Derek C. Angus

177.8k total citations · 27 hit papers
469 papers, 75.4k citations indexed

About

Derek C. Angus is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Emergency Medicine and Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Derek C. Angus has authored 469 papers receiving a total of 75.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 252 papers in Epidemiology, 122 papers in Emergency Medicine and 108 papers in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine. Recurrent topics in Derek C. Angus's work include Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (222 papers), Emergency and Acute Care Studies (86 papers) and Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders (77 papers). Derek C. Angus is often cited by papers focused on Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (222 papers), Emergency and Acute Care Studies (86 papers) and Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders (77 papers). Derek C. Angus collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Derek C. Angus's co-authors include Tom van der Poll, Jean‐Louis Vincent, Walter T. Linde‐Zwirble, Gilles Clermont, Mitchell M. Levy, John C. Marshall, Steven M. Opal, Gordon D. Rubenfeld, Clifford S. Deutschman and Manu Shankar‐Hari and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Derek C. Angus

457 papers receiving 73.6k citations

Hit Papers

The Third International C... 2000 2026 2008 2017 2016 2001 2003 2013 2015 5.0k 10.0k 15.0k
What are hit papers?

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. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
    2016 17.0k citations Christopher W. Seymour, Gordon R. Bernard et al. profile →
  2. Epidemiology of severe sepsis in the United States: Analysis of incidence, outcome, and associated costs of care
    2001 6.4k citations Derek C. Angus, Gilles Clermont et al. Critical Care Medicine profile →
  3. 2001 SCCM/ESICM/ACCP/ATS/SIS International Sepsis Definitions Conference
    2003 4.5k citations Mitchell M. Levy, John C. Marshall et al. Critical Care Medicine profile →
  4. Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock
    2013 2.8k citations Derek C. Angus et al. profile →
  5. Assessment of Global Incidence and Mortality of Hospital-treated Sepsis: Current Estimates and Limitations
    2015 2.4k citations Derek C. Angus et al. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine profile →
  6. Assessment of Clinical Criteria for Sepsis
    2016 2.4k citations Christopher W. Seymour, Theodore J. Iwashyna et al. profile →
  7. 2001 SCCM/ESICM/ACCP/ATS/SIS International Sepsis Definitions Conference
    2003 2.1k citations Mitchell M. Levy, John C. Marshall et al. profile →
  8. Developing a New Definition and Assessing New Clinical Criteria for Septic Shock
    2016 1.5k citations Christopher W. Seymour, Derek C. Angus et al. profile →
  9. Incidence and Trends of Sepsis in US Hospitals Using Clinical vs Claims Data, 2009-2014
    2017 1.2k citations Christopher Seymour, Theodore J. Iwashyna et al. profile →
  10. RIFLE criteria for acute kidney injury are associated with hospital mortality in critically ill patients: a cohort analysis
    2006 1.1k citations Gilles Clermont, Derek C. Angus et al. Critical Care profile →
  11. Physician Staffing Patterns and Clinical Outcomes in Critically Ill Patients
    2002 1.0k citations Derek C. Angus et al. profile →
  12. Epidemiology of severe sepsis
    2013 894 citations Florian Mayr, Sachin Yende et al. profile →
  13. Use of intensive care at the end of life in the United States: An epidemiologic study*
    2004 815 citations Derek C. Angus, Lisa A. Weissfeld et al. Critical Care Medicine profile →
  14. Sepsis: a roadmap for future research
    2015 714 citations Derek C. Angus et al. profile →
  15. The Surviving Sepsis Campaign: Results of an international guideline-based performance improvement program targeting severe sepsis*
    2010 679 citations Mitchell M. Levy, John C. Marshall et al. Critical Care Medicine profile →
  16. Hospital Deaths in Patients With Sepsis From 2 Independent Cohorts
    2014 672 citations Derek C. Angus, Theodore J. Iwashyna et al. profile →
  17. Current and Projected Workforce Requirements for Care of the Critically Ill and Patients With Pulmonary Disease<SUBTITLE>Can We Meet the Requirements of an Aging Population?</SUBTITLE>
    2000 668 citations Derek C. Angus profile →
  18. Epidemiology of sepsis: An update
    2001 664 citations Derek C. Angus et al. Critical Care Medicine profile →
  19. Enhancing Recovery From Sepsis
    2018 661 citations Hallie C. Prescott, Derek C. Angus profile →
  20. The Epidemiology of Severe Sepsis in Children in the United States
    2003 607 citations Gilles Clermont, Derek C. Angus et al. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine profile →
  21. The Surviving Sepsis Campaign: results of an international guideline-based performance improvement program targeting severe sepsis
    2010 583 citations Mitchell M. Levy, John C. Marshall et al. profile →
  22. Association Between Hospitalization for Pneumonia and Subsequent Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
    2015 404 citations Lisa A. Weissfeld, Derek C. Angus et al. profile →
  23. The Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome Cognitive Outcomes Study: Long-Term Neuropsychological Function in Survivors of Acute Lung Injury
    2012 386 citations Paul N. Lanken, Derek C. Angus et al. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine profile →
  24. Trends in the Epidemiology of Pediatric Severe Sepsis*
    2013 382 citations Derek C. Angus et al. profile →
  25. A Randomized Trial of a Family-Support Intervention in Intensive Care Units
    2018 304 citations Douglas B. White, Derek C. Angus et al. profile →
  26. The global burden of sepsis: barriers and potential solutions
    2018 250 citations Kristina E. Rudd, Christopher Seymour et al. Critical Care profile →
  27. Optimal Vasopressin Initiation in Septic Shock
    2025 15 citations Jason Kennedy, Derek C. Angus et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Derek C. Angus 42.9k 18.2k 12.0k 10.9k 10.0k 469 75.4k
John C. Marshall 28.7k 0.7× 11.5k 0.6× 10.7k 0.9× 5.7k 0.5× 7.7k 0.8× 582 64.3k
Mitchell M. Levy 27.7k 0.6× 11.6k 0.6× 8.6k 0.7× 6.1k 0.6× 6.3k 0.6× 205 46.8k
Gordon R. Bernard 22.1k 0.5× 24.0k 1.3× 8.4k 0.7× 7.5k 0.7× 16.7k 1.7× 293 59.3k
Gordon D. Rubenfeld 20.0k 0.5× 11.5k 0.6× 6.4k 0.5× 8.2k 0.7× 14.4k 1.4× 253 46.3k
Mervyn Singer 22.9k 0.5× 10.1k 0.6× 10.2k 0.8× 4.8k 0.4× 6.5k 0.6× 462 45.6k
Tom van der Poll 30.8k 0.7× 8.6k 0.5× 8.3k 0.7× 3.3k 0.3× 9.4k 0.9× 876 71.6k
Rinaldo Bellomo 36.7k 0.9× 24.4k 1.3× 22.9k 1.9× 17.4k 1.6× 14.6k 1.5× 1.6k 99.8k
Jean‐Louis Vincent 69.3k 1.6× 38.1k 2.1× 34.8k 2.9× 20.9k 1.9× 22.4k 2.2× 1.5k 142.0k
Steven M. Opal 24.8k 0.6× 8.3k 0.5× 6.4k 0.5× 3.0k 0.3× 5.1k 0.5× 275 44.6k
Djillali Annane 20.6k 0.5× 9.8k 0.5× 6.7k 0.6× 3.5k 0.3× 8.7k 0.9× 405 42.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nauka, Peter C., Jason Kennedy, Emily Brant, et al.. (2025). Challenges with reinforcement learning model transportability for sepsis treatment in emergency care. npj Digital Medicine. 8(1). 91–91. 1 indexed citations
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Marks, Sarah J., Kristina E. Rudd, Chethan Bachireddy, et al.. (2025). Medicaid's role in critical care after Medicaid expansion: evidence from Virginia. Health Affairs Scholar. 3(12). qxaf224–qxaf224.
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Talisa, Victor B., Florian Mayr, Kelly Williams, et al.. (2025). Design and methods of an adaptive trial to test comparative effectiveness of readmission reduction approaches following infection and sepsis hospitalizations (ACCOMPLISH). Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications. 46. 101504–101504.
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Horowitz, Jennifer, Elizabeth McLaughlin, Patricia J. Posa, et al.. (2025). Epidemiologic Characteristics and Management of Sepsis Among Previously Healthy Patients. PubMed. 3(2). 100148–100148.
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DeMerle, Kimberley M., Jason Kennedy, Chung-Chou H. Chang, et al.. (2024). Identification of a hyperinflammatory sepsis phenotype using protein biomarker and clinical data in the ProCESS randomized trial. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 6234–6234. 14 indexed citations
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Andersen, Sarah K., et al.. (2023). Prevalence of long-term decision regret and associated risk factors in a large cohort of ICU surrogate decision makers. Critical Care. 27(1). 61–61. 17 indexed citations
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Arul, Albert B., Kevin Zhang, Liping Du, et al.. (2022). Proteomic changes associated with racial background and sepsis survival outcomes. Molecular Omics. 18(10). 923–937. 6 indexed citations
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Shah, Faraaz, Nuala J. Meyer, Derek C. Angus, et al.. (2021). A Research Agenda for Precision Medicine in Sepsis and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: An Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 204(8). 891–901. 46 indexed citations
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Delano, Matthew J., Kong Chen, Jason L. Sperry, et al.. (2020). A road map from single-cell transcriptome to patient classification for the immune response to trauma. JCI Insight. 6(2). 32 indexed citations
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Collage, Richard D., Hai Huang, Benjamin Kautza, et al.. (2016). Blue light reduces organ injury from ischemia and reperfusion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(19). 5239–5244. 32 indexed citations
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Seymour, Christopher, Colin R. Cooke, Susan R. Heckbert, et al.. (2014). Prehospital intravenous access and fluid resuscitation in severe sepsis: an observational cohort study. Critical Care. 18(5). 533–533. 70 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Yên-Lan, Eric B Milbrandt, Lisa A. Weissfeld, et al.. (2011). Intensive care unit renal support therapy volume is not associated with patient outcome*. Critical Care Medicine. 39(11). 2470–2477. 10 indexed citations
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Cobb, J. Perren, Frederick P. Ognibene, David H. Ingbar, et al.. (2009). Forging a critical alliance: Addressing the research needs of the United States critical illness and injury community*. Critical Care Medicine. 37(12). 3158–3160. 10 indexed citations
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Nelson, Judith E., Derek C. Angus, Lisa A. Weissfeld, et al.. (2006). End-of-life care for the critically ill: A national intensive care unit survey*. Critical Care Medicine. 34(10). 2547–2553. 172 indexed citations
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Bradley, T. Douglas, York E. Miller, Fernando J. Martínez, et al.. (2005). Interstitial Lung Disease, Lung Cancer, Lung Transplantation, Pulmonary Vascular Disorders, and Sleep-disordered Breathing in AJRCCM in 2004. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 171(7). 675–685. 1 indexed citations
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Nemery, Benoît, Wing Wai Yew, Christian Brun‐Buisson, et al.. (2005). Tuberculosis, Nontuberculous Lung Infection, Pleural Disorders, Pulmonary Function, Respiratory Muscles, Occupational Lung Disease, Pulmonary Infections, and Social Issues in AJRCCM in 2004. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 171(6). 554–562. 5 indexed citations
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Angus, Derek C., Akitoshi Ishizaka, Michael A. Matthay, et al.. (2005). Critical Care in AJRCCM 2004. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 171(6). 537–544. 4 indexed citations
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Luce, John M., Richard J. Cook, Thomas R. Martin, et al.. (2004). The Ethical Conduct of Clinical Research Involving Critically Ill Patients in the United States and Canada. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 170(12). 1375–1384. 64 indexed citations
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Angus, Derek C., Pierre‐François Laterre, E. Wesley Ely, et al.. (2004). The effect of drotrecogin alfa (activated) on long-term survival after severe sepsis *. Critical Care Medicine. 32(11). 2199–2206. 99 indexed citations
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Angus, Derek C., et al.. (1998). Epidemiologic assessment of mortality, building collapse pattern, and medical response after the 1992 earthquake in Turkey. Disaster Reanimatology Study Group (DRSG).. PubMed. 12(3). 222–31. 21 indexed citations

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