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Ecology and Evolution
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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
113
Citations
71514
World Ranking
142
National Ranking
59

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award

Overview

Peter Daszak is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Medicine. Their work is focused on several subfields including Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Modeling and Simulation, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Epidemiology.

The main topics covered in their research include zoonotic diseases and public health, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, viral infections and vectors, animal disease management and epidemiology, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, virology and viral diseases, and viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology.

Daszak has published numerous papers in various scientific journals, with frequent contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), EcoHealth, The Lancet, Nature Communications, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Ecology and economics for pandemic prevention, 2020, Science
  • RETRACTED ARTICLE: Origin and cross-species transmission of bat coronaviruses in China, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Sustainable development must account for pandemic risk, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19, 2020, The Lancet
  • Escaping Pandora's Box - Another Novel Coronavirus, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include Jonathan H. Epstein, Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio, Kevin J. Olival, Hongying Li, and Ariful Islam.

Best Publications

  • Global trends in emerging infectious diseases

    Kate E. Jones;Nikkita G. Patel;Marc A. Levy;Adam Storeygard;Adam Storeygard

  • Emerging Infectious Diseases of Wildlife-- Threats to Biodiversity and Human Health

    Peter Daszak;Andrew A. Cunningham;Alex D. Hyatt

  • Bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-like coronaviruses.

    Wendong Li;Zhengli Shi;Meng Yu;Wuze Ren

  • Chytridiomycosis causes amphibian mortality associated with population declines in the rain forests of Australia and Central America.

    L Berger;R Speare;P Daszak;D E Green

  • Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases

    Felicia Keesing;Lisa K. Belden;Peter Daszak;Andrew P. Dobson

  • Isolation and characterization of a bat SARS-like coronavirus that uses the ACE2 receptor

    Xing Yi Ge;Jia Lu Li;Xing Lou Yang;Aleksei A. Chmura

  • Emerging infectious diseases of plants: pathogen pollution, climate change and agrotechnology drivers

    Pamela K. Anderson;Andrew A. Cunningham;Nikkita G. Patel;Francisco J. Morales

  • Anthropogenic environmental change and the emergence of infectious diseases in wildlife.

    P. Daszak;A.A. Cunningham;A.D. Hyatt

  • Emerging infectious diseases and amphibian population declines.

    P. Daszak;Lee Berger;A.A. Cunningham;A.D. Hyatt

  • Prediction and prevention of the next pandemic zoonosis

    Stephen S Morse;Stephen S Morse;Jonna A K Mazet;Mark Woolhouse;Colin R Parrish

  • Infectious disease and amphibian population declines

    Peter Daszak;Andrew A. Cunningham;Alex D. Hyatt

  • Host and viral traits predict zoonotic spillover from mammals

    Kevin J. Olival;Parviez R. Hosseini;Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio;Noam Ross

  • Unhealthy landscapes: Policy recommendations on land use change and infectious disease emergence

    J. A. Patz;P. Daszak;G. M. Tabor;A. A. Aguirre

  • Global hotspots and correlates of emerging zoonotic diseases

    Toph Allen;Kris A. Murray;Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio;Stephen S. Morse

  • Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS-related coronaviruses provides new insights into the origin of SARS coronavirus

    Ben Hu;Lei Ping Zeng;Xing Lou Yang;Xing Yi Ge

  • Cross-Species Virus Transmission and the Emergence of New Epidemic Diseases

    Colin R. Parrish;Edward C. Holmes;David M. Morens;Eun Chung Park

  • Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus in Bats, Saudi Arabia

    Ziad A. Memish;Nischay Mishra;Kevin J. Olival;Shamsudeen F. Fagbo

  • Fatal swine acute diarrhoea syndrome caused by an HKU2-related coronavirus of bat origin.

    Peng Zhou;Hang Fan;Tian Lan;Xing-Lou Yang

  • Bushmeat Hunting, Deforestation, and Prediction of Zoonotic Disease Emergence.

    Nathan D. Wolfe;Peter Daszak;A. Marm Kilpatrick;Donald S. Burke

  • Predicting the global spread of H5N1 avian influenza.

    A. Marm Kilpatrick;Aleksei A. Chmura;David W. Gibbons;Robert C. Fleischer

  • West Nile Virus Epidemics in North America Are Driven by Shifts in Mosquito Feeding Behavior

    A. Marm Kilpatrick;Laura D Kramer;Matthew J Jones;Peter P Marra

  • Ecology and economics for pandemic prevention.

    Andrew P. Dobson;Stuart L. Pimm;Lee Hannah;Les Kaufman

  • One health, emerging infectious diseases and wildlife: Two decades of progress?

    Andrew A. Cunningham;Peter Daszak;James L. N. Wood

  • Host heterogeneity dominates West Nile virus transmission.

    A Marm Kilpatrick;Peter Daszak;Matthew J Jones;Peter P Marra

  • The ecology and impact of chytridiomycosis: an emerging disease of amphibians

    A. Marm Kilpatrick;Cheryl J. Briggs;Peter Daszak

  • Zoonoses 3 Prediction and prevention of the next pandemic zoonosis

    Stephen S Morse;Jonna A K Mazet;Mark Woolhouse;Colin R Parrish

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen P. Luby
Stephen P. Luby Stanford University
William B. Karesh
William B. Karesh EcoHealth Alliance
Hume Field
Hume Field University of Queensland
A. Marm Kilpatrick
A. Marm Kilpatrick University of California, Santa Cruz
Lin-Fa Wang
Lin-Fa Wang Duke NUS Graduate Medical School
Zhengli Shi
Zhengli Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jonna A. K. Mazet
Jonna A. K. Mazet University of California, Davis
Alex D. Hyatt
Alex D. Hyatt Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness
W. Ian Lipkin
W. Ian Lipkin Columbia University
Nathan D. Wolfe
Nathan D. Wolfe Global Viral

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