2026 Hume Field: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	66	8505	7852	214	207	170	20641

Overview

Hume Field is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and specializes in the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on Infectious Diseases. Their work spans multiple subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Modeling and Simulation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Virology.

The primary research topics covered by Hume Field include:

Zoonotic diseases and public health
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Viral Infections and Vectors
Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
Virology and Viral Diseases
Poxvirus research and outbreaks

Several recent publications by or involving Hume Field illustrate their research scope and interests:

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Origin and cross-species transmission of bat coronaviruses in China, 2020, Nature Communications
Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19, 2020, The Lancet
Nipah virus dynamics in bats and implications for spillover to humans, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Possibility for reverse zoonotic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to free-ranging wildlife: A case study of bats, 2020, PLoS Pathogens
Pandemic origins and a One Health approach to preparedness and prevention: Solutions based on SARS-CoV-2 and other RNA viruses, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Hume Field frequently publishes in journals such as:

Nature Communications
The Lancet
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
PLoS Pathogens

The scientist has collaborated repeatedly with several coauthors, including:

Peter Daszak
Jonathan H. Epstein
Kevin J. Olival
Lin-Fa Wang
Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio

Best Publications

Bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-like coronaviruses.

Wendong Li;Zhengli Shi;Meng Yu;Wuze Ren

3115
Citations
Bats: Important Reservoir Hosts of Emerging Viruses

Charles H. Calisher;James E. Childs;Hume E. Field;Kathryn V. Holmes

1899
Citations
Nipah Virus: A Recently Emergent Deadly Paramyxovirus

K. B. Chua;W. J. Bellini;P. A. Rota;B. H. Harcourt

1679
Citations
Isolation of Hendra Virus From Pteropid Bats: A Natural Reservoir of Hendra Virus

K. Halpin;K. Halpin;P. L. Young;H. E. Field;J. S. Mackenzie

805
Citations
Nipah virus infection in bats (order Chiroptera) in peninsular Malaysia.

J. M. Yob;A. M. Rashdi;C. Morrissy

609
Citations
Review of Bats and SARS

Lin-Fa Wang;Zhengli Shi;Shuyi Zhang;Hume Field

578
Citations
The natural history of Hendra and Nipah viruses.

Hume Field;Peter Young;Johara Mohd Yob;James Mills

534
Citations
Pteropid bats are confirmed as the reservoir hosts of henipaviruses: a comprehensive experimental study of virus transmission.

Kim Halpin;Alex D. Hyatt;Rhys Fogarty;Deborah Middleton

472
Citations
Agricultural intensification, priming for persistence and the emergence of Nipah virus: a lethal bat-borne zoonosis

Juliet R. C. Pulliam;Juliet R. C. Pulliam;Jonathan H. Epstein;Jonathan Dushoff;Sohayati A. Rahman

390
Citations
Origin and cross-species transmission of bat coronaviruses in China.

Alice Latinne;Alice Latinne;Ben Hu;Kevin J. Olival;Guangjian Zhu

386
Citations
Epidemiologic Clues to SARS Origin in China

Rui Heng Xu;Jian Feng He;Meirion R. Evans;Guo Wen Peng

385
Citations
Cedar Virus: A Novel Henipavirus Isolated from Australian Bats

Glenn A. Marsh;Carol de Jong;Jennifer A. Barr;Mary Tachedjian

370
Citations
Urban habituation, ecological connectivity and epidemic dampening: the emergence of Hendra virus from flying foxes (Pteropus spp.)

Raina K. Plowright;Patrick Foley;Hume E. Field;Andy P. Dobson

370
Citations
Reproduction and nutritional stress are risk factors for Hendra virus infection in little red flying foxes (Pteropus scapulatus)

Raina K Plowright;Hume E Field;Craig Smith;Anja Divljan

336
Citations
Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19.

Charles Calisher;Dennis Carroll;Rita Colwell;Ronald B. Corley

327
Citations
Nipah virus: impact, origins, and causes of emergence.

Jonathan H. Epstein;Hume E. Field;Stephen Luby;Juliet R.C. Pulliam

327
Citations
Emerging viral diseases of Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific.

J.S. Mackenzie;K.B. Chua;P.W. Daniels;B.T. Eaton

285
Citations
A framework for the study of zoonotic disease emergence and its drivers: spillover of bat pathogens as a case study

James L. N. Wood;Melissa Leach;Linda Waldman;Hayley MacGregor

264
Citations
Human Hendra Virus Encephalitis Associated with Equine Outbreak, Australia, 2008

Elliott Geoffrey Playford;Brad McCall;Greg Smith;Vicki Slinko

226
Citations
Establishment, immortalisation and characterisation of pteropid bat cell lines.

Gary Crameri;Gary Crameri;Shawn Todd;Samantha Grimley;Samantha Grimley;Jennifer A. McEachern;Jennifer A. McEachern

206
Citations