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D-Index
58
Citations
12200
World Ranking
3418
National Ranking
1347

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.

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55 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.

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.

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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.

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

  • Overview of Changes to the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing, M100, 31 st Edition.

    Romney Humphries;April M Bobenchik;Janet A Hindler;Audrey N Schuetz

  • 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

  • Clinical challenges treating Stenotrophomonas maltophilia infections: an update.

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  • 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
George Sakoulas
George Sakoulas University of California, San Diego
Grace M. Aldrovandi
Grace M. Aldrovandi University of California, Los Angeles
Robin Patel
Robin Patel Mayo Clinic
Yohei Doi
Yohei Doi University of Pittsburgh
Patricia J. Simner
Patricia J. Simner Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Robert Skov
Robert Skov Statens Serum Institut
Nicholas J. Schork
Nicholas J. Schork Translational Genomics Research Institute

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