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D-Index
53
Citations
11903
World Ranking
3961
National Ranking
154

Kohsuke Imai 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 Kohsuke Imai sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 260 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kohsuke Imai 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 Kohsuke Imai sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Kohsuke Imai is affiliated with Tokyo Medical and Dental University in Japan. Their research spans several fields within medicine and biomedical science, focusing primarily on immunology and related disciplines.

The main fields of study for Imai include Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work delves deeply into subfields such as Immunology, Genetics, Hematology, Epidemiology, and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad spectrum, including Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders, Blood Disorders and Treatments, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, Cytomegalovirus and Herpesvirus Research, and Parvovirus B19 Infection Studies.

Imai has published frequently in several scientific journals. Notable publication venues include:

  • Journal of Clinical Immunology
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Pediatrics International
  • International Journal of Hematology
  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Some recent scientific papers authored by or associated with Imai are:

  • Therapeutic options for CTLA-4 insufficiency, 2021, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Recessive inborn errors of type I IFN immunity in children with COVID-19 pneumonia, 2022, The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • International retrospective study of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for activated PI3K-delta syndrome, 2021, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • A variant in human AIOLOS impairs adaptive immunity by interfering with IKAROS, 2021, Nature Immunology
  • APRIL-dependent lifelong plasmacyte maintenance and immunoglobulin production in humans, 2020, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Imai frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Tomohiro Morio
  • Hirokazu Kanegane
  • Masatoshi Takagi
  • Shigeaki Nonoyama
  • Osamu Ohara

The breadth of Imai's work reflects a focus on understanding immune system dysfunctions, blood-related diseases, and stem cell transplantation strategies. Their contributions address both clinical and molecular aspects of these areas, contributing to the body of knowledge on adaptive immunity, genetic factors in immunity, and treatment modalities in hematology and immunology.

Best Publications

  • Human Tyrosine Kinase 2 Deficiency Reveals Its Requisite Roles in Multiple Cytokine Signals Involved in Innate and Acquired Immunity

    Yoshiyuki Minegishi;Masako Saito;Tomohiro Morio;Ken Watanabe

  • Human uracil-DNA glycosylase deficiency associated with profoundly impaired immunoglobulin class-switch recombination.

    Kohsuke Imai;Geir Slupphaug;Wen I. Lee;Wen I. Lee;Patrick Revy

  • Autoantibodies neutralizing type I IFNs are present in ~ 4% of uninfected individuals over 70 years old and account for ~ 20% of COVID-19 deaths.

    Paul Bastard;Adrian Gervais;Adrian Gervais;Tom Le Voyer;Tom Le Voyer;Jérémie Rosain;Jérémie Rosain

  • Clinical spectrum and features of activated phosphoinositide 3-kinase δ syndrome: A large patient cohort study.

    Tanya I Coulter;Anita Chandra;Chris M Bacon;Judith Babar

  • Clinical course of patients with WASP gene mutations

    Kohsuke Imai;Tomohiro Morio;Yi Zhu;Yinzhu Jin

  • Phenotype, penetrance, and treatment of 133 cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4–insufficient subjects

    Charlotte Schwab;Annemarie Gabrysch;Peter Olbrich;Virginia Patiño

  • AID mutant analyses indicate requirement for class-switch-specific cofactors

    Van-Thanh Ta;Hitoshi Nagaoka;Nadia Catalan;Anne Durandy

  • Clinical and immunologic phenotype associated with activated phosphoinositide 3-kinase δ syndrome 2: A cohort study

    Elodie Elkaim;Elodie Elkaim;Benedicte Neven;Benedicte Neven;Benedicte Neven;Julie Bruneau;Julie Bruneau;Kanako Mitsui-Sekinaka

  • WASP (Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein) gene mutations and phenotype.

    Kohsuke Imai;Shigeaki Nonoyama;Hans D. Ochs

  • Hyper-IgM syndrome type 4 with a B lymphocyte–intrinsic selective deficiency in Ig class-switch recombination

    Kohsuke Imai;Nadia Catalan;Alessandro Plebani;László Maródi

  • Multicenter experience in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for serious complications of common variable immunodeficiency

    Claudia Wehr;Andrew R. Gennery;Caroline Lindemans;Ansgar Schulz

  • Molecular and Virological Evidence of Viral Activation From Chromosomally Integrated Human Herpesvirus 6A in a Patient With X-Linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency

    Akifumi Endo;Ken Watanabe;Tamae Ohye;Kyoko Suzuki

  • Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients with gain-of-function signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 mutations

    Jennifer W. Leiding;Satoshi Okada;David Hagin;Mario Abinun;Mario Abinun

  • Repair of U/G and U/A in DNA by UNG2-associated repair complexes takes place predominantly by short-patch repair both in proliferating and growth-arrested cells

    Mansour Akbari;Marit Otterlei;Javier Peña-Diaz;Per Arne Aas

  • SARS-CoV-2-related MIS-C: A key to the viral and genetic causes of Kawasaki disease?

    Vanessa Sancho-Shimizu;Petter Brodin;Aurélie Cobat;Aurélie Cobat;Aurélie Cobat;Catherine M Biggs

  • B cells from hyper-IgM patients carrying UNG mutations lack ability to remove uracil from ssDNA and have elevated genomic uracil

    Bodil Kavli;Sonja Andersen;Marit Otterlei;Nina B. Liabakk

  • Abnormal hematopoiesis and autoimmunity in human subjects with germline IKZF1 mutations.

    Akihiro Hoshino;Satoshi Okada;Kenichi Yoshida;Naonori Nishida

  • Identification of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency by T-Cell Receptor Excision Circles Quantification Using Neonatal Guthrie Cards

    Yoichi Morinishi;Kohsuke Imai;Noriko Nakagawa;Hiroki Sato

  • Flow cytometry-based diagnosis of primary immunodeficiency diseases

    Hirokazu Kanegane;Akihiro Hoshino;Tsubasa Okano;Takahiro Yasumi

  • Analysis of class switch recombination and somatic hypermutation in patients affected with autosomal dominant hyper-IgM syndrome type 2

    Kohsuke Imai;Yi Zhu;Patrick Revy;Tomohiro Morio

  • The Block in Immunoglobulin Class Switch Recombination Caused by Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase Deficiency Occurs Prior to the Generation of DNA Double Strand Breaks in Switch μ Region

    Nadia Catalan;Françoise Selz;Kohsuke Imai;Patrick Revy

Frequent Co-Authors

Tomohiro Morio
Tomohiro Morio Institute of Science Tokyo
Shigeaki Nonoyama
Shigeaki Nonoyama National Defense Medical College
Hirokazu Kanegane
Hirokazu Kanegane Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Osamu Ohara
Osamu Ohara Chiba University
Alain Fischer
Alain Fischer Collège de France
Shuki Mizutani
Shuki Mizutani Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Seishi Ogawa
Seishi Ogawa Kyoto University
Seiji Kojima
Seiji Kojima Nagoya University
Toshio Miyawaki
Toshio Miyawaki University of Toyama

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