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D-Index
60
Citations
9572
World Ranking
3370
National Ranking
292

Robert Vaughan 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 Robert Vaughan sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 224 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Robert Vaughan 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 Robert Vaughan sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Robert Vaughan is affiliated with Guy's Hospital in the United Kingdom and specializes in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research has a concentration in Molecular Biology and Genetics, reflecting a detailed interest in biological processes at the molecular level.

Their main research topics include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, and Gene expression and cancer classification. These areas encompass investigations into how genes associate with traits and diseases, the computational analysis of genetic data, and the study of gene activity in relation to cancer.

Robert Vaughan has contributed to publications in the venue bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), with one notable paper titled A community driven GWAS summary statistics standard, published in 2022.

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • James Hayhurst
  • Annalisa Buniello
  • Laura W. Harris
  • Abayomi Mosaku
  • Christopher Chang

Best Publications

  • B-cell diversity decreases in old age and is correlated with poor health status

    Kate L. Gibson;Yu-Chang Wu;Yvonne Barnett;Orla Duggan

  • Unusual selection on the KIR3DL1/S1 natural killer cell receptor in Africans

    Paul J. Norman;Laurent Abi-Rached;Ketevan Gendzekhadze;Daniel Korbel

  • Behçet’s disease: from Hippocrates to the third millennium

    D H Verity;G R Wallace;Robert Vaughan;Miles Stanford

  • Distribution of natural killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor sequences in three ethnic groups

    Paul J. Norman;Henry A.F. Stephens;David H. Verity;Dasnayanee Chandanayingyong

  • Natural killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) locus profiles in African and South Asian populations.

    P J Norman;C V F Carrington;M Byng;L D Maxwell

  • T cell epitope expression of mycobacterial and homologous human 65-kilodalton heat shock protein peptides in short term cell lines from patients with Behçet's disease.

    K Pervin;A Childerstone;T Shinnick;Y Mizushima

  • Influence of donor C3 allotype on late renal transplantation outcome

    Katherine M. Brown;Elli Kondeatis;Robert W. Vaughan;Sui P. Kon

  • Immunogenetic prediction of pulmonary fibrosis in systemic sclerosis.

    D.C. Briggs;R.W. Vaughan;K.I. Welsh;A. Myers

  • Bullous pemphigoid antigen II (BP180) and its soluble extracellular domains are major autoantigens in mucous membrane pemphigoid: the pathogenic relevance to HLA class II alleles and disease severity.

    N Oyama;J F Setterfield;A M Powell;Y Sakuma-Oyama;Y Sakuma-Oyama

  • Susceptibility to anti-glomerular basement membrane disease is strongly associated with HLA-DRB1 genes

    Margaret Fisher;Charles D. Pusey;Robert W. Vaughan;Andrew J. Rees

  • A KIR B centromeric region present in Africans but not Europeans protects pregnant women from pre-eclampsia

    Annettee Nakimuli;Olympe Anne Chazara;Susan E Hiby;Lydia Farrell

  • HLA and tumour necrosis factor (TNF) polymorphisms in ocular Behçet's disease.

    D H Verity;G R Wallace;R W Vaughan;E Kondeatis

  • Contribution of renal secreted complement C3 to the circulating pool in humans.

    Sydney Tang;Wuding Zhou;Neil S. Sheerin;Robert W. Vaughan

  • Prevention of hyperacute rejection by removal of antibodies to HLA immediately before renal transplantation

    R M Higgins;Deborah Bevan;B S Carey;C K Lea

  • Allo-immunization elicits CD8+ T cell-derived chemokines, HIV suppressor factors and resistance to HIV infection in women.

    Yufei Wang;Louisa Tao;Elaine Mitchell;Christopher Bravery

  • The vulvovaginal gingival syndrome : A severe subgroup of lichen planus with characteristic clinical features and a novel association with the class II HLA DQB1*0201 allele

    Jane F. Setterfield;Sallie Neill;Penelope J. Shirlaw;Janice Theron

  • Amino acid substitutions at position 38 of the DRβ polypeptide confer susceptibility to and protection from primary sclerosing cholangitis

    J. Mark Farrant;Derek G. Doherty;Peter T. Donaldson;Robert W. Vaughan

  • Low back pain, sacroiliitis, and the relationship with HLA-B27 in Crohn's disease.

    Sophia Steer;Hugh Jones;Jane Hibbert;Elli Kondeatis

  • A non-HLA gene within the MHC in psoriasis.

    Michael H Allen;Colin Veal;Astrid Faassen;Stephen H Powis

  • Meiotic recombination generates rich diversity in NK cell receptor genes, alleles, and haplotypes

    Paul J. Norman;Laurent Abi-Rached;Ketevan Gendzekhadze;John A. Hammond

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin M. Black
Martin M. Black St Thomas' Hospital
Gabriel S. Panayi
Gabriel S. Panayi King's College London
Steven H. Sacks
Steven H. Sacks King's College London
Kenneth I. Welsh
Kenneth I. Welsh Imperial College London
Jerry S. Lanchbury
Jerry S. Lanchbury Myriad (United States)
Nigel Heaton
Nigel Heaton King's College London
Richard C. Trembath
Richard C. Trembath King's College London
Munther A. Khamashta
Munther A. Khamashta King's College London
Hanneke Schuitemaker
Hanneke Schuitemaker Valneva (Austria)
Cathryn M. Lewis
Cathryn M. Lewis King's College London

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