Alex van Belkum

40.1k total citations · 7 hit papers
528 papers, 28.6k citations indexed

About

Alex van Belkum is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Clinical Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex van Belkum has authored 528 papers receiving a total of 28.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 281 papers in Infectious Diseases, 178 papers in Molecular Biology and 156 papers in Clinical Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Alex van Belkum's work include Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (187 papers), Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (156 papers) and Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (98 papers). Alex van Belkum is often cited by papers focused on Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (187 papers), Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (156 papers) and Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (98 papers). Alex van Belkum collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, France and United States. Alex van Belkum's co-authors include Henri A. Verbrugh, J. Kluytmans, Heiman Wertheim, Willem van Leeuwen, Martine De Vos, Jan Nouwen, Damian C. Melles∗, Hubert P. Endtz, Hélène Boelens and Willem J. B. van Wamel and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Cell and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Alex van Belkum

524 papers receiving 27.5k citations

Hit Papers

The role of nasal carriag... 1997 2026 2006 2016 2005 1997 2010 2004 2007 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The role of nasal carriage in Staphylococcus aureus infections
    2005 2.0k citations Martine De Vos, Willem van Leeuwen et al. profile →
  2. Nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus: epidemiology, underlying mechanisms, and associated risks
    1997 1.9k citations Alex van Belkum, Henri A. Verbrugh et al. profile →
  3. Preventing Surgical-Site Infections in Nasal Carriers of Staphylococcus aureus
    2010 815 citations Alex van Belkum, Henri A. Verbrugh et al. profile →
  4. Risk and outcome of nosocomial Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in nasal carriers versus non-carriers
    2004 673 citations Martine De Vos, Alewijn Ott et al. profile →
  5. Guidelines for the validation and application of typing methods for use in bacterial epidemiology
    2007 611 citations Alex van Belkum et al. profile →
  6. Considerations for diagnostic COVID-19 tests
    2020 550 citations Olivier Rochas, Alex van Belkum et al. profile →
  7. Short-Sequence DNA Repeats in Prokaryotic Genomes
    1998 533 citations Alex van Belkum, Henri A. Verbrugh et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alex van Belkum Netherlands 81 15.0k 9.9k 6.6k 5.8k 3.2k 528 28.6k
Sharon J. Peacock United Kingdom 85 16.9k 1.1× 10.2k 1.0× 5.3k 0.8× 12.2k 2.1× 1.4k 0.4× 433 35.5k
Pierre‐Edouard Fournier France 87 11.2k 0.7× 8.7k 0.9× 4.3k 0.7× 5.3k 0.9× 1.4k 0.5× 881 31.2k
Barbara E. Murray United States 79 19.6k 1.3× 9.5k 1.0× 9.8k 1.5× 7.6k 1.3× 4.1k 1.3× 334 35.4k
Henri A. Verbrugh Netherlands 72 11.8k 0.8× 6.1k 0.6× 4.5k 0.7× 5.9k 1.0× 1.3k 0.4× 387 22.8k
Patrice Courvalin France 98 13.4k 0.9× 12.1k 1.2× 5.5k 0.8× 5.5k 0.9× 4.6k 1.5× 434 33.3k
Mary Jane Ferraro United States 48 8.3k 0.6× 7.2k 0.7× 5.4k 0.8× 6.5k 1.1× 4.7k 1.5× 124 30.5k
Edward J. Feil United Kingdom 61 6.4k 0.4× 7.6k 0.8× 2.8k 0.4× 3.9k 0.7× 2.1k 0.7× 175 19.9k
Georg Peters Germany 80 13.6k 0.9× 11.1k 1.1× 4.4k 0.7× 3.7k 0.6× 1.3k 0.4× 332 22.9k
Brian G. Spratt United Kingdom 84 9.9k 0.7× 11.5k 1.2× 4.2k 0.6× 11.9k 2.0× 2.3k 0.7× 217 33.8k
Fred C. Tenover United States 88 20.9k 1.4× 11.1k 1.1× 12.3k 1.9× 9.0k 1.5× 3.4k 1.1× 345 39.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bostanghadiri, Narjess, et al.. (2024). Global mapping of antibiotic resistance rates among clinical isolates of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials. 23(1). 26–26. 17 indexed citations
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Belkum, Alex van, et al.. (2022). Common Etiological Agents in Adult Patients with Gastroenteritis from Central Iran. Microbial Drug Resistance. 28(11). 1043–1055. 6 indexed citations
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Belkum, Alex van, et al.. (2019). Quinolone and Macrolide-Resistant Campylobacter jejuni in Pediatric Gastroenteritis Patients from Central Iran. Microbial Drug Resistance. 25(7). 1080–1086. 10 indexed citations
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Charretier, Yannick, Seydina M. Diene, Damien Baud, et al.. (2018). Colistin Heteroresistance and Involvement of the PmrAB Regulatory System in Acinetobacter baumannii. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 62(9). 57 indexed citations
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Belkum, Alex van & Olivier Rochas. (2018). Laboratory-Based and Point-of-Care Testing for MSSA/MRSA Detection in the Age of Whole Genome Sequencing. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 1437–1437. 36 indexed citations
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Sharifi‐Rad, Javad, et al.. (2016). Rising Antimicrobial Resistance in Iran. Der pharmacia lettre. 8(7). 31–33. 5 indexed citations
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Ghasemzadeh‐Moghaddam, Hamed, Alex van Belkum, Rukman Awang Hamat, Willem J. B. van Wamel, & Vasanthakumari Neela. (2014). Methicillin-Susceptible and -Resistant Staphylococcus aureus with High-Level Antiseptic and Low-Level Mupirocin Resistance in Malaysia. Microbial Drug Resistance. 20(5). 472–477. 16 indexed citations
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Neela, Vasantha Kumari, et al.. (2013). Frequency of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the noses of Malaysian chicken farmers and their chicken.. Majallah-i taḥqīqāt-i dāmpizishkī-i īrān. 14(3). 226–231. 13 indexed citations
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Knegt, Gerjo J. de, Oskar Bruning, Marian T. ten Kate, et al.. (2012). Rifampicin-induced transcriptome response in rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis. 93(1). 96–101. 44 indexed citations
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Wamel, Willem J. B. van, et al.. (2010). Genomic comparisons of USA300 Staphylococcus aureus colonizating the nose and rectum of children with skin abscesses. Microbial Pathogenesis. 50(3-4). 192–199. 11 indexed citations
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Verkaik, Nelianne J., Eric Brouwer, Herbert Hooijkaas, Alex van Belkum, & Willem J. B. van Wamel. (2008). Comparison of carboxylated and Penta-His microspheres for semi-quantitative measurement of antibody responses to His-tagged proteins. Journal of Immunological Methods. 335(1-2). 121–125. 50 indexed citations
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Sande, Wendy W. J. van de, et al.. (2007). Melanin biosynthesis in Madurella mycetomatis and its effect on susceptibility to itraconazole and ketoconazole. Microbes and Infection. 9(9). 1114–1123. 65 indexed citations
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Titze‐de‐Almeida, Ricardo, Alex van Belkum, Maria Sueli Soares Felipe, et al.. (2006). Multilocus Sequence Typing of Hospital-Associated Enterococcus faecium from Brazil Reveals Their Unique Evolutionary History. Microbial Drug Resistance. 12(2). 121–125. 15 indexed citations
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Adesida, Solayide A., Hélène Boelens, Susan V. Snijders, et al.. (2005). Major Epidemic Clones of Staphylococcus aureus in Nigeria. Microbial Drug Resistance. 11(2). 115–121. 33 indexed citations
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Hays, John P., Alewijn Ott, Cees M. Verduin, Alex van Belkum, & Saskia Kuipers. (2005). Moraxella catarrhalisis only a weak activator of the mannose-binding lectin (MBL) pathway of complement activation. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 249(2). 207–209. 7 indexed citations
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Belkum, Alex van, Nicole van den Braak, Leen‐Jan van Doorn, & Hubert P. Endtz. (2003). Isolation and Identification of Campylobacter Species by Use of Selective Enrichment, Nucleic Acid Amplification Methods, and Gene Probes. Humana Press eBooks. 179. 101–111. 1 indexed citations
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Man, Peter de, Willem van Leeuwen, Martine De Vos, et al.. (2001). EnterobacterSpecies in a Pediatric Hospital: Horizontal Transfer or Selection in Individual Patients?. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 184(2). 211–214. 22 indexed citations
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Belkum, Alex van. (1999). Short sequence repeats in microbial pathogenesis and evolution. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 56(9-10). 729–734. 71 indexed citations
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Belkum, Alex van, Willem van Leeuwen, Jan Kluytmans, & Henri A. Verbrugh. (1995). Molecular Nosocomial Epidemiology: High Speed Typing of Microbial Pathogens by Arbitrary Primed Polymerase Chain Reaction Assays. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 16(11). 658–666. 9 indexed citations
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Belkum, Alex van, et al.. (1995). Investigation into the repeated recovery of coagulase-negative staphylococci from blood taken at the end of cardiopulmonary by-pass. Journal of Hospital Infection. 31(4). 285–293. 12 indexed citations

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