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D-Index
58
Citations
9499
World Ranking
3500
National Ranking
1381

Leonard A. Smith publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Leonard A. Smith sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 162 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Leonard A. Smith D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Leonard A. Smith sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 39th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

Leonard A. Smith is affiliated with the United States Department of the Army in the United States. Their research spans multiple intersecting fields within the social sciences and environmental science, with notable contributions across various topics related to ecocriticism, human-animal interactions, and social issues.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, Leonard A. Smith has focused on several subfields such as:

  • Literature and Literary Theory
  • Geography, Planning and Development
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Cultural Studies
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

The prominent topics explored in their work are:

  • Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
  • American Environmental and Regional History
  • Disability Rights and Representation
  • Healthcare innovation and challenges
  • Homelessness and Social Issues

Leonard A. Smith has contributed to a variety of publication venues including:

  • GeoHumanities
  • Area
  • Disability & Society
  • Tree-Ring Research
  • Nutrition Clinique et Métabolisme

Their recent papers demonstrate a multidisciplinary engagement with environmental literature, geography, societal issues, and health. These publications include:

  • Zine Ecologies: Creative Environmentalisms and Literary Activisms (2024), published in GeoHumanities
  • The quiet politics and gentle literary activism behind the battle for Utah's Bears Ears National Monument (2020), published in Area
  • I'm living my life as the person I'm meant to be, not in spite of the person I am (2024), published in Disability & Society
  • Co-Occurring Wyoming Pinus Species Exhibit Differing Climate-Growth Relationships (2022), published in Tree-Ring Research
  • Impact d'une exposition alimentaire chronique au glyphosate à des doses de référence sur le microbiote intestinal et le métabolisme énergétique chez la souris (2021), published in Nutrition Clinique et Métabolisme

Their collaborations include work with frequent coauthors such as Catherine Cartwright, Georgina Brennan-Lister, Emily Brooks, Ffion Collins, and Sophie Colson.

Best Publications

  • Potent neutralization of botulinum neurotoxin by recombinant oligoclonal antibody.

    A. Nowakowski;C. Wang;D. B. Powers;P. Amersdorfer

  • Evaluation of the therapeutic usefulness of botulinum neurotoxin B, C1, E, and F compared with the long lasting type A. Basis for distinct durations of inhibition of exocytosis in central neurons.

    Patrick G. Foran;Nadiem Mohammed;Godfrey O. Lisk;Sharuna Nagwaney

  • Genetic Diversity among Botulinum Neurotoxin-Producing Clostridial Strains

    K. K. Hill;T. J. Smith;C. H. Helma;L. O. Ticknor

  • Sequence Variation within Botulinum Neurotoxin Serotypes Impacts Antibody Binding and Neutralization

    T. J. Smith;J. Lou;I. N. Geren;C. M. Forsyth

  • Modeling Pichia pastoris growth on methanol and optimizing the production of a recombinant protein, the heavy-chain fragment C of botulinum neurotoxin, serotype A.

    Wenhui Zhang;Mark A. Bevins;Bradley A. Plantz;Leonard A. Smith

  • Development of vaccines for prevention of botulism.

    Michael P Byrne;Leonard A Smith

  • Purification, potency, and efficacy of the botulinum neurotoxin type A binding domain from Pichia pastoris as a recombinant vaccine candidate.

    Michael P. Byrne;Theresa J. Smith;Vicki A. Montgomery;Leonard A. Smith

  • Recombination and insertion events involving the botulinum neurotoxin complex genes in Clostridium botulinum types A, B, E and F and Clostridium butyricum type E strains.

    Karen K Hill;Gary Xie;Brian T Foley;Theresa J Smith

  • Precursors of Androctonus australis scorpion neurotoxins. Structures of precursors, processing outcomes, and expression of a functional recombinant toxin II.

    Pierre E Bougis;Pierre E Bougis;Herve Rochat;Leonard A Smith

  • Botulism: Cause, Effects, Diagnosis, Clinical and Laboratory Identification, and Treatment Modalities

    Zygmunt F. Dembek;Leonard A. Smith;Janice M. Rusnak

  • Analysis of the Neurotoxin Complex Genes in Clostridium botulinum A1-A4 and B1 Strains: BoNT/A3, /Ba4 and /B1 Clusters Are Located within Plasmids

    Theresa J. Smith;Karen K. Hill;Brian T. Foley;John C. Detter

  • Molecular evolution of antibody affinity for sensitive detection of botulinum neurotoxin type A.

    A. Razai;C. Garcia-Rodriguez;J. Lou;I.N. Geren

  • Botulism and vaccines for its prevention.

    Leonard A. Smith

  • Fine and Domain-level Epitope Mapping of Botulinum Neurotoxin Type A Neutralizing Antibodies by Yeast Surface Display

    R. Levy;C.M. Forsyth;S.L. LaPorte;I.N. Geren

  • Pichia pastoris fermentation with mixed-feeds of glycerol and methanol: growth kinetics and production improvement

    Wenhui Zhang;Karen J. Hywood Potter;Bradley A. Plantz;Vicki L. Schlegel

  • Development of recombinant vaccines for botulinum neurotoxin.

    Leonard A. Smith

  • Identification and Biochemical Characterization of Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Clostridium botulinum Neurotoxin Serotype A

    Virginia Roxas-Duncan;Istvan Enyedy;Vicki A. Montgomery;Vanessa S. Eccard

  • Production and purification of the heavy chain fragment C of botulinum neurotoxin, serotype A, expressed in the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris.

    Karen J. Potter;Mark A. Bevins;Elena V. Vassilieva;Vijay R. Chiruvolu

  • Identification of residues in dendrotoxin K responsible for its discrimination between neuronal K+ channels containing Kv1.1 and 1.2 α subunits

    Fan C. Wang;Natalie Bell;Paul Reid;Leonard A. Smith

  • Design and Testing for a Nontagged F1-V Fusion Protein as Vaccine Antigen against Bubonic and Pneumonic Plague

    Bradford S. Powell;Gerard P. Andrews;Gerard P. Andrews;Jeffrey T. Enama;Scott Jendrek;Scott Jendrek

  • Fermentation, purification, and efficacy of a recombinant vaccine candidate against botulinum neurotoxin type F from Pichia pastoris.

    Michael P. Byrne;Richard W. Titball;Jane Holley;Leonard A. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

James D. Marks
James D. Marks University of California, San Francisco
John R. Barr
John R. Barr Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Brian Foley
Brian Foley Los Alamos National Laboratory
Gary Xie
Gary Xie Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jeffrey T. Foster
Jeffrey T. Foster Northern Arizona University
Hannu Korkeala
Hannu Korkeala University of Helsinki
Thomas J. Smith
Thomas J. Smith Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Eric A. Johnson
Eric A. Johnson University of Wisconsin–Madison
J. Oliver Dolly
J. Oliver Dolly Imperial College London
Saul Tzipori
Saul Tzipori Tufts University

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