2026 Lee Ratner: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	86	1245	1132	650	579	361	30364
Medicine	86	14026	13207	7115	6587	361	30126

Lee Ratner 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 Lee Ratner sits on this spectrum.

62 publications 807+

This scientist: 361 publications — 75th percentile

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

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

Lee Ratner 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 Lee Ratner sits on this spectrum.

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

Lee Ratner is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, focusing extensively on Oncology and Immunology as key subfields. Additional areas of study include Agronomy and Crop Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Cancer Research.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics within their domains, including:

T-cell and Retrovirus Studies
Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
Viral-associated cancers and disorders
Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics

Lee Ratner has published research papers in several notable venues, with frequent contributions to Kazan medical journal, Clinical Cancer Research, Blood, PLoS Pathogens, and Cancer Research.

Selected recent publications include:

Defactinib, Pembrolizumab, and Gemcitabine in Patients with Advanced Treatment Refractory Pancreatic Cancer: A Phase I Dose Escalation and Expansion Study (2022, Clinical Cancer Research)
Genetic subgroups inform on pathobiology in adult and pediatric Burkitt lymphoma (2022, Blood)
Impact of Myc in HIV-associated non-Hodgkin lymphomas treated with EPOCH and outcomes with vorinostat (AMC-075 trial) (2020, Blood)
Brentuximab vedotin with AVD for stage II-IV HIV-related Hodgkin lymphoma (AMC 085): phase 2 results from an open-label, single arm, multicentre phase 1/2 trial (2023, The Lancet Haematology)
Heparanase Blockade as a Novel Dual-Targeting Therapy for COVID-19 (2022, Journal of Virology)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Daniel A. Rauch
Ancy Joseph
Richard F. Ambinder
John C. S. Harding
David H. Henry

Best Publications

Complete nucleotide sequence of the AIDS virus, HTLV-III

Lee Ratner;William Haseltine;Roberto Patarca;Kenneth J. Livak

2949
Citations
The Vpr protein of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 influences nuclear localization of viral nucleic acids in nondividing host cells

Nina K. Heinzinger;Michael I. Bukrinsky;Sheryl A. Haggerty;Anna M. Ragland

1290
Citations
Myristoylation-dependent replication and assembly of human immunodeficiency virus 1

Martin Bryant;Lee Ratner

923
Citations
Sensitivity of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 to the Fusion Inhibitor T-20 Is Modulated by Coreceptor Specificity Defined by the V3 Loop of gp120

Cynthia A. Derdeyn;Julie M. Decker;Jeffrey N. Sfakianos;Xiaoyun Wu

920
Citations
Definition, Prognostic Factors, Treatment, and Response Criteria of Adult T-Cell Leukemia-Lymphoma: A Proposal From an International Consensus Meeting

Kunihiro Tsukasaki;Olivier Hermine;Ali Bazarbachi;Lee Ratner

622
Citations
Multidrug resistance transporters and modulation.

Benjamin Tan;David Piwnica-Worms;Lee Ratner

564
Citations
The sor gene of HIV-1 is required for efficient virus transmission in vitro.

Amanda G. Fisher;Barbara Ensoli;Lucinda Ivanoff;Mark Chamberlain

535
Citations
Viral protein R regulates nuclear import of the HIV‐1 pre‐integration complex

Serguei Popov;Michael Rexach;Gabriele Zybarth;Norbert Reiling

523
Citations
Complete nucleotide sequences of functional clones of the AIDS virus

Lee Ratner;Amanda Fisher;Linda L. Jagodzinski;Hiroaki Mitsuya

509
Citations
Development of leukemia in mice transgenic for the tax gene of human T-cell leukemia virus type I

William J. Grossman;Jason T. Kimata;Fen Hwa Wong;Mary Zutter

484
Citations
A molecular clone of HTLV-III with biological activity.

Amanda G. Fisher;Enrico Collalti;Lee Ratner;Robert C. Gallo

459
Citations
Molecular Biology of Human T-Lymphotropic Retroviruses

Flossie Wong-Staal;Lee Ratner;George Shaw;Beatrice Hahn

453
Citations
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 viral protein R localization in infected cells and virions.

Yuh-Ling Lu;P. Spearman;L. Ratner

413
Citations
Identification of a determinant within the human immunodeficiency virus 1 surface envelope glycoprotein critical for productive infection of primary monocytes.

Peter Westervelt;Howard E. Gendelman;Lee Ratner

382
Citations
Bioluminescence imaging of myeloperoxidase activity in vivo.

Shimon Gross;Seth T Gammon;Britney L Moss;Daniel Rauch

376
Citations
Macrophage tropism determinants of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in vivo.

Peter Westervelt;D. B. Trowbridge;L. G. Epstein;B. M. Blumberg

360
Citations
Killing HIV-infected cells by transduction with an HIV protease-activated caspase-3 protein

Adita M. Vocero-Akbani;Nancy Vander Heyden;Natalie A. Lissy;Lee Ratner

359
Citations
Identification of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Gag protein domains essential to membrane binding and particle assembly.

P Spearman;J J Wang;N Vander Heyden;L Ratner

349
Citations
Relationship of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 sequence heterogeneity to stage of disease.

Terry McNearney;Zuzana Hornickova;Richard Markham;Anahid Birdwell

331
Citations
Chemotherapy for Human Immunodeficiency Virus–Associated Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in Combination With Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

Lee Ratner;Jeannette Lee;Shenghui Tang;David Redden

329
Citations
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 negative factor is a transcriptional silencer

Thomas M. J. Niederman;Benjamin J. Thielan;Lee Ratner

328
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Dale Lairmore University of California, Davis

Jeannette Y. Lee University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Richard F. Ambinder Johns Hopkins University

Ronald T. Mitsuyasu University of California, Los Angeles

Joseph A. Sparano Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Robert C. Gallo University of South Florida

Ethel Cesarman Cornell University

George M. Shaw University of Pennsylvania

Peter Westervelt Brown University

Beatrice H. Hahn University of Pennsylvania

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