Table 5.

The top 10 cited publications in the field of prediction of infectious diseases.

Rank	Author/Year	Title	ST	CN	JIF
1	Anderson et al. [48] (1991)	Infectious diseases of humans: dynamics and control	Oxford University Press	559
2	Jones et al. [52] (2008)	Global trends in emerging infectious diseases	Nature	404	43.07
3	Eubank et al. [53] (2004)	Modelling disease outbreaks in realistic urban social networks	Nature	370	43.07
4	Pastor-Satorras et al. [54] (2001)	Epidemic spreading in scale-free networks	Physical Review Letters	319	8.385
5	Hethcote [55] (2000)	The Mathematics of Infectious Diseases	SIAM Review	204	11.431
6	Anderson et al. [56] (1979)	Population biology of infectious diseases	Nature	185	43.07
7	Mossong et al. [57] (2008)	Social Contacts and Mixing Patterns Relevant to the Spread of Infectious Diseases	Plos Medicine	171	10.5
8	Lloyd-Smith et al. [58] (2005)	Superspreading and the effect of individual variation on disease emergence	Nature	165	43.07
9	Newman [59] (2002)	The spread of epidemic disease on networks	Physical Review E	150	2.296
10	Aylward et al. [60] (2014)	Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa-The First 9 Months of the Epidemic and Forward Projections	New England Journal of Medicine	136	74.699

Note: In Table 5, ST means source title, which is the published journal of the paper; CN means the citation numbers, which is the total citation times of a certain paper; JIF–journal impact factor.