2026 Richard H. Aster: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	94	942	856	516	460	408	26536
Medicine	95	10203	9576	5245	4846	407	26831

Overview

Richard H. Aster is affiliated with the Medical College of Wisconsin in the United States and has a research focus primarily in the field of medicine, with a sub-specialization in hematology. Their work spans several related subfields including surgery, internal medicine, genetics, and emergency medicine.

The main topics of Richard H. Aster's research include platelet disorders and treatments, heparin-induced thrombocytopenia and thrombosis, venous thromboembolism diagnosis and management, blood disorders and treatments, blood groups and transfusion, intramuscular injections and their effects, and drug-induced adverse reactions.

Frequent publication venues for their work consist of:

Blood
Transfusion
Research Square (Research Square)
Cureus
Blood Advances

Collaborations are a significant aspect of their research output, with frequent co-authors including:

Demin Wang
Mei Yu
Renren Wen
Yongwei Zheng
Daniel W. Bougie

Recent noteworthy papers by Richard H. Aster include:

"A prospective, blinded study of a PF4-dependent assay for HIT diagnosis," published in 2020 in Blood
"Immune thrombocytopenia induced by beta-lactam antibiotics: Cross-reactions of responsible antibodies with other beta-lactam drugs," published in 2021 in Transfusion
"SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding domain-specific antibodies activate platelets with features resembling the pathogenic antibodies in heparin-induced thrombocytopenia," published in 2021 in Research Square (Research Square)
"Cloned antibodies from patients with HIT provide new clues to HIT pathogenesis," published in 2022 in Blood
"How platelet transfusions were invented," published in 2021 in Transfusion

Best Publications

Platelet Sequestration in Man. I. Methods

Richard H. Aster;James H. Jandl

1135
Citations
Pooling of platelets in the spleen: role in the pathogenesis of "hypersplenic" thrombocytopenia.

Richard H. Aster

1126
Citations
Antibodies from patients with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia/thrombosis are specific for platelet factor 4 complexed with heparin or bound to endothelial cells.

G P Visentin;S E Ford;J P Scott;R H Aster

784
Citations
The human platelet alloantigens, PlA1 and PlA2, are associated with a leucine33/proline33 amino acid polymorphism in membrane glycoprotein IIIa, and are distinguishable by DNA typing.

P J Newman;R S Derbes;R H Aster

744
Citations
Drug-Induced Immune Thrombocytopenia

Richard H. Aster;Daniel W. Bougie

722
Citations
Drug-induced immune thrombocytopenia: pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management

Richard H Aster;Brian R Curtis;Janice G McFarland;Daniel W Bougie

415
Citations
Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia associated with fondaparinux.

Theodore E Warkentin;Brian T Maurer;Richard H Aster

401
Citations
Studies of platelet concentrates stored at 22 C nad 4 C.

G. A. Becker;M. Tuccelli;T. Kunicki;M. K. Chalos

401
Citations
A study of variables affecting the quality of platelets stored at "room temperature".

T.J. Kunicki;T.J. Kunicki;M. Tuccelli;M. Tuccelli;G. A. Becker;G. A. Becker;R. H. Aster;R. H. Aster

398
Citations
Nomenclature of human platelet antigens.

P. Metcalfe;N. A. Watkins;W. H. Ouwehand;W. H. Ouwehand;C. Kaplan

387
Citations
T-lymphocyte subpopulations in patients with classic hemophilia treated with cryoprecipitate and lyophilized concentrates.

Jay E. Menitove;Richard H. Aster;James T. Casper;Stephen J. Lauer

385
Citations
IMMUNOREACTIONS INVOLVING PLATELETS. V. POST-TRANSFUSION PURPURA DUE TO A COMPLEMENT-FIXING ANTIBODY AGAINST A GENETICALLY CONTROLLED PLATELET ANTIGEN. A PROPOSED MECHANISM FOR THROMBOCYTOPENIA AND ITS RELEVANCE IN “AUTOIMMUNITY”*

N. Raphael Shulman;Richard H. Aster;Alfred Leitner;Merilyn C. Hiller

350
Citations
Extracellular DNA traps are associated with the pathogenesis of TRALI in humans and mice.

Grace M. Thomas;Grace M. Thomas;Carla Carbo;Carla Carbo;Brian R. Curtis;Kimberly Martinod;Kimberly Martinod

347
Citations
Drug-induced thrombocytopenia: pathogenesis, evaluation, and management

James N. George;Richard H. Aster

324
Citations
Preservation of vascular integrity in organs perfused in vitro with a platelet-rich medium.

Michael A. Gimbrone;Richard H. Aster;Ramzi S. Cotran;Joseph Corkery

320
Citations
Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia and thrombosis.

Richard H. Aster

289
Citations
Human platelet antigen-specific alloantibodies implicated in 1162 cases of neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia

Anne Davoren;Brian R. Curtis;Richard H. Aster;Jarice G. McFarland

284
Citations
A platelet and granulocyte membrane defect in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria: usefulness for the detection of platelet antibodies

Richard H. Aster;Sara E. Enright

284
Citations
Acute thrombocytopenia after treatment with tirofiban or eptifibatide is associated with antibodies specific for ligand-occupied GPIIb/IIIa.

Daniel W. Bougie;Peter R. Wilker;Elizabeth D. Wuitschick;Brian R. Curtis

276
Citations
Vancomycin-induced immune thrombocytopenia.

Annette Von Drygalski;Brian R. Curtis;Daniel W. Bougie;Janice G. McFarland

269
Citations
Effect of anticoagulant and ABO incompatibility on recovery of transfused human platelets.

Richard H. Aster

264
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian R. Curtis University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Janice G. McFarland Medical College of Wisconsin

Peter J. Newman Medical College of Wisconsin

Thomas J. Kunicki Nuvu2, Inc.

Demin Wang Medical College of Wisconsin

Mortimer Poncz Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

James N. George University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Douglas B. Cines University of Pennsylvania

Martin J. Hessner Medical College of Wisconsin

Robert R. Montgomery Medical College of Wisconsin

External Links

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