Ed Desmond

2.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
12 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Ed Desmond is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Ed Desmond has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Infectious Diseases, 11 papers in Epidemiology and 9 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Ed Desmond's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (12 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (10 papers) and Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis (6 papers). Ed Desmond is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (12 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (10 papers) and Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis (6 papers). Ed Desmond collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Ireland. Ed Desmond's co-authors include Ann M. Loeffler, Philip LoBue, Charles L. Daley, Joseph Keane, Gerald H. Mazurek, Michael Leonard, David L. Cohn, David M. Warshauer, Luca Richeldi and Madhukar Pai and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Clinical Infectious Diseases and Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Ed Desmond

12 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Official American Thoracic Society/Infectious Diseases Society of America/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Clinical Practice Guidelines: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Adults and Children

2016 656 citations David Lewinsohn, Michael Leonard et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
Official American Thoracic Society/Infectious Diseases Society of America/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Clinical Practice Guidelines: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Adults and Children

2017 476 citations David Lewinsohn, Michael Leonard et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ed Desmond United States	9	1.4k	1.2k	870	101	98	12	1.7k
Ann M. Loeffler United States	11	1.1k 0.7×	809 0.7×	708 0.8×	107 1.1×	85 0.9×	19	1.4k
Luigi Ruffo Codecasa Italy	24	1.5k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	817 0.9×	159 1.6×	104 1.1×	94	1.9k
José-María García-García Spain	18	869 0.6×	678 0.6×	387 0.4×	65 0.6×	97 1.0×	81	1.2k
Richard Meldau South Africa	24	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	714 0.8×	182 1.8×	134 1.4×	42	1.6k
Edward C. Jones‐López United States	20	1.0k 0.7×	842 0.7×	391 0.4×	120 1.2×	97 1.0×	45	1.4k
Urvashi B. Singh India	24	1.4k 1.0×	990 0.8×	1.2k 1.4×	71 0.7×	68 0.7×	104	2.0k
Marina Tadolini Italy	19	1.1k 0.8×	689 0.6×	428 0.5×	69 0.7×	82 0.8×	57	1.4k
Takashi Yoshiyama Japan	22	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	519 0.6×	195 1.9×	100 1.0×	132	1.7k
Hanif Esmail United Kingdom	18	1.2k 0.8×	810 0.7×	506 0.6×	47 0.5×	178 1.8×	50	1.4k
Sandra V. Kik Switzerland	19	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	707 0.8×	44 0.4×	270 2.8×	30	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Ed Desmond

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ed Desmond

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ed Desmond

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

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12 of 12 papers shown

Largen, Angela, Jeffrey T. Foster, Kevin P. Drees, et al.. (2018). Genomic sequencing is required for identification of tuberculosis transmission in Hawaii. BMC Infectious Diseases. 18(1). 608–608. 9 indexed citations

Lowenthal, Phil, et al.. (2018). Evaluation of the Impact of a Sequencing Assay for Detection of Drug Resistance on the Clinical Management of Tuberculosis. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 69(4). 668–675. 5 indexed citations

Lewinsohn, David, Michael Leonard, Philip LoBue, et al.. (2017). Official American Thoracic Society/Infectious Diseases Society of America/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Clinical Practice Guidelines: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Adults and Children. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 64(2). 111–115. 476 indexed citations breakdown →

Shah, Neha, et al.. (2016). Clinical Impact on Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes of Discordance Between Molecular and Growth-Based Assays for Rifampin Resistance, California 2003–2013. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 3(3). ofw150–ofw150. 26 indexed citations

Lewinsohn, David, Michael Leonard, Philip LoBue, et al.. (2016). Official American Thoracic Society/Infectious Diseases Society of America/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Clinical Practice Guidelines: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Adults and Children. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 64(2). e1–e33. 656 indexed citations breakdown →

Qian, Lishi, et al.. (2011). Rapid Deletion-Based Subtyping System for the Manila Family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 49(5). 1951–1955. 3 indexed citations

Banerjee, Ritu, Jennifer R. Allen, Janice Westenhouse, et al.. (2010). Rapid Drug Susceptibility Testing with a Molecular Beacon Assay Is Associated with Earlier Diagnosis and Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in California. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 48(10). 3779–3781. 16 indexed citations

Flores, Laura, Leah G. Jarlsberg, Dennis Osmond, et al.. (2009). Comparison of Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism with the Polymorphic Guanine-Cytosine-Rich Sequence and Spoligotyping for Differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates with Five or Fewer Copies of IS 6110. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 48(2). 575–578. 8 indexed citations

Richardson, Edward T., et al.. (2009). First documentation of isoniazid reversion in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.. PubMed. 13(11). 1347–54. 10 indexed citations

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Banerjee, Ritu, Jennifer R. Allen, Janice Westenhouse, et al.. (2008). Extensively Drug‐Resistant Tuberculosis in California, 1993–2006. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 47(4). 450–457. 91 indexed citations

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Winthrop, Kevin, B. Kubak, David A. Pegues, et al.. (2004). Transmission of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Via Lung Transplantation. American Journal of Transplantation. 4(9). 1529–1533. 39 indexed citations

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Small, Peter M., Robert W. Shafer, Philip C. Hopewell, et al.. (1993). Exogenous Reinfection with Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Patients with Advanced HIV Infection. New England Journal of Medicine. 328(16). 1137–1144. 384 indexed citations

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