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Researcher · University of Geneva · Switzerland

Didier Pittet

Didier Pittet publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine and Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, on topics such as Infection Control in Healthcare, Nosocomial Infections in ICU and Antibiotic Use and Resistance.

ORCID 0000-0002-3667-7131 OpenAlex
World rank
#31,771
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#831
of 19,404
Works
147
Citations
613
Citations per work
4.2

What does Didier Pittet research?

Infectious Diseases: 17.6%Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 10.5%Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 6.5%Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 5.9%other fields: 59.5%18%top field
Infectious Diseases17.6%Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine10.5%Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology6.5%Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health5.9%other fields59.5%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Infectious Diseases18% of their works
  2. 2Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine10% of their works
  3. 3Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology6% of their works
  4. 4Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health6% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions5% of their works
  6. 6Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Didier Pittet's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Healthcare-Associated Infections, Hand Hygiene, Infection Control, ICU, Ventilator-associated Pneumonia, Antibiotic Resistance, Antimicrobial Stewardship and Global Health.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Healthcare-Associated Infections362 topics
  2. Hand Hygiene211 topic
  3. Infection Control211 topic
  4. ICU151 topic
  5. Ventilator-associated Pneumonia151 topic
  6. Antibiotic Resistance132 topics
  7. Antimicrobial Stewardship101 topic
  8. Global Health101 topic
  9. COVID-1982 topics
  10. Airborne Transmission51 topic
  11. Respiratory Viruses51 topic
  12. Endoscope41 topic
  13. Infection41 topic
  14. Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry41 topic
  15. Microorganism Identification41 topic
  16. ESKAPE Pathogens31 topic
  17. Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria31 topic
  18. medical waste31 topic
  19. solid waste management31 topic

Where does Didier Pittet work?

Didier Pittet's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Geneva, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Didier Pittet have?

Science Explorer counts 147 works and 613 citations for Didier Pittet, ranking #31,771 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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