2026 Rita B. Effros: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	69	2481	2280	1189	1084	139	21122

Rita B. Effros 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 Rita B. Effros sits on this spectrum.

62 publications 807+

This scientist: 139 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rita B. Effros 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 Rita B. Effros sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Rita B. Effros is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their primary research focuses on immunology and microbiology, with related work in medicine. The scientist's research encompasses key topics in immune cell function and interaction, cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research, and T-cell and B-cell immunology.

Their published work includes a scholarly article titled Reflections from Peter's First Graduate Student, published in 2020 in the journal Viral Immunology. This publication marks their contribution to the field of viral immunology and adds to the body of research related to virus-host interactions and immune responses.

Immunology and Microbiology
Medicine

Immunology
Epidemiology

Immune Cell Function and Interaction
Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
T-cell and B-cell Immunology

Reflections from Peter's First Graduate Student (2020), Viral Immunology

Viral Immunology

Best Publications

Chronic inflammation in the etiology of disease across the life span

David Furman;Judith Campisi;Judith Campisi;Eric Verdin;Pedro Carrera-Bastos

4456
Citations
Loss of telomeric DNA during aging of normal and trisomy 21 human lymphocytes

H. Vaziri;F. Schächter;I. Uchida;Lan Wei

1102
Citations
Workshop on HIV Infection and Aging: What Is Known and Future Research Directions

Rita B. Effros;Courtney V. Fletcher;Kelly Gebo;Jeffrey B. Halter

675
Citations
HIV and aging: State of knowledge and areas of critical need for research. a report to the NIH office of AIDS research by the HIV and aging working group

Kevin P. High;Mark Brennan-Ing;David B. Clifford;Mardge H. Cohen

611
Citations
Telomere shortening in T cells correlates with Alzheimer’s disease status

L. A. Panossian;V. R. Porter;H. F. Valenzuela;X. Zhu

578
Citations
Decline in CD28+ T cells in centenarians and in long-term T cell cultures: A possible cause for both in vivo and in vitro immunosenescence

Rita B. Effros;Nathalie Boucher;Verna Porter;Xiaoming Zhu

515
Citations
Shortened telomeres in the expanded Cd28-cd8+ cell subset in Hiv disease implicate replicative senescence in Hiv pathogenesis

Rita B. Effros;Richard Allsopp;Choy-pik Chiu;Mary Ann Hausner

513
Citations
The role of CD8+ T-cell replicative senescence in human aging.

Rita B. Effros;Mirabelle Dagarag;Carolyn Spaulding;Janice Man

453
Citations
Reduced telomerase activity in human T lymphocytes exposed to cortisol.

Jenny Choi;Steven R. Fauce;Rita B. Effros

427
Citations
Ageing of lymphocytes and lymphocytes in the aged.

Amiela Globerson;Rita B Effros

426
Citations
Immunosenescence: what does it mean to health outcomes in older adults?

Janet E McElhaney;Rita B Effros

419
Citations
Replicative senescence of T cells: does the Hayflick Limit lead to immune exhaustion?

Rita B. Effros;Graham Pawelec

414
Citations
T Cell Replicative Senescence in Human Aging

Jennifer P. Chou;Rita B. Effros

393
Citations
MECHANISM OF TELOMERASE INDUCTION DURING T CELL ACTIVATION

Andrea G. Bodnar;Nam W. Kim;Rita B. Effros;Choy-Pik Chiu

387
Citations
Is immunosenescence infectious

Graham Pawelec;Arne Akbar;Calogero Caruso;Rita Effros

363
Citations
Resistance to apoptosis in human CD8+ T cells that reach replicative senescence after multiple rounds of antigen-specific proliferation.

Carolyn Spaulding;Wei Guo;Rita B Effros

348
Citations
Divergent telomerase and CD28 expression patterns in human CD4 and CD8 T cells following repeated encounters with the same antigenic stimulus.

Hector F Valenzuela;Rita B Effros

348
Citations
Generation of both cross-reactive and virus-specific T-cell populations after immunization with serologically distinct influenza A viruses.

Rita B. Effros;Peter C. Doherty;Walter Gerhard;Jack Bennink

342
Citations
Calorie restriction inhibits the age-related dysregulation of the cytokines TNF-α and IL-6 in C3B10RF1 mice

Carolyn C Spaulding;Roy L Walford;Rita B Effros

313
Citations
Vaccination in the elderly: an immunological perspective

Wilbur H. Chen;Bernard F. Kozlovsky;Rita B. Effros;Beatrix Grubeck-Loebenstein

297
Citations
The role of CD8 T cell replicative senescence in human aging.

Rita B Effros

25
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter C. Doherty University of Melbourne

Graham Pawelec University of Tübingen

Otto O. Yang University of California, Los Angeles

Beth D. Jamieson University of California, Los Angeles

Calvin B. Harley Geron (United States)

Beatrix Grubeck-Loebenstein University of Innsbruck

Benjamin Bonavida University of California, Los Angeles

Walter Gerhard The Wistar Institute

Arne N. Akbar University College London

Richard Aspinall Coventry University

External Links

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