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D-Index
48
Citations
11165
World Ranking
4640
National Ranking
1792

Eric F. Donaldson 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 Eric F. Donaldson sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 85 publications — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Eric F. Donaldson 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 Eric F. Donaldson sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Eric F. Donaldson is affiliated with the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research in the United States. Their work focuses primarily within the field of Medicine, with a significant emphasis on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Animal Science and Zoology, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research covers a broad range of topics including:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Animal Virus Infections Studies
  • Hepatitis B Virus Studies
  • Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Hepatitis C virus research

Among the recent papers associated with Eric F. Donaldson are:

  • "Toward best practice in cancer mutation detection with whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing," 2021, Nature Biotechnology
  • "Establishing community reference samples, data and call sets for benchmarking cancer mutation detection using whole-genome sequencing," 2021, Nature Biotechnology
  • "Association Between Seroclearance of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen and Long-term Clinical Outcomes of Patients With Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis," 2020, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • "A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence," 2020, UNC Libraries
  • "Benefit-risk assessment for brincidofovir for the treatment of smallpox: U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Evaluation," 2021, Antiviral Research

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Eric F. Donaldson include:

  • Ralph S. Baric
  • Boyd L. Yount
  • Rachel L. Graham
  • Timothy P. Sheahan
  • Sudhakar Agnihothram

Eric F. Donaldson's publications have appeared in several venues, most notably:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature Biotechnology
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence

    Vineet D. Menachery;Boyd L. Yount;Kari Debbink;Sudhakar Agnihothram

  • A decade after SARS: strategies for controlling emerging coronaviruses

    Rachel L. Graham;Eric F. Donaldson;Ralph S. Baric

  • Mechanisms of GII.4 Norovirus Persistence in Human Populations

    Lisa C. Lindesmith;Eric F. Donaldson;Anna D. LoBue;Jennifer L. Cannon;Jennifer L. Cannon

  • Coronaviruses: an RNA proofreading machine regulates replication fidelity and diversity.

    Mark R. Denison;Rachel L. Graham;Eric F. Donaldson;Lance D. Eckerle

  • Viral shape-shifting: Norovirus evasion of the human immune system

    Eric F. Donaldson;Lisa C. Lindesmith;Anna D. LoBue;Ralph S. Baric

  • Norovirus pathogenesis: mechanisms of persistence and immune evasion in human populations.

    Eric F. Donaldson;Lisa C. Lindesmith;Anna D. Lobue;Ralph S. Baric

  • Evidence Supporting a Zoonotic Origin of Human Coronavirus Strain NL63

    Jeremy Huynh;Shimena Li;Boyd Yount;Alexander Smith

  • Reverse genetics with a full-length infectious cDNA of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus

    Trevor Scobey;Boyd L. Yount;Amy C. Sims;Eric F. Donaldson

  • Synthetic recombinant bat SARS-like coronavirus is infectious in cultured cells and in mice.

    Michelle M. Becker;Rachel Lauren Graham;Eric F. Donaldson;Barry Rockx

  • Vaccine Efficacy in Senescent Mice Challenged with Recombinant SARS-CoV Bearing Epidemic and Zoonotic Spike Variants

    Damon Deming;Timothy Sheahan;Mark Heise;Boyd Yount

  • Immunogenetic Mechanisms Driving Norovirus GII.4 Antigenic Variation

    Lisa C. Lindesmith;Martina Beltramello;Eric F. Donaldson;Davide Corti

  • Metagenomic Analysis of the Viromes of Three North American Bat Species: Viral Diversity among Different Bat Species That Share a Common Habitat

    Donaldson Ef;Haskew An;Gates Je;Huynh J

  • Clinical evidence and bioinformatics characterization of potential hepatitis C virus resistance pathways for sofosbuvir

    Eric F. Donaldson;Patrick R. Harrington;Julian J. O'Rear;Lisa K. Naeger

  • SARS-CoV and emergent coronaviruses: viral determinants of interspecies transmission

    Meagan Bolles;Eric Donaldson;Ralph Baric

  • Norovirus GII.4 Strain Antigenic Variation

    Lisa C. Lindesmith;Eric F. Donaldson;Ralph S. Baric

  • Emergence of a Norovirus GII.4 Strain Correlates with Changes in Evolving Blockade Epitopes

    Lisa C. Lindesmith;Verónica Costantini;Jesica Swanstrom;Kari Debbink

  • Emergence of New Pandemic GII.4 Sydney Norovirus Strain Correlates With Escape From Herd Immunity

    Kari Debbink;Lisa C. Lindesmith;Eric F. Donaldson;Veronica Costantini

  • Genetic Mapping of a Highly Variable Norovirus GII.4 Blockade Epitope: Potential Role in Escape from Human Herd Immunity

    Kari Debbink;Eric F. Donaldson;Lisa C. Lindesmith;Ralph S. Baric

  • Molecular Determinants of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Pathogenesis and Virulence in Young and Aged Mouse Models of Human Disease

    Matthew Frieman;Boyd Yount;Sudhakar Agnihothram;Carly Page

  • Culturing the unculturable: human coronavirus HKU1 infects, replicates, and produces progeny virions in human ciliated airway epithelial cell cultures.

    Krzysztof Pyrc;Amy C. Sims;Ronald Dijkman;Maarten Jebbink

  • Guidance for design and endpoints of clinical trials in chronic hepatitis B - Report from the 2019 EASL-AASLD HBV Treatment Endpoints Conference.

    Markus Cornberg;Anna Suk-Fong Lok;Norah A Terrault;Fabien Zoulim

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralph S. Baric
Ralph S. Baric University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Boyd Yount
Boyd Yount University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Amy C. Sims
Amy C. Sims University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Timothy P. Sheahan
Timothy P. Sheahan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Raymond J. Pickles
Raymond J. Pickles University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Antonio Lanzavecchia
Antonio Lanzavecchia Istituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare
Vineet D. Menachery
Vineet D. Menachery The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Davide Corti
Davide Corti Vir Biotechnology (Switzerland)
Mark R. Denison
Mark R. Denison Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Jan Vinjé
Jan Vinjé Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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