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Immunology

D-Index
86
Citations
41320
World Ranking
1231
National Ranking
641

Medicine

D-Index
86
Citations
41432
World Ranking
13878
National Ranking
7046

Kendall A. Smith 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 Kendall A. Smith sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 268 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kendall A. Smith 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 Kendall A. Smith sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 86 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Kendall A. Smith is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Smith's research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on immunology and microbiology as well as medicine. Their work encompasses several subfields including immunology, oncology, artificial intelligence, sociology and political science, and safety research.

The main research topics covered by Smith include immune cell function and interaction, T-cell and B-cell immunology, CAR-T cell therapy research, immunotherapy and immune responses, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, multi-agent systems and negotiation, and the ethics and social impacts of artificial intelligence.

Smith has contributed to a number of publications in various venues with notable frequency. These publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Nature
  • Cell Reports
  • Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Recent papers by Smith cover both biomedical and computational topics. Some of these papers include:

  • "PD-1 combination therapy with IL-2 modifies CD8+ T cell exhaustion program," published in 2022 in Nature
  • "Autocrine and paracrine IL-2 signals collaborate to regulate distinct phases of CD8 T cell memory," published in 2022 in Cell Reports
  • "Benchmarking Intersectional Biases in NLP," published in 2022 in the Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
  • "Modeling Responsibly Toward a Fair, Interpretable, and Ethical Machine Learning for the Social Sciences," published in 2022 in TMS Proceedings 2021
  • "Streptococcal Cellulitis: A Potentially Life-Threatening Infection Beyond Skin Involvement," published in 2025 in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Frequent collaborators in Smith's research include:

  • Yevgeniy Yuzefpolskiy
  • Surojit Sarkar
  • Vandana Kalia
  • Adithya Vegaraju
  • Anthony A. Mangino

Best Publications

  • T Cell Growth Factor: Parameters of Production and a Quantitative Microassay for Activity

    Steven Gillis;Mary M. Ferm;Winny Ou;Kendall A. Smith

  • Interleukin-2: inception, impact, and implications.

    Kendall A. Smith

  • Latent infection of CD4 + T cells provides a mechanism for lifelong persistence of HIV-1, even in patients on effective combination therapy

    Diana Finzi;Joel N Blankson;Janet M Siliciano;Joseph Bernard Margolick

  • Long term culture of tumour-specific cytotoxic T cells.

    Steven Gillis;Kendall A. Smith

  • T cell growth factor receptors. Quantitation, specificity, and biological relevance

    RJ Robb;A Munck;KA Smith

  • Thalidomide exerts its inhibitory action on tumor necrosis factor alpha by enhancing mRNA degradation.

    A L Moreira;E P Sampaio;A Zmuidzinas;P Frindt

  • The interleukin-2 T-cell system: a new cell growth model.

    Doreen A. Cantrell;Kendall A. Smith

  • T‐Cell Growth Factor

    Kendall A. Smith

  • A monoclonal antibody that appears to recognize the receptor for human T-cell growth factor; partial characterization of the receptor

    Warren J. Leonard;Joel M. Depper;Takashi Uchiyama;Kendall A. Smith

  • The functional relationship of the interleukins.

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

  • Transient expression of interleukin 2 receptors. Consequences for T cell growth.

    Doreen A. Cantrell;Kendall A. Smith

  • Glucocorticoid-induced inhibition of T cell growth factor production. I. The effect on mitogen-induced lymphocyte proliferation.

    Steven Gillis;Gerald R. Crabtree;Kendall A. Smith

  • Prolonged Interleukin-2Rα Expression on Virus-Specific CD8+ T Cells Favors Terminal-Effector Differentiation In Vivo

    Vandana Kalia;Surojit Sarkar;Shruti Subramaniam;W. Nicholas Haining

  • Interleukin 2 high-affinity receptor expression requires two distinct binding proteins.

    K Teshigawara;H M Wang;K Kato;K A Smith

  • Triggering of the T3-Ti antigen-receptor complex results in clonal T-cell proliferation through an interleukin 2-dependent autocrine pathway

    Stefan C. Meuer;Rebecca E. Hussey;Doreen A. Cantrell;James C. Hodgdon

  • Interleukin 2 regulates its own receptors.

    Kendall A. Smith;Doreen A. Cantrell

  • The interleukin 2 receptor. Functional consequences of its bimolecular structure.

    Huey-Mei Wang;K. A. Smith

  • Functional consequences of interleukin 2 receptor expression on resting human lymphocytes. Identification of a novel natural killer cell subset with high affinity receptors.

    M A Caligiuri;A Zmuidzinas;T J Manley;H Levine

  • Therapeutic use of IL-2 to enhance antiviral T-cell responses in vivo

    Joseph N. Blattman;Jason M. Grayson;E. John Wherry;Susan M. Kaech

  • Differentiation of T cell lymphokine gene expression: the in vitro acquisition of T cell memory.

    S Ehlers;K A Smith

  • Thalidomide Exerts Its Inhibitory Action on Tumor Necrosis Factor oe by Enhancing mRNA Degradation By Andre L. Moreira,* Elizabeth P. Sampaio,*S Antonina Zmuidzinas,*

    Paula Frindt;Kendall A. Smith;Gilla Kaplan

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven Gillis
Steven Gillis Dartmouth College
Allan Munck
Allan Munck Dartmouth College
Gerald R. Crabtree
Gerald R. Crabtree Stanford University
Gilla Kaplan
Gilla Kaplan Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Rafi Ahmed
Rafi Ahmed Emory University
Zanvil A. Cohn
Zanvil A. Cohn Rockefeller University
Doreen A. Cantrell
Doreen A. Cantrell University of Dundee
Francis W. Ruscetti
Francis W. Ruscetti National Institutes of Health
Takashi Uchiyama
Takashi Uchiyama Kyoto University
Clara D. Bloomfield
Clara D. Bloomfield The Ohio State University

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