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D-Index
44
Citations
6564
World Ranking
16925
National Ranking
4179

James L. Leighton publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where James L. Leighton sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 145 publications — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

James L. Leighton D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where James L. Leighton sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2000 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

James L. Leighton is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research is primarily situated in the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Genetics.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Kidney Stones and Urolithiasis Treatments
  • Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies
  • Acute Kidney Injury Research
  • Esophageal and GI Pathology
  • Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management
  • Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research

Recent publication venues where James L. Leighton's research has appeared encompass:

  • Annals of Surgery
  • World Journal of Urology
  • Langenbeck s Archives of Surgery
  • Surgery (Oxford)
  • Journal of Clinical Nephrology

Frequent collaborators in their work include Angus Luk, Arran Dingwall, Bhaskar Somani, Robert Geraghty, and Conor Murphy.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by James L. Leighton are:

  • Effect of infundibulopelvic angle on outcomes of ureteroscopy: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2024, World Journal of Urology
  • Modern immunosuppression, 2020, Surgery (Oxford)
  • Acute Kidney Injury After Esophageal Cancer Surgery, 2020, Annals of Surgery
  • A scoring system for predicting malignancy in intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms of the pancreas: a multicenter EUROPEAN validation, 2022, Langenbeck s Archives of Surgery
  • Membranous nephropathy complicating relapsing polychondritis: A case report, 2021, Journal of Clinical Nephrology

James L. Leighton was recognized with the status of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2005 and was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2000.

Best Publications

  • Highly Enantioselective Ring Opening of Epoxides Catalyzed by (salen)Cr(III) Complexes

    Luis E. Martinez;James L. Leighton;Douglas H. Carsten;Eric N. Jacobsen

  • Total synthesis of (+)-calyculin A

    David A. Evans;James R. Gage;James L. Leighton

  • Total Synthesis of Leucascandrolide A

    Keith R. Hornberger;and Christopher L. Hamblett;James L. Leighton

  • Strained silacycles in organic synthesis: a new reagent for the enantioselective allylation of aldehydes.

    James W A Kinnaird;Pui Yee Ng;Katsumi Kubota;Xiaolun Wang

  • A highly practical and enantioselective reagent for the allylation of aldehydes.

    Katsumi Kubota;James L. Leighton

  • Catalytic Asymmetric Silane Alcoholysis: Practical Access to Chiral Silanes

    Darby R. Schmidt;Steven J. O'malley;James L. Leighton

  • Orally active, nonpeptide oxytocin antagonists.

    B E Evans;J L Leighton;K E Rittle;K F Gilbert

  • Enantioselective allylation of ketone-derived benzoylhydrazones: practical synthesis of tertiary carbinamines.

    Richard Berger;Keiko Duff;James L. Leighton

  • Toward a versatile allylation reagent: practical, enantioselective allylation of acylhydrazones using strained silacycles.

    Richard Berger;Philippe M. A. Rabbat;James L. Leighton

  • Efficient Synthesis of (R)-4-((Trimethylsilyl)oxy)-2-cyclopentenone by Enantioselective Catalytic Epoxide Ring Opening

    James L. Leighton;Eric N. Jacobsen

  • A more comprehensive and highly practical solution to enantioselective aldehyde crotylation.

    Hyunwoo Kim;Stephen Ho;James L. Leighton

  • Silane and Germane Molecular Electronics.

    Timothy A. Su;Haixing Li;Rebekka S. Klausen;Nathaniel T. Kim

  • Asymmetric Synthesis of the Squalene Synthase Inhibitor Zaragozic Acid C

    David A. Evans;James C. Barrow;James L. Leighton;Albert J. Robichaud

  • Asymmetric synthesis of calyculin A. 2. The C26-C37 .gamma.-amino acid fragments

    David A. Evans;James R. Gage;James L. Leighton;Annette S. Kim

  • A simple and general chiral silicon Lewis acid for asymmetric synthesis: highly enantioselective [3+2] acylhydrazone-enol ether cycloadditions.

    Seiji Shirakawa;Pamela J. Lombardi;James L. Leighton

  • Highly Diastereo- and Enantioselective Reagents for Aldehyde Crotylation

    Blaine M. Hackman;Pamela J. Lombardi;James L. Leighton

  • Highly Enantioselective Pictet–Spengler Reactions with α-Ketoamide-Derived Ketimines: Access to an Unusual Class of Quaternary α-Amino Amides†

    Farhan R. Bou-Hamdan;James L. Leighton

  • Stereoselective ring opening reactions

    Eric N. łApartment Boston Jacobsen;James L. New York Leighton;Luis E. Fremont Martinez

  • Enantioselective friedel-crafts alkylations with benzoylhydrazones promoted by a simple strained silacycle reagent.

    Seiji Shirakawa;Richard Berger;James L. Leighton

  • Highly Practical and Enantioselective Cu-Catalyzed Conjugate Addition of Alkylzinc Reagents to Cyclic Enones at Ambient Temperature

    Isaac J. Krauss;James L. Leighton

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric N. Jacobsen
Eric N. Jacobsen Harvard University
David A. Evans
David A. Evans Harvard University
Michael L. Steigerwald
Michael L. Steigerwald Columbia University
Seiji Shirakawa
Seiji Shirakawa Nagasaki University
Latha Venkataraman
Latha Venkataraman Columbia University
Colin Nuckolls
Colin Nuckolls Columbia University
John D. Huber
John D. Huber Columbia University
Miguel Yus
Miguel Yus University of Alicante
Diego J. Ramón
Diego J. Ramón University of Alicante
Takeshi Ohkuma
Takeshi Ohkuma Hokkaido University

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