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D-Index
57
Citations
16755
World Ranking
3530
National Ranking
1391

Rustom Antia 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 Rustom Antia sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 165 publications — 33rd percentile

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

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

Rustom Antia 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 Rustom Antia sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Rustom Antia is affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with significant contributions in Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Modeling and Simulation, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, T-cell and B-cell immunology, influenza virus research studies, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, immune cell function and interaction, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, as well as immunotherapy and immune responses.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Rustom Antia include:

  • Transition to endemicity: Understanding COVID-19 (2021, Immunity)
  • Immunological characteristics govern the transition of COVID-19 to endemicity (2021, Science)
  • Longitudinal analysis shows durable and broad immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection with persisting antibody responses and memory B and T cells (2021, Cell Reports Medicine)
  • The changing epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 (2022, Science)
  • Longitudinal analysis shows durable and broad immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection with persisting antibody responses and memory B and T cells (2021, bioRxiv [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory])

Rustom Antia frequently publishes in several venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science
  • Immunity
  • Nature Immunology
  • PLoS Computational Biology

Frequent collaborators include Hasan Ahmed, Veronika I. Zarnitsyna, Rafi Ahmed, Carl W. Davis, and Susanne L. Linderman.

Best Publications

  • Lineage relationship and protective immunity of memory CD8 T cell subsets.

    E. John Wherry;Volker Teichgräber;Todd C. Becker;David Masopust

  • Humoral immunity due to long-lived plasma cells

    Mark K Slifka;Rustom Antia;Jason K Whitmire;Rafi Ahmed

  • Interleukin 15 Is Required for Proliferative Renewal of Virus-specific Memory CD8 T Cells

    Todd C. Becker;E. John Wherry;David Boone;Kaja Murali-Krishna

  • Emerging pathogens: the epidemiology and evolution of species jumps

    Mark E.J. Woolhouse;Daniel T. Haydon;Rustom Antia

  • Estimating the Precursor Frequency of Naive Antigen-specific CD8 T Cells

    Joseph N. Blattman;Rustom Antia;David J.D. Sourdive;Xiaochi Wang

  • The role of evolution in the emergence of infectious diseases

    Rustom Antia;Roland R. Regoes;Jacob C. Koella;Carl T. Bergstrom

  • Longitudinal analysis shows durable and broad immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection with persisting antibody responses and memory B and T cells.

    Kristen W. Cohen;Susanne L. Linderman;Zoe Moodie;Julie Czartoski

  • Effector CD8 T cells dedifferentiate into long-lived memory cells

    Ben Youngblood;Ben Youngblood;J. Scott Hale;Haydn Thomas Kissick;Eunseon Ahn

  • The changing epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2

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  • Immunological characteristics govern the transition of COVID-19 to endemicity.

    Jennie S. Lavine;Ottar N. Bjornstad;Rustom Antia

  • The Population Genetics of Antibiotic Resistance

    B. R. Levin;M. Lipsitch;V. Perrot;S. Schrag

  • Within-Host Population Dynamics and the Evolution and Maintenance of Microparasite Virulence

    Rustom Antia;Bruce R. Levin;Robert M. May

  • Memory CD8 T-cell compartment grows in size with immunological experience

    Vaiva Vezys;Andrew Yates;Kerry A. Casey;Gibson Lanier

  • Epidemiological models for the spread of anti-malarial resistance.

    JC Koella;Rustom Antia

  • The role of models in understanding CD8+ T-cell memory.

    Rustom Antia;Vitaly V Ganusov;Rafi Ahmed

  • Recruitment Times, Proliferation, and Apoptosis Rates during the CD8+ T-Cell Response to Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus

    Rob J. De Boer;Mihaela Oprea;Rustom Antia;Kaja Murali-Krishna

  • Estimating the Diversity, Completeness, and Cross-Reactivity of the T Cell Repertoire

    Veronika I. Zarnitsyna;Brian D. Evavold;Louis N. Schoettle;Joseph N. Blattman

  • Towards a quantitative understanding of the within-host dynamics of influenza A infections.

    Andreas Handel;Ira M. Longini;Rustom Antia

  • Models of CD8+ responses: 1. What is the antigen-independent proliferation program.

    Rustom Antia;Carl T. Bergstrom;Sergei S. Pilyugin;Susan M. Kaech

  • Quantifying the development of the peripheral naive CD4+ T-cell pool in humans

    Iren Bains;Rustom Antia;Robin Callard;Andrew J. Yates

  • Neuraminidase Inhibitor Resistance in Influenza: Assessing the Danger of Its Generation and Spread

    Andreas Handel;Ira M Longini;Ira M Longini;Rustom Antia

Frequent Co-Authors

Rafi Ahmed
Rafi Ahmed Emory University
Ira M. Longini
Ira M. Longini University of Florida
Bruce R. Levin
Bruce R. Levin Emory University
M. Elizabeth Halloran
M. Elizabeth Halloran Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Marc Lipsitch
Marc Lipsitch Harvard University
Jacob C. Koella
Jacob C. Koella Imperial College London
James J. Bull
James J. Bull University of Idaho
Ali H. Ellebedy
Ali H. Ellebedy Washington University in St. Louis
Anice C. Lowen
Anice C. Lowen Emory University

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