Ben Bolker

Ben Bolker

McMaster University

H-index: 66

North America-Canada

About Ben Bolker

Ben Bolker, With an exceptional h-index of 66 and a recent h-index of 41 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at McMaster University, specializes in the field of ecology, evolution, epidemiology, statistics, theoretical biology.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

The probability of epidemic burnout in the stochastic SIR model with vital dynamics

Predicting the temperature-driven development of stage-structured insect populations with a Bayesian hierarchical model

Multimodel approaches are not the best way to understand multifactorial systems

Toward a comprehensive system for constructing compartmental epidemic models

The role of fire in terrestrial vertebrate richness patterns

Evaluating undercounts in epidemics: Response to Maruotti et al.(2022)

Comparing machine learning approaches to incorporate time-varying covariates in predicting cancer survival time

Incorporating nonlinearity with generalized functional responses to simulate multiple predator effects

Ben Bolker Information

University

Position

Professor of Biology and Math & Statistics

Citations(all)

104166

Citations(since 2020)

74552

Cited By

58639

hIndex(all)

66

hIndex(since 2020)

41

i10Index(all)

126

i10Index(since 2020)

94

Email

University Profile Page

Google Scholar

Ben Bolker Skills & Research Interests

ecology

evolution

epidemiology

statistics

theoretical biology

Top articles of Ben Bolker

The probability of epidemic burnout in the stochastic SIR model with vital dynamics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

2024/1/30

Predicting the temperature-driven development of stage-structured insect populations with a Bayesian hierarchical model

Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics

2023/11/16

Multimodel approaches are not the best way to understand multifactorial systems

2023/7/23

Toward a comprehensive system for constructing compartmental epidemic models

arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.10308

2023/7/19

The role of fire in terrestrial vertebrate richness patterns

Ecology Letters

2023/4

Evaluating undercounts in epidemics: Response to Maruotti et al.(2022)

Journal of Medical Virology

2023/2

Comparing machine learning approaches to incorporate time-varying covariates in predicting cancer survival time

Scientific Reports

2023/1/25

Incorporating nonlinearity with generalized functional responses to simulate multiple predator effects

PeerJ

2022/8/18

The importance of the generation interval in investigating dynamics and control of new SARS-CoV-2 variants

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

2022/6

Testing and Isolation Efficacy: Insights from a Simple Epidemic Model

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

2022/6

Bounding the levels of transmissibility & immune evasion of the Omicron variant in South Africa

MedRxiv

2021/12/21

Modelling song popularity as a contagious process

Proceedings of the Royal Society A

2021/9/29

Transmission dynamics are crucial to COVID-19 vaccination policy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

2021/7/20

Sampling in Difficult Settings: A Simulation Study Comparing Several Sampling Methods

2021/5/11

pcoxtime: Penalized Cox Proportional Hazard Model for Time-dependent Covariates

arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.02297

2021/2/3

Consequences of nest site selection vary along a tidal gradient

Journal of Animal Ecology

2021/2

Forward-looking serial intervals correctly link epidemic growth to reproduction numbers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

2021/1/12

Age-dependence of healthcare interventions for COVID-19 in Ontario, Canada

BMC Public Health

2021/12

Sensitivity analysis of an integrated climate-economic model

SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics

2021

Acceleration of plague outbreaks in the second pandemic

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

2020/11/3

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