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Best Female Scientists

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128
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77049
World Ranking
377
National Ranking
227

Immunology

D-Index
133
Citations
81815
World Ranking
206
National Ranking
134

Medicine

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Sally E. Wenzel 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 Sally E. Wenzel sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 585 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sally E. Wenzel 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 Sally E. Wenzel sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 133 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% 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

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Sally E. Wenzel is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and has a research portfolio primarily situated within the field of Medicine. Their work emphasizes Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, with significant contributions in related subfields such as Physiology, Immunology, Molecular Biology, and Infectious Diseases.

The main topics explored in their research include:

  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Respiratory and Cough-Related Research
  • IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways
  • Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization

Frequent publication venues featuring their work are:

  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • UNC Libraries
  • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Mario Castro
  • Elliot Israel
  • Bruce D. Levy
  • John V. Fahy
  • David T. Mauger

Notable recent papers include:

  • Inherited causes of clonal haematopoiesis in 97,691 whole genomes (2020, Nature)
  • COVID-19-related Genes in Sputum Cells in Asthma. Relationship to Demographic Features and Corticosteroids (2020, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine)
  • Effect of tezepelumab on airway inflammatory cells, remodelling, and hyperresponsiveness in patients with moderate-to-severe uncontrolled asthma (CASCADE): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial (2021, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine)
  • Evidence for Exacerbation-Prone Asthma and Predictive Biomarkers of Exacerbation Frequency (2020, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine)
  • Intersection of biology and therapeutics: type 2 targeted therapeutics for adult asthma (2020, The Lancet)

Best Publications

  • International ERS/ATS guidelines on definition, evaluation and treatment of severe asthma

    Kian Fan Chung;Sally E. Wenzel;Jan L. Brozek;Andrew Bush

  • Global strategy for asthma management and prevention: GINA executive summary.

    Bateman Ed;Hurd Ss;Barnes Pj;Bousquet J

  • Asthma phenotypes: the evolution from clinical to molecular approaches

    Sally E Wenzel

  • Identification of Asthma Phenotypes Using Cluster Analysis in the Severe Asthma Research Program

    Wendy C. Moore;Deborah A. Meyers;Sally E. Wenzel;W. Gerald Teague

  • Dupilumab Efficacy and Safety in Moderate-to-Severe Uncontrolled Asthma

    Mario Castro;Jonathan Corren;Ian D. Pavord;Jorge Maspero

  • An official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society statement: asthma control and exacerbations: standardizing endpoints for clinical asthma trials and clinical practice.

    Helen K. Reddel;D. Robin Taylor;Eric D. Bateman;Louis-Philippe Boulet

  • Oral Glucocorticoid-Sparing Effect of Mepolizumab in Eosinophilic Asthma

    Elisabeth H. Bel;Sally E. Wenzel;Philip J. Thompson;Charlene M. Prazma

  • Evidence That Severe Asthma Can Be Divided Pathologically into Two Inflammatory Subtypes with Distinct Physiologic and Clinical Characteristics

    Sally E. Wenzel;Lawrence B. Schwartz;Esther L. Langmack;Janet L. Halliday

  • Asthma endotypes: A new approach to classification of disease entities within the asthma syndrome

    Jan Lötvall;Cezmi A. Akdis;Leonard B. Bacharier;Leif Bjermer

  • Dupilumab in persistent asthma with elevated eosinophil levels.

    Sally Wenzel;Linda Ford;David Pearlman;Sheldon Spector

  • Asthma: defining of the persistent adult phenotypes.

    Sally E Wenzel

  • After asthma: redefining airways diseases

    Ian D Pavord;Richard Beasley;Alvar Agusti;Gary P Anderson

  • Dupilumab efficacy and safety in adults with uncontrolled persistent asthma despite use of medium-to-high-dose inhaled corticosteroids plus a long-acting β2 agonist: a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled pivotal phase 2b dose-ranging trial

    Sally Wenzel;Mario Castro;Jonathan Corren;Jorge Maspero

  • Characterization of the severe asthma phenotype by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Severe Asthma Research Program

    Wendy C. Moore;Eugene R. Bleecker;Douglas Curran-Everett;Serpil C. Erzurum

  • Bronchoscopic evaluation of severe asthma. Persistent inflammation associated with high dose glucocorticoids.

    Sally E. Wenzel;Stanley J. Szefler;Donald Y. M. Leung;Steven I. Sloan

  • Oral Glucocorticoid-Sparing Effect of Benralizumab in Severe Asthma.

    Parameswaran Nair;Sally Wenzel;Klaus F. Rabe;Arnaud Bourdin

  • Exploring the effects of omalizumab in allergic asthma: an analysis of biomarkers in the EXTRA study.

    Nicola A. Hanania;Sally Wenzel;Karin Rosén;Hsin-Ju Hsieh

  • Uniform definition of asthma severity, control, and exacerbations: Document presented for the World Health Organization Consultation on Severe Asthma

    Jean Bousquet;Jean Bousquet;Eva Mantzouranis;Alvaro A. Cruz;Nadia Aït-Khaled

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of asthma in ethnically diverse North American populations

    Dara G. Torgerson;Dara G. Torgerson;Elizabeth J. Ampleford;Grace Y. Chiu;W. James Gauderman

  • A study to evaluate safety and efficacy of mepolizumab in patients with moderate persistent asthma.

    Patrick Flood-Page;Cheri Swenson;Isidore Faiferman;John Matthews

Frequent Co-Authors

Eugene R. Bleecker
Eugene R. Bleecker University of Arizona
Mario Castro
Mario Castro Washington University in St. Louis
Serpil C. Erzurum
Serpil C. Erzurum Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Nizar N. Jarjour
Nizar N. Jarjour University of Wisconsin–Madison
Wendy C. Moore
Wendy C. Moore Wake Forest University
Elliot Israel
Elliot Israel Brigham and Women's Hospital
William W. Busse
William W. Busse University of Wisconsin–Madison
Benjamin Gaston
Benjamin Gaston Indiana University
John V. Fahy
John V. Fahy University of California, San Francisco
Stephen P. Peters
Stephen P. Peters Wake Forest University

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