2026 Marsha Wills-Karp: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	78	1733	1580	852	765	263	26054
Medicine	78	17926	16850	8942	8265	261	26029

Overview

Marsha Wills-Karp is an academic researcher affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Medicine and Environmental Science, with a focus on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Physiology, Environmental Chemistry, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, as well as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's work centers around topics such as Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity, Asthma and respiratory diseases, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Birth, Development, and Health, Pregnancy and Medication Impact, IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways, and the impact of Toxic Organic Pollutants.

Marsha Wills-Karp has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications in notable journals. Recent papers include:

"Serum amyloid A is a soluble pattern recognition receptor that drives type 2 immunity" (2020), published in Nature Immunology
"Predictors and reproducibility of urinary organophosphate ester metabolite concentrations during pregnancy and associations with birth outcomes in an urban population" (2020), published in Environmental Health
"In Utero Exposure to Heavy Metals and Trace Elements and Childhood Blood Pressure in a U.S. Urban, Low-Income, Minority Birth Cohort" (2021), published in Environmental Health Perspectives
"A metabolome-wide association study of in utero metal and trace element exposures with cord blood metabolome profile: Findings from the Boston Birth Cohort" (2021), published in Environment International
"At last - linking ORMDL3 polymorphisms, decreased sphingolipid synthesis, and asthma susceptibility" (2020), published in Journal of Clinical Investigation

Their frequent co-authors include Xiaobin Wang, Jessie P. Buckley, Guoying Wang, Xiumei Hong, and Mingyu Zhang.

Marsha Wills-Karp's work is regularly published in journals such as Environment International, Circulation, Nature Immunology, Environmental Health, and Environmental Health Perspectives.

Best Publications

Interleukin-13: Central mediator of allergic asthma

M. Wills-Karp;J. Luyimbazi;X. Xu;B. Schofield

3374
Citations
IMMUNOLOGIC BASIS OF ANTIGEN-INDUCED AIRWAY HYPERRESPONSIVENESS

Marsha Wills-Karp

1343
Citations
The germless theory of allergic disease: revisiting the hygiene hypothesis

Marsha Wills-Karp;Joanna Santeliz;Christopher L. Karp

1079
Citations
Interleukin-13 in asthma pathogenesis

Marsha Wills-Karp

1037
Citations
Allergenicity resulting from functional mimicry of a Toll-like receptor complex protein

Aurelien Trompette;Senad Divanovic;Alberto Visintin;Carine Blanchard

890
Citations
Interleukin 12 inhibits antigen-induced airway hyperresponsiveness, inflammation, and Th2 cytokine expression in mice.

Stephen H. Gavett;Daniel J. O’Hearn;Xiumin Li;Shau Ku Huang

761
Citations
Depletion of murine CD4+ T lymphocytes prevents antigen-induced airway hyperreactivity and pulmonary eosinophilia.

S. H. Gavett;Xiaoling Chen;F. Finkelman;M. Wills-Karp

631
Citations
Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription Factor 6 (Stat6)-deficient Mice Are Protected from Antigen-induced Airway Hyperresponsiveness and Mucus Production

Douglas Kuperman;Brian Schofield;Marsha Wills-Karp;Michael J. Grusby

581
Citations
CD4+CD25+ T cells protect against experimentally induced asthma and alter pulmonary dendritic cell phenotype and function

Ian P. Lewkowich;Nancy S. Herman;Kathleen W. Schleifer;Matthew P. Dance

536
Citations
IL-4 and IL-13 signaling in allergic airway disease.

Naina Gour;Marsha Wills-Karp

526
Citations
A Role for Immune Complexes in Enhanced Respiratory Syncytial Virus Disease

Fernando P. Polack;Michael N. Teng;Peter L. Collins;Gregory A. Prince

487
Citations
Identification of complement factor 5 as a susceptibility locus for experimental allergic asthma.

Christopher L. Karp;Andrew Grupe;Eric Schadt;Susan L. Ewart

470
Citations
Cerebral ischemia-hypoxia induces intravascular coagulation and autophagy.

Faisal Adhami;Faisal Adhami;Guanghong Liao;Yury M. Morozov;Aryn Schloemer

467
Citations
Elevated cytokine levels in children with autism spectrum disorder

Cynthia A. Molloy;Cynthia A. Molloy;Ardythe L. Morrow;Ardythe L. Morrow;Jareen Meinzen-Derr;Kathleen Schleifer

426
Citations
Defective lipoxin-mediated anti-inflammatory activity in the cystic fibrosis airway.

Christopher L. Karp;Leah M. Flick;Kiwon W. Park;Samir Softic

415
Citations
Complement-mediated regulation of the IL-17A axis is a central genetic determinant of the severity of experimental allergic asthma

Stephane Lajoie;Ian P Lewkowich;Yusuke Suzuki;Jennifer R Clark

409
Citations
Importance of cytokines in murine allergic airway disease and human asthma.

Fred D. Finkelman;Simon P. Hogan;Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey;Marc E. Rothenberg

383
Citations
Untangling the Complex Web of IL-4– and IL-13–Mediated Signaling Pathways

Marsha Wills-Karp;Fred D. Finkelman;Fred D. Finkelman

373
Citations
A regulatory role for the C5a anaphylatoxin in type 2 immunity in asthma

Jörg Köhl;Ralf Baelder;Ian P. Lewkowich;Manoj K. Pandey

326
Citations
Regulation of angiogenesis by a non-canonical Wnt - Flt1 pathway in myeloid cells

James A. Stefater;James A. Stefater;Ian Lewkowich;Sujata Rao;Sujata Rao;Giovanni Mariggi

322
Citations
IL-12/IL-13 axis in allergic asthma.

Marsha Wills-Karp

317
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Fred D. Finkelman University of Cincinnati

Christopher L. Karp Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Jörg Köhl University of Lübeck

Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Xiaobin Wang Johns Hopkins University

Patrick N. Breysse Johns Hopkins University

Bruce J. Aronow Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Shyam Biswal Johns Hopkins University

Marc E. Rothenberg Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Kathleen C. Barnes University of Colorado Denver

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