Lauren C. Kennedy

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 558 citations indexed

About

Lauren C. Kennedy is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lauren C. Kennedy has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 558 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Infectious Diseases, 5 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 4 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Lauren C. Kennedy's work include SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (8 papers), Biosensors and Analytical Detection (5 papers) and Fecal contamination and water quality (4 papers). Lauren C. Kennedy is often cited by papers focused on SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (8 papers), Biosensors and Analytical Detection (5 papers) and Fecal contamination and water quality (4 papers). Lauren C. Kennedy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Belgium. Lauren C. Kennedy's co-authors include Kara L. Nelson, Rose S. Kantor, Hannah Greenwald, Adrian Hinkle, Oscar N. Whitney, Basem Al-Shayeb, Alexander Crits‐Christoph, Alexandria B. Boehm, Scott Kuersten and Matthew R. Olm and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Emerging infectious diseases and mBio.

In The Last Decade

Lauren C. Kennedy

15 papers receiving 555 citations

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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.

Genome Sequencing of Sewage Detects Regionally Prevalent SARS-CoV-2 Variants

2021 217 citations Alexander Crits‐Christoph, Rose S. Kantor et al. mBio profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lauren C. Kennedy United States	10	471	296	143	52	34	16	558
Hannah Greenwald United States	5	359 0.8×	233 0.8×	121 0.8×	39 0.8×	15 0.4×	10	408
Xiawan Zheng Hong Kong	11	323 0.7×	215 0.7×	163 1.1×	53 1.0×	20 0.6×	19	494
Laura Roldan-Hernandez United States	7	413 0.9×	247 0.8×	90 0.6×	50 1.0×	9 0.3×	9	457
Devin North United States	8	271 0.6×	149 0.5×	63 0.4×	35 0.7×	15 0.4×	10	336
Shalina Shahin United States	4	381 0.8×	223 0.8×	75 0.5×	67 1.3×	10 0.3×	8	458
Raúl González United States	12	463 1.0×	283 1.0×	117 0.8×	54 1.0×	71 2.1×	23	722
Patrick M. D’Aoust Canada	12	795 1.7×	438 1.5×	145 1.0×	136 2.6×	18 0.5×	26	899
Sooyeol Kim United States	6	409 0.9×	267 0.9×	101 0.7×	52 1.0×	7 0.2×	9	448
Élisabeth Mercier Canada	11	649 1.4×	333 1.1×	109 0.8×	94 1.8×	21 0.6×	24	747
Lauren Ward United States	6	381 0.8×	218 0.7×	74 0.5×	67 1.3×	7 0.2×	8	447

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lauren C. Kennedy

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16 of 16 papers shown

Kantor, Rose S., et al.. (2025). Reverse Osmosis in an Advanced Water Treatment Train Produces a Simple, Consistent Microbial Community. ACS ES&T Engineering. 5(3). 772–781. 1 indexed citations

Kennedy, Lauren C., et al.. (2024). You can bring plankton to fecal indicator organisms, but you cannot make the plankton graze: particle contribution to E. coli and MS2 inactivation in surface waters. mSphere. 9(10). e0065624–e0065624.

Kennedy, Lauren C., et al.. (2023). Stay in the loop: lessons learned about the microbial water quality in pipe loops transitioned from conventional to direct potable reuse water. Environmental Science Water Research & Technology. 9(5). 1436–1454. 3 indexed citations

Kennedy, Lauren C., Verónica Costantini, Stephanie K. Loeb, et al.. (2023). Persistence of Human Norovirus (GII) in Surface Water: Decay Rate Constants and Inactivation Mechanisms. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(9). 3671–3679. 21 indexed citations

Kennedy, Lauren C., et al.. (2023). Temperature and particles interact to affect human norovirus and MS2 persistence in surface water. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 26(1). 71–81. 5 indexed citations

Kennedy, Lauren C., et al.. (2023). Identifying trends in SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater to infer changing COVID-19 incidence: Effect of sampling frequency. PLOS Water. 2(4). e0000088–e0000088. 13 indexed citations

Greenwald, Hannah, et al.. (2022). Microbial Water Quality through a Full-Scale Advanced Wastewater Treatment Demonstration Facility. ACS ES&T Engineering. 2(12). 2206–2219. 4 indexed citations

Kantor, Rose S., Hannah Greenwald, Lauren C. Kennedy, et al.. (2022). Operationalizing a routine wastewater monitoring laboratory for SARS-CoV-2. PLOS Water. 1(2). e0000007–e0000007. 16 indexed citations

Greenwald, Hannah, Lauren C. Kennedy, Yanghua Duan, et al.. (2022). Is flushing necessary during building closures? A study of water quality and bacterial communities during extended reductions in building occupancy. Frontiers in Water. 4. 17 indexed citations

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Yu, Alexander T., Bridgette Hughes, Marlene K. Wolfe, et al.. (2022). Estimating Relative Abundance of 2 SARS-CoV-2 Variants through Wastewater Surveillance at 2 Large Metropolitan Sites, United States. Emerging infectious diseases. 28(5). 940–947. 27 indexed citations

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Kim, Sooyeol, Lauren C. Kennedy, Marlene K. Wolfe, et al.. (2022). SARS-CoV-2 RNA is enriched by orders of magnitude in primary settled solids relative to liquid wastewater at publicly owned treatment works. Environmental Science Water Research & Technology. 8(4). 757–770. 59 indexed citations

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Kantor, Rose S., Kara L. Nelson, Hannah Greenwald, & Lauren C. Kennedy. (2021). Challenges in Measuring the Recovery of SARS-CoV-2 from Wastewater. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(6). 3514–3519. 98 indexed citations

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Whitney, Oscar N., Lauren C. Kennedy, Adrian Hinkle, et al.. (2021). Sewage, Salt, Silica, and SARS-CoV-2 (4S): An Economical Kit-Free Method for Direct Capture of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from Wastewater. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(8). 4880–4888. 50 indexed citations

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Crits‐Christoph, Alexander, Rose S. Kantor, Matthew R. Olm, et al.. (2021). Genome Sequencing of Sewage Detects Regionally Prevalent SARS-CoV-2 Variants. mBio. 12(1). 217 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kennedy, Lauren C., et al.. (2020). Effect of disinfectant residual, pH, and temperature on microbial abundance in disinfected drinking water distribution systems. Environmental Science Water Research & Technology. 7(1). 78–92. 19 indexed citations

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Ye, Congwang, et al.. (2014). CNC-loaded hydrogel particles generated from single- and double-emulsion drops. Green Materials. 3(1). 25–34. 8 indexed citations

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