James Watt

10.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
93 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

James Watt is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology. According to data from OpenAlex, James Watt has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Epidemiology, 36 papers in Infectious Diseases and 21 papers in Microbiology. Recurrent topics in James Watt's work include Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (28 papers), Bacterial Infections and Vaccines (19 papers) and Respiratory viral infections research (15 papers). James Watt is often cited by papers focused on Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (28 papers), Bacterial Infections and Vaccines (19 papers) and Respiratory viral infections research (15 papers). James Watt collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. James Watt's co-authors include Katherine L. O’Brien, Orin S. Levine, Natalie McCall, Emily Henkle, Maria Deloria Knoll, Lara J. Wolfson, Thomas Cherian, Kim Mulholland, Ellen Lee and Mathuram Santosham and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, JAMA and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

James Watt

89 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Burden of disease caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae in children younger than 5 years: global estimates

2009 1.8k citations Katherine L. O’Brien, Lara J. Wolfson et al. The Lancet profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James Watt United States	32	3.4k	1.4k	1.3k	1.0k	513	93	5.2k
Kathleen Harriman United States	34	2.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	2.1k 1.6×	757 0.8×	725 1.4×	70	4.4k
Thomas Cherian India	32	4.4k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	972 0.8×	617 0.6×	663 1.3×	106	6.1k
J. Anthony G. Scott United Kingdom	47	4.2k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	571 1.1×	160	7.5k
Trudy V. Murphy United States	35	3.1k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	1.7k 1.3×	286 0.3×	1.2k 2.3×	99	5.0k
David W. Scheifele Canada	42	4.0k 1.2×	2.1k 1.5×	1.1k 0.9×	444 0.4×	726 1.4×	239	5.6k
Joel I. Ward United States	44	5.0k 1.5×	3.1k 2.2×	1.7k 1.3×	619 0.6×	857 1.7×	138	6.8k
S. Michael Marcy United States	38	2.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	436 0.4×	915 1.8×	90	5.1k
Flor M. Muñoz United States	44	3.8k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	1.7k 1.4×	614 0.6×	1.6k 3.1×	205	6.8k
J. Pekka Nuorti Finland	37	3.7k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	776 0.6×	560 0.6×	367 0.7×	89	5.5k
Joanne M. Langley Canada	48	4.6k 1.4×	965 0.7×	2.5k 2.0×	898 0.9×	881 1.7×	237	7.9k

Countries citing papers authored by James Watt

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of James Watt's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by James Watt with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites James Watt more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by James Watt

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by James Watt. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by James Watt. The network helps show where James Watt may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Watt

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of James Watt. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of James Watt 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 James Watt. James Watt is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

León, Tomás M., Lauren A. White, Hilary Spindler, et al.. (2025). Fostering public health and academic partnerships during and beyond a public health emergency: lessons learned from COVID-19. American Journal of Epidemiology. 194(6). 1482–1484.

Andrejko, Kristin L., Jennifer F. Myers, John J. Openshaw, et al.. (2023). Real-world uptake of COVID-19 vaccination among individuals expressing vaccine hesitancy: A registry-linkage study. Vaccine. 41(10). 1649–1656. 12 indexed citations

Mehrotra, Megha, Esther Lim, Katherine Lamba, et al.. (2022). CalScope: Monitoring Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Seroprevalence From Vaccination and Prior Infection in Adults and Children in California May 2021–July 2021. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 9(7). ofac246–ofac246. 10 indexed citations

Andrejko, Kristin L., Jennifer F. Myers, John J. Openshaw, et al.. (2022). Receipt of COVID-19 and seasonal influenza vaccines in California (USA) during the 2021–2022 influenza season. Vaccine. 41(6). 1190–1197. 8 indexed citations

Serota, David P., et al.. (2021). Disparities in risk perception and low harm reduction services awareness, access, and utilization among young people with newly reported hepatitis C infections in California, 2018. BMC Public Health. 21(1). 1435–1435. 8 indexed citations

Watt, James. (2020). The Genetic testing market. Journal of Antivirals & Antiretrovirals. 1–1. 1 indexed citations

Watt, James, et al.. (2019). Diagnostic challenges and surgical management of co-existent osteoblastoma and aneurysmal bone cyst of the lumbar spine in a child: case report. African Health Sciences. 19(2). 2294–2294. 4 indexed citations

Kozyreva, Varvara K., Guillaume Jospin, Alexander L. Greninger, et al.. (2016). Recent Outbreaks of Shigellosis in California Caused by Two Distinct Populations of Shigella sonnei with either Increased Virulence or Fluoroquinolone Resistance. mSphere. 1(6). 36 indexed citations

Zipprich, Jennifer, et al.. (2015). Measles Outbreak—California, December 2014–February 2015. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 66(1). 82–83. 225 indexed citations

10.

Greninger, Alexander L., Samia N. Naccache, Kevin Messacar, et al.. (2015). A novel outbreak enterovirus D68 strain associated with acute flaccid myelitis cases in the USA (2012–14): a retrospective cohort study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 15(6). 671–682. 280 indexed citations

11.

Ayscue, Patrick, Erin L. Murray, Timothy M. Uyeki, et al.. (2014). Influenza-associated intensive-care unit admissions and deaths - California, September 29, 2013-January 18, 2014.. PubMed. 63(7). 143–7. 22 indexed citations

12.

Watt, James, et al.. (2013). HIV Status Determination Among Tuberculosis Patients From California During 2008. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 19(2). 169–177. 7 indexed citations

13.

Grant, Lindsay R., Jan Vinjé, Umesh D. Parashar, et al.. (2012). Epidemiologic and Clinical Features of Other Enteric Viruses Associated with Acute Gastroenteritis in American Indian Infants. The Journal of Pediatrics. 161(1). 110–115.e1. 32 indexed citations

14.

Fitzwater, Sean, James Watt, Orin S. Levine, & Mathuram Santosham. (2010). Haemophilus influenzaetype b conjugate vaccines: Considerations for vaccination schedules and implications for developing countries. Human Vaccines. 6(10). 810–818. 21 indexed citations

15.

O’Brien, Katherine L., Lara J. Wolfson, James Watt, et al.. (2009). Burden of disease caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae in children younger than 5 years: global estimates. The Lancet. 374(9693). 893–902. 1838 indexed citations breakdown →

16.

Millar, Eugene V., Katherine L. O’Brien, James Watt, et al.. (2005). Epidemiology of Invasive Haemophilus influenzae Type A Disease among Navajo and White Mountain Apache Children, 1988-2003. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 40(6). 823–830. 64 indexed citations

17.

Watt, James, Orin S. Levine, & Mathuram Santosham. (2003). Global reduction of Hib disease: what are the next steps? Proceedings of the meeting. The Journal of Pediatrics. 143(6). 163–187. 54 indexed citations

18.

Hyde, Terri B., Mark Gilbert, Elizabeth R. Zell, et al.. (2001). Azithromycin Prophylaxis during a Hospital Outbreak ofMycoplasma pneumoniaePneumonia. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 183(6). 907–912. 31 indexed citations

19.

Watt, James. (1994). Alternative management procedures should be used. BMJ. 308(6941). 1424.2–1424.2. 3 indexed citations

20.

Watt, James, et al.. (1978). Considerations on the medicinal use of factitious airs, and on the manner of obtaining them in large quantites : in two parts. Readex Microprint eBooks. 2 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact