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John M. Drake 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 John M. Drake sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 230 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.

John M. Drake 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 John M. Drake sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 61 D-Index — 75th percentile

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

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John M. Drake is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields including Modeling and Simulation, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Ecology.

The scientist's main topics of research consist of COVID-19 epidemiological studies, zoonotic diseases and public health, viral infections and vectors, ecosystem dynamics and resilience, viral infections and outbreaks research, data-driven disease surveillance, and influenza virus research studies.

Among John M. Drake's recent papers are the following:

  • Interconnecting global threats: climate change, biodiversity loss, and infectious diseases (2024), published in The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Detecting critical slowing down in high-dimensional epidemiological systems (2020), published in PLoS Computational Biology
  • Integrating data mining and transmission theory in the ecology of infectious diseases (2020), published in Ecology Letters
  • Association between tuberculosis in men and social network structure in Kampala, Uganda (2021), published in BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Characteristics of the 100 largest modern zoonotic disease outbreaks (2021), published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Ecology Letters, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, PLoS Computational Biology, and the Journal of The Royal Society Interface.

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecology Letters
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Journal of The Royal Society Interface

John M. Drake collaborates often with several coauthors, including Barbara A. Han, Pejman Rohani, Michelle Evans, John P. Schmidt, and Eamon B. O'Dea. These collaborations reflect overlapping interests in infectious diseases and ecological modeling.

  • Barbara A. Han
  • Pejman Rohani
  • Michelle Evans
  • John P. Schmidt
  • Eamon B. O'Dea

In 2018, John M. Drake was awarded the title Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Rodent reservoirs of future zoonotic diseases

    Barbara A. Han;John Paul Schmidt;Sarah E. Bowden;John M. Drake

  • Early warning signals of extinction in deteriorating environments

    John M. Drake;Blaine D. Griffen

  • The evidence for Allee effects

    Andrew M. Kramer;Brian Dennis;Andrew M. Liebhold;John M. Drake

  • Global Patterns of Zoonotic Disease in Mammals.

    Barbara A. Han;Andrew M. Kramer;John M. Drake

  • Global hot spots of biological invasions: evaluating options for ballast-water management.

    John M. Drake;David M. Lodge

  • Modelling ecological niches with support vector machines

    John M. Drake;Christophe Randin;Antoine Guisan

  • Pandora's Box Contained Bait : The Global Problem of Introduced Earthworms

    Paul F. Hendrix;Mac A. Callaham;John M. Drake;Ching-Yu Huang

  • Allee Effects, Propagule Pressure and the Probability of Establishment: Risk Analysis for Biological Invasions

    John M. Drake;John M. Drake;David M. Lodge

  • Linking environmental conditions and ship movements to estimate invasive species transport across the global shipping network

    Reuben P. Keller;John M. Drake;Mark B. Drew;David M. Lodge

  • Environmental transmission of low pathogenicity avian influenza viruses and its implications for pathogen invasion.

    Pejman Rohani;Romulus Breban;David E. Stallknecht;John M. Drake

  • PREDICTING INVASIONS: PROPAGULE PRESSURE AND THE GRAVITY OF ALLEE EFFECTS

    Brian Leung;John M. Drake;David M. Lodge

  • What factors might have led to the emergence of ebola in West Africa

    Kathleen A. Alexander;Claire E. Sanderson;Madav Marathe;Bryan L. Lewis

  • The role of environmental transmission in recurrent avian influenza epidemics.

    Romulus Breban;John M. Drake;David E. Stallknecht;Pejman Rohani;Pejman Rohani

  • Risk Analysis and Bioeconomics of Invasive Species to Inform Policy and Management

    David M. Lodge;David M. Lodge;Paul W. Simonin;Stanley W. Burgiel;Reuben P. Keller

  • Hull fouling is a risk factor for intercontinental species exchange in aquatic ecosystems

    John M. Drake;David M. Lodge

  • The Potential Distribution of Zebra Mussels in the United States

    John M. Drake;Jonathan M. Bossenbroek

  • Allee effects and the risk of biological invasion.

    John M. Drake

  • The macroecology of infectious diseases: a new perspective on global-scale drivers of pathogen distributions and impacts

    Patrick R. Stephens;Sonia Altizer;Katherine F. Smith;A. Alonso Aguirre

  • Fecundity as a basis for risk assessment of nonindigenous freshwater molluscs.

    Reuben P. Keller;John M. Drake;David M. Lodge

  • Invasion in space and time: non‐native species richness and relative abundance respond to interannual variation in productivity and diversity

    Elsa E. Cleland;Melinda D. Smith;Sandy J. Andelman;Christy Bowles

Frequent Co-Authors

Pejman Rohani
Pejman Rohani University of Georgia
David M. Lodge
David M. Lodge Cornell University
Simon I. Hay
Simon I. Hay University of Washington
Alessandro Vespignani
Alessandro Vespignani Northeastern University
Charles L. Nunn
Charles L. Nunn Duke University
Karen R. Lips
Karen R. Lips University of Maryland, College Park
Susan S. Kilham
Susan S. Kilham Drexel University
Martin Krkošek
Martin Krkošek University of Toronto
Matt R. Whiles
Matt R. Whiles University of Florida
Fred C. Dobbs
Fred C. Dobbs Old Dominion University

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