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2023

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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking National Ranking Publications Citations
Microbiology 73 1686 10 269 17127

Luiz R. Travassos publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Luiz R. Travassos between 1970 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Luiz R. Travassos published across 56 years, from 1970 to 2025, averaging 5.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 16 publications in 2008. 3 of the 295 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1970 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 16. Peak 16 publications in 2008. 1970: 1 publication 1971: 0 publications 1972: 0 publications 1973: 1 publication 1974: 3 publications 1975: 1 publication 1976: 1 publication 1977: 2 publications 1978: 3 publications 1979: 5 publications 1980: 3 publications 1981: 0 publications 1982: 3 publications 1983: 1 publication 1984: 0 publications 1985: 0 publications 1986: 3 publications 1987: 0 publications 1988: 7 publications 1989: 2 publications 1990: 1 publication 1991: 6 publications 1992: 2 publications 1993: 6 publications 1994: 10 publications 1995: 6 publications 1996: 9 publications 1997: 4 publications 1998: 7 publications 1999: 7 publications 2000: 10 publications 2001: 4 publications 2002: 8 publications 2003: 9 publications 2004: 11 publications 2005: 6 publications 2006: 4 publications 2007: 9 publications 2008: 16 publications 2009: 10 publications 2010: 10 publications 2011: 12 publications 2012: 16 publications 2013: 6 publications 2014: 13 publications 2015: 9 publications 2016: 6 publications 2017: 7 publications 2018: 4 publications 2019: 6 publications 2020: 6 publications 2021: 3 publications 2022: 1 publication 2023: 12 publications 2024: 1 publication 2025: 2 publications
1970 2025

295 publications in total across all disciplines

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Luiz R. Travassos: publications per year, 1970 to 2025
Year Publications
1970 1
1971 0
1972 0
1973 1
1974 3
1975 1
1976 1
1977 2
1978 3
1979 5
1980 3
1981 0
1982 3
1983 1
1984 0
1985 0
1986 3
1987 0
1988 7
1989 2
1990 1
1991 6
1992 2
1993 6
1994 10
1995 6
1996 9
1997 4
1998 7
1999 7
2000 10
2001 4
2002 8
2003 9
2004 11
2005 6
2006 4
2007 9
2008 16
2009 10
2010 10
2011 12
2012 16
2013 6
2014 13
2015 9
2016 6
2017 7
2018 4
2019 6
2020 6
2021 3
2022 1
2023 12
2024 1
2025 2
Total 295
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Luiz R. Travassos publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Luiz R. Travassos sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200 250
Bar chart with 64 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 55–64 to 679+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 288. Most scientists, 288, have 135–144 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 265–274 publications, is where this scientist sits. 55–64 publications: 8 scientists 65–74 publications: 29 scientists 75–84 publications: 55 scientists 85–94 publications: 112 scientists 95–104 publications: 137 scientists 105–114 publications: 190 scientists 115–124 publications: 235 scientists 125–134 publications: 234 scientists 135–144 publications: 288 scientists 145–154 publications: 265 scientists 155–164 publications: 264 scientists 165–174 publications: 253 scientists 175–184 publications: 276 scientists 185–194 publications: 190 scientists 195–204 publications: 234 scientists 205–214 publications: 208 scientists 215–224 publications: 198 scientists 225–234 publications: 155 scientists 235–244 publications: 161 scientists 245–254 publications: 160 scientists 255–264 publications: 146 scientists 265–274 publications: 139 scientists 275–284 publications: 148 scientists 285–294 publications: 115 scientists 295–304 publications: 96 scientists 305–314 publications: 88 scientists 315–324 publications: 106 scientists 325–334 publications: 65 scientists 335–344 publications: 76 scientists 345–354 publications: 64 scientists 355–364 publications: 62 scientists 365–374 publications: 65 scientists 375–384 publications: 61 scientists 385–394 publications: 34 scientists 395–404 publications: 44 scientists 405–414 publications: 36 scientists 415–424 publications: 35 scientists 425–434 publications: 29 scientists 435–444 publications: 33 scientists 445–454 publications: 34 scientists 455–464 publications: 25 scientists 465–474 publications: 26 scientists 475–484 publications: 20 scientists 485–494 publications: 19 scientists 495–504 publications: 16 scientists 505–514 publications: 17 scientists 515–524 publications: 23 scientists 525–534 publications: 14 scientists 535–544 publications: 14 scientists 545–554 publications: 18 scientists 555–564 publications: 12 scientists 565–574 publications: 7 scientists 575–584 publications: 9 scientists 585–594 publications: 9 scientists 595–604 publications: 9 scientists 605–614 publications: 7 scientists 615–624 publications: 9 scientists 625–634 publications: 7 scientists 635–644 publications: 4 scientists 645–654 publications: 5 scientists 655–664 publications: 6 scientists 665–674 publications: 7 scientists 675–678 publications: 3 scientists 679+ publications: 99 scientists
55–64 publications 679+

This scientist: 269 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

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Number of Microbiology scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 5,513 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
55–64 8
65–74 29
75–84 55
85–94 112
95–104 137
105–114 190
115–124 235
125–134 234
135–144 288
145–154 265
155–164 264
165–174 253
175–184 276
185–194 190
195–204 234
205–214 208
215–224 198
225–234 155
235–244 161
245–254 160
255–264 146
265–274 139 269
275–284 148
285–294 115
295–304 96
305–314 88
315–324 106
325–334 65
335–344 76
345–354 64
355–364 62
365–374 65
375–384 61
385–394 34
395–404 44
405–414 36
415–424 35
425–434 29
435–444 33
445–454 34
455–464 25
465–474 26
475–484 20
485–494 19
495–504 16
505–514 17
515–524 23
525–534 14
535–544 14
545–554 18
555–564 12
565–574 7
575–584 9
585–594 9
595–604 9
605–614 7
615–624 9
625–634 7
635–644 4
645–654 5
655–664 6
665–674 7
675–678 3
679+ 99
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Luiz R. Travassos D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Luiz R. Travassos sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 88 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40 to 127+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 162. Most scientists, 162, have 58 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 73 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 40 D-Index: 30 scientists 41 D-Index: 86 scientists 42 D-Index: 90 scientists 43 D-Index: 117 scientists 44 D-Index: 122 scientists 45 D-Index: 123 scientists 46 D-Index: 108 scientists 47 D-Index: 110 scientists 48 D-Index: 106 scientists 49 D-Index: 109 scientists 50 D-Index: 129 scientists 51 D-Index: 111 scientists 52 D-Index: 116 scientists 53 D-Index: 127 scientists 54 D-Index: 134 scientists 55 D-Index: 134 scientists 56 D-Index: 112 scientists 57 D-Index: 136 scientists 58 D-Index: 162 scientists 59 D-Index: 151 scientists 60 D-Index: 139 scientists 61 D-Index: 123 scientists 62 D-Index: 126 scientists 63 D-Index: 144 scientists 64 D-Index: 109 scientists 65 D-Index: 103 scientists 66 D-Index: 124 scientists 67 D-Index: 112 scientists 68 D-Index: 103 scientists 69 D-Index: 131 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 93 scientists 72 D-Index: 96 scientists 73 D-Index: 92 scientists 74 D-Index: 80 scientists 75 D-Index: 66 scientists 76 D-Index: 87 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 73 scientists 79 D-Index: 59 scientists 80 D-Index: 57 scientists 81 D-Index: 55 scientists 82 D-Index: 47 scientists 83 D-Index: 77 scientists 84 D-Index: 50 scientists 85 D-Index: 45 scientists 86 D-Index: 42 scientists 87 D-Index: 41 scientists 88 D-Index: 32 scientists 89 D-Index: 38 scientists 90 D-Index: 35 scientists 91 D-Index: 34 scientists 92 D-Index: 27 scientists 93 D-Index: 26 scientists 94 D-Index: 33 scientists 95 D-Index: 22 scientists 96 D-Index: 37 scientists 97 D-Index: 22 scientists 98 D-Index: 21 scientists 99 D-Index: 22 scientists 100 D-Index: 30 scientists 101 D-Index: 16 scientists 102 D-Index: 20 scientists 103 D-Index: 17 scientists 104 D-Index: 19 scientists 105 D-Index: 16 scientists 106 D-Index: 19 scientists 107 D-Index: 18 scientists 108 D-Index: 14 scientists 109 D-Index: 10 scientists 110 D-Index: 9 scientists 111 D-Index: 7 scientists 112 D-Index: 11 scientists 113 D-Index: 6 scientists 114 D-Index: 15 scientists 115 D-Index: 10 scientists 116 D-Index: 12 scientists 117 D-Index: 7 scientists 118 D-Index: 10 scientists 119 D-Index: 10 scientists 120 D-Index: 11 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 7 scientists 123 D-Index: 12 scientists 124 D-Index: 5 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126 D-Index: 6 scientists 127+ D-Index: 95 scientists
40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

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Number of Microbiology scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 5,513 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
40 30
41 86
42 90
43 117
44 122
45 123
46 108
47 110
48 106
49 109
50 129
51 111
52 116
53 127
54 134
55 134
56 112
57 136
58 162
59 151
60 139
61 123
62 126
63 144
64 109
65 103
66 124
67 112
68 103
69 131
70 94
71 93
72 96
73 92 73
74 80
75 66
76 87
77 60
78 73
79 59
80 57
81 55
82 47
83 77
84 50
85 45
86 42
87 41
88 32
89 38
90 35
91 34
92 27
93 26
94 33
95 22
96 37
97 22
98 21
99 22
100 30
101 16
102 20
103 17
104 19
105 16
106 19
107 18
108 14
109 10
110 9
111 7
112 11
113 6
114 15
115 10
116 12
117 7
118 10
119 10
120 11
121 2
122 7
123 12
124 5
125 9
126 6
127+ 95
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Microbiology in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Microbiology in Brazil Leader Award
  • 1971 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Luiz R. Travassos was affiliated with the Federal University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Their research primarily focused on the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with significant contributions to subfields such as Immunology, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Oncology.

The scientist's main topics of study involved fungal infections and their associated challenges, antifungal resistance and susceptibility, macrophage migration inhibitory factor, nail diseases and treatments, immunotherapy and immune responses, peptidase inhibition and analysis, and neuropeptides and animal physiology.

Among recent publications, several notable papers included: "MIF inhibition as a strategy for overcoming resistance to immune checkpoint blockade therapy in melanoma" (2020, OncoImmunology); "Therapies and Vaccines Based on Nanoparticles for the Treatment of Systemic Fungal Infections" (2020, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology); "Immunotherapy against Systemic Fungal Infections Based on Monoclonal Antibodies" (2020, Journal of Fungi); "Intranasal Vaccine Using P10 Peptide Complexed within Chitosan Polymeric Nanoparticles as Experimental Therapy for Paracoccidioidomycosis in Murine Model" (2020, Journal of Fungi); and "Immunomodulatory Protective Effects of Rb9 Cyclic-Peptide in a Metastatic Melanoma Setting and the Involvement of Dendritic Cells" (2020, Frontiers in Immunology).

The scientist collaborated frequently with colleagues including Carlos P. Taborda, Fabrício C. Machado, Ricardo Azevedo, Brenda Kischkel, and Suélen Andreia Rossi.

Publications appeared most often in several journals, notably:

  • Journal of Fungi (2 publications)
  • OncoImmunology (1 publication)
  • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology (1 publication)
  • Scientific Reports (1 publication)
  • Frontiers in Immunology (1 publication)

Luiz R. Travassos received the award of Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1971.

Best Publications

  • Activation of Toll-like receptor-2 by glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchors from a protozoan parasite.

    Marco A. S. Campos;Igor C. Almeida;Osamu Takeuchi;Shizuo Akira

  • Randomised trial of efficacy of benznidazole in treatment of early Trypanosoma cruzi infection

    Ana Lúcia Sampaio Sgambatti de Andrade;Fabio Zicker;Renato Mauricio de Oliveira;Simone Almeida e Silva

  • GD3, a prominent ganglioside of human melanoma. Detection and characterisation by mouse monoclonal antibody.

    Clifford S. Pukel;Kenneth O. Lloyd;Luiz R. Travassos;Wolfgang G. Dippold

  • Highly purified glycosylphosphatidylinositols from Trypanosoma cruzi are potent proinflammatory agents.

    Igor C. Almeida;Igor C. Almeida;Maristela M. Camargo;Daniela O. Procópio;Luiz S. Silva

  • Mortality due to systemic mycoses as a primary cause of death or in association with AIDS in Brazil: a review from 1996 to 2006

    Marli Prado;Marcelo Barbosa da Silva;Ruy Laurenti;Luiz Rodolpho Travassos

  • Exocellular components of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis: identification of a specific antigen.

    R Puccia;S Schenkman;P A Gorin;L R Travassos

  • Mucin-like molecules form a negatively charged coat that protects Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes from killing by human anti-alpha-galactosyl antibodies

    V.L. Pereira-Chioccola;A. Acosta-Serrano;I. Correia de Almeida;M.A. Ferguson

  • Glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored mucin-like glycoproteins isolated from Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes initiate the synthesis of proinflammatory cytokines by macrophages.

    Maristela M. Camargo;Igor C. Almeida;Maria E S Pereira;Michael A J Ferguson

  • Binding of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis to laminin through surface glycoprotein gp43 leads to enhancement of fungal pathogenesis.

    A P Vicentini;J L Gesztesi;M F Franco;W de Souza

  • Production of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis exoantigens for immunodiffusion tests.

    Z De Camargo;C Unterkircher;S P Campoy;L R Travassos

  • Expressed Sequence Tag Analysis of the Human Pathogen Paracoccidioides brasiliensis Yeast Phase: Identification of Putative Homologues of Candida albicans Virulence and Pathogenicity Genes

    Gustavo H. Goldman;Everaldo dos Reis Marques;Diógenes Custódio Duarte Ribeiro;Luciano Ângelo de Souza Bernardes

  • Human antibodies against a purified glucosylceramide from Cryptococcus neoformans inhibit cell budding and fungal growth.

    Marcio L. Rodrigues;Luiz R. Travassos;Kildare R. Miranda;Anderson J. Franzen

  • α-Pinene isolated from Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi (Anacardiaceae) induces apoptosis and confers antimetastatic protection in a melanoma model.

    Alisson Leonardo Matsuo;Carlos Rogerio Figueiredo;Denise Costa Arruda;Felipe Valença Pereira

  • Lytic anti-α-galactosyl antibodies from patients with chronic Chagas' disease recognize novel O-linked oligosaccharides on mucin-like glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol-anchored glycoproteins of Trypanosoma cruzi

    Igor C. Almeida;Michael A. J. Ferguson;Sergio Schenkman;Luiz R. Travassos

  • Complement-mediated lysis of Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes by human anti-alpha-galactosyl antibodies.

    Igor C. Almeida;Sandra R. Milani;Philip A J Gorin;Luiz R. Travassos

  • Protein tyrosine phosphorylation and protein tyrosine nitration in redox signaling.

    Hugo P. Monteiro;Roberto J. Arai;Luiz R. Travassos

  • Human melanoma antigen AH is an autoantigenic ganglioside related to GD2.

    Tadashi Watanabe;Clifford S. Pukel;Hideo Takeyama;Kenneth O. Lloyd

  • 43-kilodalton glycoprotein from Paracoccidioides brasiliensis: immunochemical reactions with sera from patients with paracoccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis, or Jorge Lobo's disease.

    Rosana Puccia;Luiz Rodolpho Travassos

  • CLONING, CHARACTERIZATION, AND EPITOPE EXPRESSION OF THE MAJOR DIAGNOSTIC ANTIGEN OF PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS

    Patrícia S. Cisalpino;Rosana Puccia;Lucy M. Yamauchi;Maria I.N. Cano

  • Melanin as a virulence factor of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis and other dimorphic pathogenic fungi: a minireview.

    Carlos P. Taborda;Marcelo B. da Silva;Joshua D. Nosanchuk;Luiz R. Travassos

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos P. Taborda
Carlos P. Taborda Universidade de São Paulo
Igor C. Almeida
Igor C. Almeida The University of Texas at El Paso
Maria A. Juliano
Maria A. Juliano Federal University of Sao Paulo
Celuta S. Alviano
Celuta S. Alviano Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Marcio L. Rodrigues
Marcio L. Rodrigues Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Ricardo T. Gazzinelli
Ricardo T. Gazzinelli Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Luciano Polonelli
Luciano Polonelli University of Parma
Joshua D. Nosanchuk
Joshua D. Nosanchuk Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Michael A. J. Ferguson
Michael A. J. Ferguson University of Dundee
Leonardo Nimrichter
Leonardo Nimrichter Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

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