Marlene K. Wolfe

4.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
77 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Marlene K. Wolfe is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Biomedical Engineering and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marlene K. Wolfe has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Infectious Diseases, 23 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 11 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Marlene K. Wolfe's work include SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (42 papers), Biosensors and Analytical Detection (22 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (19 papers). Marlene K. Wolfe is often cited by papers focused on SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (42 papers), Biosensors and Analytical Detection (22 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (19 papers). Marlene K. Wolfe collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Marlene K. Wolfe's co-authors include Alexandria B. Boehm, Bradley J. White, Dorothea Duong, Krista R. Wigginton, Bridgette Hughes, Daniele Lantagne, Vikram Chan-Herur, Sooyeol Kim, David Catoe and Lorelay Mendoza Grijalva and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Communications and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Marlene K. Wolfe

72 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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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.

Wastewater concentrations of human influenza, metapneumovirus, parainfluenza, respiratory syncytial virus, rhinovirus, and seasonal coronavirus nucleic-acids during the COVID-19 pandemic: a surveillance study

2023 131 citations Alexandria B. Boehm, Bridgette Hughes et al. profile →
Wastewater-Based Detection of Two Influenza Outbreaks

2022 116 citations Marlene K. Wolfe, Dorothea Duong et al. Environmental Science & Technology Letters profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marlene K. Wolfe United States	23	1.5k	678	353	241	161	77	1.9k
Leo Heijnen Netherlands	23	2.1k 1.4×	957 1.4×	147 0.4×	434 1.8×	284 1.8×	31	2.7k
Sarmila Tandukar Nepal	21	982 0.7×	413 0.6×	125 0.4×	320 1.3×	113 0.7×	62	1.6k
Bikash Malla Japan	18	884 0.6×	420 0.6×	88 0.2×	234 1.0×	97 0.6×	53	1.3k
Daitao Zhang China	17	1.5k 1.0×	348 0.5×	473 1.3×	299 1.2×	180 1.1×	97	2.3k
Jagadish M. Deshpande India	20	1.6k 1.0×	133 0.2×	319 0.9×	106 0.4×	60 0.4×	54	1.9k
Byron M. Berenger Canada	19	625 0.4×	233 0.3×	208 0.6×	248 1.0×	68 0.4×	55	1.1k
Brittany Kmush United States	19	654 0.4×	147 0.2×	206 0.6×	59 0.2×	45 0.3×	42	1.1k
Sébastien Kenmoe Cameroon	17	631 0.4×	138 0.2×	449 1.3×	60 0.2×	64 0.4×	55	1.1k
Sara A. Lowther United States	18	566 0.4×	75 0.1×	415 1.2×	42 0.2×	34 0.2×	33	1.2k
Gabriel K. Innes United States	14	471 0.3×	235 0.3×	119 0.3×	121 0.5×	63 0.4×	30	812

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Rogers, Hannah, Oliver Cumming, Joanna Esteves Mills, et al.. (2025). Interventions to improve hand hygiene in community settings: a systematic review of theories, barriers and enablers, behaviour change techniques and hand hygiene station design features. BMJ Global Health. 10(Suppl 7). e018928–e018928. 2 indexed citations

Rogers, Hannah, Oliver Cumming, Joanna Esteves Mills, et al.. (2025). Effectiveness of measures taken by governments to support hand hygiene in community settings: a systematic review. BMJ Global Health. 10(Suppl 7). e018929–e018929. 4 indexed citations

Rogers, Hannah, Oliver Cumming, Joanna Esteves Mills, et al.. (2025). Minimum material requirements for hand hygiene in community settings: a systematic review. BMJ Global Health. 10(Suppl 7). e018926–e018926. 4 indexed citations

Clark, David L., et al.. (2025). Using wastewater surveillance to investigate community-level differences in antibacterial resistance in a major urban center, USA. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 91(11). e0168425–e0168425.

Rogers, Hannah, Oliver Cumming, Joanna Esteves Mills, et al.. (2025). Efficacy and effectiveness of hand hygiene-related practices used community settings for removal of organisms from hands: A systematic review. medRxiv. 2 indexed citations

Rogers, Hannah, Oliver Cumming, Joanna Esteves Mills, et al.. (2025). Efficacy and effectiveness of hand hygiene-related practices used in community settings for removal of organisms from hands: a systematic review. BMJ Global Health. 10(Suppl 7). e018925–e018925. 4 indexed citations

Wolfe, Marlene K., Meri R.J. Varkila, Alessandro Zulli, Julie Parsonnet, & Alexandria B. Boehm. (2024). Detection and quantification of human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) total nucleic acids in wastewater settled solids from two California communities. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 90(12). e0147724–e0147724. 3 indexed citations

Boehm, Alexandria B., et al.. (2024). A retrospective longitudinal study of adenovirus group F, norovirus GI and GII, rotavirus, and enterovirus nucleic acids in wastewater solids at two wastewater treatment plants: solid-liquid partitioning and relation to clinical testing data. mSphere. 9(3). e0073623–e0073623. 21 indexed citations

Routledge, Isobel, Natalie M. Linton, Alexandria B. Boehm, et al.. (2024). Estimating effective reproduction numbers using wastewater data from multiple sewersheds for SARS-CoV-2 in California counties. Epidemics. 50. 100803–100803.

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Bischel, Heather N., Colleen C. Naughton, Angel N. Desai, et al.. (2024). A mixed-effects model to predict COVID-19 hospitalizations using wastewater surveillance. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 12(2). 112485–112485.

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Liu, Pengbo, Yuke Wang, Lana Khalil, et al.. (2024). Longitudinal fecal shedding of SARS-CoV-2, pepper mild mottle virus, and human mitochondrial DNA in COVID-19 patients. Frontiers in Medicine. 11. 1417967–1417967. 1 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Marlene K., et al.. (2023). Respiratory virus concentrations in human excretions that contribute to wastewater: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Water and Health. 21(6). 831–848. 24 indexed citations

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Natarajan, Aravind, Brayon J. Fremin, Danica T. Schmidtke, et al.. (2023). The Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus Movement Protein Gene Is a Novel Microbial Source Tracking Marker. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 89(7). e0058323–e0058323. 8 indexed citations

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Boehm, Alexandria B., Marlene K. Wolfe, Brad J. White, et al.. (2023). More than a Tripledemic: Influenza A Virus, Respiratory Syncytial Virus, SARS-CoV-2, and Human Metapneumovirus in Wastewater during Winter 2022–2023. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 10(8). 622–627. 42 indexed citations

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Boehm, Alexandria B., Marlene K. Wolfe, Krista R. Wigginton, et al.. (2023). Human viral nucleic acids concentrations in wastewater solids from Central and Coastal California USA. Scientific Data. 10(1). 396–396. 36 indexed citations

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Kim, Sooyeol, Marlene K. Wolfe, Craig S. Criddle, et al.. (2022). Effect of SARS-CoV-2 digital droplet RT-PCR assay sensitivity on COVID-19 wastewater based epidemiology. PLOS Water. 1(11). e0000066–e0000066. 3 indexed citations

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Huisman, Jana S., Jérémie Scire, Lea Caduff, et al.. (2022). Wastewater-Based Estimation of the Effective Reproductive Number of SARS-CoV-2. Environmental Health Perspectives. 130(5). 57011–57011. 97 indexed citations

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McClary-Gutierrez, Jill S., Marlene K. Wolfe, Aaron Bivins, et al.. (2022). Looking Forward: The Role of Academic Researchers in Building Sustainable Wastewater Surveillance Programs. Environmental Health Perspectives. 130(12). 125002–125002. 15 indexed citations

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Natarajan, Aravind, Alvin Han, Soumaya Zlitni, et al.. (2021). Standardized preservation, extraction and quantification techniques for detection of fecal SARS-CoV-2 RNA. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5753–5753. 21 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Marlene K., et al.. (2020). Efficacy of locally-available cleaning methods and household chlorination at inhibiting biofilm development in jerricans used to store household drinking water. Environmental Science Water Research & Technology. 7(2). 367–383. 3 indexed citations

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