2026 Joost J. Oppenheim: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	158	90	58	579	91066
Medicine	158	860	491	576	91241

Overview

Joost J. Oppenheim was affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focused on immunology, molecular biology, and medicine, with a significant emphasis on subfields such as immunology, oncology, molecular biology, neurology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The main scientific topics covered in their work included:

Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
Immune Cell Function and Interaction
RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
Chemokine receptors and signaling
T-cell and B-cell Immunology
Cancer Research and Treatments

Their most frequent co-authors were:

De Yang
Md Masud Alam
Kouji Matsushima
Xiaoqing Li
Anna Trivett

Oppenheim published mainly in the following venues:

The Journal of Immunology
IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE
Cytokine
Cell Reports
International Immunopharmacology

Some of their recent research papers included:

"Interleukin-8: An evolving chemokine", 2022, Cytokine
"Alpha synuclein, the culprit in Parkinson disease, is required for normal immune function", 2022, Cell Reports
"A TNFR2 antibody by countering immunosuppression cooperates with HMGN1 and R848 immune stimulants to inhibit murine colon cancer", 2021, International Immunopharmacology
"Cytidine acetylation yields a hypoinflammatory synthetic messenger RNA", 2021, Cell chemical biology
"Combining an Alarmin HMGN1 Peptide with PD-L1 Blockade Results in Robust Antitumor Effects with a Concomitant Increase of Stem-Like/Progenitor Exhausted CD8+ T Cells", 2021, Cancer Immunology Research

Best Publications

β-Defensins: Linking Innate and Adaptive Immunity Through Dendritic and T Cell CCR6

D. Yang;O. Chertov;S. N. Bykovskaia;Q. Chen

2781
Citations
International Union of Pharmacology. XXII. Nomenclature for Chemokine Receptors

Philip M. Murphy;Marco Baggiolini;Israel F. Charo;Caroline A. Hébert

2506
Citations
Properties of the Novel Proinflammatory Supergene "Intercrine" Cytokine Family

J. J. Oppenheim;C. O. C. Zachariae;N. Mukaida;K. Matsushima

2471
Citations
Ll-37, the Neutrophil Granule–And Epithelial Cell–Derived Cathelicidin, Utilizes Formyl Peptide Receptor–Like 1 (Fprl1) as a Receptor to Chemoattract Human Peripheral Blood Neutrophils, Monocytes, and T Cells

De Yang;Qian Chen;Albert P. Schmidt;G. Mark Anderson

1845
Citations
There is more than one interleukin 1.

Joost J. Oppenheim;Elizabeth J. Kovacs;Kouji Matsushima;Scott K. Durum

1648
Citations
Molecular cloning of a human monocyte-derived neutrophil chemotactic factor (MDNCF) and the induction of MDNCF mRNA by interleukin 1 and tumor necrosis factor.

Kouji Matsushima;Kazuhiro Morishita;Teizo Yoshimura;Sukadev Lavu

1532
Citations
Purification of a human monocyte-derived neutrophil chemotactic factor that has peptide sequence similarity to other host defense cytokines

Teizo Yoshimura;Kouji Matsushima;Shuji Tanaka;Elizabeth A. Robinson

1356
Citations
The neutrophil-activating protein (NAP-1) is also chemotactic for T lymphocytes.

Christian Grønhøj Larsen;Arthur O. Anderson;Ettore Appella;Joost J. Oppenheim

1323
Citations
Toll-Like Receptor 4-Dependent Activation of Dendritic Cells by β-Defensin 2

Arya Biragyn;Pier Adelchi Ruffini;Cynthia A. Leifer;Elena Klyushnenkova

1219
Citations
Purification and characterization of a novel monocyte chemotactic and activating factor produced by a human myelomonocytic cell line

K Matsushima;C G Larsen;G C DuBois;J J Oppenheim

1171
Citations
Human endothelial cells express CCR2 and respond to MCP-1: direct role of MCP-1 in angiogenesis and tumor progression.

Rosalba Salcedo;Maria Lourdes Ponce;Howard A. Young;Ken Wasserman

1136
Citations
Alarmins: chemotactic activators of immune responses.

Joost J Oppenheim;De Yang

1087
Citations
Mammalian defensins in immunity: more than just microbicidal.

De Yang;Arya Biragyn;Larry W Kwak;Joost J Oppenheim

1024
Citations
Recombinant Human Interferon-inducible Protein 10 Is a Chemoattractant for Human Monocytes and T Lymphocytes and Promotes T Cell Adhesion to Endothelial Cells

Dennis D. Taub;Andrew R. Lloyd;Kevin Conlon;Ji Ming Wang

964
Citations
Preferential migration of activated CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in response to MIP-1 alpha and MIP-1 beta

Dennis D. Taub;Kevin Conlon;Andrew R. Lloyd;Joost J. Oppenheim

890
Citations
Interleukin 8 and MCAF: novel inflammatory cytokines inducible by IL 1 and TNF.

Kouji Matsushima;Joost J. Oppenheim

877
Citations
Neutrophil chemotactic factor produced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated human blood mononuclear leukocytes: partial characterization and separation from interleukin 1 (IL 1).

Teizo Yoshimura;Kouji Matsushima;Joost J Oppenheim;Edward J Leonard

841
Citations
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor Induce Expression of CXCR4 on Human Endothelial Cells: In Vivo Neovascularization Induced by Stromal-Derived Factor-1α

Rosalba Salcedo;Ken Wasserman;Howard A. Young;Michael C. Grimm

838
Citations
The functional relationship of the interleukins.

Kendall A. Smith;Lawrence B. Lachman;Joost J. Oppenheim;Margaret F. Favata

836
Citations
Interleukin 1: an immunological perspective.

Scott K. Durum;John A. Schmidt;Joost J. Oppenheim

802
Citations
Multiple Roles of Antimicrobial Defensins, Cathelicidins, and Eosinophil-Derived Neurotoxin in Host Defense*

De Yang;Arya Biragyn;David M. Hoover;Jacek Lubkowski

802
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

De Yang National Cancer Research Institute, UK

Xin Chen University of Macau

Kouji Matsushima Tokyo University of Science

O. M. Zack Howard National Institutes of Health

Ji Ming Wang National Institutes of Health

David L. Rosenstreich National Institutes of Health

Andrew R. Lloyd University of New South Wales

Dennis D. Taub George Washington University

Dan L. Longo Harvard University

Stephan E. Mergenhagen National Institutes of Health

External Links

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