2026 Michel C. Nussenzweig: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Scientists	191	406	376	271	246	528	129505
Immunology	195	14	14	9	9	523	135458
Medicine	195	217	198	145	131	525	135459

Michel C. Nussenzweig 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 Michel C. Nussenzweig sits on this spectrum.

62 publications 807+

This scientist: 523 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michel C. Nussenzweig 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 Michel C. Nussenzweig sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 195 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Immunology in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
2025 - Research.com Immunology in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Medicine in United States Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Immunology in United States Leader Award
2017 - AAI-BioLegend Herzenberg Award, American Association of Immunologists
2016 - Robert Koch Prize
2011 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2009 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Member of the Association of American Physicians
Member of the Association of American Physicians
Member of the Association of American Physicians
Member of the Association of American Physicians
Member of the Association of American Physicians
Member of the Association of American Physicians
Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Michel C. Nussenzweig is affiliated with Rockefeller University in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio in the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology. Their work spans several subfields, including Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Virology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's main topics of research focus on:

SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
HIV Research and Treatment
COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
Immune Cell Function and Interaction
Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
T-cell and B-cell Immunology
Immunotherapy and Immune Responses

Frequent co-authors in Michel C. Nussenzweig's publications include:

Marina Caskey
Anna Gazumyan
Paul D. Bieniasz
Christian Gaebler
Thiago Y. Oliveira

Publications commonly appear in venues such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
The Journal of Experimental Medicine
Nature
Cell Reports
Nature Communications

Recent papers from Michel C. Nussenzweig include:

Autoantibodies against type I IFNs in patients with life-threatening COVID-19, 2020, Science
Convergent antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in convalescent individuals, 2020, Nature
SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody structures inform therapeutic strategies, 2020, Nature
Evolution of antibody immunity to SARS-CoV-2, 2021, Nature
mRNA vaccine-elicited antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 and circulating variants, 2021, Nature

Michel C. Nussenzweig has received several awards and recognitions, including:

AAI-BioLegend Herzenberg Award from the American Association of Immunologists in 2017
Robert Koch Prize in 2016
Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2011
Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) since 2009
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2007
Member of the Association of American Physicians

Best Publications

Tolerogenic dendritic cells.

Ralph M. Steinman;Daniel Hawiger;Michel C. Nussenzweig

4043
Citations
Autoantibodies against type I IFNs in patients with life-threatening COVID-19.

Paul Bastard;Paul Bastard;Paul Bastard;Lindsey B. Rosen;Qian Zhang;Eleftherios Michailidis

2660
Citations
Convergent antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in convalescent individuals.

Davide F. Robbiani;Davide F. Robbiani;Christian Gaebler;Frauke Muecksch;Julio C.C. Lorenzi

2548
Citations
Predominant Autoantibody Production by Early Human B Cell Precursors

Hedda Wardemann;Sergey Yurasov;Sergey Yurasov;Anne Schaefer;James W. Young

2473
Citations
Dendritic Cells Induce Peripheral T Cell Unresponsiveness under Steady State Conditions in Vivo

Daniel Hawiger;Kayo Inaba;Kayo Inaba;Yair Dorsett;Ming Guo

2331
Citations
Inborn errors of type I IFN immunity in patients with life-threatening COVID-19

Qian Zhang;Paul Bastard;Paul Bastard;Zhiyong Liu;Jérémie Le Pen

2199
Citations
Efficient Targeting of Protein Antigen to the Dendritic Cell Receptor DEC-205 in the Steady State Leads to Antigen Presentation on Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Products and Peripheral CD8+ T Cell Tolerance

Laura C Bonifaz;David P. Bonnyay;Karsten Mahnke;Karsten Mahnke;Miguel Rivera

2050
Citations
53BP1 Inhibits Homologous Recombination in Brca1-Deficient Cells by Blocking Resection of DNA Breaks

Samuel F. Bunting;Elsa Callén;Nancy Wong;Hua Tang Chen

1892
Citations
Differential antigen processing by dendritic cell subsets in vivo

Diana Dudziak;Alice O. Kamphorst;Gordon F. Heidkamp;Veit R. Buchholz

1749
Citations
Genomic instability in mice lacking histone H2AX.

Arkady Celeste;Simone Petersen;Peter J. Romanienko;Oscar Fernandez-Capetillo

1725
Citations
SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody structures inform therapeutic strategies.

Christopher O. Barnes;Claudia A. Jette;Morgan E. Abernathy;Kim Marie A. Dam

1657
Citations
Evolution of antibody immunity to SARS-CoV-2.

Christian Gaebler;Zijun Wang;Julio C. C. Lorenzi;Frauke Muecksch

1656
Citations
Inducing and expanding regulatory T cell populations by foreign antigen.

Karsten Kretschmer;Irina Apostolou;Daniel Hawiger;Khashayarsha Khazaie

1606
Citations
Efficient generation of monoclonal antibodies from single human B cells by single cell RT-PCR and expression vector cloning

Thomas Tiller;Eric Meffre;Sergey Yurasov;Sergey Yurasov;Makoto Tsuiji

1584
Citations
Avoiding horror autotoxicus: The importance of dendritic cells in peripheral T cell tolerance

Ralph Marvin Steinman;Michel C. Nussenzweig

1530
Citations
Escape from neutralizing antibodies by SARS-CoV-2 spike protein variants.

Yiska Weisblum;Fabian Schmidt;Fengwen Zhang;Justin DaSilva

1441
Citations
mRNA vaccine-elicited antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 and circulating variants.

Zijun Wang;Fabian Schmidt;Yiska Weisblum;Frauke Muecksch

1434
Citations
Structural basis for broad and potent neutralization of HIV-1 by antibody VRC01.

Tongqing Zhou;Ivelin Georgiev;Xueling Wu;Zhi Yong Yang

1405
Citations
Sequence and structural convergence of broad and potent HIV antibodies that mimic CD4 binding.

Johannes F. Scheid;Hugo Mouquet;Beatrix Ueberheide;Ron Diskin

1401
Citations
Germinal center dynamics revealed by multiphoton microscopy with a photoactivatable fluorescent reporter.

Gabriel D. Victora;Tanja A. Schwickert;David R. Fooksman;Alice O. Kamphorst

1371
Citations
H2AX: the histone guardian of the genome.

Oscar Fernandez-Capetillo;Alicia Lee;Michel Nussenzweig;André Nussenzweig

1289
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Pamela J. Bjorkman California Institute of Technology

Anna Gazumyan Rockefeller University

Thiago Y. Oliveira Rockefeller University

Davide F. Robbiani Universita della Svizzera Italiana

Michael S. Seaman Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Marina Caskey Rockefeller University

Mila Jankovic Rockefeller University

Paul D. Bieniasz Rockefeller University

Anthony P. West California Institute of Technology

André Nussenzweig National Institutes of Health

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