Diederik van de Beek

53.7k total citations · 13 hit papers
394 papers, 19.7k citations indexed

About

Diederik van de Beek is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Microbiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Diederik van de Beek has authored 394 papers receiving a total of 19.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 258 papers in Epidemiology, 243 papers in Microbiology and 61 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Diederik van de Beek's work include Bacterial Infections and Vaccines (238 papers), Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (195 papers) and Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (41 papers). Diederik van de Beek is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Infections and Vaccines (238 papers), Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (195 papers) and Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (41 papers). Diederik van de Beek collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and United Kingdom. Diederik van de Beek's co-authors include Matthijs C. Brouwer, Jan de Gans, Allan R. Tunkel, Arie van der Ende, Lodewijk Spanjaard, Martijn Weisfelt, Willem A. van Gool, Johannes B. Reitsma, Eelco F. M. Wijdicks and Peter McIntyre 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

Diederik van de Beek

377 papers receiving 19.1k citations

Hit Papers

Clinical Features and Prognostic Factors in Adults with B... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2004 2002 2015 2010 2016 250 500 750 1000
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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. Clinical Features and Prognostic Factors in Adults with Bacterial Meningitis
    2004 1.0k citations Diederik van de Beek, Jan de Gans et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →
  2. Dexamethasone in Adults with Bacterial Meningitis
    2002 711 citations Jan de Gans, Diederik van de Beek New England Journal of Medicine profile →
  3. Systemic inflammation and microglial activation: systematic review of animal experiments
    2015 700 citations David J. van Westerloo, Diederik van de Beek et al. profile →
  4. Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Antimicrobial Treatment of Acute Bacterial Meningitis
    2010 601 citations Matthijs C. Brouwer, Diederik van de Beek et al. profile →
  5. 2017 Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Clinical Practice Guidelines for Healthcare-Associated Ventriculitis and Meningitis*
    2016 576 citations Diederik van de Beek et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
  6. Post-stroke infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis
    2011 562 citations Willeke F. Westendorp, Paul J. Nederkoorn et al. BMC Neurology profile →
  7. Community-Acquired Bacterial Meningitis in Adults
    2006 529 citations Diederik van de Beek, Jan de Gans et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →
  8. The immunology of acute stroke
    2012 516 citations Diederik van de Beek et al. profile →
  9. ESCMID guideline: diagnosis and treatment of acute bacterial meningitis
    2016 510 citations Diederik van de Beek, Matthijs C. Brouwer et al. profile →
  10. Corticosteroids for acute bacterial meningitis
    2015 346 citations Matthijs C. Brouwer, Diederik van de Beek et al. profile →
  11. Diagnosis of Stroke-Associated Pneumonia
    2015 314 citations Diederik van de Beek et al. profile →
  12. Human Listeriosis
    2022 124 citations Matthijs C. Brouwer, Diederik van de Beek et al. profile →
  13. Sex and Gender Differences in Bacterial Infections
    2022 89 citations Matthijs C. Brouwer, Diederik van de Beek 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
Diederik van de Beek Netherlands 64 10.3k 9.7k 3.0k 2.6k 2.4k 394 19.7k
Matthijs C. Brouwer Netherlands 47 4.6k 0.4× 5.1k 0.5× 1.6k 0.5× 1.2k 0.5× 1.5k 0.6× 237 9.1k
Susanna Esposito Italy 72 10.9k 1.1× 3.1k 0.3× 2.2k 0.7× 2.5k 1.0× 4.9k 2.0× 944 24.2k
George H. McCracken United States 69 10.8k 1.1× 6.4k 0.7× 3.8k 1.3× 1.5k 0.6× 2.9k 1.2× 406 18.9k
Sheldon L. Kaplan United States 69 11.1k 1.1× 5.2k 0.5× 7.5k 2.5× 3.4k 1.3× 11.3k 4.7× 361 26.0k
Douglas T. Golenbock United States 112 10.7k 1.0× 4.6k 0.5× 4.4k 1.5× 2.8k 1.1× 4.8k 2.0× 288 51.0k
J.W.M. van der Meer Netherlands 97 9.1k 0.9× 2.0k 0.2× 2.6k 0.9× 4.1k 1.6× 8.4k 3.5× 566 38.9k
W. Michael Scheld United States 40 3.8k 0.4× 2.9k 0.3× 1.2k 0.4× 955 0.4× 1.6k 0.7× 102 8.6k
Kwang Sik Kim United States 67 3.7k 0.4× 3.1k 0.3× 1.9k 0.6× 440 0.2× 2.3k 0.9× 276 13.4k
P Brandtzæg Norway 81 5.8k 0.6× 3.4k 0.3× 1.0k 0.3× 2.9k 1.1× 1.7k 0.7× 404 23.6k
Moshe Arditi United States 70 3.6k 0.3× 1.8k 0.2× 1.0k 0.3× 3.4k 1.3× 2.2k 0.9× 212 18.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Diederik van de Beek

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Thiel, P. P. A. M. van, Diederik van de Beek, Matthijs C. Brouwer, et al.. (2025). Rabies in humans: A treatment approach. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. 64. 102813–102813. 1 indexed citations
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Koetsveld, Joris, Alex Wagemakers, Matthijs C. Brouwer, et al.. (2024). Limited evidence of infection with other tick-borne pathogens in patients tested for Lyme neuroborreliosis in the Netherlands. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 15(6). 102415–102415.
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Kremer, Philip H. C., Bart Ferwerda, Hester J. Bootsma, et al.. (2022). Pneumococcal genetic variability in age-dependent bacterial carriage. eLife. 11. 7 indexed citations
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Brouwer, Matthijs C., et al.. (2022). Intracerebral haemorrhage in bacterial meningitis. Journal of Infection. 85(3). 301–305. 3 indexed citations
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Horváth–Puhó, Erzsébet, Merel N. van Kassel, Bronner P. Gonçalves, et al.. (2021). Prematurity Modifies the Risk of Long-term Neurodevelopmental Impairments After Invasive Group B Streptococcus Infections During Infancy in Denmark and the Netherlands. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 74(Supplement_1). S44–S53. 10 indexed citations
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Gier, Brechje de, Merel N. van Kassel, Elisabeth A. M. Sanders, et al.. (2019). Disease burden of neonatal invasive Group B Streptococcus infection in the Netherlands. PLoS ONE. 14(5). e0216749–e0216749. 9 indexed citations
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Bodilsen, Jacob, Michael Dalager‐Pedersen, Diederik van de Beek, Matthijs C. Brouwer, & Henrik Nielsen. (2019). Risk Factors for Brain Abscess: A Nationwide, Population-Based, Nested Case-Control Study. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 71(4). 1040–1046. 36 indexed citations
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Bijlsma, Merijn W., et al.. (2019). Community-acquired group B streptococcal meningitis in adults. Journal of Infection. 80(3). 255–260. 3 indexed citations
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Jellema, Korné, et al.. (2019). Factors and measures predicting external CSF drain-associated ventriculitis. Neurology. 93(22). 964–972. 40 indexed citations
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Brouwer, Matthijs C., et al.. (2019). Sex‐based differences in the response to dexamethasone in bacterial meningitis: Analysis of the European dexamethasone in adulthood bacterial meningitis study. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 86(2). 386–391. 8 indexed citations
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Lees, John A., Philip H. C. Kremer, Ana Sousa Manso, et al.. (2016). Large scale genomic analysis shows no evidence for pathogen adaptation between the blood and cerebrospinal fluid niches during bacterial meningitis. Microbial Genomics. 3(1). e000103–e000103. 30 indexed citations
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Leonhard, Sonja E., Daan Fritz, Filip Eftimov, et al.. (2016). Neurosarcoidosis in a Tertiary Referral Center. Medicine. 95(14). e3277–e3277. 54 indexed citations
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Zock, Elles, Henk Kerkhoff, R. P. Kleyweg, et al.. (2015). Help-seeking behavior and onset-to-alarm time after stroke. International Journal of Stroke. 10. 124–124. 1 indexed citations
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Vermeij, Jan‐Dirk, Hamid Aslami, Kees Fluiter, et al.. (2013). Traumatic Brain Injury in Rats Induces Lung Injury and Systemic Immune Suppression. Journal of Neurotrauma. 30(24). 2073–2079. 44 indexed citations
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Fritz, Daan, Matthijs C. Brouwer, & Diederik van de Beek. (2012). Dexamethasone and long-term survival in bacterial meningitis. Neurology. 79(22). 2177–2179. 24 indexed citations
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Brouwer, Matthijs C., et al.. (2012). Genetic Variation in the β2-Adrenocepter Gene Is Associated with Susceptibility to Bacterial Meningitis in Adults. PLoS ONE. 7(5). e37618–e37618. 17 indexed citations
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Westendorp, Willeke F., Paul J. Nederkoorn, Jan‐Dirk Vermeij, Marcel G. W. Dijkgraaf, & Diederik van de Beek. (2011). Post-stroke infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Neurology. 11(1). 110–110. 562 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zoons, Evelien, Martijn Weisfelt, Jan de Gans, et al.. (2008). Seizures in adults with bacterial meningitis. Neurology. 70(22_part_2). 2109–2115. 85 indexed citations
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Weisfelt, Martijn, et al.. (2006). Dexamethasone treatment in adults with pneumococcal meningitis: risk factors for death. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. 25(2). 73–78. 20 indexed citations
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Gans, Jan de & Diederik van de Beek. (2002). Dexamethasone in Adults with Bacterial Meningitis. New England Journal of Medicine. 347(20). 1549–1556. 711 indexed citations breakdown →

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