2026 Akiko Iwasaki: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Female Scientists	113	754	720	458	434	325	75102
Immunology	116	370	341	234	212	321	79600
Medicine	116	4261	3992	2330	2156	325	79642

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

8665
Citations
Toll-like receptor control of the adaptive immune responses.

Akiko Iwasaki;Ruslan Medzhitov

5512
Citations
Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy in higher eukaryotes

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

2934
Citations
Regulation of Adaptive Immunity by the Innate Immune System

Akiko Iwasaki;Ruslan Medzhitov;Ruslan Medzhitov

2755
Citations
Recognition of single-stranded RNA viruses by Toll-like receptor 7

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

2475
Citations
Control of adaptive immunity by the innate immune system

Akiko Iwasaki;Ruslan Medzhitov

2366
Citations
Longitudinal analyses reveal immunological misfiring in severe COVID-19.

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

2173
Citations
Mitochondrial DNA Stress Primes the Antiviral Innate Immune Response

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

1845
Citations
Microbiota regulates immune defense against respiratory tract influenza A virus infection

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

1672
Citations
Toll-like Receptor 9–mediated Recognition of Herpes Simplex Virus-2 by Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells

Jennifer Lund;Ayuko Sato;Shizuo Akira;Ruslan Medzhitov

1621
Citations
Sex differences in immune responses that underlie COVID-19 disease outcomes.

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

1448
Citations
Seasonality of Respiratory Viral Infections.

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

1237
Citations
Innate immunity to influenza virus infection.

Akiko Iwasaki;Padmini S. Pillai

1232
Citations
Autophagy-Dependent Viral Recognition by Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells

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

1081
Citations
Neuroinvasion of SARS-CoV-2 in human and mouse brain.

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

1074
Citations
Type I and Type III Interferons - Induction, Signaling, Evasion, and Application to Combat COVID-19.

Annsea Park;Akiko Iwasaki;Akiko Iwasaki

1054
Citations
Saliva or Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimens for Detection of SARS-CoV-2.

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

972
Citations
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

956
Citations
Diverse Functional Autoantibodies in Patients with COVID-19.

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

951
Citations
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

855
Citations
Inflammasome recognition of influenza virus is essential for adaptive immune responses

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

826
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nathan D. Grubaugh Yale University

Albert I. Ko Yale University

Charles S. Dela Cruz Yale University

Ruslan Medzhitov Yale University

Chantal B. F. Vogels Yale University

Anna Marie Pyle Yale University

Richard A. Flavell Yale University

Erol Fikrig Yale University

Brian L. Kelsall National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Tamas L. Horvath Yale University

External Links

Personal website of Akiko Iwasaki

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