OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases is 25. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Tick-borne diseases and co-infection: Current considerations	64
What do we still need to know about Ixodes ricinus?	58
Host association of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato: A review	56
Tick exposures and alpha-gal syndrome: A systematic review of the evidence	54
Prevalence of single and coinfections of human pathogens in Ixodes ticks from five geographical regions in the United States, 2013–2019	47
Cattle ticks and tick-borne diseases: a review of Uganda's situation	46
Vector competence of Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu stricto for Anaplasma platys	45
Nuclear (18S-28S rRNA) and mitochondrial genome markers of Carios (Carios) vespertilionis (Argasidae) support Carios Latreille, 1796 as a lineage embedded in the Ornithodorinae: re-classification of t	44
Phylogenies from mitochondrial genomes of 120 species of ticks: Insights into the evolution of the families of ticks and of the genus Amblyomma	42
The biology of Ixodes ricinus with emphasis on its ecology	37
Tick-borne encephalitis outbreak following raw goat milk consumption in a new micro-location, Croatia, June 2019	36
Rhipicephalus linnaei (Audouin, 1826) recognised as the “tropical lineage” of the brown dog tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato: Neotype designation, redescription, and establishment of morpholog	35
Control of ixodid ticks and prevention of tick-borne diseases in the United States: The prospect of a new Lyme disease vaccine and the continuing problem with tick exposure on residential properties	34
The emergence of human Powassan virus infection in North America	32
A multi-seasonal study investigating the phenology, host and habitat associations, and pathogens of Haemaphysalis longicornis in Virginia, U.S.A	29
Molecular identification of tick-borne pathogens (Rickettsia spp., Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, Coxiella burnetii and piroplasms) in questing and feeding hard ticks from	29
Context matters: Contrasting behavioral and residential risk factors for Lyme disease between high-incidence states in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States	28
Rhipicephalus microplus: An overview of vaccine antigens against the cattle tick	27
A metagenomic examination of the pathobiome of the invasive tick species, Haemaphysalis longicornis, collected from a New York City borough, USA	27
Tick species identification and molecular detection of tick-borne pathogens in blood and ticks collected from cattle in Egypt	26
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes), a possible reservoir of Babesia vulpes, B. canis and Hepatozoon canis and its association with the tick Dermacentor reticulatus occurrence	26
Tick-borne encephalitis virus in Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae) ticks, Tunisia	26
Molecular survey on tick-borne pathogens and Leishmania infantum in red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) from southern Italy	26
Repeat tick exposure elicits distinct immune responses in guinea pigs and mice	25
The genus Rickettsia in Mexico: Current knowledge and perspectives	25

Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) on birds migrating to the island of Ponza, Italy, and the tick-borne pathogens they carry