Karen C. Carroll

28.6k total citations · 10 hit papers
376 papers, 18.6k citations indexed

About

Karen C. Carroll is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Clinical Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen C. Carroll has authored 376 papers receiving a total of 18.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 194 papers in Infectious Diseases, 155 papers in Epidemiology and 139 papers in Clinical Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Karen C. Carroll's work include Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (139 papers), Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (84 papers) and Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (66 papers). Karen C. Carroll is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (139 papers), Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (84 papers) and Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (66 papers). Karen C. Carroll collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Karen C. Carroll's co-authors include Patricia J. Simner, Trish M. Perl, Kevin W. Garey, Dale N. Gerding, Vivian G. Loo, Stuart Johnson, L. Clifford McDonald, Thomas J. Sandora, Johan Bakken and Carolyn V. Gould and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, JAMA and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Karen C. Carroll

372 papers receiving 18.1k citations

Hit Papers

Clinical Practice Guideli... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2017 2018 2004 2017 2013 500 1000 1.5k
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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 Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: 2017 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)
    2017 1.9k citations L. Clifford McDonald, Dale N. Gerding et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
  2. Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: 2017 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)
    2018 787 citations L. Clifford McDonald, Dale N. Gerding et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
  3. Severe Community-Onset Pneumonia in Healthy Adults Caused by Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Carrying the Panton-Valentine Leukocidin Genes
    2004 560 citations Karen C. Carroll et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
  4. Understanding the Promises and Hurdles of Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing as a Diagnostic Tool for Infectious Diseases
    2017 490 citations Patricia J. Simner, Karen C. Carroll et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
  5. Better Tests, Better Care: Improved Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases
    2013 461 citations Angela M. Caliendo, David N. Gilbert et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
  6. The Bacteroides fragilis Toxin Gene Is Prevalent in the Colon Mucosa of Colorectal Cancer Patients
    2014 453 citations Brandon Ellis, Karen C. Carroll et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
  7. A Guide to Utilization of the Microbiology Laboratory for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: 2013 Recommendations by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM)a
    2013 392 citations Ellen Jo Baron, Melvin P. Weinstein et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
  8. A Guide to Utilization of the Microbiology Laboratory for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: 2018 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Society for Microbiologya
    2018 350 citations Karen C. Carroll, Melvin P. Weinstein et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
  9. A Guide to Utilization of the Microbiology Laboratory for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: 2018 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Society for Microbiologya
    2018 323 citations Karen C. Carroll, Melvin P. Weinstein et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
  10. Guide to Utilization of the Microbiology Laboratory for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: 2024 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
    2024 62 citations Karen C. Carroll, Melvin P. Weinstein 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
Karen C. Carroll United States 65 9.7k 8.4k 4.5k 3.2k 2.7k 376 18.6k
Tim Peto United Kingdom 74 7.0k 0.7× 6.5k 0.8× 2.0k 0.4× 3.8k 1.2× 2.2k 0.8× 258 17.8k
Richard P. Wenzel United States 72 10.9k 1.1× 8.2k 1.0× 4.4k 1.0× 2.7k 0.8× 2.5k 0.9× 241 21.3k
Henri A. Verbrugh Netherlands 72 11.8k 1.2× 5.9k 0.7× 4.5k 1.0× 6.1k 1.9× 2.7k 1.0× 387 22.8k
Scott K. Fridkin United States 59 15.8k 1.6× 8.9k 1.1× 6.4k 1.4× 4.0k 1.2× 3.5k 1.3× 174 27.2k
Derrick W. Crook United Kingdom 79 8.7k 0.9× 9.0k 1.1× 2.4k 0.5× 4.9k 1.5× 2.2k 0.8× 328 21.7k
Emilio Bouza Spain 77 15.8k 1.6× 15.9k 1.9× 3.6k 0.8× 2.5k 0.8× 3.5k 1.3× 862 29.3k
L. Barth Reller United States 71 7.4k 0.8× 7.8k 0.9× 5.8k 1.3× 1.7k 0.5× 3.8k 1.4× 303 18.0k
Marc J. M. Bonten Netherlands 81 8.7k 0.9× 8.6k 1.0× 4.4k 1.0× 4.1k 1.3× 2.2k 0.8× 558 24.7k
Andrew E. Simor Canada 61 7.1k 0.7× 5.3k 0.6× 2.3k 0.5× 1.5k 0.5× 2.5k 0.9× 311 14.8k
David R. Snydman United States 68 6.9k 0.7× 9.2k 1.1× 2.3k 0.5× 1.6k 0.5× 1.7k 0.6× 350 17.6k

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All Works

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Tekle, Tsigereda, Yehudit Bergman, Jennifer Lu, et al.. (2023). Clinical significance of Nosocomiicoccus ampullae isolated from blood cultures. Microbiology Spectrum. 11(6). e0217923–e0217923.
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Schinkel, Michiel, Karen C. Carroll, Sara E. Cosgrove, et al.. (2023). Impact of Blood Culture Contamination on Antibiotic Use, Resource Utilization, and Clinical Outcomes: A Retrospective Cohort Study in Dutch and US Hospitals. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 11(2). ofad644–ofad644. 8 indexed citations
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Miller, Joanne M., et al.. (2023). A diagnostic stewardship approach to prevent unnecessary testing of an enteric bacterial molecular panel. Microbiology Spectrum. 11(6). e0294523–e0294523. 2 indexed citations
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Gaston, David C., Heather B. Miller, John A. Fissel, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of Metagenomic and Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing Workflows for Detection of Respiratory Pathogens from Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Specimens. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 60(7). e0052622–e0052622. 103 indexed citations
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Carroll, Karen C., Carey‐Ann D. Burnham, & Lars F. Westblade. (2021). From canines to humans: Clinical importance of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius. PLoS Pathogens. 17(12). e1009961–e1009961. 38 indexed citations
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Wolk, Donna M., Stephen Young, Natalie N. Whitfield, et al.. (2021). A Multicenter Clinical Study To Demonstrate the Diagnostic Accuracy of the GenMark Dx ePlex Blood Culture Identification Gram-Negative Panel. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 59(9). e0248420–e0248420. 13 indexed citations
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Hashemi, M, Nikhil Ram-Mohan, Xi Yang, et al.. (2020). A Novel Platform Using RNA Signatures To Accelerate Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 58(12). 10 indexed citations
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Gniazdowski, Victoria, C. Paul Morris, Shirlee Wohl, et al.. (2020). Repeated Coronavirus Disease 2019 Molecular Testing: Correlation of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Culture With Molecular Assays and Cycle Thresholds. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 73(4). e860–e869. 100 indexed citations
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Jarrett, Junko, Brandon Ellis, Harsimar Kaur, et al.. (2020). Comparing the analytical performance of three SARS-CoV-2 molecular diagnostic assays. Journal of Clinical Virology. 127. 104384–104384. 89 indexed citations
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Faron, Matthew L., Karen C. Carroll, Shawna Lewis, et al.. (2019). A Multicenter Study of the Revogene C. difficile System for Detection of the Toxin B Gene from Unformed Stool Specimens. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 58(2). 6 indexed citations
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Iyer, Rajiv R., Noah Gorelick, Karen C. Carroll, et al.. (2018). Evaluation of an in vivo model for ventricular shunt infection: a pilot study using a novel antimicrobial-loaded polymer. Journal of neurosurgery. 131(2). 1–9. 1 indexed citations
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McDonald, L. Clifford, Dale N. Gerding, Stuart Johnson, et al.. (2017). Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: 2017 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). Clinical Infectious Diseases. 66(7). e1–e48. 1891 indexed citations breakdown →
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Caliendo, Angela M., David N. Gilbert, Christine C. Ginocchio, et al.. (2013). Better Tests, Better Care: Improved Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 57(suppl 3). S139–S170. 461 indexed citations breakdown →
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Alonso, Carolyn D., David B. Hanna, Carol Ann Huff, et al.. (2012). Epidemiology and Outcomes of Clostridium difficile Infections in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 54(8). 1053–1063. 149 indexed citations
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Quinn, Criziel, Susan E. Sefers, Ying He, et al.. (2009). C. Diff Quik Chek Complete Enzyme Immunoassay Provides a Reliable First-Line Method for Detection of Clostridium difficile in Stool Specimens. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 48(2). 603–605. 84 indexed citations
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Petti, Cathy A., Hasan Bhally, Melvin P. Weinstein, et al.. (2006). Utility of Extended Blood Culture Incubation for Isolation of Haemophilus, Actinobacillus, Cardiobacterium, Eikenella , and Kingella Organisms: a Retrospective Multicenter Evaluation. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 44(1). 257–259. 79 indexed citations
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Ecker, David J. & Karen C. Carroll. (2005). Investments in high-payoff technologies could reduce toll of infections. 71(12). 576–581. 6 indexed citations
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Baron, Ellen Jo & Karen C. Carroll. (2005). Rapid diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis: What is the optimal method?. 22(12). 633–637. 2 indexed citations
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Hindiyeh, Musa, Carol Goulding, H. R. Morgan, et al.. (2000). Evaluation of BioStar® FLU OIA® assay for rapid detection of influenza A and B viruses in respiratory specimens. Journal of Clinical Virology. 17(2). 119–126. 36 indexed citations
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Litwin, Christine M., et al.. (1997). Characterization of Endemic Strains ofShigella sonneiby Use of Plasmid DNA Analysis and Pulsed‐Field Gel Electrophoresis to Detect Patterns of Transmission. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 175(4). 864–870. 21 indexed citations

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