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Immunology

D-Index
86
Citations
25049
World Ranking
1275
National Ranking
663

Medicine

D-Index
85
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World Ranking
14710
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David L. Suarez 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 David L. Suarez sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 292 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David L. Suarez 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 David L. Suarez sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 86 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

David L. Suarez is affiliated with the United States Department of Agriculture in the United States. Their research focuses on infectious diseases, particularly in the fields of medicine and agricultural and biological sciences. A significant portion of their work is related to animal virus infections and epidemiology, with a strong emphasis on influenza virus research.

Their primary fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Suarez's subfields of study encompass:

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Epidemiology
  • Animal Science and Zoology
  • Agronomy and Crop Science
  • Molecular Biology

The main topics addressed in their research are:

  • Animal Virus Infections Studies
  • Influenza Virus Research Studies
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Virology and Viral Diseases
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

Suarez has frequently published in several academic venues, including:

  • Microbiology Resource Announcements
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Viruses
  • Journal of Virology
  • Avian Diseases

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Suarez comprise:

  • Erica Spackman
  • Iryna V. Goraichuk
  • Mary J. Pantin-Jackwood
  • Claudio L. Afonso
  • Darrell R. Kapczynski

Selected recent papers by Suarez or including Suarez as an author are:

  • "Spillover of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus to dairy cattle," 2024, Nature
  • "Nanocarriers as Potential Drug Delivery Candidates for Overcoming the Blood-Brain Barrier: Challenges and Possibilities," 2020, ACS Omega
  • "H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza clade 2.3.4.4b in wild and domestic birds: Introductions into the United States and reassortments, December 2021-April 2022," 2023, Virology
  • "Emergence and interstate spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) in dairy cattle," 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Lack of Susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV in Poultry," 2020, Emerging Infectious Diseases

Best Publications

  • Development of a Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase PCR Assay for Type A Influenza Virus and the Avian H5 and H7 Hemagglutinin Subtypes

    Erica Spackman;Dennis A. Senne;T. J. Myers;Leslie L. Bulaga

  • Highly pathogenic avian influenza.

    D E Swayne;D L Suarez

  • Development of a Real-Time Reverse-Transcription PCR for Detection of Newcastle Disease Virus RNA in Clinical Samples

    Mark G. Wise;David L. Suarez;Bruce S. Seal;Janice C. Pedersen

  • Comparisons of Highly Virulent H5N1 Influenza A Viruses Isolated from Humans and Chickens from Hong Kong

    David L. Suarez;Michael L. Perdue;Nancy Cox;Thomas Rowe

  • Recombination resulting in virulence shift in avian influenza outbreak, Chile.

    David L. Suarez;Dennis A. Senne;Jill Banks;Ian H. Brown

  • Effect of Vaccine Use in the Evolution of Mexican Lineage H5N2 Avian Influenza Virus

    Chang-Won Lee;Dennis A. Senne;David L. Suarez

  • Updated unified phylogenetic classification system and revised nomenclature for Newcastle disease virus.

    Kiril M. Dimitrov;Celia Abolnik;Claudio L. Afonso;Emmanuel Albina

  • Evolution of H5N1 avian influenza viruses in Asia

    Jean Thierry Aubin;Saliha Azebi;Amanda Balish;Jill Banks

  • Susceptibility of North American Ducks and Gulls to H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses

    Justin D. Brown;David E. Stallknecht;Joan R. Beck;David L. Suarez

  • Antigenic differences among Newcastle disease virus strains of different genotypes used in vaccine formulation affect viral shedding after a virulent challenge.

    Patti J. Miller;Daniel J. King;Claudio L. Afonso;David L. Suarez

  • Influenza research database: an integrated bioinformatics resource for influenza research and surveillance.

    R. Burke Squires;Jyothi Noronha;Victoria Hunt;Adolfo García‐Sastre

  • Immunology of avian influenza virus: a review.

    D L Suarez;S Schultz-Cherry

  • Characterization of Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza A Viruses Isolated from South Korea

    Chang-Won Lee;David L. Suarez;Terrence M. Tumpey;Haan-Woo Sung

  • Phylogenetic diversity among low-virulence newcastle disease viruses from waterfowl and shorebirds and comparison of genotype distributions to those of poultry-origin isolates

    L. Mia Kim;Daniel J. King;Phillip E. Curry;David L. Suarez

  • Development of Real-Time RT-PCR for the Detection of Avian Influenza Virus

    E. Spackman;D. A. Senne;L. L. Bulaga;T. J. Myers

  • Evolution of avian influenza viruses

    David L Suarez

  • Protection against diverse highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza viruses in chickens immunized with a recombinant fowlpox vaccine containing an H5 avian influenza hemagglutinin gene insert.

    David E. Swayne;Maricarmen Garcia;Joan R. Beck;Nikki Kinney

  • Characterization of a Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza A Virus Isolated from Duck Meat

    Terrence M. Tumpey;David L. Suarez;Laura E. L. Perkins;Dennis A. Senne

  • Comparison of viral shedding following vaccination with inactivated and live Newcastle disease vaccines formulated with wild-type and recombinant viruses.

    Patti J. Miller;Carlos Estevez;Qingzhong Yu;David L. Suarez

  • Application of real-time RT-PCR for the quantitation and competitive replication study of H5 and H7 subtype avian influenza virus.

    Chang-Won Lee;David L Suarez

  • Continued Circulation in China of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses Encoding the Hemagglutinin Gene Associated with the 1997 H5N1 Outbreak in Poultry and Humans

    Angela N. Cauthen;David E. Swayne;Stacey Schultz-Cherry;Michael L. Perdue

Frequent Co-Authors

David E. Swayne
David E. Swayne United States Department of Agriculture
Erica Spackman
Erica Spackman United States Department of Agriculture
Mary J. Pantin-Jackwood
Mary J. Pantin-Jackwood United States Department of Agriculture
Claudio L. Afonso
Claudio L. Afonso United States Department of Agriculture
Dennis A. Senne
Dennis A. Senne Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Xavier Calvet
Xavier Calvet Autonomous University of Barcelona
Ruben O. Donis
Ruben O. Donis University of Washington
Daniel R. Perez
Daniel R. Perez University of Georgia
Leyi Wang
Leyi Wang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rebecca Garten
Rebecca Garten National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

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