2026 Carola G. Vinuesa: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	66	2719	2505	109	102	167	25366

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science
2015 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
2009 - Gottschalk Medal, Australian Academy of Science

Overview

Carola G. Vinuesa is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on immunology and microbiology, with significant contributions to medicine. The main subfields of their work include immunology, rheumatology, oncology, infectious diseases, and molecular biology.

The research topics covered extensively by Vinuesa include T-cell and B-cell immunology, immune cell function and interaction, systemic lupus erythematosus research, immunotherapy and immune responses, immune response and inflammation, interferon and immune responses, and monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research.

Vinuesa has published multiple papers in notable scientific journals. Some recent papers are:

"TLR7 gain-of-function genetic variation causes human lupus" (2022) in Nature
"Follicular regulatory T cells produce neuritin to regulate B cells" (2021) in Cell
"CD4+ T cells that help B cells - a proposal for uniform nomenclature" (2021) in Trends in Immunology
"The transcription factor ZEB2 drives the formation of age-associated B cells" (2024) in Science
"COVID-19 Makes B Cells Forget, but T Cells Remember" (2020) in Cell

Frequent co-authors of Vinuesa include Matthew Cook, Julia I. Ellyard, Vicki Athanasopoulos, Pablo F. Cañete, and Yuke He.

The venues where Vinuesa has published most frequently are:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Communications
The Journal of Experimental Medicine
Nature
Frontiers in Immunology

Carola G. Vinuesa has received several awards, such as:

Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science (2020)
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (2015)
Gottschalk Medal, Australian Academy of Science (2009)

Best Publications

The transcriptional repressor Bcl-6 directs T follicular helper cell lineage commitment

Di Yu;Sudha Rao;Louis M Tsai;Sau K Lee

1458
Citations
Foxp3+ follicular regulatory T cells control the germinal center response

Michelle A. Linterman;Wim Pierson;Sau K. Lee;Axel Kallies

1377
Citations
Follicular Helper T Cells

Carola G. Vinuesa;Michelle A. Linterman;Di Yu;Ian C.M. MacLennan

1153
Citations
A RING-type ubiquitin ligase family member required to repress follicular helper T cells and autoimmunity

Carola G. Vinuesa;Matthew C. Cook;Constanza Angelucci;Vicki Athanasopoulos

974
Citations
IL-21 acts directly on B cells to regulate Bcl-6 expression and germinal center responses

Michelle A. Linterman;Laura L. Beaton;Di Yu;Di Yu;Roybel R. Ramiscal

946
Citations
Cellular and genetic mechanisms of self tolerance and autoimmunity

Christopher C. Goodnow;Jonathon Sprent;Barbara Fazekas de St Groth;Carola G. Vinuesa

888
Citations
Extrafollicular antibody responses.

Ian C. M. MacLennan;Kai-Michael Toellner;Adam F. Cunningham;Karine Serre

843
Citations
Expansion of circulating T cells resembling follicular helper T cells is a fixed phenotype that identifies a subset of severe systemic lupus erythematosus.

Nicholas Simpson;Paul A. Gatenby;Anastasia Wilson;Shreya Malik

820
Citations
Follicular B helper T cells in antibody responses and autoimmunity.

Carola G. Vinuesa;Stuart G. Tangye;Bernhard Moser;Charles R. Mackay

777
Citations
Circulating precursor CCR7(lo)PD-1(hi) CXCR5⁺ CD4⁺ T cells indicate Tfh cell activity and promote antibody responses upon antigen reexposure.

Jing He;Louis M Tsai;Yew A Leong;Xin Jack Hu;Xin Jack Hu

703
Citations
TLR7 gain-of-function genetic variation causes human lupus

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698
Citations
Two levels of protection for the B cell genome during somatic hypermutation

Man Liu;Jamie L. Duke;Daniel J. Richter;Daniel J. Richter;Carola G. Vinuesa

682
Citations
Follicular helper T cells are required for systemic autoimmunity.

Michelle A. Linterman;Robert J. Rigby;Raphael. K. Wong;Di Yu

677
Citations
Dietary Fiber and Bacterial SCFA Enhance Oral Tolerance and Protect against Food Allergy through Diverse Cellular Pathways.

Jian Tan;Craig McKenzie;Peter J. Vuillermin;Gera Goverse

668
Citations
Dysregulation of germinal centres in autoimmune disease

Carola G. Vinuesa;Iñaki Sanz;Matthew C. Cook

521
Citations
Control systems and decision making for antibody production

Christopher C Goodnow;Carola G Vinuesa;Katrina L Randall;Katrina L Randall;Fabienne Mackay

514
Citations
Class-switch recombination occurs infrequently in germinal centers

Jonathan A. Roco;Luka Mesin;Sebastian C. Binder;Christian Nefzger

489
Citations
Roquin represses autoimmunity by limiting inducible T-cell co-stimulator messenger RNA

Di Yu;Andy Hee-Meng Tan;Xin Hu;Vicki Athanasopoulos

478
Citations
Pathophysiology of T follicular helper cells in humans and mice

Hideki Ueno;Jacques Banchereau;Carola G Vinuesa

459
Citations
Intrinsic constraint on plasmablast growth and extrinsic limits of plasma cell survival

Daniel M.-Y. Sze;Kai-Michael Toellner;Carola García de Vinuesa;Dale R. Taylor

419
Citations
Extrafollicular Antibody Responses

Carola G. Vinuesa

3
Citations
Foxp3(+) follicular regulatory T cells control the germinal centre response

M. A Linterman;Wim Pierson;S. K Lee;A Kallies

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew C. Cook Australian National University

Christopher C. Goodnow Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Di Yu University of Queensland

Michelle A. Linterman Babraham Institute

Robert Brink University of New South Wales

Ian C. M. MacLennan University of Birmingham

Stuart G. Tangye Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Cindy S. Ma Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Kai-Michael Toellner University of Birmingham

Jeffrey J. Babon Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

External Links

Personal website of Carola G. Vinuesa

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