J. Kirk Harris

9.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

J. Kirk Harris is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, J. Kirk Harris has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 39 papers in Molecular Biology and 19 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in J. Kirk Harris's work include Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances (32 papers), Tracheal and airway disorders (22 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (18 papers). J. Kirk Harris is often cited by papers focused on Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances (32 papers), Tracheal and airway disorders (22 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (18 papers). J. Kirk Harris collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. J. Kirk Harris's co-authors include Norman R. Pace, Charles E. Robertson, Jeffrey J. Walker, Rob Knight, Brandie D. Wagner, Micah Hamady, Edith T. Zemanick, Mark J. Stevens, Daniel N. Frank and John R. Spear and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Environmental Science & Technology and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

J. Kirk Harris

87 papers receiving 6.4k 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.

Error-correcting barcoded primers for pyrosequencing hundreds of samples in multiplex

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
J. Kirk Harris United States	41	3.2k	1.7k	1.5k	676	554	91	6.6k
Kenneth D. Bruce United Kingdom	42	2.3k 0.7×	784 0.4×	2.0k 1.3×	737 1.1×	413 0.7×	106	5.3k
Scott T. Kelley United States	49	5.8k 1.8×	3.7k 2.1×	831 0.6×	806 1.2×	866 1.6×	138	13.2k
William W. Mohn Canada	62	5.5k 1.7×	2.5k 1.4×	727 0.5×	614 0.9×	1.2k 2.1×	165	12.4k
Charles E. Robertson United States	48	4.5k 1.4×	686 0.4×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.8×	421 0.8×	137	8.6k
Michael J. Cox United Kingdom	43	3.6k 1.1×	1.0k 0.6×	1.7k 1.2×	1.5k 2.2×	196 0.4×	125	9.4k
Ulaş Karaöz United States	29	4.7k 1.5×	2.2k 1.3×	395 0.3×	558 0.8×	196 0.4×	54	9.8k
William G. Wade United Kingdom	51	4.1k 1.3×	1.2k 0.7×	736 0.5×	1.4k 2.1×	234 0.4×	177	13.8k
Chris Gast United Kingdom	38	1.7k 0.5×	1.6k 0.9×	712 0.5×	375 0.6×	295 0.5×	93	5.0k
Barbara A. Methé United States	39	5.0k 1.6×	2.4k 1.3×	297 0.2×	765 1.1×	292 0.5×	98	9.8k
Erica Sodergren United States	46	6.4k 2.0×	1.7k 1.0×	702 0.5×	1.7k 2.6×	282 0.5×	98	12.7k

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Warhurst, Chris, et al.. (2025). A Just Transition?. 9(1 & 2). 63–79.

Harris, J. Kirk, et al.. (2025). Inflammation Unleashed: Uncovering Relationships Between Cathepsin B and Common Cystic Fibrosis Pathogens. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 211(Supplement_1). A1252–A1252. 1 indexed citations

Kim, Minsik, Raymond C. Parrish, Michael J. Tisza, et al.. (2024). Host DNA depletion on frozen human respiratory samples enables successful metagenomic sequencing for microbiome studies. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1590–1590. 3 indexed citations

O’Connor, John B., et al.. (2024). Metabolomics analysis of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid predicts unique features of the lower airway in pediatric cystic fibrosis. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis. 23(6). 1087–1094. 1 indexed citations

O’Connor, John B., et al.. (2023). Detection and identification of fungi in the lower airway of children with and without cystic fibrosis. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1119703–1119703. 7 indexed citations

Harris, J. Kirk, Brandie D. Wagner, Charles E. Robertson, et al.. (2023). Upper airway microbiota development in infants with cystic fibrosis diagnosed by newborn screen. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis. 22(4). 644–651. 5 indexed citations

Davis, Catherine H., et al.. (2023). Pancreatic Gangliocytic Paraganglioma: A Rare Neuroendocrine Neoplasm. Pancreas. 52(6). e346–e348.

Harris, J. Kirk, et al.. (2023). Integrating airway microbiome and blood proteomics data to identify multi-omic networks associated with response to pulmonary infection. The Microbe. 1. 100023–100023. 2 indexed citations

O’Connor, John B., Brandie D. Wagner, Mark J. Stevens, et al.. (2021). Divergence of bacterial communities in the lower airways of CF patients in early childhood. PLoS ONE. 16(10). e0257838–e0257838. 13 indexed citations

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Deterding, Robin R., Brandie D. Wagner, J. Kirk Harris, & Emily M. DeBoer. (2019). Pulmonary Aptamer Signatures in Children’s Interstitial and Diffuse Lung Disease. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 200(12). 1496–1504. 16 indexed citations

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Harris, J. Kirk, et al.. (2019). Luminescent Nanosensors for Ratiometric Monitoring of Three-Dimensional Oxygen Gradients in Laboratory and Clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 85(20). 31 indexed citations

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Williamson, Kayla, et al.. (2017). Impact of enzymatic digestion on bacterial community composition in CF airway samples. PeerJ. 5. e3362–e3362. 3 indexed citations

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Whiteson, Katrine, Barbara Bailey, Megan Bergkessel, et al.. (2014). The Upper Respiratory Tract as a Microbial Source for Pulmonary Infections in Cystic Fibrosis. Parallels from Island Biogeography. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 189(11). 1309–1315. 80 indexed citations

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Lim, Yan Wei, Matthew Haynes, Mike Furlan, et al.. (2014). Purifying the Impure: Sequencing Metagenomes and Metatranscriptomes from Complex Animal-associated Samples. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 21 indexed citations

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Keiser, Nicholas W., Susan E. Birket, Scott R. Tyler, et al.. (2014). Defective Innate Immunity and Hyperinflammation in Newborn Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator–Knockout Ferret Lungs. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 52(6). 683–694. 78 indexed citations

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Goleva, Elena, Leisa Jackson, J. Kirk Harris, et al.. (2013). The Effects of Airway Microbiome on Corticosteroid Responsiveness in Asthma. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 188(10). 1193–1201. 271 indexed citations

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Harris, J. Kirk, et al.. (2012). Delivery and Safety of Inhaled Interferon-γ in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery. 25(2). 79–87. 74 indexed citations

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Kasmi, Karim C. El, Aimee L. Anderson, Michael W. Devereaux, et al.. (2011). Toll-like receptor 4–dependent Kupffer cell activation and liver injury in a novel mouse model of parenteral nutrition and intestinal injury. Hepatology. 55(5). 1518–1528. 137 indexed citations

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Robertson, Charles E., J. Kirk Harris, John R. Spear, & Norman R. Pace. (2005). Phylogenetic diversity and ecology of environmental Archaea. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 8(6). 638–642. 109 indexed citations

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Harris, J. Kirk, et al.. (2005). Structural implications of novel diversity in eucaryal RNase P RNA. RNA. 11(5). 739–751. 50 indexed citations

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