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D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
95
Citations
31500
World Ranking
539
National Ranking
55

Medicine

D-Index
96
Citations
32795
World Ranking
9695
National Ranking
944

A. Sarah Walker publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where A. Sarah Walker sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 415 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

A. Sarah Walker D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where A. Sarah Walker sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 95 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

A. Sarah Walker is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and has a research focus primarily within the field of Medicine. Their work spans various subfields, including Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, General Health Professions, and Molecular Biology.

Their research encompasses multiple topics related to infectious agents and public health, with a strong emphasis on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. Key topics of their work include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Antibiotic Use and Resistance
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies

A. Sarah Walker has contributed to several papers published in prominent journals, including:

  • "Antibody Status and Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Health Care Workers" (2020), New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Effect of Covid-19 Vaccination on Transmission of Alpha and Delta Variants" (2022), New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in 45,965 adults from the general population of the United Kingdom" (2021), Nature Microbiology
  • "Impact of vaccination on new SARS-CoV-2 infections in the United Kingdom" (2021), Nature Medicine
  • "The Duration, Dynamics, and Determinants of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Antibody Responses in Individual Healthcare Workers" (2021), Clinical Infectious Diseases

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers in their field. Notable frequent co-authors include Tim Peto, Koen B. Pouwels, Derrick W. Crook, Nicole Stoesser, and David W. Eyre.

Their scholarly outputs have appeared most often in these publication venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Journal of Infection
  • Wellcome Open Research

Best Publications

  • Whole-genome sequencing to delineate Mycobacterium tuberculosis outbreaks: a retrospective observational study

    Timothy M. Walker;Camilla L.C. Ip;Ruth H. Harrell;Jason T. Evans

  • Antibody Status and Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Health Care Workers.

    S F Lumley;D O'Donnell;N E Stoesser;P C Matthews

  • Whole-genome sequencing for prediction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug susceptibility and resistance: a retrospective cohort study.

    Timothy M Walker;Thomas A Kohl;Shaheed V Omar;Jessica Hedge

  • Rapid antibiotic-resistance predictions from genome sequence data for Staphylococcus aureus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

    P Bradley;N C Gordon;T M Walker;L Dunn

  • Correction: Corrigendum: Rapid antibiotic-resistance predictions from genome sequence data for Staphylococcus aureus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Phelim Bradley;N. Claire Gordon;Timothy M. Walker;Laura Dunn

  • Evidence for human transmission of amyloid-β pathology and cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    Zane Jaunmuktane;Simon Mead;Simon Mead;Matthew Ellis;Jonathan D. F. Wadsworth;Jonathan D. F. Wadsworth

  • The challenge of antimicrobial resistance: What economics can contribute

    Laurence S. J. Roope;Laurence S. J. Roope;Laurence S. J. Roope;Richard D. Smith;Koen B. Pouwels;Koen B. Pouwels;James Buchanan;James Buchanan

  • Multilocus Sequence Typing of Clostridium difficile

    David Griffiths;David Griffiths;Warren Fawley;Melina Kachrimanidou;Melina Kachrimanidou;Rory Bowden

  • Within-host evolution of bacterial pathogens

    Xavier Didelot;A. Sarah Walker;Tim E. Peto;Derrick W. Crook;Derrick W. Crook

  • Determinants of survival following HIV-1 seroconversion after the introduction of HAART.

    Kholoud Porter;Abdel Babiker;Krishnan Bhaskaran;Janet Darbyshire

  • Effect of Delta variant on viral burden and vaccine effectiveness against new SARS-CoV-2 infections in the UK.

    Koen B. Pouwels;Koen B. Pouwels;Emma Pritchard;Emma Pritchard;Philippa C. Matthews;Philippa C. Matthews;Philippa C. Matthews;Nicole Stoesser

  • A Candida auris Outbreak and Its Control in an Intensive Care Setting.

    David W Eyre;Anna E Sheppard;Hilary Madder;Ian Moir

  • Prediction of Susceptibility to First-Line Tuberculosis Drugs by DNA Sequencing.

    Caroline Allix-Béguec;Irena Arandjelovic

  • Prediction of Staphylococcus aureus Antimicrobial Resistance by Whole-Genome Sequencing

    N C Gordon;J R Price;K Cole;Richard G Everitt

  • Same-Day Diagnostic and Surveillance Data for Tuberculosis via Whole-Genome Sequencing of Direct Respiratory Samples.

    Antonina A. Votintseva;Phelim Bradley;Louise Pankhurst;Carlos del Ojo Elias

  • The Hospital Water Environment as a Reservoir for Carbapenem-Resistant Organisms Causing Hospital-Acquired Infections-A Systematic Review of the Literature.

    Alice E Kizny Gordon;Amy J Mathers;Elaine Y L Cheong;Thomas Gottlieb

  • Predicting antimicrobial susceptibilities for Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates using whole genomic sequence data.

    N. Stoesser;E. M. Batty;D. W. Eyre;M. Morgan

  • Impact of vaccination on new SARS-CoV-2 infections in the United Kingdom.

    Emma Pritchard;Emma Pritchard;Philippa C. Matthews;Philippa C. Matthews;Nicole Stoesser;David W. Eyre

  • Evolutionary History of the Global Emergence of the Escherichia coli Epidemic Clone ST131

    Nicole Stoesser;Anna E. Sheppard;Louise Pankhurst;Nicola De Maio

  • Effects of control interventions on Clostridium difficile infection in England: an observational study

    Kate E Dingle;Kate E Dingle;Kate E Dingle;Xavier Didelot;T Phuong Quan;T Phuong Quan;T Phuong Quan;David W Eyre;David W Eyre

  • Non-AIDS-defining deaths and immunodeficiency in the era of combination antiretroviral therapy.

    Benoît Marin;Rodolphe Thiébaut;Heiner C. Bucher;Virginie Rondeau

  • Antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in 45,965 adults from the general population of the United Kingdom.

    J Wei;N Stoesser;P Matthews;P Matthews;D Ayoubkhani

Frequent Co-Authors

Derrick W. Crook
Derrick W. Crook University of Oxford
Tim E. A. Peto
Tim E. A. Peto University of Oxford
Nicole Stoesser
Nicole Stoesser University of Oxford
David W. Eyre
David W. Eyre University of Oxford
Daniel J. Wilson
Daniel J. Wilson University of Oxford
Philippa C. Matthews
Philippa C. Matthews University of Oxford
David H. Wyllie
David H. Wyllie Public Health England
Diana M. Gibb
Diana M. Gibb University College London
Kate E. Dingle
Kate E. Dingle University of Oxford
Mark H. Wilcox
Mark H. Wilcox University of Leeds

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