Thomas Walker

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Thomas Walker is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Insect Science and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Walker has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 30 papers in Insect Science and 15 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Thomas Walker's work include Mosquito-borne diseases and control (41 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (29 papers) and Malaria Research and Control (18 papers). Thomas Walker is often cited by papers focused on Mosquito-borne diseases and control (41 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (29 papers) and Malaria Research and Control (18 papers). Thomas Walker collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Thomas Walker's co-authors include Claire L. Jeffries, Iñaki Iturbe‐Ormaetxe, Scott L. O’Neill, Giovanni Benelli, Steven P. Sinkins, Laith Yakob, Lisa Klasson, Julian Parkhill, Elizabeth A. McGraw and Francesca D. Frentiu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, American Economic Review and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Walker

68 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Biological Control of Mosquito Vectors: Past, Present, and Future

2016 286 citations Claire L. Jeffries, Thomas Walker et al. Insects profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Walker United Kingdom	25	1.9k	1.7k	462	396	322	68	2.8k
Jean Popovici Cambodia	23	1.6k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	242 0.5×	234 0.6×	193 0.6×	58	2.5k
Petrina H. Johnson Australia	21	1.7k 0.9×	1.8k 1.1×	384 0.8×	324 0.8×	175 0.5×	35	2.3k
Brian L. Montgomery Australia	22	1.6k 0.8×	2.0k 1.2×	646 1.4×	263 0.7×	113 0.4×	48	2.6k
Mauro Toledo Marrelli Brazil	30	795 0.4×	2.2k 1.3×	566 1.2×	353 0.9×	357 1.1×	130	2.9k
Wolfgang R Mukabana Kenya	34	848 0.5×	2.6k 1.5×	440 1.0×	1.1k 2.9×	290 0.9×	88	3.4k
Stephen L. Dobson United States	37	4.3k 2.3×	2.4k 1.5×	452 1.0×	486 1.2×	432 1.3×	82	5.5k
Nigel W. Beebe Australia	36	969 0.5×	2.6k 1.5×	1.3k 2.7×	585 1.5×	446 1.4×	100	3.8k
João Pinto Portugal	34	844 0.5×	3.0k 1.8×	566 1.2×	900 2.3×	959 3.0×	109	3.7k
Fredros O. Okumu Tanzania	34	489 0.3×	2.5k 1.5×	414 0.9×	933 2.4×	430 1.3×	114	3.2k
José Bento Pereira Lima Brazil	35	1.1k 0.6×	2.6k 1.6×	313 0.7×	1.6k 4.1×	812 2.5×	96	3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Walker

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Walker

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Walker

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Campos, Mónica, Thomas Walker, Jody Phelan, et al.. (2023). Detection of insecticide resistance markers in Anopheles funestus from the Democratic Republic of the Congo using a targeted amplicon sequencing panel. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 17363–17363. 7 indexed citations

Kristan, Mojca, Emma Collins, Jody Phelan, et al.. (2023). Towards environmental detection, quantification, and molecular characterization of Anopheles stephensi and Aedes aegypti from experimental larval breeding sites. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 2729–2729. 5 indexed citations

Cerdeira, Louise, et al.. (2022). Wolbachia endosymbionts in two Anopheles species indicates independent acquisitions and lack of prophage elements. Microbial Genomics. 8(4). 5 indexed citations

Kristan, Mojca, Constant Edi, Emma Clark, et al.. (2021). Overabundance of Asaia and Serratia Bacteria Is Associated with Deltamethrin Insecticide Susceptibility in Anopheles coluzzii from Agboville, Côte d’Ivoire. Microbiology Spectrum. 9(2). e0015721–e0015721. 32 indexed citations

Jeffries, Claire L., Cintia Cansado-Utrilla, Abdoul Habib Béavogui, et al.. (2021). Evidence for natural hybridization and novel Wolbachia strain superinfections in the Anopheles gambiae complex from Guinea. Royal Society Open Science. 8(4). 202032–202032. 9 indexed citations

Clark, Emma, Mojca Kristan, Constant Edi, et al.. (2020). Association of Reduced Long-Lasting Insecticidal Net Efficacy and Pyrethroid Insecticide Resistance With Overexpression of CYP6P4 , CYP6P3, and CYP6Z1 in Populations of Anopheles coluzzii From Southeast Côte d’Ivoire. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 225(8). 1424–1434. 8 indexed citations

Mayi, Marie Paul Audrey, Roland Bamou, Borel Djiappi-Tchamen, et al.. (2020). Habitat and Seasonality Affect Mosquito Community Composition in the West Region of Cameroon. Insects. 11(5). 312–312. 43 indexed citations

Jeffries, Claire L., et al.. (2020). A Comparison of Adult Mosquito Trapping Methods to Assess Potential West Nile Virus Mosquito Vectors in Greece during the Onset of the 2018 Transmission Season. Insects. 11(6). 329–329. 7 indexed citations

Stewart, Jill, Paul Stewart, Thomas Walker, et al.. (2020). A Feasibility Study of Non-Invasive Continuous Estimation of Brachial Pressure Derived From Arterial and Venous Lines During Dialysis. IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine. 9. 1–9. 9 indexed citations

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Orsborne, James, Abdul Rahim Mohammed, Claire L. Jeffries, et al.. (2020). Evidence of extrinsic factors dominating intrinsic blood host preferences of major African malaria vectors. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 741–741. 13 indexed citations

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Mulchandani, Ranya, et al.. (2019). A community-level investigation following a yellow fever virus outbreak in South Omo Zone, South-West Ethiopia. PeerJ. 7. e6466–e6466. 14 indexed citations

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Collins, Emma, Abdoul Habib Béavogui, James Orsborne, et al.. (2019). The relationship between insecticide resistance, mosquito age and malaria prevalence in Anopheles gambiae s.l. from Guinea. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 8846–8846. 43 indexed citations

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Jacoby, Hanan G. & Thomas Walker. (2019). The Monsoon Shock in Rural Nepal : Panel Evidence from the Household Risk and Vulnerability Survey. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (World Bank). 3 indexed citations

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Jeffries, Claire L., et al.. (2018). Diverse novel resident Wolbachia strains in Culicine mosquitoes from Madagascar. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 17456–17456. 19 indexed citations

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Irish, Seth R., Warren Stevens, Yahya A. Derua, Thomas Walker, & Mary Cameron. (2015). Comparison of Methods for Xenomonitoring in Vectors of Lymphatic Filariasis in Northeastern Tanzania. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 93(5). 983–989. 14 indexed citations

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Frentiu, Francesca D., Tasnim Zakir, Thomas Walker, et al.. (2014). . Figshare. 236 indexed citations

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Walker, Thomas, Claire L. Jeffries, Karen L. Mansfield, & Nicholas Johnson. (2014). Mosquito cell lines: history, isolation, availability and application to assess the threat of arboviral transmission in the United Kingdom. Parasites & Vectors. 7(1). 382–382. 50 indexed citations

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Woolfit, Megan, Iñaki Iturbe‐Ormaetxe, J. Brownlie, et al.. (2013). Genomic Evolution of the Pathogenic Wolbachia Strain, wMelPop. Genome Biology and Evolution. 5(11). 2189–2204. 79 indexed citations

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Iturbe‐Ormaetxe, Iñaki, et al.. (2011). Wolbachia and the biological control of mosquito‐borne disease. EMBO Reports. 12(6). 508–518. 298 indexed citations

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Datt, Gaurav & Thomas Walker. (2006). Does mining sector growth matter for poverty reduction in Papua New Guinea. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 21(1). 71–83. 2 indexed citations

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