2026 John Sidney: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	109	520	481	316	287	390	42828
Medicine	109	5793	5439	3110	2883	390	42828

Overview

John Sidney is affiliated with the La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on immunology and infectious diseases with a particular emphasis on T-cell and B-cell immunology, vaccines, and immune responses related to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.

Their main fields of study include Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Subfields emphasized in their work comprise Immunology, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Neurology.

John Sidney has contributed extensively to the study of immune mechanisms and vaccine responses, especially in the context of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Notable recent papers include:

Selective and cross-reactive SARS-CoV-2 T cell epitopes in unexposed humans (2020, Science)
A Sequence Homology and Bioinformatic Approach Can Predict Candidate Targets for Immune Responses to SARS-CoV-2 (2020, Cell Host & Microbe)
SARS-CoV-2 vaccination induces immunological T cell memory able to cross-recognize variants from Alpha to Omicron (2022, Cell)
Impact of SARS-CoV-2 variants on the total CD4+ and CD8+ T cell reactivity in infected or vaccinated individuals (2021, Cell Reports Medicine)
Comprehensive analysis of T cell immunodominance and immunoprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 epitopes in COVID-19 cases (2021, Cell Reports Medicine)

Their frequent co-authors include Alessandro Sette, Alba Grifoni, Bjoern Peters, S. Mallal, and Daniela Weiskopf. These collaborations reflect consistent contributions to the research community focused on immunology and infectious disease.

John Sidney's works have been published predominantly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cell Host & Microbe, Cell, The Journal of Immunology, and UNC Libraries.

Main research topics covered by Sidney involve:

Vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches
Immunotherapy and immune responses
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research
T-cell and B-cell immunology
Immune cell function and interaction
COVID-19 clinical research studies
Monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research

Best Publications

Selective and cross-reactive SARS-CoV-2 T cell epitopes in unexposed humans.

Jose Mateus;Alba Grifoni;Alison Tarke;John Sidney

1183
Citations
A Sequence Homology and Bioinformatic Approach Can Predict Candidate Targets for Immune Responses to SARS-CoV-2

Alba Grifoni;John Sidney;Yun Zhang;Richard H. Scheuermann

1015
Citations
A Systematic Assessment of MHC Class II Peptide Binding Predictions and Evaluation of a Consensus Approach

Peng Wang;John Sidney;Courtney Dow;Courtney Dow;Bianca Mothé

958
Citations
Predicting population coverage of T-cell epitope-based diagnostics and vaccines

Huynh-Hoa Bui;John Sidney;Kenny Dinh;Scott Southwood

939
Citations
NetMHCpan, a method for MHC class I binding prediction beyond humans

Ilka Hoof;Bjoern Peters;John Sidney;Lasse Eggers Pedersen

874
Citations
T cells from patients with Parkinson’s disease recognize α-synuclein peptides

David Sulzer;Roy N. Alcalay;Francesca Garretti;Lucien Cote

873
Citations
HLA class I supertypes: a revised and updated classification

John Sidney;Bjoern Peters;Nicole Frahm;Christian Brander

839
Citations
Peptide binding predictions for HLA DR, DP and DQ molecules

Peng Wang;John Sidney;Yohan Kim;Alessandro Sette

750
Citations
Comprehensive analysis of dengue virus-specific responses supports an HLA-linked protective role for CD8+ T cells

Daniela Weiskopf;Michael A. Angelo;Elzinandes L. de Azeredo;John Sidney

673
Citations
Mass Spectrometry Profiling of HLA-Associated Peptidomes in Mono-allelic Cells Enables More Accurate Epitope Prediction.

Jennifer G. Abelin;Derin B. Keskin;Siranush Sarkizova;Christina R. Hartigan

658
Citations
A consensus epitope prediction approach identifies the breadth of murine T(CD8+)-cell responses to vaccinia virus.

Magdalini Moutaftsi;Bjoern Peters;Valerie Pasquetto;David C Tscharke

642
Citations
Development of an epitope conservancy analysis tool to facilitate the design of epitope-based diagnostics and vaccines

Huynh-Hoa Bui;Huynh-Hoa Bui;John Sidney;Wei Li;Nicholas Fusseder

606
Citations
Comprehensive analysis of T cell immunodominance and immunoprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 epitopes in COVID-19 cases.

Alison Tarke;Alison Tarke;John Sidney;Conner K. Kidd;Jennifer M. Dan;Jennifer M. Dan

592
Citations
Impact of SARS-CoV-2 variants on the total CD4 + and CD8 + T cell reactivity in infected or vaccinated individuals.

Alison Tarke;Alison Tarke;John Sidney;Nils Methot;Esther Dawen Yu

591
Citations
The outcome of hepatitis C virus infection is predicted by escape mutations in epitopes targeted by cytotoxic T lymphocytes.

Ann L Erickson;Yoichi Kimura;Suzu Igarashi;Jennifer Eichelberger

527
Citations
Virus-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocyte responses select for amino-acid variation in simian immunodeficiency virus Env and Nef.

David T. Evans;David T. Evans;David H. O'Connor;Peicheng Jing;John L. Dzuris

499
Citations
Key Parameters of Tumor Epitope Immunogenicity Revealed Through a Consortium Approach Improve Neoantigen Prediction

Daniel K. Wells;Marit M. van Buuren;Kristen K. Dang;Vanessa M. Hubbard-Lucey

498
Citations
The immune epitope database and analysis resource: from vision to blueprint.

Bjoern Peters;John Sidney;Phil Bourne;Huynh-Hoa Bui

489
Citations
Drug hypersensitivity caused by alteration of the MHC-presented self-peptide repertoire

David A. Ostrov;Barry J. Grant;Yuri A. Pompeu;John Sidney

481
Citations
Reversion of CTL escape-variant immunodeficiency viruses in vivo.

Thomas C Friedrich;Elizabeth J Dodds;Levi J Yant;Lara Vojnov

478
Citations
A large fraction of HLA class I ligands are proteasome-generated spliced peptides

Juliane Liepe;Fabio Marino;John Sidney;Anita Jeko

423
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandro Sette La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology

Bjoern Peters La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology

Carla Oseroff La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology

Simon Mallal Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Daniela Weiskopf La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology

Howard M. Grey La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology

Elizabeth J. Phillips Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Scott Southwood Johnson & Johnson

Jason A. Greenbaum La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology

Alba Grifoni La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology

External Links

Personal website of John Sidney

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