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Joseph F. Urban 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 F. Urban sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 464 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Joseph F. Urban 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 F. Urban sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 101 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Joseph F. Urban is affiliated with the United States Department of Agriculture in the United States. Their research spans the fields of immunology and microbiology, with particular focus on immunology, molecular biology, parasitology, infectious diseases, and surgery.

The scientist's work covers a diverse range of topics including parasites and host interactions, IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways, immune cell function and interaction, helminth infection and control, gut microbiota and health, eosinophilic esophagitis, and parasite biology and host interactions.

Frequent publication venues for Joseph F. Urban include The Journal of Immunology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Metabolites, Current Developments in Nutrition, and The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry.

Some of their recent publications are:

  • Mechanistic insights into the attenuation of intestinal inflammation and modulation of the gut microbiome by krill oil using in vitro and in vivo models, 2020, Microbiome
  • Interleukin-33 Promotes Serotonin Release from Enterochromaffin Cells for Intestinal Homeostasis, 2020, Immunity
  • Up-regulation of gasdermin C in mouse small intestine is associated with lytic cell death in enterocytes in worm-induced type 2 immunity, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Enteric helminth coinfection enhances host susceptibility to neurotropic flaviviruses via a tuft cell-IL-4 receptor signaling axis, 2021, Cell
  • Crosstalk between ILC2s and Th2 cells varies among mouse models, 2023, Cell Reports

Joseph F. Urban has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Gloria Solano-Aguilar, Sukla Lakshman, Robert W. Li, Raffi V. Aroian, and Ethiopia Beshah.

Best Publications

  • Lymphokine control of in vivo immunoglobulin isotype selection.

    Finkelman Fd;Holmes J;Katona Im;Urban Jf

  • Cell-intrinsic lysosomal lipolysis is essential for alternative activation of macrophages

    Stanley Ching Cheng Huang;Bart Everts;Yulia Ivanova;David O'Sullivan

  • Protective immune mechanisms in helminth infection

    Robert M. Anthony;Laura I. Rutitzky;Joseph F. Urban;Miguel J. Stadecker

  • Trichuris suis therapy in Crohn’s disease

    R W Summers;D E Elliott;J F Urban;R Thompson

  • Trichuris suis therapy for active ulcerative colitis: A randomized controlled trial

    Robert W. Summers;David E. Elliott;Joseph F. Urban;Joseph F. Urban;Robin A. Thompson

  • Conditional deletion of Gata3 shows its essential function in T(H)1-T(H)2 responses.

    Jinfang Zhu;Booki Min;Jane Hu-Li;Cynthia J Watson

  • CYTOKINE REGULATION OF HOST DEFENSE AGAINST PARASITIC GASTROINTESTINAL NEMATODES: Lessons from Studies with Rodent Models

    Fred D. Finkelman;Terez Shea-Donohue;Jon Goldhill;Carolyn A. Sullivan

  • IL-4 is required to generate and sustain in vivo IgE responses.

    F D Finkelman;I M Katona;J F Urban;J Holmes

  • IL25 elicits a multipotent progenitor cell population that promotes T H 2 cytokine responses

    Steven A. Saenz;Mark C. Siracusa;Jacqueline G. Perrigoue;Sean P. Spencer

  • IL-13, IL-4Rα, and Stat6 Are Required for the Expulsion of the Gastrointestinal Nematode Parasite Nippostrongylus brasiliensis

    Joseph F Urban;Nancy Noben-Trauth;Debra D Donaldson;Kathleen B Madden

  • IL-25-responsive, lineage-negative KLRG1hi cells are multipotential /`inflammatory/' type 2 innate lymphoid cells

    Yuefeng Huang;Liying Guo;Jin Qiu;Xi Chen

  • Memory TH2 cells induce alternatively activated macrophages to mediate protection against nematode parasites

    Robert M Anthony;Robert M Anthony;Joseph F Urban;Farhang Alem;Hossein A Hamed

  • Interleukin-4- and interleukin-13-mediated host protection against intestinal nematode parasites.

    Fred D. Finkelman;Fred D. Finkelman;Terez Shea‐Donohue;Suzanne C. Morris;Lucy Gildea

  • An essential role for TH2-type responses in limiting acute tissue damage during experimental helminth infection

    Fei Chen;Zhugong Liu;Zhugong Liu;Wenhui Wu;Cristina Rozo

  • Trichuris suis seems to be safe and possibly effective in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease

    Robert W Summers;David E Elliott;Khurram Qadir;Joseph F Urban

  • Basophils Produce IL-4 and Accumulate in Tissues after Infection with a Th2-inducing Parasite

    Booki Min;Melanie Prout;Jane Hu-Li;Jinfang Zhu

  • S1P-dependent interorgan trafficking of group 2 innate lymphoid cells supports host defense.

    Yuefeng Huang;Kairui Mao;Xi Chen;Ming An Sun

  • Alternatively activated macrophages in helminth infections

    Timothy Kreider;Robert M. Anthony;Joseph F. Urban;William C. Gause

  • Interleukin 4 is important in protective immunity to a gastrointestinal nematode infection in mice.

    J F Urban;I M Katona;W E Paul;F D Finkelman

  • Suppression of in vivo polyclonal IgE responses by monoclonal antibody to the lymphokine B-cell stimulatory factor 1.

    FD Finkelman;IM Katona;Jr Jf Urban;CM Snapper

  • Cell-intrinsic lysosomal lipolysis is essential for macrophage alternative activation

    Stanley Ching-Cheng Huang;Bart Everts;Yulia Ivanova;David O'Sullivan

Frequent Co-Authors

Fred D. Finkelman
Fred D. Finkelman University of Cincinnati
William C. Gause
William C. Gause Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Michael A. Strauss
Michael A. Strauss University of Oklahoma
Tobias Golling
Tobias Golling University of Geneva
Mark Klein
Mark Klein University of Liverpool
Kaushik De
Kaushik De The University of Texas at Arlington

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