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Riccardo Cortese

Riccardo Cortese

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
98
Citations
30593
World Ranking
462
National Ranking
213

Medicine

D-Index
98
Citations
30268
World Ranking
9009
National Ranking
4639

Riccardo Cortese 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 Riccardo Cortese sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 293 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Riccardo Cortese 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 Riccardo Cortese sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 98 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Riccardo Cortese was affiliated with Schering-Plough in the United States. Their research contributed to the fields of Immunology and Microbiology as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on subfields such as Immunology and Genetics.

Their work primarily addressed topics including Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, Virus-based gene therapy research, and T-cell and B-cell Immunology.

Among their recent scholarly output, one notable publication is titled "Optimising T cell (re)boosting strategies for adenoviral and modified vaccinia Ankara vaccine regimens in humans", published in 2020 in the journal npj Vaccines. This paper has been cited multiple times and forms part of the body of work they contributed to within this publication venue.

  • Stefania Capone
  • Anthony Brown
  • Felicity Hartnell
  • Mariarosaria Del Sorbo
  • Cinzia Traboni

Their frequent collaborators included Stefania Capone, Anthony Brown, Felicity Hartnell, Mariarosaria Del Sorbo, and Cinzia Traboni, each having coauthored at least one publication with them.

Best Publications

  • The human scavenger receptor class B type I is a novel candidate receptor for the hepatitis C virus

    Elisa Scarselli;Helenia Ansuini;Raffaele Cerino;Rosa Maria Roccasecca

  • pEMBL: a new family of single stranded plasmids.

    Luciana Dente;Gianni Cesareni;Riccardo Cortese

  • Cell entry of hepatitis C virus requires a set of co-receptors that include the CD81 tetraspanin and the SR-B1 scavenger receptor.

    Birke Bartosch;Alessandra Vitelli;Christelle Granier;Caroline Goujon

  • IL-6DBP, a nuclear protein involved in interleukin-6 signal transduction, defines a new family of leucine zipper proteins related to C EBP

    Valeria Poli;Francesco P. Mancini;Riccardo Cortese

  • The Liver-Specific Transcription Factor LF-B1 Contains a Highly Diverged Homeobox DNA Binding Domain

    Monique Frain;Guido Swart;Paolo Monaci;Alfredo Nicosia

  • Lymphoproliferative disorder and imbalanced T-helper response in C/EBP beta-deficient mice.

    I Screpanti;L Romani;P Musiani;A Modesti

  • Novel adenovirus-based vaccines induce broad and sustained T cell responses to HCV in man

    Eleanor Barnes;Eleanor Barnes;Antonella Folgori;Stefania Capone;Leo Swadling

  • The crystal structure of the quorum sensing protein TraR bound to its autoinducer and target DNA

    Alessandro Vannini;Cinzia Volpari;Cesare Gargioli;Ester Muraglia

  • A naphthyridine carboxamide provides evidence for discordant resistance between mechanistically identical inhibitors of HIV-1 integrase.

    Daria J. Hazuda;Neville J. Anthony;Robert P. Gomez;Samson M. Jolly

  • Chimpanzee adenovirus vaccine generates acute and durable protective immunity against ebolavirus challenge

    Daphne A Stanley;Anna N Honko;Anna N Honko;Clement Asiedu;John C Trefry

  • Efficient and regulated erythropoietin production by naked DNA injection and muscle electroporation.

    Gabriella Rizzuto;Manuela Cappelletti;Domenico Maione;Rocco Savino

  • A T-cell HCV vaccine eliciting effective immunity against heterologous virus challenge in chimpanzees.

    Antonella Folgori;Stefania Capone;Lionello Ruggeri;Annalisa Meola

  • A human vaccine strategy based on chimpanzee adenoviral and MVA vectors that primes, boosts, and sustains functional HCV-specific T cell memory.

    Leo Swadling;Stefania Capone;Richard D. Antrobus;Anthony Brown

  • Characterization of Resistance to Non-obligate Chain-terminating Ribonucleoside Analogs That Inhibit Hepatitis C Virus Replication in Vitro

    Giovanni Migliaccio;Joanne E. Tomassini;Steven S. Carroll;Licia Tomei

  • A general strategy to identify mimotopes of pathological antigens using only random peptide libraries and human sera.

    A. Folgori;R. Tafi;A. Meola;F. Felici

  • Chimpanzee Adenovirus Vector Ebola Vaccine

    Julie E. Ledgerwood;Adam D. DeZure;Daphne A. Stanley;Emily E. Coates

  • Protective CD8 + T-cell immunity to human malaria induced by chimpanzee adenovirus-MVA immunisation

    Katie J Ewer;Geraldine A O'Hara;Christopher J A Duncan;Katharine A Collins

  • Vaccine Vectors Derived from a Large Collection of Simian Adenoviruses Induce Potent Cellular Immunity Across Multiple Species

    Stefano Colloca;Eleanor Barnes;Antonella Folgori;Virginia Ammendola

  • A Monovalent Chimpanzee Adenovirus Ebola Vaccine Boosted with MVA

    Katie Ewer;Tommy Rampling;Navin Venkatraman;Georgina Bowyer

  • Mimicking of discontinuous epitopes by phage-displayed peptides, I. Epitope mapping of human H ferritin using a phage library of constrained peptides

    Alessandra Luzzago;Franco Felici;Anna Tramontano;Antonello Pessi

  • Transcription by RNA polymerase III.

    Gennaro Ciliberto;Luisa Castagnoli;Riccardo Cortese

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfredo Nicosia
Alfredo Nicosia University of Naples Federico II
Antonella Folgori
Antonella Folgori University of Oxford
Gennaro Ciliberto
Gennaro Ciliberto Magna Graecia University
Adrian V. S. Hill
Adrian V. S. Hill University of Oxford
Antonello Pessi
Antonello Pessi Schering-Plough
Katie J. Ewer
Katie J. Ewer University of Oxford
Paul Klenerman
Paul Klenerman University of Oxford
Anna Tramontano
Anna Tramontano Sapienza University of Rome
Raffaele De Francesco
Raffaele De Francesco University of Milan

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