Benjamin J. Silk

9.2k citations

78 papers · 4.1k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 27

Impact in

Modeling and Simulation top 0.5%
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Infectious Diseases top 0.5%
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology

Papers in

Modeling and Simulation 14
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies 14
Infectious Diseases 42
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology 19
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research 10

Co-authors: Kelly A. Jackson Michelle M. Hughes Barbara E. Mahon Aron J. Hall Lewis M. Graves Clinton J. McDaniel Emily J. Cartwright Shacara D. Johnson
Journals: MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (14 papers)Clinical Infectious Diseases (11 papers)Emerging infectious diseases (4 papers)American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (3 papers)The Journal of Infectious Diseases (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States Kenya Uganda

In The Last Decade

Benjamin J. Silk

76 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

Early Estimates of Updated 2023–2024 (Monovalent XBB.1.5) COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Against Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection Attributable to Co-Circulating Omicron Variants Among Immunocompetent Adults — Increasing Community Access to Testing Program, United States, September 2023–January 2024 2024 · 80 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
2023 MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
2022 MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
2021 MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
2020 MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
2020 MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

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All Works

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1	Human Metapneumovirus Seasonality and Co-Circulation with Respiratory Syncytial Virus — United States, 2014–2024 MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ·Mi Jin Kim, Erica Billig Rose, Amber Winn, Leah Goldstein, Zachary Schneider, Benjamin J. Silk	2025	10
2	Surveillance of Human Adenovirus Types and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Reporting — United States, 2017–2023 MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ·Fatima Abdirizak, Zolotareva Rs, Βασίλειος Δρομάζος, Heather M. Scobie, Lilean Buhl, Everardo Vega, Elsy Pilar Rosado Paredes, Hannah L. Kirking, Erica Billig Rose, Benjamin J. Silk	2024	2
3	Characteristics of TB cases without documented sputum culture in the United States, 2011–2021 The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease ·Andrés Rivera, J Kammerer, Benjamin J. Silk, Vincent C. Marconi, Riky Febriansyah, J. A. Edwards, Jonathan M. Wortham, Joshua Self	2024	1
4	SARS-CoV-2 coinfections among pertussis cases identified through the Enhanced Pertussis Surveillance system in the United States, January 2020–February 2023 PLoS ONE ·Isha Berry, Jia Dalin, Benjamin J. Silk, Fiona P. Havers, Jean-Steve Meia, Nakashima Noe, Renuka Reddy Katta, E.T.C., Emma Stanislawski, Suzanne McGuire, 马永奎, Tami H. Skoff, Mohamad Ashari Jaffarabadi	2024	1
5	Characterizing the Etiology of Recurrent Tuberculosis Using Whole Genome Sequencing: Alaska, 2008–2020 The Journal of Infectious Diseases ·Yuri P. Springer, A. A. Snatschkowa, K. David Newell, Martin Jones, F. A. Tourinho, Wilda Fitriatunisa, Lauren S. Cowan, J. Steve Kammerer, James E. Posey, Kala M. Raz, Myung Ja Han, Benjamin J. Silk, Kohei Oyama, Joseph McLaughlin, Sarah Talarico	2024	2
6	Genomic Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 Variants: Circulation of Omicron XBB and JN.1 Lineages — United States, May 2023–September 2024 MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ·C. Kevin, Avijit Kumar Metya, Anastasia S. Lambrou, Erica Billig Rose, Peter W. Cook, Dhwani Batra, Aina Bruch-Tàrrega, Laura J. Hughes, Duncan MacCannell, Rachel A. Anolik, Neha Mittal, Dwayne Engh, 李光云, Amber Winn, Aron J. Hall, Jens Kraitl, Benjamin J. Silk, Natalie J. Thornburg, Clinton R. Paden	2024	15
7	Seasonality of Respiratory Syncytial Virus — United States, 2017–2023 MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ·Sarah Hamid, Amber Winn, Βασίλειος Δρομάζος, Jefferson M. Jones, Meredith McMorrow, Mila M. Prill, Benjamin J. Silk, Heather M. Scobie, Aron J. Hall Hit paper breakdown →	2023	154
8	Correlations and Timeliness of COVID-19 Surveillance Data Sources and Indicators ― United States, October 1, 2020–March 22, 2023 MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ·Heather M. Scobie, Mark J. Panaggio, Alison M. Binder, Molly Gallagher, William M. Duck, P. B. Graff, Benjamin J. Silk	2023	12
9	Logically Inferred Tuberculosis Transmission (LITT): A Data Integration Algorithm to Rank Potential Source Cases Frontiers in Public Health ·Kathryn Winglee, Clinton J. McDaniel, Blair Gately, Steve Kammerer, U. Ullmann, Kala M. Raz, Antonio Valle, Jillian Knorr, Lauren S. Cowan, Sue Reynolds, James E. Posey, 直弘鴨下, J B SMITH, Julia C. Forsythe, Sarah Talarico, Benjamin J. Silk	2021	3
10	Estimated incidence of COVID-19 illness and hospitalization - United States, February-September, 2020. Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Heather E. Reese, A. Danielle Iuliano, Neha Patel, Shikha Garg, Lindsay Kim, Benjamin J. Silk, Aron J. Hall, Alicia M. Fry, Carrie Reed	2020	15
11	Foodborne Listeriosis Acquired in Hospitals Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Benjamin J. Silk, Th. H. Oltheten, Martha Iwamoto, Patricia M. Griffin	2014	38
12	Vision Loss following Intraocular Listeriosis Associated with Contaminated Cantaloupe Case Reports in Ophthalmology ·Mam Ibraheem, Sushma K Vance, Kelly A. Jackson, Paul Ettestad, Chad Smelser, Benjamin J. Silk	2013	8
13	Hospital-Acquired Listeriosis Outbreak Caused by Contaminated Diced Celery—Texas, 2010 Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Linda Gaul, Noha H. Farag, Vinit Mehra, C Zhang, Benjamin J. Silk, Eija Hyytiä-Trees	2012	152
14	Genomic Characterization of Listeria monocytogenes Strains Involved in a Multistate Listeriosis Outbreak Associated with Cantaloupe in US PLoS ONE ·Pongpan Laksanalamai, Lavin A. Joseph, Benjamin J. Silk, Laurel S. Burall, Cheryl L. Tarr, Peter Gerner‐Smidt, Atin R. Datta	2012	105
15	Disease Reporting Among Georgia Physicians and Laboratories Journal of Public Health Management and Practice ·Colleen M. McClean, Benjamin J. Silk, James W. Buehler, Ruth L. Berkelman	2010	10
16	Pseudo-outbreak of Legionnaires disease among patients undergoing bronchoscopy - Arizona, 2008. MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ·Clare M. Kioski, J Braun, Michael A. Saubolle, Tom Bergman, Jiewen Hua, M. Williams, Roxana Cargnello, Michael Richardson, Y K Abdulrahman, Rebecca Sunenshine, Lisa K. Hicks, Natalia A. Kozak, Eleanor Brown, H. Morasch, Barry S. Fields, Matthew J. Arduino, Benjamin J. Silk, 隋永强	2009	8
17	West Nile Virus among Hospitalized, Febrile Patients: A Case for Expanding Diagnostic Testing Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases ·Ellen A. Spotts Whitney, Katherine L. Heilpern, Christopher W. Woods, Gary B. Swift, Tauson Ta, Benjamin J. Silk, Jonathan J. Ratcliff, Yun Duan Zhou, M.B. Hernández, Joseph Schmucker-Von Koch, 張勝為, Henry M. Blumberg, Ruth L. Berkelman	2006	6
18	Trends in Healthcare Use in the New York City Region Following the Terrorist Attacks of 2001 Biosecurity and Bioterrorism Biodefense Strategy Practice and Science ·Diane C. Green, James W. Buehler, Benjamin J. Silk, Nancy J. Thompson, Laura Schild, Sabrina Buchholz, Ruth L. Berkelman	2006	13
19	Trends in Healthcare Use in the New York City Region Following the Terrorist Attacks of 2001 Biosecurity and Bioterrorism Biodefense Strategy Practice and Science ·Diane C. Green, James W. Buehler, Benjamin J. Silk, Nancy J. Thompson, Laura Schild, Mitchel Klein, Ruth L. Berkelman	2006	1
20	Pre-event Willingness to Receive Smallpox Vaccine Among Physicians and Public Safety Personnel Southern Medical Journal ·Benjamin J. Silk, Carlos Río, Osamu Kaneko, Scott Wetterhall, James J Augustine, Henry M. Blumberg, Ruth L. Berkelman	2005	1

About Benjamin J. Silk

Benjamin J. Silk is a scholar working on Modeling and Simulation, Infectious Diseases, Biotechnology, Epidemiology and Endocrinology, having authored 78 papers that have together received 4.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (19 papers), COVID-19 epidemiological studies (14 papers), Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety (12 papers), Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (11 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (10 papers), Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (10 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (8 papers) and Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Modeling and Simulation (488 citations), Infectious Diseases (1.7k citations), Biotechnology (736 citations), Food Science (735 citations) and Health (289 citations). Benjamin J. Silk has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Kenya and Uganda. Frequent co-authors include Kelly A. Jackson, Michelle M. Hughes, Barbara E. Mahon, Aron J. Hall, Lewis M. Graves, Clinton J. McDaniel, Emily J. Cartwright, Shacara D. Johnson, Rachael M. Porter and Matthew J. Stuckey. Their work appears in journals such as MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Emerging infectious diseases, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

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