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Christopher W. Woods

Christopher W. Woods

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
76
Citations
22109
World Ranking
1407
National Ranking
614

Medicine

D-Index
76
Citations
22551
World Ranking
18742
National Ranking
9338

Christopher W. Woods 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 Christopher W. Woods sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 287 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christopher W. Woods 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 Christopher W. Woods sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Christopher W. Woods is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology among other related subfields. Woods's work covers several specialized areas within medicine, including Molecular Biology, Immunology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research topics prominently include SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, with significant contributions to understanding the virus and its clinical and epidemiological impacts. Other major themes in their work involve respiratory viral infections, COVID-19 clinical research studies, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, sepsis diagnosis and treatment, and influenza virus research studies.

Christopher W. Woods has published extensively across several venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • PLoS ONE
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Micah T. McClain
  • Ephraim L. Tsalik
  • Thomas W. Burke
  • Geoffrey S. Ginsburg
  • Ricardo Henao

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Woods highlight work on antibodies and immune response in COVID-19 as well as antimicrobial stewardship in healthcare settings. Selected recent publications include:

  • In vitro and in vivo functions of SARS-CoV-2 infection-enhancing and neutralizing antibodies, 2021, Cell
  • Neutralizing antibody vaccine for pandemic and pre-emergent coronaviruses, 2021, Nature
  • Dysregulated transcriptional responses to SARS-CoV-2 in the periphery, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Barriers to implementing antimicrobial stewardship programs in three low- and middle-income country tertiary care settings: findings from a multi-site qualitative study, 2021, Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
  • The functions of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing and infection-enhancing antibodies in vitro and in mice and nonhuman primates, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Clinical Presentation, Etiology, and Outcome of Infective Endocarditis in the 21st Century: The International Collaboration on Endocarditis-Prospective Cohort Study

    David R. Murdoch;G. Ralph Corey;Bruno Hoen;José M. Miró

  • Clinical identifiers of complicated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.

    Vance G. Fowler;Maren K. Olsen;G. Ralph Corey;Christopher W. Woods

  • Changing patient characteristics and the effect on mortality in endocarditis.

    Christopher H. Cabell;James G. Jollis;Gail E. Peterson;Gail E. Peterson;G. Ralph Corey

  • An Integrated Clinico-Metabolomic Model Improves Prediction of Death in Sepsis

    Raymond J. Langley;Raymond J. Langley;Ephraim L. Tsalik;Ephraim L. Tsalik;Jennifer C. Van Velkinburgh;Seth W. Glickman;Seth W. Glickman

  • Comparison of Seven Techniques for Typing International Epidemic Strains of Clostridium difficile: Restriction Endonuclease Analysis, Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis, PCR-Ribotyping, Multilocus Sequence Typing, Multilocus Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat Analysis, Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism, and Surface Layer Protein A Gene Sequence Typing

    George Killgore;Angela Thompson;Stuart Johnson;Jon Brazier

  • Gene Expression Signatures Diagnose Influenza and Other Symptomatic Respiratory Viral Infections in Humans

    Aimee K. Zaas;Minhua Chen;Jay Varkey;Timothy Veldman

  • An Outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Northeastern Kenya, 1997-98

    Christopher W. Woods;Adam M. Karpati;Thomas Grein;Noel McCarthy

  • The clinical and prognostic importance of positive blood cultures in adults.

    Brian C. Pien;Brian C. Pien;Punidha Sundaram;Natalia Raoof;Sylvia F. Costa

  • Outbreak of Leptospirosis among Triathlon Participants and Community Residents in Springfield, Illinois, 1998

    Juliette Morgan;Shari L. Bornstein;Adam M. Karpati;Michael Bruce

  • Evaluation of Four Commercially Available Rapid Serologic Tests for Diagnosis of Leptospirosis

    Mary D. Bajani;David A. Ashford;Sandra L. Bragg;Christopher W. Woods

  • Risk Factors For Hematogenous Complications of Intravascular Catheter—Associated Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia

    Vance G. Fowler;Anita Justice;Catrin Moore;Daniel K. Benjamin

  • Unsupervised analysis of transcriptomics in bacterial sepsis across multiple datasets reveals three robust clusters

    Timothy E. Sweeney;Tej D. Azad;Michele Donato;Winston A. Haynes

  • Non-HACEK gram-negative bacillus endocarditis.

    Susan Morpeth;David Murdoch;Christopher H. Cabell;Adolf W. Karchmer

  • In vitro and in vivo functions of SARS-CoV-2 infection-enhancing and neutralizing antibodies.

    Dapeng Li;Robert J. Edwards;Kartik Manne;David R. Martinez

  • Early Surgery in Patients with Infective Endocarditis: A Propensity Score Analysis

    Olcay Aksoy;Daniel J. Sexton;Andrew Wang;Paul A. Pappas

  • Host gene expression classifiers diagnose acute respiratory illness etiology.

    Ephraim L. Tsalik;Ephraim L. Tsalik;Ephraim L. Tsalik;Ricardo Henao;Marshall Nichols;Thomas Burke

  • Neutralizing antibody vaccine for pandemic and pre-emergent coronaviruses.

    Kevin O. Saunders;Esther Lee;Robert Parks;David R. Martinez

  • Risk factors for and estimated incidence of community-associated Clostridium difficile infection, North Carolina, USA.

    Preeta K. Kutty;Christopher W. Woods;Arlene C. Sena;Stephen R. Benoit

  • Adverse events in humans associated with accidental exposure to the livestock brucellosis vaccine RB51.

    David A Ashford;Jennifer di Pietra;Jairam Lingappa;Christopher Woods

  • Temporal Dynamics of Host Molecular Responses Differentiate Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Influenza A Infection

    Yongsheng Huang;Aimee K. Zaas;Arvind Rao;Nicolas Dobigeon

  • The etiology of febrile illness in adults presenting to Patan hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal.

    David R. Murdoch;Christopher W. Woods;Mark D. Zimmerman;Peter M. Dull

  • Impact of Strain Type on Detection of Toxigenic Clostridium difficile: Comparison of Molecular Diagnostic and Enzyme Immunoassay Approaches

    Fred C. Tenover;Susan Novak-Weekley;Christopher W. Woods;Lance R. Peterson

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey S. Ginsburg
Geoffrey S. Ginsburg Duke University
Vance G. Fowler
Vance G. Fowler Duke University
Truls Østbye
Truls Østbye Duke University
Stephen F. Kingsmore
Stephen F. Kingsmore Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego
G. Ralph Corey
G. Ralph Corey Duke University
Alfred O. Hero
Alfred O. Hero University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lawrence Carin
Lawrence Carin Duke University
L. Barth Reller
L. Barth Reller Duke University
David R. Murdoch
David R. Murdoch University of Otago
Thomas N. Denny
Thomas N. Denny Duke University

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