Tara C. Smith

7.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
123 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Tara C. Smith is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Clinical Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Tara C. Smith has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Infectious Diseases, 51 papers in Molecular Biology and 34 papers in Clinical Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Tara C. Smith's work include Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (69 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (34 papers) and Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (34 papers). Tara C. Smith is often cited by papers focused on Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (69 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (34 papers) and Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (34 papers). Tara C. Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Nigeria. Tara C. Smith's co-authors include Dipendra Thapaliya, Jhalka Kadariya, Shylo E. Wardyn, Blake Hanson, Nicole A Pearson, Daniel J. Diekema, Elizabeth J. Luna, J. Kroeger, Loreen A. Herwaldt and Erin D. Moritz and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Circulation and The Journal of Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Tara C. Smith

119 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Staphylococcus aureusand Staphylococcal Food-Borne Disease: An Ongoing Challenge in Public Health

2014 650 citations Jhalka Kadariya, Tara C. Smith et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tara C. Smith United States	34	2.4k	1.8k	779	623	485	123	4.7k
Mark A. Holmes United Kingdom	42	2.6k 1.1×	2.0k 1.1×	1.0k 1.3×	621 1.0×	368 0.8×	183	6.0k
Franklin D. Lowy United States	43	4.0k 1.6×	2.6k 1.4×	1.5k 1.9×	392 0.6×	284 0.6×	94	7.0k
Nicola Williams United Kingdom	42	1.5k 0.6×	817 0.4×	603 0.8×	1.9k 3.1×	228 0.5×	153	4.8k
Kwai Lin Thong Malaysia	44	1.2k 0.5×	1.9k 1.0×	286 0.4×	2.1k 3.4×	516 1.1×	251	6.2k
Martin Altwegg Switzerland	45	1.2k 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	596 0.8×	1.1k 1.8×	293 0.6×	169	6.8k
Di Qu China	36	1.7k 0.7×	3.3k 1.8×	192 0.2×	739 1.2×	201 0.4×	142	6.4k
Brian M. Peters United States	47	2.7k 1.1×	2.9k 1.6×	266 0.3×	1.0k 1.7×	350 0.7×	115	6.5k
Lynn E. Hancock United States	28	1.1k 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	299 0.4×	341 0.5×	121 0.2×	42	3.4k
Michael Heß Austria	47	2.0k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	147 0.2×	719 1.2×	151 0.3×	280	8.5k
Patrick Tang Canada	44	2.0k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	217 0.3×	379 0.6×	158 0.3×	157	5.9k

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Dalman, Mark, et al.. (2025). Staphylococcus aureus carriage is associated with microbiome composition in the nares and oropharynx, not the hand, of monozygotic twins. PubMed. 3. 1457940–1457940.

Piontkivska, Helen, et al.. (2022). Genetic characterization of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from Norway rats in Boston, Massachusetts. Veterinary Medicine and Science. 9(1). 272–281. 2 indexed citations

Kuppalli, Krutika, David M. Brett‐Major, & Tara C. Smith. (2021). COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: We Need to Start Now. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 8(2). ofaa658–ofaa658. 9 indexed citations

Patel, Robin, Esther Babady, Elitza S. Theel, et al.. (2020). Report from the American Society for Microbiology COVID-19 International Summit, 23 March 2020: Value of Diagnostic Testing for SARS–CoV-2/COVID-19. mBio. 11(2). 262 indexed citations

Anyanwu, Madubuike Umunna, Ekene Vivienne Ezenduka, Anthony Christian Mgbeahuruike, et al.. (2020). Molecular epidemiology, genetic diversity and antimicrobial resistance of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from chicken and pig carcasses, and carcass handlers. PLoS ONE. 15(5). e0232913–e0232913. 34 indexed citations

Egbert, Nichole, et al.. (2020). Headlines and hashtags: communicating science during an outbreak. Microbes and Infection. 22(10). 508–510. 1 indexed citations

Smith, Tara C. & Dorit Rubinstein Reiss. (2020). Digging the rabbit hole, COVID-19 edition: anti-vaccine themes and the discourse around COVID-19. Microbes and Infection. 22(10). 608–610. 19 indexed citations

Dalman, Mark, et al.. (2019). Characterizing the molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus across and within fitness facility types. BMC Infectious Diseases. 19(1). 69–69. 16 indexed citations

Smith, Tara C., et al.. (2018). Longitudinal Case Series of Staphylococcus aureus Colonization and Infection in Two Cohorts of Rural Iowans. Microbial Drug Resistance. 24(4). 455–460. 4 indexed citations

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Carrel, Margaret, Chang Zhao, Dipendra Thapaliya, et al.. (2017). Assessing the potential for raw meat to influence human colonization with Staphylococcus aureus. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 10848–10848. 15 indexed citations

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Evans, Nicholas G., Tara C. Smith, & Maimuna S. Majumder. (2016). Ebola's Message: Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 14 indexed citations

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O’Malley, Sean M., Felix Emele Emele, Francisca Nwaokorie, et al.. (2014). Molecular typing of antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Nigeria. Journal of Infection and Public Health. 8(2). 187–193. 33 indexed citations

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Gurzău, Anca Elena, Blake Hanson, Ashley Kates, et al.. (2014). Detection of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among swine workers in Romania. Journal of Infection and Public Health. 7(4). 323–332. 14 indexed citations

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Smith, Tara C., et al.. (2011). Emerging Swine Zoonoses. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 11(9). 1225–1234. 37 indexed citations

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Fang, Zhiyou, Norio Takizawa, Korey A. Wilson, et al.. (2010). The Membrane-Associated Protein, Supervillin, Accelerates F-Actin-Dependent Rapid Integrin Recycling and Cell Motility. Traffic. 11(6). 782–799. 64 indexed citations

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Smith, Tara C. & Nicole A Pearson. (2010). The Emergence of Staphylococcus aureus ST398. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 11(4). 327–339. 152 indexed citations

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Smith, Tara C., Zhiyou Fang, & Elizabeth J. Luna. (2010). Novel interactors and a role for supervillin in early cytokinesis. Cytoskeleton. 67(6). 346–364. 62 indexed citations

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Crowley, Jessica L., Tara C. Smith, Zhiyou Fang, Norio Takizawa, & Elizabeth J. Luna. (2008). Supervillin Reorganizes the Actin Cytoskeleton and Increases Invadopodial Efficiency. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 20(3). 948–962. 59 indexed citations

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Smith, Tara C., et al.. (2006). Distribution of novel and previously investigated virulence genes in colonizing and invasive isolates ofStreptococcus agalactiae. Epidemiology and Infection. 135(6). 1046–1054. 22 indexed citations

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Kösel, Siegfried, E. M. Grasbon-Frodl, K. Arima, et al.. (2001). Inter-laboratory comparison of DNA preservation in archival paraffin-embedded human brain tissue from participating centres on four continents. Neurogenetics. 3(3). 163–170. 17 indexed citations

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