Bryan Heit

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Bryan Heit is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bryan Heit has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Immunology, 23 papers in Molecular Biology and 16 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Bryan Heit's work include Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation (16 papers), Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology (13 papers) and Immune cells in cancer (13 papers). Bryan Heit is often cited by papers focused on Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation (16 papers), Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology (13 papers) and Immune cells in cancer (13 papers). Bryan Heit collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Iran. Bryan Heit's co-authors include Paul Kubes, Pina Colarusso, Lixin Liu, Ronald S. Flannagan, David E. Heinrichs, Mia Phillipson, Charles Yin, Eko Raharjo, Samantha A. Tavener and Christie M. Ballantyne and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, The Journal of Experimental Medicine and The Journal of Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Bryan Heit

62 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Intraluminal crawling of neutrophils to emigration sites: a molecularly distinct process from adhesion in the recruitment cascade

2006 528 citations Mia Phillipson, Bryan Heit et al. The Journal of Experimental Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bryan Heit Canada	29	1.8k	1.2k	789	535	345	66	3.6k
Sunil K. Shaw United States	30	2.2k 1.3×	1.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.6×	450 0.8×	361 1.0×	64	4.9k
Mark A. Travis United Kingdom	32	1.8k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	608 0.8×	373 0.7×	217 0.6×	55	4.2k
Minsoo Kim United States	35	1.7k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	910 1.2×	395 0.7×	239 0.7×	73	3.4k
Hitoshi Hasegawa Japan	42	2.3k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	690 0.9×	341 0.6×	231 0.7×	190	5.1k
Rami Hershkoviz Israel	35	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	819 1.0×	584 1.1×	254 0.7×	98	3.9k
Adam Lacy‐Hulbert United States	35	2.7k 1.5×	1.9k 1.6×	681 0.9×	442 0.8×	707 2.0×	71	6.0k
Leonor Kremer Spain	33	1.0k 0.6×	1.5k 1.2×	326 0.4×	589 1.1×	491 1.4×	75	3.4k
Peter N. Monk United Kingdom	44	2.6k 1.5×	2.1k 1.7×	780 1.0×	308 0.6×	516 1.5×	127	6.2k
Sandrine Bourdoulous France	28	640 0.4×	1.5k 1.2×	471 0.6×	496 0.9×	234 0.7×	54	4.0k
Bruce D. Freedman United States	36	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	452 0.6×	330 0.6×	131 0.4×	71	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Bryan Heit

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bryan Heit

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bryan Heit

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bryan Heit. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bryan Heit based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Bryan Heit. Bryan Heit is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Aktar, Amena, et al.. (2025). GATA2 induces a stem cell–like transcriptional program in macrophages that promotes an atherogenic phenotype. Journal of Leukocyte Biology. 117(10).

Aktar, Amena, et al.. (2025). GATA2 Mediates Macrophage Proliferation During Atherosclerosis. Journal of the American Heart Association. 14(21). e043646–e043646.

Taefehshokr, Nima, Corby Fink, Amena Aktar, et al.. (2024). SARS-CoV-2 NSP5 antagonizes MHC II expression by subverting histone deacetylase 2. Journal of Cell Science. 137(10). 5 indexed citations

Aktar, Amena & Bryan Heit. (2023). Role of the pioneer transcription factor GATA2 in health and disease. Journal of Molecular Medicine. 101(10). 1191–1208. 8 indexed citations

Taefehshokr, Nima & Bryan Heit. (2023). Methods for Quantitative Efferocytosis Assays. Methods in molecular biology. 2692. 41–59. 1 indexed citations

Heit, Bryan, et al.. (2021). Role of Apoptotic Cell Clearance in Pneumonia and Inflammatory Lung Disease. Pathogens. 10(2). 134–134. 18 indexed citations

Heit, Bryan, et al.. (2021). Having an Old Friend for Dinner: The Interplay between Apoptotic Cells and Efferocytes. Cells. 10(5). 1265–1265. 9 indexed citations

Heit, Bryan, et al.. (2020). Customizable live-cell imaging chambers for multimodal and multiplex fluorescence microscopy. Biochemistry and Cell Biology. 98(5). 612–623. 4 indexed citations

Taefehshokr, Nima, Sina Taefehshokr, & Bryan Heit. (2020). Mechanisms of Dysregulated Humoral and Cellular Immunity by SARS-CoV-2. Pathogens. 9(12). 1027–1027. 23 indexed citations

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Pawlak, Emily N., et al.. (2019). Soluble CD93 is an apoptotic cell opsonin recognized by α _x β ₂. European Journal of Immunology. 49(4). 600–610. 25 indexed citations

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Yin, Charles, et al.. (2017). Human-Specific Mutations and Positively Selected Sites in MARCO Confer Functional Changes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 35(2). 440–450. 10 indexed citations

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Yin, Charles & Bryan Heit. (2017). Armed for destruction: formation, function and trafficking of neutrophil granules. Cell and Tissue Research. 371(3). 455–471. 72 indexed citations

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Yin, Charles, et al.. (2017). Rab17 mediates intermixing of phagocytosed apoptotic cells with recycling endosomes. Small GTPases. 10(3). 218–226. 20 indexed citations

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Evans, Amanda, et al.. (2016). Quantitative Efferocytosis Assays. Methods in molecular biology. 1519. 25–41. 13 indexed citations

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Azizi, Paymon, Roman Zyla, Sha Guan, et al.. (2014). Clathrin-dependent entry and vesicle-mediated exocytosis define insulin transcytosis across microvascular endothelial cells. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 26(4). 740–750. 72 indexed citations

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Heit, Bryan, Hani Kim, Gabriela Cosı́o, et al.. (2013). Multimolecular Signaling Complexes Enable Syk-Mediated Signaling of CD36 Internalization. Developmental Cell. 24(4). 372–383. 97 indexed citations

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Phillipson, Mia, Bryan Heit, Pina Colarusso, et al.. (2006). Intraluminal crawling of neutrophils to emigration sites: a molecularly distinct process from adhesion in the recruitment cascade. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 203(12). 2569–2575. 528 indexed citations breakdown →

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Heit, Bryan, Gareth J. Jones, Derrice Knight, et al.. (2006). HIV and Other Lentiviral Infections Cause Defects in Neutrophil Chemotaxis, Recruitment, and Cell Structure: Immunorestorative Effects of Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor. The Journal of Immunology. 177(9). 6405–6414. 29 indexed citations

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Khan, Adil I., Steven M. Kerfoot, Bryan Heit, et al.. (2004). Role of CD44 and Hyaluronan in Neutrophil Recruitment. The Journal of Immunology. 173(12). 7594–7601. 161 indexed citations

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Kubes, Paul, Bryan Heit, Guido van Marle, et al.. (2003). In Vivo Impairment of Neutrophil Recruitment during Lentivirus Infection. The Journal of Immunology. 171(9). 4801–4808. 30 indexed citations

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