Stephanie W. Lo

10.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
54 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Stephanie W. Lo is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephanie W. Lo has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Epidemiology, 27 papers in Microbiology and 5 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Stephanie W. Lo's work include Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (41 papers), Respiratory viral infections research (29 papers) and Bacterial Infections and Vaccines (27 papers). Stephanie W. Lo is often cited by papers focused on Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (41 papers), Respiratory viral infections research (29 papers) and Bacterial Infections and Vaccines (27 papers). Stephanie W. Lo collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Stephanie W. Lo's co-authors include Stephen D. Bentley, Rebecca A. Gladstone, Gerry Tonkin‐Hill, Jukka Corander, John A. Lees, R. Andrés Floto, Lesley McGee, Simon D. W. Frost, Aaron Weimann and Neil MacAlasdair and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Communications and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Stephanie W. Lo

49 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Producing polished prokaryotic pangenomes with the Panaroo pipeline

2020 576 citations Gerry Tonkin‐Hill, John A. Lees et al. profile →
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 →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephanie W. Lo United Kingdom	14	730	438	369	274	229	54	1.5k
Rebecca A. Gladstone United Kingdom	20	1.4k 1.9×	455 1.0×	670 1.8×	262 1.0×	253 1.1×	55	2.1k
Leonor Sánchez-Busó United Kingdom	22	333 0.5×	477 1.1×	668 1.8×	354 1.3×	308 1.3×	36	1.6k
Claire Chewapreecha United Kingdom	15	477 0.7×	528 1.2×	171 0.5×	193 0.7×	352 1.5×	28	1.3k
Elena N. Ilina Russia	23	681 0.9×	613 1.4×	281 0.8×	266 1.0×	531 2.3×	141	1.8k
Vítor Borges Portugal	22	636 0.9×	766 1.7×	398 1.1×	157 0.6×	385 1.7×	78	1.8k
Laurent Méreghetti France	22	410 0.6×	401 0.9×	220 0.6×	208 0.8×	275 1.2×	72	1.5k
Andries J. van Tonder United Kingdom	19	713 1.0×	378 0.9×	406 1.1×	95 0.3×	366 1.6×	37	1.3k
Silvia Argimón United Kingdom	16	315 0.4×	457 1.0×	159 0.4×	234 0.9×	432 1.9×	39	1.3k
Holly B. Bratcher United Kingdom	14	753 1.0×	395 0.9×	863 2.3×	145 0.5×	107 0.5×	27	1.4k
Julia S. Bennett United Kingdom	13	549 0.8×	452 1.0×	727 2.0×	118 0.4×	108 0.5×	16	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephanie W. Lo

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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.

Kalata, Newton, Tinashe K. Nyazika, Stephanie W. Lo, et al.. (2025). High Propensity for Multidrug-Resistant Pneumococcal Shedding Among Adults Living With HIV on Stable Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 12(8). ofaf422–ofaf422. 1 indexed citations

Mellor, Kate C., Abigail McKnight, Sumit Kumar, et al.. (2025). Naturally acquired promoter variation influences Streptococcus pneumoniae infection outcomes. Cell Host & Microbe. 33(9). 1473–1483.e6. 1 indexed citations

Lo, Stephanie W., Newton Kalata, Tinashe K. Nyazika, et al.. (2025). Within-host genetic diversity of pneumococcal serotype 3 during one-year prolonged carriage in a healthy adult. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8920–8920.

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

Cleary, David, James Campling, María Lahuerta, et al.. (2024). Non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 transiently reduced pneumococcal and Haemophilus influenzae carriage in a cross-sectional pediatric cohort in Southampton, UK. Microbiology Spectrum. 12(8). e0022424–e0022424. 2 indexed citations

Henares, Desirée, Stephanie W. Lo, Amaresh Pérez-Argüello, et al.. (2023). Comparison of next generation technologies and bioinformatics pipelines for capsular typing of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 61(12). e0074123–e0074123. 4 indexed citations

Baker, Kate S., Elita Jauneikaite, Katie L. Hopkins, et al.. (2023). Genomics for public health and international surveillance of antimicrobial resistance. The Lancet Microbe. 4(12). e1047–e1055. 31 indexed citations

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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Manna, Sam, Belinda D. Ortika, Steven Batinovic, et al.. (2022). Variants of Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype 14 from Papua New Guinea with the Potential to Be Mistyped and Escape Vaccine-Induced Protection. Microbiology Spectrum. 10(4). e0152422–e0152422. 6 indexed citations

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Kandasamy, Rama, Stephanie W. Lo, Meeru Gurung, et al.. (2022). Effect of childhood vaccination and antibiotic use on pneumococcal populations and genome-wide associations with disease among children in Nepal: an observational study. The Lancet Microbe. 3(7). e503–e511. 6 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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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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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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Corcoran, Mary, Jolita Mereckiene, Suzanne Cotter, et al.. (2021). Using genomics to examine the persistence of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 19A in Ireland and the emergence of a sub-clade associated with vaccine failures. Vaccine. 39(35). 5064–5073. 13 indexed citations

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Lo, Stephanie W. & Dorota Jamrozy. (2020). Author Correction: Genomics and epidemiological surveillance. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 18(9). 539–539. 2 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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Lees, John A., Simon R. Harris, Gerry Tonkin‐Hill, et al.. (2019). Fast and flexible bacterial genomic epidemiology with PopPUNK. Genome Research. 29(2). 304–316. 220 indexed citations

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Redner, Ryan, et al.. (2018). Application of a Brief Incentive Treatment for Cigarette Smoking. Behavior Analysis in Practice. 11(2). 154–159. 2 indexed citations

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