Amy J. Pickering

8.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
120 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Amy J. Pickering is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, Water Science and Technology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Amy J. Pickering has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics, 37 papers in Water Science and Technology and 26 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Amy J. Pickering's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (94 papers), Fecal contamination and water quality (36 papers) and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (23 papers). Amy J. Pickering is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (94 papers), Fecal contamination and water quality (36 papers) and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (23 papers). Amy J. Pickering collaborates with scholars based in United States, Bangladesh and Kenya. Amy J. Pickering's co-authors include Jennifer Davis, Alexandria B. Boehm, Stephen P. Luby, Timothy R. Julian, Benjamin F. Arnold, John M. Colford, Ayşe Ercümen, Leanne Unicomb, Clair Null and María Laura Alzúa and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Amy J. Pickering

113 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on diarrhoea and child growth in rural Kenya: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

2018 385 citations Clair Null, Christine P. Stewart et al. profile →
Effect of a community-led sanitation intervention on child diarrhoea and child growth in rural Mali: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

2015 271 citations Amy J. Pickering et al. profile →
The WASH Benefits and SHINE trials: interpretation of WASH intervention effects on linear growth and diarrhoea

2019 230 citations Amy J. Pickering, Clair Null et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amy J. Pickering United States	37	2.7k	957	853	770	687	120	4.3k
Benjamin F. Arnold United States	41	3.2k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	1.2k 1.6×	820 1.2×	214	5.8k
Leanne Unicomb Bangladesh	42	2.7k 1.0×	656 0.7×	1.9k 2.3×	898 1.2×	843 1.2×	180	6.0k
Sophie Boisson United Kingdom	34	3.4k 1.3×	626 0.7×	455 0.5×	1.5k 1.9×	757 1.1×	52	4.4k
Oliver Cumming United Kingdom	39	4.1k 1.5×	696 0.7×	805 0.9×	1.7k 2.2×	1.1k 1.6×	161	6.0k
Joe Brown United States	35	1.9k 0.7×	913 1.0×	541 0.6×	427 0.6×	389 0.6×	140	3.5k
Wolf‐Peter Schmidt United Kingdom	40	3.7k 1.4×	618 0.6×	1.0k 1.2×	1.4k 1.9×	973 1.4×	115	6.1k
Robert Quick United States	36	2.0k 0.7×	480 0.5×	849 1.0×	856 1.1×	406 0.6×	108	3.8k
Lorna Fewtrell United Kingdom	25	2.5k 0.9×	1.4k 1.5×	465 0.5×	779 1.0×	442 0.6×	50	4.8k
Mahbubur Rahman Bangladesh	35	1.4k 0.5×	327 0.3×	660 0.8×	499 0.6×	430 0.6×	236	4.3k
Matthew C. Freeman United States	45	5.2k 1.9×	677 0.7×	1.0k 1.2×	2.5k 3.2×	1.3k 1.8×	182	8.1k

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Fuhrmeister, Erica R., et al.. (2025). Context-Seq: CRISPR-Cas9 targeted nanopore sequencing for transmission dynamics of antimicrobial resistance. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5898–5898. 1 indexed citations

Nadimpalli, Maya, Robert H. Gilman, Ashlee M. Earl, et al.. (2025). Role of the gut microbiome in frequent gut colonization with extended-spectrum β lactamase-producing Enterobacterales among Peruvian children. Gut Microbes. 17(1). 2541029–2541029. 1 indexed citations

Islam, M. S., Amy J. Pickering, Laura H. Kwong, et al.. (2025). Associations between floor material and E. coli contamination in rural Bangladeshi households. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 269. 114641–114641.

Cohn, Avery, et al.. (2025). Temperature and precipitation affect the water fetching time burden in Sub-Saharan Africa. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3486–3486.

Arnold, Benjamin F., Christine Tedijanto, Sammy M. Njenga, et al.. (2024). Geographic pair matching in large-scale cluster randomized trials. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1069–1069. 2 indexed citations

Islam, Mahfuza, Andrew Mertens, Amy J. Pickering, et al.. (2024). Improved Child Feces Management Mediates Reductions in Childhood Diarrhea from an On-Site Sanitation Intervention: Causal Mediation Analysis of a Cluster-Randomized Trial in Rural Bangladesh. Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health. 14(3). 765–778.

Harris, Angela, et al.. (2023). Safe Today, Unsafe Tomorrow: Tanzanian Households Experience Variability in Drinking Water Quality. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(45). 17481–17489. 6 indexed citations

Fuhrmeister, Erica R., et al.. (2023). Learning and STEM identity gains from an online module on sequencing-based surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in the environment: An analysis of the PARE-Seq curriculum. PLoS ONE. 18(3). e0282412–e0282412. 5 indexed citations

Fuhrmeister, Erica R., Maya Nadimpalli, Karin Gallandat, et al.. (2023). Evaluating the relationship between community water and sanitation access and the global burden of antibiotic resistance: an ecological study. The Lancet Microbe. 4(8). e591–e600. 38 indexed citations

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Amato, Heather K., Carlos Saraiva-Garcia, Timothy J. Johnson, et al.. (2023). Risk factors for extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing E. coli carriage among children in a food animal-producing region of Ecuador: A repeated measures observational study. PLoS Medicine. 20(10). e1004299–e1004299. 7 indexed citations

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Keestra, Sarai, Pranav Tandon, Amy J. Pickering, et al.. (2023). One Health WASH: an AMR-smart integrative approach to preventing and controlling infection in farming communities. BMJ Global Health. 8(3). e011263–e011263. 11 indexed citations

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Islam, Mahfuza, Andrew Mertens, Amy J. Pickering, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of an on-site sanitation intervention against childhood diarrhea and acute respiratory infection 1 to 3.5 years after implementation: Extended follow-up of a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh. PLoS Medicine. 19(8). e1004041–e1004041. 7 indexed citations

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Nadimpalli, Maya, Val F. Lanza, María Camila Montealegre, et al.. (2022). Drinking water chlorination has minor effects on the intestinal flora and resistomes of Bangladeshi children. Nature Microbiology. 7(5). 620–629. 17 indexed citations

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Milner, Erin M., Patricia Kariger, Amy J. Pickering, et al.. (2020). Association between Malaria Infection and Early Childhood Development Mediated by Anemia in Rural Kenya. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(3). 902–902. 15 indexed citations

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Nadimpalli, Maya, Sara Marks, María Camila Montealegre, et al.. (2020). Urban informal settlements as hotspots of antimicrobial resistance and the need to curb environmental transmission. Nature Microbiology. 5(6). 787–795. 140 indexed citations

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Parvez, Sarker Masud, Amy J. Pickering, Laura H. Kwong, et al.. (2019). Microbiological contamination of young children’s hands in rural Bangladesh: Associations with child age and observed hand cleanliness as proxy. PLoS ONE. 14(9). e0222355–e0222355. 10 indexed citations

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Byrd, Kendra, Thomas N. Williams, Audrie Lin, et al.. (2018). Sickle Cell and α+-Thalassemia Traits Influence the Association between Ferritin and Hepcidin in Rural Kenyan Children Aged 14–26 Months. Journal of Nutrition. 148(12). 1903–1910. 5 indexed citations

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Byrd, Kendra, Holly N. Dentz, Anne M Williams, et al.. (2018). A behaviour change intervention with lipid‐based nutrient supplements had little impact on young child feeding indicators in rural Kenya. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 15(1). e12660–e12660. 12 indexed citations

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Pickering, Amy J., Ayşe Ercümen, Benjamin F. Arnold, et al.. (2017). FECAL CONTAMINATION ALONG MULTIPLE ENVIRONMENTAL PATHWAYS IS ASSOCIATED WITH SUBSEQUENT DIARRHEA AMONG CHILDREN IN RURAL BANGLADESH. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations

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Julian, Timothy R. & Amy J. Pickering. (2015). A Pilot Study on Integrating Videography and Environmental Microbial Sampling to Model Fecal Bacterial Exposures in Peri-Urban Tanzania. PLoS ONE. 10(8). e0136158–e0136158. 26 indexed citations

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