William A. Harris

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

William A. Harris is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Numerical Analysis. According to data from OpenAlex, William A. Harris has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 11 papers in Numerical Analysis. Recurrent topics in William A. Harris's work include Retinal Development and Disorders (14 papers), Differential Equations and Numerical Methods (11 papers) and Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling (8 papers). William A. Harris is often cited by papers focused on Retinal Development and Disorders (14 papers), Differential Equations and Numerical Methods (11 papers) and Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling (8 papers). William A. Harris collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. William A. Harris's co-authors include Christine E. Holt, Muriel Perron, Huizhong W. Tao, Mu‐ming Poo, Monica L. Vetter, Shami Kanekar, Donald A. Lutz, Yasutaka Sibuya, Samiran Ray and Fanny Mann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William A. Harris

54 papers receiving 2.8k citations

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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.

A critical window for cooperation and competition among developing retinotectal synapses

1998 663 citations Huizhong W. Tao, Christine E. Holt et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William A. Harris United States	22	1.5k	1.3k	577	483	349	57	3.0k
Mark Noble United States	26	2.7k 1.8×	1.8k 1.4×	407 0.7×	171 0.4×	3.2k 9.2×	59	6.5k
Fidel Santamarı́a United States	17	546 0.4×	702 0.5×	109 0.2×	368 0.8×	28 0.1×	39	1.5k
Stephen J. Eglen United Kingdom	25	912 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	157 0.3×	601 1.2×	50 0.1×	70	1.8k
Thomas M. Bartol United States	24	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	235 0.4×	524 1.1×	47 0.1×	46	2.1k
Geoffrey J. Goodhill Australia	33	974 0.6×	1.7k 1.3×	808 1.4×	988 2.0×	389 1.1×	119	3.1k
Tomomitsu Miyoshi Japan	19	958 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	81 0.1×	232 0.5×	75 0.2×	91	1.9k
Helga Kolb United States	53	8.0k 5.2×	6.6k 5.1×	651 1.1×	2.1k 4.3×	116 0.3×	181	9.9k
Philbert S. Tsai United States	26	636 0.4×	1000 0.8×	153 0.3×	749 1.6×	98 0.3×	40	4.2k
Zhijian Wu United States	31	3.4k 2.2×	455 0.4×	195 0.3×	52 0.1×	29 0.1×	105	4.5k
J.‐C. Floyd Sarria Switzerland	7	632 0.4×	987 0.8×	338 0.6×	605 1.3×	179 0.5×	7	2.1k

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Harris, William A., John M. Costello, Jason R. Buckley, et al.. (2025). Pulmonary Artery Size as a Predictor of Early Post-operative Pediatric and Congenital Heart Transplant Outcomes. Pediatric Cardiology. 47(2). 767–776.

Harris, William A., et al.. (2024). A case of resuscitated cardiac arrest in a school-aged child with pyrophosphatase 2 deficiency. HeartRhythm Case Reports. 11(4). 291–295. 1 indexed citations

Rapaport, David, et al.. (2001). Cellular competence plays a role in photoreceptor differentiation in the developing Xenopus retina. Journal of Neurobiology. 49(2). 129–141. 48 indexed citations

Perron, Muriel & William A. Harris. (2000). Determination of vertebrate retinal progenitor cell fate by the Notch pathway and basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 57(2). 215–223. 94 indexed citations

Perron, Muriel, et al.. (1999). X-ngnr-1 and Xath3 promote ectopic expression of sensory neuron markers in the neurula ectoderm and have distinct inducing properties in the retina. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 96(26). 14996–15001. 101 indexed citations

Ohnuma, Shin‐ichi, Anna Philpott, Ke Wang, Christine E. Holt, & William A. Harris. (1999). p27Xic1, a Cdk Inhibitor, Promotes the Determination of Glial Cells in Xenopus Retina. Cell. 99(5). 499–510. 185 indexed citations

Perron, Muriel, Shami Kanekar, Monica L. Vetter, & William A. Harris. (1998). The Genetic Sequence of Retinal Development in the Ciliary Margin of theXenopusEye. Developmental Biology. 199(2). 185–200. 268 indexed citations

Tao, Huizhong W., et al.. (1998). A critical window for cooperation and competition among developing retinotectal synapses. Nature. 395(6697). 37–44. 663 indexed citations breakdown →

Harris, William A.. (1997). Cellular diversification in the vertebrate retina. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 7(5). 651–658. 139 indexed citations

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Rétaux, Sylvie & William A. Harris. (1996). Engrailed and retinotectal topography. Trends in Neurosciences. 19(12). 542–546. 39 indexed citations

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Harris, William A. & Christine E. Holt. (1995). From tags to RAGS: Chemoaffinity finally has receptors and ligands. Neuron. 15(2). 241–244. 27 indexed citations

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Chien, Chi-Bin & William A. Harris. (1994). 4 Axonal Guidance from Retina to Tectum in Embryonic Xenopus. Current topics in developmental biology. 29. 135–169. 26 indexed citations

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Harris, William A., et al.. (1992). Two cellular inductions involved in photoreceptor determination in the Xenopus retina. Neuron. 9(2). 357–372. 104 indexed citations

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Harris, William A. & S. Shao. (1991). Refined approximations of the solutions of a coupled system with turning points. Journal of Differential Equations. 92(1). 125–144. 3 indexed citations

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Harris, William A. & Donald A. Lutz. (1977). A unified theory of asymptotic integration. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 57(3). 571–586. 60 indexed citations

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Harris, William A. & Donald A. Lutz. (1975). Asymptotic integration of adiabatic oscillators. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 51(1). 76–93. 64 indexed citations

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Harris, William A. & Donald A. Lutz. (1974). On the asymptotic integration of linear differential systems. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 48(1). 1–16. 39 indexed citations

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Harris, William A., Yasutaka Sibuya, & Louis Weinberg. (1969). Holomorphic solutions of linear differential systems at singular points. Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. 35(4). 245–248. 21 indexed citations

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Harris, William A.. (1968). Linear systems of difference equations with a regular singularity. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 19(5). 1228–1236. 2 indexed citations

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Harris, William A.. (1966). On a theorem of S. Tanaka. Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences. 2(1). 1–4. 1 indexed citations

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