# Topics and Trends in Most Cited Mosquito-borne diseases and control Papers, Class of 2026

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## What topics and trends defined most-cited Mosquito-borne diseases and control research in the Class of 2026?

The Class of 2026 shows a pronounced shift toward emerging and re-emerging arboviruses, particularly highlighted by the dramatic rise in research on Oropouche virus, Chikungunya, and the Cuba outbreak. Concurrently, climate variables have become a critical focus for understanding geographic spread, while traditional mainstays like Dengue and Zika virus continue to define the field's core research on mosquito-borne diseases.

## At a glance

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Field | Mosquito-borne diseases and control |
| Cohort label | Class of 2026 (2024 publications) |
| Papers analyzed | 10,199 |
| Papers ranked | 20 |
| Top topics in ranked papers | Dengue virus, Oropouche virus, Zika virus, Aedes aegypti, Plasmodium falciparum |
| Publication window | Jan 1, 2024 – Dec 31, 2024 |
| Eligibility | Research articles; reviews excluded |
| Citation window | 18 months post-publication |
| 18m citation range | 46–204 |
| Data source | OpenAlex · Retrieved Jul 2026 |
| License | CC BY 4.0 |

## Rankings

| Rank | Title | Authors | Corresponding authors | Affiliation | Journal | 18m citations | DOI |
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| 1 | Safety and efficacy of malaria vaccine candidate R21/Matrix-M in African children: a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, phase 3 trial | Mehreen S Datoo, Alassane Dicko, Halidou Tinto, Jean-Bosco Ouédraogo, Mainga Hamaluba, Ally Olotu, Emma Beaumont, Fernando Ramos Lopez, Hamtandi Magloire Natama, Sophie Weston, Mwajuma Chemba, Yves Daniel Compaore, Djibrilla Issiaka, Diallo Salou, Athanase M Some, Sharon Omenda, Alison Lawrie, Philip Bejon, Harish Rao, Daniel Chandramohan, Rachel Roberts, Sandesh Bharati, Lisa Stockdale, Sunil Gairola, Brian M Greenwood, Katie J Ewer, John Bradley, Prasad S Kulkarni, Umesh Shaligram, Adrian V S Hill, R21/Matrix-M Phase 3 Trial Group | Adrian V. S. Hill | University of Oxford, United Kingdom | The Lancet | 204 | 10.1016/s0140-6736(23)02511-4 |
| 2 | Effects of climate change and human activities on vector-borne diseases | William M de Souza, Scott C Weaver | Scott C. Weaver | University of Kentucky, United States | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 184 | 10.1038/s41579-024-01026-0 |
| 3 | Dengue | Gabriela Paz-Bailey, Laura E Adams, Jacqueline Deen, Kathryn B Anderson, Leah C Katzelnick | Gabriela Paz‐Bailey | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States | The Lancet | 135 | 10.1016/s0140-6736(23)02576-x |
| 4 | Human outbreaks of a novel reassortant Oropouche virus in the Brazilian Amazon region | Felipe Gomes Naveca, Tatiana Amaral Pires de Almeida, Victor Souza, Valdinete Nascimento, Dejanane Silva, Fernanda Nascimento, Matilde Mejía, Yasmin Silva de Oliveira, Luisa Rocha, Natana Xavier, Janis Lopes, Rodrigo Maito, Cátia Meneses, Tatyana Amorim, Luciana Fé, Fernanda Sindeaux Camelo, Samyly Coutinho de Aguiar Silva, Alexsandro Xavier de Melo, Leíse Gomes Fernandes, Marco Aurélio Almeida de Oliveira, Ana Ruth Arcanjo, Guilherme Araújo, Walter André Júnior, Renata Lia Coragem de Carvalho, Rosiane Rodrigues, Stella Albuquerque, Cristiane Mattos, Ciciléia Silva, Aline Linhares, Taynã Rodrigues, Francy Mariscal, Márcia Andréa Morais, Mayra Marinho Presibella, Nelson Fernando Quallio Marques, Anne Paiva, Karina Ribeiro, Deusilene Vieira, Jackson Alves da Silva Queiroz, Ana Maísa Passos-Silva, Lígia Abdalla, João Hugo Santos, Regina Maria Pinto de Figueiredo, Ana Cecília Ribeiro Cruz, Livia Neves Casseb, Jannifer Oliveira Chiang, Livia Vinhal Frutuoso, Agata Rossi, Lucas Freitas, Túlio de Lima Campos, Gabriel Luz Wallau, Emerson Moreira, Roberto Dias Lins Neto, Laura W Alexander, Yining Sun, Ana Maria Bispo de Filippis, Tiago Gräf, Ighor Arantes, Ana I Bento, Edson Delatorre, Gonzalo Bello | Felipe Gomes Naveca, Gonzalo Bello | Fiocruz, Brazil | Nature Medicine | 130 | 10.1038/s41591-024-03300-3 |
| 5 | Long-term efficacy and safety of a tetravalent dengue vaccine (TAK-003): 4·5-year results from a phase 3, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial | Vianney Tricou, Delia Yu, Humberto Reynales, Shibadas Biswal, Xavier Saez-Llorens, Chukiat Sirivichayakul, Pio Lopez, Charissa Borja-Tabora, Lulu Bravo, Pope Kosalaraksa, Luis Martinez Vargas, Maria Theresa Alera, Luis Rivera, Veerachai Watanaveeradej, Reynaldo Dietze, LakKumar Fernando, V Pujitha Wickramasinghe, Edson Duarte Moreira, Asvini D Fernando, Dulanie Gunasekera, Kleber Luz, Ana Lucia Oliveira, Suely Tuboi, Ian Escudero, Yanee Hutagalung, Eric Lloyd, Martina Rauscher, Olaf Zent, Nicolas Folschweiller, Inge LeFevre, Felix Espinoza, Derek Wallace | Vianney Tricou | Takeda Pharmaceuticals International, Switzerland | The Lancet Global Health | 121 | 10.1016/s2214-109x(23)00522-3 |
| 6 | Re-emergence of Oropouche virus between 2023 and 2024 in Brazil: an observational epidemiological study | Gabriel C Scachetti, Julia Forato, Ingra M Claro, Xinyi Hua, Bárbara B Salgado, Aline Vieira, Camila L Simeoni, Aguyda R C Barbosa, Italo L Rosa, Gabriela F de Souza, Luana C N Fernandes, Ana Carla H de Sena, Stephanne C Oliveira, Carolina M L Singh, Shirlene T S de Lima, Ronaldo de Jesus, Mariana A Costa, Rodrigo B Kato, Josilene F Rocha, Leandro C Santos, Janete T Rodrigues, Marielton P Cunha, Ester C Sabino, Nuno R Faria, Scott C Weaver, Camila M Romano, Pritesh Lalwani, José Luiz Proenca-Modena, William M de Souza | Pritesh Lalwani, José Luiz Proença‐Módena, William Marciel de Souza | University of Campinas, Brazil | The Lancet Infectious Diseases | 107 | 10.1016/s1473-3099(24)00619-4 |
| 7 | Live, Attenuated, Tetravalent Butantan–Dengue Vaccine in Children and Adults | Esper G Kallás, Monica A T Cintra, José A Moreira, Elizabeth G Patiño, Patricia Emilia Braga, Juliana C V Tenório, Vanessa Infante, Ricardo Palacios, Marcus Vínicius Guimarães de Lacerda, Dhelio Batista Pereira, Allex Jardim da Fonseca, Ricardo Queiroz Gurgel, Ivo Castelo-Branco Coelho, Cor Jesus Fernandes Fontes, Ernesto T A Marques, Gustavo Adolfo Sierra Romero, Mauro Martins Teixeira, André M Siqueira, Aldina Maria Prado Barral, Viviane Sampaio Boaventura, Fabiano Ramos, Erivaldo Elias Júnior, José Cassio de Moraes, Dimas T Covas, Jorge Kalil, Alexander Roberto Precioso, Stephen S Whitehead, Alejandra Esteves-Jaramillo, Tulin Shekar, Jung-Jin Lee, Julieta Macey, Sabrina Gozlan Kelner, Beth-Ann G Coller, Fernanda Castro Boulos, Mauricio L Nogueira | Esper G Kallás | Instituto Butantan, Brazil | New England Journal of Medicine | 105 | 10.1056/nejmoa2301790 |
| 8 | Newborns with microcephaly in Brazil and potential vertical transmission of Oropouche virus: a case series | Fernanda Eduarda das Neves Martins, Jannifer Oliveira Chiang, Bruno Tardelli Diniz Nunes, Bethania de Freitas Rodrigues Ribeiro, Lívia Carício Martins, Lívia Medeiros Neves Casseb, Daniele Freitas Henriques, Consuelo Silva de Oliveira, Ethel Leonor Noia Maciel, Rafael da Silva Azevedo, Layna de Cássia Campos Cravo, André Rodrigues Façanha Barreto, André Luiz Santos Pessoa, Arnaldo Jorge Martins Filho, Jorge Rodrigues de Sousa, Lavinia Schuler-Faccini, Juarez Antônio Simões Quaresma, Pedro Fernando da Costa Vasconcelos, Raimunda do Socorro da Silva Azevedo | Layna de Cássia Campos Cravo, Raimunda do Socorro da Silva Azevedo, Raimunda do Socorro da Silva Azevedo | Evandro Chagas Institute, Brazil | The Lancet Infectious Diseases | 92 | 10.1016/s1473-3099(24)00617-0 |
| 9 | Emergence, transmission dynamics and mechanisms of artemisinin partial resistance in malaria parasites in Africa | Philip J Rosenthal, Victor Asua, Melissa D Conrad | Philip J. Rosenthal | University of California, San Francisco, United States | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 79 | 10.1038/s41579-024-01008-2 |
| 10 | Oropouche Virus Disease Among U.S. Travelers — United States, 2024 | Andrea Morrison, Jennifer L White, Holly R Hughes, Sarah Anne J Guagliardo, Jason O Velez, Kelly A Fitzpatrick, Emily H Davis, Danielle Stanek, Edgar Kopp, Peter Dumoulin, Timothy Locksmith, Lea Heberlein, Rebecca Zimler, Joshua Lassen, Carolina Bestard, Edhelene Rico, Alvaro Mejia-Echeverri, Kay-Anna Edwards-Taylor, Douglas Holt, Dionisia Halphen, Kaitlynn Peters, Cheryl Adams, Amanda M Nichols, Alexander T Ciota, Alan P Dupuis, P Bryon Backenson, Jennifer A Lehman, Shelby Lyons, Hannah Padda, Roxanne C Connelly, Van T Tong, Stacey W Martin, Amy J Lambert, Aaron C Brault, Carina Blackmore, J Erin Staples, Carolyn V Gould | Andrea Morrison | Independent Researcher, Unknown | MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report | 67 | 10.15585/mmwr.mm7335e1 |
| 11 | Contribution of climate change to the spatial expansion of West Nile virus in Europe | Diana Erazo, Luke Grant, Guillaume Ghisbain, Giovanni Marini, Felipe J Colón-González, William Wint, Annapaola Rizzoli, Wim Van Bortel, Chantal B F Vogels, Nathan D Grubaugh, Matthias Mengel, Katja Frieler, Wim Thiery, Simon Dellicour | Diana Erazo, Simon Dellicour | Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium | Nature Communications | 65 | 10.1038/s41467-024-45290-3 |
| 12 | Fatal Oropouche Virus Infections in Nonendemic Region, Brazil, 2024 | Antonio Carlos Bandeira, Felicidade Mota Pereira, Arabela Leal, Sara P O Santos, Ana Claudia Barbosa, Marcia Sao Pedro Leal Souza, Daniele Ribeiro de Souza, Natalia Guimaraes, Vagner Fonseca, Marta Giovanetti, Luiz Carlos Junior Alcantara, André Alvarez A Lessa, Ramon Costa Saavedra, Luiz Marcelo R Tomé, Felipe Campos M Iani, Rivia Mary Barros, Sandra Maria O Purificação, Jaciara Prado de Jesus, Ricardo Rosário Fonseca, Marcio Luis Valença Araújo | Antonio Carlos Bandeira | Independent Researcher, Unknown | Emerging infectious diseases | 65 | 10.3201/eid3011.241132 |
| 13 | Expansion of Oropouche virus in non-endemic Brazilian regions: analysis of genomic characterisation and ecological drivers | Tiago Gräf, Edson Delatorre, Caroline do Nascimento Ferreira, Agata Rossi, Hellen Geremias Gatica Santos, Bianca Ribeiro Pizzato, Valdinete Nascimento, Victor Souza, Gustavo Barbosa de Lima, Filipe Zimmer Dezordi, Alexandre Freitas da Silva, Clarice Neuenschwander Lins de Morais, Ighor Arantes, Mariza Hoffmann Machado, Darcita Buerger Rovaris, Mayra Marinho Presibella, Nelson Fernando Quallio Marques, Emanuelle Gemin Pouzato, Jucelia Stadinicki, Rodrigo Ribeiro-Rodrigues, Thiago de Jesus Sousa, Andréa Cony Cavalcanti, Adriana Cardoso Camargo, Keilla Maria Paz E Silva, Mayara Matias de Oliveira Marques da Costa, Fernanda de Bruycker-Nogueira, Camila Zanluca, Ana Maria Bispo de Filippis, Claudia Nunes Duarte Dos Santos, Gabriel Luz Wallau, Gonzalo Bello, Felipe Gomes Naveca, OROV Study Group | Tiago Gräf | Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil | The Lancet Infectious Diseases | 59 | 10.1016/s1473-3099(24)00687-x |
| 14 | The rising global economic costs of invasive Aedes mosquitoes and Aedes-borne diseases | David Roiz, Paulina A Pontifes, Fréderic Jourdain, Christophe Diagne, Boris Leroy, Anne-Charlotte Vaissière, María José Tolsá-García, Jean-Michel Salles, Fréderic Simard, Franck Courchamp | David Roiz | IRD, France | The Science of The Total Environment | 57 | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173054 |
| 15 | Population at risk of dengue virus transmission has increased due to coupled climate factors and population growth | Taishi Nakase, Marta Giovanetti, Uri Obolski, José Lourenço | José Lourenço | Stanford University, United States | Communications Earth & Environment | 55 | 10.1038/s43247-024-01639-6 |
| 16 | A new lineage nomenclature to aid genomic surveillance of dengue virus | Verity Hill, Sara Cleemput, James Siqueira Pereira, Robert J Gifford, Vagner Fonseca, Houriiyah Tegally, Anderson F Brito, Gabriela Ribeiro, Vinicius Carius de Souza, Isabela Carvalho Brcko, Igor Santana Ribeiro, Iago Trezena Tavares De Lima, Svetoslav Nanev Slavov, Sandra Coccuzzo Sampaio, Maria Carolina Elias, Vi Thuy Tran, Duong Thi Hue Kien, Tuyen Huynh, Sophie Yacoub, Idrissa Dieng, Richard Salvato, Gabriel Luz Wallau, Tatiana S Gregianini, Fernanda M S Godinho, Chantal B F Vogels, Mallery I Breban, Mariana Leguia, Suraj Jagtap, Rahul Roy, Chanditha Hapuarachchi, Gaspary Mwanyika, Marta Giovanetti, Luiz C J Alcantara, Nuno R Faria, Christine V F Carrington, Kathryn A Hanley, Edward C Holmes, Wim Dumon, Alex Ranieri Jerônimo Lima, Tulio de Oliveira, Nathan D Grubaugh | Verity Hill | Yale University, United States | PLoS Biology | 55 | 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002834 |
| 17 | Global landmark: 2023 marks the worst year for dengue cases with millions infected and thousands of deaths reported | Najmul Haider, Mohammad Nayeem Hasan, Joshua Onyango, Md Asaduzzaman | Najmul Haider | Keele University, United Kingdom | IJID Regions | 54 | 10.1016/j.ijregi.2024.100459 |
| 18 | Efficient deep learning-based approach for malaria detection using red blood cell smears | Muhammad Mujahid, Furqan Rustam, Rahman Shafique, Elizabeth Caro Montero, Eduardo Silva Alvarado, Isabel de la Torre Diez, Imran Ashraf | Imran Ashraf | Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia | Scientific Reports | 53 | 10.1038/s41598-024-63831-0 |
| 19 | Mapping glycoprotein structure reveals Flaviviridae evolutionary history | Jonathon C O Mifsud, Spyros Lytras, Michael R Oliver, Kamilla Toon, Vincenzo A Costa, Edward C Holmes, Joe Grove | Joe Grove | The University of Sydney, Australia | Nature | 47 | 10.1038/s41586-024-07899-8 |
| 20 | West Nile virus spread in Europe: Phylogeographic pattern analysis and key drivers | Lu Lu, Feifei Zhang, Bas B Oude Munnink, Emmanuelle Munger, Reina S Sikkema, Styliani Pappa, Katerina Tsioka, Alessandro Sinigaglia, Emanuela Dal Molin, Barbara B Shih, Anne Günther, Anne Pohlmann, Ute Ziegler, Martin Beer, Rachel A Taylor, Frederic Bartumeus, Mark Woolhouse, Frank M Aarestrup, Luisa Barzon, Anna Papa, Samantha Lycett, Marion P G Koopmans | Lu Lu, Feifei Zhang, Bas B. Oude Munnink, Emmanuelle Münger, Reina S. Sikkema, Styliani Pappa, Katerina Tsioka, Alessandro Sinigaglia, Emanuela Dal Molin, Barbara Shih, Anne Günther, Anne Pohlmann, Ute Ziegler, Martin Beer, Rachel A. Taylor, Frederic Bartumeus, Mark Woolhouse, Frank M. Aarestrup, Luisa Barzon, Anna Papa, Samantha Lycett, Marion Koopmans | University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom | PLoS Pathogens | 46 | 10.1371/journal.ppat.1011880 |

## Topic trends

### What Topics Define the Class of 2026?

In the Class of 2026, research on mosquito-borne diseases is predominantly defined by major viral pathogens and their primary vectors. The most prominent topics include "Dengue virus" and "Zika virus," alongside critical vector species like "Aedes aegypti" and "Aedes albopictus." This highlights a sustained focus on understanding the transmission dynamics and viral pathogenesis of established global health threats. The strong presence of "Dengue virus serotypes" indicates an active interest in the complexities of cross-immunity and vaccine development. Additionally, "Plasmodium falciparum" remains a key focus, representing the continuing burden of malaria. Together, these topics reveal a field that is deeply engaged in tracking and characterizing major mosquito-borne pathogens, aiming to leverage these insights for more targeted interventions and vector control strategies.

*Leading research themes*

### How Did Topics Shift from the Class of 2025 to the Class of 2026?

The transition from the Class of 2025 to the Class of 2026 reveals a notable shift toward emerging viral threats and the environmental factors driving their spread. Topics such as "Oropouche virus" and "Oropouche fever" emerged rapidly, exhibiting massive fold-change increases alongside specific vectors like "Culicoides paraensis." There was also a marked rise in focus on the "Cuba outbreak" and "Chikungunya." Furthermore, "Climate variables" has become a rapidly growing topic, indicating that researchers are increasingly interested in exploring how changing environmental conditions are facilitating the geographic expansion of these vectors and viruses. Conversely, traditionally heavily studied areas like "Dengue" and "Vector control" saw slower relative growth. This evolution underscores a broader trend in the field: a pivot toward rapid response and epidemiological tracking of emerging arboviruses, heavily influenced by shifting climate paradigms and regional outbreaks.

*How topics shifted year over year*

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