OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Epidemics is 8. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The early phase of the COVID-19 epidemic in Lombardy, Italy	139
The time scale of asymptomatic transmission affects estimates of epidemic potential in the COVID-19 outbreak	114
The effects of border control and quarantine measures on the spread of COVID-19	59
Estimating the generation interval and inferring the latent period of COVID-19 from the contact tracing data	53
A wastewater-based epidemic model for SARS-CoV-2 with application to three Canadian cities	52
Modelling the early phase of the Belgian COVID-19 epidemic using a stochastic compartmental model and studying its implied future trajectories	52
Estimation of the incubation period of COVID-19 using viral load data	43
Memory is key in capturing COVID-19 epidemiological dynamics	43
Chopping the tail: How preventing superspreading can help to maintain COVID-19 control	39
A model for COVID-19 with isolation, quarantine and testing as control measures	34
Quantification of the spread of SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 in Switzerland	31
Estimated prevalence of undiagnosed HCV infected individuals in Italy: A mathematical model by route of transmission and fibrosis progression	30
Assessing the nationwide impact of COVID-19 mitigation policies on the transmission rate of SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil	30
Challenges for modelling interventions for future pandemics	29
Influencing public health policy with data-informed mathematical models of infectious diseases: Recent developments and new challenges	29
Impact of vaccination and non-pharmaceutical interventions on SARS-CoV-2 dynamics in Switzerland	28
Noroviruses are highly infectious but there is strong variation in host susceptibility and virus pathogenicity	28
How mechanistic modelling supports decision making for the control of enzootic infectious diseases	25
Modeling waning and boosting of COVID-19 in Canada with vaccination	23
An evaluation of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo performance to calibrate age-structured compartmental SEIR models to incidence data	22
Designing a typhoid environmental surveillance study: A simulation model for optimum sampling site allocation	21
The impact of lockdown strategies targeting age groups on the burden of COVID-19 in France	20
Challenges in modelling the dynamics of infectious diseases at the wildlife–human interface	20
Assessing the efficacy of interventions to control indoor SARS-Cov-2 transmission: An agent-based modeling approach	19
Assessing the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Belgium by means of an extended SEIQRD model and public mobility data	19

COVID-19 Belgium: Extended SEIR-QD model with nursing homes and long-term scenarios-based forecasts	19
Challenges in estimation, uncertainty quantification and elicitation for pandemic modelling	18
Rational evaluation of various epidemic models based on the COVID-19 data of China	18
Determinants of RSV epidemiology following suppression through pandemic contact restrictions	17
Lessons for preparedness and reasons for concern from the early COVID-19 epidemic in Iran	17
Modelling SARS-CoV-2 transmission in a UK university setting	16
To quarantine, or not to quarantine: A theoretical framework for disease control via contact tracing	16
The impact of social distancing, contact tracing, and case isolation interventions to suppress the COVID-19 epidemic: A modeling study	14
A new logistic growth model applied to COVID-19 fatality data	14
Competition between RSV and influenza: Limits of modelling inference from surveillance data	14
Social contact patterns among employees in 3 U.S. companies during early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, April to June 2020	14
COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan demonstrates the limitations of publicly available case numbers for epidemiological modeling	14
Challenges of evaluating and modelling vaccination in emerging infectious diseases	14
Appropriately smoothing prevalence data to inform estimates of growth rate and reproduction number	14
Modelling suggests ABO histo-incompatibility may substantially reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission	13
Quantifying transmission fitness costs of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis	13
Impacts of K-12 school reopening on the COVID-19 epidemic in Indiana, USA	13
Optimal allocation of PCR tests to minimise disease transmission through contact tracing and quarantine	13
Variability in transmission risk of SARS-CoV-2 in close contact settings: A contact tracing study in Shandong Province, China	13
Bayesian sequential data assimilation for COVID-19 forecasting	13
The African swine fever modelling challenge: Model comparison and lessons learnt	12
Pseudo-likelihood based logistic regression for estimating COVID-19 infection and case fatality rates by gender, race, and age in California	12
Optimizing COVID-19 control with asymptomatic surveillance testing in a university environment	12
Challenges in modeling the emergence of novel pathogens	12
Nationally representative social contact patterns among U.S. adults, August 2020-April 2021	12
How much leeway is there to relax COVID-19 control measures?	12
Mathematical modeling of COVID-19 in British Columbia: An age-structured model with time-dependent contact rates	11
Modelling the dynamics of infection, waning of immunity and re-infection with the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 in Aotearoa New Zealand	11
RAMPVIS: Answering the challenges of building visualisation capabilities for large-scale emergency responses	11
Optimally pooled viral testing	11
Emergence of zoonoses such as COVID-19 reveals the need for health sciences to embrace an explicit eco-social conceptual framework of health and disease	10
Identification and evaluation of epidemic prediction and forecasting reporting guidelines: A systematic review and a call for action	10
Communicating uncertainty in epidemic models	10
Quantifying mechanistic traits of influenza viral dynamics using in vitro data	10
The challenges of data in future pandemics	10
Mathematical modelling of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review	10
Emergence of pertactin-deficient pertussis strains in Australia can be explained by models of vaccine escape	9
Estimating COVID-19 cases and deaths prevented by non-pharmaceutical interventions, and the impact of individual actions: A retrospective model-based analysis	9
Challenges on the interaction of models and policy for pandemic control	9
Bayesian epidemiological modeling over high-resolution network data	8
Assessing the risk of cascading COVID-19 outbreaks from prison-to-prison transfers	8
Tooling-up for infectious disease transmission modelling	8
Complementary roles of wild boar and red deer to animal tuberculosis maintenance in multi-host communities	8
A combination of probabilistic and mechanistic approaches for predicting the spread of African swine fever on Merry Island	8
Sustaining effective COVID-19 control in Malaysia through large-scale vaccination	8
Recalibrating the notion of modelling for policymaking during pandemics	8
Estimation of the probability of epidemic fade-out from multiple outbreak data	8
Investigating the relationship between interventions, contact patterns, and SARS-CoV-2 transmissibility	8
A quantitative assessment of epidemiological parameters required to investigate COVID-19 burden	8
Dynamics of livestock-associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in pig movement networks: Insight from mathematical modeling and French data	8