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Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Immunology 23 335 373 43
Microbiology 42 255 301 39
Medicine 402 248 292 39

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 849
Documents by Best Scientists*: 615
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 44
SCIMAGO H-index: 54
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.236
Impact Factor: 6.5

Top Publications

  • The promise of mRNA vaccines: a biotech and industrial perspective.

    Nicholas A. C. Jackson;Kent E. Kester;Danilo Casimiro;Sanjay Gurunathan

    (2020)
    496 Citations
  • Distinguishing features of current COVID-19 vaccines: knowns and unknowns of antigen presentation and modes of action

    Franz X. Heinz;Karin Stiasny

    (2021)
    372 Citations
  • Ad26 vector-based COVID-19 vaccine encoding a prefusion-stabilized SARS-CoV-2 Spike immunogen induces potent humoral and cellular immune responses.

    Rinke Bos;Lucy Rutten;Joan E. M. van der Lubbe;Mark J. G. Bakkers

    (2020)
    332 Citations
  • Malaria vaccines since 2000: progress, priorities, products

    Patrick E. Duffy;J. Patrick Gorres

    (2020)
    272 Citations
  • Adenoviral vector vaccine platforms in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

    Samir Andrade Mendonça;Reka Lorincz;Paul Boucher;David T. Curiel

    (2021)
    234 Citations
  • Humoral immune responses to COVID-19 vaccination in people living with HIV receiving suppressive antiretroviral therapy

    Unknown

    (2022)
    153 Citations

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