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D-Index
79
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20796
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1701
National Ranking
65

Alfredo Nicosia 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 Alfredo Nicosia sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 243 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Alfredo Nicosia 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 Alfredo Nicosia sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 79 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Alfredo Nicosia is affiliated with the University of Naples Federico II in Italy. Their research spans several interconnected fields including Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these domains, their work extends into subfields such as Immunology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Infectious Diseases, and Oncology.

The scientist's research topics focus on areas including Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, Virus-based Gene Therapy Research, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, CAR-T Cell Therapy Research, T-cell and B-cell Immunology, Viral Gastroenteritis Research and Epidemiology, and Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research.

They have contributed to multiple publications over recent years with a selection of recent papers listed below:

  • Randomized Trial of a Vaccine Regimen to Prevent Chronic HCV Infection, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • New viral vectors for infectious diseases and cancer, 2020, Seminars in Immunology
  • A Genetic Vaccine Encoding Shared Cancer Neoantigens to Treat Tumors with Microsatellite Instability, 2020, Cancer Research
  • Integrity of the Antiviral STING-mediated DNA Sensing in Tumor Cells Is Required to Sustain the Immunotherapeutic Efficacy of Herpes Simplex Oncolytic Virus, 2020, Cancers
  • Retargeted and Multi-cytokine-Armed Herpes Virus Is a Potent Cancer Endovaccine for Local and Systemic Anti-tumor Treatment, 2020, Molecular Therapy - Oncolytics

Frequent collaborators in the scientist's research activities include Elisa Scarselli, Emanuele Sasso, Anna Morena D'Alise, Guendalina Froechlich, and Stefania Capone.

Alfredo Nicosia's work has been published frequently in journals such as Frontiers in Immunology, Cancers, Journal of Visualized Experiments, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, and International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

Best Publications

  • The human scavenger receptor class B type I is a novel candidate receptor for the hepatitis C virus

    Elisa Scarselli;Helenia Ansuini;Raffaele Cerino;Rosa Maria Roccasecca

  • Cell entry of hepatitis C virus requires a set of co-receptors that include the CD81 tetraspanin and the SR-B1 scavenger receptor.

    Birke Bartosch;Alessandra Vitelli;Christelle Granier;Caroline Goujon

  • Novel adenovirus-based vaccines induce broad and sustained T cell responses to HCV in man

    Eleanor Barnes;Eleanor Barnes;Antonella Folgori;Stefania Capone;Leo Swadling

  • Chimpanzee adenovirus vaccine generates acute and durable protective immunity against ebolavirus challenge

    Daphne A Stanley;Anna N Honko;Anna N Honko;Clement Asiedu;John C Trefry

  • A T-cell HCV vaccine eliciting effective immunity against heterologous virus challenge in chimpanzees.

    Antonella Folgori;Stefania Capone;Lionello Ruggeri;Annalisa Meola

  • A human vaccine strategy based on chimpanzee adenoviral and MVA vectors that primes, boosts, and sustains functional HCV-specific T cell memory.

    Leo Swadling;Stefania Capone;Richard D. Antrobus;Anthony Brown

  • A general strategy to identify mimotopes of pathological antigens using only random peptide libraries and human sera.

    A. Folgori;R. Tafi;A. Meola;F. Felici

  • Chimpanzee Adenovirus Vector Ebola Vaccine

    Julie E. Ledgerwood;Adam D. DeZure;Daphne A. Stanley;Emily E. Coates

  • Protective CD8 + T-cell immunity to human malaria induced by chimpanzee adenovirus-MVA immunisation

    Katie J Ewer;Geraldine A O'Hara;Christopher J A Duncan;Katharine A Collins

  • Vaccine Vectors Derived from a Large Collection of Simian Adenoviruses Induce Potent Cellular Immunity Across Multiple Species

    Stefano Colloca;Eleanor Barnes;Antonella Folgori;Virginia Ammendola

  • A Monovalent Chimpanzee Adenovirus Ebola Vaccine Boosted with MVA

    Katie Ewer;Tommy Rampling;Navin Venkatraman;Georgina Bowyer

  • Identification of Amino Acid Residues in CD81 Critical for Interaction with Hepatitis C Virus Envelope Glycoprotein E2

    Adrian Higginbottom;Elizabeth R. Quinn;Chiung-Chi Kuo;Mike Flint

  • A model for the hepatitis C virus envelope glycoprotein E2.

    Asutosh T. Yagnik;Armin Lahm;Annalisa Meola;Rosa Maria Roccasecca

  • ChAd63-MVA-vectored blood-stage malaria vaccines targeting MSP1 and AMA1: assessment of efficacy against mosquito bite challenge in humans

    Susanne H Sheehy;Christopher J A Duncan;Sean C Elias;Prateek Choudhary

  • Clinical Assessment of a Recombinant Simian Adenovirus ChAd63: A Potent New Vaccine Vector

    Geraldine A. O’Hara;Christopher J. A. Duncan;Katie J. Ewer;Katharine A. Collins

  • Two different liver-specific factors stimulate in vitro transcription from the human alpha 1-antitrypsin promoter.

    P Monaci;A Nicosia;R Cortese

  • Binding of the Hepatitis C Virus E2 Glycoprotein to CD81 Is Strain Specific and Is Modulated by a Complex Interplay between Hypervariable Regions 1 and 2

    RosaMaria Roccasecca;Helenia Ansuini;Alessandra Vitelli;Annalisa Meola

  • Prime-boost vectored malaria vaccines: progress and prospects.

    Adrian V S Hill;Arturo Reyes-Sandoval;Geraldine O'Hara;Katie Ewer

  • Vaccine-elicited human T cells recognizing conserved protein regions inhibit HIV-1

    Nicola Borthwick;Tina Ahmed;Beatrice Ondondo;Peter Hayes

  • Chimpanzee Adenovirus Vector Ebola Vaccine — Preliminary Report

    Julie E. Ledgerwood;Adam D. DeZure;Daphne A. Stanley;Laura Novik

Frequent Co-Authors

Riccardo Cortese
Riccardo Cortese Schering-Plough
Antonella Folgori
Antonella Folgori University of Oxford
Adrian V. S. Hill
Adrian V. S. Hill University of Oxford
Katie J. Ewer
Katie J. Ewer University of Oxford
Paul Klenerman
Paul Klenerman University of Oxford
Sarah C. Gilbert
Sarah C. Gilbert University of Oxford
Simon J. Draper
Simon J. Draper University of Oxford
Anna Tramontano
Anna Tramontano Sapienza University of Rome
Gennaro Ciliberto
Gennaro Ciliberto Magna Graecia University

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