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Ralph E. Johnson publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ralph E. Johnson sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 172 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Ralph E. Johnson D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ralph E. Johnson sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 52 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ralph E. Johnson is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a specific emphasis on infectious diseases, virology, emergency medicine, neurology, and molecular biology.

Their recent research encompasses key topics in HIV research and treatment, addressing HIV-related health complications and treatments as well as HIV/AIDS interventions. Additionally, their work touches on long-term effects of COVID-19, CRISPR and genetic engineering, and COVID-19 clinical research studies including mental health aspects related to the pandemic.

Some of the notable recent papers by Ralph E. Johnson include:

  • Non-invasive plasma glycomic and metabolic biomarkers of post-treatment control of HIV, 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • Multi-stakeholder consensus on a target product profile for an HIV cure, 2020, published in The Lancet HIV
  • Operationalizing Human Immunodeficiency Virus Cure-related Trials with Analytic Treatment Interruptions During the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Pandemic: A Collaborative Approach, 2020, published in Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • The first 6 months of HIV-SARS-CoV-2 coinfection: outcomes for 6947 individuals, 2020, published in Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS
  • Non-Invasive Plasma Glycomic and Metabolic Biomarkers of Post-treatment Control of HIV, 2020, published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ralph E. Johnson include:

  • Alan Landay
  • Leila B. Giron
  • Clovis S. Palmer
  • Qin Liu
  • Xiangfan Yin

Publications have appeared in a variety of venues, demonstrating engagement with different audiences within the field. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Nature Communications
  • The Lancet HIV
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Ralph E. Johnson's work spans several interconnected fields of medical science, with a principal focus on infectious diseases and their treatment. The scientist contributes to the understanding of HIV and COVID-19 through research addressing biomarkers, treatment interruptions in clinical trials during the pandemic, and the assessment of coinfections and their outcomes.

Best Publications

  • Designing reusable classes

    Ralph E. Johnson;Brian Foote

  • Building application frameworks: object-oriented foundations of framework design

    Mohamed E. Fayad;Douglas C. Schmidt;Ralph E. Johnson

  • Design Patterns: Abstraction and Reuse of Object-Oriented Design

    Unknown

  • Documenting frameworks using patterns

    Ralph E. Johnson

  • Frameworks = (components + patterns)

    Ralph E. Johnson

  • A refactoring tool for Smalltalk

    Don Roberts;John Brant;Ralph Johnson

  • Patterns Generate Architectures

    Kent Beck;Ralph E. Johnson

  • Surveying current research in object-oriented design

    Rebecca J. Wirfs-Brock;Ralph E. Johnson

  • Practical analysis for refactoring

    Ralph Johnson;Donald Bradley Roberts

  • How do APIs evolve? A story of refactoring

    Danny Dig;Ralph E. Johnson

  • Automated Detection of Refactorings in Evolving Components

    Danny Dig;Can Comertoglu;Darko Marinov;Ralph Johnson

  • Software patterns

    Douglas C. Schmidt;Mohamed Fayad;Ralph E. Johnson

  • Reflective facilities in Smalltalk-80

    B. Foote;R. E. Johnson

  • The role of refactorings in API evolution

    D. Dig;R. Johnson

  • The Adaptive Object-Model Architectural Style

    Joseph W. Yoder;Ralph E. Johnson

  • Architecture and design of adaptive object-models

    Joseph W. Yoder;Federico Balaguer;Ralph Johnson

  • A comparative study of manual and automated refactorings

    Stas Negara;Nicholas Chen;Mohsen Vakilian;Ralph E. Johnson

  • Creating abstract superclasses by refactoring

    William F. Opdyke;Ralph E. Johnson

  • Use, disuse, and misuse of automated refactorings

    Mohsen Vakilian;Nicholas Chen;Stas Negara;Balaji Ambresh Rajkumar

  • Organizing Security Patterns

    M. Hafiz;P. Adamczyk;R.E. Johnson

  • Evolving Frameworks A Pattern Language for Developing Object-Oriented Frameworks

    Don Roberts;Ralph Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Danny Dig
Danny Dig University of Colorado Boulder
James Noble
James Noble Victoria University of Wellington
Tien N. Nguyen
Tien N. Nguyen The University of Texas at Dallas
Douglas C. Schmidt
Douglas C. Schmidt William & Mary
Darko Marinov
Darko Marinov University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Grady Booch
Grady Booch IBM (United States)
Brian P. Bailey
Brian P. Bailey University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Roy H. Campbell
Roy H. Campbell University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Uwe Zdun
Uwe Zdun University of Vienna
Lefteris Angelis
Lefteris Angelis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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