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D-Index
53
Citations
12291
World Ranking
4058
National Ranking
1572

Kendra P. Rumbaugh 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 Kendra P. Rumbaugh sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 141 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kendra P. Rumbaugh 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 Kendra P. Rumbaugh sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Kendra P. Rumbaugh is affiliated with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions also in Medicine. Their work engages deeply with molecular biology, rehabilitation, periodontics, microbiology, and ecology as subfields, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to biomedical research.

Their main research themes include bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, wound healing and treatments, oral microbiology and periodontitis research, antimicrobial peptides and activities, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Vibrio bacteria research studies, and essential oils and antimicrobial activity.

Frequent coauthors of Rumbaugh include Derek Fleming, Whitni K. Redman, Rebecca Gabrilska, Garrett S. Welch, and Vernita Gordon. Collaboration with these researchers has been recurrent, reflecting ongoing scientific partnerships.

Rumbaugh has published extensively in several scientific journals, with notable frequent publication venues being Biofilm, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Reviews Microbiology, and npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. These journals reflect their focus on microbiological and biofilm-related research.

Recent publication highlights include:

  • Biofilm dispersion, 2020, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • Nanoemulsion delivery systems for enhanced efficacy of antimicrobials and essential oils, 2021, Biomaterials Science
  • A Pseudomonas aeruginosa small RNA regulates chronic and acute infection, 2023, Nature
  • Adhesive, Self-Healing, and Antibacterial Chitosan Hydrogels with Tunable Two-Layer Structures, 2020, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • NemaLife chip: a micropillar-based microfluidic culture device optimized for aging studies in crawling C. elegans, 2020, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Biofilm dispersion

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  • Contribution of quorum sensing to the virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in burn wound infections

    Kendra P. Rumbaugh;John A. Griswold;Barbara H. Iglewski;Abdul N. Hamood

  • Biofilm maturity studies indicate sharp debridement opens a time- dependent therapeutic window.

    Randall D. Wolcott;Kendra P. Rumbaugh;Garth A. James;Gregory Schultz

  • Polyphosphate kinase is essential for biofilm development, quorum sensing, and virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    M. Harunur Rashid;Kendra Rumbaugh;Luciano Passador;David G. Davies

  • Synergistic Interactions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus in an In Vitro Wound Model

    Stephanie DeLeon;Allie Clinton;Haley Fowler;Jake Everett

  • An In Vivo Polymicrobial Biofilm Wound Infection Model to Study Interspecies Interactions

    Trevor Dalton;Scot E. Dowd;Randall D. Wolcott;Yan Sun

  • Requirements for Pseudomonas aeruginosa acute burn and chronic surgical wound infection.

    Keith H. Turner;Jake Everett;Urvish Trivedi;Kendra P. Rumbaugh

  • Community surveillance enhances Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence during polymicrobial infection

    Aishwarya Korgaonkar;Urvish Trivedi;Kendra P. Rumbaugh;Marvin Whiteley

  • Quorum Sensing and the Social Evolution of Bacterial Virulence

    Kendra P. Rumbaugh;Stephen P. Diggle;Chase M. Watters;Adin Ross-Gillespie

  • Approaches to Dispersing Medical Biofilms.

    Derek Fleming;Kendra P. Rumbaugh

  • The role of quorum sensing in the in vivo virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

    Kendra P Rumbaugh;John A Griswold;Abdul N Hamood

  • Staphylococcus aureus Shifts toward Commensalism in Response to Corynebacterium Species

    Matthew M. Ramsey;Matthew M. Ramsey;Marcelo O. Freire;Marcelo O. Freire;Rebecca A. Gabrilska;Kendra P. Rumbaugh

  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa transcriptome during human infection.

    Daniel M Cornforth;Justine L Dees;Carolyn B Ibberson;Carolyn B Ibberson;Holly K Huse

  • Interkingdom signaling: Deciphering the language of acyl homoserine lactones

    Erin K. Shiner;Kendra P. Rumbaugh;Simon C. Williams

  • Structural basis for native agonist and synthetic inhibitor recognition by the Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing regulator PqsR (MvfR).

    Aravindan Ilangovan;Matthew Fletcher;Giordano Rampioni;Christian Pustelny

  • Metabolite Cross-Feeding Enhances Virulence in a Model Polymicrobial Infection

    Matthew M. Ramsey;Kendra P. Rumbaugh;Marvin Whiteley

  • Perception and degradation of N-Acyl homoserine lactone quorum sensing signals by mammalian and plant cells

    Max Teplitski;Ulrike Mathesius;Kendra P Rumbaugh

  • Bacterial fight-and-flight responses enhance virulence in a polymicrobial infection.

    Apollo Stacy;Jake Everett;Peter Jorth;Urvish Trivedi

  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa Forms Biofilms in Acute Infection Independent of Cell-to-Cell Signaling

    J. Andy Schaber;W. Jeffrey Triffo;W. Jeffrey Triffo;Sang Jin Suh;Jeffrey W. Oliver

  • Glycoside Hydrolases Degrade Polymicrobial Bacterial Biofilms in Wounds.

    Derek Fleming;Laura Chahin;Kendra Rumbaugh

  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa autoinducer modulates host cell responses through calcium signalling

    E. K. Shiner;D. Terentyev;A. Bryan;S. Sennoune

  • Synergistic Interactions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus in an In

    Stephanie DeLeon;Allie Clinton;Haley Fowler;Jake Everett

Frequent Co-Authors

Marvin Whiteley
Marvin Whiteley Georgia Institute of Technology
Thomas Bjarnsholt
Thomas Bjarnsholt University of Copenhagen
Guigen Li
Guigen Li Texas Tech University
Stephen P. Diggle
Stephen P. Diggle Georgia Institute of Technology
Todd D. Little
Todd D. Little Texas Tech University
Søren J. Sørensen
Søren J. Sørensen University of Copenhagen
Iqbal Ahmad
Iqbal Ahmad Aligarh Muslim University
Mette Burmølle
Mette Burmølle University of Copenhagen
Alexander R. Horswill
Alexander R. Horswill University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Barbara H. Iglewski
Barbara H. Iglewski University of Rochester

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