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Hamish McCallum

Hamish McCallum

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
69
Citations
18986
World Ranking
1430
National Ranking
119

Hamish McCallum publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hamish McCallum sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 226 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Hamish McCallum D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hamish McCallum sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Hamish McCallum is affiliated with Griffith University in Australia and has contributed extensively to research intersecting medicine, environmental science, and immunology and microbiology. Their research spans several subfields including ecology, public health, environmental and occupational health, microbiology, infectious diseases, and global and planetary change.

Their main research topics cover areas such as zoonotic diseases and public health, wildlife ecology and conservation, microbial infections and disease research, viral infections and vectors, amphibian and reptile biology, animal disease management and epidemiology, and veterinary oncology research.

McCallum's recent scholarly output includes the following papers:

  • "Quantifying 25 years of disease-caused declines in Tasmanian devil populations: host density drives spatial pathogen spread," 2021, Ecology Letters
  • "Mechanisms underlying host persistence following amphibian disease emergence determine appropriate management strategies," 2020, Ecology Letters
  • "Knowledge Gaps in the Biology, Ecology, and Management of the Pacific Crown-of-Thorns Sea Star Acanthaster sp. on Australia's Great Barrier Reef," 2021, Biological Bulletin
  • "A transmissible cancer shifts from emergence to endemism in Tasmanian devils," 2020, Science
  • "Darwin, the devil, and the management of transmissible cancers," 2020, Conservation Biology

Among frequent co-authors, McCallum has collaborated with:

  • Andrew Storfer
  • Menna E. Jones
  • Rodrigo Hamede
  • Laura F. Grogan
  • Johannes Foufopoulos

Regular publication venues in their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Biological Conservation
  • Wildlife Research
  • Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

McCallum has also contributed to academic book literature, including a publication through Oxford University Press titled Infectious Disease Ecology and Conservation (2022).

Best Publications

  • How should pathogen transmission be modelled

    Hamish McCallum;Nigel Barlow;Jim Hone

  • Pathways to zoonotic spillover

    Raina K. Plowright;Colin R. Parrish;Hamish McCallum;Peter J. Hudson

  • Detecting disease and parasite threats to endangered species and ecosystems

    Hamish McCallum;Andy Dobson

  • Ecological dynamics of emerging bat virus spillover

    Raina K. Plowright;Raina K. Plowright;Peggy Eby;Peter J. Hudson;Ina L. Smith

  • Contact networks in a wild Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) population: using social network analysis to reveal seasonal variability in social behaviour and its implications for transmission of devil facial tumour disease.

    Rodrigo K. Hamede;Jim Bashford;Hamish McCallum;Menna Jones

  • Population Parameters: Estimation for Ecological Models

    Hamish McCallum

  • Endemic Infection of the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus in a Frog Community Post-Decline

    Richard W. R Retallick;Hamish McCallum;Rick Speare

  • Disease, habitat fragmentation and conservation

    Hamish McCallum;Andrew P. Dobson

  • Evaluating the links between climate, disease spread, and amphibian declines

    Jason R. Rohr;Thomas R. Raffel;John M. Romansic;Hamish McCallum

  • The rising tide of ocean diseases: unsolved problems and research priorities

    Drew Harvell;Richard Aronson;Nancy Baron;Joseph Connell

  • Pathogen spillover during land conversion.

    Christina L. Faust;Christina L. Faust;Hamish I. McCallum;Laura S. P. Bloomfield;Nicole L. Gottdenker

  • Life-history Change in Disease-Ravaged Tasmanian Devil Populations

    Menna E. Jones;Andrew Cockburn;Rodrigo Hamede;Clare Hawkins

  • Transmission dynamics of Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease may lead to disease-induced extinction.

    Hamish McCallum;Menna Jones;Menna Jones;Clare Hawkins;Clare Hawkins;Rodrigo Hamede

  • Rapid evolutionary response to a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils

    Brendan Epstein;Menna Jones;Rodrigo Hamede;Sarah Hendricks

  • Overdominant vs. frequency-dependent selection at MHC loci.

    R W Slade;H I McCallum

  • The 10 Australian ecosystems most vulnerable to tipping points

    William F. Laurance;Bernard Dell;Stephen M. Turton;Michael J. Lawes

  • Distribution and Impacts of Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease

    Hamish McCallum;Daniel M. Tompkins;Menna Jones;Shelly Lachish

  • The role of pathogens in biological conservation

    S. Cleaveland;G. R. Hess;A. Dobson;M. K. Laurenson

  • Role of the domestic chicken (Gallus gallus) in the epidemiology of urban visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil.

    Bruce Alexander;Renata Lopes de Carvalho;Hamish McCallum;Marcos Horácio Pereira

  • Does terrestrial epidemiology apply to marine systems

    Hamish I. McCallum;Armand M. Kuris;C. Drew Harvell;Kevin D. Lafferty

  • Rates of spread of marine pathogens

    Hamish McCallum;Drew Harvell;Andy Dobson

  • Risk assessment in conservation biology

    Hamish McCallum

Frequent Co-Authors

Menna E. Jones
Menna E. Jones University of Tasmania
Andrew Storfer
Andrew Storfer Washington State University
Paul A. Hohenlohe
Paul A. Hohenlohe University of Idaho
Lee F. Skerratt
Lee F. Skerratt University of Melbourne
Andrew P. Dobson
Andrew P. Dobson Princeton University
Kris A. Murray
Kris A. Murray Imperial College London
Michael J. Lawes
Michael J. Lawes University of KwaZulu-Natal
Jean-Marc Hero
Jean-Marc Hero University of the Sunshine Coast
Jeremy VanDerWal
Jeremy VanDerWal James Cook University
David Lamb
David Lamb University of New England

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