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D-Index
43
Citations
8112
World Ranking
6103
National Ranking
1703

Ira Katz publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ira Katz sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 237 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Ira Katz D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ira Katz sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ira Katz is affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Lab in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine, focusing particularly on pulmonary and respiratory medicine, anesthesiology and pain medicine, developmental neuroscience, molecular biology, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's work includes studies related to anesthesia and neurotoxicity research, inhalation and respiratory drug delivery, airway management and intubation techniques, tracheal and airway disorders, respiratory support and mechanisms, cancer, hypoxia, and metabolism, as well as mitochondrial function and pathology.

Recent publications by Ira Katz include the following:

  • Multicomponent Plasma Expansion Model for Arc Discharges on Large-Area Solar Arrays, 2021, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets
  • The influence of flowrate and gas density on positive airway pressure for high flow nasal cannula applied to infant airway replicas, 2020, Journal of Biomechanics
  • Identifying medically relevant xenon protein targets by in silico screening of the structural proteome, 2021, Medical Gas Research
  • Validated respiratory drug deposition predictions from 2D and 3D medical images with statistical shape models and convolutional neural networks, 2024, PLoS ONE
  • Gaseous nitric oxide failed to inhibit the replication cycle of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro, 2023, Nitric Oxide

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ira Katz include Géraldine Farjot, John Fleming, Joy Conway, Matthieu Chalopin, and Aude Milet.

The scientist has published multiple works in the following venues:

  • Medical Gas Research
  • Journal of Biomechanics
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
  • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Best Publications

  • Fundamentals of electric propulsion : ion and Hall thrusters

    Dan M. Goebel;Ira Katz

  • Magnetic shielding of a laboratory Hall thruster. I. Theory and validation

    Ioannis G. Mikellides;Ira Katz;Richard R. Hofer;Dan M. Goebel

  • Magnetic shielding of a laboratory Hall thruster. II. Experiments

    Richard R. Hofer;Dan M. Goebel;Ioannis G. Mikellides;Ira Katz

  • Magnetic Shielding of the Channel Walls in a Hall Plasma Accelerator

    Ioannis G. Mikellides;Ira Katz;Richard R. Hofer;Dan M. Goebel

  • Hollow cathode theory and experiment. II. A two-dimensional theoretical model of the emitter region

    Ioannis G. Mikellides;Ira Katz;Dan M. Goebel;James E. Polk

  • Numerical simulations of Hall-effect plasma accelerators on a magnetic-field-aligned mesh.

    Ioannis G. Mikellides;Ira Katz

  • Magnetic shielding of walls from the unmagnetized ion beam in a Hall thruster

    Ioannis G. Mikellides;Ira Katz;Richard R. Hofer;Dan M. Goebel

  • Hollow cathode theory and experiment. I. Plasma characterization using fast miniature scanning probes

    Dan M. Goebel;Kristina K. Jameson;Ron M. Watkins;Ira Katz

  • Mechanism for spacecraft charging initiated destruction of solar arrays in GEO

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  • Wear Mechanisms in Electron Sources for Ion Propulsion, 2: Discharge Hollow Cathode

    Ioannis G. Mikellides;Ira Katz;Dan M. Goebel;Kristina K. Jameson

  • Three-Dimensional Particle Simulations of Ion-Optics Plasma Flow and Grid Erosion

    Joseph Wang;James Polk;John Brophy;Ira Katz

  • Structure of the bipolar plasma sheath generated by SPEAR I

    I. Katz;G. A. Jongeward;V. A. Davis;M. J. Mandell

  • Design of a Laboratory Hall Thruster with Magnetically Shielded Channel Walls, Phase II: Experiments

    Richard Hofer;Dan Goebel;Ioannis Mikellides;Ira Katz

  • Evidence of nonclassical plasma transport in hollow cathodes for electric propulsion

    Ioannis G. Mikellides;Ira Katz;Dan M. Goebel;Kristina K. Jameson

  • Wear Mechanisms in Electron Sources for Ion Propulsion, 1: Neutralizer Hollow Cathode

    Ioannis G. Mikellides;Ira Katz

  • Magnetic Shielding of the Acceleration Channel Walls in a Long-Life Hall Thruster

    Ioannis G. Mikellides;Ira Katz;Richard R. Hofer;Dan M. Goebel

  • Efficacy of Electron Mobility Models in Hybrid-PIC Hall Thruster Simulations

    Richard R. Hofer;Ira Katz;Ioannis G. Mikellides;Dan M. Goebel

  • Numerical simulations of ion thruster accelerator grid erosion

    John R. Brophy;Ira Katz;James E. Polk;John R. Anderson

  • The importance of accurate secondary electron yields in modeling spacecraft charging

    Ira Katz;Myron Mandell;Gary Jongeward;M. S. Gussenhoven

  • Analytical Ion Thruster Discharge Performance Model

    Dan M. Goebel;Richard E. Wirz;Ira Katz

  • Hollow Cathode and Keeper-region Plasma Measurements Using Ultra-fast Miniature Scanning Probes

    Dan M. Goebel;Kristina K. Jameson;Ron M. Watkins;Ira Katz

  • Demonstration of the NSTAR ion propulsion system on the Deep Space One mission

    J. E. Polk;R. Y. Kakuda;D. Brinza;I. Katz

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard R. Hofer
Richard R. Hofer Jet Propulsion Lab
Robert S. Anderson
Robert S. Anderson University of Colorado Boulder
Mark T. Lemmon
Mark T. Lemmon Space Science Institute
Sho Sasaki
Sho Sasaki Osaka University
Kenneth G. Miller
Kenneth G. Miller Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Robert Sullivan
Robert Sullivan Cornell University
Scot C. R. Rafkin
Scot C. R. Rafkin Southwest Research Institute
Roy Torbert
Roy Torbert University of New Hampshire
Edward J. Wollack
Edward J. Wollack Goddard Space Flight Center

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