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1348
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496

Mercedes Pascual 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 Mercedes Pascual sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 180 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mercedes Pascual 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 Mercedes Pascual sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Mercedes Pascual is a researcher affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States, specializing primarily in Medicine with a focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Their work includes extensive research on infectious diseases and modeling, with significant contributions to the understanding of mosquito-borne diseases and control, malaria research, and COVID-19 epidemiology.

Their recent publication record features studies addressing a range of topics from viral infections to environmental influences on disease transmission dynamics. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Quantifying asymptomatic infection and transmission of COVID-19 in New York City using observed cases, serology, and testing capacity" (2021) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Humidity - The overlooked variable in the thermal biology of mosquito-borne disease" (2023) published in Ecology Letters
  • "Climatic signatures in the different COVID-19 pandemic waves across both hemispheres" (2021) published in Nature Computational Science
  • "Emerging arboviruses in the urbanized Amazon rainforest" (2020) published in BMJ
  • "The neglected role of relative humidity in the interannual variability of urban malaria in Indian cities" (2022) published in Nature Communications

The researcher frequently collaborates with a core group of co-authors, including Kathryn E. Tiedje and Karen P. Day, each contributing to at least 20 joint publications. Other frequent collaborators are Qixin He, Mun Hua Tan, and Qi Zhang.

Mercedes Pascual's work appears predominantly in journals and platforms such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, the Journal of The Royal Society Interface, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Ecology Letters.

Their main fields of study encompass Medicine and its subfields, with a strong emphasis on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, followed by work in Modeling and Simulation, Genetics, Infectious Diseases, and Plant Science.

Key topics covered by their research include:

  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Malaria research and control
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Evolution and genetic dynamics
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Viral infections and vectors
  • Mathematical and theoretical epidemiology and ecology models

Recognition of their contributions includes election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2003 and as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Anticipating Critical Transitions

    Marten Scheffer;Marten Scheffer;Stephen R. Carpenter;Timothy M. Lenton;Jordi Bascompte

  • Seasonality and the dynamics of infectious diseases.

    Sonia Altizer;Andrew Dobson;Parviez Hosseini;Peter Hudson

  • Ecological forecasts: an emerging imperative.

    James S. Clark;Steven R. Carpenter;Mary Barber;Scott Collins

  • Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links

    Kevin D. Lafferty;Stefano Allesina;Matias Arim;Cherie J. Briggs

  • Ecology for a Crowded Planet

    Margaret Palmer;Emily S. Bernhardt;Elizabeth A. Chornesky;Scott L. Collins

  • Cholera dynamics and El Niño-Southern Oscillation.

    Mercedes Pascual;Xavier Rodó;Stephen P. Ellner;Rita Colwell

  • Malaria resurgence in the East African highlands: Temperature trends revisited

    M. Pascual;J. A. Ahumada;L. F. Chaves;X. Rodó

  • Ecological networks : Linking structure to dynamics in food webs

    Mercedes Pascual;Jennifer A. Dunne

  • Epochal evolution shapes the phylodynamics of interpandemic influenza A (H3N2) in humans.

    Katia Koelle;Katia Koelle;Sarah Cobey;Bryan T. Grenfell;Bryan T. Grenfell;Mercedes Pascual

  • The multilayer nature of ecological networks.

    Shai Pilosof;Mason A. Porter;Mercedes Pascual;Mercedes Pascual;Sonia Kéfi

  • Inapparent infections and cholera dynamics

    Aaron A. King;Edward L. Ionides;Mercedes Pascual;Menno J. Bouma

  • Refractory periods and climate forcing in cholera dynamics.

    Katia Koelle;Xavier Rodó;Mercedes Pascual;Md. Yunus

  • Altitudinal Changes in Malaria Incidence in Highlands of Ethiopia and Colombia

    A. S. Siraj;M. Santos-Vega;M. J. Bouma;D. Yadeta

  • ENSO and cholera: A nonstationary link related to climate change?

    Xavier Rodó;Mercedes Pascual;George Fuchs;A. S. G. Faruque

  • Cholera and climate: revisiting the quantitative evidence

    Mercedes Pascual;Menno J. Bouma;Andrew P. Dobson

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

    Drew Harvell;Richard Aronson;Nancy Baron;Joseph Connell

  • A general model for food web structure

    Stefano Allesina;David Alonso;Mercedes Pascual;Mercedes Pascual

  • Stochastic amplification in epidemics

    David Alonso;Alan J McKane;Mercedes Pascual

  • Criticality and disturbance in spatial ecological systems

    Mercedes Pascual;Frédéric Guichard

  • Network structure, predator–prey modules, and stability in large food webs

    Stefano Allesina;Mercedes Pascual

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew P. Dobson
Andrew P. Dobson Princeton University
Karen P. Day
Karen P. Day University of Melbourne
Stefano Allesina
Stefano Allesina University of Chicago
Trevor Bedford
Trevor Bedford Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Luis Fernando Chaves
Luis Fernando Chaves Nagasaki University
Kevin D. Lafferty
Kevin D. Lafferty United States Geological Survey
Robert J. Woods
Robert J. Woods University of Georgia
Simon A. Levin
Simon A. Levin Princeton University
Hal Caswell
Hal Caswell University of Amsterdam
Cláudia Torres Codeço
Cláudia Torres Codeço Oswaldo Cruz Foundation

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