Fran Balamuth

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Fran Balamuth is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Emergency Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Fran Balamuth has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Epidemiology, 26 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 25 papers in Emergency Medicine. Recurrent topics in Fran Balamuth's work include Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (45 papers), Emergency and Acute Care Studies (17 papers) and Vector-borne infectious diseases (16 papers). Fran Balamuth is often cited by papers focused on Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (45 papers), Emergency and Acute Care Studies (17 papers) and Vector-borne infectious diseases (16 papers). Fran Balamuth collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Fran Balamuth's co-authors include Scott L. Weiss, Julie C. Fitzgerald, Elizabeth R. Alpern, Robert W. Grundmeier, Kim Bottomly, Katie Hayes, Marianne Chilutti, Jane Lavelle, Neal J. Thomas and Vinay Nadkarni and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Immunity and The Journal of Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Fran Balamuth

93 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Delayed Antimicrobial Therapy Increases Mortality and Organ Dysfunction Duration in Pediatric Sepsis*

2014 335 citations Scott L. Weiss, Julie C. Fitzgerald et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fran Balamuth United States	27	1.4k	601	518	472	361	98	2.5k
Simon Nadel United Kingdom	38	2.1k 1.5×	596 1.0×	484 0.9×	500 1.1×	524 1.5×	134	4.2k
Pierre Hausfater France	34	1.7k 1.2×	491 0.8×	426 0.8×	497 1.1×	438 1.2×	140	3.7k
A. Martinot France	29	1.7k 1.2×	634 1.1×	580 1.1×	273 0.6×	560 1.6×	190	3.6k
Fabrice Bruneel France	34	1.7k 1.2×	924 1.5×	506 1.0×	764 1.6×	411 1.1×	132	3.9k
Pierre Tissières France	31	1.2k 0.8×	313 0.5×	251 0.5×	612 1.3×	658 1.8×	123	3.0k
Thomas Bregenzer Switzerland	22	1.2k 0.9×	382 0.6×	240 0.5×	530 1.1×	596 1.7×	51	3.0k
Peter Olupot‐Olupot Uganda	20	712 0.5×	509 0.8×	330 0.6×	335 0.7×	377 1.0×	111	2.3k
Christophe Camus France	28	1.4k 1.0×	364 0.6×	231 0.4×	521 1.1×	960 2.7×	114	3.4k
Djamel Mokart France	31	1.5k 1.1×	300 0.5×	273 0.5×	640 1.4×	561 1.6×	131	3.2k
Ghislaine Leleu France	16	1.0k 0.7×	618 1.0×	170 0.3×	312 0.7×	169 0.5×	22	2.3k

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Alpern, Elizabeth R., Halden F. Scott, Fran Balamuth, et al.. (2025). Derivation and Validation of Predictive Models for Early Pediatric Sepsis. JAMA Pediatrics. 179(12). 1318–1318.

Nigrovic, Lise E., Anupam B. Kharbanda, Amy D. Thompson, et al.. (2023). Biomarkers for Pediatric Bacterial Musculoskeletal Infections in Lyme Disease–Endemic Regions. PEDIATRICS. 152(2). 1 indexed citations

Lyons, Todd W., Anupam B. Kharbanda, Amy D. Thompson, et al.. (2022). A Clinical Prediction Rule for Bacterial Musculoskeletal Infections in Children with Monoarthritis in Lyme Endemic Regions. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 80(3). 225–234. 6 indexed citations

Garro, Aris, Amy D. Thompson, Fran Balamuth, et al.. (2022). Empiric antibiotics for children with suspected Lyme disease. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 13(5). 101989–101989. 1 indexed citations

Scarfone, Richard J., et al.. (2021). Eliminating Lumbar Puncture for Low-Risk Febrile Infants. Pediatric Emergency Care. 37(8). 397–402. 2 indexed citations

Weiss, Scott L., Kyle Bittinger, Jung‐Jin Lee, et al.. (2021). Decreased Intestinal Microbiome Diversity in Pediatric Sepsis: A Conceptual Framework for Intestinal Dysbiosis to Influence Immunometabolic Function. Critical Care Explorations. 3(3). e0360–e0360. 10 indexed citations

Fitzgerald, Julie C., Michelle Ross, Neal J. Thomas, et al.. (2020). Association of early hypotension in pediatric sepsis with development of new or persistent acute kidney injury. Pediatric Nephrology. 36(2). 451–461. 5 indexed citations

Nigrovic, Lise E., et al.. (2019). The Lyme Disease Polymerase Chain Reaction Test Has Low Sensitivity. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 20(4). 310–313. 8 indexed citations

Depinet, Holly, Raina Paul, Fran Balamuth, et al.. (2018). Pediatric Septic Shock Collaborative: Description of Early Improvement. PEDIATRICS. 142. 110–110. 3 indexed citations

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Balamuth, Fran, et al.. (2018). Predictive Modeling for Organ Dysfunction in Children with Suspected Sepsis in the Emergency Department. PEDIATRICS. 142. 127–127. 1 indexed citations

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Aronson, Paul L., Marie E. Wang, Eugene D. Shapiro, et al.. (2018). Risk Stratification of Febrile Infants ≤60 Days Old Without Routine Lumbar Puncture. PEDIATRICS. 142(6). 26 indexed citations

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Thomson, Joanna, Heidi Sucharew, Andrea T. Cruz, et al.. (2018). Cerebrospinal Fluid Reference Values for Young Infants Undergoing Lumbar Puncture. PEDIATRICS. 141(3). 52 indexed citations

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Balamuth, Fran, Andrea T. Cruz, Stephen B. Freedman, et al.. (2018). Test Characteristics of Cerebrospinal Fluid Gram Stain to Identify Bacterial Meningitis in Infants Younger Than 60 Days. Pediatric Emergency Care. 37(5). e227–e229. 3 indexed citations

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Han, Moonjoo, Julie C. Fitzgerald, Fran Balamuth, et al.. (2017). Association of Delayed Antimicrobial Therapy with One-Year Mortality in Pediatric Sepsis. Shock. 48(1). 29–35. 30 indexed citations

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Downes, Kevin J., Scott L. Weiss, Jeffrey S. Gerber, et al.. (2016). A Pragmatic Biomarker-Driven Algorithm to Guide Antibiotic Use in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: The Optimizing Antibiotic Strategies in Sepsis (OASIS) Study. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. 6(2). piw023–piw023. 21 indexed citations

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Balamuth, Fran, et al.. (2016). Neutropenia in the Febrile Child. Pediatric Emergency Care. 32(5). 329–334. 8 indexed citations

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Chua, Kao‐Ping, Mark I. Neuman, J. Michael McWilliams, et al.. (2015). Association between Clinical Outcomes and Hospital Guidelines for Cerebrospinal Fluid Testing in Febrile Infants Aged 29-56 Days. The Journal of Pediatrics. 167(6). 1340–1346.e9. 18 indexed citations

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Jackman, Rachael P., Fran Balamuth, & Kim Bottomly. (2007). CTLA-4 Differentially Regulates the Immunological Synapse in CD4 T Cell Subsets. The Journal of Immunology. 178(9). 5543–5551. 15 indexed citations

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Balamuth, Fran, Jennifer L. Brogdon, & Kim Bottomly. (2004). CD4 Raft Association and Signaling Regulate Molecular Clustering at the Immunological Synapse Site. The Journal of Immunology. 172(10). 5887–5892. 59 indexed citations

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Leitenberg, David, Fran Balamuth, & Kim Bottomly. (2001). Changes in the T cell receptor macromolecular signaling complex and membrane microdomains during T cell development and activation. Seminars in Immunology. 13(2). 129–138. 58 indexed citations

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