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William J. Steinbach

William J. Steinbach

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
71
Citations
28056
World Ranking
1806
National Ranking
771

William J. Steinbach 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 William J. Steinbach sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 220 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.

William J. Steinbach 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 William J. Steinbach sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2017 - Oswald Avery Award, Infectious Diseases Society of America
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

William J. Steinbach is affiliated with Duke University in the United States, focusing primarily on medicine with extensive work in infectious diseases, epidemiology, oncology, molecular biology, and pharmacology. Their research covers a broad range of topics that include antifungal resistance and susceptibility, fungal infections and studies, peptidase inhibition and analysis, signaling pathways in disease, antibiotics pharmacokinetics and efficacy, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, and vaccine coverage and hesitancy.

Their recent publications include:

  • Clinical Practice Guideline for Systemic Antifungal Prophylaxis in Pediatric Patients With Cancer and Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation Recipients (2020, Journal of Clinical Oncology)
  • Antibiotic Stewardship in Pediatrics (2020, PEDIATRICS)
  • Tuning sterol extraction kinetics yields a renal-sparing polyene antifungal (2023, Nature)
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infections Among Children in the Biospecimens from Respiratory Virus-Exposed Kids (BRAVE Kids) Study (2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases)
  • Safety, Tolerability, and Population Pharmacokinetics of Intravenous and Oral Isavuconazonium Sulfate in Pediatric Patients (2021, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy)

Frequent co-authors of William J. Steinbach include:

  • Praveen R. Juvvadi
  • Brian T. Fisher
  • Jeffrey S. Gerber
  • Dawn Nolt
  • Theoklis E. Zaoutis

William J. Steinbach often publishes in these venues:

  • PEDIATRICS
  • Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
  • mBio

Throughout their career, Steinbach has been recognized with several awards, including the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2018, the Oswald Avery Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2017, and membership in the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Treatment of Aspergillosis: Clinical Practice Guidelines of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

    Thomas J. Walsh;Elias J. Anaissie;David W. Denning;Raoul Herbrecht

  • Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of aspergillosis: 2016 update by the infectious diseases society of America

    Thomas F. Patterson;George Richard Thompson;David W. Denning;Jay A. Fishman

  • Revision and Update of the Consensus Definitions of Invasive Fungal Disease From the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer and the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium

    J. Peter Donnelly;Sharon C. Chen;Carol A. Kauffman;William J. Steinbach

  • Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of mucormycosis: an initiative of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology in cooperation with the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium

    Oliver A. Cornely;Ana Alastruey-Izquierdo;Dorothee Arenz;Sharon C. A. Chen

  • Epidemiology and Outcomes of Candidemia in 2019 Patients: Data from the Prospective Antifungal Therapy Alliance Registry

    David L. Horn;Dionissios Neofytos;Dionissios Neofytos;Elias J. Anaissie;Jay A. Fishman

  • Epidemiology and outcome of invasive fungal infection in adult hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients: analysis of Multicenter Prospective Antifungal Therapy (PATH) Alliance registry.

    Dionissios Neofytos;D. Horn;E. Anaissie;W. Steinbach

  • Epidemiology and outcome of invasive fungal infections in solid organ transplant recipients

    D. Neofytos;D. Neofytos;J.A. Fishman;D. Horn;E. Anaissie

  • Guideline for the Management of Fever and Neutropenia in Children With Cancer and Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation Recipients: 2017 Update

    Thomas Lehrnbecher;Thomas Lehrnbecher;Paula Robinson;Brian Fisher;Brian Fisher;Sarah Alexander

  • Aspergillus fumigatus and aspergillosis.

    J. P. Latgé;W. J. Steinbach

  • Pediatric invasive aspergillosis: a multicenter retrospective analysis of 139 contemporary cases.

    Ana Burgos;Theoklis E Zaoutis;Christopher C Dvorak;Jill A Hoffman

  • Executive summary: Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of aspergillosis: 2016 update by the infectious diseases society of America

    Thomas F. Patterson;George Richard Thompson;David W. Denning;Jay A. Fishman

  • Clinical epidemiology of 960 patients with invasive aspergillosis from the PATH Alliance registry.

    William J. Steinbach;Kieren A. Marr;Elias J. Anaissie;Nkechi Azie

  • Stress, Drugs, and Evolution: the Role of Cellular Signaling in Fungal Drug Resistance

    Leah E. Cowen;William J. Steinbach

  • Harnessing calcineurin as a novel anti-infective agent against invasive fungal infections

    William J. Steinbach;Jennifer L. Reedy;Robert A. Cramer;John R. Perfect

  • Guideline for the Management of Fever and Neutropenia in Children With Cancer and/or Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation

    Thomas Lehrnbecher;Robert Phillips;Sarah Alexander;Frank Alvaro

  • Infections Due to Aspergillus terreus: A Multicenter Retrospective Analysis of 83 Cases

    William J. Steinbach;Daniel K. Benjamin;Dimitrios P Kontoyiannis;John R. Perfect

  • Calcineurin Controls Growth, Morphology, and Pathogenicity in Aspergillus fumigatus

    William J. Steinbach;Robert A. Cramer;B. Zachary Perfect;Yohannes G. Asfaw

  • Feigin & Cherry's textbook of pediatric infectious diseases

    James D. Cherry;Gail J. Harrison;Sheldon L. Kaplan;William J. Steinbach

  • Aspergillus fumigatus and Related Species

    Janyce A. Sugui;Kyung J. Kwon-Chung;Praveen R. Juvvadi;Jean-Paul Latgé

  • Epidemiology, outcomes, and costs of invasive aspergillosis in immunocompromised children in the United States, 2000.

    Theoklis E. Zaoutis;Kateri Heydon;Jaclyn H. Chu;Thomas J. Walsh

  • MINIREVIEWS Stress, Drugs, and Evolution: the Role of Cellular Signaling in Fungal Drug Resistance

    Leah E. Cowen;William J. Steinbach

Frequent Co-Authors

John R. Perfect
John R. Perfect Duke University
Frédéric Lamoth
Frédéric Lamoth University Hospital of Lausanne
Daniel K. Benjamin
Daniel K. Benjamin Duke University
Theoklis E. Zaoutis
Theoklis E. Zaoutis Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Kieren A. Marr
Kieren A. Marr Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Thomas J. Walsh
Thomas J. Walsh Weill Cornell Medicine
Thomas Lehrnbecher
Thomas Lehrnbecher Goethe University Frankfurt
Joseph Heitman
Joseph Heitman Duke University
Andreas H. Groll
Andreas H. Groll University Hospital Münster
Lillian Sung
Lillian Sung University of Toronto

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