Tom Britton

11.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
112 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

Tom Britton is a scholar working on Modeling and Simulation, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Britton has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Modeling and Simulation, 37 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 32 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Tom Britton's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (62 papers), Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models (34 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (19 papers). Tom Britton is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (62 papers), Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models (34 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (19 papers). Tom Britton collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United Kingdom and United States. Tom Britton's co-authors include Håkan Andersson, Peter Arner, Mikael Rydén, Kirsty L. Spalding, Samuel Bernard, Pål O. Westermark, Jonas Frisén, Frank Ball, Odo Diekmann and Hans Heesterbeek and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Tom Britton

109 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Dynamics of fat cell turnover in humans

2008 1.7k citations Kirsty L. Spalding, Peter Arner et al. Nature profile →
Reliability of Bayesian Posterior Probabilities and Bootstrap Frequencies in Phylogenetics

2003 578 citations Bodil Svennblad, Tom Britton et al. profile →
Stochastic Epidemic Models and Their Statistical Analysis

2000 568 citations Håkan Andersson, Tom Britton profile →
Diversification of Neoaves: integration of molecular sequence data and fossils

2006 565 citations Tom Britton et al. profile →
Adipocyte Turnover: Relevance to Human Adipose Tissue Morphology

2009 505 citations Peter Arner, Pål O. Westermark et al. profile →
Mathematical Tools for Understanding Infectious Disease Dynamics

2012 344 citations Odo Diekmann, Hans Heesterbeek et al. Princeton University Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tom Britton Sweden	28	2.0k	1.7k	1.5k	1.4k	1.3k	112	7.5k
Jonathan Dushoff Canada	56	2.3k 1.1×	2.3k 1.3×	165 0.1×	1.5k 1.1×	2.3k 1.8×	160	10.9k
Simon Tavaré United States	68	361 0.2×	1.2k 0.7×	825 0.6×	10.7k 7.6×	437 0.3×	220	21.3k
Joshua S. Weitz United States	54	859 0.4×	464 0.3×	89 0.1×	2.2k 1.6×	634 0.5×	170	9.0k
David J. D. Earn Canada	40	3.4k 1.7×	2.0k 1.2×	52 0.0×	640 0.5×	2.2k 1.7×	104	7.7k
Lauren Ancel Meyers United States	48	3.8k 1.9×	1.8k 1.1×	92 0.1×	1.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	162	9.7k
David L. Robertson United Kingdom	64	530 0.3×	2.1k 1.2×	1.6k 1.0×	5.1k 3.6×	752 0.6×	218	19.4k
Caroline Colijn Canada	34	735 0.4×	1.4k 0.8×	111 0.1×	1.1k 0.8×	446 0.3×	127	4.3k
David J. Balding United Kingdom	58	272 0.1×	586 0.3×	531 0.4×	4.7k 3.3×	330 0.3×	169	15.0k
Carson C. Chow United States	47	131 0.1×	893 0.5×	778 0.5×	4.0k 2.8×	800 0.6×	151	14.9k
Simon D. W. Frost United States	54	260 0.1×	3.5k 2.0×	136 0.1×	4.2k 3.0×	1.5k 1.2×	152	15.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Tom Britton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Britton

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All Works

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Günther, Felix, et al.. (2025). A counterfactual analysis quantifying the COVID-19 vaccination impact in Sweden. Vaccine. 52. 126870–126870. 1 indexed citations

Hoffmann, Jan, et al.. (2024). Management of cervical CSF-venous fistula causing acute cognitive impairment and coma. Acta Neurochirurgica. 166(1). 37–37. 2 indexed citations

Britton, Tom. (2021). Quantifying the preventive effect of wearing face masks. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 477(2251). 20210151–20210151. 3 indexed citations

Britton, Tom, Pieter Trapman, & Frank Ball. (2021). The risk for a new COVID-19 wave and how it depends on R ₀ , the current immunity level and current restrictions. Royal Society Open Science. 8(7). 210386–210386. 2 indexed citations

Strömdahl, Susanne, et al.. (2020). Introducing pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV acquisition among men who have sex with men in Sweden: insights from a mathematical pair formation model. BMJ Open. 10(2). e033852–e033852. 12 indexed citations

Britton, Tom & Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba. (2019). Estimation in emerging epidemics: biases and remedies.. Cineca Institutional Research Information System (Tor Vergata University). 97 indexed citations

Giardina, Federica, Ethan Romero-Severson, Maria Axelsson, et al.. (2019). Getting more from heterogeneous HIV-1 surveillance data in a high immigration country: estimation of incidence and undiagnosed population size using multiple biomarkers. International Journal of Epidemiology. 48(6). 1795–1803. 13 indexed citations

Ball, Frank, et al.. (2019). A stochastic SIR network epidemic model with preventive dropping of edges. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 78(6). 1875–1951. 20 indexed citations

Masuda, Naoki, et al.. (2016). . SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4 indexed citations

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Diekmann, Odo, Hans Heesterbeek, & Tom Britton. (2012). Mathematical Tools for Understanding Infectious Disease Dynamics. Princeton University Press eBooks. 217 indexed citations

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Britton, Tom, et al.. (2009). Epidemic modelling: Aspects where stochasticity matters. Mathematical Biosciences. 222(2). 109–116. 52 indexed citations

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Britton, Tom & Mathias Lindholm. (2009). The Early Stage Behaviour of a Stochastic SIR Epidemic with Term-Time Forcing. Journal of Applied Probability. 46(4). 975–992.

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Britton, Tom & Mathias Lindholm. (2009). The Early Stage Behaviour of a Stochastic SIR Epidemic with Term-Time Forcing. Journal of Applied Probability. 46(4). 975–992. 8 indexed citations

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Spalding, Kirsty L., Peter Arner, Pål O. Westermark, et al.. (2008). Dynamics of Fat Cell Turnover in Humans. Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey. 63(9). 577–578. 43 indexed citations

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Spalding, Kirsty L., Peter Arner, Pål O. Westermark, et al.. (2008). Dynamics of fat cell turnover in humans. Nature. 453(7196). 783–787. 1710 indexed citations breakdown →

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Svennblad, Bodil & Tom Britton. (2007). Improving Divergence Time Estimation in Phylogenetics: More Taxa vs. Longer Sequences. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology. 6(1). Article35–Article35. 2 indexed citations

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Ball, Frank & Tom Britton. (2007). An epidemic model with infector-dependent severity. Advances in Applied Probability. 39(4). 949–972. 1 indexed citations

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Britton, Tom, et al.. (2007). Modelling sexually transmitted infections: The effect of partnership activity and number of partners on. Theoretical Population Biology. 72(3). 389–399. 19 indexed citations

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Britton, Tom. (2001). Epidemics in heterogeneous communities: estimation of "R". RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 63(4). 705–715. 2 indexed citations

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Andersson, Håkan & Tom Britton. (1998). Heterogeneity in epidemic models and its effect on the spread of infection. Journal of Applied Probability. 35(3). 651–661. 31 indexed citations

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