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D-Index
65
Citations
14014
World Ranking
2520
National Ranking
1019

Steven J. Norris 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 Steven J. Norris sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 188 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Steven J. Norris 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 Steven J. Norris sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Steven J. Norris is affiliated with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with significant contributions to related subfields such as Physiology, Parasitology, Microbiology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Endocrinology.

The scientist's work centers on topics including Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment, Vector-borne infectious diseases, Reproductive tract infections research, Vector-Borne Animal Diseases, Sex work and related issues, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, and Plant and Fungal Interactions Research.

Frequent coauthors collaborating in Norris's research include Diane G. Edmondson, Bridget D. DeLay, Linden T. Hu, Jon T. Skare, and Tao Lin.

Publications appear commonly in venues such as PLoS Pathogens, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, and Current Issues in Molecular Biology.

Notable recent papers by Steven J. Norris include:

  • Molecular mechanism for rotational switching of the bacterial flagellar motor (2020, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology)
  • Lyme Disease Pathogenesis (2020, Current Issues in Molecular Biology)
  • In Vitro Cultivation of the Syphilis Spirochete Treponema pallidum (2021, Current Protocols)
  • A selective antibiotic for Lyme disease (2021, Cell)
  • Parameters Affecting Continuous In Vitro Culture of Treponema pallidum Strains (2021, mBio)

Best Publications

  • Complete Genome Sequence of Treponema pallidum, the Syphilis Spirochete

    Claire M. Fraser;Steven J. Norris;George M. Weinstock;Owen White

  • Antigenic Variation in Lyme Disease Borreliae by Promiscuous Recombination of VMP-like Sequence Cassettes

    Jing Ren Zhang;John M. Hardham;Alan G. Barbour;Steven J Norris

  • Correlation between plasmid content and infectivity in Borrelia burgdorferi

    Joye E. Purser;Steven J. Norris

  • Comparison of the genome of the oral pathogen Treponema denticola with other spirochete genomes

    Rekha Seshadri;Garry S. A. Myers;Hervé Tettelin;Jonathan A. Eisen;Jonathan A. Eisen

  • Genetic Variation of the Borrelia burgdorferi Gene vlsE Involves Cassette-Specific, Segmental Gene Conversion

    Jing Ren Zhang;Steven J. Norris

  • A plasmid‐encoded nicotinamidase (PncA) is essential for infectivity of Borrelia burgdorferi in a mammalian host

    Joye E. Purser;Matthew B. Lawrenz;Melissa J. Caimano;Jerrilyn K. Howell

  • Adherence of Borrelia burgdorferi to the proteoglycan decorin.

    B P Guo;S J Norris;L C Rosenberg;M Höök

  • Disruption of the Genes Encoding Antigen 85A and Antigen 85B of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv: Effect on Growth in Culture and in Macrophages

    Lisa Y. Armitige;Chinnaswamy Jagannath;Audrey R. Wanger;Steven J. Norris

  • Low-passage-associated proteins of Borrelia burgdorferi B31: characterization and molecular cloning of OspD, a surface-exposed, plasmid-encoded lipoprotein.

    S J Norris;C J Carter;J K Howell;A G Barbour

  • Kinetics and In Vivo Induction of Genetic Variation of vlsE in Borrelia burgdorferi

    Jing Ren Zhang;Steven J. Norris

  • Polypeptides of Treponema pallidum: progress toward understanding their structural, functional, and immunologic roles. Treponema Pallidum Polypeptide Research Group.

    S J Norris

  • Long-Term In Vitro Culture of the Syphilis Spirochete Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum

    Diane G. Edmondson;Bo Hu;Steven J. Norris

  • Human antibody responses to VlsE antigenic variation protein of Borrelia burgdorferi

    M. B. Lawrenz;J. M. Hardham;R. T. Owens;J. Nowakowski

  • Origin of modern syphilis and emergence of a pandemic Treponema pallidum cluster

    Natasha Arora;Verena J. Schuenemann;Günter Jäger;Alexander Peltzer

  • Crystal structure of Lyme disease variable surface antigen VlsE of Borrelia burgdorferi.

    Christoph Eicken;Vivek Sharma;Thomas Klabunde;Matthew B. Lawrenz

  • BBE02 Disruption Mutants of Borrelia burgdorferi B31 Have a Highly Transformable, Infectious Phenotype

    Hiroki Kawabata;Steven J. Norris;Haruo Watanabe

  • Cellular Architecture of Treponema pallidum: Novel Flagellum, Periplasmic Cone, and Cell Envelope as Revealed by Cryo Electron Tomography

    Jun Liu;Jerrilyn K. Howell;Sherille D. Bradley;Yesha Zheng

  • Intact flagellar motor of Borrelia burgdorferi revealed by cryo-electron tomography: evidence for stator ring curvature and rotor/C-ring assembly flexion.

    Jun Liu;Tao Lin;Douglas J. Botkin;Erin McCrum

  • Polypeptides of Treponema pallidum ; Progress toward understanding their structural, functional, and immunologic roles

    S. J. Norris

  • A Novel Treponema pallidum Antigen, TP0136, Is an Outer Membrane Protein That Binds Human Fibronectin

    Mary Beth Brinkman;Melanie A. McGill;Jonas Pettersson;Arthur Rogers

  • Characterization of a manganese-dependent regulatory protein, TroR, from Treponema pallidum

    James E. Posey;John M. Hardham;Steven J. Norris;Frank C. Gherardini

Frequent Co-Authors

George M. Weinstock
George M. Weinstock The Jackson Laboratory
Jun Liu
Jun Liu Yale University
Alan G. Barbour
Alan G. Barbour University of California, Irvine
James N. Miller
James N. Miller University of California, Los Angeles
Mario T. Philipp
Mario T. Philipp Tulane University
Erica Sodergren
Erica Sodergren The Jackson Laboratory
Timothy Palzkill
Timothy Palzkill Baylor College of Medicine
Lei Chen
Lei Chen Regeneron (United States)
Justin D. Radolf
Justin D. Radolf University of Connecticut Health Center
Claire M. Fraser
Claire M. Fraser University of Maryland, Baltimore

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