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D-Index
48
Citations
7531
World Ranking
4704
National Ranking
1816

Nancy L. Davis 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 Nancy L. Davis sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 89 publications — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nancy L. Davis 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 Nancy L. Davis 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

Nancy L. Davis is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Infectious Diseases, Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, as well as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The topics covered in their work include:

  • Public Health Policies and Education
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Cultural Competency in Health Care
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Pharmaceutical Studies and Practices
  • HIV/AIDS Drug Development and Treatment
  • Mosquito-borne Diseases and Control

Davis has published articles in several academic venues, including:

  • College & Research Libraries News
  • Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA
  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Virus Research

Their recent papers demonstrate a breadth of research interests. These include:

  • "The Library is NOT for Everyone (Yet): Disability, Accommodations, and Working in Libraries," 2024, College & Research Libraries News
  • "Publishing under suspicion: Harmful hurdles in scholarly publishing," 2023, College & Research Libraries News
  • "Medical libraries and their complicated past: an exploration of the historical connections between medical collections and racial science," 2023, Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA
  • "P-948. Three Drugs, Two Pills, One Algorithm: HIV PrEP, PEP, and Treatment Initiation Consolidated Guidelines for Resource Limited and Non-Specialty Settings," 2025, Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • "Novel Quantitative and Specific Rt-Qpcr Assay for UK Subtypes of European Strain of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus," 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Raymond Pun
  • Patrice R. Green
  • Mollie Curran-French
  • Jake D'Addiego
  • Stuart Dent

Best Publications

  • Replicon-Helper Systems from Attenuated Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus: Expression of Heterologous Genes in Vitro and Immunization against Heterologous Pathogens in Vivo

    Peter Pushko;Michael Parker;George V. Ludwig;Nancy L. Davis

  • Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus group-specific open reading frames encode nonessential functions for replication in cell cultures and mice

    Boyd Yount;Rhonda S. Roberts;Amy C. Sims;Damon Deming

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

    Damon Deming;Timothy Sheahan;Mark Heise;Boyd Yount

  • Nutritional Requirements of Plasmodium falciparum in Culture. I. Exogenously Supplied Dialyzable Components Necessary for Continuous Growth

    Alan A. Divo;Timothy G. Geary;Nella L. Davis;James B. Jensen

  • Vaccination of Macaques against Pathogenic Simian Immunodeficiency Virus with Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Replicon Particles

    Nancy L. Davis;Ian J. Caley;Kevin W. Brown;Michael R. Betts

  • Attenuating mutations in the E2 glycoprotein gene of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus: Construction of single and multiple mutants in a full-length cDNA clone

    Nancy L. Davis;Nathaniel Powell;Gary F. Greenwald;Loretta V. Willis

  • Specific Restrictions in the Progression of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus-Induced Disease Resulting from Single Amino Acid Changes in the Glycoproteins

    Franziska B. Grieder;Nancy L. Davis;Judith F. Aronson;Peter C. Charles

  • Role of Alpha/Beta Interferon in Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Pathogenesis: Effect of an Attenuating Mutation in the 5′ Untranslated Region

    Laura J. White;Jia-Gang Wang;Nancy L. Davis;Robert E. Johnston

  • N protein alone satisfies the requirement for protein synthesis during RNA replication of vesicular stomatitis virus.

    J T Patton;N L Davis;G W Wertz

  • Humoral, mucosal, and cellular immunity in response to a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 immunogen expressed by a Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus vaccine vector.

    Ian J. Caley;Michael R. Betts;David M. Irlbeck;Nancy L. Davis

  • Attenuated Mutants of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Containing Lethal Mutations in the PE2 Cleavage Signal Combined with a Second-Site Suppressor Mutation in E1

    Nancy L. Davis;Kevin W. Brown;Gary F. Greenwald;Allan J. Zajac

  • A viral vaccine vector that expresses foreign genes in lymph nodes and protects against mucosal challenge.

    N L Davis;K W Brown;R E Johnston

  • Role of the nucleocapsid protein in regulating vesicular stomatitis virus RNA synthesis

    Heinz Arnheiter;Nancy L. Davis;Gail Wertz;Manfred Schubert

  • Influenza virus (A/HK/156/97) hemagglutinin expressed by an alphavirus replicon system protects chickens against lethal infection with Hong Kong-origin H5N1 viruses.

    Stacey Schultz-Cherry;Jody K. Dybing;Nancy L. Davis;Chad Williamson

  • Alphavirus replicon particles expressing the two major envelope proteins of equine arteritis virus induce high level protection against challenge with virulent virus in vaccinated horses

    Udeni B.R. Balasuriya;Hans W. Heidner;Nancy L. Davis;Heike M. Wagner

  • Mucosal and systemic adjuvant activity of alphavirus replicon particles

    Joseph M. Thompson;Alan C. Whitmore;Jennifer L. Konopka;Martha L. Collier

  • Properties of a ribonucleoprotein particle isolated from Nonidet P-40-treated Rous sarcoma virus.

    Nancy L. Davis;Roland R. Rueckert

  • Systemic, Mucosal, and Heterotypic Immune Induction in Mice Inoculated with Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Replicons Expressing Norwalk Virus-Like Particles

    Patrick R. Harrington;Boyd Yount;Robert E. Johnston;Nancy Davis

  • A single nucleotide change in the E2 glycoprotein gene of Sindbis virus affects penetration rate in cell culture and virulence in neonatal mice.

    Nancy L. Davis;Frederick J. Fuller;William G. Dougherty;Robert A. Olmsted

  • Method of inducing an immune response with a live venezuelan equine encephalitis virus expressing a heterologous immunogen

    Robert E. Johnston;Nancy L. Davis;Jonathan F. Smith;Franziska B. Grieder

  • Expression and Self-Assembly of Norwalk Virus Capsid Protein from Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Replicons

    Ralph S. Baric;Boyd Yount;Lisa Lindesmith;Patrick R. Harrington

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert E. Johnston
Robert E. Johnston University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jonathan F. Smith
Jonathan F. Smith Research Triangle Park Foundation
Jeffrey A. Frelinger
Jeffrey A. Frelinger University of Arizona
Ralph S. Baric
Ralph S. Baric University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ronald Swanstrom
Ronald Swanstrom University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Boyd Yount
Boyd Yount University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David C. Montefiori
David C. Montefiori Duke University
John T. Patton
John T. Patton Indiana University
Eric F. Donaldson
Eric F. Donaldson Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Mark T. Heise
Mark T. Heise University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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