Pierra Y. Law

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Pierra Y. Law is a scholar working on Molecular Medicine, Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Pierra Y. Law has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Medicine, 8 papers in Epidemiology and 6 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Pierra Y. Law's work include Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (9 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (3 papers) and Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (3 papers). Pierra Y. Law is often cited by papers focused on Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (9 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (3 papers) and Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (3 papers). Pierra Y. Law collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and Australia. Pierra Y. Law's co-authors include Pak‐Leung Ho, Kin‐Hung Chow, Daniel K. W. Chu, Christopher J. Brackman, Malik Peiris, Thomas H. C. Sit, Ranawaka A. P. M. Perera, Karina W. S. Tam, Eileen L. Lai and Leo L. M. Poon and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

In The Last Decade

Pierra Y. Law

18 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Infection of dogs with SARS-CoV-2

2020 505 citations Thomas H. C. Sit, Christopher J. Brackman et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pierra Y. Law Hong Kong	15	675	353	270	224	133	18	1.1k
Meiji Soe Aung Japan	20	709 1.1×	77 0.2×	210 0.8×	224 1.0×	101 0.8×	91	1.1k
F. Eono France	15	395 0.6×	226 0.6×	72 0.3×	121 0.5×	27 0.2×	32	730
Thomas H. C. Sit Hong Kong	8	873 1.3×	410 1.2×	77 0.3×	357 1.6×	45 0.3×	13	1.1k
Xaver Sidler Switzerland	17	256 0.4×	307 0.9×	50 0.2×	152 0.7×	16 0.1×	73	888
J.A. van der Goot Netherlands	11	189 0.3×	53 0.2×	173 0.6×	315 1.4×	67 0.5×	18	581
W C Yam Hong Kong	17	428 0.6×	36 0.1×	226 0.8×	303 1.4×	282 2.1×	31	993
Alison E. Stout United States	11	255 0.4×	143 0.4×	104 0.4×	53 0.2×	69 0.5×	18	537
Chrispin Chaguza United Kingdom	16	215 0.3×	60 0.2×	108 0.4×	342 1.5×	64 0.5×	48	708
Deborah V. Hoyle United Kingdom	12	140 0.2×	103 0.3×	127 0.5×	79 0.4×	93 0.7×	18	697
Tamara Salloum Lebanon	14	211 0.3×	40 0.1×	286 1.1×	113 0.5×	155 1.2×	34	721

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18 of 18 papers shown

Brackman, Christopher J., Patrick H. Pun, Dae Young Cheung, et al.. (2025). Rapidly Progressing Melioidosis Outbreak in City Center Zoo, Hong Kong, 2024. Emerging infectious diseases. 31(9). 1815–1819. 1 indexed citations

Go, Yun Young, Maura Carrai, Christopher J. Brackman, et al.. (2023). Low Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Canine and Feline Serum Samples Collected during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong and Korea. Viruses. 15(2). 582–582. 5 indexed citations

Zhao, Hailong, David C. Nickle, Zhen Zeng, et al.. (2021). Global Landscape of Clostridioides Difficile Phylogeography, Antibiotic Susceptibility, and Toxin Polymorphisms by Post-Hoc Whole-Genome Sequencing from the MODIFY I/II Studies. Infectious Diseases and Therapy. 10(2). 853–870. 20 indexed citations

Sit, Thomas H. C., Christopher J. Brackman, Karina W. S. Tam, et al.. (2020). Infection of dogs with SARS-CoV-2. Nature. 586(7831). 776–778. 505 indexed citations breakdown →

Barrs, Vanessa R., Malik Peiris, Karina W. S. Tam, et al.. (2020). SARS-CoV-2 in Quarantined Domestic Cats from COVID-19 Households or Close Contacts, Hong Kong, China. Emerging infectious diseases. 26(12). 3071–3074. 130 indexed citations

Ho, Pak‐Leung, Ya Wang, Chunjiao Liu, et al.. (2018). IncX3 Epidemic Plasmid Carrying bla _NDM-5 in Escherichia coli from Swine in Multiple Geographic Areas in China. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 62(3). 46 indexed citations

Ho, Pak‐Leung, Pierra Y. Law, & Susan S. Chiu. (2018). Increase in incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease caused by serotype 3 in children eight years after the introduction of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Hong Kong. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics. 15(2). 455–458. 20 indexed citations

Ho, Pak‐Leung, Pierra Y. Law, River Chun‐Wai Wong, et al.. (2015). Emergence of Macrolide-Resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae in Hong Kong Is Linked to Increasing Macrolide Resistance in Multilocus Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat Analysis Type 4-5-7-2. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 53(11). 3560–3564. 45 indexed citations

Ho, Pak‐Leung, W. U. Lo, Eileen L. Lai, et al.. (2015). Clonal diversity of CTX-M-producing, multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli from rodents. Journal of Medical Microbiology. 64(Pt_2). 185–190. 19 indexed citations

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Ho, Pak‐Leung, Wai-U Lo, Kin‐Hung Chow, et al.. (2015). High prevalence of Escherichia coli sequence type 131 among antimicrobial-resistant E. coli isolates from geriatric patients. Journal of Medical Microbiology. 64(3). 243–247. 20 indexed citations

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Ho, Pak‐Leung, Wai-U Lo, Eileen L. Lai, et al.. (2015). Clonal diversity of CTX-M-producing, multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli from rodents. Journal of Medical Microbiology. 64(2). 185–190. 21 indexed citations

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Ho, Pak‐Leung, Wai-U Lo, Pierra Y. Law, et al.. (2015). Plasmid-Mediated OqxAB Is an Important Mechanism for Nitrofurantoin Resistance in Escherichia coli. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 60(1). 537–543. 61 indexed citations

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Ho, Pak‐Leung, Susan S. Chiu, Pierra Y. Law, et al.. (2014). Increase in the nasopharyngeal carriage of non-vaccine serogroup 15 Streptococcus pneumoniae after introduction of children pneumococcal conjugate vaccination in Hong Kong. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. 81(2). 145–148. 37 indexed citations

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Lo, Wai-U, Kin‐Hung Chow, Pierra Y. Law, et al.. (2014). Highly conjugative IncX4 plasmids carrying bla CTX-M in Escherichia coli from humans and food animals. Journal of Medical Microbiology. 63(6). 835–840. 39 indexed citations

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Ho, Alex Yat-Man, Kin‐Hung Chow, Pierra Y. Law, Herman Tse, & Pak‐Leung Ho. (2013). Draft Genome Sequences of Two Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Strains of Sequence Type ST92 and ST96. Genome Announcements. 1(3). 1 indexed citations

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Ho, Pak‐Leung, et al.. (2012). Plasmid-mediated fosfomycin resistance in Escherichia coli isolated from pig. Veterinary Microbiology. 162(2-4). 964–967. 27 indexed citations

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Ho, Pak‐Leung, Kin‐Hung Chow, Eileen L. Lai, et al.. (2012). Clonality and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus and Methicillin-Resistant S. aureus Isolates from Food Animals and Other Animals. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 50(11). 3735–3737. 35 indexed citations

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Ho, Pak‐Leung, J. Chan, W. U. Lo, et al.. (2012). Dissemination of plasmid-mediated fosfomycin resistance fosA3 among multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli from livestock and other animals. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 114(3). 695–702. 72 indexed citations

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