Bridgette Hughes

1.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
14 papers, 661 citations indexed

About

Bridgette Hughes is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Bridgette Hughes has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 661 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Infectious Diseases, 5 papers in Epidemiology and 5 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Bridgette Hughes's work include SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (12 papers), Biosensors and Analytical Detection (5 papers) and Respiratory viral infections research (5 papers). Bridgette Hughes is often cited by papers focused on SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (12 papers), Biosensors and Analytical Detection (5 papers) and Respiratory viral infections research (5 papers). Bridgette Hughes collaborates with scholars based in United States and Switzerland. Bridgette Hughes's co-authors include Alexandria B. Boehm, Marlene K. Wolfe, Dorothea Duong, Bradley J. White, Krista R. Wigginton, Vikram Chan-Herur, Anna Buchman, Amanda Bidwell, Peter J. Arts and Michelle L. Ammerman and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Environmental Health Perspectives and Emerging infectious diseases.

In The Last Decade

Bridgette Hughes

13 papers receiving 645 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.

Wastewater concentrations of human influenza, metapneumovirus, parainfluenza, respiratory syncytial virus, rhinovirus, and seasonal coronavirus nucleic-acids during the COVID-19 pandemic: a surveillance study

2023 131 citations Alexandria B. Boehm, Bridgette Hughes et al. The Lancet Microbe profile →
Wastewater-Based Detection of Two Influenza Outbreaks

2022 116 citations Marlene K. Wolfe, Dorothea Duong et al. Environmental Science & Technology Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bridgette Hughes United States	12	589	253	209	78	71	14	661
Dorothea Duong United States	16	650 1.1×	284 1.1×	225 1.1×	93 1.2×	71 1.0×	24	748
Élisabeth Mercier Canada	11	649 1.1×	333 1.3×	80 0.4×	109 1.4×	94 1.3×	24	747
Patrick M. D’Aoust Canada	12	795 1.3×	438 1.7×	81 0.4×	145 1.9×	136 1.9×	26	899
Shifaq Kamili United States	7	523 0.9×	185 0.7×	126 0.6×	126 1.6×	54 0.8×	9	646
Laura Roldan-Hernandez United States	7	413 0.7×	247 1.0×	55 0.3×	90 1.2×	50 0.7×	9	457
Birgitta Arnholm Sweden	7	316 0.5×	101 0.4×	130 0.6×	39 0.5×	47 0.7×	9	494
Francesca Romeri Italy	6	355 0.6×	147 0.6×	33 0.2×	55 0.7×	67 0.9×	8	481
Amy Xiao United States	7	697 1.2×	359 1.4×	29 0.1×	137 1.8×	114 1.6×	7	784
Maria Hellmér Sweden	5	394 0.7×	126 0.5×	47 0.2×	59 0.8×	46 0.6×	7	493
Camille McCall United States	9	278 0.5×	139 0.5×	58 0.3×	55 0.7×	40 0.6×	12	326

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bridgette Hughes

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14 of 14 papers shown

Zulli, Alessandro, et al.. (2025). Community Infections Linked with Parvovirus B19 Genomic DNA in Wastewater, Texas, USA, 2023–2024. Emerging infectious diseases. 31(7). 1442–1445.

Boehm, Alexandria B., Marlene K. Wolfe, Brad J. White, et al.. (2023). More than a Tripledemic: Influenza A Virus, Respiratory Syncytial Virus, SARS-CoV-2, and Human Metapneumovirus in Wastewater during Winter 2022–2023. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 10(8). 622–627. 42 indexed citations

Boehm, Alexandria B., Marlene K. Wolfe, Krista R. Wigginton, et al.. (2023). Human viral nucleic acids concentrations in wastewater solids from Central and Coastal California USA. Scientific Data. 10(1). 396–396. 36 indexed citations

Boehm, Alexandria B., Marlene K. Wolfe, Bradley J. White, et al.. (2023). Human norovirus (HuNoV) GII RNA in wastewater solids at 145 United States wastewater treatment plants: comparison to positivity rates of clinical specimens and modeled estimates of HuNoV GII shedders. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. 34(3). 440–447. 31 indexed citations

Boehm, Alexandria B., Bridgette Hughes, Dorothea Duong, et al.. (2023). Wastewater concentrations of human influenza, metapneumovirus, parainfluenza, respiratory syncytial virus, rhinovirus, and seasonal coronavirus nucleic-acids during the COVID-19 pandemic: a surveillance study. The Lancet Microbe. 4(5). e340–e348. 131 indexed citations breakdown →

Boehm, Alexandria B., Marlene K. Wolfe, Bradley J. White, Bridgette Hughes, & Dorothea Duong. (2023). Divergence of wastewater SARS-CoV-2 and reported laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 incident case data coincident with wide-spread availability of at-home COVID-19 antigen tests. PeerJ. 11. e15631–e15631. 15 indexed citations

Boehm, Alexandria B., Debra A. Wadford, Bridgette Hughes, et al.. (2023). Trends of Enterovirus D68 Concentrations in Wastewater, California, USA, February 2021–April 2023. Emerging infectious diseases. 29(11). 2362–2365. 4 indexed citations

Huisman, Jana S., Jérémie Scire, Lea Caduff, et al.. (2022). Wastewater-Based Estimation of the Effective Reproductive Number of SARS-CoV-2. Environmental Health Perspectives. 130(5). 57011–57011. 97 indexed citations

Boehm, Alexandria B., Bridgette Hughes, Marlene K. Wolfe, et al.. (2022). Regional Replacement of SARS-CoV-2 Variant Omicron BA.1 with BA.2 as Observed through Wastewater Surveillance. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 9(6). 575–580. 22 indexed citations

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Yu, Alexander T., Bridgette Hughes, Marlene K. Wolfe, et al.. (2022). Estimating Relative Abundance of 2 SARS-CoV-2 Variants through Wastewater Surveillance at 2 Large Metropolitan Sites, United States. Emerging infectious diseases. 28(5). 940–947. 27 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Marlene K., Dorothea Duong, Kevin Bakker, et al.. (2022). Wastewater-Based Detection of Two Influenza Outbreaks. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 9(8). 687–692. 116 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schoen, Mary E., Marlene K. Wolfe, Linlin Li, et al.. (2022). SARS-CoV-2 RNA Wastewater Settled Solids Surveillance Frequency and Impact on Predicted COVID-19 Incidence Using a Distributed Lag Model. ACS ES&T Water. 2(11). 2167–2174. 17 indexed citations

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Hughes, Bridgette, Dorothea Duong, Bradley J. White, et al.. (2022). Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) RNA in Wastewater Settled Solids Reflects RSV Clinical Positivity Rates. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 9(2). 173–178. 84 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Marlene K., Bridgette Hughes, Dorothea Duong, et al.. (2022). Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Variants Mu, Beta, Gamma, Lambda, Delta, Alpha, and Omicron in Wastewater Settled Solids Using Mutation-Specific Assays Is Associated with Regional Detection of Variants in Clinical Samples. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 88(8). e0004522–e0004522. 39 indexed citations

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