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D-Index
46
Citations
5424
World Ranking
4653
National Ranking
2093

Lijuan Yuan 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 Lijuan Yuan sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 93 publications — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lijuan Yuan 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 Lijuan Yuan sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Lijuan Yuan is affiliated with Virginia Tech in the United States and has focused their research primarily in the field of Medicine, with a total of 66 publications. Their work spans several specialized subfields including Infectious Diseases, Animal Science and Zoology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research interests cover a range of topics, notably:

  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Animal Virus Infections Studies
  • Viral Infections and Immunology Research
  • Infant Nutrition and Health
  • Virus-based gene therapy research
  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

Lijuan Yuan has contributed to several publication venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Viruses
  • Vaccines
  • UNC Libraries
  • Gastroenterology
  • Progress in molecular biology and translational science

The researcher has collaborated frequently with other scientists. Among the most frequent co-authors are Viviana Parreño, Casey Hensley, Charlotte Nyblade, Ashwin Ramesh, and Sylvia Becker-Dreps.

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Lijuan Yuan include:

  • Microbiota in viral infection and disease in humans and farm animals, 2020, Progress in molecular biology and translational science
  • Early Influences of Microbiota on White Matter Development in Germ-Free Piglets, 2021, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
  • Tanshinone IIA and hepatocellular carcinoma: A potential therapeutic drug, 2023, Frontiers in Oncology
  • Evaluation of the 50% Infectious Dose of Human Norovirus Cin-2 in Gnotobiotic Pigs: A Comparison of Classical and Contemporary Methods for Endpoint Estimation, 2020, Viruses
  • Daily Rice Bran Consumption for 6 Months Influences Serum Glucagon-Like Peptide 2 and Metabolite Profiles without Differences in Trace Elements and Heavy Metals in Weaning Nicaraguan Infants at 12 Months of Age, 2021, Current Developments in Nutrition

Best Publications

  • Systematic and intestinal antibody-secreting cell responses and correlates of protective immunity to human rotavirus in a gnotobiotic pig model of disease.

    L Yuan;L A Ward;B I Rosen;T L To

  • Nutritional protective mechanisms against gut inflammation

    Monica Viladomiu;Raquel Hontecillas;Lijuan Yuan;Pinyi Lu

  • Pathogenesis of an attenuated and a virulent strain of group A human rotavirus in neonatal gnotobiotic pigs.

    L. A. Ward;B. I. Rosen;L. Yuan;L. J. Saif

  • Transfer of maternal cytokines to suckling piglets: In vivo and in vitro models with implications for immunomodulation of neonatal immunity

    Trang V. Nguyen;Lijuan Yuan;Marli S.P. Azevedo;Kwang-Il Jeong

  • Porcine Small Intestinal Epithelial Cell Line (IPEC-J2) of Rotavirus Infection As a New Model for the Study of Innate Immune Responses to Rotaviruses and Probiotics

    Fangning Liu;Guohua Li;Ke Wen;Tammy Bui

  • The gnotobiotic piglet as a model for studies of disease pathogenesis and immunity to human rotaviruses

    L. J. Saif;L. A. Ward;L. Yuan;B. I. Rosen

  • Cytokine Responses in Gnotobiotic Pigs after Infection with Virulent or Attenuated Human Rotavirus

    M. S. P. Azevedo;L. Yuan;S. Pouly;A. M. Gonzales

  • Probiotic Lactobacillus acidophilus enhances the immunogenicity of an oral rotavirus vaccine in gnotobiotic pigs.

    Wei Zhang;Marli S.P. Azevedo;Ke Wen;Ana Gonzalez

  • High dose and low dose Lactobacillus acidophilus exerted differential immune modulating effects on T cell immune responses induced by an oral human rotavirus vaccine in gnotobiotic pigs

    Ke Wen;Guohua Li;Tammy Bui;Fangning Liu

  • Induction of mucosal immune responses and protection against enteric viruses: rotavirus infection of gnotobiotic pigs as a model.

    Lijuan Yuan;Linda J Saif

  • Intranasal Administration of 2/6-Rotavirus-Like Particles with Mutant Escherichia coli Heat-Labile Toxin (LT-R192G) Induces Antibody-Secreting Cell Responses but Not Protective Immunity in Gnotobiotic Pigs

    Lijuan Yuan;Annelise Geyer;Douglas C. Hodgins;Zhiqian Fan

  • Viremia and nasal and rectal shedding of rotavirus in gnotobiotic pigs inoculated with Wa human rotavirus

    M. S. Azevedo;L. Yuan;K.-I. Jeong;A. Gonzalez

  • Immunomodulation and signaling mechanism of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG and its components on porcine intestinal epithelial cells stimulated by lipopolysaccharide

    Kan Gao;Chong Wang;Li Liu;Xiaoxiao Dou

  • Serum and intestinal isotype antibody responses and correlates of protective immunity to human rotavirus in a gnotobiotic pig model of disease.

    T L Tô;L A Ward;L Yuan;L J Saif

  • Antibody-Secreting Cell Responses and Protective Immunity Assessed in Gnotobiotic Pigs Inoculated Orally or Intramuscularly with Inactivated Human Rotavirus

    Lijuan Yuan;S.-Y. Kang;Lucy A. Ward;Thanh L. To

  • Virus-specific intestinal IFN-γ producing T cell responses induced by human rotavirus infection and vaccines are correlated with protection against rotavirus diarrhea in gnotobiotic pigs

    Lijuan Yuan;Ke Wen;Marli S.P. Azevedo;Ana M. Gonzalez

  • Increased and prolonged human norovirus infection in RAG2/IL2RG deficient gnotobiotic pigs with severe combined immunodeficiency.

    Shaohua Lei;Junghyun Ryu;Ke Wen;Erica Twitchell

  • Modulation by colostrum-acquired maternal antibodies of systemic and mucosal antibody responses to rotavirus in calves experimentally challenged with bovine rotavirus.

    V Parreño;C Béjar;A Vagnozzi;M Barrandeguy

  • Lactic acid bacterial colonization and human rotavirus infection influence distribution and frequencies of monocytes/macrophages and dendritic cells in neonatal gnotobiotic pigs.

    Wei Zhang;Ke Wen;Marli S.P. Azevedo;Ana Gonzalez

  • Protective immunity and antibody-secreting cell responses elicited by combined oral attenuated Wa human rotavirus and intranasal Wa 2/6-VLPs with mutant Escherichia coli heat-labile toxin in gnotobiotic pigs.

    Lijuan Yuan;Cristiana Iosef;Marli S. P. Azevedo;Yunjeong Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda J. Saif
Linda J. Saif The Ohio State University
Yasutaka Hoshino
Yasutaka Hoshino National Institutes of Health
Xi Jiang
Xi Jiang Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Ahmed E. Yousef
Ahmed E. Yousef The Ohio State University
Kyeong-Ok Chang
Kyeong-Ok Chang Kansas State University
Albert Z. Kapikian
Albert Z. Kapikian National Institutes of Health
Bror Morein
Bror Morein Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Jun Sun
Jun Sun University of Illinois at Chicago
Xiang-Jin Meng
Xiang-Jin Meng Virginia Tech
John T. Patton
John T. Patton Indiana University

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