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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Microbiology 87 783 696 364 304 243 34567
Medicine 87 13484 12688 6857 6341 250 34768

Ronald G. Collman publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Ronald G. Collman between 1988 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Ronald G. Collman published across 39 years, from 1988 to 2026, averaging 7 papers a year. Output peaked at 28 publications in 2021. 7 of the 272 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1988 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 28. Peak 28 publications in 2021. 1988: 1 publication 1989: 1 publication 1990: 2 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 2 publications 1993: 5 publications 1994: 4 publications 1995: 8 publications 1996: 6 publications 1997: 11 publications 1998: 7 publications 1999: 6 publications 2000: 4 publications 2001: 7 publications 2002: 2 publications 2003: 9 publications 2004: 5 publications 2005: 2 publications 2006: 3 publications 2007: 2 publications 2008: 8 publications 2009: 6 publications 2010: 4 publications 2011: 10 publications 2012: 7 publications 2013: 7 publications 2014: 13 publications 2015: 10 publications 2016: 4 publications 2017: 9 publications 2018: 8 publications 2019: 15 publications 2020: 10 publications 2021: 28 publications 2022: 24 publications 2023: 9 publications 2024: 6 publications 2025: 6 publications 2026: 1 publication
1988 2026

272 publications in total across all disciplines

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Ronald G. Collman: publications per year, 1988 to 2026
Year Publications
1988 1
1989 1
1990 2
1991 0
1992 2
1993 5
1994 4
1995 8
1996 6
1997 11
1998 7
1999 6
2000 4
2001 7
2002 2
2003 9
2004 5
2005 2
2006 3
2007 2
2008 8
2009 6
2010 4
2011 10
2012 7
2013 7
2014 13
2015 10
2016 4
2017 9
2018 8
2019 15
2020 10
2021 28
2022 24
2023 9
2024 6
2025 6
2026 1
Total 272
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Ronald G. Collman 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 Ronald G. Collman sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200 250
Bar chart with 64 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 55–64 to 679+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 288. Most scientists, 288, have 135–144 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 235–244 publications, is where this scientist sits. 55–64 publications: 8 scientists 65–74 publications: 29 scientists 75–84 publications: 55 scientists 85–94 publications: 112 scientists 95–104 publications: 137 scientists 105–114 publications: 190 scientists 115–124 publications: 235 scientists 125–134 publications: 234 scientists 135–144 publications: 288 scientists 145–154 publications: 265 scientists 155–164 publications: 264 scientists 165–174 publications: 253 scientists 175–184 publications: 276 scientists 185–194 publications: 190 scientists 195–204 publications: 234 scientists 205–214 publications: 208 scientists 215–224 publications: 198 scientists 225–234 publications: 155 scientists 235–244 publications: 161 scientists 245–254 publications: 160 scientists 255–264 publications: 146 scientists 265–274 publications: 139 scientists 275–284 publications: 148 scientists 285–294 publications: 115 scientists 295–304 publications: 96 scientists 305–314 publications: 88 scientists 315–324 publications: 106 scientists 325–334 publications: 65 scientists 335–344 publications: 76 scientists 345–354 publications: 64 scientists 355–364 publications: 62 scientists 365–374 publications: 65 scientists 375–384 publications: 61 scientists 385–394 publications: 34 scientists 395–404 publications: 44 scientists 405–414 publications: 36 scientists 415–424 publications: 35 scientists 425–434 publications: 29 scientists 435–444 publications: 33 scientists 445–454 publications: 34 scientists 455–464 publications: 25 scientists 465–474 publications: 26 scientists 475–484 publications: 20 scientists 485–494 publications: 19 scientists 495–504 publications: 16 scientists 505–514 publications: 17 scientists 515–524 publications: 23 scientists 525–534 publications: 14 scientists 535–544 publications: 14 scientists 545–554 publications: 18 scientists 555–564 publications: 12 scientists 565–574 publications: 7 scientists 575–584 publications: 9 scientists 585–594 publications: 9 scientists 595–604 publications: 9 scientists 605–614 publications: 7 scientists 615–624 publications: 9 scientists 625–634 publications: 7 scientists 635–644 publications: 4 scientists 645–654 publications: 5 scientists 655–664 publications: 6 scientists 665–674 publications: 7 scientists 675–678 publications: 3 scientists 679+ publications: 99 scientists
55–64 publications 679+

This scientist: 243 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Microbiology scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 5,513 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
55–64 8
65–74 29
75–84 55
85–94 112
95–104 137
105–114 190
115–124 235
125–134 234
135–144 288
145–154 265
155–164 264
165–174 253
175–184 276
185–194 190
195–204 234
205–214 208
215–224 198
225–234 155
235–244 161 243
245–254 160
255–264 146
265–274 139
275–284 148
285–294 115
295–304 96
305–314 88
315–324 106
325–334 65
335–344 76
345–354 64
355–364 62
365–374 65
375–384 61
385–394 34
395–404 44
405–414 36
415–424 35
425–434 29
435–444 33
445–454 34
455–464 25
465–474 26
475–484 20
485–494 19
495–504 16
505–514 17
515–524 23
525–534 14
535–544 14
545–554 18
555–564 12
565–574 7
575–584 9
585–594 9
595–604 9
605–614 7
615–624 9
625–634 7
635–644 4
645–654 5
655–664 6
665–674 7
675–678 3
679+ 99
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Ronald G. Collman 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 Ronald G. Collman sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 88 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40 to 127+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 162. Most scientists, 162, have 58 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 87 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 40 D-Index: 30 scientists 41 D-Index: 86 scientists 42 D-Index: 90 scientists 43 D-Index: 117 scientists 44 D-Index: 122 scientists 45 D-Index: 123 scientists 46 D-Index: 108 scientists 47 D-Index: 110 scientists 48 D-Index: 106 scientists 49 D-Index: 109 scientists 50 D-Index: 129 scientists 51 D-Index: 111 scientists 52 D-Index: 116 scientists 53 D-Index: 127 scientists 54 D-Index: 134 scientists 55 D-Index: 134 scientists 56 D-Index: 112 scientists 57 D-Index: 136 scientists 58 D-Index: 162 scientists 59 D-Index: 151 scientists 60 D-Index: 139 scientists 61 D-Index: 123 scientists 62 D-Index: 126 scientists 63 D-Index: 144 scientists 64 D-Index: 109 scientists 65 D-Index: 103 scientists 66 D-Index: 124 scientists 67 D-Index: 112 scientists 68 D-Index: 103 scientists 69 D-Index: 131 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 93 scientists 72 D-Index: 96 scientists 73 D-Index: 92 scientists 74 D-Index: 80 scientists 75 D-Index: 66 scientists 76 D-Index: 87 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 73 scientists 79 D-Index: 59 scientists 80 D-Index: 57 scientists 81 D-Index: 55 scientists 82 D-Index: 47 scientists 83 D-Index: 77 scientists 84 D-Index: 50 scientists 85 D-Index: 45 scientists 86 D-Index: 42 scientists 87 D-Index: 41 scientists 88 D-Index: 32 scientists 89 D-Index: 38 scientists 90 D-Index: 35 scientists 91 D-Index: 34 scientists 92 D-Index: 27 scientists 93 D-Index: 26 scientists 94 D-Index: 33 scientists 95 D-Index: 22 scientists 96 D-Index: 37 scientists 97 D-Index: 22 scientists 98 D-Index: 21 scientists 99 D-Index: 22 scientists 100 D-Index: 30 scientists 101 D-Index: 16 scientists 102 D-Index: 20 scientists 103 D-Index: 17 scientists 104 D-Index: 19 scientists 105 D-Index: 16 scientists 106 D-Index: 19 scientists 107 D-Index: 18 scientists 108 D-Index: 14 scientists 109 D-Index: 10 scientists 110 D-Index: 9 scientists 111 D-Index: 7 scientists 112 D-Index: 11 scientists 113 D-Index: 6 scientists 114 D-Index: 15 scientists 115 D-Index: 10 scientists 116 D-Index: 12 scientists 117 D-Index: 7 scientists 118 D-Index: 10 scientists 119 D-Index: 10 scientists 120 D-Index: 11 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 7 scientists 123 D-Index: 12 scientists 124 D-Index: 5 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126 D-Index: 6 scientists 127+ D-Index: 95 scientists
40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 87 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Microbiology scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 5,513 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
40 30
41 86
42 90
43 117
44 122
45 123
46 108
47 110
48 106
49 109
50 129
51 111
52 116
53 127
54 134
55 134
56 112
57 136
58 162
59 151
60 139
61 123
62 126
63 144
64 109
65 103
66 124
67 112
68 103
69 131
70 94
71 93
72 96
73 92
74 80
75 66
76 87
77 60
78 73
79 59
80 57
81 55
82 47
83 77
84 50
85 45
86 42
87 41 87
88 32
89 38
90 35
91 34
92 27
93 26
94 33
95 22
96 37
97 22
98 21
99 22
100 30
101 16
102 20
103 17
104 19
105 16
106 19
107 18
108 14
109 10
110 9
111 7
112 11
113 6
114 15
115 10
116 12
117 7
118 10
119 10
120 11
121 2
122 7
123 12
124 5
125 9
126 6
127+ 95
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Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Ronald G. Collman is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. The primary field of study centers on Medicine, with a substantial focus on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Virology.

Their work addresses several key research topics including:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Ronald G. Collman include:

  • "Signatures of COVID-19 Severity and Immune Response in the Respiratory Tract Microbiome," 2021, published in mBio
  • "Viruses, periodontitis, and comorbidities," 2022, published in Periodontology 2000
  • "Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA using RT-LAMP and molecular beacons," 2021, published in Genome Biology
  • "Heightened resistance to host type 1 interferons characterizes HIV-1 at transmission and after antiretroviral therapy interruption," 2021, published in Science Translational Medicine
  • "Pathogenesis of Aging and Age-related Comorbidities in People with HIV: Highlights from the HIV ACTION Workshop," 2020, published in Pathogens and Immunity

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Frederic D. Bushman (37 publications)
  • Jevon Graham-Wooten (19 publications)
  • Scott Sherrill-Mix (16 publications)
  • Samantha A. Whiteside (14 publications)
  • Ayannah S. Fitzgerald (12 publications)

Their research has been published primarily in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 12 publications
  • mBio with 7 publications
  • The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation with 5 publications
  • Journal of Virology with 4 publications
  • AIDS with 3 publications

Among professional recognitions, Ronald G. Collman is a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Resistance to HIV-1 infection in caucasian individuals bearing mutant alleles of the CCR-5 chemokine receptor gene.

    Michel Samson;Frédérick Libert;Benjamin J. Doranz;Joseph Rucker

  • A dual-tropic primary HIV-1 isolate that uses fusin and the beta-chemokine receptors CKR-5, CKR-3, and CKR-2b as fusion cofactors.

    Benjamin J Doranz;Joseph Rucker;Yanjie Yi;Robert J Smyth

  • Bayesian community-wide culture-independent microbial source tracking

    Dan Knights;Justin Kuczynski;Emily S. Charlson;Jesse Zaneveld

  • Gene editing of CCR5 in autologous CD4 T cells of persons infected with HIV.

    Pablo Tebas;David Stein;Winson W. Tang;Ian Frank

  • Innate lymphoid cells promote lung-tissue homeostasis after infection with influenza virus

    Laurel A Monticelli;Gregory F Sonnenberg;Michael C Abt;Theresa Alenghat

  • Topographical Continuity of Bacterial Populations in the Healthy Human Respiratory Tract

    Emily S. Charlson;Kyle Bittinger;Andrew R. Haas;Ayannah S. Fitzgerald

  • siRNA-directed inhibition of HIV-1 infection.

    Carl D. Novina;Michael F. Murray;Derek M. Dykxhoorn;Paul J. Beresford

  • Associating microbiome composition with environmental covariates using generalized UniFrac distances

    Jun Chen;Kyle Bittinger;Emily S. Charlson;Christian Hoffmann

  • Innate Lymphoid Cells Promote Anatomical Containment of Lymphoid-Resident Commensal Bacteria

    Gregory F. Sonnenberg;Laurel A. Monticelli;Theresa Alenghat;Thomas C. Fung

  • Enrichment of the lung microbiome with oral taxa is associated with lung inflammation of a Th17 phenotype.

    Leopoldo N. Segal;Jose C. Clemente;Jun Chieh J. Tsay;Sergei B. Koralov

  • Optimizing methods and dodging pitfalls in microbiome research

    Dorothy Kim;Casey E. Hofstaedter;Chunyu Zhao;Lisa Mattei

  • Disordered Microbial Communities In The Upper Respiratory Tract Of Cigarette Smokers

    Emily S. Charlson;Jen Chen;Rebecca Custers-Allen;Kyle Bittinger

  • An infectious molecular clone of an unusual macrophage-tropic and highly cytopathic strain of human immunodeficiency virus type 1.

    R Collman;J W Balliet;S A Gregory;H Friedman

  • Power and Sample-Size Estimation for Microbiome Studies Using Pairwise Distances and PERMANOVA

    Brendan J. Kelly;Robert Gross;Kyle Bittinger;Scott Sherrill-Mix

  • Utilization of chemokine receptors, orphan receptors, and herpesvirus-encoded receptors by diverse human and simian immunodeficiency viruses.

    Joseph Rucker;Aimee L. Edinger;Matthew Sharron;Michel Samson

  • Regions in β-Chemokine Receptors CCR5 and CCR2b That Determine HIV-1 Cofactor Specificity

    Joseph Rucker;Michel Samson;Benjamin J Doranz;Frédérick Libert

  • Lung-enriched Organisms and Aberrant Bacterial and Fungal Respiratory Microbiota after Lung Transplant

    Emily S. Charlson;Joshua M. Diamond;Kyle Bittinger;Ayannah S. Fitzgerald

  • An env gene derived from a primary human immunodeficiency virus type 1 isolate confers high in vivo replicative capacity to a chimeric simian/human immunodeficiency virus in rhesus monkeys.

    K A Reimann;J T Li;G Voss;C Lekutis

  • Administration of nucleoside-modified mRNA encoding broadly neutralizing antibody protects humanized mice from HIV-1 challenge

    Norbert Pardi;Anthony J. Secreto;Xiaochuan Shan;Fotini Debonera

  • Distinct effects in primary macrophages and lymphocytes of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 accessory genes vpr, vpu, and nef: mutational analysis of a primary HIV-1 isolate.

    John W. Balliet;Dennis L. Kolson;Glenn Eiger;Frances M. Kim

  • Infection of monocyte-derived macrophages with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). Monocyte-tropic and lymphocyte-tropic strains of HIV-1 show distinctive patterns of replication in a panel of cell types.

    R Collman;N F Hassan;R Walker;B Godfrey

  • Human caspase-4 mediates noncanonical inflammasome activation against gram-negative bacterial pathogens

    Cierra N. Casson;Janet Yu;Valeria M. Reyes;Frances O. Taschuk

  • Role of CCR5 in infection of primary macrophages and lymphocytes by macrophage-tropic strains of human immunodeficiency virus: resistance to patient-derived and prototype isolates resulting from the delta ccr5 mutation.

    Shalini Rana;Gideon Besson;David G. Cook;Joseph Rucker

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederic D. Bushman
Frederic D. Bushman University of Pennsylvania
Kyle Bittinger
Kyle Bittinger Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Guido Silvestri
Guido Silvestri Emory University
Dennis L. Kolson
Dennis L. Kolson University of Pennsylvania
Robert W. Doms
Robert W. Doms Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Mirko Paiardini
Mirko Paiardini Emory University
Cynthia A. Derdeyn
Cynthia A. Derdeyn University of Washington
Jason D. Christie
Jason D. Christie University of Pennsylvania
Robert E. Gross
Robert E. Gross Emory University
Francisco Gonzalez-Scarano
Francisco Gonzalez-Scarano University of Pennsylvania

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