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D-Index
117
Citations
82055
World Ranking
536
National Ranking
188

James R. Heath publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where James R. Heath sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 377 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

James R. Heath D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 117 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society

Overview

James R. Heath is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broader areas, they focus on various subfields including Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Oncology, and Neurology.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics including SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, T-cell and B-cell Immunology, Long-Term Effects of COVID-19, and vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches.

Notable recent papers authored by or involving James R. Heath include the following:

  • Multiple early factors anticipate post-acute COVID-19 sequelae, 2022, published in Cell
  • Multi-Omics Resolves a Sharp Disease-State Shift between Mild and Moderate COVID-19, 2020, published in Cell
  • Autoantibodies neutralizing type I IFNs are present in ~4% of uninfected individuals over 70 years old and account for ~20% of COVID-19 deaths, 2021, published in Science Immunology
  • Key Parameters of Tumor Epitope Immunogenicity Revealed Through a Consortium Approach Improve Neoantigen Prediction, 2020, published in Cell
  • Early IFN-α signatures and persistent dysfunction are distinguishing features of NK cells in severe COVID-19, 2021, published in Immunity

Frequent co-authors collaborating with James R. Heath include:

  • Jason D. Goldman
  • Yapeng Su
  • Daniel Chen
  • Dan Yuan
  • William Chour

The scientist has published in several venues repeatedly, with multiple contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • Cell Reports
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Communications

James R. Heath was awarded the Fellow of the Materials Research Society designation in 2011.

Best Publications

  • C 60 : Buckminsterfullerene

    H. W. Kroto;H. W. Kroto;J. R. Heath;S. C. O’Brien;R. F. Curl

  • Silicon nanowires as efficient thermoelectric materials

    Akram I Boukai;Yuri Bunimovich;Jamil Tahir-Kheli;Jen-Kan Yu

  • Electronically Configurable Molecular-Based Logic Gates

    C. P. Collier;E. W. Wong;M. Belohradský;F. M. Raymo

  • A [2]Catenane-Based Solid State Electronically Reconfigurable Switch

    Charles P. Collier;Gunter Mattersteig;Eric W. Wong;Yi Luo

  • Lanthanum complexes of spheroidal carbon shells

    J. R. Heath;S. C. O'Brien;Q. Zhang;Y. Liu

  • A 160-kilobit molecular electronic memory patterned at 10 11 bits per square centimetre

    Jonathan E. Green;Jang Wook Choi;Akram Boukai;Yuri Bunimovich

  • Preparation and Properties of Polymer-Wrapped Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

    Alexander Star;J. Fraser Stoddart;David Steuerman;Mike Diehl

  • Synthesis and Characterization of Hydrophobic, Organically-Soluble Gold Nanocrystals Functionalized with Primary Amines

    Daniel V. Leff;Lutz Brandt;James R. Heath

  • Ultrahigh-Density Nanowire Lattices and Circuits

    Nicholas A. Melosh;Nicholas A. Melosh;Akram Boukai;Akram Boukai;Frederic Diana;Brian Gerardot

  • Reversible Tuning of Silver Quantum Dot Monolayers Through the Metal-Insulator Transition

    C. P. Collier;R. J. Saykally;R. J. Saykally;J. J. Shiang;J. J. Shiang;S. E. Henrichs;S. E. Henrichs

  • Highly ordered nanowire arrays on plastic substrates for ultrasensitive flexible chemical sensors

    Michael C. McAlpine;Habib Ahmad;Dunwei Wang;James R. Heath

  • Thermodynamic Control of Gold Nanocrystal Size: Experiment and Theory

    Daniel V. Leff;Pamela C. Ohara;James R. Heath;William M. Gelbart

  • Switching devices based on interlocked molecules.

    Anthony R. Pease;Jan O. Jeppesen;J. Fraser Stoddart;Yi Luo

  • Reduction of thermal conductivity in phononic nanomesh structures

    Jen-Kan Yu;Slobodan Mitrovic;Douglas Tham;Joseph Varghese

  • Starched carbon nanotubes.

    Alexander Star;David W. Steuerman;James R. Heath;J. Fraser Stoddart

  • PRESSURE/TEMPERATURE PHASE DIAGRAMS AND SUPERLATTICES OF ORGANICALLY FUNCTIONALIZED METAL NANOCRYSTAL MONOLAYERS: THE INFLUENCE OF PARTICLE SIZE, SIZE DISTRIBUTION, AND SURFACE PASSIVANT

    James R. Heath;Charles M. Knobler;Daniel V. Leff

  • Synthesis of Size-Selected, Surface-Passivated InP Nanocrystals

    A. A. Guzelian;J. E. B. Katari;A. V. Kadavanich;U. Banin

  • Integrated barcode chips for rapid, multiplexed analysis of proteins in microliter quantities of blood

    Rong Fan;Ophir Vermesh;Alok Srivastava;Brian K H Yen

  • Reactivity of large carbon clusters: spheroidal carbon shells and their possible relevance to the formation and morphology of soot

    Q. L. Zhang;S. C. O'Brien;J. R. Heath;Y. Liu

  • Photophysics of buckminsterfullerene and other carbon cluster ions

    S. C. O'Brien;J. R. Heath;R. F. Curl;R. E. Smalley

  • Nanocrystal superlattices.

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Frequent Co-Authors

J. Fraser Stoddart
J. Fraser Stoddart Northwestern University
Raphael D. Levine
Raphael D. Levine Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Antoni Ribas
Antoni Ribas University of California, Los Angeles
William R. Dichtel
William R. Dichtel Northwestern University
Rong Fan
Rong Fan Yale University
Hsian-Rong Tseng
Hsian-Rong Tseng University of California, Los Angeles
William A. Goddard
William A. Goddard California Institute of Technology
Robert F. Curl
Robert F. Curl Rice University
Richard E. Smalley
Richard E. Smalley Rice University
Owen N. Witte
Owen N. Witte University of California, Los Angeles

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