2026 Dale I. Godfrey: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	113	429	396	11	10	359	51138

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Immunology in Australia Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Immunology in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Dale I. Godfrey is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has a significant academic presence in the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology. Their research portfolio includes a broad focus on Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Oncology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Epidemiology.

Their main research contributions cover topics such as:

Immune Cell Function and Interaction
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
T-cell and B-cell Immunology
COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research

Recent publications include:

Humoral and circulating follicular helper T cell responses in recovered patients with COVID-19, 2020, Nature Medicine
Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies (third edition), 2021, European Journal of Immunology
Butyrophilin 2A1 is essential for phosphoantigen reactivity by γδ T cells, 2020, Science
Integrated immune dynamics define correlates of COVID-19 severity and antibody responses, 2021, Cell Reports Medicine
Nanobody cocktails potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2 D614G N501Y variant and protect mice, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

Nicholas A. Gherardin
Stephen J. Kent
Amy W. Chung
Adam K. Wheatley
Hui-Fern Koay

Their research has been published extensively in several notable venues, including:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
EBioMedicine
The Journal of Immunology
Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

NKT cells: what's in a name?

Dale I Godfrey;H Robson MacDonald;Mitchell Kronenberg;Mark J Smyth

1563
Citations
MR1 presents microbial vitamin B metabolites to MAIT cells

Lars Kjer-Nielsen;Onisha G Patel;Alexandra J Corbett;Jerome Le Nours;Jerome Le Nours

1400
Citations
A developmental pathway involving four phenotypically and functionally distinct subsets of CD3-CD4-CD8- triple-negative adult mouse thymocytes defined by CD44 and CD25 expression.

Dale I Godfrey;Jacqueline Kennedy;Takashi Suda;Albert Zlotnik

1212
Citations
NKT cells: facts, functions and fallacies

Dale I. Godfrey;Kirsten J.L. Hammond;Lynn D. Poulton;Mark J. Smyth

1144
Citations
Differential tumor surveillance by natural killer (NK) and NKT cells

Mark J. Smyth;Kevin Y. T. Thia;Shayna E.A. Street;Erika Cretney

1108
Citations
A fresh look at tumor immunosurveillance and immunotherapy

Mark J. Smyth;Dale I. Godfrey;Joseph A. Trapani

1064
Citations
Going both ways: Immune regulation via CD1d-dependent NKT cells

Dale I. Godfrey;Mitchell Kronenberg

1055
Citations
Hobit and Blimp1 instruct a universal transcriptional program of tissue residency in lymphocytes.

Laura K. Mackay;Laura K. Mackay;Martina Minnich;Natasja A. M. Kragten;Yang Liao;Yang Liao

990
Citations
BH3-only Bcl-2 family member Bim is required for apoptosis of autoreactive thymocytes.

Philippe Bouillet;Jared F. Purton;Dale I. Godfrey;Li-Chen Zhang

986
Citations
IL-21 regulates germinal center B cell differentiation and proliferation through a B cell-intrinsic mechanism.

Dimitra Zotos;Jonathan M. Coquet;Yang Zhang;Amanda Light

932
Citations
Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies (second edition)

Andrea Cossarizza;Hyun Dong Chang;Andreas Radbruch;Andreas Acs

914
Citations
The burgeoning family of unconventional T cells.

Dale I Godfrey;Dale I Godfrey;Adam P Uldrich;Adam P Uldrich;James McCluskey;Jamie Rossjohn;Jamie Rossjohn;Jamie Rossjohn

830
Citations
T cell antigen receptor recognition of antigen-presenting molecules.

Jamie Rossjohn;Stephanie Gras;John James Miles;Stephen J. Turner

818
Citations
Raising the NKT cell family

Dale I Godfrey;Sanda Stankovic;Alan G Baxter

798
Citations
Perforin-mediated cytotoxicity is critical for surveillance of spontaneous lymphoma

Mark J. Smyth;Kevin Y.T. Thia;Shayna E.A. Street;Duncan MacGregor

790
Citations
CD1d–lipid-antigen recognition by the semi-invariant NKT T-cell receptor

Natalie Borg;Kwok Soon Wun;Lars Kjer-Nielsen;Matthew Charles James Wilce

707
Citations
α/β–T Cell Receptor (TCR)+CD4−CD8− (NKT) Thymocytes Prevent Insulin-dependent Diabetes Mellitus in Nonobese Diabetic (NOD)/Lt Mice by the Influence of Interleukin (IL)-4 and/or IL-10

Kirsten J.L. Hammond;Lynn D. Poulton;Linda J. Palmisano;Pablo A. Silveira

702
Citations
Sequential production of interferon-gamma by NK1.1( ) T cells and natural killer cells is essential for the antimetastatic effect of alpha-galactosylceramide

MJ Smyth;NY Crowe;DG Pellicci;K Kyparissoudis

663
Citations
Antigen-loaded MR1 tetramers define T cell receptor heterogeneity in mucosal-associated invariant T cells

Rangsima Reantragoon;Alexandra Corbett;Isaac G Sakala;Nicholas A Gherardin;Nicholas A Gherardin

625
Citations
Control points in early T-cell development.

Dale I. Godfrey;Albert Zlotnik

621
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jamie Rossjohn Monash University

Daniel G. Pellicci University of Melbourne

Mark J. Smyth QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

James McCluskey University of Melbourne

Lars Kjer-Nielsen University of Melbourne

Gurdyal S. Besra University of Birmingham

Zhenjun Chen University of Melbourne

David P. Fairlie University of Queensland

Stephanie Gras La Trobe University

David Ritchie Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

External Links

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