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Immunology

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104
Citations
54079
World Ranking
605
National Ranking
356

Medicine

D-Index
104
Citations
54079
World Ranking
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Bali Pulendran 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 Bali Pulendran sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 230 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Bali Pulendran 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 Bali Pulendran sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 104 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Bali Pulendran is primarily affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research focuses predominantly on the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with significant contributions to the subfields of Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, and Neurology.

The main topics addressed in their work include SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, immunotherapy and immune responses, COVID-19 clinical research studies, immune responses and vaccinations, long-term effects of COVID-19, influenza virus research studies, and immune cell function and interaction.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Immunology
  • Science Translational Medicine
  • Nature Communications
  • Cell

Recent publications featuring Bali Pulendran or including their research contributions are:

  • Systems biological assessment of immunity to mild versus severe COVID-19 infection in humans (2020, Science)
  • Emerging concepts in the science of vaccine adjuvants (2021, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery)
  • Systems vaccinology of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine in humans (2021, Nature)
  • Immune imprinting, breadth of variant recognition, and germinal center response in human SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination (2022, Cell)
  • Mechanisms of innate and adaptive immunity to the Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 vaccine (2022, Nature Immunology)

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Prabhu S. Arunachalam
  • Kari C. Nadeau
  • Mark M. Davis
  • Nadine Rouphael
  • Holden T. Maecker

Best Publications

  • Immunobiology of Dendritic Cells

    Jacques Banchereau;Francine Briere;Christophe Caux;Jean Davoust

  • Systems biology approach predicts immunogenicity of the yellow fever vaccine in humans

    Troy D Querec;Rama Akondy;Eva K Lee;Weiping Cao

  • Immunological mechanisms of vaccination

    Bali Pulendran;Rafi Ahmed;Rafi Ahmed

  • Distinct dendritic cell subsets differentially regulate the class of immune response in vivo

    B. Pulendran;J. L. Smith;G. Caspary;K. Brasel

  • Systems biological assessment of immunity to mild versus severe COVID-19 infection in humans.

    Prabhu S. Arunachalam;Florian Wimmers;Chris Ka Pun Mok;Ranawaka A. P. M. Perera

  • Emerging concepts in the science of vaccine adjuvants.

    Bali Pulendran;Prabhu S. Arunachalam;Derek T. O’Hagan

  • Mice lacking flt3 ligand have deficient hematopoiesis affecting hematopoietic progenitor cells, dendritic cells, and natural killer cells.

    Hilary J. McKenna;Kim L. Stocking;Robert E. Miller;Kenneth Brasel

  • Lamina propria macrophages and dendritic cells differentially induce regulatory and interleukin 17-producing T cell responses.

    Timothy L Denning;Yi-chong Wang;Seema R Patel;Ifor R Williams

  • Programming the magnitude and persistence of antibody responses with innate immunity.

    Sudhir Pai Kasturi;Ioanna Skountzou;Randy A. Albrecht;Dimitrios Koutsonanos

  • Cutting Edge: Different Toll-Like Receptor Agonists Instruct Dendritic Cells to Induce Distinct Th Responses via Differential Modulation of Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase-Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase and c-Fos

    Sudhanshu Agrawal;Anshu Agrawal;Barbara Doughty;Andrew Gerwitz

  • Predicting Network Activity from High Throughput Metabolomics

    Shuzhao Li;Youngja Park;Youngja Park;Sai Duraisingham;Sai Duraisingham;Frederick H. Strobel

  • Systems biology of vaccination for seasonal influenza in humans

    Helder Imoto Nakaya;Jens Wrammert;Eva K Lee;Luigi Racioppi;Luigi Racioppi

  • Molecular signatures of antibody responses derived from a systems biology study of five human vaccines

    Shuzhao Li;Nadine Rouphael;Sai Duraisingham;Sandra Romero-Steiner

  • Translating Innate Immunity into Immunological Memory: Implications for Vaccine Development

    Bali Pulendran;Rafi Ahmed

  • Yeast zymosan, a stimulus for TLR2 and dectin-1, induces regulatory antigen-presenting cells and immunological tolerance

    Stephanie Dillon;Sudhanshu Agrawal;Kaustuv Banerjee;John Letterio

  • Lipopolysaccharides from Distinct Pathogens Induce Different Classes of Immune Responses In Vivo

    Bali Pulendran;Padmasini Kumar;Christopher W. Cutler;Mansour Mohamadzadeh

  • Yellow fever vaccine YF-17D activates multiple dendritic cell subsets via TLR2, 7, 8, and 9 to stimulate polyvalent immunity

    Troy Querec;Soumaya Bennouna;Sefi k Alkan;Yasmina Laouar

  • Sensing pathogens and tuning immune responses

    Bali Pulendran;Karolina Palucka;Jacques Banchereau

  • A Toll-like receptor 2 ligand stimulates Th2 responses in vivo, via induction of extracellular signal-regulated kinase mitogen-activated protein kinase and c-Fos in dendritic cells.

    Stephanie Dillon;Anshu Agrawal;Thomas Van Dyke;Gary Landreth

  • Flt3-Ligand and Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor Mobilize Distinct Human Dendritic Cell Subsets In Vivo

    Bali Pulendran;Jacques Banchereau;Susan Burkeholder;Elizabeth Kraus

  • Developmental pathways of dendritic cells in vivo: distinct function, phenotype, and localization of dendritic cell subsets in FLT3 ligand-treated mice.

    B Pulendran;J Lingappa;M K Kennedy;J Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Helder I. Nakaya
Helder I. Nakaya Universidade de São Paulo
Rafi Ahmed
Rafi Ahmed Emory University
Shane Crotty
Shane Crotty La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology
Mehul S. Suthar
Mehul S. Suthar Emory University
Nadine Rouphael
Nadine Rouphael Emory University
Rama Rao Amara
Rama Rao Amara Emory University
Jens Wrammert
Jens Wrammert Emory University
Francois Villinger
Francois Villinger University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Guido Silvestri
Guido Silvestri Emory University

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