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D-Index
87
Citations
25026
World Ranking
806
National Ranking
373

Durland Fish publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Durland Fish sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 171 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Durland Fish D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Durland Fish sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 87 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

Durland Fish is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology. Their work focuses on infectious diseases, public health, environmental and occupational health, parasitology, as well as ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's research centers on topics related to viral infections and vectors, mosquito-borne diseases and control, vector-borne infectious diseases, viral infections and outbreaks research, vector-borne animal diseases, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, and plant virus research studies.

Publications by Durland Fish include the following recent papers:

  • Emergence potential of mosquito-borne arboviruses from the Florida Everglades, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Seasonal Dynamics of Mosquito-Borne Viruses in the Southwestern Florida Everglades, 2016, 2017, 2022, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Everglades virus: an underrecognized disease-causing subtype of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus endemic to Florida, USA, 2023, Journal of Medical Entomology
  • A ticking time bomb hidden in plain sight, 2023, Science Translational Medicine
  • Host-Feeding Behavior of Mosquitoes in the Florida Everglades, 2024, Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Frequent publication venues for this scientist include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Journal of Medical Entomology
  • Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases
  • Science Translational Medicine

Frequent co-authors working with Durland Fish are:

  • John F. Anderson
  • Philip M. Armstrong
  • Michael J. Misencik
  • Angela Bransfield
  • Theodore G. Andreadis

Best Publications

  • The Clinical Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Lyme Disease, Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

    Gary P. Wormser;Raymond J. Dattwyler;Eugene D. Shapiro;John J. Halperin

  • The biological and social phenomenon of Lyme disease

    Alan G. Barbour;Durland Fish

  • Prophylaxis with Single-Dose Doxycycline for the Prevention of Lyme Disease after an Ixodes scapularis Tick Bite

    Robert B. Nadelman;John Nowakowski;Durland Fish;Richard C. Falco

  • The Lyme disease agent exploits a tick protein to infect the mammalian host

    Nandhini Ramamoorthi;Sukanya Narasimhan;Utpal Pal;Fukai Bao

  • Fundamental processes in the evolutionary ecology of Lyme borreliosis

    Klaus Kurtenbach;Klára Hanincová;Jean I. Tsao;Gabriele Margos

  • Humans infected with relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia miyamotoi, Russia.

    Alexander E. Platonov;Ludmila S. Karan;Nadezhda M. Kolyasnikova;Natalya A. Makhneva

  • Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Lyme Disease

    Gary P. Wormser;Robert B. Nadelman;Raymond J. Dattwyler;David T. Dennis

  • Ecology: a prerequisite for malaria elimination and eradication.

    Heather M. Ferguson;Anna Dornhaus;Arlyne Beeche;Christian Borgemeister

  • Sequence typing reveals extensive strain diversity of the Lyme borreliosis agents Borrelia burgdorferi in North America and Borrelia afzelii in Europe

    Jonas Bunikis;Ulf Garpmo;Jean I Tsao;Johan Berglund

  • Gut Microbiota of the Tick Vector Ixodes scapularis Modulate Colonization of the Lyme Disease Spirochete

    Sukanya Narasimhan;Nallakkandi Rajeevan;Lei Liu;Yang O. Zhao

  • MLST of housekeeping genes captures geographic population structure and suggests a European origin of Borrelia burgdorferi

    Gabriele Margos;Anne G. Gatewood;David M. Aanensen;Klára Hanincová

  • A relapsing fever group spirochete transmitted by Ixodes scapularis ticks.

    Glen A. Scoles;Michele Papero;Lorenza Beati;Durland Fish

  • Niche partitioning of Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia miyamotoi in the same tick vector and mammalian reservoir species

    Alan G. Barbour;Jonas Bunikis;Bridgit Travinsky;Anne Gatewood Hoen

  • Effect of Climate Change on Lyme Disease Risk in North America.

    John S. Brownstein;John S. Brownstein;John S. Brownstein;Theodore R. Holford;Durland Fish

  • An ecological approach to preventing human infection: Vaccinating wild mouse reservoirs intervenes in the Lyme disease cycle

    Jean I. Tsao;J. Timothy Wootton;Jonas Bunikis;Maria Gabriela Luna

  • A climate-based model predicts the spatial distribution of the Lyme disease vector Ixodes scapularis in the United States.

    John S Brownstein;Theodore R Holford;Durland Fish

  • Effect of Tick Removal on Transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi and Ehrlichia phagocytophila by Ixodes scapularis Nymphs

    Franka des Vignes;Joseph Piesman;Richard Heffernan;Terry L. Schulze

  • Human Risk of Infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme Disease Agent, in Eastern United States

    Maria A. Diuk-Wasser;Anne Gatewood Hoen;Paul Cislo;Robert Brinkerhoff

  • Forest fragmentation predicts local scale heterogeneity of Lyme disease risk

    John S. Brownstein;John S. Brownstein;John S. Brownstein;David K. Skelly;Theodore R. Holford;Durland Fish

  • Population genetics, taxonomy, phylogeny and evolution of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato

    Gabriele Margos;Stephanie A. Vollmer;Nicholas H. Ogden;Durland Fish

Frequent Co-Authors

John S. Brownstein
John S. Brownstein Boston Children's Hospital
Alan G. Barbour
Alan G. Barbour University of California, Irvine
Erol Fikrig
Erol Fikrig Yale University
Richard C. Falco
Richard C. Falco Fordham University
John F. Anderson
John F. Anderson Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Peter J. Krause
Peter J. Krause Yale University
Joseph Piesman
Joseph Piesman Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Ira Schwartz
Ira Schwartz New York Medical College
Gabriele Margos
Gabriele Margos Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Nicholas H. Ogden
Nicholas H. Ogden Public Health Agency of Canada

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