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Germain J. P. Fernando

Germain J. P. Fernando

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
47
Citations
5962
World Ranking
4834
National Ranking
146

Germain J. P. Fernando publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Germain J. P. Fernando sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 97 publications — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Germain J. P. Fernando D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Germain J. P. Fernando sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

Germain J. P. Fernando is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with a notable focus on subfields including Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Animal Science and Zoology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Dermatology.

The major topics in Germain J. P. Fernando's work include Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Animal Virus Infections Studies, Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research, Mosquito-borne Diseases and Control, Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery, and Dermatology and Skin Diseases.

The scientist has published in several frequent venues, such as Vaccines, PLoS Medicine, Science Advances, JAMA, and npj Vaccines.

Significant papers authored by or coauthored with Germain J. P. Fernando include:

  • Safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of influenza vaccination with a high-density microarray patch: Results from a randomized, controlled phase I clinical trial (2020) in PLoS Medicine
  • Complete protection by a single-dose skin patch-delivered SARS-CoV-2 spike vaccine (2021) in Science Advances
  • A chimeric dengue virus vaccine candidate delivered by high density microarray patches protects against infection in mice (2021) in npj Vaccines
  • Microultrasonography-Guided vs MRI-Guided Biopsy for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis (2025) in JAMA
  • Developing a Stabilizing Formulation of a Live Chimeric Dengue Virus Vaccine Dry Coated on a High-Density Microarray Patch (2021) in Vaccines

Frequent collaborators in Germain J. P. Fernando's research include Christopher L. D. McMillan, Jovin J. Y. Choo, Paul R. Young, David A. Muller, and Alexander A. Khromykh.

Best Publications

  • Correction: Corrigendum: The changing shape of vaccination: improving immune responses through geometrical variations of a microdevice for immunization

    Michael Lawrence Crichton;David Alexander Muller;Alexandra Christina Isabelle Depelsenaire;Frances Elizabeth Pearson

  • A "public" T-helper epitope of the E7 transforming protein of human papillomavirus 16 provides cognate help for several E7 B-cell epitopes from cervical cancer-associated human papillomavirus genotypes.

    Robert W. Tindle;Germain J. P. Fernando;Jane C. Sterling;Ian H. Frazer

  • Delivery of Multiple CD8 Cytotoxic T Cell Epitopes by DNA Vaccination

    Scott A. Thomson;Martina A. Sherritt;Jill Medveczky;Suzanne L. Elliott

  • Dry-coated microprojection array patches for targeted delivery of immunotherapeutics to the skin.

    Xianfeng Chen;Tarl W. Prow;Michael L. Crichton;Derek W.K. Jenkins

  • Nanopatch-targeted skin vaccination against West Nile Virus and Chikungunya virus in mice.

    Tarl W. Prow;Xianfeng Chen;Natalie A. Prow;Germain J. P. Fernando

  • Antigen-specific CD4+ T-cell help is required to activate a memory CD8+ T cell to a fully functional tumor killer cell.

    Feng Guang Gao;Vithagna Khammanivong;Wen Jun Liu;Graham R. Leggatt

  • Improving the reach of vaccines to low-resource regions, with a needle-free vaccine delivery device and long-term thermostabilization.

    Xianfeng Chen;Germain J.P. Fernando;Michael L. Crichton;Christopher Flaim

  • Potent Immunity to Low Doses of Influenza Vaccine by Probabilistic Guided Micro-Targeted Skin Delivery in a Mouse Model

    Germain J. P. Fernando;Xianfeng Chen;Tarl W. Prow;Michael L. Crichton

  • Targeted, Needle-Free Vaccinations in Skin using Multilayered, Densely-Packed Dissolving Microprojection Arrays

    Anthony P. Raphael;Tarl W. Prow;Michael L. Crichton;Xianfeng Chen

  • Papillomavirus Virus-like Particles Can Deliver Defined CTL Epitopes to the MHC Class I Pathway

    Shiwen W. Peng;Ian H. Frazer;Germain J. P. Fernando;Jian Zhou

  • The effect of strain rate on the precision of penetration of short densely-packed microprojection array patches coated with vaccine

    Michael L. Crichton;Alexander Ansaldo;Xianfeng Chen;Tarl W. Prow

  • Codon modified human papillomavirus type 16 E7 DNA vaccine enhances cytotoxic T-lymphocyte induction and anti-tumour activity

    Wen Jun Liu;Fengguang Gao;Kong Nan Zhao;Weiming Zhao

  • Safety, tolerability, acceptability and immunogenicity of an influenza vaccine delivered to human skin by a novel high-density microprojection array patch (Nanopatch™).

    Germain J.P. Fernando;Julian Hickling;Cesar M. Jayashi Flores;Paul Griffin

  • Polynucleotide viral vaccines: codon optimisation and ubiquitin conjugation enhances prophylactic and therapeutic efficacy.

    Wen Jun Liu;Kong-Nan Zhao;Feng Guang Gao;Graham R Leggatt

  • Skin vaccination against cervical cancer associated human papillomavirus with a novel micro-projection array in a mouse model.

    Holly J. Corbett;Germain J. P. Fernando;Xianfeng Chen;Ian H. Frazer

  • Chimeric Hepatitis B Core Antigen Particles Containing B- and Th-Epitopes of Human Papillomavirus Type 16 E7 Protein Induce Specific Antibody and T-Helper Responses in Immunised Mice

    Robert W. Tindle;Karen Herd;Patricia Londoño;Germain J.P. Fernando

  • Formulations for microprojection/microneedle vaccine delivery: Structure, strength and release profiles

    Anthony P. Raphael;Michael L. Crichton;Robert J. Falconer;Stefano Meliga

  • Improved DNA vaccination by skin-targeted delivery using dry-coated densely-packed microprojection arrays.

    Xianfeng Chen;Angela Shaulov Kask;Michael L. Crichton;Celia McNeilly

  • Nanopatch targeted delivery of both antigen and adjuvant to skin synergistically drives enhanced antibody responses

    Germain J.P. Fernando;Xianfeng Chen;Clare A. Primiero;Sally R. Yukiko

  • Immune responses induced by BCG recombinant for human papillomavirus L1 and E7 proteins

    Ibtissam A Jabbar;Germain J.P Fernando;Nick Saunders;Anne Aldovini

  • PURIFICATION, CHARACTERIZATION AND CDNA SEQUENCE OF AN ALKALINE CHYMOTRYPSIN FROM THE MIDGUT OF MANDUCA SEXTA

    A.M. Peterson;G.J.P. Fernando;M.A. Wells

  • A vaccine conjugate of 'ISCAR' immunocarrier and peptide epitopes of the E7 cervical cancer-associated protein of human papillomavirus type 16 elicits specific Th1- and Th2-type responses in immunized mice in the absence of oil-based adjuvants.

    R. W. Tindle;S. Croft;K. Herd;K. Malcolm

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian H. Frazer
Ian H. Frazer University of Queensland
Xianfeng Chen
Xianfeng Chen University of Edinburgh
Paul F. Lambert
Paul F. Lambert University of Wisconsin–Madison
Paul R. Young
Paul R. Young University of Queensland
Lorena E. Brown
Lorena E. Brown University of Melbourne
Alexander A. Khromykh
Alexander A. Khromykh University of Queensland
Michael S. Roberts
Michael S. Roberts University of Queensland
Helle Bielefeldt-Ohmann
Helle Bielefeldt-Ohmann University of Queensland
Roy A. Hall
Roy A. Hall University of Queensland
Andreas Suhrbier
Andreas Suhrbier QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

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