Thomas M. File

32.9k total citations · 14 hit papers
266 papers, 21.4k citations indexed

About

Thomas M. File is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas M. File has authored 266 papers receiving a total of 21.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 160 papers in Epidemiology, 82 papers in Infectious Diseases and 55 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Thomas M. File's work include Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (119 papers), Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy (52 papers) and Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (47 papers). Thomas M. File is often cited by papers focused on Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (119 papers), Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy (52 papers) and Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (47 papers). Thomas M. File collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Spain. Thomas M. File's co-authors include John G. Bartlett, Lionel A. Mandell, Scott F. Dowell, Daniel M. Musher, Cynthia G. Whitney, Michael S. Niederman, Antoní Torres, Antonio Anzueto, G. Douglas Campbell and Nathan C. Dean and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Thomas M. File

249 papers receiving 20.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society Consensus Guidelines on the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults

2007 4.4k citations Lionel A. Mandell, John G. Bartlett et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
Management of Adults With Hospital-acquired and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia: 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society

2016 2.3k citations André C. Kalil, Mark L. Metersky et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
Practice Guidelines for the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults

2000 1.8k citations John G. Bartlett, Lionel A. Mandell et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
Guidelines for the Management of Adults with Community-acquired Pneumonia

2001 1.6k citations Lionel A. Mandell, Thomas M. File et al. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine profile →
Update of Practice Guidelines for the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Immunocompetent Adults

2003 729 citations Lionel A. Mandell, John G. Bartlett et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
Community‐Acquired Pneumonia in Adults: Guidelines for Management

1998 696 citations John G. Bartlett, Robert F. Breiman et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
Distribution ofLegionellaSpecies and Serogroups Isolated by Culture in Patients with Sporadic Community‐Acquired Legionellosis: An International Collaborative Survey

2002 520 citations Victor L. Yu, Joseph F. Plouffe et al. profile →
Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America: 2018 Update on Diagnosis, Treatment, Chemoprophylaxis, and Institutional Outbreak Management of Seasonal Influenzaa

2018 492 citations Thomas M. File, Shandra L. Knight et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
Seasonal Influenza in Adults and Children—Diagnosis, Treatment, Chemoprophylaxis, and Institutional Outbreak Management: Clinical Practice Guidelines of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

2009 468 citations Thomas M. File et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
Executive Summary: IDSA Clinical Practice Guideline for Acute Bacterial Rhinosinusitis in Children and Adults

2012 362 citations Anthony W. Chow, Michael S. Benninger et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
IDSA Clinical Practice Guideline for Acute Bacterial Rhinosinusitis in Children and Adults

2012 357 citations Anthony W. Chow, Michael S. Benninger et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
Executive Summary: Management of Adults With Hospital-acquired and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia: 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society

2016 289 citations André C. Kalil, Mark L. Metersky et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
RESTORE-IMI 1: A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind Trial Comparing Efficacy and Safety of Imipenem/Relebactam vs Colistin Plus Imipenem in Patients With Imipenem-nonsusceptible Bacterial Infections

2019 284 citations Thomas M. File et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America: 2018 Update on Diagnosis, Treatment, Chemoprophylaxis, and Institutional Outbreak Management of Seasonal Influenzaa

2019 229 citations Thomas M. File, Shandra L. Knight et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Position Statement: Why IDSA Did Not Endorse the Community-Acquired Pneumonia Guidelines 2025 Update 2025 ·Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Michael Klompas, Majdi N. Al‐Hasan, Mayar Al Mohajer, Robert C. Colgrove, Shira Doron, Thomas M. File, Natasha N. Pettit, Michael S. Pulia, Sharon Weissman	0
2	How to assess survival prognosis in patients hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia in 2024? 2024 ·Current Opinion in Critical Care ·Julio A. Ramírez, Thomas M. File	0
3	Impact of the expansion of antimicrobial stewardship services during transitions of care at an academic hospital 2020 ·Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology ·(unknown), (unknown), Sue Fosnight, Thomas M. File, M. David Gothard	7
4	Surveillance of iclaprim activity: In vitro susceptibility of gram-positive pathogens collected from 2012 to 2014 from the United States, Asia Pacific, Latin American and Europe 2017 ·Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease ·David B. Huang, Thomas M. File, Matthew Dryden, G. Ralph Corey, Antoni Torres, Mark H. Wilcox	16
5	Management of Adults With Hospital-acquired and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia: 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society breakdown → 2016 ·Clinical Infectious Diseases ·André C. Kalil, Mark L. Metersky, Michael Klompas, John Muscedere, Daniel A. Sweeney, Lucy B. Palmer, Lena M. Napolitano, Naomi P. O’Grady, John G. Bartlett, Jordi Carratalà, Ali A. El Solh, Santiago Ewig, Paul D. Fey, Thomas M. File, Marcos I. Restrepo, Jason A. Roberts, Grant Waterer, Peggy Cruse, Shandra L. Knight, Jan Brożek	2347
6	SOLITAIRE-IV: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Multicenter Study Comparing the Efficacy and Safety of Intravenous-to-Oral Solithromycin to Intravenous-to-Oral Moxifloxacin for Treatment of Community-Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia 2016 ·Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Thomas M. File, Barbara Rewerska, (unknown), (unknown), Anita Das, (unknown), David Taylor, Amanda Sheets, Prabhavathi Fernandes, David Oldach, Brian Jamieson	58
7	Executive Summary: IDSA Clinical Practice Guideline for Acute Bacterial Rhinosinusitis in Children and Adults breakdown → 2012 ·Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Anthony W. Chow, Michael S. Benninger, Itzhak Brook, Jan Brożek, Ellie J. C. Goldstein, Lauri A. Hicks, George A. Pankey, Mitchel J. Seleznick, Gregory Volturo, Ellen R. Wald, Thomas M. File	362
8	A Phase 2 Study Comparing Two Doses of Radezolid to Linezolid in Adults with Uncomplicated Skin and Skin Structure Infections (uSSSI) 2008 ·46th Annual Meeting ·Thomas M. File	6
9	A Worldwide Perspective of Atypical Pathogens in Community-acquired Pneumonia 2007 ·American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Forest W. Arnold, James T. Summersgill, A. Scott LaJoie, Paula Peyrani, Thomas J. Marrie, Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Francesco Blasi, Patricia Fernández, Thomas M. File, Jordi Rello, Rosario Menéndez, (unknown), Carlos M. Luna, Julio A. Ramírez	169
10	CARDIO-PULMONARY MEDICAL HISTORY AND THE EFFECT ON CLINICAL OUTCOME OF COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA INFECTIONS TREATED WITH GEMIFLOXACIN 2005 ·CHEST Journal ·(unknown), Thomas M. File, Lionel A. Mandell, Glenn S. Tillotson	1
11	PATIENT RISK FACTORS IN COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA INFECTIONS OUTCOME FOLLOWING TREATMENT WITH GEMIFLOXACIN 2005 ·CHEST Journal ·Ian Morrissey, Thomas M. File, Lionel A. Mandell, Glenn S. Tillotson	1
12	Meropenem Versus Imipenem-Cilastatin for the Treatment of Hospitalized Patients with Complicated Skin and Skin Structure Infections: Results of a Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind Comparative Study 2005 ·Surgical Infections ·Timothy C. Fabian, Thomas M. File, John M. Embil, (unknown), Stanley R. Klein, (unknown), David Melnick, Norberto E. Soto	32
13	Shorter course therapy of serious respiratory infections: new data for new approaches to management 2004 ·Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases ·Thomas M. File	2
14	Viral respiratory tract infections: increasing importance and a new pathogen 2003 ·Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases ·Thomas M. File	6
15	Management of community-acquired pneumonia: An appropriate-use tool 2001 ·Thomas M. File, John G. Bartlett, Alan Bernstein, Fernando J. Martínez	1
16	THE IMPORTANCE OF CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE AS A PATHOGEN 1997 ·Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice ·Thomas M. File, John G. Bartlett, Gail H. Cassell, Charlotte A. Gaydos, J. Thomas Grayston, (unknown), Robert B. Jones, James B. Kahn, Thomas J. Marrie, Julio A. Ramírez, Pekka Saikku, Julius Schachter, H. Ralph Schumacher, W. E. Stamm, Charles W. Stratton, Victor L. Yu	8
17	An Outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Ventilator-Associated Respiratory Infections Due to Contaminated Food Coloring Dye - Further Evidence of the Significance of Gastric Colonization Preceding Nosocomial Pneumonia 1995 ·Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology ·Thomas M. File, James S. Tan, Richard B. Thomson, (unknown), Peggy A. Thompson	12
18	Antipseudomonal penicillins 1995 ·Medical Clinics of North America ·James S. Tan, Thomas M. File	16
19	Reevaluation of the Definition of Legionnaires' Disease: Use of the Urinary Antigen Assay 1995 ·Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Joseph F. Plouffe, Thomas M. File, Robert F. Breiman, (unknown), Sara‐Jane Salstrom, B. Marston, Barry S. Fields, (unknown)	133
20	Predisposing Factors and Antibiotic Use in Nosocomial Infections Caused by Xanthomonas maltophilia 1992 ·Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology ·Darrell Hulisz, Thomas M. File	21

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