Benjamin A. Pinsky

17.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
233 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

Benjamin A. Pinsky is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin A. Pinsky has authored 233 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 142 papers in Infectious Diseases, 79 papers in Epidemiology and 43 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Benjamin A. Pinsky's work include Viral Infections and Vectors (44 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (44 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (43 papers). Benjamin A. Pinsky is often cited by papers focused on Viral Infections and Vectors (44 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (44 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (43 papers). Benjamin A. Pinsky collaborates with scholars based in United States, Paraguay and Kenya. Benjamin A. Pinsky's co-authors include Malaya K. Sahoo, Jesse J. Waggoner, Sue Biggins, Niaz Banaei, Elizabeth Robilotti, Stan Deresinski, Catherine A. Hogan, Nigam H. Shah, Ian Brown and David Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin A. Pinsky

226 papers receiving 8.4k citations

Hit Papers

Rates of Co-infection Between SARS-CoV-2 and Ot... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2020 2015 2017 2022 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Rates of Co-infection Between SARS-CoV-2 and Other Respiratory Pathogens
    2020 504 citations Benjamin A. Pinsky, Nigam H. Shah et al. profile →
  2. Norovirus
    2015 431 citations Benjamin A. Pinsky et al. profile →
  3. IgG antibodies to dengue enhanced for FcγRIIIA binding determine disease severity
    2017 241 citations Taia T. Wang, Jaturong Sewatanon et al. Science profile →
  4. Gastrointestinal symptoms and fecal shedding of SARS-CoV-2 RNA suggest prolonged gastrointestinal infection
    2022 234 citations Aravind Natarajan, Soumaya Zlitni 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
Benjamin A. Pinsky United States 47 4.5k 2.2k 1.9k 1.9k 846 233 8.6k
David W. Eyre United Kingdom 56 3.8k 0.9× 2.5k 1.1× 2.3k 1.2× 469 0.3× 537 0.6× 180 10.9k
Gary W. Procop United States 55 3.4k 0.8× 3.4k 1.6× 1.2k 0.6× 747 0.4× 456 0.5× 250 8.4k
Alexander L. Greninger United States 49 6.1k 1.4× 2.7k 1.2× 2.1k 1.1× 536 0.3× 762 0.9× 277 10.6k
Gary Wong Canada 53 7.2k 1.6× 2.8k 1.3× 2.0k 1.0× 1.0k 0.5× 383 0.5× 218 11.0k
Jeannette Guarner United States 50 3.5k 0.8× 3.1k 1.4× 1.2k 0.6× 1.2k 0.6× 153 0.2× 206 8.9k
Tadaki Suzuki Japan 39 3.3k 0.7× 1.5k 0.7× 1.3k 0.7× 535 0.3× 380 0.4× 224 6.3k
Maria Rosaria Capobianchi Italy 49 4.6k 1.0× 2.8k 1.3× 1.4k 0.7× 1.9k 1.0× 240 0.3× 396 9.5k
Steven Kleinman United States 56 3.3k 0.7× 4.5k 2.1× 471 0.2× 1.7k 0.9× 238 0.3× 202 14.1k
Krzysztof Pyrć Poland 41 4.4k 1.0× 1.3k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 342 0.2× 290 0.3× 140 6.9k
David R. Boulware United States 52 6.8k 1.5× 6.9k 3.2× 1.0k 0.5× 731 0.4× 569 0.7× 294 10.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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Dawes, Brian E., Izabela Maurício de Rezende, Dana Mitzel, et al.. (2025). Rift Valley Fever Virus Infectivity in Milk Stored at a Wide Range of Temperatures. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 232(4). e661–e670.
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Huang, ChunHong, et al.. (2024). Spatial and temporal variation in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) subtype RNA in wastewater and relation to clinical specimens. mSphere. 9(7). e0022424–e0022424. 7 indexed citations
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Relich, Ryan F., Christopher M. Robinson, Malaya K. Sahoo, et al.. (2024). Determination of the cycle threshold value of the Xpert Xpress SARS-CoV-2/Flu/RSV test that corresponds to the presence of infectious SARS-CoV-2 in anterior nasal swabs. Microbiology Spectrum. 12(4). e0390823–e0390823.
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Le, Anthony, Manhong Wu, Nicholas Phillips, et al.. (2023). Targeted plasma metabolomics combined with machine learning for the diagnosis of severe acute respiratory syndrome virus type 2. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 1059289–1059289. 4 indexed citations
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Lu, Jacky, Abraar Karan, Jorge Salinas, et al.. (2023). Retrospective Screening of Clinical Samples for Monkeypox Virus DNA, California, USA, 2022. Emerging infectious diseases. 29(4). 848–850. 8 indexed citations
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Lu, Jacky, Sa Shen, Abraar Karan, et al.. (2023). Prevalence of Mpox (Monkeypox) in patients undergoing STI screening in northern California, April-September 2022. Journal of Clinical Virology. 164. 105493–105493. 10 indexed citations
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Murugesan, Kanagavel, Prasanna Jagannathan, Jonathan Altamirano, et al.. (2022). Long-Term Accuracy of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Interferon-γ Release Assay and Its Application in Household Investigation. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 75(1). e314–e321. 7 indexed citations
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Doan, Thuy, Malaya K. Sahoo, ChunHong Huang, et al.. (2021). Comprehensive pathogen detection for ocular infections. Journal of Clinical Virology. 136. 104759–104759. 15 indexed citations
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Natarajan, Aravind, Alvin Han, Soumaya Zlitni, et al.. (2021). Standardized preservation, extraction and quantification techniques for detection of fecal SARS-CoV-2 RNA. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5753–5753. 21 indexed citations
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Hogan, Catherine A., Natasha Garamani, Andrew S. Lee, et al.. (2020). Comparison of the Accula SARS-CoV-2 Test with a Laboratory-Developed Assay for Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Clinical Nasopharyngeal Specimens. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 58(8). 53 indexed citations
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Ramachandran, Ashwin, Diego A. Huyke, Eesha Sharma, et al.. (2020). Electric field-driven microfluidics for rapid CRISPR-based diagnostics and its application to detection of SARS-CoV-2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(47). 29518–29525. 244 indexed citations
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Hogan, Catherine A., Shangxin Yang, Omai B. Garner, et al.. (2020). Clinical Impact of Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing of Plasma Cell-Free DNA for the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 72(2). 239–245. 184 indexed citations
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Hogan, Catherine A., Bryan Stevens, Malaya K. Sahoo, et al.. (2020). High Frequency of SARS-CoV-2 RNAemia and Association With Severe Disease. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 72(9). e291–e295. 67 indexed citations
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Kashyap, Sehj, Saurabh Gombar, Steve Yadlowsky, et al.. (2020). Measure what matters: Counts of hospitalized patients are a better metric for health system capacity planning for a reopening. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 27(7). 1026–1131. 11 indexed citations
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Zanini, Fabio, Makeda Robinson, Derek Croote, et al.. (2018). Virus-inclusive single-cell RNA sequencing reveals the molecular signature of progression to severe dengue. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(52). E12363–E12369. 114 indexed citations
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Wang, Taia T., Jaturong Sewatanon, Matthew J. Memoli, et al.. (2017). IgG antibodies to dengue enhanced for FcγRIIIA binding determine disease severity. Science. 355(6323). 395–398. 241 indexed citations breakdown →

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