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D-Index
61
Citations
20689
World Ranking
3193
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1496

Joseph C. Sun 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 Joseph C. Sun sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 152 publications — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Joseph C. Sun 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 Joseph C. Sun sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Joseph C. Sun is affiliated with the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. Their primary fields of study include Immunology and Microbiology as well as Medicine. Within these fields, specific subfields of study include Immunology, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, Oncology, and Infectious Diseases.

The researcher's work covers several main topics, notably:

  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways
  • Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • Immune responses and vaccinations
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses

Joseph C. Sun has published extensively in a range of scientific journals, frequently contributing to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Immunology
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • Cell Reports

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Colleen M. Lau
  • Simon Grassmann
  • Endi K. Santosa
  • Hyunu Kim
  • Katharine C. Hsu

Recent publications highlight topics related to immunity and cancer research. Notable examples are:

  • Defining trained immunity and its role in health and disease, 2020, Nature Reviews Immunology
  • Trained immunity, tolerance, priming and differentiation: distinct immunological processes, 2020, Nature Immunology
  • Epigenetic memory of coronavirus infection in innate immune cells and their progenitors, 2023, Cell
  • The RNA m6A reader YTHDF2 controls NK cell antitumor and antiviral immunity, 2021, The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • STING inhibits the reactivation of dormant metastasis in lung adenocarcinoma, 2023, Nature

Best Publications

  • Defining trained immunity and its role in health and disease

    Mihai G. Netea;Mihai G. Netea;Jorge Domínguez-Andrés;Luis B. Barreiro;Luis B. Barreiro;Triantafyllos Chavakis;Triantafyllos Chavakis

  • Adaptive immune features of natural killer cells

    Joseph C. Sun;Joshua N. Beilke;Lewis L. Lanier

  • Defective CD8 T Cell Memory Following Acute Infection Without CD4 T Cell Help

    Joseph C. Sun;Michael J. Bevan

  • CD4 + T cells are required for the maintenance, not programming, of memory CD8 + T cells after acute infection

    Joseph C Sun;Matthew A Williams;Michael J Bevan

  • NK cell development, homeostasis and function: parallels with CD8 + T cells

    Joseph C. Sun;Lewis L. Lanier

  • The Transcription Factors T-bet and Eomes Control Key Checkpoints of Natural Killer Cell Maturation

    Scott M. Gordon;Julie Chaix;Levi J. Rupp;Junmin Wu

  • Trained immunity, tolerance, priming and differentiation: distinct immunological processes.

    Maziar Divangahi;Peter Aaby;Shabaana A. Khader;Luis B. Barreiro

  • ILC1 Confer Early Host Protection at Initial Sites of Viral Infection

    Orr El Weizman;Nicholas M. Adams;Iona S. Schuster;Chirag Krishna

  • Natural Killer Cell Memory

    Timothy E. O’Sullivan;Joseph C. Sun;Joseph C. Sun;Lewis L. Lanier

  • Proinflammatory cytokine signaling required for the generation of natural killer cell memory

    Joseph C. Sun;Sharline Madera;Natalie A. Bezman;Joshua N. Beilke

  • Molecular definition of the identity and activation of natural killer cells

    Natalie A Bezman;Charles C Kim;Joseph C Sun;Gundula Min-Oo

  • BNIP3- and BNIP3L-Mediated Mitophagy Promotes the Generation of Natural Killer Cell Memory

    Timothy E. O’Sullivan;Lexus R. Johnson;Helen H. Kang;Joseph C. Sun;Joseph C. Sun

  • Adipose-Resident Group 1 Innate Lymphoid Cells Promote Obesity-Associated Insulin Resistance

    Timothy E. O'Sullivan;Moritz Rapp;Xiying Fan;Orr El Weizman

  • Epigenetic control of innate and adaptive immune memory.

    Colleen M. Lau;Nicholas M. Adams;Clair D. Geary;Orr-El Weizman

  • Nfil3 is crucial for development of innate lymphoid cells and host protection against intestinal pathogens

    Theresa L. Geiger;Michael C. Abt;Georg Gasteiger;Matthew A. Firth

  • NK Cells and Immune “Memory”

    Joseph C. Sun;Sandra Lopez-Verges;Charles C. Kim;Joseph L. DeRisi

  • Epigenetic memory of coronavirus infection in innate immune cells and their progenitors

    Unknown

  • Transforming Growth Factor-β Signaling Guides the Differentiation of Innate Lymphoid Cells in Salivary Glands.

    Victor S. Cortez;Luisa Cervantes-Barragan;Michelle L. Robinette;Jennifer K. Bando

  • IL-2–dependent tuning of NK cell sensitivity for target cells is controlled by regulatory T cells

    Georg Gasteiger;Saskia Hemmers;Matthew A. Firth;Audrey Le Floc’h

  • STING inhibits the reactivation of dormant metastasis in lung adenocarcinoma

    Unknown

  • Developing and maintaining protective CD8+ memory T cells.

    Matthew A. Williams;Brittany J. Holmes;Joseph C. Sun;Michael J. Bevan

  • Molecular definition of the identity and activation of natural killer cells

    Natalie A Bezman;Charles C Kim;Joseph C Sun;Gundula Min-Oo

Frequent Co-Authors

Lewis L. Lanier
Lewis L. Lanier University of California, San Francisco
Ramnik J. Xavier
Ramnik J. Xavier Broad Institute
Ananda W. Goldrath
Ananda W. Goldrath University of California, San Diego
Brian D. Brown
Brian D. Brown Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Patrick J. Brennan
Patrick J. Brennan Colorado State University
Gwendalyn J. Randolph
Gwendalyn J. Randolph Washington University in St. Louis
Miriam Merad
Miriam Merad Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Daphne Koller
Daphne Koller insitro Inc.
Diane Mathis
Diane Mathis Harvard University
Aviv Regev
Aviv Regev Genentech

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