Deborah Blum

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Deborah Blum is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, Infectious Diseases and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Deborah Blum has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics, 3 papers in Infectious Diseases and 2 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Deborah Blum's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (5 papers), Viral Infections and Immunology Research (2 papers) and Respiratory viral infections research (2 papers). Deborah Blum is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (5 papers), Viral Infections and Immunology Research (2 papers) and Respiratory viral infections research (2 papers). Deborah Blum collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Nigeria. Deborah Blum's co-authors include Richard Feachem, Bruce B. Dan, Richard J. Guidotti, George P. Schmid, Kathryn N. Shands, Nancy T. Hargrett, Roger L. Anderson, Dianne Hill, Claire V. Broome and Jeffrey D. Band and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, International Journal of Epidemiology and The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.

In The Last Decade

Deborah Blum

11 papers receiving 821 citations

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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.

Toxic-Shock Syndrome in Menstruating Women

1980 474 citations Kathryn N. Shands, George P. Schmid et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Deborah Blum United States	10	448	314	223	176	137	11	1.0k
José Ramiro Cruz Guatemala	16	335 0.7×	256 0.8×	203 0.9×	305 1.7×	69 0.5×	50	991
Linda Venczel United States	16	281 0.6×	342 1.1×	48 0.2×	194 1.1×	112 0.8×	27	938
Beyene Moges Ethiopia	20	304 0.7×	242 0.8×	320 1.4×	247 1.4×	26 0.2×	37	1.0k
Leah J. Barrett United States	23	649 1.4×	467 1.5×	47 0.2×	133 0.8×	28 0.2×	33	1.7k
Feachem Rg	10	385 0.9×	521 1.7×	79 0.4×	76 0.4×	109 0.8×	30	1.1k
Martha Vargas Spain	27	710 1.6×	179 0.6×	124 0.6×	594 3.4×	45 0.3×	45	2.2k
Huilai Ma China	13	223 0.5×	125 0.4×	65 0.3×	174 1.0×	84 0.6×	32	582
Tanvir Ahmed Bangladesh	20	403 0.9×	221 0.7×	47 0.2×	120 0.7×	40 0.3×	26	947
Jeffrey M. Pernica Canada	16	470 1.0×	148 0.5×	110 0.5×	284 1.6×	118 0.9×	57	941
Richard Harry Asmah Ghana	19	512 1.1×	86 0.3×	139 0.6×	318 1.8×	263 1.9×	82	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Deborah Blum

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Deborah Blum. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Deborah Blum 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 Deborah Blum. Deborah Blum is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Blum, Deborah. (2001). Central venous catheters and cardiac tamponade. Nursing. 31(3). 30–30. 2 indexed citations

2.

Rotbart, Harley A., et al.. (1999). Clinical significance of enteroviruses in serious summer febrile illnesses of children. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 18(10). 869–874. 68 indexed citations

3.

Rotbart, Harley A., Amina Ahmed, Sheila Hickey, et al.. (1997). DIAGNOSIS OF ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION BY POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION OF MULTIPLE SPECIMEN TYPES. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 16(4). 409–411. 59 indexed citations

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Blum, Deborah, et al.. (1990). The Imo State (Nigeria) Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Project, 1. Description of the project, evaluation methods, and impact on intervening variables. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 84(2). 309–315. 43 indexed citations

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Huttly, Sharon, et al.. (1990). The Imo State (Nigeria) Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Project, 2. Impact on dracunculiasis, diarrhoea and nutritional status. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 84(2). 316–321. 50 indexed citations

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Smith, Gordon S., et al.. (1989). Disability from dracunculiasis: effect on mobility. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. 83(2). 151–158. 24 indexed citations

7.

Blum, Deborah, et al.. (1987). The bacteriological quality of traditional water sources in north-eastern Imo State, Nigeria. Epidemiology and Infection. 99(2). 429–437. 23 indexed citations

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Huttly, Sharon, et al.. (1987). The epidemiology of acute diarrhoea in a rural community in Imo State, Nigeria. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 81(5). 865–870. 55 indexed citations

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Blum, Deborah, et al.. (1987). The effects of distance and season on the use of boreholes in northeastern Imo State, Nigeria.. PubMed. 90(1). 45–50. 13 indexed citations

10.

Blum, Deborah & Richard Feachem. (1983). Measuring the Impact of Water Supply and Sanitation Investments on Diarrhoeal Diseases: Problems of Methodology. International Journal of Epidemiology. 12(3). 357–365. 197 indexed citations

11.

Shands, Kathryn N., George P. Schmid, Bruce B. Dan, et al.. (1980). Toxic-Shock Syndrome in Menstruating Women. New England Journal of Medicine. 303(25). 1436–1442. 474 indexed citations breakdown →

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