Lesley McGee

11.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
143 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Lesley McGee is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Microbiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Lesley McGee has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Epidemiology, 54 papers in Microbiology and 40 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Lesley McGee's work include Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (117 papers), Respiratory viral infections research (55 papers) and Bacterial Infections and Vaccines (53 papers). Lesley McGee is often cited by papers focused on Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (117 papers), Respiratory viral infections research (55 papers) and Bacterial Infections and Vaccines (53 papers). Lesley McGee collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and South Africa. Lesley McGee's co-authors include Bernard Beall, Keith P. Klugman, Cynthia G. Whitney, Sopio Chochua, Lee H. Harrison, Stephen D. Bentley, Robert E. Gertz, Benjamin J. Metcalf, Ann Thomas and Monica M. Farley and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Lesley McGee

133 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

A New Pneumococcal Capsule Type, 10D, is the 100th Seroty... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2020 2019 50 100 150 200 250
What are hit papers?

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. A New Pneumococcal Capsule Type, 10D, is the 100th Serotype and Has a Large cps Fragment from an Oral Streptococcus
    2020 261 citations Feroze Ganaie, Lesley McGee et al. profile →
  2. Epidemiology of Invasive Early-Onset and Late-Onset Group B Streptococcal Disease in the United States, 2006 to 2015
    2019 254 citations Susan Petit, Lee H. Harrison 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
Lesley McGee United States 37 4.7k 2.0k 1.6k 1.0k 504 143 5.8k
Mark van der Linden Germany 37 3.1k 0.7× 1.3k 0.7× 1.3k 0.8× 1.1k 1.0× 439 0.9× 203 4.7k
Robert C. George United Kingdom 49 5.6k 1.2× 1.9k 0.9× 1.2k 0.7× 1.4k 1.3× 401 0.8× 120 7.3k
Ralf René Reinert Germany 35 2.4k 0.5× 1.1k 0.5× 1.1k 0.7× 1.1k 1.1× 345 0.7× 108 3.5k
Angela B. Brueggemann United Kingdom 39 4.8k 1.0× 2.0k 1.0× 926 0.6× 1.3k 1.2× 1.0k 2.0× 77 6.5k
Kathleen A. Shutt United States 39 3.2k 0.7× 1.1k 0.5× 514 0.3× 2.5k 2.4× 765 1.5× 75 5.6k
Hoan Jong Lee South Korea 33 2.9k 0.6× 870 0.4× 472 0.3× 1.2k 1.1× 487 1.0× 190 4.0k
Carmen Ardanuy Spain 39 3.0k 0.6× 1.3k 0.6× 739 0.5× 1.0k 1.0× 1.6k 3.3× 168 5.4k
Eugene Leibovitz Israel 42 3.5k 0.8× 1.7k 0.8× 1.1k 0.7× 805 0.8× 190 0.4× 182 5.3k
Susan Petit United States 31 2.3k 0.5× 820 0.4× 1.9k 1.2× 1.5k 1.4× 200 0.4× 88 4.6k
Delois Jackson United States 23 3.8k 0.8× 1.7k 0.8× 1.2k 0.8× 637 0.6× 133 0.3× 29 4.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lesley McGee

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Beall, Bernard, Zhongya Li, Theresa Tran, et al.. (2025). Two Independent Acquisitions of Multidrug Resistance Gene lsaC in Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype 20 Multilocus Sequence Type 1257. Emerging infectious diseases. 31(11). 2098–2108.
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Musher, Daniel M., Mathias Müsken, John Hicks, Lesley McGee, & Bernard Beall. (2025). Encapsulation of Disease-Causing and Commensal Mitis Group Non-Pneumococcal Streptococci. Pathogens. 14(9). 876–876.
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Kumar, Narender, Corin Yeats, Benjamin J. Metcalf, et al.. (2025). GPS Pipeline: portable, scalable genomic pipeline for Streptococcus pneumoniae surveillance from Global Pneumococcal Sequencing Project. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8345–8345.
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Kumar, Narender, Kate C. Mellor, Paulina A. Hawkins, et al.. (2024). Comparison of gene-by-gene and genome-wide short nucleotide sequence-based approaches to define the global population structure of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Microbial Genomics. 10(8). 2 indexed citations
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Metcalf, Benjamin J., Scott Hazelhurst, Linda de Gouveia, et al.. (2024). Molecular Epidemiology of Invasive Group B Streptococcus in South Africa, 2019–2020. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 231(4). e697–e707. 2 indexed citations
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Hawkins, Paulina A., Sopio Chochua, Martín Antonio, et al.. (2023). A global genomic perspective on the multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae 15A-CC63 sub-lineage following pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction. Microbial Genomics. 9(4). 5 indexed citations
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Nzenze, Susan, Paulina A. Hawkins, Rebecca A. Gladstone, et al.. (2022). Population genomics of pneumococcal carriage in South Africa following the introduction of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) immunization. Microbial Genomics. 8(6). 9 indexed citations
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Senghore, Madikay, Chrispin Chaguza, Ebrima Bojang, et al.. (2022). Widespread sharing of pneumococcal strains in a rural African setting: proximate villages are more likely to share similar strains that are carried at multiple timepoints. Microbial Genomics. 8(2). 2 indexed citations
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Almeida, Samanta Cristine Grassi, Stephanie W. Lo, Paulina A. Hawkins, et al.. (2021). Genomic surveillance of invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in the period pre-PCV10 and post-PCV10 introduction in Brazil. Microbial Genomics. 7(10). 13 indexed citations
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Nagaraj, Geetha, Vandana Govindan, Feroze Ganaie, et al.. (2021). Streptococcus pneumoniae genomic datasets from an Indian population describing pre-vaccine evolutionary epidemiology using a whole genome sequencing approach. Microbial Genomics. 7(9). 12 indexed citations
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Gagetti, Paula, Stephanie W. Lo, Paulina A. Hawkins, et al.. (2021). Population genetic structure, serotype distribution and antibiotic resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae causing invasive disease in children in Argentina. Microbial Genomics. 7(9). 21 indexed citations
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Chaguza, Chrispin, Ellen Heinsbroek, Rebecca A. Gladstone, et al.. (2019). Early Signals of Vaccine-driven Perturbation Seen in Pneumococcal Carriage Population Genomic Data. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 70(7). 1294–1303. 8 indexed citations
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Tonder, Andries J. van, Rebecca A. Gladstone, Stephanie W. Lo, et al.. (2019). Putative novel cps loci in a large global collection of pneumococci. Microbial Genomics. 5(7). 20 indexed citations
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Ouedraogo-Traoré, Rasmata, Isaïe Médah, Lassana Sangaré, et al.. (2017). Early impact of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on pneumococcal meningitis—Burkina Faso, 2014–2015. Journal of Infection. 76(3). 270–279. 23 indexed citations
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Hawkins, Paulina A., Patrick Eberechi Akpaka, Rebecca A. Gladstone, et al.. (2017). Antimicrobial resistance determinants and susceptibility profiles of pneumococcal isolates recovered in Trinidad and Tobago. Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance. 11. 148–151. 7 indexed citations
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Metcalf, Benjamin J., Robert E. Gertz, Rebecca A. Gladstone, et al.. (2015). Strain features and distributions in pneumococci from children with invasive disease before and after 13-valent conjugate vaccine implementation in the USA. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 22(1). 60.e9–60.e29. 144 indexed citations
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Verani, Jennifer R., Nancy Spina, Ruth Lynfield, et al.. (2014). Early-Onset Group B Streptococcal Disease in the United States. Obstetrics and Gynecology. 123(4). 828–837. 38 indexed citations
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Rozen, Daniel E., Lesley McGee, Bruce R. Levin, & Keith P. Klugman. (2006). Fitness Costs of Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 51(2). 412–416. 123 indexed citations
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McGee, Lesley. (2002). Fluoroquinolone resistance among clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae belonging to international multiresistant clones. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 49(1). 173–176. 42 indexed citations

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