2026 Peter D. Kwong: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	134	198	183	129	118	780	83870
Molecular Biology	126	211	192	128	116	548	75200

Peter D. Kwong 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 Peter D. Kwong sits on this spectrum.

62 publications 807+

This scientist: 780 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter D. Kwong 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 Peter D. Kwong sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 134 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Peter D. Kwong is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, immunology and microbiology, and biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology.

The main subfields of study in which they are active include infectious diseases, molecular biology, virology, immunology, and epidemiology. Their work covers topics such as SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, HIV research and treatment, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, animal virus infections, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, and glycosylation and glycoproteins research.

Frequent co-authors in their publications are:

Tongqing Zhou
John R. Mascola
Baoshan Zhang
Adam S. Olia
I-Ting Teng

The scientist publishes regularly in several venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Cell Reports
Nature Communications
Science Translational Medicine
Vaccines

Representative recent papers include:

Potent neutralizing antibodies against multiple epitopes on SARS-CoV-2 spike, 2020, Nature
Evaluation of the mRNA-1273 Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in Nonhuman Primates, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
Increased resistance of SARS-CoV-2 variant P.1 to antibody neutralization, 2021, Cell Host & Microbe
Potent SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies directed against spike N-terminal domain target a single supersite, 2021, Cell Host & Microbe
LY-CoV1404 (bebtelovimab) potently neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 variants, 2022, Cell Reports

Best Publications

Structure of an HIV gp120 envelope glycoprotein in complex with the CD4 receptor and a neutralizing human antibody

Peter D. Kwong;Richard Wyatt;James Robinson;Raymond W. Sweet

4162
Citations
Antibody neutralization and escape by HIV-1

Xiping Wei;Julie M. Decker;Shuyi Wang;Huxiong Hui

3173
Citations
Antibody resistance of SARS-CoV-2 variants B.1.351 and B.1.1.7.

Pengfei Wang;Manoj S. Nair;Lihong Liu;Sho Iketani;Sho Iketani

2148
Citations
Rational Design of Envelope Identifies Broadly Neutralizing Human Monoclonal Antibodies to HIV-1

Xueling Wu;Zhi Yong Yang;Yuxing Li;Carl Magnus Hogerkorp

2090
Citations
The antigenic structure of the HIV gp120 envelope glycoprotein

Richard Wyatt;Peter D. Kwong;Elizabeth Desjardins;Raymond W. Sweet

1705
Citations
Structural basis of cell-cell adhesion by cadherins.

Lawrence Shapiro;Allison M. Fannon;Peter D. Kwong;Andrew Thompson

1554
Citations
Potent neutralizing antibodies against multiple epitopes on SARS-CoV-2 spike.

Lihong Liu;Pengfei Wang;Manoj S. Nair;Jian Yu

1478
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
A Conserved HIV gp120 Glycoprotein Structure Involved in Chemokine Receptor Binding

Carlo D. Rizzuto;Richard Wyatt;Richard Wyatt;Nivia Hernández-Ramos;Nivia Hernández-Ramos;Ying Sun;Ying Sun

1257
Citations
Co-evolution of a broadly neutralizing HIV-1 antibody and founder virus

Hua-Xin Liao;Rebecca Lynch;Tongqing Zhou;Feng Gao;Feng Gao

1175
Citations
HIV-1 evades antibody-mediated neutralization through conformational masking of receptor-binding sites

Peter D. Kwong;Peter D. Kwong;Michael L. Doyle;Michael L. Doyle;David J. Casper;Claudia Cicala

1173
Citations
Structure-Based Design of a Fusion Glycoprotein Vaccine for Respiratory Syncytial Virus

Jason S. McLellan;Man Chen;M. Gordon Joyce;Mallika Sastry

1134
Citations
Evaluation of the mRNA-1273 Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in Nonhuman Primates.

Kizzmekia S Corbett;Barbara Flynn;Kathryn E Foulds;Joseph R Francica

1112
Citations
HIV vaccine design and the neutralizing antibody problem

Dennis R Burton;Ronald C Desrosiers;Robert W Doms;Wayne C Koff

1071
Citations
Structure of HIV-1 gp120 V1/V2 domain with broadly neutralizing antibody PG9

Jason S. McLellan;Marie Pancera;Chris Carrico;Jason Gorman

1061
Citations
Broad and potent neutralization of HIV-1 by a gp41-specific human antibody

Jinghe Huang;Gilad Ofek;Leo Laub;Mark K. Louder

1022
Citations
Focused evolution of hiv-1 neutralizing antibodies revealed by crystal structures and deep sequencing

John R. Mascola;Gary Nabel;Barton F. Haynes;Xueling Wu

994
Citations
Structural definition of a conserved neutralization epitope on HIV-1 gp120.

Tongqing Zhou;Ling Xu;Barna Dey;Ann J. Hessell

994
Citations
Structure of a V3-Containing HIV-1 gp120 Core

Chih-chin Huang;Min Tang;Mei-Yun Zhang;Shahzad Majeed

968
Citations
Structure of RSV Fusion Glycoprotein Trimer Bound to a Prefusion-Specific Neutralizing Antibody

Jason S. McLellan;Man Chen;Sherman Leung;Kevin W. Graepel

928
Citations
Increased Resistance of SARS-CoV-2 Variants B.1.351 and B.1.1.7 to Antibody Neutralization

Pengfei Wang;Manoj S Nair;Lihong Liu;Sho Iketani;Sho Iketani

385
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John R. Mascola ModeX Therapeutics

Tongqing Zhou National Institutes of Health

Baoshan Zhang National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Gwo-Yu Chuang Moderna Therapeutics (United States)

Ivelin S. Georgiev Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Lawrence Shapiro Columbia University

Yongping Yang National Institutes of Health

Richard T. Wyatt Scripps Research Institute

Marie Pancera Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Joseph Sodroski Harvard Medical School

External Links

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