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Infection Prevention in Practice
H-index 13

Infection Prevention in Practice

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Medicine 2840 26 23 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 82
Documents by Best Scientists*: 73
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 16
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.572
Impact Factor: 1.9

Top Publications

  • Infection of healthcare workers despite a high vaccination rate during the fifth wave of COVID-19 due to Omicron variant in Hong Kong

    (2022)
    26 Citations
  • Point-prevalence surveys of antimicrobial consumption and resistance at a paediatric and an adult tertiary referral hospital in Yangon, Myanmar

    (2021)
    22 Citations
  • Evidence review of physical distancing and partition screens to reduce healthcare acquired SARS-CoV-2

    (2021)
    21 Citations
  • Auditing Use of Antibiotics In Zimbabwean Neonates

    G. Chimhini;S. Chimhuya;L. Madzudzo;M. Heys;M. Heys

    (2020)
    19 Citations
  • Effectiveness of infection prevention and control interventions, excluding personal protective equipment, to prevent nosocomial transmission of SARS-CoV-2: a systematic review and call for action

    Yalda Jafari;Mo Yin;Cherry Lim;Cherry Lim;Diane Pople

    (2021)
    14 Citations
  • Antibiotic use among surgical inpatients at a tertiary health facility: a case for a standardized protocol for presumptive antimicrobial therapy in the developing world.

    U.U. Nnadozie;C.D. Umeokonkwo;C.C. Maduba;D. Igwe-Okomiso

    (2020)
    12 Citations
  • Antibiotic prescribing practices in general surgery: a mixed methods quality improvement project.

    Georgia Lamb;Georgina Phillips;Esmita Charani;Esmita Charani;Alison Holmes

    (2021)
    10 Citations
  • Association of environmental surface contamination with hand hygiene and infections in nursing homes: a prospective cohort study.

    G.R. Teesing;G.R. Teesing;M. de Graaf;M. Petrignani;V. Erasmus

    (2021)
    7 Citations
  • Assessing an intervention to improve the safety of automatic stop orders for inpatient antimicrobials.

    Lauren Dutcher;Alyssa Yeager;Yevgeniy Gitelman;Steven Morgan

    (2020)
    7 Citations
  • Molecular characterisation and epidemiology of transmission of intraoperative Staphylococcus aureus isolates stratified by vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC)

    (2022)
    6 Citations

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