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D-Index
54
Citations
11168
World Ranking
3944
National Ranking
352

Pauline Waight 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 Pauline Waight sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 110 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Pauline Waight 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 Pauline Waight sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Pauline Waight is affiliated with Public Health England in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on infectious diseases within the broader field of medicine.

The main fields of study include:

  • Medicine

Their subfields of study are:

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Epidemiology
  • Health
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

Key topics covered in Pauline Waight's work encompass:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Waight include:

  • Generation time of the alpha and delta SARS-CoV-2 variants: an epidemiological analysis (2022), The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Generation time of the Alpha and Delta SARS-CoV-2 variants (2021), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Effectiveness of BNT162b2 and ChAdOx1 against SARS-CoV-2 household transmission: a prospective cohort study in England (2023), Wellcome Open Research
  • Effectiveness of BNT162b2 and ChAdOx1 against SARS-CoV-2 household transmission: a prospective cohort study in England (2021), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Pneumococcal carriage following PCV13 delivered as one primary and one booster dose (1 + 01) compared to two primary doses and a booster (2 + 01) in UK infants (2023), Vaccine

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Waight include:

  • Elizabeth Miller
  • Nick Andrews
  • Samuel Clifford
  • Jada Hackman
  • Stéphane Hué

Pauline Waight's work has been published consistently in several key venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Wellcome Open Research
  • Vaccine
  • The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Best Publications

  • Autism and measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine: no epidemiological evidence for a causal association

    Brent Taylor;Elizabeth Miller;CPaddy Farrington;Maria-Christina Petropoulos

  • Herd immunity and serotype replacement 4 years after seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination in England and Wales: an observational cohort study

    Elizabeth Miller;Nicholas J Andrews;Pauline A Waight;Mary P E Slack

  • Effect of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on invasive pneumococcal disease in England and Wales 4 years after its introduction: an observational cohort study

    Pauline A Waight;Nicholas J Andrews;Shamez N Ladhani;Carmen L Sheppard

  • Serotype-specific effectiveness and correlates of protection for the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: a postlicensure indirect cohort study

    Nick J Andrews;Pauline A Waight;Polly Burbidge;Emma Pearce

  • Generation time of the alpha and delta SARS-CoV-2 variants: an epidemiological analysis

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  • Effect of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccination on Serotype-Specific Carriage and Invasive Disease in England: A Cross-Sectional Study

    Stefan Flasche;Albert Jan Van Hoek;Elizabeth Sheasby;Pauline Waight

  • The effect of underlying clinical conditions on the risk of developing invasive pneumococcal disease in England.

    Albert Jan van Hoek;Nick Andrews;Pauline A. Waight;Julia Stowe

  • Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and MMR vaccine

    E Miller;P Waight;C P Farrington;N Andrews

  • Impact and effectiveness of 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine against invasive pneumococcal disease in the elderly in England and Wales

    Nick J. Andrews;Pauline A. Waight;Robert C. George;Mary P.E. Slack

  • Effectiveness of the new serotypes in the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

    Elizabeth Miller;Nicholas J. Andrews;Pauline A. Waight;Mary P.E. Slack

  • Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 and mortality in the United Kingdom: risk factors for death, April 2009 to March 2010.

    Richard Pebody;E. McLean;Hongxin Zhao;Paul Cleary

  • Safety and immunogenicity of AS03B adjuvanted split virion versus non-adjuvanted whole virion H1N1 influenza vaccine in UK children aged 6 months-12 years: open label, randomised, parallel group, multicentre study

    Claire S Waddington;W T Walker;C Oeser;A Reiner

  • Antibody Responses After Primary Immunization in Infants Born to Women Receiving a Pertussis-containing Vaccine During Pregnancy: Single Arm Observational Study With a Historical Comparator

    Shamez N. Ladhani;Nick J. Andrews;Jo Southern;Christine E. Jones

  • Pneumococcal carriage in children and adults two years after introduction of the thirteen valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in England.

    Albert Jan van Hoek;Carmen L. Sheppard;Nick J. Andrews;Pauline A. Waight

  • Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in England and Wales: Vaccination Implications

    Karen Sleeman;Kyle Knox;Kyle Knox;Robert George;Elizabeth Miller

  • Long-term protection against carriage of hepatitis B virus after infant vaccination.

    M. A. B. van der Sande;P. Waight;M. Mendy;P. Rayco-Solon;P. Rayco-Solon

  • Kinetics of Antibody Persistence following Administration of a Combination Meningococcal Serogroup C and Haemophilus influenzae Type b Conjugate Vaccine in Healthy Infants in the United Kingdom Primed with a Monovalent Meningococcal Serogroup C Vaccine

    Ray Borrow;Nick Andrews;Helen Findlow;Pauline Waight

  • Effect of serotype on focus and mortality of invasive pneumococcal disease: coverage of different vaccines and insight into non-vaccine serotypes.

    Albert Jan van Hoek;Nick Andrews;Pauline A. Waight;Robert George

  • Cytomegalovirus Infection in Gambian Infants Leads to Profound CD8 T-Cell Differentiation

    David J. C. Miles;Marianne van der Sande;David Jeffries;Steve Kaye

  • A Randomized, Observer-Blinded Immunogenicity Trial of Cervarix® and Gardasil® Human Papillomavirus Vaccines in 12-15 Year Old Girls

    Eve Draper;Sara L. Bissett;Rebecca Howell-Jones;Pauline Waight

  • Invasive pneumococcal disease after routine pneumococcal conjugate vaccination in children, England and Wales.

    Shamez N. Ladhani;Mary P.E. Slack;Nick J. Andrews;Pauline A. Waight

  • Assessment of baseline age-specific antibody prevalence and incidence of infection to novel influenza A/H1N1 2009.

    Pia Hardelid;Nick Andrews;Katja Hoschler;E. Stanford

  • Autism and measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine: No epidemiological evidence for a causal association

    B Taylor;E Miller;CP Farrington;M-C Petropoulos

Frequent Co-Authors

Nick Andrews
Nick Andrews Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Elizabeth Miller
Elizabeth Miller London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Shamez N. Ladhani
Shamez N. Ladhani UK Health Security Agency
Mary P. E. Slack
Mary P. E. Slack Griffith University
Ray Borrow
Ray Borrow Manchester Royal Infirmary
Elizabeth Miller
Elizabeth Miller Stanford University
Richard Pebody
Richard Pebody Public Health England
Hilton Whittle
Hilton Whittle London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
David Goldblatt
David Goldblatt University College London
Alan P. Johnson
Alan P. Johnson Public Health England

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