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Akiko Iwasaki publication distribution in Immunology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Immunology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Akiko Iwasaki sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 321 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 807 publications or more.

Akiko Iwasaki D-index placement in Immunology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Immunology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Akiko Iwasaki sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 116 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 157 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2018 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2011 - AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award, American Association of Immunologists

Overview

Akiko Iwasaki is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with notable contributions across several subfields including Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Neurology, Molecular Biology, and Epidemiology.

Their work spans multiple complex topics such as SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, COVID-19 clinical research studies, long-term effects of COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, immunotherapy and immune responses, T-cell and B-cell immunology, and interferon and immune responses.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Akiko Iwasaki include the following:

  • Longitudinal analyses reveal immunological misfiring in severe COVID-19, 2020, Nature
  • Sex differences in immune responses that underlie COVID-19 disease outcomes, 2020, Nature
  • Seasonality of Respiratory Viral Infections, 2020, Annual Review of Virology
  • Saliva or Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimens for Detection of SARS-CoV-2, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Neuroinvasion of SARS-CoV-2 in human and mouse brain, 2020, The Journal of Experimental Medicine

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Albert I. Ko, Tianyang Mao, Nathan D. Grubaugh, Eric Song, and Shelli Farhadian.

Akiko Iwasaki's work is published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent being bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature, The Journal of Immunology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Cell.

Recognition includes membership in the National Academy of Sciences awarded in 2018 and receiving the AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award from the American Association of Immunologists in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Toll-like receptor control of the adaptive immune responses.

    Akiko Iwasaki;Ruslan Medzhitov

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy in higher eukaryotes

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Hagai Abeliovich;Patrizia Agostinis;Devendra K. Agrawal

  • Regulation of Adaptive Immunity by the Innate Immune System

    Akiko Iwasaki;Ruslan Medzhitov;Ruslan Medzhitov

  • Recognition of single-stranded RNA viruses by Toll-like receptor 7

    Jennifer M. Lund;Lena Alexopoulou;Ayuko Sato;Margaret Karow

  • Control of adaptive immunity by the innate immune system

    Akiko Iwasaki;Ruslan Medzhitov

  • Longitudinal analyses reveal immunological misfiring in severe COVID-19.

    Carolina Lucas;Patrick Wong;Jon Klein;Tiago B R Castro

  • Mitochondrial DNA Stress Primes the Antiviral Innate Immune Response

    A. Phillip West;William Khoury-Hanold;Matthew Staron;Michal C. Tal

  • Microbiota regulates immune defense against respiratory tract influenza A virus infection

    Takeshi Ichinohe;Iris K. Pang;Yosuke Kumamoto;David R. Peaper

  • Toll-like Receptor 9–mediated Recognition of Herpes Simplex Virus-2 by Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells

    Jennifer Lund;Ayuko Sato;Shizuo Akira;Ruslan Medzhitov

  • Sex differences in immune responses that underlie COVID-19 disease outcomes.

    Takehiro Takahashi;Mallory K. Ellingson;Patrick Wong;Benjamin Israelow

  • Seasonality of Respiratory Viral Infections.

    Miyu Moriyama;Walter J. Hugentobler;Akiko Iwasaki;Akiko Iwasaki

  • Innate immunity to influenza virus infection.

    Akiko Iwasaki;Padmini S. Pillai

  • Autophagy-Dependent Viral Recognition by Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells

    Heung Kyu Lee;Jennifer M. Lund;Balaji Ramanathan;Noboru Mizushima

  • Neuroinvasion of SARS-CoV-2 in human and mouse brain.

    Eric Song;Ce Zhang;Benjamin Israelow;Alice Lu-Culligan

  • Type I and Type III Interferons - Induction, Signaling, Evasion, and Application to Combat COVID-19.

    Annsea Park;Akiko Iwasaki;Akiko Iwasaki

  • Saliva or Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimens for Detection of SARS-CoV-2.

    Anne L. Wyllie;John Fournier;Arnau Casanovas-Massana;Melissa Campbell

  • Analytical sensitivity and efficiency comparisons of SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR primer-probe sets.

    Chantal B.F. Vogels;Anderson F. Brito;Anne L. Wyllie;Joseph R. Fauver

  • Diverse Functional Autoantibodies in Patients with COVID-19.

    Eric Y. Wang;Tianyang Mao;Jon Klein;Yile Dai

  • Localization of Distinct Peyer's Patch Dendritic Cell Subsets and Their Recruitment by Chemokines Macrophage Inflammatory Protein (Mip)-3α, Mip-3β, and Secondary Lymphoid Organ Chemokine

    Akiko Iwasaki;Brian L. Kelsall

  • Inflammasome recognition of influenza virus is essential for adaptive immune responses

    Takeshi Ichinohe;Heung Kyu Lee;Yasunori Ogura;Richard Flavell

Frequent Co-Authors

Nathan D. Grubaugh
Nathan D. Grubaugh Yale University
Albert I. Ko
Albert I. Ko Yale University
Charles S. Dela Cruz
Charles S. Dela Cruz Yale University
Ruslan Medzhitov
Ruslan Medzhitov Yale University
Chantal B. F. Vogels
Chantal B. F. Vogels Yale University
Anna Marie Pyle
Anna Marie Pyle Yale University
Richard A. Flavell
Richard A. Flavell Yale University
Erol Fikrig
Erol Fikrig Yale University
Brian L. Kelsall
Brian L. Kelsall National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Tamas L. Horvath
Tamas L. Horvath Yale University

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