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Immunology

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96
Citations
33316
World Ranking
859
National Ranking
479

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Harvey Cantor 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 Harvey Cantor sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 311 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Harvey Cantor 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 Harvey Cantor sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 96 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Distinguished Fellows of the American Association of Immunologists (AAI)
  • 2019 - AAI Excellence in Mentoring Award, American Association of Immunologists
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Harvey Cantor is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and works primarily in the fields of Immunology and Microbiology as well as Medicine. Their research centers on areas including Immunology, Oncology, Molecular Biology, Neurology, and Rheumatology. Key topics of study focus on Immune Cell Function and Interaction, T-cell and B-cell Immunology, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Immune Response and Inflammation, Bone and Dental Protein Studies, and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Cantor include:

  • Overcoming Immune Checkpoint Blockade Resistance via EZH2 Inhibition, 2020, Trends in Immunology
  • Mechanism of EBV inducing anti-tumour immunity and its therapeutic use, 2020, Nature
  • Definition of a mouse microglial subset that regulates neuronal development and proinflammatory responses in the brain, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Definition of the contribution of an Osteopontin-producing CD11c + microglial subset to Alzheimer's disease, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • NK Cells Regulate CD8+ T Cell Mediated Autoimmunity, 2020, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Cantor frequently publishes in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, with a total of five publications, followed by multiple works in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (four publications), The Journal of Experimental Medicine (two publications), as well as individual publications in Trends in Immunology and Nature.

Frequent collaborators include Jamil Azzi, John Y. Choi, Hye Jung Kim, Andrew Wight, and Xianli Shen.

Throughout their career, Cantor has been recognized with several awards, including:

  • Distinguished Fellows of the American Association of Immunologists (AAI), 2020
  • AAI Excellence in Mentoring Award, American Association of Immunologists, 2019
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2005
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2002

Best Publications

  • Functional subclasses of T-lymphocytes bearing different Ly antigens. I. The generation of functionally distinct T-cell subclasses is a differentiative process independent of antigen.

    H Cantor;E A Boyse

  • Eta-1 (Osteopontin): An Early Component of Type-1 (Cell-Mediated) Immunity

    Samy Ashkar;Georg F. Weber;Vassiliki Panoutsakopoulou;Marie E. Sanchirico

  • Receptor-Ligand Interaction Between CD44 and Osteopontin (Eta-1)

    Georg F. Weber;Samy Ashkar;Melvin J. Glimcher;Harvey Cantor

  • Functional subclasses of T lymphocytes bearing different Ly antigens. II. Cooperation between subclasses of Ly+ cells in the generation of killer activity.

    H Cantor;E A Boyse

  • Proinflammatory T helper type 17 cells are effective B-cell helpers

    Meike Mitsdoerffer;Youjin Lee;Anneli Jäger;Hye-Jung Kim

  • Molecular mimicry by herpes simplex virus-type 1: autoimmune disease after viral infection.

    Zi Shan Zhao;Francesca Granucci;Lily Yeh;Priscilla A. Schaffer

  • Regulation of cellular and humoral immune responses by T-cell subclasses.

    H. Cantor;E. A. Boyse

  • Immunoregulatory circuits among T-cell sets. I. T-helper cells induce other T-cell sets to exert feedback inhibition.

    D D Eardley;J Hugenberger;L McVay-Boudreau;F W Shen

  • Isolation and characterization of a mouse cDNA clone that expresses mast-cell growth-factor activity in monkey cells

    Takashi Yokota;Frank Lee;Donna Rennick;Carol Hall

  • Engagement of B7 on effector T cells by regulatory T cells prevents autoimmune disease

    Silke Paust;Linrong Lu;Nami McCarty;Harvey Cantor

  • Separation of helper T cells from suppressor T cells expressing different Ly components. II. Activation by antigen: after immunization, antigen-specific suppressor and helper activities are mediated by distinct T-cell subclasses.

    H Cantor;F W Shen;E A Boyse

  • Structural and functional studies of the early T lymphocyte activation 1 (Eta-1) gene. Definition of a novel T cell-dependent response associated with genetic resistance to bacterial infection.

    R. Patarca;G. J. Freeman;R. P. Singh;F.-Y. Wei

  • Development and function of subpopulations of thymocytes and T lymphocytes.

    Harvey Cantor;Irving Weissman

  • Stable inhibitory activity of regulatory T cells requires the transcription factor Helios

    Hye-Jung Kim;R. Anthony Barnitz;R. Anthony Barnitz;Taras Kreslavsky;Flavian D. Brown

  • CD4 T-cell Subsets and Tumor Immunity: The Helpful and the Not-so-Helpful

    Hye-Jung Kim;Harvey Cantor

  • Osteopontin expression is essential for interferon-α production by plasmacytoid dendritic cells

    Mari L Shinohara;Linrong Lu;Jing Bu;Miriam B F Werneck

  • Inducer T lymphocytes synthesize a factor that stimulates proliferation of cloned mast cells

    Gary Nabel;Gary Nabel;Stephen J. Galli;Stephen J. Galli;Ann M. Dvorak;Ann M. Dvorak;Harold F. Dvorak;Harold F. Dvorak

  • Inhibition of follicular T-helper cells by CD8+ regulatory T cells is essential for self tolerance

    Hye-Jung Kim;Bert Verbinnen;Xiaolei Tang;Linrong Lu

  • Analysis of regulatory CD8 T cells in Qa-1-deficient mice

    Dan Hu;Koichi Ikizawa;Linrong Lu;Marie E Sanchirico

  • Immunological circuits: cellular composition.

    H Cantor;R K Gershon

  • Immunoregulatory circuits among T-cell sets. II. Physiologic role of feedback inhibition in vivo: absence in NZB mice.

    H Cantor;L McVay-Boudreau;J Hugenberger;K Naidorf

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard K. Gershon
Richard K. Gershon Yale University
Edward A. Boyse
Edward A. Boyse University of Arizona
Rosemarie H. DeKruyff
Rosemarie H. DeKruyff Stanford University
Carol Clayberger
Carol Clayberger Northwestern University
Kai W. Wucherpfennig
Kai W. Wucherpfennig Harvard University
Laurie H. Glimcher
Laurie H. Glimcher Harvard University
Harold F. Dvorak
Harold F. Dvorak Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Gordon J. Freeman
Gordon J. Freeman Harvard University
Xiaoyang Wang
Xiaoyang Wang University of Gothenburg
Ann M. Dvorak
Ann M. Dvorak Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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