William B. Karesh

17.2k citations

193 papers · 10.1k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 51

Impact in

Infectious Diseases top 0.2%
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
Agronomy and Crop Science top 0.1%
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology

Papers in

Agronomy and Crop Science 70
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology 69
Infectious Diseases 78
- Viral Infections and Vectors 59
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research 21

Co-authors: Peter Daszak Robert A. Cook Sharon L. Deem Catherine Machalaba W. Ian Lipkin Jonna A. K. Mazet Wendy Weisman Nathan Wolfe
Journals: Journal of Wildlife Diseases (11 papers)PLoS ONE (10 papers)Emerging infectious diseases (8 papers)Revue Scientifique et Technique de l OIE (7 papers)Zoo Biology (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom France

In The Last Decade

William B. Karesh

189 papers receiving 9.6k citations

Hit Papers

7 papers align trajectories log scale

Sustainable development must account for pandemic risk 2020 · 198 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2020 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2019 One Health
2017 Virus Evolution
2014 mBio
2012 The Lancet
2012 The Lancet
2004 Science

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1	Seroprevalence and Associated Risk Factors of Human Brucellosis in a Farming and Animal Health Community in South Africa, 2015–2016 Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease ·Jennifer Rossouw, Anastasia N. Trataris-Rebisz, Stefano Tempia, Melinda K. Rostal, William B. Karesh, Veerle Msimang	2025	0
2	Four unusual mortality events of seabirds in the Patagonian Sea, 2000–2006: species affected and possible causes Polar Biology ·Marcela Uhart, Ralph Eric Thijl Vanstreels, Flavio Quintana, Belén Mattera, Nora Montoya, Leonardo Guzmán, Henri Vallès, Gemita Pizarro, Carolina A. Marull, Luciana M. Pozzi, Torsten Mörner, Pablo García Borboroglu, Sarah Crofts, Robert A. Cook, William B. Karesh	2025	0
3	Guidelines for addressing disease risks in wildlife trade One Health ·William B. Karesh, Tiggy Grillo, Catherine Machalaba, Helen Roberts, François Díaz, Sophie Muset, Keith Hamilton	2025	1
4	Serological prevalence of Brucella spp. at the livestock-human interface in Jordan One Health ·Ehab A. Abu‐Basha, Zuhair Bani Ismail, Lea Widemann, Yasmin Daradkeh, Omar Alomarı, Alaa Fahmawi, Mais Lakaideh, Belal Sha’fout, Haia Mellhem, Leen Al-Bayari, Hani Talafha, Zaidoun Hijazeen, Bilal Al-Omari, Jean DeMarco, William B. Karesh	2024	1
5	Molecular diagnosis and phylogenetic analysis of a Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus human case in Jordan European Journal of Public Health ·Ehab A. Abu‐Basha, Zuhair Bani Ismail, Mohammad Hussien Alboom, Ayesha Alkofahi, Basil H. Amarneh, Omar Alomari, Alaa Fahmawi, Abdullah Alshammari, Mais Lakaideh, Shereen Shaban, Bilal Al-Omari, Hani Talafha, Zaidoun Hijazeen, Yasmin Daradkeh, Rabeh El‐Shesheny, Ghazi Kayali, Whitney Bagge, William B. Karesh	2024	1
6	Risk factors associated with exposure to Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus in animal workers and cattle, and molecular detection in ticks, South Africa PLoS neglected tropical diseases ·Veerle Msimang, Jacqueline Weyer, Chantel le Roux, Alan C. Kemp, Felicity J. Burt, Stefano Tempia, Antoinette A. Grobbelaar, Naazneen Moolla, Melinda K. Rostal, Whitney Bagge, Claudia Cordel, William B. Karesh, Janusz T. Pawęska, Peter N. Thompson	2021	31
7	Wildlife conservation status and disease trends: ten years of reports to the Worldwide Monitoring System for Wild Animal Diseases Revue Scientifique et Technique de l OIE ·Catherine Machalaba, Yasha Feferholtz, Marcela Uhart, William B. Karesh	2020	3
8	Implications of squirrelpox virus for successful red squirrel translocations within mainland UK Conservation Science and Practice ·Anthony W. Sainsbury, Julian Chantrey, John G. Ewen, John Gurnell, Peter J. Hudson, William B. Karesh, Richard Kock, Peter W. W. Lurz, Anna Meredith, Daniel M. Tompkins	2020	5
9	Patterns of Rift Valley fever virus seropositivity in domestic ruminants in central South Africa four years after a large outbreak Scientific Reports ·Yusuf B. Ngoshe, Alida Avenant, Melinda K. Rostal, William B. Karesh, Janusz T. Pawęska, Whitney Bagge, Petrus Jansen van Vuren, Alan C. Kemp, Claudia Cordel, Veerle Msimang, Peter N. Thompson	2020	26
10	Selected wetland soil properties correlate to Rift Valley fever livestock mortalities reported in 2009-10 in central South Africa PLoS ONE ·Anna M. Verster, Janice E. Liang, Melinda K. Rostal, Alan C. Kemp, Robert F. Brand, Assaf Anyamba, Claudia Cordel, Robert Schall, Herman Zwiegers, Janusz T. Pawęska, William B. Karesh, C. W. van Huyssteen	2020	4
11	Global Disease Outbreaks Associated with the 2015–2016 El Niño Event Scientific Reports ·Assaf Anyamba, Jean-Paul Chrétien, Seth C. Britch, Radina P. Soebiyanto, Jennifer Small, R L Jepsen, Brett M. Forshey, José Luis Sánchez‐Ramos, Ryan Smith, Ryan Harris, Compton J. Tucker, William B. Karesh, Kenneth J. Linthicum	2019	116
12	Rift Valley Fever Virus Exposure amongst Farmers, Farm Workers, and Veterinary Professionals in Central South Africa Viruses ·Veerle Msimang, Peter N. Thompson, Petrus Jansen van Vuren, Stefano Tempia, Claudia Cordel, Joe Kgaladi, Jimmy Khosa, Felicity J. Burt, Janice E. Liang, Melinda K. Rostal, William B. Karesh, Janusz T. Pawęska	2019	26
13	Rabies as a threat to wildlife Revue Scientifique et Technique de l OIE ·Margot Stuchin, C.M. MACHALABA, Kevin J. Olival, Marc Artois, R G Bengis, Pablo Cáceres, F. Ramos Díaz, E. ERLACHER-VINDEL, Simona Forcella, Frederick A. Leighton, Kouhei Murata, (unknown), Paolo Tizzani, Gregorio Torres, William B. Karesh	2018	17
14	Hotspots of canine leptospirosis in the United States of America The Veterinary Journal ·Allison M. White, Carlos Zambrana‐Torrelio, Toph Allen, Melinda K. Rostal, Andrea Wright, E. Ball, Peter Daszak, William B. Karesh	2017	42
15	Climate Change and Health: Transcending Silos to Find Solutions Annals of Global Health ·Catherine Machalaba, Cristina Romanelli, Peter Stoett, Sarah E. Baum, Timothy Bouley, Peter Daszak, William B. Karesh	2015	31
16	Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection in Dromedary Camels in Saudi Arabia mBio ·Abdulaziz N. Alagaili, Thomas Briese, Nischay Mishra, Vishal Kapoor, Stephen Sameroff, Emmie de Wit, Vincent J. Munster, Lisa E. Hensley, Iyad S. Zalmout, Amit Kapoor, Jonathan H. Epstein, William B. Karesh, Peter Daszak, Osama B. Mohammed, W. Ian Lipkin Hit paper breakdown →	2014	362
17	Implications of wildlife trade on the movement of avian influenza and other infectious diseases Journal of Wildlife Diseases ·William B. Karesh, Robert A. Cook, Martin Gilbert, James Newcomb	2007	72
18	Conservation and development interventions at the wildlife/livestock interface : implications for wildlife, livestock and human health. Proceedings of the Southern and East African experts panel on designing successful conservation... AHEAD (Animal Health for the Environment And Development) Forum IUCN eBooks ·Michael D. Kock, Angela Wei Hong Yang, Lisa Starr, William B. Karesh, Philip J. Nyhus, Sarah Cleaveland, Steven A. Osofsky	2005	4
19	Sylvatic transmission of arboviruses among Bornean orangutans. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ·Nathan Wolfe, Annelisa M. Kilbourn, William B. Karesh, H. Rahman, Edwin J. Bosi, Bruce C. Cropp, Mahedi Andau, Andrew Spielman, Duane J. Gubler	2001	146
20	Ticks Of The Genus Amblyomma lAcari c Ixodida c Ixodidaer From White lipped Peccariesc Tayassu Pecaric In Northeastern Boliviac With Comments On Host Specificity Entomological News ·Richard G. Robbins, William B. Karesh, R. Lilian E. Painter, S. Rosenberg	1998	4

About William B. Karesh

William B. Karesh is a scholar working on Agronomy and Crop Science, Infectious Diseases, Parasitology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Virology, having authored 193 papers that have together received 10.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Zoonotic diseases and public health (79 papers), Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (69 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (59 papers), Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (21 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (19 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (16 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (15 papers) and Bird parasitology and diseases (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Infectious Diseases (4.1k citations), Agronomy and Crop Science (2.0k citations), Modeling and Simulation (814 citations), Parasitology (894 citations) and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (3.5k citations). William B. Karesh has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Frequent co-authors include Peter Daszak, Robert A. Cook, Sharon L. Deem, Catherine Machalaba, W. Ian Lipkin, Jonna A. K. Mazet, Wendy Weisman, Nathan Wolfe, Carlos Zambrana‐Torrelio and Elizabeth L. Bennett. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Wildlife Diseases, PLoS ONE, Emerging infectious diseases, Revue Scientifique et Technique de l OIE and Zoo Biology.

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