2026 Allan McI. Mowat: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	63	2987	2751	265	256	191	20129

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Allan McI. Mowat is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. The focus of their research lies primarily within the fields of immunology and microbiology, with substantial contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work also spans several subfields including immunology, molecular biology, genetics, oncology, and biotechnology.

Their main research topics encompass immune cell function and interaction, immunotherapy and immune responses, T-cell and B-cell immunology, gut microbiota and health, immune cells in cancer, cancer cells and metastasis, as well as single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

Significant recent publications include:

The mannose receptor (CD206) identifies a population of colonic macrophages in health and inflammatory bowel disease, 2021, Scientific Reports
Intestinal cDC1 drive cross-tolerance to epithelial-derived antigen via induction of FoxP3 ⁺ CD8 ⁺ T _regs, 2021, Science Immunology
IRF8 deficiency induces the transcriptional, functional, and epigenetic reprogramming of cDC1 into the cDC2 lineage, 2022, Immunity
The small and large intestine contain related mesenchymal subsets that derive from embryonic Gli1+ precursors, 2023, Nature Communications
Immunological roles of intestinal mesenchymal cells, 2020, Immunology

Frequent co-authors in their publications include William W. Agace, Simon Milling, Calum C. Bain, Julien Vandamme, and Line Wulff.

The scientist has published multiple articles in high-profile venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Reviews Immunology, Mucosal Immunology, Science Immunology, and Scientific Reports. The highest number of publications have appeared in bioRxiv and Nature Reviews Immunology.

In recognition of their contributions, Allan McI. Mowat was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2016.

Best Publications

Anatomical basis of tolerance and immunity to intestinal antigens

Allan McI. Mowat

1974
Citations
Regional specialization within the intestinal immune system

Allan M. Mowat;William Winston Agace

1751
Citations
Constant replenishment from circulating monocytes maintains the macrophage pool in the intestine of adult mice

Calum C Bain;Alberto Bravo-Blas;Charlotte L Scott;Elisa Gomez Perdiguero

1248
Citations
Oral tolerance to food protein

O Pabst;A M Mowat

840
Citations
The anatomical basis of intestinal immunity.

Allan McI. Mowat;Joanne L. Viney

675
Citations
Macrophages in intestinal homeostasis and inflammation

Calum C Bain;Allan McI Mowat

627
Citations
Immune responses to dietary antigens: oral tolerance

Stephan Strobel;Allan McI Mowat

625
Citations
Unravelling mononuclear phagocyte heterogeneity

Frédéric Geissmann;Siamon Gordon;David A Hume;Allan M Mowat

586
Citations
Long-lived self-renewing bone marrow-derived macrophages displace embryo-derived cells to inhabit adult serous cavities

Calum C. Bain;Catherine A. Hawley;Hannah Garner;Charlotte L. Scott

515
Citations
CD64 distinguishes macrophages from dendritic cells in the gut and reveals the Th1-inducing role of mesenteric lymph node macrophages during colitis

Samira Tamoutounour;Samira Tamoutounour;Samira Tamoutounour;Sandrine Henri;Sandrine Henri;Sandrine Henri;Hugues Lelouard;Hugues Lelouard;Hugues Lelouard;Béatrice de Bovis;Béatrice de Bovis;Béatrice de Bovis

481
Citations
Intestinal CD103+ dendritic cells: master regulators of tolerance?

Charlotte L. Scott;Aude M. Aumeunier;Allan McI. Mowat

387
Citations
Expanding Dendritic Cells In Vivo Enhances the Induction of Oral Tolerance

Joanne L. Viney;Allan M. Mowat;Jamie M. O’Malley;Eilidh Williamson

384
Citations
Intestinal CD103− dendritic cells migrate in lymph and prime effector T cells

V. Cerovic;S. A. Houston;Charlotte Scott;A. Aumeunier

319
Citations
Antibiotics induce sustained dysregulation of intestinal T cell immunity by perturbing macrophage homeostasis

Nicholas A. Scott;Nicholas A. Scott;Anna Andrusaite;Peter Andersen;Melissa Lawson

304
Citations
Induction of mucosal and systemic immune responses by immunization with ovalbumin entrapped in poly(lactide-co-glycolide) microparticles.

K J Maloy;A M Donachie;D T O'Hagan;A M Mowat

283
Citations
Immunomodulatory dendritic cells in intestinal lamina propria

Fernando G. Chirdo;Fernando G. Chirdo;Owain R. Millington;Helen Beacock-Sharp;Allan McI. Mowat

282
Citations
Mucosal Macrophages in Intestinal Homeostasis and Inflammation

Allan McI Mowat;Calum C. Bain

275
Citations
Intestinal macrophages and dendritic cells: what's the difference?

Vuk Cerovic;Calum C. Bain;Allan McI. Mowat;Simon W. F. Milling

265
Citations
Immune-stimulating complexes containing Quil A and protein antigen prime class I MHC-restricted T lymphocytes in vivo and are immunogenic by the oral route.

A M Mowat;A M Donachie;G Reid;O Jarrett

264
Citations
Antibodies to IFN-gamma prevent immunologically mediated intestinal damage in murine graft-versus-host reaction.

A M Mowat

244
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Garside University of Glasgow

Kevin J. Maloy University of Oxford

Bernard Malissen Aix-Marseille University

William W. Agace University of Copenhagen

Sandrine Henri Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy

Martin Guilliams Ghent University

Nils Lycke University of Gothenburg

Frederic Geissmann Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Margaret M. Harnett University of Glasgow

Daniel A. Peterson Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

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