Thomas Hart

622 total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 405 citations indexed

About

Thomas Hart is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Parasitology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Hart has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 405 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Infectious Diseases, 13 papers in Parasitology and 5 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Thomas Hart's work include Viral Infections and Vectors (13 papers), Vector-borne infectious diseases (12 papers) and Vector-Borne Animal Diseases (4 papers). Thomas Hart is often cited by papers focused on Viral Infections and Vectors (13 papers), Vector-borne infectious diseases (12 papers) and Vector-Borne Animal Diseases (4 papers). Thomas Hart collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Thomas Hart's co-authors include Yi‐Pin Lin, Maria A. Diuk‐Wasser, Peter Kraiczy, Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff, Robert J. Linhardt, Paul D. Slowey, Fuming Zhang, Mary J. Laughlin, Sanjay Ram and Erol Fikrig and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Annals of Surgery and The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Hart

22 papers receiving 390 citations

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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.

Development of an mRNA-lipid nanoparticle vaccine against Lyme disease

2023 46 citations Gunjan Arora, Thomas Hart et al. Molecular Therapy profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Hart United States	13	166	162	67	60	53	24	405
Shozo Okano Japan	15	97 0.6×	172 1.1×	56 0.8×	39 0.7×	104 2.0×	56	608
Michal Gaži United States	8	110 0.7×	89 0.5×	62 0.9×	56 0.9×	139 2.6×	16	355
Paulo César Maiorka Brazil	16	120 0.7×	119 0.7×	78 1.2×	52 0.9×	116 2.2×	64	715
Christer Larsson Sweden	16	346 2.1×	279 1.7×	127 1.9×	59 1.0×	90 1.7×	33	680
Dale S. Martin United States	17	359 2.2×	433 2.7×	168 2.5×	137 2.3×	90 1.7×	31	947
Sebastian E. Carrasco United States	12	144 0.9×	139 0.9×	41 0.6×	80 1.3×	94 1.8×	30	449
Kathrine Phillippi‐Falkenstein United States	11	182 1.1×	177 1.1×	127 1.9×	28 0.5×	45 0.8×	20	487
Lisa D. Brown United States	10	122 0.7×	196 1.2×	91 1.4×	36 0.6×	83 1.6×	20	359
Yonghong Liu China	12	110 0.7×	119 0.7×	12 0.2×	27 0.5×	27 0.5×	49	374
Andrew J. Bennett United States	12	182 1.1×	34 0.2×	72 1.1×	45 0.8×	212 4.0×	24	598

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Hart

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Pogosyan, Alek, Jean Debarros, Shenghong He, et al.. (2025). Flexible and stable cycle-by-cycle phase-locked deep brain stimulation system targeting brain oscillations in the management of movement disorders. Brain stimulation. 18(5). 1705–1717.

Yu, Qian, Thomas Hart, Robert Homer, et al.. (2025). Secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor influences periarticular joint inflammation in Borrelia burgdorferi-infected mice. eLife. 14. 1 indexed citations

Johnson, Emily, Thomas Hart, & Erol Fikrig. (2024). Vaccination to Prevent Lyme Disease: A Movement Towards Anti-Tick Approaches. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 230(Supplement_1). S82–S86. 6 indexed citations

Arora, Gunjan, Thomas Hart, Emily Bettini, et al.. (2023). Development of an mRNA-lipid nanoparticle vaccine against Lyme disease. Molecular Therapy. 31(9). 2702–2714. 46 indexed citations breakdown →

Hart, Thomas, et al.. (2023). 0145 Associations Among Childhood Stress, Actigraphy-Measured Sleep Efficiency, and Fasting Glucose Concentrations in Young Adults. SLEEP. 46(Supplement_1). A65–A65.

Dupuis, Alan P., Thomas Hart, Ināra Akopjana, et al.. (2023). Structural evolution of an immune evasion determinant shapes pathogen host tropism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(27). e2301549120–e2301549120. 11 indexed citations

Tang, Xiaotian, Gunjan Arora, Jaqueline Matias, et al.. (2022). A tick C1q protein alters infectivity of the Lyme disease agent by modulating interferon γ. Cell Reports. 41(8). 111673–111673. 14 indexed citations

Hart, Thomas, Alan P. Dupuis, Danielle M. Tufts, et al.. (2021). Host tropism determination by convergent evolution of immunological evasion in the Lyme disease system. PLoS Pathogens. 17(7). e1009801–e1009801. 19 indexed citations

Lin, Yi‐Pin, et al.. (2020). Non-anticoagulant Heparin as a Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Prevents Lyme Disease Infection. ACS Infectious Diseases. 6(3). 503–514. 11 indexed citations

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Federizon, Jasmin, Amber M. Frye, Wei‐Chiao Huang, et al.. (2019). Immunogenicity of the Lyme disease antigen OspA, particleized by cobalt porphyrin-phospholipid liposomes. Vaccine. 38(4). 942–950. 25 indexed citations

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Frye, Amber M., Thomas Hart, Danielle M. Tufts, et al.. (2019). A soft tick Ornithodoros moubata salivary protein OmCI is a potent inhibitor to prevent avian complement activation. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 11(2). 101354–101354. 7 indexed citations

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Tufts, Danielle M., Thomas Hart, Grace F. Chen, et al.. (2019). Outer surface protein polymorphisms linked to host‐spirochete association in Lyme borreliae. Molecular Microbiology. 111(4). 868–882. 27 indexed citations

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Singh, Preeti, Xiuli Yang, Thomas Hart, et al.. (2019). A Novel Laminin-Binding Protein Mediates Microbial-Endothelial Cell Interactions and Facilitates Dissemination of Lyme Disease Pathogens. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 221(9). 1438–1447. 4 indexed citations

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Hart, Thomas, Nancy Nowak, Fuming Zhang, et al.. (2018). Polymorphic factor H-binding activity of CspA protects Lyme borreliae from the host complement in feeding ticks to facilitate tick-to-host transmission. PLoS Pathogens. 14(5). e1007106–e1007106. 52 indexed citations

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Hart, Thomas, Xiuli Yang, Utpal Pal, & Yi‐Pin Lin. (2018). Identification of Lyme borreliae proteins promoting vertebrate host blood-specific spirochete survival in Ixodes scapularis nymphs using artificial feeding chambers. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 9(5). 1057–1063. 12 indexed citations

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Worthen, Wade B. & Thomas Hart. (2016). Resistance toArrenurusspp. Parasitism in Odonates: Patterns Across Species and Comparisons Between a Resistant and Susceptible Host. Journal of Insect Science. 16(1). 37–37. 3 indexed citations

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Smith, Ruben, Kit Wu, Thomas Hart, et al.. (2015). The role of pallidal serotonergic function in Parkinson's disease dyskinesias: a positron emission tomography study. Neurobiology of Aging. 36(4). 1736–1742. 38 indexed citations

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Pallier, Patrick N., Laura Poddighe, Virginia Zbarsky, et al.. (2015). A nutrient combination designed to enhance synapse formation and function improves outcome in experimental spinal cord injury. Neurobiology of Disease. 82. 504–515. 21 indexed citations

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Shirtcliff, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2015). Salivary Cortisol Results Obtainable Within Minutes of Sample Collection Correspond With Traditional Immunoassays. Clinical Therapeutics. 37(3). 505–514. 45 indexed citations

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Balderman, Samuel C., et al.. (1984). Preparation of Venous Allografts. Annals of Surgery. 200(2). 117–130. 19 indexed citations

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