2026 Rino Rappuoli: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Scientists	165	1050	965	104	94	1139	95403
Immunology	170	56	53	3	3	1004	96589

Rino Rappuoli 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 Rino Rappuoli sits on this spectrum.

62 publications 807+

This scientist: 1,004 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rino Rappuoli 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 Rino Rappuoli sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 170 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% 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 Kingdom Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Immunology in United Kingdom Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Immunology in United Kingdom Leader Award
2019 - Robert Koch Prize
2019 - Member of Academia Europaea
2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2016 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
2005 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Rino Rappuoli is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to several related subfields including Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Immunology, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work focuses on key topics such as SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, bacterial infections and vaccines, pneumonia and respiratory infections, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, COVID-19 clinical research studies, immunotherapy and immune responses, and Escherichia coli research studies.

Among frequent coauthors are:

Emanuele Andreano
Mariagrazia Pizza
Ida Paciello
Claudia Sala
Simone Pecetta

Rappuoli's research outputs appear regularly in several publication venues, including:

Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Science Translational Medicine
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

Best Publications

Genome analysis of multiple pathogenic isolates of Streptococcus agalactiae: Implications for the microbial “pan-genome”

Hervé Tettelin;Vega Masignani;Michael J. Cieslewicz;Claudio Donati

2922
Citations
cag, a pathogenicity island of Helicobacter pylori, encodes type I-specific and disease-associated virulence factors.

Stefano Censini;Christina Lange;Zhaoying Xiang;Jean E. Crabtree

2590
Citations
Identification of vaccine candidates against serogroup B meningococcus by whole-genome sequencing.

M Pizza;[No Value] Scarlato;[No Value] Masignani;MM Giuliani

1672
Citations
The microbial pan-genome

Duccio Medini;Claudio Donati;Hervé Tettelin;Vega Masignani

1503
Citations
Helicobacter pylori virulence and genetic geography.

Antonello Covacci;John L. Telford;Giuseppe Del Giudice;Julie Parsonnet

1449
Citations
Complete Genome Sequence of Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup B Strain MC58

Hervé Tettelin;Nigel J. Saunders;John Heidelberg;Alex C. Jeffries

1407
Citations
An efficient method to make human monoclonal antibodies from memory B cells: potent neutralization of SARS coronavirus

Elisabetta Traggiai;Stephan Becker;Kanta Subbarao;Larissa Kolesnikova

909
Citations
A universal vaccine for serogroup B meningococcus

Marzia M. Giuliani;Jeannette Adu-Bobie;Maurizio Comanducci;Beatrice Aricò

885
Citations
ANALYSIS OF EXPRESSION OF CAGA AND VACA VIRULENCE FACTORS IN 43 STRAINS OF HELICOBACTER PYLORI REVEALS THAT CLINICAL ISOLATES CAN BE DIVIDED INTO TWO MAJOR TYPES AND THAT CAGA IS NOT NECESSARY FOR EXPRESSION OF THE VACUOLATING CYTOTOXIN

Zhaoying Xiang;Stefano Censini;Pietro F. Bayeli;John L. Telford

844
Citations
Tyrosine phosphorylation of the Helicobacter pylori CagA antigen after cag-driven host cell translocation

Markus Stein;Rino Rappuoli;Antonello Covacci

790
Citations
Development of a mouse model of Helicobacter pylori infection that mimics human disease.

Marta Marchetti;Beatrice Aricò;Daniela Burroni;Natale Figura

766
Citations
Nonviral delivery of self-amplifying RNA vaccines

Andrew J. Geall;Ayush Verma;Gillis R. Otten;Christine A. Shaw

712
Citations
Coxsackie B4 virus infection of β cells and natural killer cell insulitis in recent-onset type 1 diabetic patients

Francesco Dotta;Stefano Censini;Astrid G. S. van Halteren;Lorella Marselli

701
Citations
Living dangerously: how Helicobacter pylori survives in the human stomach

Cesare Montecucco;Rino Rappuoli

696
Citations
Correlates of adjuvanticity: A review on adjuvants in licensed vaccines.

Giuseppe Del Giudice;Rino Rappuoli;Arnaud M. Didierlaurent

674
Citations
Reverse Vaccinology: Developing Vaccines in the Era of Genomics

Alessandro Sette;Rino Rappuoli

670
Citations
Identification of a universal Group B streptococcus vaccine by multiple genome screen.

Domenico Maione;Immaculada Margarit;Cira D. Rinaudo;Vega Masignani

669
Citations
SARS — beginning to understand a new virus

Konrad Stadler;Vega Masignani;Markus Eickmann;Stephan Becker

662
Citations
Reverse vaccinology, a genome-based approach to vaccine development.

Rino Rappuoli

644
Citations
Pili in Gram-positive pathogens

John L. Telford;Michèle A. Barocchi;Immaculada Margarit;Rino Rappuoli

623
Citations
Reverse vaccinology : Genomics

Rino Rappuoli

450
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mariagrazia Pizza Imperial College London

Marzia Monica Giuliani GlaxoSmithKline (Italy)

Cesare Montecucco University of Padua

Giuseppe Del Giudice GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom)

Guido Grandi University of Trento

Antonello Covacci Novartis (Switzerland)

John L. Telford GlaxoSmithKline (Italy)

Emanuele Papini University of Padua

Hervé Tettelin University of Maryland, Baltimore

Maurizio Comanducci Novartis (Switzerland)

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