William S. Hart

866 total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 342 citations indexed

About

William S. Hart is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Modeling and Simulation and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, William S. Hart has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 342 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Infectious Diseases, 17 papers in Modeling and Simulation and 7 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in William S. Hart's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (17 papers), Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (9 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (7 papers). William S. Hart is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (17 papers), Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (9 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (7 papers). William S. Hart collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Japan and Slovakia. William S. Hart's co-authors include Robin N. Thompson, Philip K. Maini, Elizabeth Miller, Nick Andrews, Sebastian Funk, Pauline Waight, Sam Abbott, Shingo Iwami, Joel Hellewell and Akira Endo and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William S. Hart

20 papers receiving 338 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Generation time of the alpha and delta SARS-CoV-2 variants: an epidemiological analysis

2022 141 citations William S. Hart, Elizabeth Miller et al. The Lancet Infectious Diseases profile →

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Jessica E. Stockdale Canada

Zhifei Zhan China

Sebastian C. Binder Germany

Duncan Kioi Gathungu Kenya

Sebastián Contreras Chile

Qianlai Sun China

Julie Figoni France

Rahul Subramanian United States

Shoya Iwanami Japan

Rachel Waema Mbogo Kenya

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William S. Hart

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hart, William S., et al.. (2025). Effects of individual variation and seasonal vaccination on disease risks. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8471–8471.

Miura, Fuminari, Masahiro Ishikane, Noriko Iwamoto, et al.. (2025). Modeling lesion transition dynamics to clinically characterize patients with clade I mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Science Translational Medicine. 17(805). eads4773–eads4773.

Plank, Michael J., et al.. (2025). Estimation of end-of-outbreak probabilities in the presence of delayed and incomplete case reporting. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2039). 20242825–20242825. 2 indexed citations

Hart, William S., et al.. (2025). Climate variability amplifies the need for vector-borne disease outbreak preparedness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(34). e2507311122–e2507311122.

Ejima, Keisuke, Shoya Iwanami, William S. Hart, et al.. (2025). A modeling study to define guidelines for antigen screening in schools and workplaces to mitigate COVID-19 outbreaks. Communications Medicine. 5(1). 2–2. 2 indexed citations

Hart, William S., et al.. (2025). Reducing transmission in multiple settings is required to eliminate the risk of major Ebola outbreaks: a mathematical modelling study. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 22(224). 20240765–20240765.

Hart, William S., Mory Keïta, Steve Ahuka‐Mundeke, et al.. (2024). Optimizing the timing of an end-of-outbreak declaration: Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Science Advances. 10(27). eado7576–eado7576. 3 indexed citations

Hart, William S., Robin N. Thompson, Masahiro Ishikane, et al.. (2024). Modelling the effectiveness of an isolation strategy for managing mpox outbreaks with variable infectiousness profiles. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7112–7112. 4 indexed citations

Obolski, Uri, Lantao Sun, William S. Hart, et al.. (2024). The impact of natural climate variability on the global distribution of Aedes aegypti: a mathematical modelling study. The Lancet Planetary Health. 8(12). e1079–e1087. 4 indexed citations

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Thompson, Robin N., William S. Hart, Ibrahima Socé Fall, et al.. (2024). Using real-time modelling to inform the 2017 Ebola outbreak response in DR Congo. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5667–5667. 8 indexed citations

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Hart, William S., Jiao Song, Jonathan A. Polonsky, et al.. (2024). A simulation-based approach for estimating the time-dependent reproduction number from temporally aggregated disease incidence time series data. Epidemics. 47. 100773–100773. 4 indexed citations

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Hart, William S., et al.. (2023). Exact calculation of end-of-outbreak probabilities using contact tracing data. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 20(209). 20230374–20230374. 6 indexed citations

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Hart, William S., Robin N. Thompson, Akiko Makino, et al.. (2023). Contact-number-driven virus evolution: A multi-level modeling framework for the evolution of acute or persistent RNA virus infection. PLoS Computational Biology. 19(5). e1011173–e1011173. 3 indexed citations

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Hart, William S., et al.. (2023). Analysis of the risk and pre-emptive control of viral outbreaks accounting for within-host dynamics: SARS-CoV-2 as a case study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(41). e2305451120–e2305451120. 6 indexed citations

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Kim, Kwang Su, William S. Hart, Robin N. Thompson, et al.. (2023). Isolation may select for earlier and higher peak viral load but shorter duration in SARS-CoV-2 evolution. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7395–7395. 5 indexed citations

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Hart, William S., et al.. (2023). A practical guide to mathematical methods for estimating infectious disease outbreak risks. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 562. 111417–111417. 19 indexed citations

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Hart, William S., Elizabeth Miller, Nick Andrews, et al.. (2022). Generation time of the alpha and delta SARS-CoV-2 variants: an epidemiological analysis. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 22(5). 603–610. 141 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hart, William S., et al.. (2022). A direct comparison of methods for assessing the threat from emerging infectious diseases in seasonally varying environments. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 548. 111195–111195. 11 indexed citations

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Hart, William S., Philip K. Maini, & Robin N. Thompson. (2021). High infectiousness immediately before COVID-19 symptom onset highlights the importance of continued contact tracing. eLife. 10. 49 indexed citations

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Hart, William S., et al.. (2019). Accurate forecasts of the effectiveness of interventions against Ebola may require models that account for variations in symptoms during infection. Epidemics. 29. 100371–100371. 18 indexed citations

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