Florian Zirkel

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Publishing since 2008, latest 2019

Infectious Diseases
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Endocrinology
Epidemiology
Insect Science

Their record on OpenAlex

Publications: 62008–2019
Citations: 497to those papers
h-index: 6i10-index 5
Field-weighted impact: 5.671.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 67%4 of 6 scored papers
Open access: 83%5 papers free to read

By year

Papers, and the citations to them

Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress

Career

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Publications

6 in all

Sand Fly–Associated Phlebovirus with Evidence of Neutralizing Antibodies in Humans, Kenya
2019Emerging infectious diseasesJournalOpen access43 citations10.3201/eid2504.180750
Taxonomy of the family Arenaviridae and the order Bunyavirales: update 2018
2018Archives of Virology

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Citations received each year

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Infectious Diseases583%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health467%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics233%
Endocrinology117%
Epidemiology117%
Insect Science117%
Oncology117%
Parasitology117%
Plant Science117%
Virology117%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences

Topics most written on

Viral Infections and Vectors5
Mosquito-borne diseases and control4
Vector-Borne Animal Diseases2
Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments1
HIV Research and Treatment1
Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences1
Plant and Fungal Interactions Research1
Plant Virus Research Studies1
Polyomavirus and related diseases1
Vector-borne infectious diseases1

Who they write with

Their most frequent co-authors, and the papers those co-authors share

Where their co-authors are

100% of their papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

Germany6
United States4
Switzerland2
Uganda2
Argentina1
Australia1
Belgium1
Brazil1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

University of BonnDE5 papers
German Center for Infection ResearchDE3 papers
Robert Koch InstituteDE3 papers
Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinDE2 papers
Columbia UniversityUS2 papers
University of Maryland, BaltimoreUS2 papers
Emory UniversityUS2 papers
Makerere UniversityUG2 papers
Blood Systems Research InstituteUS1 paper
Aix-Marseille UniversitéFR1 paper

Where they publish

Emerging infectious diseases2
Journal of Virology2
Archives of Virology1
Journal of General Virology1

How it can be read

83% free to read

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

15Life on land3
14Life below water2

Most cited

Taxonomy of the family Arenaviridae and the order Bunyavirales: update 2018
Archives of Virology15
2018198 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Bronze
Discovery of a Unique Novel Clade of Mosquito-Associated Bunyaviruses
Journal of Virology15
2013104 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Green

Discovery of a novel alphavirus related to Eilat virus

2016Journal of General VirologyJournal73 citations10.1099/jgv.0.000694

Diamond 2 · 33%Free to read and to publish
Bronze 1 · 17%Free to read, no open licence
Green 2 · 33%A copy in a repository
Closed 1 · 17%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

4 of 6 papers name a funder

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft2
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases2
Battelle1
Department for International Development1
Deutsches Zentrum für Infektionsforschung1
Direktion für Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit1
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft1
National Institutes of Health1

201673 citationsWorld top 10%

Interspecies Transmission of Simian Foamy Virus in a Natural Predator-Prey System

Journal of Virology14

200871 citationsOpen access · Green

Sand Fly–Associated Phlebovirus with Evidence of Neutralizing Antibodies in Humans, Kenya

Emerging infectious diseases15

201943 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Diamond