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Peter Liljeström

Peter Liljeström

D-Index & Metrics

Immunology

D-Index
71
Citations
18451
World Ranking
2313
National Ranking
44

Peter Liljeström 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 Liljeström sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 162 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter Liljeström 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 Liljeström sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Peter Liljeström is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with a focus on subfields including Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Animal Science and Zoology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's work has a strong emphasis on research related to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, encompassing topics such as SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, COVID-19 diagnosis using AI, COVID-19 clinical research studies, immunotherapy and immune responses, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, and animal virus infections studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Peter Liljeström include Inga Szurgot, Zhongmin Tang, Na Kong, Xingcai Zhang, and Yuan Liu.

Notable publication venues where the scientist has contributed include Scientific Reports, Nature Reviews Materials, and Nature Communications.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Peter Liljeström include:

  • A materials-science perspective on tackling COVID-19 (2020, Nature Reviews Materials)
  • Targeting SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain to cells expressing CD40 improves protection to infection in convalescent macaques (2021, Nature Communications)
  • DNA-launched RNA replicon vaccines induce potent anti-SARS-CoV-2 immune responses in mice (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Infectious RNA vaccine protects mice against chikungunya virus infection (2020, Scientific Reports)

Best Publications

  • RIG-I-Mediated Antiviral Responses to Single-Stranded RNA Bearing 5' Phosphates

    Andreas Pichlmair;Oliver Schulz;Choon Ping Tan;Tanja I. Näslund

  • A new generation of animal cell expression vectors based on the Semliki Forest virus replicon.

    Peter Liljeström;Henrik Garoff

  • Toll-like receptor 3 promotes cross-priming to virus-infected cells

    Oliver Schulz;Sandra S. Diebold;Margaret Chen;Tanja I. Näslund

  • Alphavirus expression systems.

    Peter Liljeström

  • In vitro mutagenesis of a full-length cDNA clone of Semliki Forest virus: the small 6,000-molecular-weight membrane protein modulates virus release

    P Liljeström;S Lusa;Danny Huylebroeck;H Garoff

  • Semliki Forest virus expression system: production of conditionally infectious recombinant particles.

    Peter Berglund;Mathilda Sjöberg;Henrik Garoff;Gregory J. Atkins

  • An HIV-1 clade C DNA prime, NYVAC boost vaccine regimen induces reliable, polyfunctional, and long-lasting T cell responses.

    Alexandre Harari;Pierre-Alexandre Bart;Wolfgang Stöhr;Gonzalo Tapia

  • Two-Helper RNA System for Production of Recombinant Semliki Forest Virus Particles

    C. Smerdou;P. Liljeström

  • Enhancing immune responses using suicidal DNA vaccines

    Peter Berglund;Cristian Smerdou;Marina N. Fleeton;loannis Tubulekas

  • Importance of eIF2α Phosphorylation and Stress Granule Assembly in Alphavirus Translation Regulation

    Gerald M. McInerney;Nancy L. Kedersha;Randal J. Kaufman;Paul Anderson

  • A materials-science perspective on tackling COVID-19.

    Zhongmin Tang;Na Kong;Xingcai Zhang;Yuan Liu

  • Internally located cleavable signal sequences direct the formation of Semliki Forest virus membrane proteins from a polyprotein precursor.

    P Liljeström;H Garoff

  • Self-replicating Semliki Forest virus RNA as recombinant vaccine.

    X Zhou;P Berglund;G Rhodes;S.E Parker

  • Resistance to cancer immunotherapy mediated by apoptosis of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes.

    Jingjing Zhu;Jingjing Zhu;Céline G. Powis de Tenbossche;Céline G. Powis de Tenbossche;Stefania Cané;Stefania Cané;Didier Colau;Didier Colau

  • Spike protein-nucleocapsid interactions drive the budding of alphaviruses.

    M Suomalainen;P Liljeström;H Garoff

  • Novel attenuated Chikungunya vaccine candidates elicit protective immunity in C57BL/6 mice.

    David Hallengärd;Maria Kakoulidou;Aleksei Lulla;Beate M. Kümmerer

  • Competition between CTL narrows the immune response induced by prime-boost vaccination protocols

    Michael J. Palmowski;Ed Man-Lik Choi;Ian F. Hermans;Sarah C. Gilbert

  • DNA expression systems based on alphaviruses

    Henrik Garoff;Peter Liljestrom

  • Membrane fusion process of Semliki Forest virus. II: Cleavage-dependent reorganization of the spike protein complex controls virus entry.

    A Salminen;J M Wahlberg;M Lobigs;P Liljeström

  • Outcome of Immunization of Cynomolgus Monkeys with Recombinant Semliki Forest Virus Encoding Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Envelope Protein and Challenge with a High Dose of SHIV-4 Virus

    Peter Berglund;Marlene Quesada-Rolander;Per Putkonen;Gunnel Biberfeld

Frequent Co-Authors

Mariano Esteban
Mariano Esteban Spanish National Research Council
Jonathan L. Heeney
Jonathan L. Heeney University of Cambridge
Tomáš Hanke
Tomáš Hanke University of Oxford
Henrik Garoff
Henrik Garoff Karolinska Institute
Giuseppe Pantaleo
Giuseppe Pantaleo University of Lausanne
Andres Merits
Andres Merits University of Tartu
Gunilla B. Karlsson Hedestam
Gunilla B. Karlsson Hedestam Karolinska Institute
Mikael Jondal
Mikael Jondal Karolinska Institute
Beate M. Kümmerer
Beate M. Kümmerer University of Bonn
Ralf Wagner
Ralf Wagner University of Regensburg

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