Epidemics

Papers
(The median citation count of Epidemics is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Quantifying individual-level heterogeneity in infectiousness and susceptibility through household studies184
A prospective real-time transfer learning approach to estimate influenza hospitalizations with limited data100
Collaborative forecasting of influenza-like illness in Italy: The Influcast experience69
Data pipelines in a public health emergency: The human in the machine41
Seasonality as a driver of pH1N12009 influenza vaccination campaign impact40
Modeling the population-level impact of treatment on COVID-19 disease and SARS-CoV-2 transmission40
Accounting for historical injustices in mathematical models of infectious disease transmission: An analytic overview39
Asymptomatic but infectious – The silent driver of pathogen transmission. A pragmatic review38
Modelling the COVID-19 pandemic: Focusing on the case of Greece30
Realtime case study simulations of transmission of Pancreas Disease (PD) in Norwegian salmonid farming for disease control purposes29
Age-time-specific transmission of hand-foot-and-mouth disease enterovirus serotypes in Vietnam: A catalytic model with maternal immunity27
Contribution and quality of mathematical modeling evidence in World Health Organization guidelines: A systematic review27
A method to estimate the serial interval distribution under partially-sampled data25
The effective reproductive number: Modeling and prediction with application to the multi-wave Covid-19 pandemic24
Mumps epidemic dynamics in the United States before vaccination (1923–1932)24
Modelling COVID-19 in the North American region with a metapopulation network and Kalman filter23
Modelling outbreak response impact in human vaccine-preventable diseases: A systematic review of differences in practices between collaboration types before COVID-1922
A phenomenological approach to predicting tuberculosis cases with an assessment of measurement errors22
Education data needs and challenges for building back from COVID-1922
Modelling: Understanding pandemics and how to control them21
Inference for a spatio-temporal model with partial spatial data: African horse sickness virus in Morocco21
Ensemble 21
Mathematical modeling of COVID-19 in British Columbia: An age-structured model with time-dependent contact rates21
Estimating the impact of test–trace–isolate–quarantine systems on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Australia21
The triple epidemics of arboviruses in Feira de Santana, Brazilian Northeast: Epidemiological characteristics and diffusion patterns20
Epidemiological characteristics and transmissibility of HPV infection: A long-term retrospective study in Hokkien Golden Triangle, China, 2013–202120
The impact of household size on measles transmission: A long-term perspective20
Serodynamics: A primer and synthetic review of methods for epidemiological inference using serological data20
Building in-house capabilities in health agencies and outsourcing to academia or industry: Considerations for effective infectious disease modelling19
Extending EpiEstim to estimate the transmission advantage of pathogen variants in real-time: SARS-CoV-2 as a case-study19
A wastewater-based epidemic model for SARS-CoV-2 with application to three Canadian cities18
A model for reconstructing trends and distribution in age at first sex from multiple household surveys with reporting biases18
Estimating transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 at different intraspatial levels in an institutional outbreak18
Ceasing sampling at wastewater treatment plants where viral dynamics are most predictable18
Understanding MRSA clonal competition within a UK hospital; the possible importance of density dependence18
The effects of HIV self-testing on HIV incidence and awareness of status among men who have sex with men in the United States: Insights from a novel compartmental model17
A Cluster-Aggregate-Pool (CAP) ensemble algorithm for improved forecast performance of influenza-like illness17
Optimizing spatial distribution of wastewater-based epidemiology to advance health equity17
Modelling the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 during the first 14 days of infection17
Coordinated support for local action: Modeling strategies to facilitate behavior adoption in urban-poor communities of Liberia for sustained COVID-19 suppression16
First wave of SARS-CoV-2 in Santiago Chile: Seroprevalence, asymptomatic infection and infection fatality rate16
Estimating COVID-19 cases and deaths prevented by non-pharmaceutical interventions, and the impact of individual actions: A retrospective model-based analysis16
Public health impact of the U.S. Scenario Modeling Hub15
Sequential Monte Carlo Squared for online inference in stochastic epidemic models15
Learning associations of COVID-19 hospitalizations with wastewater viral signals by Markov modulated models15
Projecting the population-level impact of norovirus vaccines15
Dynamic network strategies for SARS-CoV-2 control on a cruise ship14
Complex model calibration through emulation, a worked example for a stochastic epidemic model14
Variation in pneumococcal invasiveness metrics is driven by serotype carriage duration and initial risk of disease14
Demonstrating multi-country calibration of a tuberculosis model using new history matching and emulation package - hmer14
Retrospective modelling of the disease and mortality burden of the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic in Zurich, Switzerland13
RAMPVIS: Answering the challenges of building visualisation capabilities for large-scale emergency responses13
Investigating the impact of edge weight selection on the pig trade network topology13
Outbreak reconstruction with a slowly evolving multi-host pathogen: A comparative study of three existing methods on Mycobacterium bovis outbreaks13
Modelling lymphatic filariasis elimination in American Samoa: GEOFIL predicts need for new targets and six rounds of mass drug administration13
A simulation-based approach for estimating the time-dependent reproduction number from temporally aggregated disease incidence time series data13
Preface of the African swine fever modelling challenge special issue13
Estimating measures to reduce the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Australia to guide a ‘National Plan’ to reopening12
Appropriately smoothing prevalence data to inform estimates of growth rate and reproduction number12
Considering waning immunity to better explain dengue dynamics12
Machine learning approaches for real-time ZIP code and county-level estimation of state-wide infectious disease hospitalizations using local health system data12
Wastewater-based epidemiology for COVID-19 surveillance and beyond: A survey12
Agent-based modeling of the COVID-19 pandemic in Florida12
Verifying infectious disease scenario planning for geographically diverse populations12
Advancing genomic epidemiology by addressing the bioinformatics bottleneck: Challenges, design principles, and a Swiss example12
Impact of vaccination and non-pharmaceutical interventions on SARS-CoV-2 dynamics in Switzerland12
Effective strategies to promote HIV self-testing for men who have sex with men: Evidence from a mathematical model12
SARS-CoV-2 transmission patterns in educational settings during the Alpha wave in Reggio-Emilia, Italy12
Bayesian monitoring of COVID-19 in Sweden11
Does spatial information improve forecasting of influenza-like illness?11
The risk of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant emergence in low and middle-income countries (LMICs)11
Applying mixture model methods to SARS-CoV-2 serosurvey data from Geneva11
A quantitative assessment of epidemiological parameters required to investigate COVID-19 burden11
Transmission dynamics of an antimicrobial resistant Campylobacter jejuni lineage in New Zealand’s commercial poultry network11
A country-specific model of COVID-19 vaccination coverage needed for herd immunity in adult only or population wide vaccination programme11
Explaining the stable coexistence of drug-resistant and -susceptible pathogens: the resistance acquisition purifying selection model11
In the shadow of privacy: Overlooked ethical concerns in COVID-19 digital epidemiology10
Assessing the risk of cascading COVID-19 outbreaks from prison-to-prison transfers10
Reconstructing the first COVID-19 pandemic wave with minimal data in England10
Challenges in evaluating risks and policy options around endemic establishment or elimination of novel pathogens10
Scenario design for infectious disease projections: Integrating concepts from decision analysis and experimental design10
Estimating age-stratified transmission and reproduction numbers during the early exponential phase of an epidemic: A case study with COVID-19 data10
Coughs, colds and “freshers’ flu” survey in the University of Cambridge, 2007–200810
Lives saved by public health restrictions over the Victorian COVID-19 Delta variant epidemic wave, Aug-Nov 202110
Modeling the transmission of antibiotic-resistant Enterobacterales in the community: A systematic review9
Malaria temporal dynamic clustering for surveillance and intervention planning9
Nationally representative social contact patterns among U.S. adults, August 2020-April 20219
COVID-19 in Scottish care homes: A metapopulation model of spread among residents and staff9
A case for ongoing structural support to maximise infectious disease modelling efficiency for future public health emergencies: A modelling perspective9
The impact of reactive case detection on malaria transmission in Zanzibar in the presence of human mobility9
Challenges on the interaction of models and policy for pandemic control9
A new logistic growth model applied to COVID-19 fatality data9
The impact of inaccurate assumptions about antibody test accuracy on the parametrisation and results of infectious disease models of epidemics8
Dose response for Salmonella Typhimurium and Enteritidis and other nontyphoid enteric salmonellae8
Estimation of the probability of epidemic fade-out from multiple outbreak data8
Predicting the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19 on Mycoplasma pneumoniae in the United States8
Inferring transmission routes for foot-and-mouth disease virus within a cattle herd using approximate Bayesian computation8
Forecasting SARS-CoV-2 epidemic dynamic in Poland with the pDyn agent-based model8
Real-time estimates of the emergence and dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern: A modeling approach8
Challenges for modelling interventions for future pandemics8
Impact of COVID-19 control measures on respiratory syncytial virus and hand-foot-and-mouth disease transmission in Hong Kong and South Korea8
Infectious disease dynamics and restrictions on social gathering size8
Rapid transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 within a religious sect in South Korea: A mathematical modeling study8
Enhancing seasonal influenza projections: A mechanistic metapopulation model for long-term scenario planning8
A comparison of COVID-19 outbreaks across US Combined Statistical Areas using new methods for estimating 8
Globally local: Hyper-local modeling for accurate forecast of COVID-198
Direct and indirect effects of hepatitis B vaccination in four low- and middle-income countries8
Modeling the impact of different PrEP targeting strategies combined with a clinic-based HIV-1 nucleic acid testing intervention in Kenya8
A combination of probabilistic and mechanistic approaches for predicting the spread of African swine fever on Merry Island8
Determinants of RSV epidemiology following suppression through pandemic contact restrictions8
Quantification of the spread of SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 in Switzerland7
Robust phylodynamic inference and model specification for HIV transmission dynamics7
Small area population denominators for improved disease surveillance and response7
Challenges in modeling the emergence of novel pathogens7
Density forecasting of conjunctivitis burden using high-dimensional environmental time series data7
Social contact patterns following the COVID-19 pandemic: a snapshot of post-pandemic behaviour from the CoMix study7
COVSIM: A stochastic agent-based COVID-19 SIMulation model for North Carolina7
Modelling how face masks and symptoms-based quarantine synergistically and cost-effectively reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Bangladesh7
Recalibrating the notion of modelling for policymaking during pandemics7
A novel method to jointly estimate transmission rate and decay rate parameters in environmental transmission models7
Unveiling ecological/evolutionary insights in HIV viral load dynamics: Allowing random slopes to observe correlational changes to CpG-contents and other molecular and clinical predictors7
Testing a simple and frugal model of health protective behaviour in epidemic times7
An exploration of within-herd dynamics of a transboundary livestock disease: A foot and mouth disease case study7
Timeliness of reporting of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence results and their utility for infectious disease surveillance6
Dynamics of Neisseria gonorrhoeae transmission among female sex workers and clients: A mathematical modeling study6
Trypanosoma cruzi infection in dogs along the US-Mexico border: R changes with vector species composition6
Inference of epidemic dynamics in the COVID-19 era and beyond6
Onset of infectiousness explains differences in transmissibility across Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages6
Estimation of the infection attack rate of mumps in an outbreak among college students using paired serology6
Changing social contact patterns among US workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: April 2020 to December 20216
Small area population denominators for improved disease surveillance and response6
Simulated effects of increasing salmonid production on sea lice populations in Norway6
Data-driven mechanistic framework with stratified immunity and effective transmissibility for COVID-19 scenario projections6
Gaps in mobility data and implications for modelling epidemic spread: A scoping review and simulation study6
Impact of vaccine effectiveness and coverage on preventing large mumps outbreaks on college campuses: Implications for vaccination strategy6
A Deep Learning Approach for Enhancing Pandemic Prediction: A Retrospective Evaluation of Transformer Neural Networks and Multi-Source Data Fusion for Infectious Disease Forecasting6
SIR… or MADAM? The impact of privilege on careers in epidemic modelling6
Acquisition and clearance dynamics of Campylobacter spp. in children in low- and middle-income countries6
Contents6
Optimal capacity sharing for global genomic surveillance5
Estimating social contact rates for the COVID-19 pandemic using Google mobility and pre-pandemic contact surveys5
Investigating the relationship between interventions, contact patterns, and SARS-CoV-2 transmissibility5
Data needs for better surveillance and response to infectious disease threats5
Data needs for integrated economic-epidemiological models of pandemic mitigation policies5
The role of regular asymptomatic testing in reducing the impact of a COVID-19 wave5
The challenges of data in future pandemics5
Transmission dynamics of Norovirus GII and Enterovirus in Switzerland during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021–2022) as evidenced in wastewater5
Symptom-based vs asymptomatic testing for controlling SARS-CoV-2 transmission in low- and middle-income countries: A modelling analysis5
Association between meteorological factors and the epidemics of influenza (sub)types in a subtropical basin of Southwest China5
Modelling the dynamics of infection, waning of immunity and re-infection with the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 in Aotearoa New Zealand5
On the contact tracing for COVID-19: A simulation study5
The African swine fever modelling challenge: Objectives, model description and synthetic data generation5
Spatially targeted digital chest radiography to reduce tuberculosis in high-burden settings: A study of adaptive decision making5
When do we need multiple infectious disease models? Agreement between projection rank and magnitude in a multi-model setting5
Accounting for the geometry of the respiratory tract in viral infections5
flepiMoP: The evolution of a flexible infectious disease modeling pipeline during the COVID-19 pandemic5
Nowcasting and forecasting the 2022 U.S. mpox outbreak: Support for public health decision making and lessons learned5
Why does age at HIV infection correlate with set point viral load? An evolutionary hypothesis5
Assessing the efficacy of interventions to control indoor SARS-Cov-2 transmission: An agent-based modeling approach5
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