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Catherine E. Costello

Catherine E. Costello

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
101
Citations
34767
World Ranking
1457
National Ranking
829

Chemistry

D-Index
96
Citations
31468
World Ranking
1557
National Ranking
596

Catherine E. Costello publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Catherine E. Costello sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 436 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Catherine E. Costello D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Catherine E. Costello sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 101 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society

Overview

Catherine E. Costello is affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a strong focus on molecular biology, immunology, spectroscopy, infectious diseases, and inorganic chemistry.

Their scientific output demonstrates engagement in several key topics, including glycosylation and glycoproteins research, mass spectrometry techniques and applications, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms, advanced proteomics techniques and applications, and galectins and cancer biology.

Costello's recent notable publications include the following papers:

  • CD209L/L-SIGN and CD209/DC-SIGN Act as Receptors for SARS-CoV-2 (2021) published in ACS Central Science
  • Extracellular vimentin is an attachment factor that facilitates SARS-CoV-2 entry into human endothelial cells (2022) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • CD209L/L-SIGN and CD209/DC-SIGN Act as Receptors for SARS-CoV-2 (2021) in OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Protein signatures of centenarians and their offspring suggest centenarians age slower than other humans (2021) in Aging Cell
  • Accurate Identification of Isomeric Glycans by Trapped Ion Mobility Spectrometry-Electronic Excitation Dissociation Tandem Mass Spectrometry (2020) in Analytical Chemistry

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Costello include:

  • Kevin Brown Chandler
  • Chaoshuang Xia
  • Nader Rahimi
  • Stefano Monti
  • Cheng Lin

The scientist regularly publishes in several venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Arthritis & Rheumatology
  • The FASEB Journal
  • Glycobiology

Catherine E. Costello has been recognized by professional societies, having been awarded fellowships from the American Chemical Society in 2011 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2016.

Best Publications

  • A systematic nomenclature for carbohydrate fragmentations in FAB-MS/MS spectra of glycoconjugates

    Bruno Domon;Catherine E Costello

  • How many human proteoforms are there

    Ruedi Aebersold;Jeffrey N. Agar;I. Jonathan Amster;Mark S. Baker

  • A common open representation of mass spectrometry data and its application to proteomics research

    Patrick G A Pedrioli;Jimmy K Eng;Robert Hubley;Mathijs Vogelzang

  • Tabulation of human transthyretin (TTR) variants, 2003.

    Lawreen Heller Connors;Amareth Lim;Tatiana Prokaeva;Violet A Roskens

  • CD1c-mediated T-cell recognition of isoprenoid glycolipids in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

    D. Branch Moody;Timo Ulrichs;Timo Ulrichs;Walter Mühlecker;David C. Young

  • Structure of sulfated glucuronyl glycolipids in the nervous system reacting with HNK-1 antibody and some IgM paraproteins in neuropathy.

    D K Chou;A A Ilyas;J E Evans;C Costello

  • The Meningococcal Vaccine Candidate GNA1870 Binds the Complement Regulatory Protein Factor H and Enhances Serum Resistance

    Guillermo Madico;Jo Anne Welsch;Lisa A. Lewis;Anne McNaughton

  • Comparison of the methods for profiling glycoprotein glycans--HUPO Human Disease Glycomics/Proteome Initiative multi-institutional study.

    Yoshinao Wada;Parastoo Azadi;Catherine E. Costello;Anne Dell

  • The human proteome project: Current state and future direction

    Pierre Legrain;Ruedi Aebersold;Ruedi Aebersold;Alexander Archakov;Amos Marc Bairoch

  • Electron Capture Dissociation and Infrared Multiphoton Dissociation MS/MS of an N-Glycosylated Tryptic Peptide To Yield Complementary Sequence Information

    Kristina Håkansson;Helen J. Cooper;Mark R. Emmett;Catherine E. Costello

  • Evidence of the Immune Relevance of Prevotella copri, a Gut Microbe, in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis.

    Annalisa Pianta;Sheila Arvikar;Klemen Strle;Elise E. Drouin

  • Carbohydrate molecular weight profiling, sequence, linkage, and branching data: ES-MS and CID.

    Vernon N. Reinhold;Bruce B. Reinhold;Catherine E. Costello

  • Structure elucidation of glycosphingolipids and gangliosides using high-performance tandem mass spectrometry.

    Bruno Domon;Catherine E. Costello

  • CD209L/L-SIGN and CD209/DC-SIGN Act as Receptors for SARS-CoV-2

    Razie Amraei;Wenqing Yin;Marc A Napoleon;Ellen L Suder

  • Glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchors of Plasmodium falciparum: molecular characterization and naturally elicited antibody response that may provide immunity to malaria pathogenesis.

    Ramachandra S. Naik;Ora Lee H. Branch;Amina S. Woods;Matam Vijaykumar

  • Identification of protein components in human acquired enamel pellicle and whole saliva using novel proteomics approaches.

    Yuan Yao;Eric A. Berg;Catherine E. Costello;Robert F. Troxler

  • T cell activation by lipopeptide antigens.

    D. Branch Moody;David C. Young;Tan-Yun Cheng;Jean-Pierre Rosat

  • Elimination of oxidative degradation during the per-O-methylation of carbohydrates.

    Ionel Ciucanu;Catherine E. Costello

  • Muramic lactam in peptidoglycan of Bacillus subtilis spores is required for spore outgrowth but not for spore dehydration or heat resistance.

    David L. Popham;Jari Helin;Catherine E. Costello;Peter Setlow

  • The biochemical origins of the surface-enhanced Raman spectra of bacteria: a metabolomics profiling by SERS

    W. Ranjith Premasiri;Jean C. Lee;Alexis Sauer-Budge;Roger Théberge

  • CD209L/L-SIGN and CD209/DC-SIGN act as receptors for SARS-CoV-2 and are differentially expressed in lung and kidney epithelial and endothelial cells

    Razie Amraei;Marc Napoleon;Wenqing Yin;Jacob Berrigan

  • Tandem mass spectrometry.

    Catherine E. Costello

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph Zaia
Joseph Zaia Boston University
Peter B. O’Connor
Peter B. O’Connor University of Warwick
Martha Skinner
Martha Skinner Boston University
Allen C. Steere
Allen C. Steere Harvard University
Richard A. Cohen
Richard A. Cohen Boston University
Markus Bachschmid
Markus Bachschmid Boston University
D. Branch Moody
D. Branch Moody Brigham and Women's Hospital
John Samuelson
John Samuelson Boston University

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