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Anne Spurkland

Anne Spurkland

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
47
Citations
12611
World Ranking
4743
National Ranking
19

Anne Spurkland publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

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

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 142 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Anne Spurkland D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Medicine
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Medicine
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Medicine
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Medicine

Overview

Anne Spurkland is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and has a research focus spanning immunology, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work prominently addresses aspects of immune cell function, the molecular mechanisms underlying immune responses, and disease-related immune interactions.

Their research contributions include a number of recent papers published in established venues, such as:

  • Adaptor proteins: Flexible and dynamic modulators of immune cell signalling (2020, Scandinavian Journal of Immunology)
  • Tyr192 Regulates Lymphocyte-Specific Tyrosine Kinase Activity in T Cells (2021, The Journal of Immunology)
  • Exploring the role of the multiple sclerosis susceptibility gene CLEC16A in T cells (2021, Scandinavian Journal of Immunology)
  • Low-Frequency and Rare-Coding Variation Contributes to Multiple Sclerosis Risk (2020, Cell)
  • High-throughput analysis of T cell-monocyte interaction in human tuberculosis (2020, Clinical & Experimental Immunology)

Anne Spurkland's frequent co-authors include Pawel P. Borowicz, Hanna Chan, Brian C. Gilmour, Vibeke Sundvold, and Greger Abrahamsen.

Their publications have been primarily featured in venues such as:

  • Scandinavian Journal of Immunology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • The Journal of Immunology

Their main fields of study encompass:

  • Immunology and Microbiology
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these fields, subfields of particular focus include:

  • Immunology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Oncology
  • Epidemiology

The central topics of their investigations are:

  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Interferon and immune responses
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
  • Immune responses and vaccinations
  • Diabetes and associated disorders

Anne Spurkland has been recognized as a Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in the field of Medicine.

Best Publications

  • Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis

    Stephen Sawcer;Garrett Hellenthal;Matti Pirinen;Chris C. A. Spencer

  • Multiple sclerosis genomic map implicates peripheral immune cells and microglia in susceptibility

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  • Analysis of immune-related loci identifies 48 new susceptibility variants for multiple sclerosis

    Ashley H. Beecham;Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos;Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos;Dionysia K. Xifara;Mary F. Davis

  • Class II HLA interactions modulate genetic risk for multiple sclerosis

    L Moutsianas;L Jostins;A H Beecham;A T Dilthey

  • A high-density screen for linkage in multiple sclerosis.

    Sawcer S;Ban M;Maranian M;Yeo Tw

  • VEGF receptor-2 Y951 signaling and a role for the adapter molecule TSAd in tumor angiogenesis

    Taro Matsumoto;Svante Bohman;Johan Dixelius;Tone Berge

  • VEGFR2 induces c-Src signaling and vascular permeability in vivo via the adaptor protein TSAd

    Zuyue Sun;Xiujuan Li;Sara Massena;Simone Kutschera

  • Features of autoimmune hepatitis in primary sclerosing cholangitis: an evaluation of 114 primary sclerosing cholangitis patients according to a scoring system for the diagnosis of autoimmune hepatitis.

    Kirsten Muri Boberg;Olav Fausa;Terese Haaland;Ellen Holter

  • CTLA4 promoter and exon 1 dimorphisms in multiple sclerosis.

    Harbo Hf;Celius Eg;Vartdal F;Spurkland A

  • K-ras mutation in colorectal cancer: relations to patient age, sex and tumour location.

    J. Breivik;G. I. Meling;A. Spurkland;T. O. Rognum

  • HLA-DR and -DQ genotypes of celiac disease patients serologically typed to be non-DR3 or non-DR5/7.

    Anne Spurkland;Ludvig M. Sollid;Isabel Polanco;Frode Vartdal

  • Genes in the HLA class I region may contribute to the HLA class II‐associated genetic susceptibility to multiple sclerosis

    H.F. Harbo;B.A. Lie;S. Sawcer;E.G. Celius

  • Dermatitis herpetiformis and celiac disease are both primarily associated with the HLA-DQ (α1*0501, (β1*02) or the HLA-DQ (α1*03, (β1*0302) heterodimers

    A. Spurkland;G. Ingvarsson;E. S. Falk;I. Knutsen

  • HLA-DQA1 and HLA-DQB1 genes may jointly determine susceptibility to develop multiple sclerosis

    Anne Spurkland;Kjersti Skjold Rønningen;Bodvar Vandvik;Erik Thorsby

  • Distribution of HLA-DRB1, -DQA1 and -DQB1 alleles and DQA1-DQB1 genotypes among Norwegian patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.

    Kjersti S. Rønningen;Anne Spurkland;Thomas Iwe;Frode Vartdal

  • Replication analysis identifies TYK2 as a multiple sclerosis susceptibility factor

    Maria Ban;An Goris;Åslaug R. Lorentzen;Amie Baker

  • HLA class II haplotypes in primary sclerosing cholangitis patients from five European populations

    A. Spurkland;S. Saarinen;K.M. Boberg;S. Mitchell

  • Network-based multiple sclerosis pathway analysis with GWAS data from 15,000 cases and 30,000 controls

    Sergio E. Baranzini;Pouya Khankhanian;Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos;Michael Li

  • Identification of lectin-like receptors expressed by antigen presenting cells and neutrophils and their mapping to a novel gene complex.

    Line Mari Flornes;Yenan T. Bryceson;Anne Spurkland;Johnny C. Lorentzen

  • The amino acid at position 57 of the HLA-DQB chain and susceptibility to develop insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus

    Kjersti S. Rønningen;Thomas Iwe;Trond S. Halstensen;Anne Spurkland

  • The expanding genetic overlap between multiple sclerosis and type I diabetes

    David R Booth;Robert N Heard;Graeme J Stewart;An Goris

  • Low-Frequency and Rare-Coding Variation Contributes to Multiple Sclerosis Risk

    Mitja Mitrovič;Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos;Ashley H. Beecham;Theresa Dankowski

Frequent Co-Authors

Hanne F. Harbo
Hanne F. Harbo Oslo University Hospital
Erik Thorsby
Erik Thorsby Oslo University Hospital
Jan Hillert
Jan Hillert Karolinska Institute
Stephen Sawcer
Stephen Sawcer University of Cambridge
Per Soelberg Sørensen
Per Soelberg Sørensen University of Copenhagen
David A. Hafler
David A. Hafler Yale University
David R. Booth
David R. Booth University of Sydney
Graeme J. Stewart
Graeme J. Stewart University of Sydney
Janna Saarela
Janna Saarela University of Helsinki
Kjell-Morten Myhr
Kjell-Morten Myhr University of Bergen

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