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Microbiology

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76
Citations
28942
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1388
National Ranking
607

Medicine

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Susan F. Leitman 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 Susan F. Leitman sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 219 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Susan F. Leitman 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 Susan F. Leitman sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Susan F. Leitman is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Business, Management and Accounting, with a focused interest in the subfields of Management of Technology and Innovation, Biochemistry, Hematology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Oncology.

Leitman's work extensively covers topics related to blood donation and transfusion practices, blood transfusion and management, erythropoietin and anemia treatment, organ donation and transplantation, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, neutropenia and cancer infections, and transplantation methods and outcomes.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Personalized collection of plasma from healthy donors: A randomized controlled trial of a novel technology-enabled nomogram, 2021, published in Transfusion
  • Source plasma collection in the United States: Toward a more personalized approach, 2020, published in American Journal of Hematology
  • Repeat donation and deferral rates in US source plasma donors: Exploratory analysis from the IMPACT trial, 2021, published in Transfusion
  • Granulocyte transfusions in severe aplastic anemia, 2023, published in Haematologica

Leitman frequently collaborates with other researchers. Regular co-authors include Jan Hartmann, Michael J. Ragusa, Mark A. Popovsky, Elmar R. Burchardt, and Zorayr Manukyan.

Their publications appear in several respected scientific journals, notably Transfusion, American Journal of Hematology, and Haematologica.

Best Publications

  • A progress report on the treatment of 157 patients with advanced cancer using lymphokine-activated killer cells and interleukin-2 or high-dose interleukin-2 alone.

    Steven A. Rosenberg;Michael T. Lotze;Linda M. Muul;Alfred E. Chang

  • Observations on the Systemic Administration of Autologous Lymphokine-Activated Killer Cells and Recombinant Interleukin-2 to Patients with Metastatic Cancer

    Steven A. Rosenberg;Michael T. Lotze;Linda M. Muul;Susan Leitman

  • Adoptive Cell Therapy for Patients With Metastatic Melanoma: Evaluation of Intensive Myeloablative Chemoradiation Preparative Regimens

    Mark E. Dudley;James C. Yang;Richard Sherry;Marybeth S. Hughes

  • Regression of metastatic renal-cell carcinoma after nonmyeloablative allogeneic peripheral-blood stem-cell transplantation.

    Childs R;Chernoff A;Contentin N;Bahceci E

  • High levels of GDF15 in thalassemia suppress expression of the iron regulatory protein hepcidin.

    Toshihiko Tanno;Natarajan V Bhanu;Patricia A Oneal;Sung-Ho Goh

  • Peripheral-Blood Stem Cells versus Bone Marrow from Unrelated Donors

    Claudio Anasetti;Brent R. Logan;Stephanie J. Lee;Edmund K. Waller

  • Prospective Randomized Trial of High-Dose Interleukin-2 Alone or in Conjunction With Lymphokine-Activated Killer Cells for the Treatment of Patients With Advanced Cancer

    Steven A. Rosenberg;Michael T. Lotze;James C. Yang;Suzanne L. Topalian

  • Therapeutic plasma exchange and intravenous immunoglobulin for obsessive-compulsive disorder and tic disorders in childhood.

    Susan J Perlmutter;Susan F Leitman;Marjorie A Garvey;Susan Hamburger

  • Engraftment kinetics after nonmyeloablative allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation: full donor T-cell chimerism precedes alloimmune responses.

    R. Childs;E. Clave;N. Contentin;D. Jayasekera

  • CCR5 promoter polymorphism and HIV-1 disease progression

    David H McDermott;Peter A Zimmerman;Peter A Zimmerman;Florence Guignard;Cynthia A Kleeberger

  • Retrovirally marked CD34-enriched peripheral blood and bone marrow cells contribute to long-term engraftment after autologous transplantation.

    CE Dunbar;M Cottler-Fox;JA O'Shaughnessy;S Doren

  • Adoptive transfer of cloned melanoma-reactive T lymphocytes for the treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma

    Mark E. Dudley;John Wunderlich;Michael I. Nishimura;David Yu

  • A phase I study of nonmyeloablative chemotherapy and adoptive transfer of autologous tumor antigen-specific T lymphocytes in patients with metastatic melanoma.

    Mark E. Dudley;John R. Wunderlich;James C. Yang;Patrick Hwu

  • Prolonged production of NADPH oxidase-corrected granulocytes after gene therapy of chronic granulomatous disease

    Harry L. Malech;Phillip B. Maples;Narda Whiting-Theobald;Gilda F. Linton

  • Inhibition of fibrinogen binding to stimulated human platelets by a monoclonal antibody.

    Joel S. Bennett;James A. Hoxie;Susan F. Leitman;Gaston Vilaire

  • Controlled trial of plasma exchange and leukapheresis in polymyositis and dermatomyositis.

    Frederick W. Miller;Susan F. Leitman;Mary E. Cronin;Jeanne E. Hicks

  • Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor Mobilizes Functional Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease

    Tiffany M. Powell;Jonathan D. Paul;Jonathan M. Hill;Michael Thompson

  • Adverse events among 2408 unrelated donors of peripheral blood stem cells: results of a prospective trial from the National Marrow Donor Program

    Michael A. Pulsipher;Pintip Chitphakdithai;John P. Miller;Brent R. Logan

  • Long-term in vivo survival of receptor-modified syngeneic T cells in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection.

    Robert E. Walker;Christine M. Bechtel;Ven Natarajan;Michael Baseler

  • Variant Genotypes of the Low-Affinity Fcγ Receptors in Two Control Populations and a Review of Low-Affinity Fcγ Receptor Polymorphisms in Control and Disease Populations

    Thomas Lehrnbecher;Charles B. Foster;Shaoxian Zhu;Susan F. Leitman

Frequent Co-Authors

David F. Stroncek
David F. Stroncek National Institutes of Health
Richard Childs
Richard Childs National Institutes of Health
A. John Barrett
A. John Barrett National Institutes of Health
Cynthia E. Dunbar
Cynthia E. Dunbar National Institutes of Health
Brent R. Logan
Brent R. Logan Medical College of Wisconsin
Harry L. Malech
Harry L. Malech National Institutes of Health
Michael A. Pulsipher
Michael A. Pulsipher University of Utah
Neal S. Young
Neal S. Young National Institutes of Health
Ronald E. Gress
Ronald E. Gress National Institutes of Health
Douglas R. Rosing
Douglas R. Rosing National Institutes of Health

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