Sarah Smathers

1.3k total citations
25 papers, 954 citations indexed

About

Sarah Smathers is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Smathers has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 954 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Infectious Diseases, 10 papers in Epidemiology and 5 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Sarah Smathers's work include Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (5 papers), Infection Control in Healthcare (5 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (5 papers). Sarah Smathers is often cited by papers focused on Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (5 papers), Infection Control in Healthcare (5 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (5 papers). Sarah Smathers collaborates with scholars based in United States and Norway. Sarah Smathers's co-authors include Susan Coffin, Theoklis E. Zaoutis, Priya A. Prasad, Kateri H. Leckerman, Jason Z. Kim, Jeffrey S. Gerber, Michael A. Nigro, Julia Shaklee Sammons, Jason Kim and Philip Toltzis and has published in prestigious journals such as PEDIATRICS, Clinical Infectious Diseases and Ophthalmology.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Smathers

23 papers receiving 921 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sarah Smathers United States 13 646 499 174 99 95 25 954
Sarah E. Hempstead United States 16 409 0.6× 699 1.4× 205 1.2× 96 1.0× 105 1.1× 39 2.1k
Evelyn Balsells United States 9 615 1.0× 857 1.7× 180 1.0× 114 1.2× 52 0.5× 11 1.2k
Mary Anne Jackson United States 8 355 0.5× 632 1.3× 143 0.8× 34 0.3× 164 1.7× 16 1.3k
Laure F. Pittet Switzerland 15 323 0.5× 384 0.8× 83 0.5× 90 0.9× 63 0.7× 69 997
Anne K. Örtqvist Sweden 17 125 0.2× 359 0.7× 109 0.6× 167 1.7× 228 2.4× 48 1.2k
Michael J. Cooper United States 19 511 0.8× 399 0.8× 307 1.8× 60 0.6× 549 5.8× 42 1.4k
Sarah S. Long United States 14 141 0.2× 413 0.8× 145 0.8× 106 1.1× 165 1.7× 55 898
A. K. Patwari India 19 317 0.5× 213 0.4× 193 1.1× 25 0.3× 308 3.2× 63 966
Catherine Cook United States 10 250 0.4× 244 0.5× 62 0.4× 148 1.5× 91 1.0× 23 858
Tu‐Hsuan Chang Taiwan 12 234 0.4× 270 0.5× 59 0.3× 26 0.3× 90 0.9× 29 716

Countries citing papers authored by Sarah Smathers

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Sarah Smathers's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Sarah Smathers with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Sarah Smathers more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Sarah Smathers

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sarah Smathers. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sarah Smathers. The network helps show where Sarah Smathers may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Smathers

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sarah Smathers. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sarah Smathers based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sarah Smathers. Sarah Smathers is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Gilmartin, Heather, Sarah Smathers, & Sara M. Reese. (2021). Infection preventionist retention and professional development strategies: Insights from a national survey. American Journal of Infection Control. 49(7). 960–962. 11 indexed citations
2.
Reese, Sara M., Heather Gilmartin, & Sarah Smathers. (2021). Challenges and opportunities in recruiting, hiring and training infection preventionists across facility settings. American Journal of Infection Control. 49(8). 973–977. 7 indexed citations
3.
Smathers, Sarah & Julia Shaklee Sammons. (2020). A strategy for expanding infection prevention resources to support organizational growth. American Journal of Infection Control. 48(9). 975–981. 6 indexed citations
4.
Smathers, Sarah. (2020). Non-ventilator health care-associated pneumonia (NV-HAP): Pediatrics. American Journal of Infection Control. 48(5). A17–A19. 3 indexed citations
5.
Gilmartin, Heather, Sara M. Reese, & Sarah Smathers. (2020). Recruitment and hiring practices in United States infection prevention and control departments: Results of a national survey. American Journal of Infection Control. 49(1). 70–74. 15 indexed citations
6.
Sammons, Julia Shaklee, Erin H. Graf, Cindy Hoegg, et al.. (2018). Outbreak of Adenovirus in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Ophthalmology. 126(1). 137–143. 42 indexed citations
7.
Hei, Hillary, et al.. (2018). Development of a novel prevention bundle for pediatric healthcare-associated viral infections. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 39(9). 1086–1092. 20 indexed citations
8.
Szymczak, Julia E., Sarah Smathers, Cindy Hoegg, et al.. (2015). Reasons Why Physicians and Advanced Practice Clinicians Work While Sick. JAMA Pediatrics. 169(9). 815–815. 76 indexed citations
9.
Field, C. E., Sarah Smathers, Julia Shaklee Sammons, et al.. (2015). Improving Cardiac Surgical Site Infection Reporting and Prevention By Using Registry Data for Case Ascertainment. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 101(1). 190–199. 8 indexed citations
10.
Smathers, Sarah. (2012). Evaluation, Development and Implementation of an Education Curriculum to Enhance Food Safety Practices at North Carolina Farmers’ Markets. NCSU Libraries Repository (North Carolina State University Libraries). 1 indexed citations
11.
Toltzis, Philip, Michelle M. Nerandzic, Elie Saade, et al.. (2012). High Proportion of False-Positive Clostridium difficile Enzyme Immunoassays for Toxin A and B in Pediatric Patients. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 33(2). 175–179. 18 indexed citations
12.
Kim, Jason, Sarah Smathers, Priya A. Prasad, et al.. (2011). Risk Factors and Outcomes Associated With Severe Clostridium difficile Infection in Children. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 31(2). 134–138. 101 indexed citations
13.
Toltzis, Philip, Alexis Elward, Daniela Davis, et al.. (2010). Opportunities for antibiotic reduction in mechanically ventilated children*. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 12(3). 282–285. 2 indexed citations
14.
Kelsen, Judith R., Jason Kim, Sarah Smathers, et al.. (2010). Recurrence rate of clostridium difficile infection in hospitalized pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 17(1). 50–55. 77 indexed citations
15.
Gerber, Jeffrey S., Susan Coffin, Sarah Smathers, & Theoklis E. Zaoutis. (2009). Trends in the Incidence of Methicillin‐ResistantStaphylococcus aureusInfection in Children’s Hospitals in the United States. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 49(1). 65–71. 152 indexed citations
16.
Toltzis, Philip, et al.. (2009). Presence of the Epidemic North American Pulsed Field Type 1 Clostridium Difficile Strain in Hospitalized Children. The Journal of Pediatrics. 154(4). 607–608. 60 indexed citations
17.
Kim, Jason Z., Sarah Smathers, Priya A. Prasad, et al.. (2008). Epidemiological Features of Clostridium difficile-Associated Disease Among Inpatients at Children's Hospitals in the United States, 2001–2006. PEDIATRICS. 122(6). 1266–1270. 237 indexed citations
18.
Dabrowski, Edward, et al.. (2005). Botulinum toxin as a novel treatment for self-mutilation in Lesch–Nyhan syndrome. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 47(9). 636–636. 35 indexed citations
19.
Dabrowski, Edward, et al.. (2005). Botulinum toxin as a novel treatment for self‐mutilation in Lesch—Nyhan syndrome. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 47(9). 636–639. 18 indexed citations
20.
Smathers, Sarah, et al.. (2003). Topiramate effectiveness in Prader-Willi syndrome. Pediatric Neurology. 28(2). 130–133. 53 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Sarah E. Hempstead Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Evelyn Balsells Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Mary Anne Jackson Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Laure F. Pittet Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Anne K. Örtqvist Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Michael J. Cooper Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Sarah S. Long Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by A. K. Patwari Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Catherine Cook Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Tu‐Hsuan Chang
Rankless by CCL
2026