2026 Peter J. Hudson: Animal Science and Veterinary Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Animal Science and Veterinary	101	17	17	7	7	412	41859

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in United States Leader Award
2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2010 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
2008 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Peter J. Hudson is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their work spans multiple disciplines, chiefly within medicine and environmental science, focusing on infectious diseases and ecology.

The scientist's research addresses topics such as:

Viral infections and vectors
Zoonotic diseases and public health
Animal disease management and epidemiology
Virology and viral diseases
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research
Wildlife ecology and conservation
COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Publications by Peter J. Hudson have appeared in several venues, including:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Viruses
Scientific Reports
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Nature Communications

Notable recent papers include:

"Land use-induced spillover: a call to action to safeguard environmental, animal, and human health," 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health
"Ecology, evolution and spillover of coronaviruses from bats," 2021, Nature Reviews Microbiology
"Multiple spillovers from humans and onward transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in white-tailed deer," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Pathogen spillover driven by rapid changes in bat ecology," 2022, Nature
"Convalescent plasma anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike protein ectodomain and receptor-binding domain IgG correlate with virus neutralization," 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

Raina K. Plowright
Vivek Kapur
Isabella M. Cattadori
Douglas W. Smith
Ellen E. Brandell

Within their main fields of medicine and environmental science, more specific areas of study include infectious diseases, ecology, public health (environmental and occupational health), epidemiology, and agronomy and crop science.

Peter J. Hudson has received several honors over the course of their career, including:

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2012
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2010
Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 2008

Best Publications

Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases

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

2346
Citations
Seasonality and the dynamics of infectious diseases.

Sonia Altizer;Andrew Dobson;Parviez Hosseini;Peter Hudson

1819
Citations
Multi-subunit proteins on the surface of filamentous phage: methodologies for displaying antibody (Fab) heavy and light chains

Hennie R. Hoogenboom;Andrew D. Griffiths;Kevin S. Johnson;David J. Chiswell

1673
Citations
Pathways to zoonotic spillover

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

1208
Citations
Is a healthy ecosystem one that is rich in parasites

Peter John Hudson;Andrew P. Dobson;Kevin D. Lafferty

1175
Citations
Prevention of Population Cycles by Parasite Removal

Peter J. Hudson;Andrew P. Dobson;Dave Newborn

1061
Citations
The ecology of wildlife diseases

Peter J. Hudson

978
Citations
Parathyroid hormone-related protein purified from a human lung cancer cell line

J M Moseley;M Kubota;H Diefenbach-Jagger;R E Wettenhall

898
Citations
Ecology of wildlife diseases

P.J. Hudson;A.P. Rizzoli;B.T. Grenfell;J.A.P. Heesterbeek

796
Citations
Epidemic dynamics at the human-animal interface

James O. Lloyd-Smith;James O. Lloyd-Smith;Dylan George;Dylan George;Kim M. Pepin;Virginia E. Pitzer;Virginia E. Pitzer

777
Citations
Emerging human infectious diseases and the links to global food production

Jason R. Rohr;Jason R. Rohr;Christopher B. Barrett;David J. Civitello;Meggan E. Craft

687
Citations
Filling key gaps in population and community ecology

Anurag A. Agrawal;David D. Ackerly;Fred Adler;A. Elizabeth Arnold

610
Citations
Do parasites make prey vulnerable to predation? Red grouse and parasites

Peter J. Hudson;Andrew P. Dobson;David Newborn

605
Citations
Ecological dynamics of emerging bat virus spillover

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

596
Citations
Keeping the herds healthy and alert: implications of predator control for infectious disease

Craig Packer;Robert D. Holt;Peter J. Hudson;Kevin D. Lafferty

524
Citations
Genomic structure of tbe large RNA segment of infectious bursal disease virus

Peter J. Hudson;Neil M. McKern;Barbara E. Power;Ahmed A. Azad

449
Citations
Design and application of diabodies, triabodies and tetrabodies for cancer targeting

Aneta Todorovska;Rob C. Roovers;Olan Dolezal;Alexander A. Kortt

428
Citations
Negative effects of changing temperature on amphibian immunity under field conditions

T. R. Raffel;J. R. Rohr;J. M. Kiesecker;P. J. Hudson

410
Citations
Regulation and stability of a free-living host - parasite system : Trichostrongylus tenuis in red grouse. II: Population models

Andrew P. Dobson;Peter J. Hudson

406
Citations
Competition mediated by parasites: biological and theoretical progress

Peter John Hudson;Jon Greenman

404
Citations
Parasites, disease and the structure of ecological communities

A. P. Dobson;Peter John Hudson

390
Citations
Deletion mapping and expression in Escherichia coli of the large genomic segment of a birnavirus.

Ahmed A. Azad;Mittur N. Jagadish;Melissa A. Brown;Peter J. Hudson

376
Citations
Competition and mutualism among the gut helminths of a mammalian host

Joanne Lello;Brian Boag;Andrew Fenton;Ian R. Stevenson

374
Citations
Evaluating the links between climate, disease spread, and amphibian declines

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

370
Citations
Regulation and stability of a free-living host-parasite system : Trichostrongylus tenuis in red grouse. I. Monitoring and parasite reduction experiments

Peter J. Hudson;David Newborn;Andrew P. Dobson

365
Citations
Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease

Chelsea L. Wood;Chelsea L. Wood;Kevin D. Lafferty;Giulio DeLeo;Giulio DeLeo;Hillary S. Young;Hillary S. Young

309
Citations
Land use-induced spillover: a call to action to safeguard environmental, animal, and human health.

Raina K Plowright;Jamie K Reaser;Harvey Locke;Stephen J Woodley

307
Citations
The effect of a parasitic nematode on the breeding production of red grouse

Peter J. Hudson

264
Citations
Empirical evidence for key hosts in persistence of a tick-borne disease.

Sarah E. Perkins;Isabella M. Cattadori;Valentina Tagliapietra;Annapaola P. Rizzoli

249
Citations
UNDERSTANDING THE NET EFFECTS OF PESTICIDES ON AMPHIBIAN TREMATODE INFECTIONS

Jason R. Rohr;Thomas R. Raffel;Stanley K. Sessions;Peter J. Hudson

232
Citations
The Moran effect: a cause of population synchrony

Peter J Hudson;Isabella M Cattadori

228
Citations
system: Trichostrongylus tenuis in red grouse. II. Population models

Andrew P. Dobson;Peter J. Hudson

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew P. Dobson Princeton University

Paul C. Cross United States Geological Survey

Jason R. Rohr University of Notre Dame

Annapaola Rizzoli Fondazione Edmund Mach

David Ames University of Melbourne

Ottar N. Bjørnstad Pennsylvania State University

Ralph N. Martins Edith Cowan University

Andy Fenton University of Liverpool

Daniel M. Tompkins Landcare Research

Douglas W. Smith National Park Service

External Links

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