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Daniel J. Sexton

Daniel J. Sexton

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
97
Citations
39794
World Ranking
9183
National Ranking
4737

Daniel J. Sexton publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Daniel J. Sexton sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 434 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Daniel J. Sexton D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Daniel J. Sexton sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 97 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1998 - The Watanakunakorn Clinician Award, Infectious Diseases Society of America

Overview

Daniel J. Sexton is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and has an extensive publication record primarily in the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on subfields such as Epidemiology, Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.

Their research has concentrated on several main topics, including:

  • Infection Control and Ventilation
  • Antibiotic Use and Resistance
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Infection Control in Healthcare
  • Coagulation, Bradykinin, Polyphosphates, and Angioedema
  • Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy
  • Nosocomial Infections in ICU

Sexton's recent important publications include:

  • "Universal masking is an effective strategy to flatten the severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) healthcare worker epidemiologic curve," 2020, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
  • "Universal masking in hospitals in the COVID-19 era: Is it time to consider shielding?", 2020, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
  • "Ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis subcommittee report to the Tick-borne Disease Working Group," 2021, Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
  • "Tap Water Avoidance Decreases Rates of Hospital-onset Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacteria," 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • "Effects of a Collaborative, Community Hospital Network for Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Implementation," 2021, Clinical Infectious Diseases

They have published extensively in venues such as:

  • Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Neurological Surgery Part B Skull Base
  • Neurosurgery

Frequent collaborators include Deverick J. Anderson, Rebekah W. Moehring, Sarah S. Lewis, David J. Weber, and Syed M. Adil.

Among awards, Daniel J. Sexton received The Watanakunakorn Clinician Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Proposed Modifications to the Duke Criteria for the Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis

    Li Js;Sexton Dj;Mick N;Nettles R

  • The impact of surgical-site infections in the 1990s: attributable mortality, excess length of hospitalization, and extra costs.

    Kathryn B. Kirkland;Jane P Briggs;Sharon L. Trivette;William E. Wilkinson

  • Health care--associated bloodstream infections in adults: a reason to change the accepted definition of community-acquired infections.

    N. Deborah Friedman;Keith S. Kaye;Jason E. Stout;Sarah A. McGarry

  • Adverse clinical and economic outcomes attributable to methicillin resistance among patients with Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infection

    John J. Engemann;Yehuda Carmeli;Sara E. Cosgrove;Vance G. Fowler

  • The impact of surgical-site infections following orthopedic surgery at a community hospital and a university hospital: adverse quality of life, excess length of stay, and extra cost.

    James D. Whitehouse;N. Deborah Friedman;Kathryn B. Kirkland;William J. Richardson

  • Catheter-Related Bacteremia and Outcome of Attempted Catheter Salvage in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis

    K A Marr;D J Sexton;P J Conlon;G R Corey

  • 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

  • Diagnosis and management of Q fever--United States, 2013: recommendations from CDC and the Q Fever Working Group

    Alicia Anderson;Henk Bijlmer;Pierre-Edouard Fournier;Stephen Graves

  • Outcome of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia according to compliance with recommendations of infectious diseases specialists: experience with 244 patients.

    Vance G. Fowler;Linda L. Sanders;Daniel J. Sexton;Likuo Kong

  • Early Predictors of In-Hospital Death in Infective Endocarditis

    Vivian H. Chu;Christopher H. Cabell;Daniel K. Benjamin;Erin F. Kuniholm

  • Diagnosis and management of tickborne rickettsial diseases: Rocky Mountain spotted fever, ehrlichioses, and anaplasmosis--United States: a practical guide for physicians and other health-care and public health professionals.

    Alice S. Chapman;Johan S. Bakken;Scott M. Folk;Christopher D. Paddock

  • Mediastinitis After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Risk Factors and Long-term Survival

    Carmelo A. Milano;Karen Kesler;Nancy Archibald;Daniel J. Sexton

  • Role of echocardiography in evaluation of patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: experience in 103 patients.

    Vance G Fowler;Jennifer Li;G.Ralph Corey;Jerry Boley

  • Comparison of the burdens of hospital-onset, healthcare facility-associated Clostridium difficile Infection and of healthcare-associated infection due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in community hospitals.

    Becky A. Miller;Luke F. Chen;Daniel J. Sexton;Deverick J. Anderson

  • Generation of high-affinity human antibodies by combining donor-derived and synthetic complementarity-determining-region diversity

    René Michael Hoet;Edward H Cohen;Rachel Baribault Kent;Kristin Rookey

  • Nosocomial methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus primary bacteremia: at what costs?

    Murray A. Abramson;Daniel J. Sexton

  • The relationship between the initiation of antimicrobial therapy and the incidence of stroke in infective endocarditis: an analysis from the ICE Prospective Cohort Study (ICE-PCS).

    Stuart A. Dickerman;Elias Abrutyn;Bruno Barsic;Emilio Bouza

  • Rocky mountain spotted fever.

    Daniel J Sexton;Keith S Kaye

  • Selective inhibition of matrix metalloproteinase-14 blocks tumor growth, invasion, and angiogenesis.

    Laetitia Devy;Lili Huang;Laurent Naa;Niranjan Yanamandra

  • Current features of infective endocarditis in elderly patients: results of the International Collaboration on Endocarditis Prospective Cohort Study

    Emanuele Durante-Mangoni;Suzanne Bradley;Christine Selton-Suty;Marie Françoise Tripodi

Frequent Co-Authors

Vance G. Fowler
Vance G. Fowler Duke University
Keith S. Kaye
Keith S. Kaye Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
G. Ralph Corey
G. Ralph Corey Duke University
David J. Weber
David J. Weber University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
William A. Rutala
William A. Rutala University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Christopher W. Woods
Christopher W. Woods Duke University
Kenneth E. Schmader
Kenneth E. Schmader Duke University
José M. Miró
José M. Miró University of Barcelona
Kieren A. Marr
Kieren A. Marr Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
David H. Walker
David H. Walker The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

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