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D-Index
45
Citations
7938
World Ranking
812
National Ranking
85

Damer P. Blake publication distribution in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Damer P. Blake sits on this spectrum.

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29 publications 442+

This scientist: 185 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 442 publications or more.

Damer P. Blake D-index placement in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Animal Science and Veterinary scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Damer P. Blake sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 45 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 77 D-Index or more.

Overview

Damer P. Blake is affiliated with the Royal Veterinary College in the United Kingdom. Their research activity primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Animal Science and Zoology, Small Animals, Parasitology, Food Science, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist is notably engaged in topics concerning coccidia and coccidiosis research, animal nutrition and physiology, veterinary medicine and infectious diseases, helminth infection and control, bird parasitology and diseases, parasitic infections and diagnostics, and livestock and poultry management.

Recent publications by Damer P. Blake include:

  • Re-calculating the cost of coccidiosis in chickens, 2020, Veterinary Research
  • Genetic and biological characterisation of three cryptic Eimeria operational taxonomic units that infect chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus), 2021, International Journal for Parasitology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Blake are:

  • Fiona M. Tomley (41 publications)
  • Guillaume Fournié (13 publications)
  • Dong Xia (12 publications)
  • Virginia Marugán-Hernández (10 publications)
  • Chaitanya G. Joshi (10 publications)

The scientist's works are often published in the following venues:

  • Avian Pathology (11 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (8 publications)
  • Frontiers in Veterinary Science (5 publications)
  • Frontiers in Immunology (4 publications)
  • PLoS ONE (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • Re-calculating the cost of coccidiosis in chickens.

    Damer P. Blake;Jolene Knox;Ben Dehaeck;Ben Huntington

  • Securing poultry production from the ever-present Eimeria challenge.

    Damer P. Blake;Fiona M. Tomley

  • A selective review of advances in coccidiosis research.

    H David Chapman;John R Barta;Damer Blake;Arthur Gruber

  • Genomic analysis of the causative agents of coccidiosis in domestic chickens

    Adam James Reid;Damer Peter Blake;Hifzur Rahman Ansari;Karen Billington

  • Challenges in the successful control of the avian coccidia.

    Martin W. Shirley;Adrian L. Smith;Darner P. Blake

  • Microbial diversity and community composition of caecal microbiota in commercial and indigenous Indian chickens determined using 16s rDNA amplicon sequencing.

    Ramesh J. Pandit;Ankit T. Hinsu;Namrata V. Patel;Prakash G. Koringa

  • Transfer of antibiotic resistance between commensal and pathogenic members of the Enterobacteriaceae under ileal conditions

    D.P. Blake;K. Hillman;D.R. Fenlon;J.C. Low

  • Anticoccidial drug resistance in fowl coccidia: the state of play revisited

    R Z Abbas;Z Iqbal;D P Blake;M N Khan

  • Effects of Eimeria tenella infection on chicken caecal microbiome diversity, exploring variation associated with severity of pathology

    Sarah E Macdonald;Matthew J Nolan;Kimberley Harman;Kay Boulton

  • Genetic Mapping Identifies Novel Highly Protective Antigens for an Apicomplexan Parasite

    Damer P. Blake;Karen J. Billington;Susan L. Copestake;Richard D. Oakes

  • Influence of tetracycline exposure on tetracycline resistance and the carriage of tetracycline resistance genes within commensal Escherichia coli populations.

    D.P. Blake;R.W. Humphry;K.P. Scott;K. Hillman

  • Vaccines as alternatives to antibiotics for food producing animals. Part 1: challenges and needs

    Karin Hoelzer;Lisa Bielke;Damer P. Blake;Eric Cox

  • Population, genetic and antigenic diversity of the apicomplexan Eimeria tenella and their relevance to vaccine development

    Damer P. Blake;Emily L. Clark;Sarah E. Macdonald;Venkatachalam Thenmozhi

  • Poultry Coccidiosis: Design and Interpretation of Vaccine Studies.

    Francesca Soutter;Dirk Werling;Fiona M Tomley;Damer P Blake

  • Molecular approaches to diversity of populations of apicomplexan parasites

    Hans Peter Beck;Damer Blake;Marie Laure Dardé;Ingrid Felger

  • Insights on adaptive and innate immunity in canine leishmaniosis.

    Shazia Hosein;Damer P. Blake;Laia Solano-Gallego

  • Eimeria species parasites as novel vaccine delivery vectors: anti-Campylobacter jejuni protective immunity induced by Eimeria tenella-delivered CjaA.

    Julie D. Clark;Richard D. Oakes;Keith Redhead;Colin F. Crouch

  • Quantitative real-time PCR assays for detection and quantification of all seven Eimeria species that infect the chicken

    Vladmir Vrba;Damer P. Blake;Martin Poplstein

  • Cryptic Eimeria genotypes are common across the southern but not northern hemisphere

    Emily L. Clark;Sarah E. Macdonald;V. Thenmozhi;Krishnendu Kundu

  • Controlling the causative agents of coccidiosis in domestic chickens; an eye on the past and considerations for the future

    Elizabeth Attree;Gonzalo Sanchez-Arsuaga;Michelle Jones;Dong Xia

  • An optimised protocol for molecular identification of Eimeria from chickens

    Saroj Kumar;Rajat Garg;Abdalgader Moftah;Emily L. Clark

  • Recombinant anticoccidial vaccines - a cup half full?

    Damer P. Blake;Iván Pastor-Fernández;Matthew J. Nolan;Fiona M. Tomley

  • The Role of Sialyl Glycan Recognition in Host Tissue Tropism of the Avian Parasite Eimeria tenella

    Livia Lai;Janene M Bumstead;Yan Liu;James P. Garnett

  • Vaccines as alternatives to antibiotics for food producing animals. Part 2: new approaches and potential solutions.

    Karin Hoelzer;Lisa Bielke;Damer P. Blake;Eric Cox

Frequent Co-Authors

Fiona M. Tomley
Fiona M. Tomley Royal Veterinary College
Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith University of Oxford
Matthew J. Nolan
Matthew J. Nolan Royal Veterinary College
Javier Guitian
Javier Guitian Royal Veterinary College
David A. Hume
David A. Hume University of Queensland
Peter K. Kaiser
Peter K. Kaiser Cleveland Clinic
Jonathan Rushton
Jonathan Rushton University of Liverpool
Mark A. Fox
Mark A. Fox University of Zurich
Ilias Kyriazakis
Ilias Kyriazakis Queen's University Belfast
Ilias Giannenas
Ilias Giannenas Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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