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D-Index
79
Citations
15506
World Ranking
1245
National Ranking
108

Richard Carter 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 Richard Carter sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 157 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard Carter 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 Richard Carter sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 79 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Richard Carter was affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focused on medicine, with an emphasis on public health, environmental and occupational health, general health professions, nutrition and dietetics, education, and developmental and educational psychology.

Their published work covered a range of topics including malaria research and control, mosquito-borne diseases and control, child nutrition and water access, streptococcal infections and treatments, geothermal energy systems and applications, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, and travel-related health issues.

Richard Carter contributed to multiple publication venues, such as:

  • Waterlines
  • Graduate Medical Education Research Journal
  • Parasitology International
  • Malaria Journal
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

The scientist collaborated frequently with several co-authors:

  • Jiongru Wu
  • Peter Mannon
  • Lauren Timm
  • Jennifer Libov
  • Aaron Barksdale

Among their recent papers were:

  • "The role of improved housing and living environments in malaria control and elimination," 2020, published in Malaria Journal

Carter also authored a book titled Rural Community Water Supply, published by Practical Action Publishing eBooks in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Genetic analysis of the human malaria parasite plasmodium falciparum

    David Walliker;Isabella A. Quakyi;Thomas E. Wellems;Thomas F. McCutchan

  • Evolutionary and Historical Aspects of the Burden of Malaria

    Richard Carter;Kamini N. Mendis

  • Spatial targeting of interventions against malaria.

    Richard Carter;Kamini N. Mendis;Donald Roberts

  • Commitment of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum to sexual and asexual development.

    M. C. Bruce;P. Alano;S. Duthie;R. Carter

  • Dynamics of fever and serum levels of tumor necrosis factor are closely associated during clinical paroxysms in Plasmodium vivax malaria.

    Nadira D. Karunaweera;G. E. Grau;P. Gamage;R. Carter

  • Transmission blocking malaria vaccines

    Richard Carter

  • Research toward malaria vaccines

    Louis H. Miller;Russell J. Howard;Richard Carter;Michael F. Good

  • Malaria transmission blocked by immunisation with gametes of the malaria parasite

    Richard Carter;David H. Chen

  • African origin of the malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax

    Weimin Liu;Yingying Li;Katharina S. Shaw;Gerald H. Learn

  • The 230-kDa gamete surface protein of Plasmodium falciparum is also a target for transmission-blocking antibodies.

    I A Quakyi;R Carter;J Rener;N Kumar

  • A histidine-rich protein gene marks a linkage group favored strongly in a genetic cross of Plasmodium falciparum.

    Thomas E. Wellems;David Walliker;Cassandra L. Smith;Virgilio E. do Rosario

  • Gene encoding a deubiquitinating enzyme is mutated in artesunate- and chloroquine-resistant rodent malaria parasites.

    Paul Hunt;Ana Afonso;Alison Creasey;Richard Culleton

  • Malaria transmission-blocking vaccines—how can their development be supported?

    Richard Carter;Kamini N Mendis;Louis H Miller;Louis Molineaux

  • Cellular location and temporal expression of the Plasmodium falciparum sexual stage antigen Pfs16

    Marian C. Bruce;Roderick N. Carter;Kei-ichiro Nakamura;Masamichi Aikawa

  • Malaria transmitted to humans by mosquitoes infected from cultured Plasmodium falciparum.

    J D Chulay;I Schneider;T M Cosgriff;S L Hoffman

  • Complement-mediated lysis of Plasmodium falciparum gametes by malaria-immune human sera is associated with antibodies to the gamete surface antigen Pfs230.

    J Healer;D McGuinness;P Hopcroft;S Haley

  • Measurement of malarial infectivity of human populations to mosquitoes in the Madang area, Papua, New Guinea.

    P. M. Graves;T. R. Burkot;R. Carter;J. A. Cattani

  • Malaria transmission-blocking immunity induced by natural infections of Plasmodium vivax in humans.

    K N Mendis;Y D Munesinghe;Y N de Silva;I Keragalla

  • Cytokines kill malaria parasites during infection crisis: extracellular complementary factors are essential.

    T S Naotunne;N D Karunaweera;G Del Giudice;M U Kularatne

  • Commitment to sexual differentiation in the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum

    T. G. Smith;P. Lourenço;R. Carter;D. Walliker

Frequent Co-Authors

David Walliker
David Walliker University of Edinburgh
Louis H. Miller
Louis H. Miller National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Lisa C. Ranford-Cartwright
Lisa C. Ranford-Cartwright University of Glasgow
Nirbhay Kumar
Nirbhay Kumar George Washington University
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski University of Oxford
Masamichi Aikawa
Masamichi Aikawa Tokai University
Jane M. Carlton
Jane M. Carlton New York University
Eleanor M. Riley
Eleanor M. Riley University of Edinburgh
Russell J. Howard
Russell J. Howard Immutep (Germany)
Peter Balfe
Peter Balfe University of Oxford

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