel is often cited by papers focused on Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (30 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (25 papers) and Antibiotic Use and Resistance (16 papers). Thomas P. Van Boeckel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Belgium. Thomas P. Van Boeckel's co-authors include Marius Gilbert, Simon A. Levin, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Bryan T. Grenfell, Timothy P. Robinson, Sumanth Gandra, Eili Klein, Aude Teillant, Charles Brower and Ramanan Laxminarayan and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Thomas P. Van Boeckel

73 papers receiving 13.9k citations

Hit Papers

Global trends in antimicr... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2015 2018 2014 2019 2014 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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. Global trends in antimicrobial use in food animals
    2015 2.7k citations Thomas P. Van Boeckel, Charles Brower et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Global increase and geographic convergence in antibiotic consumption between 2000 and 2015
    2018 2.3k citations Eili Klein, Thomas P. Van Boeckel et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  3. Global antibiotic consumption 2000 to 2010: an analysis of national pharmaceutical sales data
    2014 1.7k citations Thomas P. Van Boeckel, Sumanth Gandra et al. The Lancet Infectious Diseases profile →
  4. Global trends in antimicrobial resistance in animals in low- and middle-income countries
    2019 758 citations Thomas P. Van Boeckel, João Pires et al. profile →
  5. Mapping the Global Distribution of Livestock
    2014 635 citations Timothy P. Robinson, Thomas P. Van Boeckel et al. PLoS ONE profile →
  6. Reducing antimicrobial use in food animals
    2017 526 citations Thomas P. Van Boeckel, Marius Gilbert et al. profile →
  7. The dominant Anopheles vectors of human malaria in Africa, Europe and the Middle East: occurrence data, distribution maps and bionomic précis
    2010 505 citations Thomas P. Van Boeckel et al. profile →
  8. Global distribution data for cattle, buffaloes, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens and ducks in 2010
    2018 453 citations Marius Gilbert, Thomas P. Van Boeckel et al. profile →
  9. Global Trends in Antimicrobial Use in Food Animals from 2017 to 2030
    2020 449 citations Marius Gilbert, Timothy P. Robinson et al. Antibiotics profile →
  10. Global trends in antimicrobial use in aquaculture
    2020 358 citations Daniel Schär, Eili Klein et al. Scientific Reports profile →
  11. Global trends in antimicrobial use in food-producing animals: 2020 to 2030
    2023 279 citations Ranya Mulchandani, Yu Wang et al. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología profile →
  12. The scope of the antimicrobial resistance challenge
    2024 179 citations Thomas P. Van Boeckel et al. profile →
  13. Global antimicrobial-resistance drivers: an ecological country-level study at the human–animal interface
    2023 127 citations Thomas P. Van Boeckel, Ramanan Laxminarayan et al. profile →
  14. Global trends in antibiotic consumption during 2016–2023 and future projections through 2030
    2024 118 citations Eili Klein, Philippe Denoël et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  15. The future of antibiotic use in livestock
    2025 23 citations Francesco Nicolli, Thomas P. Van Boeckel et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas P. Van Boeckel United States 36 4.8k 3.3k 2.8k 2.2k 1.8k 76 14.2k
Ramanan Laxminarayan United States 57 4.2k 0.9× 4.4k 1.3× 3.8k 1.4× 2.3k 1.0× 2.2k 1.2× 258 17.9k
Peter Collignon Australia 49 2.9k 0.6× 3.3k 1.0× 1.7k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 1.5k 0.8× 234 10.7k
Marius Gilbert Belgium 52 3.0k 0.6× 1.8k 0.5× 891 0.3× 2.5k 1.1× 1.2k 0.7× 180 15.9k
D. G. Joakim Larsson Sweden 72 12.9k 2.7× 6.2k 1.9× 2.1k 0.7× 1.1k 0.5× 4.5k 2.5× 237 22.8k
Timothy P. Robinson Italy 37 2.4k 0.5× 1.4k 0.4× 677 0.2× 1.2k 0.5× 1.0k 0.6× 84 9.0k
Teresa M. Coque Spain 65 3.7k 0.8× 8.7k 2.6× 1.4k 0.5× 1.2k 0.5× 3.9k 2.1× 186 15.5k
Jeroen Dewulf Belgium 68 2.7k 0.6× 2.0k 0.6× 594 0.2× 1.2k 0.5× 2.1k 1.1× 445 15.4k
Herman Goossens Belgium 73 2.1k 0.4× 4.6k 1.4× 7.2k 2.6× 1.7k 0.8× 2.8k 1.5× 380 22.6k
Scott A. McEwen Canada 48 2.4k 0.5× 2.4k 0.7× 706 0.3× 1.0k 0.5× 1.2k 0.7× 255 13.6k
Pentti Huovinen Finland 50 1.7k 0.4× 2.8k 0.8× 1.3k 0.5× 2.0k 0.9× 1.9k 1.1× 205 10.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nicolli, Francesco, et al.. (2025). The future of antibiotic use in livestock. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2469–2469. 23 indexed citations breakdown →
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Klein, Eili, Philippe Denoël, Mariateresa Cipriano, et al.. (2024). Global trends in antibiotic consumption during 2016–2023 and future projections through 2030. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(49). e2411919121–e2411919121. 118 indexed citations breakdown →
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Swetschinski, Lucien R, Nicola G. Criscuolo, Ranya Mulchandani, et al.. (2024). Using priorities between human and livestock bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to identify data gaps in livestock AMR surveillance. BMC Infectious Diseases. 24(1). 1027–1027. 2 indexed citations
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Whitaker, John, Abena S. Amoah, Albert Dube, et al.. (2024). Health system assessment for access to care after injury in low- or middle-income countries: A mixed methods study from Northern Malawi. PLoS Medicine. 21(1). e1004344–e1004344.
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Leangapichart, Thongpan, Rachel A. Hickman, Jatesada Jiwakanon, et al.. (2023). Exploring the epidemiology of mcr genes, genetic context and plasmids in Enterobacteriaceae originating from pigs and humans on farms in Thailand. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 78(6). 1395–1405. 9 indexed citations
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Stricker, Sebastian, Martin Karsten, Thomas P. Van Boeckel, et al.. (2023). RECAST: Study protocol for an observational study for the understanding of the increased REsilience of Children compared to Adults in SARS-CoV-2 infecTion. BMJ Open. 13(4). e065221–e065221.
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Rutte, Epke A. Le, Andrew J. Shattock, Cheng Zhao, et al.. (2023). A case for ongoing structural support to maximise infectious disease modelling efficiency for future public health emergencies: A modelling perspective. Epidemics. 46. 100734–100734. 2 indexed citations
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Schär, Daniel, Zhenyu Zhang, João Pires, et al.. (2023). Dispersal history and bidirectional human-fish host switching of invasive, hypervirulent Streptococcus agalactiae sequence type 283. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(10). e0002454–e0002454. 3 indexed citations
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Zhao, Cheng, et al.. (2023). Mapping Global Bushmeat Activities to Improve Zoonotic Spillover Surveillance by Using Geospatial Modeling. Emerging infectious diseases. 29(4). 742–750. 12 indexed citations
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Schär, Daniel, Cheng Zhao, Yu Wang, et al.. (2021). Twenty-year trends in antimicrobial resistance from aquaculture and fisheries in Asia. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5384–5384. 138 indexed citations
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Schär, Daniel, Eili Klein, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Marius Gilbert, & Thomas P. Van Boeckel. (2020). Global trends in antimicrobial use in aquaculture. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 21878–21878. 358 indexed citations breakdown →
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Leangapichart, Thongpan, Jatesada Jiwakanon, Sunpetch Angkititrakul, et al.. (2020). Antimicrobial Resistance in Fecal Escherichia coli from Humans and Pigs at Farms at Different Levels of Intensification. Antibiotics. 9(10). 662–662. 19 indexed citations
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Silvester, Reshma, et al.. (2019). Occurrence of β-Lactam Resistance Genes and Plasmid-Mediated Resistance Among Vibrios Isolated from Southwest Coast of India. Microbial Drug Resistance. 25(9). 1306–1315. 14 indexed citations
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Klein, Eili, Thomas P. Van Boeckel, Elena Martínez, et al.. (2018). Global increase and geographic convergence in antibiotic consumption between 2000 and 2015. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(15). E3463–E3470. 2269 indexed citations breakdown →
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Takahashi, Saki, Qiaohong Liao, Thomas P. Van Boeckel, et al.. (2016). Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease in China: Modeling Epidemic Dynamics of Enterovirus Serotypes and Implications for Vaccination. PLoS Medicine. 13(2). e1001958–e1001958. 101 indexed citations
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Boeckel, Thomas P. Van, Charles Brower, Marius Gilbert, & Bryan T. Grenfell. (2015). Selected highlights from other journals: Global trends in antimicrobial use in food-producing animals. Veterinary Record. 176(21). 547–547. 1 indexed citations
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Boeckel, Thomas P. Van, Charles Brower, Marius Gilbert, et al.. (2015). Global trends in antimicrobial use in food animals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(18). 5649–5654. 2670 indexed citations breakdown →
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Boeckel, Thomas P. Van, Sumanth Gandra, Ashvin Ashok, et al.. (2014). Global antibiotic consumption 2000 to 2010: an analysis of national pharmaceutical sales data. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 14(8). 742–750. 1700 indexed citations breakdown →
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Boeckel, Thomas P. Van, Weerapong Thanapongtharm, Timothy P. Robinson, et al.. (2012). Improving Risk Models for Avian Influenza: The Role of Intensive Poultry Farming and Flooded Land during the 2004 Thailand Epidemic. PLoS ONE. 7(11). e49528–e49528. 33 indexed citations
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Boeckel, Thomas P. Van, Athanasios Vergopoulos, Sylvia Bähring, et al.. (1999). A new mutation in the elastin gene causing supravalvular aortic stenosis. The American Journal of Cardiology. 83(7). 1141–1143. 15 indexed citations

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