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Christopher W. Woods

Christopher W. Woods

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Microbiology 76 1407 1271 614 529 287 22109
Medicine 76 18741 17607 9335 8623 315 22551

Christopher W. Woods publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Christopher W. Woods between 2000 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Christopher W. Woods published across 26 years, from 2000 to 2025, averaging 16.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 39 publications in 2021. 48 of the 421 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2000 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 39. Peak 39 publications in 2021. 2000: 6 publications 2001: 2 publications 2002: 4 publications 2003: 3 publications 2004: 11 publications 2005: 7 publications 2006: 7 publications 2007: 10 publications 2008: 14 publications 2009: 14 publications 2010: 17 publications 2011: 12 publications 2012: 8 publications 2013: 17 publications 2014: 21 publications 2015: 18 publications 2016: 21 publications 2017: 14 publications 2018: 14 publications 2019: 25 publications 2020: 20 publications 2021: 39 publications 2022: 35 publications 2023: 34 publications 2024: 16 publications 2025: 32 publications
2000 2025

421 publications in total across all disciplines

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Christopher W. Woods: publications per year, 2000 to 2025
Year Publications
2000 6
2001 2
2002 4
2003 3
2004 11
2005 7
2006 7
2007 10
2008 14
2009 14
2010 17
2011 12
2012 8
2013 17
2014 21
2015 18
2016 21
2017 14
2018 14
2019 25
2020 20
2021 39
2022 35
2023 34
2024 16
2025 32
Total 421
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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.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200 250
Bar chart with 64 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 55–64 to 679+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 288. Most scientists, 288, have 135–144 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 285–294 publications, is where this scientist sits. 55–64 publications: 8 scientists 65–74 publications: 29 scientists 75–84 publications: 55 scientists 85–94 publications: 112 scientists 95–104 publications: 137 scientists 105–114 publications: 190 scientists 115–124 publications: 235 scientists 125–134 publications: 234 scientists 135–144 publications: 288 scientists 145–154 publications: 265 scientists 155–164 publications: 264 scientists 165–174 publications: 253 scientists 175–184 publications: 276 scientists 185–194 publications: 190 scientists 195–204 publications: 234 scientists 205–214 publications: 208 scientists 215–224 publications: 198 scientists 225–234 publications: 155 scientists 235–244 publications: 161 scientists 245–254 publications: 160 scientists 255–264 publications: 146 scientists 265–274 publications: 139 scientists 275–284 publications: 148 scientists 285–294 publications: 115 scientists 295–304 publications: 96 scientists 305–314 publications: 88 scientists 315–324 publications: 106 scientists 325–334 publications: 65 scientists 335–344 publications: 76 scientists 345–354 publications: 64 scientists 355–364 publications: 62 scientists 365–374 publications: 65 scientists 375–384 publications: 61 scientists 385–394 publications: 34 scientists 395–404 publications: 44 scientists 405–414 publications: 36 scientists 415–424 publications: 35 scientists 425–434 publications: 29 scientists 435–444 publications: 33 scientists 445–454 publications: 34 scientists 455–464 publications: 25 scientists 465–474 publications: 26 scientists 475–484 publications: 20 scientists 485–494 publications: 19 scientists 495–504 publications: 16 scientists 505–514 publications: 17 scientists 515–524 publications: 23 scientists 525–534 publications: 14 scientists 535–544 publications: 14 scientists 545–554 publications: 18 scientists 555–564 publications: 12 scientists 565–574 publications: 7 scientists 575–584 publications: 9 scientists 585–594 publications: 9 scientists 595–604 publications: 9 scientists 605–614 publications: 7 scientists 615–624 publications: 9 scientists 625–634 publications: 7 scientists 635–644 publications: 4 scientists 645–654 publications: 5 scientists 655–664 publications: 6 scientists 665–674 publications: 7 scientists 675–678 publications: 3 scientists 679+ publications: 99 scientists
55–64 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.

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Number of Microbiology scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 5,513 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
55–64 8
65–74 29
75–84 55
85–94 112
95–104 137
105–114 190
115–124 235
125–134 234
135–144 288
145–154 265
155–164 264
165–174 253
175–184 276
185–194 190
195–204 234
205–214 208
215–224 198
225–234 155
235–244 161
245–254 160
255–264 146
265–274 139
275–284 148
285–294 115 287
295–304 96
305–314 88
315–324 106
325–334 65
335–344 76
345–354 64
355–364 62
365–374 65
375–384 61
385–394 34
395–404 44
405–414 36
415–424 35
425–434 29
435–444 33
445–454 34
455–464 25
465–474 26
475–484 20
485–494 19
495–504 16
505–514 17
515–524 23
525–534 14
535–544 14
545–554 18
555–564 12
565–574 7
575–584 9
585–594 9
595–604 9
605–614 7
615–624 9
625–634 7
635–644 4
645–654 5
655–664 6
665–674 7
675–678 3
679+ 99
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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.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 88 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40 to 127+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 162. Most scientists, 162, have 58 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 76 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 40 D-Index: 30 scientists 41 D-Index: 86 scientists 42 D-Index: 90 scientists 43 D-Index: 117 scientists 44 D-Index: 122 scientists 45 D-Index: 123 scientists 46 D-Index: 108 scientists 47 D-Index: 110 scientists 48 D-Index: 106 scientists 49 D-Index: 109 scientists 50 D-Index: 129 scientists 51 D-Index: 111 scientists 52 D-Index: 116 scientists 53 D-Index: 127 scientists 54 D-Index: 134 scientists 55 D-Index: 134 scientists 56 D-Index: 112 scientists 57 D-Index: 136 scientists 58 D-Index: 162 scientists 59 D-Index: 151 scientists 60 D-Index: 139 scientists 61 D-Index: 123 scientists 62 D-Index: 126 scientists 63 D-Index: 144 scientists 64 D-Index: 109 scientists 65 D-Index: 103 scientists 66 D-Index: 124 scientists 67 D-Index: 112 scientists 68 D-Index: 103 scientists 69 D-Index: 131 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 93 scientists 72 D-Index: 96 scientists 73 D-Index: 92 scientists 74 D-Index: 80 scientists 75 D-Index: 66 scientists 76 D-Index: 87 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 73 scientists 79 D-Index: 59 scientists 80 D-Index: 57 scientists 81 D-Index: 55 scientists 82 D-Index: 47 scientists 83 D-Index: 77 scientists 84 D-Index: 50 scientists 85 D-Index: 45 scientists 86 D-Index: 42 scientists 87 D-Index: 41 scientists 88 D-Index: 32 scientists 89 D-Index: 38 scientists 90 D-Index: 35 scientists 91 D-Index: 34 scientists 92 D-Index: 27 scientists 93 D-Index: 26 scientists 94 D-Index: 33 scientists 95 D-Index: 22 scientists 96 D-Index: 37 scientists 97 D-Index: 22 scientists 98 D-Index: 21 scientists 99 D-Index: 22 scientists 100 D-Index: 30 scientists 101 D-Index: 16 scientists 102 D-Index: 20 scientists 103 D-Index: 17 scientists 104 D-Index: 19 scientists 105 D-Index: 16 scientists 106 D-Index: 19 scientists 107 D-Index: 18 scientists 108 D-Index: 14 scientists 109 D-Index: 10 scientists 110 D-Index: 9 scientists 111 D-Index: 7 scientists 112 D-Index: 11 scientists 113 D-Index: 6 scientists 114 D-Index: 15 scientists 115 D-Index: 10 scientists 116 D-Index: 12 scientists 117 D-Index: 7 scientists 118 D-Index: 10 scientists 119 D-Index: 10 scientists 120 D-Index: 11 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 7 scientists 123 D-Index: 12 scientists 124 D-Index: 5 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126 D-Index: 6 scientists 127+ D-Index: 95 scientists
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.

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Number of Microbiology scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 5,513 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
40 30
41 86
42 90
43 117
44 122
45 123
46 108
47 110
48 106
49 109
50 129
51 111
52 116
53 127
54 134
55 134
56 112
57 136
58 162
59 151
60 139
61 123
62 126
63 144
64 109
65 103
66 124
67 112
68 103
69 131
70 94
71 93
72 96
73 92
74 80
75 66
76 87 76
77 60
78 73
79 59
80 57
81 55
82 47
83 77
84 50
85 45
86 42
87 41
88 32
89 38
90 35
91 34
92 27
93 26
94 33
95 22
96 37
97 22
98 21
99 22
100 30
101 16
102 20
103 17
104 19
105 16
106 19
107 18
108 14
109 10
110 9
111 7
112 11
113 6
114 15
115 10
116 12
117 7
118 10
119 10
120 11
121 2
122 7
123 12
124 5
125 9
126 6
127+ 95
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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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