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Stephen I. Pelton

Stephen I. Pelton

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
74
Citations
16311
World Ranking
1600
National Ranking
694

Medicine

D-Index
74
Citations
16752
World Ranking
19485
National Ranking
9700

Stephen I. Pelton 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 Stephen I. Pelton sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 294 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stephen I. Pelton 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 Stephen I. Pelton sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 74 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Stephen I. Pelton is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a focus on epidemiology, infectious diseases, microbiology, emergency medicine, and health. Their research encompasses a broad spectrum of topics related to respiratory infections and vaccines.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Medicine

With a detailed emphasis on subfields, their publications cover:

  • Epidemiology
  • Health
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Microbiology
  • Emergency Medicine

The primary topics addressed in their work are:

  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
  • Influenza Virus Research Studies
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment
  • Bacterial Infections and Vaccines
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Stephen I. Pelton include:

  • J Mould-Quevedo
  • Maarten J. Postma
  • Victoria Divino
  • Mitch DeKoven
  • Rotem Lapidot

The scientist publishes regularly in several academic venues with notable repetition in:

  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • Vaccine
  • Vaccines
  • Respiratory Medicine
  • Expert Review of Vaccines

Among selected recent papers, the following are notable:

  • "Twenty-Year Public Health Impact of 7- and 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines in US Children," 2021, Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • "A real-world study evaluating the relative vaccine effectiveness of a cell-based quadrivalent influenza vaccine compared to egg-based quadrivalent influenza vaccine in the US during the 2017-18 influenza season," 2020, Vaccine
  • "Upper respiratory tract colonization with Streptococcus pneumoniae in adults," 2020, Expert Review of Vaccines
  • "Characteristics of Serotype 3 Invasive Pneumococcal Disease before and after Universal Childhood Immunization with PCV13 in Massachusetts," 2020, Pathogens
  • "Evaluating the Relative Vaccine Effectiveness of Adjuvanted Trivalent Influenza Vaccine Compared to High-Dose Trivalent and Other Egg-Based Influenza Vaccines among Older Adults in the US during the 2017-2018 Influenza Season," 2020, Vaccines

Stephen I. Pelton has also contributed to book publications including:

  • Otitis Media, published by Frontiers Media in 2022

This profile reflects a comprehensive span of research activities in respiratory infections, vaccine effectiveness, and epidemiological studies, with a consistent output across multiple respected academic journals and collaboration with several frequent coauthors.

Best Publications

  • Evolution and transmission of stable CTL escape mutations in HIV infection

    Philip J. R. Goulder;Christian Brander;Yanhua Tang;Cecile Tremblay

  • Emergence of 19A as virulent and multidrug resistant pneumococcus in Massachusetts following universal immunization of infants with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

    Stephen I. Pelton;Heather Huot;Jonathan A. Finkelstein;C J. Bishop

  • Population genomics of post-vaccine changes in pneumococcal epidemiology

    Nicholas J Croucher;Jonathan A Finkelstein;Jonathan A Finkelstein;Stephen I Pelton;Patrick K Mitchell

  • Post-PCV7 Changes in Colonizing Pneumococcal Serotypes in 16 Massachusetts Communities, 2001 and 2004

    Susan S. Huang;Richard Platt;Sheryl L. Rifas-Shiman;Stephen I. Pelton

  • Otitis media and its consequences: beyond the earache

    Anne Vergison;Ron Dagan;Adriano Arguedas;Jan Bonhoeffer

  • Parents, physicians, and antibiotic use.

    Howard Bauchner;Stephen I. Pelton;Jerome O. Klein

  • Bacteremia in febrile children under 2 years of age: results of cultures of blood of 600 consecutive febrile children seen in a "walk-in" clinic.

    David W. Teele;Stephen I. Pelton;Myles J.A. Grant;Joel Herskowitz

  • Continued impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on carriage in young children.

    Susan S Huang;Virginia L Hinrichsen;Abbie E Stevenson;Sheryl L Rifas-Shiman

  • Rates of pneumococcal disease in adults with chronic medical conditions.

    Kimberly M. Shea;John Edelsberg;Derek Weycker;Raymond A. Farkouh

  • Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae as a pathogen in children.

    Timothy F. Murphy;Howard Faden;Lauren O. Bakaletz;Jennelle M. Kyd

  • Host-derived sialic acid is incorporated into Haemophilus influenzae lipopolysaccharide and is a major virulence factor in experimental otitis media.

    Valérie Bouchet;Derek W. Hood;Jianjun Li;Jean-Robert Brisson

  • A behavioral and cognitive profile of clinically stable HIV-infected children.

    Molly L. Nozyce;Sophia S. Lee;Andrew Wiznia;Sharon Nachman

  • The Global Evolution of Meningococcal Epidemiology Following the Introduction of Meningococcal Vaccines

    Stephen I. Pelton

  • Antibody to a conserved antigenic target is protective against diverse prokaryotic and eukaryotic pathogens

    Colette Cywes-Bentley;David Skurnik;Tanweer Zaidi;Damien Roux

  • Seven valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine immunization in two Boston communities: changes in serotypes and antimicrobial susceptibility among Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates

    Stephen I Pelton;Anita M Loughlin;Colin D Marchant

  • Recent advances in otitis media.

    Stephen I. Pelton;Eugene Leibovitz

  • Forty-eight-week evaluation of lopinavir/ritonavir, a new protease inhibitor, in human immunodeficiency virus-infected children.

    Xavier Saez-Llorens;Avyi Violari;Carl O. Deetz;Richard A. Rode

  • Functionally Inert HIV-Specific Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes Do Not Play a Major Role in Chronically Infected Adults and Children

    Philip J.R. Goulder;Philip J.R. Goulder;Yanhua Tang;Christian Brander;Michael R. Betts

  • Population-based surveillance for childhood invasive pneumococcal disease in the era of conjugate vaccine.

    Katherine Hsu;Stephen Pelton;Sudharani Karumuri;Dawn Heisey-Grove

  • Differential Effects of Pneumococcal Vaccines against Serotypes 6A and 6C

    In H. Park;Matthew R. Moore;John J. Treanor;Stephen I. Pelton

  • Otitis media and its consequences: beyond the earache

    Anne Vergison;Ron Dagan;Adriano Arguedas;Jan Bonhoeffer

  • Baseline Resistance to Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors Fails to Predict Virologic Response to Combination Therapy in Children (PACTG 338)

    Susan A Fiscus;Andrea Kovacs;Leslie A Petch;Chengcheng Hu

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Jonathan A. Finkelstein Boston Children's Hospital
Sharon Nachman
Sharon Nachman Stony Brook Medicine
Kenneth McIntosh
Kenneth McIntosh Boston Children's Hospital
Grace M. Lee
Grace M. Lee Stanford University
William P. Hanage
William P. Hanage Harvard University
Ram Yogev
Ram Yogev Northwestern University
Marc Lipsitch
Marc Lipsitch Harvard University
Philip J. R. Goulder
Philip J. R. Goulder University of Oxford
Andrew Wiznia
Andrew Wiznia Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Ron Dagan
Ron Dagan Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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