Alison Vaughan

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Alison Vaughan is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Alison Vaughan has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Infectious Diseases, 10 papers in Epidemiology and 7 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Alison Vaughan's work include Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (11 papers), Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (6 papers) and Microscopic Colitis (6 papers). Alison Vaughan is often cited by papers focused on Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (11 papers), Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (6 papers) and Microscopic Colitis (6 papers). Alison Vaughan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Alison Vaughan's co-authors include Derrick W. Crook, Tim Peto, David Griffiths, Kate E. Dingle, Mark H. Wilcox, A. Sarah Walker, David W. Eyre, Tanya Golubchik, Lily O’Connor and Nicole Stoesser and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Alison Vaughan

24 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Diverse Sources of C. difficile Infection Identified on Whole-Genome Sequencing

2013 487 citations David W. Eyre, Madeleine Cule et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alison Vaughan United Kingdom	17	1.8k	1.0k	532	397	332	25	2.4k
Patrizia Spigaglia Italy	30	2.0k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	424 0.8×	368 0.9×	225 0.7×	75	2.5k
Paola Mastrantonio Italy	31	2.1k 1.2×	1.5k 1.5×	492 0.9×	407 1.0×	193 0.6×	113	3.1k
Lily O’Connor United Kingdom	14	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	362 0.7×	276 0.7×	104 0.3×	20	2.0k
Bernadette Young United Kingdom	16	989 0.6×	552 0.5×	498 0.9×	247 0.6×	232 0.7×	30	1.6k
Kuo‐Ming Yeh Taiwan	22	1.2k 0.6×	705 0.7×	360 0.7×	243 0.6×	1.2k 3.7×	49	2.5k
Andrea Kropec Germany	25	939 0.5×	336 0.3×	947 1.8×	92 0.2×	281 0.8×	54	2.0k
Céline Harmanus Netherlands	30	2.8k 1.6×	1.6k 1.5×	528 1.0×	488 1.2×	50 0.2×	74	3.1k
Jeong Hwan Shin South Korea	25	661 0.4×	721 0.7×	483 0.9×	115 0.3×	599 1.8×	149	2.0k
Hans De Beenhouwer Belgium	22	1.1k 0.6×	1.2k 1.2×	332 0.6×	272 0.7×	109 0.3×	60	1.8k
Denise Drudy Ireland	17	1.2k 0.6×	630 0.6×	164 0.3×	219 0.6×	84 0.3×	25	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alison Vaughan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alison Vaughan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alison Vaughan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alison Vaughan. Alison Vaughan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lipworth, Samuel, Liam P. Shaw, Karina-Doris Vihta, et al.. (2024). The plasmidome associated with Gram-negative bloodstream infections: A large-scale observational study using complete plasmid assemblies. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1612–1612. 8 indexed citations

Peto, Leon, Andrew McMahon, Erica Bickerton, et al.. (2021). Amplification-Free Detection of Viruses in Minutes using Single-Particle Imaging and Machine Learning. Biophysical Journal. 120(3). 195a–195a. 1 indexed citations

Robb, Nicole C., Alison Vaughan, Philippa C. Matthews, et al.. (2021). Viral detection and identification in 20 min by rapid single-particle fluorescence in-situ hybridization of viral RNA. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 19579–19579. 18 indexed citations

Lipworth, Samuel, Karina-Doris Vihta, Kevin Chau, et al.. (2021). Ten-year longitudinal molecular epidemiology study of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella species bloodstream infections in Oxfordshire, UK. Genome Medicine. 13(1). 144–144. 38 indexed citations

Lipworth, Samuel, Hayleah Pickford, Nicholas D. Sanderson, et al.. (2020). Optimized use of Oxford Nanopore flowcells for hybrid assemblies. Microbial Genomics. 6(11). 14 indexed citations

Lewandowski, Kuiama, Yifei Xu, Steven T. Pullan, et al.. (2019). Metagenomic Nanopore Sequencing of Influenza Virus Direct from Clinical Respiratory Samples. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 58(1). 100 indexed citations

Sheppard, Anna E., Nicole Stoesser, Daniel J. Wilson, et al.. (2016). Nested Russian Doll-Like Genetic Mobility Drives Rapid Dissemination of the Carbapenem Resistance Gene bla _KPC. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 60(6). 3767–3778. 216 indexed citations

Sheppard, Anna E., Alison Vaughan, Paul Turner, et al.. (2016). Capsular Typing Method for Streptococcus agalactiae Using Whole-Genome Sequence Data. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 54(5). 1388–1390. 27 indexed citations

Smith, Karl, et al.. (2014). Development of a Primary Care Diabetes Psychology Service. Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent). 1 indexed citations

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Eyre, David W., David Griffiths, Alison Vaughan, et al.. (2013). Asymptomatic Clostridium difficile Colonisation and Onward Transmission. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e78445–e78445. 101 indexed citations

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Eyre, David W., Madeleine Cule, Daniel J. Wilson, et al.. (2013). Diverse Sources of C. difficile Infection Identified on Whole-Genome Sequencing. New England Journal of Medicine. 369(13). 1195–1205. 487 indexed citations breakdown →

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Walker, A. Sarah, David W. Eyre, David Wyllie, et al.. (2013). Relationship Between Bacterial Strain Type, Host Biomarkers, and Mortality in Clostridium difficile Infection. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 56(11). 1589–1600. 173 indexed citations

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Eyre, David W., A. Sarah Walker, Jane Freeman, et al.. (2013). Short-Term Genome Stability of Serial Clostridium difficile Ribotype 027 Isolates in an Experimental Gut Model and Recurrent Human Disease. PLoS ONE. 8(5). e63540–e63540. 16 indexed citations

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Dingle, Kate E., Briony Elliott, Esther Robinson, et al.. (2013). Evolutionary History of the Clostridium difficile Pathogenicity Locus. Genome Biology and Evolution. 6(1). 36–52. 139 indexed citations

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Didelot, Xavier, David W. Eyre, Madeleine Cule, et al.. (2012). Microevolutionary analysis of Clostridium difficile genomes to investigate transmission. Genome biology. 13(12). R118–R118. 157 indexed citations

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Eyre, David W., A. Sarah Walker, David Wyllie, et al.. (2012). Predictors of First Recurrence of Clostridium difficile Infection: Implications for Initial Management. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 55(suppl 2). S77–S87. 180 indexed citations

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Dingle, Kate E., Xavier Didelot, M. Azim Ansari, et al.. (2012). Recombinational Switching of the Clostridium difficile S-Layer and a Novel Glycosylation Gene Cluster Revealed by Large-Scale Whole-Genome Sequencing. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 207(4). 675–686. 81 indexed citations

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Dingle, Kate E., David Griffiths, Xavier Didelot, et al.. (2011). Clinical Clostridium difficile: Clonality and Pathogenicity Locus Diversity. PLoS ONE. 6(5). e19993–e19993. 144 indexed citations

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Eastwood, Kelly‐Ann, et al.. (2009). Mesenteric vein thrombosis associated with anti-thrombin III deficiency.. PubMed. 78(1). 53–5. 6 indexed citations

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Sheth, Hiten G., et al.. (2006). Emergency management of corneal injuries. Injury. 38(5). 594–597. 19 indexed citations

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