David Simons

Medicine

Pilot corpus only

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datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6· scope data_onlyMethodology

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An author's DataRank is the sum of the DataRanks of all 1 indexed paper attributed to them. A prolific author with many moderate-impact papers can outrank one with a single high-impact paper.

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Papers

Driven by 9 papers. Top paper: “Mitigating the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on sickle cell disease services in African countries”.

Mitigating the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on sickle cell disease services in African countries

The Lancet Haematology(2020)10.1016/s2352-3026(20)30122-8

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0.457DataRank · unranked

20 citations

David Simons, Charles Kiyaga, Nathan Kapata, Francine Ntoumi, Richard Kock +2 more

Reducing the threats of rodent-borne zoonoses requires an understanding and leveraging of three key pillars: disease ecology, synanthropy, and rodentation

The Lancet Planetary Health(2025)10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.101300

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0.416DataRank · unranked

15 citations

Janine Mistrick, Angela D. Luis, Christina A. Harden, David Simons, Élisabeth Fichet-Calvet +14 more

Developing transmissible vaccines for animal infections

Science(2024)10.1126/science.adn3231

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0.385DataRank · unranked

12 citations

Megan E. Griffiths, Rustom Antia, Laura M. Bergner, Peter Bowman, Maria Vitoria dos Santos de Moraes +18 more

The association of smoking status with SARS-CoV-2 infection, hospitalisation and mortality from COVID-19: A living rapid evidence review with Bayesian meta-analyses (version 12)

10.32388/ujr2aw.14

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0.208DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Lion Shahab, Jamie Brown, Olga Perski, David Simons

Increased outbreaks of monkeypox highlight gaps in actual disease burden in Sub-Saharan Africa and in animal reservoirs

International Journal of Infectious Diseases(2022)10.1016/j.ijid.2022.05.058

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0DataRank · unranked

127 citations

Javier Guitián, David Simons, Danny Asogun, Rashid Ansumana, Isobella Honeyborne +7 more

Scaling Lassa Virus Dynamics within Anthropogenic Ecosystems (SCAPES) study: a mixed-methods observational cohort study of humans, rodents, and landscapes in Nigeria

medRxiv(2025)10.1101/2025.09.12.25335176

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0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

David Simons, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Rory Gibb, Christina A. Harden, Natalie Imirzian +7 more

Cross-sectional seroprevalence study of Lassa fever in three southern Nigerian states

medRxiv(2025)10.64898/2025.12.17.25342407

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0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Christina A. Harden, Natalie Imirzian, Katharine E. T. Thompson, Nzube M. Ifebueme, Sunday Eziechina +9 more

A protocol for biodiversity-informed wildlife disease surveillance

California Digital Library(2025)10.32942/x21d36

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0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Francis Banville, Amélie Boutin, Cole Brookson, Colin Carlson, Gabriel Dansereau +8 more

Passengers' destinations from China: low risk of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) transmission into Africa and South America

Epidemiology and Infection(2020)10.1017/s0950268820000424

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0DataRank · unranked

148 citations

Alexei Yavlinsky, David Simons, Abdinasir Yusuf Osman, Francine Ntoumi, Alimuddin Zumla +2 more