2026 Bjoern Peters: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	110	487	449	295	267	455	61584
Medicine	110	5442	5110	2931	2717	463	61668

Overview

Bjoern Peters is affiliated with the La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Immunology and Microbiology. Within these fields, the scientist has focused on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Oncology.

The research topics frequently addressed include vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, immunotherapy and immune responses, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, T-cell and B-cell immunology, tuberculosis research and epidemiology, and COVID-19 clinical research studies.

Bjoern Peters has co-authored publications with several frequent collaborators, including:

Alessandro Sette (124 joint publications)
Jason Greenbaum (44 joint publications)
Cecilia S. Lindestam Arlehamn (42 joint publications)
April Frazier (31 joint publications)
Morten Nielsen (31 joint publications)

Their scholarly output has appeared in notable publication venues, with multiple contributions to:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 38 publications
The Journal of Immunology - 22 publications
JCI Insight - 9 publications
Database - 7 publications
Frontiers in Immunology - 7 publications

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Bjoern Peters include:

Targets of T Cell Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus in Humans with COVID-19 Disease and Unexposed Individuals, 2020, Cell
Immunological memory to SARS-CoV-2 assessed for up to 8 months after infection, 2021, Science
NetMHCpan-4.1 and NetMHCIIpan-4.0: improved predictions of MHC antigen presentation by concurrent motif deconvolution and integration of MS MHC eluted ligand data, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
Antigen-Specific Adaptive Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in Acute COVID-19 and Associations with Age and Disease Severity, 2020, Cell
Selective and cross-reactive SARS-CoV-2 T cell epitopes in unexposed humans, 2020, Science

Best Publications

Targets of T Cell Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus in Humans with COVID-19 Disease and Unexposed Individuals.

Alba Grifoni;Daniela Weiskopf;Sydney I. Ramirez;Sydney I. Ramirez;Jose Mateus

3951
Citations
Immunological memory to SARS-CoV-2 assessed for up to 8 months after infection.

Jennifer M. Dan;Jennifer M. Dan;Jose Mateus;Yu Kato;Kathryn M. Hastie

2726
Citations
The Immune Epitope Database (IEDB): 2018 update.

Randi Vita;Swapnil Mahajan;James A Overton;Sandeep Kumar Dhanda

2176
Citations
NetMHCpan-4.1 and NetMHCIIpan-4.0: improved predictions of MHC antigen presentation by concurrent motif deconvolution and integration of MS MHC eluted ligand data.

Birkir Reynisson;Bruno Alvarez;Sinu Paul;Bjoern Peters;Bjoern Peters

2066
Citations
Antigen-Specific Adaptive Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in Acute COVID-19 and Associations with Age and Disease Severity.

Carolyn Rydyznski Moderbacher;Sydney I. Ramirez;Sydney I. Ramirez;Jennifer M. Dan;Jennifer M. Dan;Alba Grifoni

1824
Citations
BepiPred-2.0: Improving sequence-based B-cell epitope prediction using conformational epitopes

Martin Closter Jespersen;Bjoern Peters;Morten Nielsen;Paolo Marcatili

1625
Citations
NetMHCpan-4.0: Improved Peptide–MHC Class I Interaction Predictions Integrating Eluted Ligand and Peptide Binding Affinity Data

Vanessa Isabell Jurtz;Sinu Paul;Massimo Andreatta;Paolo Marcatili

1462
Citations
The immune epitope database (IEDB) 3.0

Randi Vita;James A. Overton;Jason A. Greenbaum;Julia V. Ponomarenko

1226
Citations
Selective and cross-reactive SARS-CoV-2 T cell epitopes in unexposed humans.

Jose Mateus;Alba Grifoni;Alison Tarke;John Sidney

1183
Citations
A Sequence Homology and Bioinformatic Approach Can Predict Candidate Targets for Immune Responses to SARS-CoV-2

Alba Grifoni;John Sidney;Yun Zhang;Richard H. Scheuermann

1015
Citations
A Systematic Assessment of MHC Class II Peptide Binding Predictions and Evaluation of a Consensus Approach

Peng Wang;John Sidney;Courtney Dow;Courtney Dow;Bianca Mothé

958
Citations
Properties of MHC Class I Presented Peptides That Enhance Immunogenicity

Jorg J. A. Calis;Matt Maybeno;Jason A. Greenbaum;Daniela Weiskopf

927
Citations
NetMHCpan, a method for MHC class I binding prediction beyond humans

Ilka Hoof;Bjoern Peters;John Sidney;Lasse Eggers Pedersen

874
Citations
T cells from patients with Parkinson’s disease recognize α-synuclein peptides

David Sulzer;Roy N. Alcalay;Francesca Garretti;Lucien Cote

873
Citations
Impact of Genetic Polymorphisms on Human Immune Cell Gene Expression.

Benjamin J. Schmiedel;Divya Singh;Ariel Madrigal;Alan G. Valdovino-Gonzalez

867
Citations
HLA class I supertypes: a revised and updated classification

John Sidney;Bjoern Peters;Nicole Frahm;Christian Brander

839
Citations
Improved methods for predicting peptide binding affinity to MHC class II molecules

Kamilla Kjærgaard Jensen;Massimo Andreatta;Paolo Marcatili;Søren Buus

797
Citations
NetMHCpan, a method for quantitative predictions of peptide binding to any HLA-A and -B locus protein of known sequence.

Morten A. Nielsen;Claus Lundegaard;Thomas H. Blicher;Kasper Lamberth

763
Citations
The Immune Epitope Database 2.0

Randi Vita;Laura Zarebski;Jason A. Greenbaum;Hussein Emami

752
Citations
Peptide binding predictions for HLA DR, DP and DQ molecules

Peng Wang;John Sidney;Yohan Kim;Alessandro Sette

750
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandro Sette La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology

John Sidney La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology

Jason A. Greenbaum La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology

Daniela Weiskopf La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology

Pandurangan Vijayanand La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology

Carla Oseroff La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology

Morten Nielsen Technical University of Denmark

Simon Mallal Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Shane Crotty La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology

Howard M. Grey La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology

External Links

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