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Ivona Aksentijevich

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
79
Citations
32210
World Ranking
4218
National Ranking
2062

Ivona Aksentijevich publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 233 publications — 62nd percentile

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

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

Ivona Aksentijevich 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 Ivona Aksentijevich sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 79 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Ivona Aksentijevich is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines including biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, medicine, and immunology and microbiology. They have a particular focus on immunology, molecular biology, rheumatology, genetics, and cancer research.

Their primary research topics include inflammasome and immune disorders, immunodeficiency and autoimmune disorders, interferon and immune responses, IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways, autoimmune and inflammatory disorders research, NF-κB signaling pathways, and otitis media and relapsing polychondritis.

Aksentijevich has published extensively, with notable recent papers such as:

  • Somatic Mutations in UBA1 and Severe Adult-Onset Autoinflammatory Disease (2020) in New England Journal of Medicine
  • Somatic Mutations in UBA1 Define a Distinct Subset of Relapsing Polychondritis Patients With VEXAS (2021) in Arthritis & Rheumatology
  • Ancient familial Mediterranean fever mutations in human pyrin and resistance to Yersinia pestis (2020) in Nature Immunology
  • New Horizons in the Genetic Etiology of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Lupus-Like Disease: Monogenic Lupus and Beyond (2020) in Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Human TBK1 deficiency leads to autoinflammation driven by TNF-induced cell death (2021) in Cell

Their frequent coauthors include Daniel L. Kastner, Amanda K. Ombrello, Natalie Deuitch, David B. Beck, and Patrycja Hoffmann. These collaborations have contributed to a broad and diverse publication record.

Publication venues where Ivona Aksentijevich has regularly published papers include:

  • Arthritis & Rheumatology
  • Nature Reviews Rheumatology
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

The scientific contributions of Aksentijevich reflect an integration of molecular biology and clinical immunology approaches, with research addressing both fundamental biological mechanisms and disease-focused investigations related to autoimmune and autoinflammatory disorders.

Best Publications

  • Ancient missense mutations in a new member of the RoRet gene family are likely to cause familial Mediterranean fever

    I. Aksentijevich;M. Centola;Z. M. Deng;R. Sood

  • GERMLINE MUTATIONS IN THE EXTRACELLULAR DOMAINS OF THE 55 KDA TNF RECEPTOR, TNFR1, DEFINE A FAMILY OF DOMINANTLY INHERITED AUTOINFLAMMATORY SYNDROMES

    Michael F McDermott;Ivona Aksentijevich;Jérôme Galon;Elizabeth M McDermott

  • Horror Autoinflammaticus: The Molecular Pathophysiology of Autoinflammatory Disease

    Seth L. Masters;Anna Simon;Ivona Aksentijevich;Daniel L. Kastner

  • The calcium-sensing receptor regulates the NLRP3 inflammasome through Ca2+ and cAMP

    Geun-Shik Lee;Naeha Subramanian;Andrew I. Kim;Ivona Aksentijevich

  • An autoinflammatory disease with deficiency of the interleukin-1-receptor antagonist

    Ivona Aksentijevich;Seth L. Masters;Polly J. Ferguson;Paul Dancey

  • Somatic Mutations in UBA1 and Severe Adult-Onset Autoinflammatory Disease.

    David B. Beck;Marcela A. Ferrada;Keith A. Sikora;Amanda K. Ombrello

  • Ancient missense mutations in a new member of the RoRet gene family are likely to cause familial Mediterranean fever. The International FMF Consortium.

    N Zaks;JE Balow;E Mansfield;M. E. Mangelsdorf

  • Neonatal-Onset Multisystem Inflammatory Disease Responsive to Interleukin-1β Inhibition

    Raphaela Goldbach-Mansky;Natalie J Dailey;Scott W Canna;Ana Gelabert

  • De novo CIAS1 mutations, cytokine activation, and evidence for genetic heterogeneity in patients with neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disease (NOMID): a new member of the expanding family of pyrin-associated autoinflammatory diseases.

    Ivona Aksentijevich;Miroslawa Nowak;Mustapha Mallah;Jae Jin Chae

  • Early-Onset Stroke and Vasculopathy Associated with Mutations in ADA2

    Qing Zhou;Dan Yang;Amanda K Ombrello;Andrey V Zavialov

  • Loss-of-function mutations in TNFAIP3 leading to A20 haploinsufficiency cause an early-onset autoinflammatory disease

    Qing Zhou;Hongying Wang;Daniella M. Schwartz;Monique Stoffels

  • Autoinflammatory Disease Reloaded: A Clinical Perspective

    Daniel L. Kastner;Ivona Aksentijevich;Raphaela Goldbach-Mansky

  • The TNF receptor-associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS): emerging concepts of an autoinflammatory disorder.

    Keith M Hull;Elizabeth Drewe;Ivona Aksentijevich;Harjot K Singh

  • Classification criteria for autoinflammatory recurrent fevers

    Marco Gattorno;Michael Hofer;Silvia Federici;Federica Vanoni

  • Familial Mediterranean fever at the millennium. Clinical spectrum, ancient mutations, and a survey of 100 American referrals to the National Institutes of Health.

    Jonathan Samuels;Ivona Aksentijevich;Yelizaveta Torosyan;Michael Centola

  • The clinical continuum of cryopyrinopathies: novel CIAS1 mutations in North American patients and a new cryopyrin model.

    Ivona Aksentijevich;Christopher D. Putnam;Elaine F. Remmers;James L. Mueller

  • The Tumor-Necrosis-Factor Receptor–Associated Periodic Syndrome: New Mutations in TNFRSF1A, Ancestral Origins, Genotype-Phenotype Studies, and Evidence for Further Genetic Heterogeneity of Periodic Fevers

    Ivona Aksentijevich;Jérôme Galon;Miguel Soares;Elizabeth Mansfield

  • Cold urticaria, immunodeficiency, and autoimmunity related to PLCG2 deletions.

    Michael J. Ombrello;Elaine F. Remmers;Guangping Sun;Alexandra F. Freeman

  • Mutation and haplotype studies of familial Mediterranean fever reveal new ancestral relationships and evidence for a high carrier frequency with reduced penetrance in the Ashkenazi Jewish population.

    Ivona Aksentijevich;Yelizaveta Torosyan;Jonathan Samuels;Michael Centola

  • Non-type I cystinuria caused by mutations in SLC7A9, encoding a subunit (bo,+AT) of rBAT.

    Lídia Feliubadaló;Mariona Font;Jesús Purroy;Ferran Rousaud

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel L. Kastner
Daniel L. Kastner National Institutes of Health
Raphaela Goldbach-Mansky
Raphaela Goldbach-Mansky National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Elon Pras
Elon Pras Tel Aviv University
Elaine F. Remmers
Elaine F. Remmers National Institutes of Health
Massimo Gadina
Massimo Gadina National Institutes of Health
Seza Ozen
Seza Ozen Hacettepe University
Michael Centola
Michael Centola Haus Bioceuticals
Michael S. Hershfield
Michael S. Hershfield Duke University
Robert I. Richards
Robert I. Richards University of Adelaide
Sergio D. Rosenzweig
Sergio D. Rosenzweig National Institutes of Health

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