Sara M. Pires

7.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
103 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Sara M. Pires is a scholar working on Food Science, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara M. Pires has authored 103 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Food Science, 22 papers in Infectious Diseases and 19 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Sara M. Pires's work include Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (40 papers), Food Safety and Hygiene (29 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (17 papers). Sara M. Pires is often cited by papers focused on Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (40 papers), Food Safety and Hygiene (29 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (17 papers). Sara M. Pires collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Belgium and Netherlands. Sara M. Pires's co-authors include Tine Hald, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Frederick J. Angulo, Claudio F. Lanata, Christa Fischer-Walker, Robert E. Black, Martyn Kirk, Aron J. Hall, Arie H. Havelaar and Karen H. Keddy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Sara M. Pires

94 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

World Health Organization Estimates of the Global and Regional Disease Burden of 22 Foodborne Bacterial, Protozoal, and Viral Diseases, 2010: A Data Synthesis

2015 1.2k citations Sara M. Pires, Brecht Devleesschauwer et al. profile →
Aetiology-Specific Estimates of the Global and Regional Incidence and Mortality of Diarrhoeal Diseases Commonly Transmitted through Food

2015 307 citations Sara M. Pires, Brecht Devleesschauwer et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Burden of foodborne diseases: think global, act local

2021 138 citations Sara M. Pires, Lapo Mughini‐Gras et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara M. Pires Denmark	32	2.3k	1.4k	671	630	578	103	4.3k
Wondwossen A. Gebreyes United States	43	2.2k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	690 1.0×	750 1.2×	795 1.4×	158	4.7k
Hilde Kruse Norway	29	1.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	540 0.8×	747 1.2×	771 1.3×	70	4.4k
Shannon E. Majowicz Canada	32	2.9k 1.2×	1.6k 1.1×	1.2k 1.8×	586 0.9×	464 0.8×	127	5.1k
Sarah Lathrop United States	31	1.6k 0.7×	1.7k 1.2×	939 1.4×	674 1.1×	567 1.0×	92	4.4k
Jeff B. Bender United States	34	2.0k 0.9×	1.8k 1.3×	834 1.2×	607 1.0×	385 0.7×	126	4.4k
Jeffrey T. LeJeune United States	35	1.5k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	895 1.3×	719 1.1×	427 0.7×	108	3.5k
Aamir Fazil Canada	29	3.7k 1.6×	1.8k 1.3×	1.3k 1.9×	1.1k 1.8×	714 1.2×	56	5.6k
Steen Ethelberg Denmark	39	2.5k 1.1×	2.8k 2.0×	1.1k 1.7×	1.2k 1.9×	626 1.1×	183	5.7k
Nicola Williams United Kingdom	42	1.9k 0.8×	1.5k 1.1×	814 1.2×	228 0.4×	817 1.4×	153	4.8k
Patrícia Poeta Portugal	41	1.7k 0.8×	1.7k 1.2×	900 1.3×	398 0.6×	1.9k 3.2×	271	6.4k

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Devleesschauwer, Brecht, et al.. (2025). A systematic review of the methodological considerations in Campylobacter burden of disease studies. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 19(4). e0012681–e0012681.

Keddy, Karen H., Sandra Hoffmann, Luria Leslie Founou, et al.. (2025). Quantifying national burdens of foodborne disease—Four imperatives for global impact. PLOS Global Public Health. 5(4). e0004309–e0004309. 1 indexed citations

Pires, Sara M., et al.. (2024). Holistic risk assessments of food systems. Global Food Security. 43. 100802–100802. 2 indexed citations

Jakobsen, Lea Sletting, et al.. (2024). Sustainable diet pattern definitions and their associated quantitative health impacts: A systematic scoping review. 22(5).

Pires, Sara M., et al.. (2023). Risk ranking of foodborne diseases in Denmark: Reflections on a national burden of disease study. Food Control. 158. 110199–110199. 3 indexed citations

Ferreira, Helena Cardoso de Carvalho, Sara Babo Martins, Sara M. Pires, et al.. (2023). Animal sources of antimicrobial-resistant bacterial infections in humans: a systematic review. Epidemiology and Infection. 151. e143–e143. 6 indexed citations

Charalampous, Periklis, Vanessa Gorasso, Dietrich Plaß, et al.. (2022). . University of Debrecen Electronic Archive (University of Debrecen). 17 indexed citations

Pires, Sara M., et al.. (2022). Estimating the Direct Disability-Adjusted Life Years Associated With SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) in the Republic of Ireland: The First Full Year. International Journal of Public Health. 67. 1604699–1604699. 11 indexed citations

Pires, Sara M., Laura Espenhain, Lea Sletting Jakobsen, et al.. (2022). Disability adjusted life years associated with COVID-19 in Denmark in the first year of the pandemic. BMC Public Health. 22(1). 1315–1315. 14 indexed citations

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Thomsen, Sofie Theresa, Ricardo Assunção, Cláudia Afonso, et al.. (2021). Human health risk–benefit assessment of fish and other seafood: a scoping review. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. 62(27). 7479–7502. 46 indexed citations

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Assunção, Ricardo, Géraldine Boué, Paula Alvito, et al.. (2021). Risk-Benefit Assessment of Cereal-Based Foods Consumed by Portuguese Children Aged 6 to 36 Months—A Case Study under the RiskBenefit4EU Project. Nutrients. 13(9). 3127–3127. 3 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Annemarie, Angela Bechthold, Heiner Boeing, et al.. (2020). Integration of various dimensions in food-based dietary guidelines via mathematical approaches: report of a DGE/FENS Workshop in Bonn, Germany, 23–24 September 2019. British Journal Of Nutrition. 126(6). 942–949. 15 indexed citations

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Jakobsen, Lea Sletting, Janna Nissen, Tue Christensen, et al.. (2019). The Disease Burden of Dietary Exposure to Inorganic Arsenic in Denmark, 2018. Exposure and Health. 12(4). 751–759. 6 indexed citations

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Devleesschauwer, Brecht, et al.. (2019). Associating sporadic, foodborne illness caused by Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli with specific foods: a systematic review and meta-analysis of case-control studies. Epidemiology and Infection. 147. e235–e235. 20 indexed citations

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Jakobsen, Lea Sletting, Stylianos Georgiadis, Bo Friis Nielsen, et al.. (2018). Probabilistic approach for assessing cancer risk due to benzo[a]pyrene in barbecued meat: Informing advice for population groups. PLoS ONE. 13(11). e0207032–e0207032. 7 indexed citations

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Nissen, Janna, Pikka Jokelainen, Christen Rune Stensvold, et al.. (2017). The disease burden of congenital toxoplasmosis in Denmark, 2014. PLoS ONE. 12(5). e0178282–e0178282. 18 indexed citations

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Pires, Sara M.. (2015). Global and Regional Incidence and Mortality of Diarrheal Diseases Commonly Transmitted through Food: Estimates from the WHO Foodborne Epidemiology Reference Group. 61 indexed citations

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Toyofuku, Hajime, Sara M. Pires, & Tine Hald. (2011). Salmonella Source Attribution in Japan by a Microbiological Subtyping Approach. EcoHealth. 7. 6 indexed citations

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Little, C.L., Sara M. Pires, Iain Gillespie, Kathie Grant, & Gordon Nichols. (2010). Attribution of Human Listeria monocytogenes Infections in England and Wales to Ready-to-Eat Food Sources Placed on the Market: Adaptation of the Hald Salmonella Source Attribution Model. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. 7(7). 749–756. 38 indexed citations

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Pires, Sara M., Eric G. Evers, Wilfrid van Pelt, et al.. (2009). Attributing the Human Disease Burden of Foodborne Infections to Specific Sources. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. 6(4). 417–424. 176 indexed citations

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