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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Microbiology 58 3420 3139 1348 1202 282 12200

Romney M. Humphries publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Romney M. Humphries between 2009 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Romney M. Humphries published across 18 years, from 2009 to 2026, averaging 18.7 papers a year. Output peaked at 42 publications in 2017. 27 of the 337 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2009 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 42. Peak 42 publications in 2017. 2009: 2 publications 2010: 6 publications 2011: 11 publications 2012: 7 publications 2013: 12 publications 2014: 15 publications 2015: 26 publications 2016: 34 publications 2017: 42 publications 2018: 20 publications 2019: 27 publications 2020: 20 publications 2021: 20 publications 2022: 14 publications 2023: 36 publications 2024: 18 publications 2025: 24 publications 2026: 3 publications
2009 2026

337 publications in total across all disciplines

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Romney M. Humphries: publications per year, 2009 to 2026
Year Publications
2009 2
2010 6
2011 11
2012 7
2013 12
2014 15
2015 26
2016 34
2017 42
2018 20
2019 27
2020 20
2021 20
2022 14
2023 36
2024 18
2025 24
2026 3
Total 337
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Romney M. Humphries 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 Romney M. Humphries 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, 275–284 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: 282 publications — 74th percentile

74% 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
275–284 148 282
285–294 115
295–304 96
305–314 88
315–324 106
325–334 65
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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Romney M. Humphries 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 Romney M. Humphries 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, 58 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: 58 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% 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 58
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
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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Overview

Romney M. Humphries is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily intersects the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Infectious Diseases, Clinical Biochemistry, Molecular Medicine, Epidemiology, and Pharmacology.

Their work frequently addresses topics related to Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing, Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria, Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy, Antibiotic Use and Resistance, Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, and Viral Gastroenteritis research and epidemiology.

Humphries has contributed to publications in several journals, with numerous articles appearing in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, ClinMicroNow, and Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

  • Multicenter Evaluation of the BioFire FilmArray Pneumonia/Pneumonia Plus Panel for Detection and Quantification of Agents of Lower Respiratory Tract Infection (2020), Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • Practical Comparison of the BioFire FilmArray Pneumonia Panel to Routine Diagnostic Methods and Potential Impact on Antimicrobial Stewardship in Adult Hospitalized Patients with Lower Respiratory Tract Infections (2020), Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute and European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Position Statements on Polymyxin B and Colistin Clinical Breakpoints (2020), Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Clinical challenges treating Stenotrophomonas maltophilia infections: an update (2022), JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Methods for Blood Cultures and Their Clinical Impact (2021), Frontiers in Medicine

They have collaborated extensively with several researchers in their field, including Patricia J. Simner, Jennifer Dien Bard, Mary K. Hayden, Pranita D. Tamma, and Lili Tao.

Best Publications

  • Clinical Metagenomic Sequencing for Diagnosis of Meningitis and Encephalitis

    Michael R Wilson;Hannah A Sample;Kelsey C Zorn;Shaun Arevalo

  • CLSI Methods Development and Standardization Working Group Best Practices for Evaluation of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Tests.

    Romney M. Humphries;Jane Ambler;Stephanie L. Mitchell;Mariana Castanheira

  • The emerging problem of linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus

    Bing Gu;Theodoros Kelesidis;Sotirios Tsiodras;Janet Hindler

  • Can Ceftazidime-Avibactam and Aztreonam Overcome β-Lactam Resistance Conferred by Metallo-β-Lactamases in Enterobacteriaceae?

    Steven Marshall;Andrea M. Hujer;Andrea M. Hujer;Laura J. Rojas;Laura J. Rojas;Krisztina M. Papp-Wallace

  • First Report of Ceftazidime-Avibactam Resistance in a KPC-3-Expressing Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolate

    Romney M. Humphries;Shangxin Yang;Peera Hemarajata;Kevin W. Ward

  • Colistin MIC Variability by Method for Contemporary Clinical Isolates of Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacilli

    Janet A. Hindler;Romney M. Humphries

  • Practical Guidance for Clinical Microbiology Laboratories: Diagnosis of Bacterial Gastroenteritis

    Romney M. Humphries;Andrea J. Linscott

  • A Current Perspective on Daptomycin for the Clinical Microbiologist

    Romney M. Humphries;Simon Pollett;George Sakoulas

  • Detection of Intestinal Protozoa in the Clinical Laboratory

    Ian Howard Mchardy;Max Wu;Robyn Shimizu-Cohen;Marc Roger Couturier;Marc Roger Couturier

  • Rapid pathogen-specific phenotypic antibiotic susceptibility testing using digital LAMP quantification in clinical samples

    Nathan G. Schoepp;Travis S. Schlappi;Matthew S. Curtis;Slava S. Butkovich

  • Multicenter Evaluation of the BioFire FilmArray Pneumonia/Pneumonia Plus Panel for Detection and Quantification of Agents of Lower Respiratory Tract Infection.

    Caitlin N Murphy;Randal Fowler;Joan Miquel Balada-Llasat;Amanda Carroll

  • Practical Comparison of the BioFire FilmArray Pneumonia Panel to Routine Diagnostic Methods and Potential Impact on Antimicrobial Stewardship in Adult Hospitalized Patients with Lower Respiratory Tract Infections.

    Blake W. Buchan;Sam Windham;Joan Miquel Balada-Llasat;Amy Leber

  • Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute and European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Position Statements on Polymyxin B and Colistin Clinical Breakpoints

    Michael J Satlin;James S Lewis;Melvin P Weinstein;Jean Patel

  • New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae, United States.

    J. Kamile Rasheed;Brandon Kitchel;Wenming Zhu;Karen F. Anderson

  • Resistance to Ceftazidime-Avibactam Is Due to Transposition of KPC in a Porin-Deficient Strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae with Increased Efflux Activity.

    Kirk Nelson;Peera Hemarajata;Dongxu Sun;Debora Rubio-Aparicio

  • Daptomycin nonsusceptible enterococci: an emerging challenge for clinicians.

    Theodoros Kelesidis;Romney Humphries;Daniel Z. Uslan;David A. Pegues

  • Multicenter Evaluation of the Accelerate PhenoTest™ BC Kit for Rapid Identification and Phenotypic Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Using Morphokinetic Cellular Analysis

    Preeti Pancholi;Karen C. Carroll;Blake W. Buchan;Raymond C. Chan

  • Multisite Evaluation of Cepheid Xpert Carba-R Assay for Detection of Carbapenemase-Producing Organisms in Rectal Swabs.

    M Tato;P Ruiz-Garbajosa;M Traczewski;A Dodgson

  • Performance of Clostridium difficile Toxin Enzyme Immunoassay and Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests Stratified by Patient Disease Severity

    Romney M. Humphries;Daniel Z. Uslan;Zachary Rubin

  • Clinical Outcomes of Patients Receiving Fluoroquinolones to Treat Bacteremia Caused by Enterobacteriaceae Isolates Considered Intermediate or Resistant to These Agents According to the Recently Revised Susceptibility Testing Standards by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI).

    Luis Tulloch;Elise Martin;Daniel Z Uslan;Romney Humphries

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey D. Klausner
Jeffrey D. Klausner University of Southern California
Loren G. Miller
Loren G. Miller UCLA Medical Center
Sandra S. Richter
Sandra S. Richter Cleveland Clinic
Karol E. Watson
Karol E. Watson University of California, Los Angeles
Grace M. Aldrovandi
Grace M. Aldrovandi University of California, Los Angeles
George Sakoulas
George Sakoulas University of California, San Diego
Robin Patel
Robin Patel Mayo Clinic
Yohei Doi
Yohei Doi University of Pittsburgh
Robert Skov
Robert Skov Statens Serum Institut
Nicholas J. Schork
Nicholas J. Schork Translational Genomics Research Institute

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