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Social Sciences and Humanities
UK
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
74
Citations
25336
World Ranking
576
National Ranking
103

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

John Harris is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily in Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Ecology, General Health Professions, Civil and Structural Engineering, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The main topics covered in Harris's research include:

  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Hydraulic Flow and Structures
  • Geological Formations and Processes
  • Ethics in Medical Practice
  • Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport
  • Dam Engineering and Safety
  • Public Health Policies and Education

Harris has contributed to both journal articles and book publications. Selected recent papers include:

  • Effect of a skirted mudmat foundation on local scour around a submerged structure, 2020, Ocean Engineering
  • Experimental study of local scour around submerged compound piles in steady current, 2020, Coastal Engineering
  • A review of scour impacting monopiles for offshore wind, 2024, Ocean Engineering
  • Heritable Human Genome Editing: The Public Engagement Imperative, 2020, The CRISPR Journal
  • Ethical Solutions to the Problem of Organ Shortage, 2022, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Their published books include:

  • The Last Slave Ships, Yale University Press, 2020
  • The Natural Gardener, Rowman & Littlefield, 2022

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Harris are:

  • R.J.S. Whitehouse
  • Hongwei An
  • Scott Draper
  • Muireann Quigley
  • Weidong Yao

Among the main venues where Harris has published are:

  • Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
  • Ocean Engineering
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Medical Ethics
  • Coastal Engineering

Best Publications

  • Global vegetation change through the Miocene/Pliocene boundary

    Thure E. Cerling;John M. Harris;Bruce J. MacFadden;Meave G. Leakey

  • The Value of Life: An Introduction to Medical Ethics

    John Harris

  • Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People

    John Harris

  • Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy

    Henry Greely;Barbara Sahakian;John Harris;Ronald C. Kessler

  • Carbon isotope fractionation between diet and bioapatite in ungulate mammals and implications for ecological and paleoecological studies.

    Thure E. Cerling;John M. Harris

  • QALYfying the value of life.

    J Harris

  • Moral enhancement and freedom.

    John Harris

  • A stable isotope aridity index for terrestrial environments.

    Naomi E. Levin;Thure E. Cerling;Benjamin H. Passey;John M. Harris

  • Laetoli : a Pliocene site in northern Tanzania

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  • Scientific research is a moral duty

    John M. Harris

  • Browsing and grazing in elephants: the isotope record of modern and fossil proboscideans

    Thure E. Cerling;John M. Harris;Meave G. Leakey

  • The Survival Lottery

    John Harris

  • Carbon dioxide starvation, the development of C4 ecosystems, and mammalian evolution.

    T. E. Cerling;J. R. Ehleringer;J. M. Harris

  • Pathological responses of rat skeletal muscle to a single subcutaneous injection of a toxin isolated from the venom of the Australian tiger snake, Notechis scutatus scutatus

    J. B. Harris;Margaret A. Johnson;E. Karlsson

  • An ethical market in human organs

    Charles A Erin;John Harris

  • Stratigraphy and paleontology of Pliocene and Pleistocene localities west of Lake Turkana, Kenya

    John M. Harris;Frank H. Brown;Meave G. Leakey

  • Rancho La Brea stable isotope biogeochemistry and its implications for the palaeoecology of late Pleistocene, coastal southern California

    Joan Brenner Coltrain;John M. Harris;Thure E. Cerling;James R. Ehleringer

  • Dietary adaptations of extant and Neogene African suids

    J. M. Harris;T. E. Cerling

  • Dietary and environmental reconstruction with stable isotope analyses of herbivore tooth enamel from the Miocene locality of Fort Ternan, Kenya

    Thure E. Cerling;John M. Harris;Stanley H. Ambrose;Meave G. Leakey

  • Morphology and physiology of skeletal muscle in aging rodents

    Mario R. Caccia;John B. Harris;Margaret A. Johnson

  • Further observations on the pathological responses of rat skeletal muscle to toxins isolated from the venom of the Australian tiger snake, Notechis scutatus scutatus.

    J. B. Harris;Margaret A. Johnson

  • Violence and Responsibility

    John Harris

  • One principle and three fallacies of disability studies

    John Harris

  • Is there a coherent social conception of disability

    John Harris

  • Abortion and Infanticide

    John Harris

Frequent Co-Authors

Søren Holm
Søren Holm University of Manchester
Thure E. Cerling
Thure E. Cerling University of Utah
Meave G. Leakey
Meave G. Leakey Stony Brook University
Julian Savulescu
Julian Savulescu University of Oxford
Gerald R. Ferris
Gerald R. Ferris Florida State University
James R. Ehleringer
James R. Ehleringer University of Utah
Robin Lovell-Badge
Robin Lovell-Badge The Francis Crick Institute
Naomi E. Levin
Naomi E. Levin University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jeff McMahan
Jeff McMahan University of Oxford
Pamela L. Perrewé
Pamela L. Perrewé Florida State University

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