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Robert J. Harrison

Robert J. Harrison

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Chemistry
Australia
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
77
Citations
38053
World Ranking
3921
National Ranking
103

Robert J. Harrison publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert J. Harrison sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 352 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Robert J. Harrison D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert J. Harrison sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 77 D-Index — 78th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Robert J. Harrison is affiliated with Murdoch University in Australia. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine with a focus on several specialized subfields including Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Computer Networks and Communications, and Hardware and Architecture.

The scientist's recent publication record includes a variety of topics related to occupational health and infectious diseases. Notable recent papers are:

  • Excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic among Californians 18-65 years of age, by occupational sector and occupation: March through November 2020 (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • Excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic among Californians 18-65 years of age, by occupational sector and occupation: March through October 2020 (2021, bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • From NWChem to NWChemEx: Evolving with the Computational Chemistry Landscape (2021, Chemical Reviews)
  • Disparities in COVID-19 fatalities among working Californians (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • Frequency of violence towards healthcare workers in the United States' inpatient psychiatric hospitals: A systematic review of literature (2020, International Journal of Mental Health Nursing)

Frequent coauthors of Robert J. Harrison include:

  • Kristin J. Cummings
  • Jennifer Flattery
  • Amy Heinzerling
  • Sheiphali A. Gandhi
  • Jane C. Fazio

The scientist regularly publishes in several key venues, notably:

  • American Journal of Industrial Medicine
  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • JAMA Internal Medicine

Robert J. Harrison's main research topics include:

  • Occupational and environmental lung diseases
  • Occupational exposure and asthma
  • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
  • Infection Control and Ventilation
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Occupational Health and Safety Research
  • Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems

Best Publications

  • Electron affinities of the first-row atoms revisited. Systematic basis sets and wave functions

    Rick A. Kendall;Thom H. Dunning;Robert J. Harrison

  • Parallel Douglas-Kroll Energy and Gradients in NWChem. Estimating Scalar Relativistic Effects Using Douglas-Kroll Contracted Basis Sets.

    W. A de Jong;R. J. Harrison;D. A. Dixon

  • The International Exascale Software Project roadmap

    Jack Dongarra;Pete Beckman;Terry Moore;Patrick Aerts

  • High performance computational chemistry: An overview of NWChem a distributed parallel application

    Ricky A. Kendall;Edoardo Aprà;David E. Bernholdt;Eric J. Bylaska

  • NWChem: Past, Present, and Future

    E. Aprà;E. J. Bylaska;W. A. de Jong;N. Govind

  • NWChem: Past, present, and future

    E. Aprà;E. J. Bylaska;W. A. de Jong;N. Govind

  • Novel bis-tetrahydrofuranylurethane-containing nonpeptidic protease inhibitor (PI) UIC-94017 (TMC114) with potent activity against multi-PI-resistant human immunodeficiency virus in vitro

    Yasuhiro Koh;Hirotomo Nakata;Kenji Maeda;Hiromi Ogata

  • Development of transferable interaction models for water. II. Accurate energetics of the first few water clusters from first principles

    Sotiris S. Xantheas;Christian J. Burnham;Robert J. Harrison

  • Model structure of decorin and implications for collagen fibrillogenesis.

    Irene T. Weber;Robert W. Harrison;Renato V. Iozzo

  • Multiresolution quantum chemistry: basic theory and initial applications.

    Robert J. Harrison;George I. Fann;Takeshi Yanai;Zhengting Gan

  • Human glucokinase gene: isolation, characterization, and identification of two missense mutations linked to early-onset non-insulin-dependent (type 2) diabetes mellitus.

    M Stoffel;P Froguel;J Takeda;H Zouali

  • Large-scale correlated electronic structure calculations: the RI-MP2 method on parallel computers

    David E. Bernholdt;Robert J. Harrison

  • High Resolution Crystal Structures of HIV-1 Protease with a Potent Non-Peptide Inhibitor (Uic-94017) Active Against Multi-Drug-Resistant Clinical Strains.

    Yunfeng Tie;Peter I. Boross;Peter I. Boross;Yuan-Fang Wang;Laquasha Gaddis

  • Glucokinase mutations associated with non-insulin-dependent (type 2) diabetes mellitus have decreased enzymatic activity: implications for structure/function relationships.

    M. Gidh-Jain;J. Takeda;L. Z. Xu;A. J. Lange

  • Full CI calculations on BH, H2O, NH3, and HF

    R.J. Harrison;N.C. Handy

  • Synthesis of High-Performance Parallel Programs for a Class of ab Initio Quantum Chemistry Models

    G. Baumgartner;A. Auer;D.E. Bernholdt;A. Bibireata

  • Processing and properties of ZrC, ZrN and ZrCN ceramics: a review

    R. W. Harrison;W. E. Lee

  • Approximating full configuration interaction with selected configuration interaction and perturbation theory

    Robert J. Harrison

  • Geometric criteria of hydrogen bonds in proteins and identification of "bifurcated" hydrogen bonds.

    Ivan Y. Torshin;Irene T. Weber;Robert W. Harrison

  • Automatic code generation for many-body electronic structure methods: the tensor contraction engine‡‡

    Alexander A. Auer;Gerald Baumgartner;David E. Bernholdt;Alina Bibireata

  • Structural and kinetic analysis of drug resistant mutants of HIV‐1 protease

    Bhuvaneshwari Mahalingam;John M. Louis;Charles C. Reed;Jill M. Adomat

Frequent Co-Authors

Irene T. Weber
Irene T. Weber Georgia State University
Yi Pan
Yi Pan Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology
Phang C. Tai
Phang C. Tai Georgia State University
John M. Louis
John M. Louis National Institutes of Health
Gregory Beylkin
Gregory Beylkin University of Colorado Boulder
Yan-Qing Zhang
Yan-Qing Zhang Georgia State University
P. Sadayappan
P. Sadayappan University of Utah
Edoardo Aprà
Edoardo Aprà Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Arun K. Ghosh
Arun K. Ghosh Purdue University West Lafayette
Takeshi Yanai
Takeshi Yanai Nagoya University

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