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2026

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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Microbiology 86 828 736 2 2 334 30975
Medicine 86 13999 13182 66 64 338 31115

Dominique A. Caugant publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Dominique A. Caugant between 1981 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Dominique A. Caugant published across 45 years, from 1981 to 2025, averaging 8 papers a year. Output peaked at 18 publications in 2020. 8 of the 362 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1981 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 18. Peak 18 publications in 2020. 1981: 1 publication 1982: 1 publication 1983: 2 publications 1984: 1 publication 1985: 1 publication 1986: 7 publications 1987: 4 publications 1988: 3 publications 1989: 5 publications 1990: 5 publications 1991: 14 publications 1992: 9 publications 1993: 5 publications 1994: 8 publications 1995: 6 publications 1996: 6 publications 1997: 8 publications 1998: 10 publications 1999: 6 publications 2000: 17 publications 2001: 12 publications 2002: 11 publications 2003: 8 publications 2004: 12 publications 2005: 15 publications 2006: 13 publications 2007: 8 publications 2008: 15 publications 2009: 7 publications 2010: 7 publications 2011: 7 publications 2012: 10 publications 2013: 7 publications 2014: 14 publications 2015: 9 publications 2016: 7 publications 2017: 8 publications 2018: 9 publications 2019: 13 publications 2020: 18 publications 2021: 10 publications 2022: 3 publications 2023: 12 publications 2024: 4 publications 2025: 4 publications
1981 2025

362 publications in total across all disciplines

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Dominique A. Caugant: publications per year, 1981 to 2025
Year Publications
1981 1
1982 1
1983 2
1984 1
1985 1
1986 7
1987 4
1988 3
1989 5
1990 5
1991 14
1992 9
1993 5
1994 8
1995 6
1996 6
1997 8
1998 10
1999 6
2000 17
2001 12
2002 11
2003 8
2004 12
2005 15
2006 13
2007 8
2008 15
2009 7
2010 7
2011 7
2012 10
2013 7
2014 14
2015 9
2016 7
2017 8
2018 9
2019 13
2020 18
2021 10
2022 3
2023 12
2024 4
2025 4
Total 362
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Dominique A. Caugant 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 Dominique A. Caugant 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, 325–334 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: 334 publications — 83rd percentile

83% 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
295–304 96
305–314 88
315–324 106
325–334 65 334
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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Dominique A. Caugant 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 Dominique A. Caugant 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, 86 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: 86 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% 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
77 60
78 73
79 59
80 57
81 55
82 47
83 77
84 50
85 45
86 42 86
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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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Microbiology in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Dominique A. Caugant is affiliated with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with particular emphasis on Immunology and Microbiology. Within these broader fields, their work extensively covers subfields such as Microbiology, Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research topics are centered around bacterial infections and vaccines, pneumonia and respiratory infections, reproductive tract infections, streptococcal infections and treatments, respiratory viral infections, syphilis diagnosis and treatment, and influenza virus research studies.

Dominique A. Caugant has contributed to multiple publications, including recent papers such as:

  • Reduced In Vitro Susceptibility of Streptococcus pyogenes to β-Lactam Antibiotics Associated with Mutations in the pbp2x Gene Is Geographically Widespread (2020), Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • Meningococcal disease surveillance in the Asia-Pacific region (2020): The global meningococcal initiative (2020), Journal of Infection
  • Surveillance and control of meningococcal disease in the COVID-19 era: A Global Meningococcal Initiative review (2021), Journal of Infection
  • Molecular diagnostic assays for the detection of common bacterial meningitis pathogens: A narrative review (2021), EBioMedicine
  • Genomic epidemiology and population structure of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Norway, 2016-2017 (2020), Microbial Genomics

The frequent co-authors associated with Dominique A. Caugant include:

  • Ola Brynildsrud
  • Vegard Eldholm
  • Muhamed-Kheir Taha
  • Kristian Alfsnes
  • Ray Borrow

Dominique A. Caugant's work has been published most often in the following venues:

  • Journal of Infection
  • Microbial Genomics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Vaccine
  • EBioMedicine

Best Publications

  • Multilocus sequence typing: A portable approach to the identification of clones within populations of pathogenic microorganisms

    Martin C. J. Maiden;Jane A. Bygraves;Edward Feil;Giovanna Morelli

  • Methods of multilocus enzyme electrophoresis for bacterial population genetics and systematics

    R. K. Selander;D. A. Caugant;H. Ochman;James M. Musser

  • Bacillus anthracis, Bacillus cereus, and Bacillus thuringiensis—One Species on the Basis of Genetic Evidence

    Erlendur Helgason;Ole Andreas Økstad;Dominique A. Caugant;Henning A. Johansen

  • NadA, a Novel Vaccine Candidate of Neisseria meningitidis

    Maurizio Comanducci;Stefania Bambini;Brunella Brunelli;Jeannette Adu-Bobie

  • Neisseria meningitidis: an overview of the carriage state.

    Siamak P. Yazdankhah;Dominique A. Caugant

  • Meningococcal carriage and disease--population biology and evolution.

    Dominique A. Caugant;Martin C.J. Maiden

  • Asymptomatic carriage of Neisseria meningitidis in a randomly sampled population

    D A Caugant;E A Høiby;P Magnus;O Scheel

  • Intercontinental spread of a genetically distinctive complex of clones of Neisseria meningitidis causing epidemic disease

    D A Caugant;L O Frøholm;K Bøvre;E Holten

  • GENETIC DIVERSITY AND TEMPORAL VARIATION IN THE E. COLI POPULATION OF A HUMAN HOST

    Dominique A. Caugant;Bruce R. Levin;Robert K. Selander

  • Predicted strain coverage of a meningococcal multicomponent vaccine (4CMenB) in Europe: a qualitative and quantitative assessment

    Ulrich Vogel;Muhamed-Kheir Taha;Julio A Vazquez;Jamie Findlow

  • Population genetics and molecular epidemiology of Neisseria meningitidis.

    Dominique A. Caugant

  • Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme for Bacteria of the Bacillus cereus Group

    Erlendur Helgason;Nicolas J. Tourasse;Roger Meisal;Dominique A. Caugant;Dominique A. Caugant

  • Taxonomic relationships of the [Pasteurella] haemolytica complex as evaluated by DNA-DNA hybridizations and 16S rRNA sequencing with proposal of Mannheimia haemolytica gen. nov., comb. nov., Mannheimia granulomatis comb. nov., Mannheimia glucosida sp. nov., Mannheimia ruminalis sp. nov. and Mannheimia varigena sp. nov.

    Øystein Angen;Reinier Mutters;Dominique A. Caugant;John E. Olsen

  • Spread of Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains of the Beijing Genotype in the Archangel Oblast, Russia

    Olga S. Toungoussova;Olga S. Toungoussova;Per Sandven;Andrey O. Mariandyshev;Nina I. Nizovtseva

  • Distribution of Serogroups and Genotypes among Disease-Associated and Carried Isolates of Neisseria meningitidis from the Czech Republic, Greece, and Norway

    Siamak P. Yazdankhah;Paula Kriz;Georgina Tzanakaki;Jenny Kremastinou

  • Genotypic Diversity among Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis Strains.

    Cathrine Rein Carlson;Dominique A. Caugant;Anne-Brit Kolstø

  • Genetic structure of Neisseria meningitidis populations in relation to serogroup, serotype, and outer membrane protein pattern.

    D A Caugant;L F Mocca;C E Frasch;L O Frøholm

  • Evolutionary pathway to increased virulence and epidemic group A Streptococcus disease derived from 3,615 genome sequences.

    Waleed Nasser;Stephen B. Beres;Randall J. Olsen;Melissa A. Dean

  • Effect of a serogroup A meningococcal conjugate vaccine (PsA–TT) on serogroup A meningococcal meningitis and carriage in Chad: a community study

    D M Daugla;J P Gami;K Gamougam;N Naibei

  • Enzyme polymorphism and genetic population structure in Escherichia coli and Shigella.

    Howard Ochman;Thomas S. Whittam;Dominique A. Caugant;Robert K. Selander

  • Contamination pattern of Listeria monocytogenes and other Listeria spp. in a salmon slaughterhouse and smoked salmon processing plant.

    Liv Marit Rørvik;Dominique A. Caugant;Magne Yndestad

Frequent Co-Authors

Muhamed-Kheir Taha
Muhamed-Kheir Taha Université Paris Cité
Ernst Arne Høiby
Ernst Arne Høiby Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Martin C. J. Maiden
Martin C. J. Maiden University of Oxford
Ingar Olsen
Ingar Olsen University of Oslo
Ray Borrow
Ray Borrow Manchester Royal Infirmary
Arie van der Ende
Arie van der Ende University of Amsterdam
Robert K. Selander
Robert K. Selander University of Rochester
Mark Achtman
Mark Achtman University of Warwick
Abraham Aseffa
Abraham Aseffa Armauer Hansen Research Institute
Arnfinn Sundsfjord
Arnfinn Sundsfjord University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

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